Sheron Wray (Dance, UC Irvine) Wednesday, April 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This is an interdisciplinary dance-led documentary about 17 University of California Irvine students who traveled to explore the roots of jazz dance in sub-Saharan Africa. With their dance professor, Sheron Wray, and...
Monday, April 28 / 7:30 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman's Award at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival. The riveting story of two Polish brothers who come to terms with their village’s long hidden role...
John Hamilton (Comparative Literature, Harvard, author of Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care) Thursday, April 24, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Modern notions of political, legal, and corporate representation may be derived from the ancient figure of the procurator, whose role...
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...
William S. Sax (Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University) Wednesday, April 23, 2014 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he...
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...
Mike Parker Pearson (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Friday, April 18 / 4:00 PM 1701 Theater and Dance Building Stonehenge is one of the greatest mysteries of world prehistory but it is now beginning to give up some of its secrets. In the last ten years, an...
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...
James Simpson (English, Harvard University) Thursday, April 17 / 3:30 PM Henley Board Room, Mosher Alumni House James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He has taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a University...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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 from latest book, Little Failure: A...
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...
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...
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...
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...