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December 2012
30
Nov
UCSB Students Collaborate with IHC Artist in Residence, Dominic Fredianelli
Click here to view an album of photos of students working with IHC Artist in Residence, Dominic Fredianelli. ...
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Announcements
30
Nov
Possessive Collectivism: Ownership and the Politics of Credit Line Analysis in Late 20th Century America
Greta Krippner (Sociology, University of Michigan) Friday, November 30 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Krippner's Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance won the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association and the Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociological Association. Sponsored by...
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Upcoming Events
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Nov
RomeLab 160 BCE: The Art of the Visual Argument
Chris Johanson (Classics, UCLA) Friday, November 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Through textual, visual, and interactive, virtual world-based analysis, this talk will examine and re-evaluate the visual argumentation employed during one of the most critical moments of image manipulation at Rome, the aristocratic funeral...
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Upcoming Events
28
Nov
UC Wide Humanities Funding
UC Humanities Research Institute: Through the administration of its own funding programs and those of the UC Humanities Network, UCHRI supports and showcases fellows, working groups, seminars, conferences, workshops and other research formations, on topics traditional to the humanities in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, classics,...
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Nov
IHC Research Development
About Research Development: The IHC Research Development staff can support faculty through all aspects of research funding from assisting with individual grant searches to budget preparation and proposal review. IHC staff is available by appointment to work with individual faculty on proposals-in-progress, providing individual research...
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Nov
The Future of Judaism
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth) Tuesday, November 27 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall For Jews and for Judaism the twentieth century brought unprecedented suffering and incredible achievements - but as a new century gets going, their role in the future is up for...
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Nov
Can Ethnic Nationalism Facilitate American Incorporation? The Case of the “Vietnamese American” Identity
Christian Collet (International Christian University, Tokyo) Tuesday, November 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Vietnamese Americans offer two curiosities to the study of racial, ethnic and minority politics. One, they appear more likely than other Asian Pacific populations in the United States to distance...
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Nov
The Kilns of Thasos: An Island Potter’s Workshop in Ancient Greece (6th century B.C.)
Jacques Perreault (Classics, Université de Montreal) Friday, November 16 / 5:30 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Pottery production increased greatly during the Archaic period in the Greek world and we know of many different styles and production centers. On the northern Aegean island of Thasos, a...
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Nov
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 2012 93 min.)
Amy Ziering (Producer) Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of...
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Nov
ATOMIC NIGHTMARES: Screening the Bomb via Archival Film and Television Ephemera
Mark Quigley (Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive) Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 CCWS is proud to present a talk by Mark Quigley, Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center...
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Nov
Modern Mexican Studies RFG on Movements, Health and Media
Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM Music 1213 Please see website for more information about the material under discussion: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/modern-mexican-studies If you would like to be added to the Modern Mexican Studies RFG database, please contact Ruth. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah Townsend ...
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Nov
Machines, People, and Politics Research Focus Group
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Research Focus Groups
13
Nov
A Sociotheological Approach to Understanding Religious Violence
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How do scholars make sense of acts of violence--even terrorism--that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a...
09
Nov
Santa Barbara Geography: Past, Present, and as Sea Levels Rise
Gary Griggs (Director of the Marine Institute, UC Santa Cruz) Marc Fisher (Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, UCSB) Edward Keller (Earth Scence, UC Santa Cruz, UCSB) Bruce Tiffney ( UCSB College of Creative Studies) Friday, November 9 / 1:00 PM Bren 1414 Speakers will discuss sea level rise in the Santa...
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Upcoming Events
09
Nov
The Black and White Veil: William Morris, George Bernard Shaw, and the Print Form of Socialism
Elizabeth Miller (English, UC Davis) Friday, November 9 / 2:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many radical writers came to believe that large-scale...
08
Nov
Where Soldiers Come From
Heather Courtney (director, Where Soldiers Come From) Dominic Fredianelli (artist, subject of Where Soldiers Come From ) Thursday, November 8, 2012 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Nov
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012 Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum...
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Nov
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM IV Theater 2 Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From) Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood...
05
Nov
Sex Scandal: The Politics of Sex in the 2012 Presidential Election
Brett Esaki (Liberal Arts, Brooks Institute) Jason Hopkins (Sociology, UCSB) Rolondo Longoria (Sociology, UCSB) Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies,UCSB) Carly Thomsen (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Sex and sexuality have been major hot button issues in recent elections and...
05
Nov
Uses of the Public University RFG
Ann Bermingham (Art History, UCSB) Constance Penley (Film & Media, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Discussion of public expectations for higher education in comparison to the original vision of Clark Kerr. For readings to be discussed at the meeting, please visit: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Sponsored...
04
Nov
Ambassador Martin S. Indyk: The Middle East in Turmoil: What Does It Mean For Israel?
Martin S. Indyk (Vice President, Director for Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution) Sunday, November 4 / 3:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Ambassador Martin S. Indyk will analyze the dramatic developments in the Arab world and their impact on Iran’s bid for dominance in Israel’s neighborhood, including through its nuclear...
03
Nov
The Sacred and Natural Disasters
Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, this symposium will discuss some of the ways in which religious traditions, in Japan and elsewhere, have historically conceptualized and...
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Upcoming Events
01
Nov
XV Colloquium on Mexican Literature: As Time Goes By
Thursday, November 1 / 5:00 PM The Graduate Student Lounge, Multicultural Center Friday, November 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Graduate Student Lounge, 4:00 PM-8:00 PM Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Casa de la Guerra; South-East Corner of De La Guerra Street and De La...
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Upcoming Events
30
Oct
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Tuesday, October 30, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000...
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Oct
Reuse of Theban 21st Dynasty Funerary Arts: A Case Study of Coffins in Italian Collections
Kathyln Cooney (Art & Architecture, UCLA) Friday, October 26 / 3:30 PM 1173 HSSB Theban funerary arts of the ancient Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasties, particularly wooden nesting coffins, often show evidence of usurpation from other, older individuals, as well as obvious marks where gilding or inlay have...
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Oct
American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality
Paul Pierson (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, October 26/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Pierson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of...
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Upcoming Events
25
Oct
War in History and Memory
Thursday, October 25, 2012 / 4:00 PM John E. Talbott (History, UCSB) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
20
Oct
Persistence (Daniel Eisenberg, 1997)
Introduction by Daniel Eisenberg Saturday, October 20, 2012 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg will introduce and screen his impressionistic film, which is a meditation on the fraught postwar period in Germany, examining larger questions about the continuous and discontinuous threads of history and the...
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Oct
Bottomhood is Powerful
Nguyen Tan Hoang (English / Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College) Friday, October 19 / 11:00 AM UCSB Women's Center Conference Room Nguyen Tan Hoang is a video artist and academic whose work interrogates forms of desire in queer Asian male identities, Vietnamese diasporic cultural production, and trans-Asian...
18
Oct
IHC Open House
Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM- 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: Fallout: In the Aftermath of War. Find...
18
Oct
Who is a True Mongol?: Debates on Religious and National Identity in Contemporary Mongolia
Vesna Wallace (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since the rise of democracy and freedom of religious expression in Mongolia (beginning in the late 1980′s with Mongolia’s separation from Soviet dominion), debates over who is a true Mongol and what...
17
Oct
Higher Education and California Voters: Can this Election Save UC?
Wednesday, October 17/ 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers include Assemblyman Das William, Chris Newfield (English, UCSB), and Gene Lucas (Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSB.) Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the UCSB Faculty Association....
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Upcoming Events
17
Oct
Rav Hisda’s Daughter
Maggie Anton (Author, Rashi's Daughters) Wednesday, October 17 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Maggie Anton, award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters, discusses her latest novel, Rav Hisda’s Daughter, which brings to life the world of the Talmud from...
16
Oct
Modern Mexican Studies Research Focus Group
Tuesday, October 16 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB Please come to the first meeting of the Modern Mexican Studies Research Focus Group of the IHC. We'll meet to share interests and plan events for the forthcoming year. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah...
12
Oct
Mobile Telepresence
Peggy Szymanski (Xerox PARC) Friday, October 12 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Peggy Szymanski, an interaction analyst grounded in the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, is currently exploring practices around mobile telepresence – how people stay connected to their close friends and family as they go about...
11
Oct
The Experience of Authority in Early Modern England and America
David D. Hall (Harvard Divinity School) Thursday, October 11 / 3:30 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB A central question for historians of religion and culture in early modern Europe and early America is how, given the complexities of mapping “popular religion,” the authority of theological paradigms and religious...
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Upcoming Events
11
Oct
Ethnography and Cultural Studies RFG Planning Meeting
Thursday, October 11 / 5:00 PM HSSB 2001A Please join us to launch a new RFG on Ethnography and Cultural Studies. All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to an open meeting to discuss RFG goals and activities for the coming year. Refreshments will be served!...
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Oct
UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in New Testament: Violence and the Book of Revelation: Žižek and John, Together at Last
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, University of Texas Austin) Thursday, October 11 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB The recent work of Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the New Testament suggests that Žižek may have more in common with the author of the Book of Revelation. Žižek’s work may...
09
Oct
Hearts of Pine: Song in the Lives of Three Korean Survivors of the Japanese “Comfort Women”
Joshua Pilzer (Music, University of Toronto) Tuesday, October 9 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 During the long era of public secrecy about Japanese military sexual slavery, Korean survivors made use of veiled expressive forms such as song to reckon with their experiences and forge...
08
Oct
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting
Monday, October 8 / 3:00 PM South Hall 2509 The 4Humanities@UCSB IHC Research Focus Group, led by Claudio Fogu (French & Italian), Linda Adler-Kassner (Writing Program), and Alan Liu (English), is calling for faculty and graduate students to participate in the second year of the group's activities. The...
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Sep
A Nation of Deadbeats: An Uncommon History of America’s Financial Disasters
Scott Nelson, (History, College of William & Mary) Friday, September 28/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend, which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history...
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Upcoming Events
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Sep
Fallout: In the Aftermath of War — IHC theme for 2012-13
As the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan draw to a close, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will consider, from the perspective of the humanities, the impact of war upon individuals, cultures, institutions and societies.
03
Sep
IHC welcomes Director Susan Derwin
Incoming IHC Director Susan Derwin is a Professor in UCSB's Department of German, Slavic and Semitic Studies and an affiliate of the Comparative Literature Program.
01
Sep
Video of Crowdfunding For Academic Research Seminar Now Available
Click here for a brief summary of the talk and a link to the video....
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Announcements
01
Sep
IHC congratulates the 2012-13 UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities
The recipients of this year's UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities awards are: Pavneet Aulakh, English, "Beyond Words: The Visual Turn in Jacobean England" Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film and Media Studies, "Psychonautic Media"...
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Aug
Dexter Filkins’ talk rescheduled
Dexter Filkins visit to UCSB has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 16, 2013. For more details, click here....
15
Aug
Congratulations to the IHC spring award recipients
The IHC is pleased to announce the recipients of its spring 2012 Faculty Release Time Awards, Faculty Collaborative Research Grants, and Pre-Doctoral Fellowships.
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Announcements
09
Aug
IHC Research Fellow: Amber Workman
Amber Workman graduated from UCSB in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures. Her academic work focuses on Mexican literature and Latin American literary journalism....
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09
Aug
IHC Research Fellow: Sarah Hirsch
Sarah Hirsch received her PhD in English from UCSB in 2011....
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09
Aug
IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Carly Thomsen
Carly Thomsen a Doctoral Candidate in Feminist Studies. Her dissertation is titled "I'm Just Me": Queer Critiques of Gay Visibility, Identity, and Community from LGBTQ Women in the Rural Midwest. This dissertation analyzes representations, discourses, experiences, and identities of queer women in the rural Midwestern...
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09
Aug
IHC Research Fellow: Andrew J Henkes
Andrew J. Henkes is both a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and a research associate at the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Art. His research...
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09
Aug
IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Eric Fenrich
Eric Fenrich is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled The Color of the Moon: The American Manned Space Program and Racial Inclusion, 1957-1978. This project examines the interactions between the U.S. space program and the struggles for racial justice within the United...
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09
Aug
IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Anne Cong-Huyen
Anne Cong-Huyen is a Doctoral Candidate in English. Her dissertation is titled Host and Server: The Literature and Media of Temporariness in an Age of Globalized Networks. This project traces the emergence of temporariness, a term used to conceptualize the widespread phenomena of rising provisional...
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09
Aug
IHC Pre-Doctoral Fellow: Paul Reed Baltimore
Paul Reed Baltimore is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled From the Camel to the Cadillac: The Culture of Consumption and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship. From the Camel to the Cadillac tells a story of how the political economies of the United States...
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08
Aug
The Uses of the Public University Research Focus Group
Conveners Ann Bermingham, History of Art bermingham@arthistory.ucsb.edu Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu "The Uses of the Public University is an RFG devoted to imagining the role of the University of California in serving the State, its citizens, the nation and the world. Fundamental to this role is maintaining the University...
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08
Aug
Crossing the Regional Divide Research Focus Group
Conveners: Xiojian Zhao, Asian American Studies xiaojian@asamst.ucsb.edu Xiaowei Zheng, History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies zheng@eastasia.ucsb.edu This Research Focus Group examines a unique moment in the history of urban/rural relations in modern China: the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). This movement is one of...
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08
Aug
HumAnimality Research Focus Group
Conveners Peter Alagona, History alagona@history.ucsb.edu Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies cdiamondlenow@umail.ucsb.edu Russell Samolsky, English rsamolsky@english.ucsb.edu This RGF brings the myriad work emerging in the growing field of animal and posthumanist studies together in its diversity. We are talking across disciplinary boundaries- science, social science, and humanities- drawing on disciplines including philosophy, biology, feminist...
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08
Aug
Modern Mexico
Ruthe Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu Gabriela Soto Laveaga,History gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu Sarah Townsend, Spanish and Portuguese stownsend@spanport.ucsb.edu Contemporary or modern Mexico, covering the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is the principle focus of this group, with an emphasis on political, ideological, cultural, social, technological, pedagogical, and artistic movements, processes, and activities. Through our research...
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Aug
Ethnography and Cultural Studies Research Focus Group
Conveners Mary Hancock, Anthropology and History hancock@anth.ucsb.edu David Novak, Music dnovak@music.ucsb.edu The Research Focus Group in Ethnography and Cultural Studies aims to take stock of the ways that ethnographic practice has diversified in response to the challenges of contemporary culture. Our central questions are these: How does contemporary ethnography work?...
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27
Jul
DESPERATION ISLAND / THE REVOLUTION / JUNGLE TREK
Friday, July 27/6:30 PM Theater & Dance Building, UCSB Studio Theater Three new plays written, acted, and danced by the students of the Isla Vista Teen Center will be performed. The performance is free; a reception will follow. Sponsored by Nuestra Voz and I.V. Arts....
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Jul
Alice in Wonderland
Friday, July 13 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 16 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission KIDS 18 & UNDER ATTEND FREE! ...
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Jul
TINTIN
Friday, July 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 9 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission KIDS 18 & UNDER ATTEND FREE! ...
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Jun
Bernie
Friday, June 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 2 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
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Jun
The Temple Desolate
Charlotte Becker (English, UCSB) Tina Bruno (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Friday, June 8 / 12:00 South Hall 2510, Early Modern Center The History of Books & Material Texts RFG and the 19th Century Reading Group invite you to attend a research share by Tina...
07
Jun
Urban Art Workshop Mural Debut
Thursday, June 7 / 4:00 PM 6674 Sueno, Isla Vista Students from the Spring Urban Art Workshop INT 185UA, led by artist Jorge Alvarez, will be unveiling their first Isla Vista mural this Thursday, June 7th at 4pm. Join us at 6674 Sueno in Isla Vista...
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Upcoming Events
04
Jun
“Will Ferrel-thon”
Anchorman Monday, June 4 / 7:00 & 10: 00 PM IV Theater 2 Casa De Mi Padre 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater 1 $4 Admission...
04
Jun
The Khrist Bhaktas of Banaras: Visions, Representations, and Dangerous Prognostications
Kerry San Chirico (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Monday, June 4 / 7:30 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In the Banaras region of Uttar Pradesh, so-called Hindu “Other Backward Classes” and “Scheduled Castes” can be found worshiping Yesu (Jesus) and venerating the...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
04
Jun
Rethinking the Black American Speaking Subject
John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis) Renee Blake (New York University) Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina) Monday, June 4 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and Black studies with the purpose of rethinking contemporary relationships between Black Americans...
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Jun
Lord of the Rings Marathon
MLF presents: Lord of the Rings Marathon Friday June 1 starting at 7PM til It All Ends (When Sam Gamgee Returns to the Shire) Costume Contest Lemmas Bread Tolkein Trivia Special deal with Super Cucas for those who attend the movie! Isla Vista Theater show $4...
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Jun
Copyright, Piracy, and the Artist: Music and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial Mali
Ryan Skinner (Music and African American & African Studies, Ohio State University) Friday, June 1, 2012 / 4:00 PM The Orfalea Center Seminar Room 1005 Robertson Gym (detached office wing in front of main Ocean Road entrance) In Mali today, appeals to confront the “scourge” (fléau) of music piracy and affirm...
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Jun
The Knowing Body
Friday, June 1 / 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Corporeality has long been a driving issue in performance studies, as scholars and performers have sought to understand the many roles the body has performed throughout history and across cultures. Increasingly, the...
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May
Open Access as Possibility
Hubertus Kohle (Professor and Chair, History of Early Modern and Modern Art Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) Wednesday, May 30, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB Professor Kohle is renewing the time-honored “République des lettres” in a modern guise. Renowned for his work in digital art...
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May
Ruling in Ancient Greece and India: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Philosophy
Stuart Gray (Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture outlined what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and applied it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
30
May
Ruling in Ancient Greece and India: A Historical-Comparative Approach to Political Philosophy
Stuart Gray (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 PM 6056 HSSB, Seminar Room This lecture will outline what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and apply it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He will discuss how this approach...
25
May
Doing Good Work? Bridging Activism and Scholarship in Latina/o Immigrant Communities
Keynote Speaker: George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Friday, May 25 / 8:00 AM Mosher Alumni House A day-long round-table symposium bringing together community leaders and scholars concerned with the key issues facing Latina/o immigrant communities in California. We will explore the possibilities and challenges of generating activist scholarship. The...
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25
May
Elephants for Want of Towns? Cities and the State in Precolonial Dahomey
J. Cameron Monroe ( Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz) Friday, May 25 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus...
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24
May
The Uses of the University in 2050: A Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
Audio Now Available...
24
May
Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo May 24-26, 2012 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB UC-Santa Barbara campus © Nana Kofi Acquah © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. The African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly...
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24
May
Variations on Kazakh-ness: What Internationally Competitive Sports Tell Us about Identity and Nation-Building in Kazakhstan
Barbara Junisbai (Assistant Dean, Pritzer College) Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Kazakhstan's international image is of utmost importance to the government. The government's approach to cultivate its image abroad raises a number of questions about identity and nation-building. Should the government...
24
May
The Corporation
(Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003, 145 min.) Thursday, May 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this acclaimed documentary, forty corporate insiders and critics -- including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman -- explore the nature and spectacular rise of...
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May
Negotiating Authority: The Criminalization of Religious Practice in the United States
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand (UC Graduate Fellow in The Humanities) Wednesday, May 23 / 12:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB "I believe in obeying the laws of the land, but when they are contrary to God’s law we will have no part," Reverend Liston Pack stated in 1973 after...
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May
The Uses of the University in 2050: A Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
Ann Bermingham (History of Art, UCSB) Catherine Cole (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, May 22, 2012 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From February 23-26, 2012 colleagues from throughout the UC system converged at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the future of the University of...
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May
A Force for Good and for God – Judaism in the 21st Century
Rabbi Rick Jacobs (President-Elect, Union for Reform Judaism) Sunday, May 20 / 8:45 AM Breakfast $5.00 Suggested Contribution Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road The Future of Judaism Lecture Series Inaugural Event At this dramatic moment of Jewish history, we must harness the innovation...
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May
Band, Battle, and Badass Cinema | The Artist
"Band, Battle, and Badass Cinema" Friday, May 18 The Givers and Takers LIVE / 7:00 PM Youtube Battle / 8:00 PM (All are encouraged to enter! See Magic Lantern Facebook page for more info) The Artist 10:00 PM $2 Admission The Artist Monday, May 21/ 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
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May
The Great King and the Sea: Maritime Trade and Naval Power in the Achaemenid Empire
John Hyland (History, Christopher Newport University) Friday, May 18 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 At the beginning of the fifth century BCE, Achaemenid Persia had the largest navy in the world, but after its failed invasions of Greece, the empire limited its warships’ numbers and refused...
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May
SKILLS Day: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society
Friday, May 18 / 8:30 AM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Students from Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language use in their own communities, which they conducted as participants in UCSB's SKILLS academic outreach and research...
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Upcoming Events
18
May
The Modern Oldtime Music Revival: A Participant-Observer’s Memoir and Reflections
Alan Jabbour (Library of Congress, American Folklife Center) Friday, May 18 / 3:00 PM Music Room 1145 Alan Jabbour was a key early figure in the instrumental folk music revival in North America. As a Duke University graduate student in the 1960s, he became fascinated with the history...
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May
Annual Identity Studies RFG Graduate Student Panel
Joshua Dean (Political Science, UCSB) Colin Kuehl (Political Science, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Zamira Yusufjonova (History, UCSB) Thursday, May 17th / 4:00pm Lane Room, Ellison Hall Graduate students will present their work in progress. Dean will present “What Does It Mean to Belong to a Nation? An Examination of...
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May
“The Risk Doctrine: Modernism, Fernando Pessoa and Big Business
Isabel Gil (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon) May 17, 4:00 PM / University Center Mission Room Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies as well as representations of war and...
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May
Annie Leonard on the Value of the Humanities
Click here for "The Story of Stuff" author Annie Leonard's comments on the importance of the humanities, recorded during her UCSB Regents' Lectureship....
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May
Culinary Counterculture
Yanoula Athanassakis (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 16 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk centers on Bich Minh Nguyen’s memoir, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (2008). In unpacking the scenes of consumption of “foreign,” “native,” and “junk” foods, the talk explores Nguyen’s veiled engagement with...
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May
Topographical Ghosts: The Archival Architecture of Old New Orleans
Sarah Hirsch (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 16 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In Cities of the Dead (1996), Joseph Roach observes that New Orleans is a place "where the dead remain more gregariously present to the living, materially, and spiritually, than they do...
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May
Early Career Research Strategies for New Ph.D.s in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Whitney Winn (Graduate Division) Wednesday, May 16 / 3:30 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 2135 Learn about opportunities for supporting your research career after earning your Ph.D., including post-docs, early career grants, and tenure strategies. Sponsored by the Institute...
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May
Defending the Communications Commons: Hackers, Spies, and Internet Freedom in an Era of Twenty-first Century Statecraft
Sascha Meinrath (Director, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative) Tuesday, May 15, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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May
The Jazz Singer: From the Melting Pot to a Multicultural America
Lawrence Baron (History, San Diego State University) Monday, May 14 / 8:00 PM Pollock Theater Ever since it premiered in 1927, "The Jazz Singer" has been considered the paradigmatic film about the Americanization of the children of Jewish immigrants. The movie has inspired remakes and retakes on the...
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May
Red Tails
MLF presents: Red Tails Friday, May 11 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 14 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
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May
Creating an American Island: The Volta Aluminum Company (VALCO) in Ghana, 1964-2000
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) Friday, May 11 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War in Africa, Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah launched the Volta River Project which included a hydroelectric dam at Akosombo and an aluminum smelter, operated by...
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May
::Bodies in Space: Flow/s:: Second Annual Guerrilla-Style Performance and Theory Bake-Off/Graduate Conference
Friday-Saturday, May 11-12 SRB Multipurpose Room The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the Center for Literature and the Environment will host an innovative event that invites participants to make meaning across fluid boundaries of theory, praxis, social justice movements, disciplinary knowledge, and affective response. ::Bodies in...
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May
Public Art as a Public Good
Laurel Beckmen (Art, UCSB) Rita Ferri (Visual Arts Coordinator, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission) Colin Gray (local artist) Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Thursday, May 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Something happens when art goes public. Cultural interventions in spaces designated as belonging to the public are...
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May
Embodying Mexico: Tourism, Nationalism and Performance
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:15 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) María Herrera-Sobek, Ph.D. (Associate Vice...
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May
Collaborative Public Goods: Wikipedia’s Engagement with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM)
Andrew Lih (Communication, USC ) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2010, the British Museum made the remarkable step of having a "Wikipedian in Residence" to coordinate collaboration between grassroots community encyclopedia editors and expert curators in London. Since...
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May
Crowdfunding for Academic Research
Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology, UCSB) Holly Unruh (Associate Director, UCIRA) Jai Ranganathan (NCEAS) Jarrett Byrnes ( NCEAS) Monday, May 7 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Can academics raise money for their research by convincing members of the public to open their wallets for small...
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May
Corresponding Motions: Religions & Religion in 19th Century America
Saturday, May 5 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference, which has been designed to refocus the study of religion in 19th century America into less institution-based areas of study, brings together former students of Catherine Albanese (Religious Studies, UCSB) to present scholarship that...
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May
Chronicle
MLF presents: CHRONICLE Friday, May 4 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 7 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
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May
Renaissance Publics, Material Goods
Patricia Fumerton (English, UCSB) Ann Rosalind Jones (Comparative Literature, Smith College) Julia Reinhard Lupton (English, UC Irvine) Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, May 4, 2012 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium will contribute to the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "Public Goods"...
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May
Marking Cognitive and Emotive Changes-of-State: Examples from German
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Friday, May 4 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Working within a conversation analytic framework, this presentation analyzes the use and function of 'oh' in conversational German and compares it to 'ach/achso' in German and 'oh' in English. The...
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May
American Democracy in an Era of Rising Inequality
Paul Pierson (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 4 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Pierson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (2010). Sponsored by the Colloquium on Work, Labor,...
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May
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books
Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard) Thursday, May 3, 2012 / 5:00 PM
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May
“A War Between Soldiers and Prophets”: Embodied Resistance in Colonial Belgian Congo
Yolanda Covington-Ward (African Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday, May 2 / 4:00 PM North Hall, Room 1006 On April 6, 1921, a MuKongo man by the name of Simon Kimbangu laid his hands on a sick woman in the name of Jesus Christ, prayed, and began to tremble. ...
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May
Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
Please join us Tuesday, May 22 at 3:00 PM in 6020 HSSB for a report on "The Uses of the University in 2050" faculty charrette, which took place February 23-26 at UCSB. Click here for more information. ...
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Apr
Radio / Puppets, or Old New Media and the Afterlife of the Mexican Avant-Garde
Sarah J. Townsend (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Monday, April 30 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the course of several years beginning in 1933, a character called Troka el Poderoso (Troka the Powerful) regaled young listeners of XFX, the official radio station of Mexico’s Secretariat...
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Apr
Temple Piety, Temple Power: Vishnu Devotion in Cambodia
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building What can we learn about Vaisnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture focused on the...
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Apr
Temple Piety, Temple Power: Vishnu Devotion in Cambodia
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can we learn about Vaishnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture will focus on the multivalent dimensions...
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Apr
Biorges: The “Closelaborations” of Borges and Bioy Casares
Alfred MacAdam (Barnard College, Columbia University) Tuesday, February 21 / 3:30 Phelps 4312 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. Prof. Alfred MacAdam, distinguished scholar and translator of Latin American literature, whose books include Dreams of Reason: Modern Latin American Narratives (Chicago UP), will...
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Apr
2012 Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference: Fear and Loathing in the Middle Ages
Keynote speaker: Teofilo F. Ruiz (History, UCLA) Saturday, April 28 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 A universal human constant, fear of the unknown transcends time, place, and culture; making the concept ripe for interdisciplinary analysis. Fear of death, the afterlife, and other cultures, religions, and traditions appear in...
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Apr
Vertigo | The Lady Vanishes
The Lady Vanishes Friday, Apr 27 / 7:00 PM Vertigo Friday, Apr 27 / 10:00 PM Monday, Apr 30 / 10:00 PM Free cake and ice cream in honor of Magic Lanterns 8th birthday! Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
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Apr
“Artist as Community” 37th Annual Art History Graduate Symposium
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Bitel (History and Religion, University of Southern California) Friday, April 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This two day event will explore the ways in which community is defined through the production and reception of visual art. The symposium will begin with...
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Apr
Religion to Make a Nation: The Idea of the Bhakti Movement
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Ninian Smart Memorial Lecture Thursday, April 26 / 5:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Hawley provided a critical assessment of the “bhakti movement” trope as a bifocal, multilayered notion that draws on...
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