December 2014

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10 Dec

Claire Robison (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, December 10, 2014 / 5:00 pm IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The Indian International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is assuming an increasingly central role in India’s Hindu public sphere, wielding vast economic assets, political influence, and, more recently, a posh...

10:38 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
14 Nov

Rebecca Langlands (Classics, University of Exeter) Friday, November 14, 2014 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Professor Rebecca Langlands  will be visiting UCSB to share her expertise in Roman literature and culture, ethics, and the history of sexuality. She will be speaking on her current research, "No-Win Situations: Roman...

11:22 / Upcoming Events
13 Nov

Vivek Chibber (History, New York University) Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 7:00 PM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants...

13:31 / Uncategorized / Upcoming Events
13 Nov

Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....

11:08 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
06 Nov

Thursday, November 6, 2014/ 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 7, 2014 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 8, 2014/ 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra This year, the theme is the binational relationship between the United States and Mexico. We...

09:54 / Upcoming Events
05 Nov

Leslie Mitchner (Rutgers University Press, Editor in Chief) Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the...

13:28 / Upcoming Events / Uncategorized
05 Nov

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / 5:00 PM 2635 South Hall This is the first meeting of the EHC Anthropocene graduate colloquium, on the introduction and Chapter 13 from Naomi Klein's most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014). Pizza and drinks will be...

11:45 / Upcoming Events
03 Nov

Friday, October 3 / 3:00-4:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2014-15 academic year on Monday, November 3, 3-4:30 pm, in South Hall 2509.   Continuing and new participants are invited.  A surprise, high-visibility new 4Humanities project will be announced at this...

09:23 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
30 Oct

Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 10:00-3:30 PM Mosher Alumni Hall Gallery Exhibit: 3:30-5:00 PM, UCSB Museum In popular Western perception, the term Bollywood conjures up a constellation of images: melodramatic performances rendered in a riot of colors, exotic locales, exaggerated gestures, and fantastic song and dance...

11:34 / Upcoming Events
24 Oct

John H. Summers (Editor, The Baffler) Friday,October 24,2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Summers is the editor of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (2008); editor of Mass Cult and Mid Cult: Essays Against the American Grain (2011), derived from the work of Dwight...

13:17 / Upcoming Events
23 Oct

Thursday, October 23, 2014 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House.  Meet new faculty, fellows and staff.  Learn about the IHC’s  programming series for this academic year: The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities.  Find...

10:44 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series
22 Oct

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 / 2:00-3:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join Kelly Pillsbury and Barbara Walker from the Office of Research as they walk you through COS Pivot, a global funding opportunities database available to the UCSB campus. With an estimated 26,000 records of funding opportunities, Pivot...

10:43 / Upcoming Events
17 Oct

Caitlin Rosenthal (History,University of California, Berkeley) Friday, October 17, 2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Unlike traditional narratives that privilege the role of factories in England and the North, Rosenthal uses plantation account books to show how slavery and the slave trade facilitated the development of Taylorism and...

10:17 / Upcoming Events
04 Oct

Saturday, October 4, 2014 / 12:30 Sunday, October 5, 2014 / 7:00 Anisq'Oyo' Park, Isla Vista FREE Isla Vista Arts Presents Shakespeare in the Park: Capt'n Lear; King Lear in a 60-minute commedia romp! Bring a blanket, bring a friend....

09:49 / Upcoming Events / I.V. Live
03 Oct

Shane Hamilton (History, University of Georgia) Friday,October 3, 2014 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB  Professor Hamilton is the author of Trucking Country: the Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy (2008), which won the Theodore Saloutos Award for the Best Book in Agricultural History. He is a leading figure among...

10:01 / Upcoming Events
06 Sep

Saturday,Sept 6, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq’Oyo’ Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event. Go back ...

09:40 / Upcoming Events / Magic Lantern Films
23 Aug

Saturday, August 23, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....

09:21 / Magic Lantern Films / Upcoming Events
18 Aug

Thomas Doran is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Vulgar Ethology: A Prehistory of Animal Protection in Atlantic Natural History Vulgar Ethology examines how American naturalists conducted, narrated, and valued their interactions with animals in the period leading up to the nineteenth-century animal...

12:13 / Uncategorized
11 Aug

Call for Nominations The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities program, now in its fifth year.
13:11 / Announcements
10 Jul

Gary Shteyngart (author, Super Sad True Love Story, Little Failure) Thursday, April 10 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall, UCSB FREE UC Santa Barbara is pleased to welcome Gary Shteyngart as the inaugural Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence.  He will read selections
12:48 / Announcements
26 Jun

  Conveners Javiera Barandiaran, Global Studies: jba@global.ucsb.edu Stephan Miescher, History: miescher@history.ucsb.edu Research interests As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive to develop...

10:58 / Research Focus Groups
12 Jun

  ABOUT The Anthropocene, a newly-coined geologic term, designates the age during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. While subject to the forces of nature, the human species is itself a force that acts upon the natural world. We have...

12:11 / Uncategorized
31 May

Keynote: Professor William Tronzo (UC San Diego) Saturday, May 31 / 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Medieval Studies Program at UCSB presents an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the theme of "Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages." Professor William...

09:57 / Upcoming Events
30 May

Friday, May 30 / 9:30 AM-5:00 PM University Center Lobero Room This is a one-day symposium in honor of the centenary of the birth of Aimé Césaire, the great Martinican poet-statesman (1913-2008). Césaire, in both his literary and political careers, strove to be “the spokesman for those...

11:43 / Upcoming Events
29 May

Thursday, May 29 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A roundtable with UCSB Profefessors Amber González (Chican@ Studies), Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music), and Ninotchka Bennahum (Dance). Everyone is invited to join this discussion. For more details see: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/performance-and-politics/ Sponsored by  the IHC's Performance & Politics RFG....

14:54 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
27 May

A celebration of the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Nobel prize Colombian writer who recently died, with readings, remembrances and film clips.  This event has been postponed.  For further information, visit: www.spanport.ucsb.edu Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, the program in Latin American...

09:44 / Upcoming Events
23 May

Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Psychiatry, University of New Mexico) Friday, May 23, 2014 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Registration is required for this workshop. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/reg-histtr-2014 to receive the preparatory readings. Under colonial occupation, Native communities across the Americas endured devastating...

12:34 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups / The Value of Care / Series
22 May

Thursday, May 22 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM UCSB Centennial House The Graduate Center for Literary Research cordially invites you to participate in the GCLR Graduate Student Conference on “Disclosure,” Thursday May 22 at the Centennial House from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Disclosure evokes hidden, withheld,...

09:39 / Upcoming Events
22 May

Call for Nominations The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities program, now in its fifth year. Part of the system-wide University of California Humanities Network, this program is designed to support advanced doctoral students in the final stages of completing their dissertations, and to encourage the collaboration, interdisciplinary dialogue, and innovation that are fundamental to research in the humanities in the University of California. Along with Faculty Research Fellows, Graduate Fellows will be members of the UC Society of Fellows in the Humanities, sponsored by the UC Humanities Network.
09:21 / Uncategorized
19 May

Monday, May 19 / 9:00 AM Student Resources Building, Multipurpose Room Students from three Santa Barbara County high schools who are participating in UCSB's academic outreach program SKILLS will present the results of their original research on the role of language in their lives. Sponsored by the Crossroads...

09:40 / Upcoming Events
17 May

Saturday, May 17 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Early Modern Center is pleased to announce our thirteenth annual conference, “Transatlantic Ecologies: Utopia to Zoonomia,” featuring keynote speakers Daniel Brayton (Middlebury College) and Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon). Transatlantic Ecologies explores the complex and...

09:38 / Upcoming Events
16 May

Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 Speakers: Janet Fiskio (Enviornmental Studies, Oberlin College) Adrian Parr (Sociology, University of Cincinnati) Steven Vanderheiden (Political Science, University of Colorado) Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's publication of the "5th Assessment Report," this Symposium will ask how the ever-increasing scientific consensus...

09:03 / Uncategorized / Upcoming Events
16 May

Friday, May 16 / 10:00 AM MultiCultural Center Lounge The American Cultures & Global Contexts Center is proud to present "Antiracism Inc./Works: The Anticonference." Please join us for the academic, artistic, and activist encounter that is sure to reinvigorate our analysis of and commitments to social...

09:03 / Upcoming Events
15 May

Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Koi Pond Below Storke Tower Sienna Cordoba (History, UCSB) Warren Taylor (Materials Research Lab, UCSB) We invite you to the Koi Pond below Storke Tower for a "bake sale" art installation where you may meet someone from another department;  It happened to us,...

13:05 / Upcoming Events
15 May

Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Presenters: Nicole Filler (Political Science) "In the Pursuit of Social Justice: Identities, Mobilization, and Activism." Travis Seifman (History) "Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions." Magarita Safronova (Political Science) "Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan" Sponsored...

12:21 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
15 May

Thursday, May 15 / 1:30-5:00 PM Friday, May 16 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor Room, University Center Composition: making meaning through design is an interdisciplinary symposium that asks how design features—including format, medium, lettering, and images—can alter, enhance, or otherwise affect the transmission of...

09:32 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
08 May

Thursday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Mosher Alumni House Friday, May 9, / 10:00 AM-1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater This symposium focuses on three central notions associated with the manifold transformations of the Mediterranean Sea in modern times: memory, movement, and migration. It is at the crossroads of...

10:58 / Upcoming Events
05 May

Monday,  May 5 / 2:00 PM 6056 HSSB Seminar Room The IHC's Graduate Affiliate Program is pleased to host the first of two public workshops in which graduate scholars will present their work on the topic of care in conjunction with the IHC's the  Value of Care...

09:21 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series
23 Apr

Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director, Abraham.In.Motion) Wednesday, April 23 / 3:00 - 4:30 PM HSSB Ballet Studio Duke University Professor and Artist-Scholar Tommy DeFrantz will speak publicly with Artistic Director and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham. They will...

12:05 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
22 Apr

Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Tuesday, April 22 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room Thomas DeFrantz is Professor of African and African American Studies/Dance at Duke University and President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. The author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of...

12:18 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
18 Apr

Heather Cassils (artist) Friday, April 18 / 6:00 PM SRB Multi-Purpose Room* *Please note the room  and time change for this event. Heather Cassils is an artist who uses the physical body as sculptural mass with which to rupture societal norms. Drawing on conceptualism, feminism, body art, gay male...

09:19 / Upcoming Events
17 Apr

Thursdays: April 17, May 1, May 15, May 29 12:00pm-2:00pm (lunch included) Education Building Board Room, 4th floor The seminar will provide a systematic and detailed explanation of the grant writing process, including interactive workshops on best practices for generating research proposal ideas, writing strategies, and...

09:02 / Upcoming Events
14 Apr

Deke Weaver (School of Art and Design and Department of Theater, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Monday, April 14 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB WOLF is Deke Weaver’s third performance in his life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary – a performance for each letter of the alphabet,...

10:09 / Upcoming Events / Uncategorized
13 Apr

Deborah Diamond (Curator, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution) Sunday, April 13 / 2:30 pm Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street) Yoga is a global phenomenon practiced by millions of people seeking spiritual insight and better health. Debra...

09:21 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
11 Apr

Charles Bazerman (Education, UCSB) Friday, April 11 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education Bazerman proposes a new theory of writing and rhetoric which conceives writing as a form of situated social activity, typically displaced over time and space.  Because of these dislocations, understandings of genre and activity system are...

10:26 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
07 Apr

Monday April 7 2:00-4:00PM 6056 HSSB Seminar Room The IHC's Graduate Affiliate Program is pleased to host the first of two public workshops in which graduate scholars will present their work on the topic of care in conjunction with the IHC Value of Care Series. Presenters: • Lynette Arnold...

12:22 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series
04 Apr

Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Borderlands, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other...

09:02 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
03 Apr

Sasha Abramsky (journalist) Thursday, April 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and the author of six books, most recently The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives.  It was listed by the New York...

10:09 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Value of Care
01 Apr

Warren Taylor (Materials Research Lab, UCSB) Tuesday, April 1 / 8:00 AM Northern edge of the Campus Lagoon (Spot #1 on the Walking Tour of UCSB Campus Lagoon Area) In this event, the of three first symposia, we will begin by having a discussion about material science and...

10:08 / Upcoming Events
13 Mar

Ned Kaufman (Historic Preservation, Columbia University) Thursday, March 13 / 1:00 PM UCSB MultiCultural Center Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career...

11:25 / Upcoming Events
07 Mar

Howard Brick (History, University of Michigan) Friday, March 7 /  1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Professor Brick is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought & Culture in the 1960s (2000) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern America (2006). Sponsored by the Center...

11:01 / Upcoming Events
05 Mar

Ambassador Dennis Ross (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ghaith al-Omari (Executive Director, the American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, March 5 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Veteran Middle East peace negotiators, Ambassador Dennis Ross (counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington...

10:57 / Upcoming Events / Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies