July 2015

This RFG brings together faculty and graduate students who study enslavement, manumission, liberation, and freedom from a range of disciplinary and methodological perspectives. The complex, often elusive, concepts of enslavement and freedom are both historically contingent and central to the broader social, economic, political, and...

Conveners: James Kearney, English kearney@english.ucsb.edu Irwin Appel, Theater and Dance appel@theaterdance.ucsb.edu The w/Shakespeare proposed research focus group is dedicated to the innovative study and performance of Shakespeare. W/Shakespeare invites undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from across the humanities and the university to think with and about Shakespeare. Our fundamental commitment is...

Conveners: Volker M. Welter, History of Art & Architecture welter@arthistory.ucsb.edu Mary Hegarty, Psychological & Brain Sciences mary.hegarty@psych.ucsb.edu Dan Montello, Geography montello@geog.ucsb.edu Please sign up here to join the RFG. Click here for RFG readings (password protected, please email conveners for the password.) As architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner once observed, it is nearly impossible...