Lisa Cartwright (Professor of Art and Communication, UC San Diego) Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 2:00 PM 2135 SSMS This talk draws on a multi-year sensory ethnography by Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin, who since 2009 have been documenting the everyday work experience and human-technology interaction...
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...
Kati Marton (former NPR and ABC News Correspondent, author of The Great Escape) Wednesday, October 29, 2014 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion In her critically-acclaimed account of The Great Escape, Kati Marton follows nine survivors over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in...
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...
Friday, October 24 & Monday, October 27 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
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...
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...
Friday, October 17 & Monday, October 23, 2014 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
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...
Thursday, October 16-Saturday, October 18, 2014 / 9:30 AM UCSB (University Center, Humanities & Social Sciences Building & Loma Pelona Center) "On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity and Play at the Edge of the World," co-hosted by theBABEL Working Group and the UCSB Literature...
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Tuesday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m. Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga music has drawn much scholarly attention due in part to the genre’s imbrication with the Second Chimurenga, the 1960s-70s liberation war that finally dislodged the 90-year long Rhodesian settler rule...
Friday, October 10, 2014 / 11:30 AM -1:30 PM HSSB 4080 Our primary goal is that of rethinking the categories of "paganism" and "idolatry" from a number of theoretical perspectives on the basis of research carried out in different historical and cultural contexts. In the our first...
Friday, October 10, 2014 & Monday, October 13, 2014 7:00 & 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater, $4...
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....
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...
Friday, October 3, 2014 & Monday, October 6, 2014 Hook 7:00 pm / Jumanji 10:00 pm Isla Vista Theater, Free! ...
The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities...