Friday, March 15 / 1:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) 4041 HSSB Chikowero's book project is “African Music, Identities and Power in Colonial Zimbabwe.” Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday-Saturday, March 15- 16th 2635 South Hall The Transcriptions Center's "Mediating the Nonhuman" conference will take up questions of how media and narrative frames shape how we understand and interact with contemporary events and processes that take place on nonhuman scales: ecological time, high-frequency stock trades,...
Wednesday, March 13 / 5:00 PM Linguistics New Room South Hall, 3605 The New Sexualities Research Focus Group, in coordination with Professor Mireille Miller-Young's Feminist Studies graduate course on Queer of Color Critique, invites faculty and students to attend an open workshop on new directions in the field....
Xavier Livermon (Africana Studies, Wayne State University) Tuesday, March 12 / 4:00 PM 4631A South Hall In this talk, Xavier Livermon argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis...
Bruce Whitehouse (Anthropology, Lehigh University) Friday, March 8 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once considered a stable democracy, the country of Mali in Africa's western Sahel region experienced an army coup and the loss of its northern regions to separatist and Islamist rebels last year....
Thursday, March 7 / 4:00 PM Valerie Hansen (History, Yale) SAASB 1102C Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and...
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
Harry Reese (Studio Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 6 / 4:00 - 5:00 PM Platform Gallery (near the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB) Artist and Professor Harry Reese makes prints, artists’ books, paintings, and public art installations. Reese’s ongoing research in pattern recognition, the book form and...