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...
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...
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....
Adam Krug (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 28 / 4:00 PM 3001E HSSB Adam Krug’s lecture will interrogate the category economy, broadly conceived, as a theoretical tool to interpret the abundant textual and archaeological data on the patronage and proliferation of Buddhist monastic institutions in India from the...
Rabbi Laura Geller (Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills) Wednesday, May 28 2014 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Geller was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts until she was 15, when her family moved to New York City. She attended the Dalton School, then graduated from Brown University in 1971.Geller...
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...
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...
Dara Z. Strolovitch (Department of Politics, Princeton University) Thursday, May 22 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since 2001, the American political landscape has been shaped by a convergence of “bad things” – including wars, natural disasters, and hard economic times – that have interrupted...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
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,...
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...
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...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Participants in this symposium include Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009); Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale, author of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic...
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...
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...
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies & English, UCSB) "Trauma & Transcendence in Rickerby Hinds' Dreamscape" Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History, UCSB) "The Making of a Multiethnic Society in Mexican Borderlands" Thursday, May 15, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this panel, UCSB’s recipients of the 2013-14...
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,...
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...
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...
Daniel Botsman (History, Yale University) Tuesday May 13, 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk will begin by considering the place of cows in Japanese society before the Meiji Restoration, particularly in relation to the agrarian economy of the Kansai and surrounding regions. It will then consider the revolutionary changes...
Friday, May 9, 2014 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 10:00 AM-5:30 PM Arriving on the scene of accidents and emergencies, first responders provide assistance to the wounded, initiating a continuum of care that was first systematized by French military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars. This conference seeks to...
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...
Alison Mudditt and Bruce Robertson (UC Press ) Tuesday, May 6 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UC Press is actively exploring the possibilities for the humanities opened up by digital publishing. Beginning with a workshop at HRI-UC Irvine in Fall 2013, the Press has developed...
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...
Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford University) Thursday, May 1 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For...