Jean-Yves Marc (Université de Strassbourg) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 6:00 PM HSSB 4080 The Forum at Philippi was not built on the site of the city’s Hellenistic Agora. Rather, the Forum was built as an entirely new project in the Roman imperial period. At the height of...
Anne Allison (Anthropology, Duke University) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At a moment when the Japanese population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death”...
Peter Barnes (entrepreneur, journalist, author) Tuesday, November 18 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future....
Rabbi David Wolpe (Sinai Temple, Los Angeles) Sunday, November 16 / 3:00 PM UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Out of all the figures in the Bible, David is one of the most perplexing and enigmatic. Rabbi David Wolpe takes a fresh look at the biblical David in an...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...