Event Archives for May 2011

May 1 Sun
Upcoming Events TALK: The Eichmann Trial In Commemoration of Yom HaShoah
Deborah E. Lipstadt, Dorot Professor of Modern Jewish History and Holocaust Studies, Emory University
May 2 Mon
IHC's Ancient Borderlands RFG CONFERENCE: Barbarians, the Baltic, and Beyond: A Comparative Borderlands Conference
May 2 Mon
Upcoming Events DISCUSSION: Contemporary Italy and Immigration: A New Mediterranean Order? Rula Jebreal (Author & Journalist)
May 2 Mon
Upcoming Events SCREENING: Miral in Print and Film: An Evening with Rula Jebreal Rula Jebreal (Screenwriter, Miral, 2011)
May 4 Wed
IHC's Food Studies RFG TALK: Empty Pleasures: The Story of Artificial Sweeteners from Saccharin to Splenda Carolyn de la Peña (Department of American Studies, UC Davis)
May 5 Thu
Geographies of Place Series PANEL: Ground Zero and Anti-Muslim Sentiment Maher Hathout (Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles)
Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB)
Edward Linenthal (History, University of Indiana)
May 6 Fri
Center For the Study of Work Labor and Democracy TALK: The Degradation of Work in the 21st Century Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst)
May 6 Fri
Upcoming Events CONFERENCE: The Thirteenth Lusophone and Hispanic Graduate Student Conference
May 6 Fri
I.V. Live Improvability
May 6 Fri
and MAY 9 MON
Magic Lantern Films The Green Hornet
May 7 Sat
Upcoming Events CONFERENCE: Senses and Sensibilities in the Middle Ages
May 8 Sun
Upcoming Events TALK: The Rebbe and The Resurgence of Orthodox Judaism Samuel Heilman, Harold Proshansky Chair in Jewish Studies, Graduate Center, CUNY
May 10 Tue
Geographies of Place Series TALK: A Matter of Edge: Border vs. Boundary at La Frontera Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook)
May 11 Wed
IHC's Research Fellows TALK: Dilemmas of Space as Dilemmas of Race: Exploring Race Relations on College Campuses Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow)
May 11 Wed
IHC's Research Fellows TALK: Transnational Star Deities and Devotional Fandom: A Case of USA Rajinikanth Fans Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow)
May 11 Wed
IHC's Research Fellows TALK: Doing Sex Work: Negotiating Sexual Fields in Stripping Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow)
May 11 Wed
IHC's Identity Studies RFG MEETING: Identity Studies Graduate Student Panel
May 12 Thu
through MAY 14 SAT
IHC's Language Interaction and Social Organization RFG CONFERENCE: Interaction, Embodiment, and Materiality 17th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO)
May 13 Fri
Center For the Study of Work Labor and Democracy TALK: Civil Rights Protest and Labor Union Autonomy: The 1966 Hilton Hotel Protests and the Fate of Postwar Liberalism Reuel Schiller (Law, UC Hastings)
May 13 Fri
Upcoming Events BROWN BAG LUNCH: Toxic Tourism Phaedra Pezzulo (Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University)
Susan Stonich (Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, UCSB)
May 13 Fri
I.V. Live Improvability. The Harry Potter Show!
May 13 Fri
and MAY 16 MON
Magic Lantern Films Mel Brooks Night: Featuring Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs
May 16 Mon
IHC's Identity Studies RFG DISCUSSION: Black Holes of Memory; Constructions of Identity Elisabeth Weber (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB)Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB)
May 17 Tue
Upcoming Events TALK: SKILLS Day: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society
May 18 Wed
IHC's African Studies RFG TALK: Harare’s Urban Palimpsest: Radical Performative Materiality in Zimbabwe Gemma Rodrigues (Curator of African Art, UCLA Fowler Museum)
May 20 Fri
IHC's Ancient Borderlands RFG TALK: Borderland Processes Along the Han Northern Frontier, 130 BCE-2 CE Leslie Wallace (History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh)
May 20 Fri
IHC's History of Books and Material Texts RFG TALK: Hispanizing the California Bohemians: San Francisco Print Culture in the 1860s and the Question of the First Mexican-American Novel Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC
May 20 Fri
I.V. Live Improvability.
May 20 Fri
Magic Lantern Films First Annual All Night Lord of the Rings Marathon
May 20 Fri
and MAY 21 SAT
I.V. Live Docu-Drama: An I.V. Play
May 23 Mon
IHC's South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Bhopali Van Maximillian Carlson (Director)
May 25 Wed
IHC's Research Fellows Masculinity, Space, and late Seventeenth-Century Alchemical Practices Laura Miller (IHC Research Fellow)
May 26 Thu
Geographies of Place Series TALK: Directional Reference in Ahtna: Endangered Language, Endangered Geographic Knowledge Andrea L Berez (Linguistics, UCSB)
May 26 Thu
through MAY 27 FRI
Upcoming Events CONFERENCE: Auras: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction Keynote: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Web Art Group)
May 26 Thu
Upcoming Events TALK: Sergei Eisenstein between Decadence and Marxism: The Motif of Saint Sebastian in the Soviet Director’s Films, Drawings, and Writings. Evgenii Bershtein (Russian Language and Literature, Reed College)
May 27 Fri
IHC's Collaborative Reserach Grant CONFERENCE: Framing the Word: The Bible in European Culture and Society c. 1250-1611
May 27 Fri
IHC's Language Interaction and Social Organization RFG TALK: Passing Objects: Grammar in the Organization of a Cooperative Moment Jörg Zinken (Psychology, University of Portsmouth)
May 27 Fri
through MAY 28 SAT
I.V. Live Improvability. The 24 Hour Improvathon
May 28 Sat
IHC's Graduate Collaborative Award CONFERENCE: Interdisciplinarity and the Study of Religion