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...
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...
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...
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...
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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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...
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...
(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...
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...
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...
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...
"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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Click here for "The Story of Stuff" author Annie Leonard's comments on the importance of the humanities, recorded during her UCSB Regents' Lectureship....
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...
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...
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...
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...
MLF presents: Red Tails Friday, May 11 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 14 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
MLF presents: CHRONICLE Friday, May 4 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 7 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
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"...
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...
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,...
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. ...
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. ...