Rocky Horror Picture Show
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show Friday, October 28 at midnight Embarcadero Hall all shows $4...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show Friday, October 28 at midnight Embarcadero Hall all shows $4...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) October 28 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB O’Connor is the author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History (2001) and Social Science For What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up (2007). Sponsored by...
Demetria Martinez (poet, novelist, and essayist) Thursday, October 27 / 3:30 Corwin Pavilion This year the Luis Leal Award will be presented in the ceremony to Demetria Martinez from New Mexico who is a leading poet, novelist, and essayist. Her most noted book is her novel Mother Tongue about Central American political refugees in...
Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Claudio Fogu (French & Italian, UCSB) Thursday, October 27 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 The new IHC Research Focus Group 4Humanities@UCSB invites faculty and graduate students to its first organization meeting. 4Humanities@UCSB will function both independently and as one of the first local chapters...
Wednesday, October 26 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance, TD 2517 What: A space and place for:- exploring new ideas; sharing ongoing research; putting an idea out there; tackling thorny notions and creative practice; engaging with Faculty and grad students from other disciplines. Who: grad students and...
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman (History, San Diego State University) Wednesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that America is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals...
Monday, Oct 24, 2011 / 12:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room Karl Bryan (Women’s Studies, State University of New York New Paltz) This talk tracks the effects of discourses of gender fluidity as they are deployed by advocates to legitimate the identities and behaviors of gender nonconforming children. Co-sponsored...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Harry Potter 7 Friday, October 21 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 24 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, October 21 / 3:30 PM South Hall 2635 From the late nineteenth century on, there has been a chorus of complaints about the decline of letter-writing as it lost out first to postcards and, finally, to email. This talk will try...
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) Friday, October 21, 2011/ 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human...
Michael Madsen (film director, conceptual artist) Tuesday, October 18, 2011 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Madsen will talk about his own film, Into Eternity, and other media projects that engage questions of nuclear energy and security. Sponsored by the Critical Issues in America Series Speculative...
Paul Amar (Global & International Studies, UCSB) Monday, October 17 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Kickstarting the 2011-12 year with the theme "Disruptions," New Sexualities presents a workshop on masculinity studies in the Middle East. How do everyday theories of masculinity and discourses of...
Monday, October 17, 2011 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $6 general / students free The mind-bending film explores the utter impossibility of storing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, the time estimated by scientists to render it safe. Especially relevant since the earthquake and crisis at the nuclear...
Helmi Kittani (Executive Director, the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development) Eytan Biderman, (Director, the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development) Sunday, October 16 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Fifteenth Anniversary Inaugural Event Helmi Kittani, an Arab Israeli economist, became Executive Director of the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic...
Wolf Kittler (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB) Colin Milburn (English,UCD) Friday, October 14, 2011 / 2:00-6:00 pm Wallis Annenberg conference room, SSMS 4315 Serving as an introduction to programs on Speculative Futures (the Critical Issues in America theme for 2011-2), the talks offer both history and post-mortem: the...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Tree of Life Friday, October 14 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 17 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all films $4...
Thursday, October 13 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s eighth annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: Public Goods. Find out about collaborative research...
Salman Khan (founder of the Khan Academy) Monday, October 10, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 A hedge-fund manager turned internet superstar, Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a free online educational platform and not-for-profit organization that streams educational lessons...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Super 8 Friday, October 7 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 10 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Steve Early (author and unionist) October 7 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Early, who worked for 27 years as an organizer for the Communications Workers of America, is a prolific labor journalist and the author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Labor...
Herbert H. Clark (Albert Ray Long Professor of Psychology, Stanford University) Friday, October 7 / 3:00-4:30 PM Pollock Theater At the heart of people’s lives as social beings is what they do together—from getting acquainted, gossiping, and transacting business to walking together, playing tennis, and making love. Taking...
Christian Grose ( Political Science, USC) Thursday, October 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Does the election of African-American politicians matter? Grose argues that it does and presents a unified theory of representation in Congress in Black and White. He theorizes that...
Anne Blackburn (South Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies, Cornell University) Friday, October 14 / 5:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building As British and French colonial control deepened in Lanka and Southeast Asia during the latter half of the nineteenth century, Buddhist monks and devotees...
Audio Now Available...