February 2014

27 Feb

American Mysteries: Urban Crime Fiction from Eugène Sue’s Mysteries of Paris to the American Noir & Steampunk

Paul Erickson  (American Antiquarian Society) Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Montpellier III, France) February 26-28  & March 1, 2014 Old Little Theatre, College of Creative Studies and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Starting with one of the first literary mass-successes, Eugène Sue’s serialized novel Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43, The Mysteries...

10:36 / Upcoming Events

26 Feb

Kellyn Johnson’s Work on Theatrical Co-Direction in We Play For the Gods at The Women’s Project

Wednesday, February 26 / 5:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 The rehearsal process of We Play for the Gods at the Women’s Project Theater Company in New York City demonstrates the potential for co-direction as a radical form that challenges mainstream hierarchies in US theatrical production...

10:45 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

21 Feb

Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement

Friday, February 21 / 8:30 AM-6:30 PM Saturday, February 22 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty-four scholars will showcase the emerging historiography on the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s that represented the largest Mexican American civil rights and empowerment...

12:54 / Upcoming Events

21 Feb

The Employee: A Political History

Jean-Christian Vinel (History, University of Paris-Diderot) Friday, February 21 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Jean-Christian Vinel is a visiting scholar at UC-Santa Barbara in the Winter 2013. He is the editor of La grève en exil : le déclin du syndicalisme et du militantisme aux USA, en...

10:52 / Upcoming Events

21 Feb

The Man With Superpowers: The Yogi in the American Imagination and the Case of Paramahansa Yogananda

Anya Pokazanyeva (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 21 / 4:00 PM 3041 HSSB It might seem logical to assume that a Yogi, by definition, is one who does yoga. However, as these terms first entered the American imagination they did not always do so in accordance...

10:35 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

20 Feb

Dirty Sexy Policy

Thursday-Friday, February 20-21 Pollock Theater Dirty Sexy Policy will bring together prominent scholars, attorneys, activists, regulators, and journalists to explore current challenges facing media policy and the broader stakes that citizens and policy critics share. Participants on three panels will engage in a lively discussion and debate...

14:54 / Upcoming Events

20 Feb

Narrative Care, Ancient and Modern

Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care?  We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...

14:33 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Value of Care

20 Feb

The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings

E. Randol Schoenberg (Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP) Thursday, February 20 / 8:00  PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The recent disclosure of more than 1,400 artworks found hidden in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt has generated renewed interest in the subject of Nazi-looted art. The upcoming release...

11:44 / Upcoming Events / Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies

20 Feb

S. Akturk’s Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey

Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change.  In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed.  In Turkey,...

11:36 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

20 Feb

UNESCO International Mother Language Day: Language and Identity

Thursday, February 20 /1:00-3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day 2014, Caraol Chaski (Institute for Linguistic Evidence) will be speaking on "Forensic Linguistics and Models of Language" at 1:00 PM and Maria Carreira (Spanish, Cal State Long Beach)...

11:22 / Upcoming Events

20 Feb

An Intimate History of the African Revolution: Kwame Nkrumah and the Women in Question

Jean Allman (History, Washington University) Thursday, February 20 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4080 Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence struggle and its first Prime Minister and then President, was a major theorist of pan-Africanism and neocolonialism and arguably one of the most important leaders of what was...

10:42 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

18 Feb

To Grow or Not to Grow: Post-Recession Challenges Facing UC

John Aubrey Douglass (Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 18, 2014 / 4:00 PM

14:25 / IHC Series / IHC Research Focus Groups / Archive / Audio / Visual / The Value of Care

18 Feb

4Humanities@UCSB Meeting for the “WhatEvery1Says” Project

Tuesday, February 18 / 3:30-5:00 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB's activities for Winter quarter start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB "WhatEvery1Says" text-harvesting and topic modeling project.  The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital...

11:50 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

14 Feb

LISO Symposium IV: Multiple Engagements: Complexity in Human Involvement

Friday, February 14- Sunday, February 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB is hosting a three-day international symposium featuring interdisciplinary research on the complexity of naturally occurring human interaction.  This symposium will bring together diverse researchers — linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, conversation analysts, child development and communication scholars,...

13:02 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

13 Feb

New Aging: Designing Architecture for All Ages

Matthias Hollwich (architect, HWKN) Thursday, February 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable energy to bring about nothing less than a revolution in the aging experience. Hollwich is the founder of New York architecture...

10:07 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Value of Care

11 Feb

Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk

Melinda Chateauvert (New Orleans Free School)  Tuesday, February 11  / 4:00 PM  Multicultural Center Theater Melinda Chateauvert examines the ways that women working in the sex industry—following activism in the African American and Gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s—have organized through an identity framework known...

11:06 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

07 Feb

Re-Reading the Feminist Sixties

Friday, February 7 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fifty years after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark bill that added sex to anti-discrimination law, this conference looks to feminism during a decade that began with liberal reform and exploded...

12:15 / Upcoming Events

06 Feb

The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care

Thomas Lynch (poet, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade) Thomas Long (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) Thursday, February 6, 2014 / 5:00 PM

12:16 / Idee Levitan IHC Endowment / IHC Series / Archive / Audio / Visual / The Value of Care

04 Feb

What Are Universities For?

Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / 5:00 PM* McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB *Note new time. Chris Newfield has been directly involved in current controversies about the future of universities. In this talk, he’ll first describe one of his best university experiences, which was directing...

13:53 / The Value of Care / Upcoming Events / IHC Series