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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Isaiah Walker (Brigham Young University- Hawaii ) Wednesday, April 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawaii for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found...
Robert McRuer (English, George Washington University) Monday, April 23 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater McRuer is known for being the catalyst behind bringing queer studies and disability studies into productive conversation. In this presentation, he considers the ways in which disability is situated at the center of...
MLF presents: The Big Lebowski Friday, Apr 20 at 7 & Monday, Apr 23 at 10 PM Reefer Madness Friday, Apr 20 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Kathleen Woodward (English, University of Washington) Friday, April 20 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one hand (risk–taking to reap off–scale financial reward is applauded) as...
Marianne Sharp (Performing Arts, University of Winchester) Thursday, April 19 / 3:45 PM TD 2517 This talk offers a detailed analysis of the voice and body work of renowned British/Irish stage actress Fiona Shaw (better known internationally as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films) in...
Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers University) Oren Bracha (Law, University of Texas) Moderator: Mark Rose (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Two eminent historians of copyright will discuss the transformation of American copyright law from the very limited regime of the early...
Yehuda Bauer (Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem) Thursday, April 19 / 8:00 p.m. Campbell Hall Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event What do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk examines the contemporary ritual practices of fans who worship film stars as gods. Focusing on public display of devotee-fan worship of South Indian film star Rajinikanth in India, and...
Jessica L. Ambler (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Roman rebuilding of Carthage as Colonia Concordia Iulia Karthago in the early first century CE has typically been described by scholars as an act of Roman hegemony, wiping...
Ashraf Zahedi (Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women) Tuesday, April 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Afghan women and youth have been on the forefront of change and have drawn on all forms of publicity to create a favorable...
MLF presents: THE GREY Friday, Apr 13 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 16 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Keynote Speaker: Seana Coulson (University of California San Diego) Saturday, April 14 / 9:00 AM 3605 South Hall The inaugural Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) is a conference dedicated to the relationship between language and cognition, featuring talks approaching the cognition of language from empirical data-driven perspectives....
Julia Panko (English, UCSB, UC Graduate Fellow in Humanities) Friday, April 13 / 3:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB “The whole [reading] device weighs little more than five ounces [and] ...
Friday, April 13 / 3:00 - 5:30 PM Saturday, April 14 / 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote address Bradley Parker (University of Utah) The third biennial graduate student conference on Ancient Borderlands brings together young scholars from around the world to discuss cultural,...
Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff, Regents' Lecturer in Film and Media Studies ) Thursday, April 12, 2012 / 7:30 PM Pollock Theater When Annie Leonard released The Story of Stuff film, she had no idea that her message would resonate so widely. Since its launch in 2007, the...
Kembrew McLeod (Communication Studies, University of Iowa) Tuesday, April 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on the tactics that have been used by hacktivists and other “copyfighters” to resist the expansion of intellectual property laws. Drawing from personal...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...
Barbara Harthorn (Feminist Studies, UCSB ) Mike Goodchild (Geography, UCSB) Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Tuesday, April 10 / 11:45 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Developing an effective interdisciplinary collaborative project involves more time, resources, management, and communication than the average research program. This panel offers strategies for...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB Music, Theater & Dance) and Carol Press (UCSB Theater & Dance) Monday, April 9 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Creative processes and creativity in interdisciplinary performance-making and educational contexts provide the focus for this session. Grounded in a principle of the profound...
Richard Bauman (Communication & Culture, Indiana University) Friday, April 6 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Country people have stood as the domestic Other within contemporary society, providing embodied figurations of what modern people are not—or, in some inflections, are no longer. In this talk, I...
MLF presents: THE ARTIST Friday, Apr 6 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 9 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Sébastien Peyrouse (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, April 6 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...
Winter 2011-2012 Friday, October 14 (12pm, HSSB 4041) Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) "Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410 Friday, October 14 (3pm in TBA) Emily Gowers (Cambridge) Saturday, October 15 (9:15-4 in HSSB 6020) Multi-Campus Research Group Meeting Monday, October 17 (5pm, HSSB 6020) Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) "The...
Sandy Prita Meier (Art History, Wayne State University) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM HSSB 1174 Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the port cities of the Swahili coast have been nodes of global connectivity for over two millennia. Beginning in the...
Professor Vincent Pecora (English, University of Utah) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Vincent P. Pecora is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization...
Marlene Laruelle (International Affairs, George Washington University) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Marlene Laruelle is a specialist in the politics and history of Russia and Eurasia. She is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian...
Thursday, April 5 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Sister Spit is a rotating collection of artists spanning from film directors, poets, novelists, performance artists, comic book writes, to thespians, who have been touring annually since 1997. This event will include performances by Michelle Tea, Kit...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Wednesday, April 4 / 12:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use our...
John Adams (Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK) Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 / 3:00 PM HSSB 2001a To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development...