Friday, December 6 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
David A. Kirby (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; University of Manchester) Tuesday, December 3 / 1:00 PM 2135 SSMS Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered...
Tuesday, November 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd fl00r Ellison Hall The round-table is a discussion about choosing methods in the study of identity. As part of the round-table, we particularly encourage the participation of graduate students who will be asked to present the puzzle which...
Monday, November 25 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Monday, November 25 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Gideon Raff (Director, Prisoners of War) Sunday, November 24 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Gideon Raff, creator, writer and director of the award-winning Israeli television drama series, Prisoners of War (Hatufim), which served as the inspiration for its critically acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland, shows clips from...
Friday, November 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Thursday, November 21 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its second meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 21 (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Following up on its previous meeting, which focused on the “Heart of the Matter” report produced by...
Tsim Schneider (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 21 / 5:00 PM 2001a HSSB Spanish missions in the San Francisco Bay area of California represent the endpoint of 200 years of Catholic missionization on the North American continent and the far northern frontier of colonial New Spain in 1776. The...
Patricia MacCormack (English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University) Wednesday, November 20th / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for a talk from Platform Guest Speaker Patricia MacCormack and to celebrate Platform's latest exhibit, Post-Human Nature, with a small reception. EXHIBITION: August...
Jan Haaken (director, Mind Zone) Tuesday, November 19, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Psychologist and filmmaker Jan Haaken will discuss her new documentary film project Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines. Since the First World War, military therapists have been evaluated largely on...
Facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, UCSB) Monday, November 18 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB How do notions of endurance and ephemerality enable us to consider notions of performance and politics? How do embodied practices constitute meaning and knowledge? What is the efficacy of performance...
Dir. Jan Haaken, 2013 Monday, November 18, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mind Zone follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control unit as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers in the fight....
Monday, November 18 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM I.V. Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college...
Marsha Kinder (Critical Studies, University of Southern California) Friday, November 15, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk traces the speaker’s movement from a book published in the early 1990s on children’s media culture—Playing with Power in Movies, Television and Video Games: From Muppet Babies...
Friday, November 15 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM I.V. Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college...
Friday, November 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Leon Wieseltier (Literary Editor, The New Republic) Thursday, November 14 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Leon Wieseltier, noted writer, critic, and literary editor of The New Republic, is the author of Kaddish (1998), which was a finalist for the National...
Thursday, November 14 / 4:30 PM Phelps Hall 6320 The GCLR invites graduate students engaged in literary, interdisciplinary research to participate in our Fall roundtable. Roundtable participants will provide a paper-in-progress for questions and comments; participants that subsequently present the workshopped paper at a conference are...
Arthur F. Marotti (English, Wayne State University) Thursday, November 14 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This talk discusses some of the hundreds of (mostly anonymous) poems that survive in various manuscripts from the early modern period in only one or two copies. It examines...
Kenneth Prewitt (Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Director of The Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University) Wednesday, November 13 / 4:00 PM Mosher Alumni House What is Your Race? (Princeton University Press, 2013) traces the tortured history of government race statistics from 1790 to the present. Across three-fourths...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ratatat Theater Group is proud to present Happy Few, a new play based on the first-person accounts of Santa Barbara veterans and Shakespeare's Henry V. It mixes the stories of veterans about the wars in...
Friday, November 8 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in...
Friday, November 8 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Thursday, November 7 / 12:00 PM South Hall 2509 Continuing and new participants are invited to this initial meeting to discuss the important recent report titled “The Heart of the Matter,” which the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences produced for...
Thursday, November 7-Friday, November 8 / 4:30 PM Locations: Thursday, November 7th / Mosher Alumni House Friday, November 8 / MultiCultural Center Saturday, November 9 / Casa de la Guerra Organized by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Santa Barbara) and UC-Mexicanistas (Intercampus Research Program). Participants...
Jessamyn Fiore (curator, author) Thursday November 7 / 5:00 PM Pollock Theater Jessamyn Fiore has done extensive research on the Matta-Clark’s life and artistic practice as co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark with her mother Jane Crawford, Matta-Clark’s widow. She has curated a number of related exhibitions,...
Jessamyn Fiore (curator, author) Nicholas Olsberg (Director of the Gordon Matta-Clark Archive) Thursday, November 7 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A public conversation about the Matta-Clark archives and his artistic genetics and processes will take place with Jessamyn Fiore and Nicholas Olsberg, independent...
Monday, November 4 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Sudhir Mahadevan (Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle) Friday, November 1 / 10:00 AM SSMS 2135 Popular histories of Indian cinema's past expose fundamental aspects of India’s cinematic imaginaries. This presentation surveys some of these histories, juxtaposing the official and corporate narratives with non-official ones. While...
Friday, November 1 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your...
Elspeth Dusinberre (Classics, University of Colorado - Boulder) Friday, November 1 / 6:00 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2559 Puesta del Sol The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and encompassed many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological...
Susan Brison (Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Tuesday, October 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room The undoing of the self in trauma involves the disruption of past from present, the inability to envision a future, and the severing of sustaining connections to community. And yet, with the...
Paul R. Deslandes (History, University of Vermont) Monday, October 28 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines in order to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and...
Thomas Trezise (French, Princeton) Monday, October 28, 2013 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust...
Monday, October 28 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films proudly presents A premiere free screening of The Motel Life starring Emile Hirsch and Dakota Fanning. Followed by a Q&A with the screenwriters Noah Harpster (UCSB Alum) and Micah Fitzwater-Blue. ...
Nathan Connolly (History, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, October 25 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Connolly is the author of By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of An American South Florida (2011). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy....
Friday, October 25 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is the...
Christine Borgman (Information Studies, UCLA) Friday, October 25 / 2:00 PM SSMS 2135 Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data by requiring data management plans and data sharing. Policy makers have paid surprisingly little...
Steven Feld (Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico) (dir. Nii Yemo Nunu & Steven Feld, 2013) Wednesday, October 23 / 8:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Drawing on their work with Accra's La Drivers Union, Nunu & Feld's film chronicles Ghana's intertwined histories of colonial-era lorry driving...
Tim O'Brien (author of The Things They Carried) Tuesday, October 22, 2013 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien will discuss the similarities between his own experiences in Vietnam forty years ago and the experiences of...
Performance and Politics RFG Monday, October 21 / 3:30 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic practice, and political life, we explore embodied practice-performance as a vehicle for the shaping, crafting, structuring, and transmission of cultural values and identities, encompassing conventional manifestations,...
Nicole Saffold Maskiell (History, Cornell University) Monday, October 21 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery and on slave networks in Dutch and English colonial North America and the Atlantic World. The author of "Elite Slave Networks in...
Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer Sunday, October 20 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion With Palestinian-Israeli peace talks underway, it is more imperative than ever to learn and apply the lessons of past negotiations, so as to create an opportunity for a peaceful resolution of the longstanding...
Joseph Hodge (History, West Virginia University) Friday, October 18 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Hodge is the author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday, October 18 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh filled years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is...
Dr. Andy Yatsko (Senior Archaeologist and Navy Region Southwest Archaeologist for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest in San Diego) Friday, October 18 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB Yatsko will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating academic archaeological research and regulatory compliance through his many years of...
Roberto Lovato (Co-Founder of Presente.Org and former Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center) Angelica Salas (Executive Director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles) Gloria Campos (Co-Chair of UCSB IDEAS) William I. Robinson (Sociology and Global and International Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 17...
Lilia Sokolinskaja (journalist, Tallinn, Estonia) Thursday, October 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Lilia Sokolinskaja was a leading journalist on Estonian Radio, Program 4. She is an insightful analyst of politics who covered the Estonian Parliament, traveled with the President of Estonia to NATO and European...
Kenneth Hough (PhD candidate, History, UCSB) Wednesday, October 16 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the...
Friday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh filled years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is...
Giorgio Miescher (University of Basel, Switzerland) Friday, October 11 / 12:00 PM 4080 HSSB The Red Line is a massive fence that stretches over 1,000 kilometers across Namibia and separates this southwest African country into two parts. This fence, constructed by South Africa in the 1960s, stands for...
Thursday, October 10 / 4:00-6:00 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: The Value of Care. Find out about collaborative research programs...
Friday, October 4 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh-filled yearswith themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is the way...
Christopher B. Krebs (Classics, Stanford) Friday, October 4 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts...
Tuesday, October 22 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) more...
Wednesday, October 2 / 1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Auditorium This forum will feature the speakers Marcos Vargas, executive director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and Manuel Pastor of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. Sponsored by CAUSE and the Center for...
Saturday, September 28 / 7:00 PM Sunday, September 29 / 7:00 PM Anisq'Oyo' Park With their tongue-in-cheek production of Rosenstern and Guildencrantz, UCSB's Shakespeare in the Park takes a jocular Commedia dell'Arte approach to the two characters of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare's Hamlet....
Ira Katznelson (Political Science, Columbia University) Friday, September 27/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB The author of ten books, Katznelson is a former president of the American Political Science Association and current president of the Social Science Research Council. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor...
Stephanie Batiste (English and Black Studies) and Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History) have received 2013-14 fellowships from the UC Humanities Network. Details here. ...
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Bianca Brigidi holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research dissertation analyzes the California Native American rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries.Brigidi's work marries folklore, contemporary ethnographic data, historical data, and interdisciplinary explorations of intercultural violence. As a...
Deadline to apply is July 15, 2013. For more information please visit https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/graduate-affiliates-program/...
Conveners: Mario T. Garcia, Chicano Studies, garcia@history.ucsb.edu Ellen McCracken, Spanish and Portuguese, emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu Description: This group is concerned with the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Chicano/Latino background in the United States. Numbering some 45 million people, Chicano/Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United...
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Dr. Ninotchka Bennahum, Theater & Dance bennahum@theaterdance.ucsb.edu Dr. Stephanie Batiste, English & Black Studies sbatiste@english.ucsb.edu Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu Relationships between and explorations of performance and politics form the core of this new Research Focus Group. Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic practice, and political life, we aim to...
Kate McDonald, History kmcdonald@history.ucsb.edu Sabine Frühstück, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu We have come together as an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty members from the departments of History, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, Music, and Film & Media Studies to examine, discuss and...
Sarah K. Harris' research interests include information technology regulation and access, digital media literacy and utilizing ethnography to measure IT policy impact. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, from UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation,...
Ayla Bozkurt Applebaum is an ethnic Kabardian from Turkey. Kabardians are among the Circassian people which, although indigenous to the Northwest Caucasus, live primarily in exile in Turkey and the Middle East due to their expulsion by Czarist Russia in the mid 19th century. Dr. Bozkurt...
Barbara L. Taylor is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. Her dissertation is titled The Ghosts of Banjos Past: The Early Banjo Revival and Remapping America's Racial Terrain. Diverse cultural activists are contesting conventional knowledge of early banjo history as they construct a subversive reading of "America's...
Rahul Mukherjee is a Doctcoral Candidate in Film and Media Studies. His dissertation is titled Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures: A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India. "Through case-studies in India, my dissertation explores media’s role in science controversies. The cases include arguments about effects of...
Andrew Magnusson is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Muslism-Zoroastrion Relations and Religious Violence in Early Islamic Iran. My dissertation examines Muslim-Zoroastion relations in Iran between the seventh and eleventh centuries. It challenges the lachrymose narrative of Zoroastion history which blames Muslim prosecution for...
Kuan-yen Liu is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Animal-Human Analogy and the Order of Things: A Comparative Study of Victorian British and Late-Qing Chinese Darwinism. This research project will explore the cross-boundary interaction of Darwinism with philosophy, socio-political thought and literature in...
Zachary Horton is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Scale and Alterity: Ecology, Media, and Technics After the Human. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary effort to analyze current techno-scientific discourses for underlying scalar frameworks that constrain personal, local, and transnational efforts to think other...
Friday, June 7 / 4:00-6:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Jason Schwartz (Religious Studies) A Wizard in the Chronicles of Amber: Rethinking the Religious Culture of the Rājput Courts in Light of the Kachwaha's Śākta Preceptor This lecture will retrace the path traveled by the prolific Śākta...
Eugene Yelchin (Award-winning children's writer and illustrator) Wednesday, June 5 / 4:00 PM Old Little Theater Award-winning children’s writer and illustrator Eugene Yelchin will speak about the dramatic role reading played in the Soviet Union, the courage of writers and their readers, and how the struggle...
May 31–June 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Summer Institute will serve as a forum for intensive exploration of topics relating broadly to Japanese book history and the ways in which knowledge and reading experiences are structured by material form. Issues that may arise include: the past,...
Karen Wilson (History, UCLA) Thursday, May 30 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Limited Seating and RSVP Required: 964-7869 or audrey@cbbsb.org Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic, a groundbreaking exhibition on display at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, tells the...
Sarah Dry (author, independent scholar) Rob Iliffe (History, University of Sussex) Thursday, May 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words...
Dr. Ellis Tinios (Art, University of Leeds) Thursday, May 30 / 4:15 PM HSSB 4080 Japanese illustrated woodblock printed books produced between 1680 and 1900 represent a remarkable achievement in terms of their technical perfection, diversity, and beauty. Artists created designs exclusively for reproduction in book form and...
Tuesday, May 28-Wednesday, May 29 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the social, cognitive, philosophical, and religious dynamics of personhood. Participants will explore alterations of subjectivity, altered states of embodiment and emplacement, and cross-disciplinary theories of transient selves. We welcome proposals for full panels...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Click here for a schedule and registration information....
Irene Checa-Garcia (University of Wyoming) Friday, May 24 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Much earlier than they are able to talk, very young children communicate with visible body behavior as they build social interaction with peers and caregivers. Frequently, these interactions focus on asking for some course of...
John Sbardellati (History, University of Waterloo, Ontario) Thursday, May 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the 1940s and 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. conducted a sweeping investigation of the motion picture industry. Convinced that film content endangered national security, Hoover’s G-men, joined by conservative...
Philip Deslippe (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 22 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB The recent outpouring of scholarly and popular writing on the history of American yoga has largely glossed over the seven decades between Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and the massive influx of swamis and gurus in...
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Tuesday, May 21 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resources Building High school students in the SKILLS program at Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language and culture in their local communities. In addition, UCSB...
Nazym Shedenova (Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) Saule Ualieva (Sociology, East Kazakh Technical University, Oskemen) Monday, May 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Shedenova is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a professor of sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. ...
The Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players (Shepherd University) Friday, May 17 / 5:00 PM Theater & Dance West 1701 This year's Medieval Studies Program Graduate Student Conference welcomes a student performance by the Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players. Traveling from Shepherd University in West Virginia, this troupe...
Keynote speaker: Professor Steven Justice (English, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 17 / HSSB 4080 / 12:30pm - 5pm Saturday, May 18 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB / 8:45am - 4:30pm The theme of this year’s conference is, “Says Who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts”. Since Henri Lefebvre’s...
Thursday, May 16 / 7:00 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Fleischmann Auditorium Bubonic Plague. Yellow Fever. Cholera. HIV AIDS. For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions and cause massive social and economical disruption. How have different cultures grappled with...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Debate participants: David Cole (Law, Georgetown University) Mary Ellen O’Connell (Law, University of Notre Dame) Avery Plaw (Political Science, Dartmouth University) Moderator:Jeff Greenfield The use of militarized drones – flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry – represents a major shift...
Negin Farsad (director) Wednesday, May 15 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Using jokes as a way of combating Islamophobia, a group of Muslim-American stand-up comedians go on a comedy tour throughout the United States. The comedians use this tour as a chance to create dialogue,...
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev (International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University) Tuesday, May 14 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The concept of Sedentarism is rooted in the "otherizing" of nomadic communities, which has formed a hierarchically structured binary: sedentary (good, progressive, civilized) - nomadic (bad, wild, and bloodthirsty). This mindset...
Saturday, May 11-Sunday, May 12 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room,6020 HSSB Featured plenary speakers: Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Linguistic Anthropology, UCLA), Kira Hall (Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder), Susan Speer (Psychology, University of Manchester), and Kathryn Woolard (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego) The LISO conference...
Friday, May 10-Saturday, May 11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today precarity, a life without any guaranteed work, is becoming the condition of millions of people worldwide. The conference focuses on the social and affective costs of precarity, but also on what possibilities it may open....
Jayne Loader (director) Thursday, May 9 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Released in 1982, “The Atomic Café” was a masterful compilation of U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film’s directors, screens excerpts of...
Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Magarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, May 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work....
Shalv Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Wednesday, May 8 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB This talk discusses the Hindu temple genre of kirtan as it has been performed in different Jewish topographies by the largest of the three Indian Jewish communities, the Bene Israel of Maharashtra. Nineteenth-century Bene...
John D. Lyons (French, University of Virginia) Wednesday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 In the early-modern period European society was shaken by turmoil that touched almost every aspect of culture, though the most visible symptoms were religious and political crises. At stake was the very framework...
Wednesday, May 8 / 12:00 PM-9:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater and UCen State Street Room Celebrating the publication of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013), a co-edited volume produced by three UC Santa Barbara professors—Constance Penley, Mireille Miller-Young, and Celine...