Saturday, May 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This graduate student conference will feature a lecture by Tat-siong Benny Liew, author of What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Liew will discuss his interdisciplinary work in the fields of religious studies, theology, Asian American studies,...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hal May 27-28: The 24 Hour Improvathon...
Jörg Zinken (Psychology, University of Portsmouth) Friday, May 27 / 1:30 AM 1205 Education Jörg Zinken's research concerns the linguistic mediation of activities, in particular the accomplishment of cooperative embodied activities and how such activities are resourced by the grammatical structures of a language. Sponsored by the IHC’s Language,...
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020 “Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the ‘Santa Barbara Bible’” Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles “Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration in an...
Evgenii Bershtein (Russian Language and Literature, Reed College) Thursday, May 26 / 4:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Building 2135 Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), one of the last century's most influential film directors and theoreticians, was also a prolific writer of sexual theory and the author of thousands...
An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference at UCSB Thursday - Friday, May 26-27 Keynote: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Web Art Group) Thursday, May 26/ 3:00 PM Multi-Cultural Center Theater Auras: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, an interdisciplinary undergraduate conference at UCSB, is proud to present a keynote...
Andrea L Berez (Linguistics, UCSB) Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 3:30 PM Girvetz 2115 This presentation discusses aspects of the directional system in Ahtna, a severely endangered Athabaskan (Native American) language spoken in south central Alaska. The semantic basis of the Ahtna directional system is traditionally riverine, based...
Laura Miller (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 25 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage the medium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I...
Van Maximillian Carlson (Director) Monday, May 23 / 7:00 PM Pollock Theater Bhopali (2011) documents the experience of second-generation children in Bhopal, India, who have been affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984, the worst industrial disaster in history, and subsequent contamination of groundwater by Union...
Presented by I.V. LIVE Friday, May 20 / 8:00 PM I.V. Theater 2 A play based entirely on recent interviews of Isla Vista citizens. May 20th AND May 21st Sponsored by I.V. LIVE Website: islavista-arts.org...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 First Annual All Night Lord of the Rings Marathon Friday, May 20 7:00 PM: The Fellowship of the Ring 10:30 PM: The Two Towers 2:00 AM: The Return of the King ...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 20: Improvability....
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Friday, May 20 / 1:30 PM South Hall 2635 Aurelio Luis Gallardo, a liberal exile from Maximilian’s Mexico, serialized his now-forgotten novel Adah, o el amor de un ángel in 1868-69 in San Francisco, where he was an active participant in local politics and...
Leslie Wallace (History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Friday, May 20 / 4:00 PM HSSB 3041 At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into...
Gemma Rodrigues (Curator of African Art, UCLA Fowler Museum) Wednesday, May 18 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Science & Media Studies Building This talk examines how the making and remaking of urban space in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, are organized around access to land and forms of belonging through...
Tuesday, May 17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Students from Carpinteria High School will present their research on language and culture in their local community, from surfing to youth groups. Students conducted their research as part of a special high-school class in linguistics as...
Elisabeth Weber (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB) Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Monday, May 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall Weber and Marcuse will lead discussions on the following readings: Shoshana Felman’s, "A Ghost in the House of Justice";...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Mel Brooks Night: Featuring Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs Friday, May 13 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 16 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 13: The Harry Potter Show!...
Phaedra Pezzulo (Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University) Susan Stonich (Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, UCSB) Friday, May 13 / 12:00 PM Wallis Annenberg Conference Room (4315 SSMS) “Toxic tours” are visits to sites polluted by poisonous chemicals operated by environmental justice...
Reuel Schiller (Law, UC Hastings) Friday, May 13 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Schiller's areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the...
Faculty Fellows - Spring 2011 Release Time Thomas Carlson, Religious Studies, Toward the Heart of the Secular: On Modernity as a Form of Love Lisa Jacobson, History, Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: Alcohol’s Quest for Legitimacy after Prohibition Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History, Sanitizing Revolt: Physicians, Public Health, and Repression...
17th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Thursday- Saturday, May 12 - 14, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Film stars are worshiped in India, and even temples are dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star Rajinikanth publicly...
Wednesday, May 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Annual Graduate Student Presentations Nation-State or State-Nation? Myths of Nationhood and Support for State Sovereignty in Belarus Francois Zdanowicz (Political Science , UCSB) Brawls, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping: Imperial Russia’s Adjudication in the South Caucasus until the...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Drawing upon three years of intensive ethnographic research in both atypical and typical strip clubs in California and Oregon, Hidalgo discusses how embodied labor is negotiated in these clubs. Further, she...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Film stars are worshiped in India and even temples have been dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star, Rajinikanth have been publicly ritualizing his film...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...
Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) Tuesday, May 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The complex and evolving situation at La Frontera, the U.S.-Mexico border, has been central to current discussions of immigration and the effect of drug cartels. In order to illuminate...
Samuel Heilman (Sociology, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY) Sunday, May 8 / 3:00 PM UCSB MultiCultural Center From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic...
Saturday, May 7 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the senses, sensibilities, and the dynamic relationship between the two, in the middle ages. We will explore the problems of the senses, sentience, emotion and knowledge production in a period before...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Green Hornet Friday, May 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 9 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 6: Improvability....
Friday, May 6 / 9:00 AM MultiCultural Center Graduate Student Lounge This conference, organized by graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese, will feature thirty to forty presenters from universities across the nation. Selected papers will be published in the Fall issue of the graduate academic journal...
Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Friday, May 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of...
Maher Hathout (Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Edward Linenthal (History, University of Indiana) Thursday, May 5, 2011 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown...
Carolyn de la Peña (Department of American Studies, UC Davis) Wednesday, May 4 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carolyn de la Peña will discuss her new book, Empty Pleasures. Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the...
Rula Jebreal (Screenwriter, Miral, 2011) Monday, May 2 / 6:00 PM Pollock Theater A free screening of the recently-released film Miral based on the novel and screenplay by Rula Jebreal, and directed by Julian Schnabel. The film paints a stunning portrait of personal conflict, humanitarian courage, and...
Rula Jebreal (Author & Journalist) Monday, May 2 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theatre A discussion with Rula Jebreal on the transformations Italy has undergone under the impact of immigration over the past two decades, and how they influence the role that Italy could play vis-a-vis the current...
Monday, May 2 / 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional...
Deborah E. Lipstadt (Religion, Emory University) Sunday, May 1 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Lipstadt offers a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators. As the world continues to confront the ongoing...