Click here to read about Martha Bragin's talk for the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, "Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War", in The Bottom Line. ...
Jonathan Kalan (photographer, writer, journalist) Tuesday, April 30 / 2:00 PM Arts 1237 Jonathan Kalan is an award-winning photographer and journalist specializing in innovation, technology, development and social entrepreneurship in emerging markets. A graduate of UCSB's Global Studies Program, he has traveled to over 44 countries and...
Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB is our campus's local chapter of the international 4Humanities initiative, which uses digital technologies to design and create media campaigns to advocate for the value of the humanities. Following up on 4Humanities@UCSB's previous meetings, when we started humanities...
Emanuele Saccarelli (Political Science, San Diego State University) Friday, April 26 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Saccarelli examines the novelist's role working with the OSS in World War II. He is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. Sponsored by the Center for the...
Katrina Daly-Thompson (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This timely talk reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that...
Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science, USC) Thursday, April 25 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Hancock is a globally recognized scholar of the study of intersectionality – the study of the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality politics and their impact on public policy. Her first book,...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
Jack Halberstam (English, University of Southern California) April 25, 2013 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater In a new book on “The Wild” Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal. As many thinkers have proposed recently,...
Kim Q. Hall (Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University) Monday, April 22 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At its most fundamental level, food is, as Michael Pollan asserts in his book In Defense of Food, a relationship rather than a collection of nutrients. The food...
Michael Zakim (History, Tel Aviv University) April 19 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Zakim is the author of Ready Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1790-1960. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Lawrence Acker is an associate professor at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, joining the faculty in January of this year. He is the Lindenwood College of Individualized Education’s Program Director of Health Management. Dr. Acker came to Lindenwood after serving as the Program Chair...
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies/Spanish, NYU) Wednesday, April 17 / 3:30PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated or corrupted, the media sequestered in the hands of power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in...
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
Click here to read the official UCSB press release for the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Karen Anzoategui (performer) Saturday, April 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Bodies in Space III: A Guerrilla-Style Graduate Conference" invites the UCSB community at large to observe the culmination of this year's conference, a performance directed by Karen Anzoategui and featuring UCSB students....
Scott McCloud (Regents’ Lecturer) Friday, April 12 /10:30 AM -3:00 PM Theater & Dance Building: Courtyard & Room 1530 With graphic novels, sequential art, comic books becoming more prevalent in scholarship and education, the need for interdisciplinary conversation grows so that we might collaboratively imagine the...
Friday, April 12 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Corwin Pavilion This conference is the culminating event of the year-long Figuring Sea Level Rise series. It focuses on several crucial questions in the debate about climate change and sea level rise: who is likely to be immediately affected? What...
Fredrik Logevall (History, Cornell University) Wednesday, April 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. Drawing on newly available documents from several...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
Sunday, April 7 / 3:00 PM Lotte Lehman Concert Hall Josh Aronson (director, Orchestra of Exiles) Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s...
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, UC San Diego) The Media Fields collective will be holding its fourth graduate student conference, on the theme of "Access/Trespass," this April 4th - 5th. The conference features a keynote talk by...
Leo Panitch (Political Science,York University) Sam Gindin (Political Science,York University) Tuesday, April 2 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Panitch has edited the Socialist Register since 1985. He is the author of numerous books including Working Class Politics in Crisis. Gindin was Research Director of the...