March 2012

Kenneth Frampton (Architecture, Columbia University, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History) Friday, March 16 / 6:00 PM Loma Pelona Center Throughout the developed world, the proliferation of urbanized regions, as opposed to historic cities, has led to a state of affairs in which the practice of...

Friday-Saturday, March 16-17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara is hosting our eleventh annual conference, “Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800.”  The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2012 at UCSB and...

Shalini Kakar, (Art History, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm IHC Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB This presentation explores the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar will investigate the ways in which...

Heather Stoll (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry, from immigration to expansions in the franchise, shape political competition?  More specifically, when are new social groups successful at forming their...

Harold Meyerson (columnist for the Washington Post and editor of American Prospect) March 10 / 9:30 AM 4041 HSSB Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect as well as a member of the editorial board of Dissent. From 1989 to 2001, he was executive editor of the...

Wednesday, March 7 & 14, 2012 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlights the work of graduate students in Dr. Mireille Miller-Young’s Global Sex Work and Economies of Desire seminar. Drawing from critical sexualities studies frameworks, UCSB...

Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) Thursday, March 1 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized...