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...
James Walters (Theology, Boston University) Monday, May 6 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4041 In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification...
John Connelly (History, UC Berkeley) David Nirenberg (History, The University of Chicago) Monday, May 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and features a dialogue between John Connelly, author...
Sjón (novelist, poet) Monday, May 6 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Well-known Icelandic author Sjón (his pen name means 'sight' or 'vision' in Icelandic) is one of the most interesting contemporary Icelandic novelists and poets. His visit to UCSB will mark the beginning of a...
Nancy Perloff (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Friday, May 3 / 3:00 PM HSSB 1174 Dr. Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute where she has organized such exhibitions as Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, and Tango with...
Friday, May 3 / 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology, UC Irvine) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop engages with the media forms that ethnographic products take (e.g., video, text) and, more broadly, mediation -- its production, consumption, circulation -- as part of socio-cultural life....
Mario Bellatin (author) Paulo Franchetti (Literature Theory, Universidad Estatal de Campinas) Randal Johnson (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA) Friday, May 3 / Mosher Alumni House, Henley Board Room Saturday, May 4 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference gathers a variety of work, including that of graduate...
Ikuyo Morimoto (Graduate School of Language, Communication, & Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Friday, May 3 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Morimoto's research examines language use and body behavior in multiparty social interaction both in everyday conversations and in institutional (judicial) contexts. She has been working on videotaped...
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
Faculty and Staff Harry Munt, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford) Patrick Ryan Williams, Associate Curator and Anthropology Chair, The Field Museum of Chicago Fikret Yegül, Art History Gregory Wilson, Anthropology Voula Tsouna, Philosophy Samuel Thomas, Religion, California Lutheran Christine Thomas, Religious Studies Paul Spickard, History Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology Jo-Ann Shelton, Classics Helen Rhee,...
Wednesday, May 15 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Click here for more information....
Rüdiger Campe (Literature, Yale University) Wednesday, May 1 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 The probabilistic revolution in the 18th century provides a history of the relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques, between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution that overthrew the "order of things," notably...