(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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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!...
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...
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...
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...