November 2011

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21 Nov

Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, Nov 21, 2011 / 12:00 PM Crowell Reading Room (6028 HSSB) This talk explores how discourses of sexualization–and particularly pornification or pornetration–obscure critical differences in the ways that “women’s” sexuality emerges in modern popular cultures and social relations. Women of color...

12:54 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
18 Nov

Rob Nixon (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, November 18, 2011 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence"...

12:12 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
15 Nov

Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 Awards will be given to ladder rank faculty to release them from teaching one quarter to concentrate on research projects. Recipients must be in residence during the fellowship term; while the award releases the recipient from teaching responsibilities, it does not exempt him or her from service and advising responsibilities. Award recipients will be designated IHC Fellows and may be asked to deliver a public lecture or hold a seminar on a topic related to their research during their tenure as fellows. The award does not provide for release from summer teaching, nor does it provide a salary supplement. It will be calculated as a replacement cost of up to $5,000 for one course, and awarded funds must be expended within twelve months of the announcement of the award. Faculty may receive this award once every five years, and must not teach during the award quarter.
14:43 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Faculty
14 Nov

THE FOURTH BIANNUAL ANCIENT BORDERLANDS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Innovation in Borderland Regions   BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other...

11:54 / Research Focus Groups
10 Nov

Introduction by Clayton Eshleman (Regents Lecturer, UCLA) Thursday, November 10 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, Aime Cesaire's poetry became increasingly politically-focused in the 1950's. Eshleman's translations of Cesaire have been published by Wesleyan University Press in a bilingual format, with...

11:01 / Upcoming Events
09 Nov

Tara McPherson (USC, School of Cinematic Arts) Wednesday, November 9, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a belated recognition of Open Access Week (October 24-30), Tara McPherson, strong  advocate and practitioner of open access publishing and explorer of innovative interdisciplinary digital scholarship, will share...

04:00 / Public Goods / Series / IHC Series
05 Nov

Rick Perlstein (journalist, author of Nixonland) Saturday, November 5, 2011 / 9:30 AM – 4 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Application deadline: Monday, October 10 As part of its yearlong “Public Goods” series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB invites interested faculty and other members...

11:01 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
03 Nov

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 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
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

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...

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