Jessica Ambler (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Saturday, January 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, UCSB The Ancient Borderlands Winter MRG Meeting will be comprised of small group discussions based on circulated readings as well as providing an opportunity for MRG members to share...
Bradley Parker (History, University of Utah) Friday, January 27 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the...
Magic lantern Films Present: Sons of Norway Fri Jan 27 at 7 and 10 PM. FREE The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 Mon Jan 30 / 10 PM. FREE...
Carlos Morton (Theater & Dance, UCSB) Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Friday, January 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB La Malinche: a play by Carlos Morton; Q&A with the playwright, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco One woman, known as Malinche, Malintzin and Doña...
Eric Arnesen (History, George Washington University) Friday, January 27 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Arnesen offers a provocative talk on the relationship between the idea of a “long civil rights movement” and the historiographical reappraisal of the role played by the Communist Party in post World...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, January 25 / 3:00 PM 2208 North Hall Barbara L.E. Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts will present information about current funding sources for diversity research (research on diversity, multiculturalism, gender, race, LGBT topics) and...
Mark Hall (director) Peter Alagona (History, UCSB) ann-elise Lewallen ( EALCS, UCSB) Mike McGinnis (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sushi, a cuisine formerly found only in Japan, has grown exponentially in other nations, and an industry has been created to...
Dara Horn (author of In the Image, The World to Come, and All Other Nights) Monday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing American Jewish writers, and will share many adventures from...
Saturday, January 21, 2012 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This colloquium will address ideas about the Common Good and the actual realities of political, economic, and social life in the polities of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. This was an...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Friday, Jan 20 at 7&10 PM Monday, Jan 23 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Fred Block ( Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, January 20 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Block is the editor, most recently, of State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technological Policy (2011) and is now writing Karl Polanyi and the Battle of Economic Ideas. Sponsored by the...
Niko Besnier (Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam) Friday, January 20 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Globalization has now become a central focus in sociolinguistics, although works on the question have tended to treat speech communities as homogeneous entities in which shifts in language use affect everyone in...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Thursday, January 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice, from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and...
January 6, 2012 To: Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Faculty From: David Marshall, Executive Dean and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences Re: Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars Important Dates: Proposal Workshop Friday, January 20, 2012, 12 noon, 4315 SSMS Letter of Intent due Monday, February...
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture focused on the Hindu samadhi shrine, which marks the final resting-place of a realized saint’s body, as an expression of sacred space in South Asia....
Sharon Farmer (History, UCSB) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, January 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated--if highly contested--history, and has found valence in many different cultures,...
Peter Van Wyck (Media Studies, Concordia University of Montreal) Andrew Lakoff (Anthropology, Sociology & Communications, University of Southern California) Friday, January 13, 2012 / 2:00 PM Catastrophic events produce radical uncertainty. The temporality of such events varies: they could be sudden, unexpected, but ever-possible (e.g. natural...
Landon Storrs (History, University of Houston) Friday, January 13 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Storrs speaks on “Hidden Convictions: the Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal” which is also the title of her forthcoming book. In 2000, Storrs published Civilizing Capitalism: The...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: 50/50 Friday, Jan 13 at 7&10 PM Monday, Jan 16 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
David C. Kang (International Relations,USC) Wednesday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 North Korea remains both a practical problem and an intellectual puzzle,with actions that sometimes appear self-defeating,aggressive,and unpredictable. This talk will make two overarching arguments that help make sense of North...
José Colmeiro (European Languages & Literature, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Tuesday, January 10 / 2:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will examine the global frames of memory, understanding that the traditional spaces, channels and forms of collective memory are being transformed by, and...
SEMINAR: INT 201GW: Grant and Fellowship Writing for the Social Sciences, Fine Arts and Humanities. Jude Mikal (Research Development Coordinator – IHC) Barbara Walker (Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts) Monday, January 9 / 2:00 PM HSSB 6056 A graduate-level six week course covering...