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Greta Krippner (Sociology, University of Michigan) Friday, November 30 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Krippner's Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance won the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association and the Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociological Association. Sponsored by...
Chris Johanson (Classics, UCLA) Friday, November 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Through textual, visual, and interactive, virtual world-based analysis, this talk will examine and re-evaluate the visual argumentation employed during one of the most critical moments of image manipulation at Rome, the aristocratic funeral...
UC Humanities Research Institute: Through the administration of its own funding programs and those of the UC Humanities Network, UCHRI supports and showcases fellows, working groups, seminars, conferences, workshops and other research formations, on topics traditional to the humanities in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, classics,...
About Research Development: The IHC Research Development staff can support faculty through all aspects of research funding from assisting with individual grant searches to budget preparation and proposal review. IHC staff is available by appointment to work with individual faculty on proposals-in-progress, providing individual research...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth) Tuesday, November 27 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall For Jews and for Judaism the twentieth century brought unprecedented suffering and incredible achievements - but as a new century gets going, their role in the future is up for...
Christian Collet (International Christian University, Tokyo) Tuesday, November 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Vietnamese Americans offer two curiosities to the study of racial, ethnic and minority politics. One, they appear more likely than other Asian Pacific populations in the United States to distance...
Jacques Perreault (Classics, Université de Montreal) Friday, November 16 / 5:30 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Pottery production increased greatly during the Archaic period in the Greek world and we know of many different styles and production centers. On the northern Aegean island of Thasos, a...
Amy Ziering (Producer) Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of...
Mark Quigley (Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive) Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 CCWS is proud to present a talk by Mark Quigley, Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center...
Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM Music 1213 Please see website for more information about the material under discussion: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/modern-mexican-studies If you would like to be added to the Modern Mexican Studies RFG database, please contact Ruth. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah Townsend ...
[vc_row css_animation="" row_type="row" use_row_as_full_screen_section="no" type="full_width" angled_section="no" text_align="left" background_image_as_pattern="without_pattern"][vc_column][vc_column_text]Conveners W. Patrick McCray, History pmccray@history.ucsb.edu Lisa Parks, Film and Media Studies lisa.parks@ucsb.edu The relationship between technology and society remains a central problem for today’s citizens, policy makers, technologists, entrepreneurs, and politicians. Too often, these issues, as addressed by scholars, become nebulous and...
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How do scholars make sense of acts of violence--even terrorism--that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a...
Gary Griggs (Director of the Marine Institute, UC Santa Cruz) Marc Fisher (Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, UCSB) Edward Keller (Earth Scence, UC Santa Cruz, UCSB) Bruce Tiffney ( UCSB College of Creative Studies) Friday, November 9 / 1:00 PM Bren 1414 Speakers will discuss sea level rise in the Santa...
Elizabeth Miller (English, UC Davis) Friday, November 9 / 2:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many radical writers came to believe that large-scale...
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012 Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum...
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM IV Theater 2 Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From) Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood...
Brett Esaki (Liberal Arts, Brooks Institute) Jason Hopkins (Sociology, UCSB) Rolondo Longoria (Sociology, UCSB) Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies,UCSB) Carly Thomsen (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Sex and sexuality have been major hot button issues in recent elections and...
Ann Bermingham (Art History, UCSB) Constance Penley (Film & Media, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Discussion of public expectations for higher education in comparison to the original vision of Clark Kerr. For readings to be discussed at the meeting, please visit: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Sponsored...
Martin S. Indyk (Vice President, Director for Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution) Sunday, November 4 / 3:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Ambassador Martin S. Indyk will analyze the dramatic developments in the Arab world and their impact on Iran’s bid for dominance in Israel’s neighborhood, including through its nuclear...
Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, this symposium will discuss some of the ways in which religious traditions, in Japan and elsewhere, have historically conceptualized and...
Thursday, November 1 / 5:00 PM The Graduate Student Lounge, Multicultural Center Friday, November 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Graduate Student Lounge, 4:00 PM-8:00 PM Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Casa de la Guerra; South-East Corner of De La Guerra Street and De La...