October 2011

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...