November 2011

03 Nov

Identity, Commemoration and Remembrance: Funerary Practice and Contested Identities in Sudanese Nubia During the time of the Kushite Pharaohs (c. 750-650 BCE)

Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 3 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Professor Smith's research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial...

14:23 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

03 Nov

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13:30 / Research Focus Groups

03 Nov

RFG Home > 4Humanities@UCSB Meeting 2

Core Issues in Public Discourse on the Humanities (Monday, November 14, 2011, 1-3 pm, South Hall 2509) We have divided the readings according to four broad categories that might help frame our discussion on Thursday. We propose that we do as many readings as we can, and...

13:30 / Research Focus Groups

03 Nov

Humoring the Saints: Mirabai and Her Guru

John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Wednesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm 1910 Buchanan Hall It is no secret that religion is a very serious thing—de la vie sérieuse, Durkheim says somewhere. Yet in the lives of the bhakti saints, as told in...

10:48 / IHC Research Focus Groups

03 Nov

XIV Colloquim on Mexican Literature: Las Dos Cara De La Ficcion (The Two Faces of Fiction: Masks, Costumes, Disguises, Defacement)

Thursday, November 3 / 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 4 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center (UCSB) Saturday, November 5 / 9:00 AM Casa de la Guerra (downtown Santa Barbara, South-East Corner of De La Guerra Street and De La Guerra Plaza) This year's theme...

10:44 / Upcoming Events

03 Nov

Jerusalem

Simon Sebag Montefiore (International Best-Selling Historian, author of Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Stalin, and Young Stalin) Thursday, November 3 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires,...

09:08 / Upcoming Events / Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies

03 Nov

Building the City of The Future: Visions and Experiences of Modernity in the Akosombo Township of Ghana

Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) R. Lane Clark (documentary filmmaker) Thursday, November 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Akosombo Township, designed by the Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis, is the model city at the foot of the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest development project....

08:43 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

03 Nov

Reclaiming Fair Use: The Best Practices Approach

Peter Jaszi (Law, American University) Thursday, November 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM

01:09 / IHC Series / Audio / Visual / Public Goods