Friday, October 30/ 1:00 PM Barry Eidlin (Sociology, McGill University) HSSB 4041 Professor Eidlin, a sociologist, is author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Jasbir K. Puar (Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University) Wednesday, October 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational...
Rebecca Seligman (Anthropology, Northwestern University) Thursday, October 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Increasing evidence suggests the importance of meaning in conditioning bodily experiences and outcomes. This talk will explore the relationship between meaning and the body, with particular focus on the neurobiological...
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London) Monday, October 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The killing of Reeva Steenkamp and the trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa touch on some of the most difficult questions of sexual...
Yoram Peri (Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies at the University Maryland at College Park) Sunday, October 18, 2015 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Professor Yoram Peri will present a free, public lecture on "The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the...
Susan Levine (Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago) Friday, October 16, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Susan Levine's most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Friday, October 16, 2015, 12:00 PM HSSB 3041 A new interdisciplinary Research Focus Group on "Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom" will meet for an informal brown-bag lunch to introduce participants to one another and discuss plans for the Fall quarter. All faculty and graduate students...
Thursday, October 15, 2105 / 7:00 PM Century 10 Downtown, Ventura Field trip! Come with us to see National Theatre's simulcast of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, live from London You may purchase tickets here. Sponsored by the IHC's W/Shakespeare RFG....
Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ecstasy, an experience that is widely discussed in the humanities and sought after in the general culture, illuminates many of the difficulties involved in linking research in the humanities...
Narayani Lasala-Blanco (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015/4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Debates about immigration policies in the United States have been present during electoral campaigns since the 1700s. Zolberg argues that the sustained presence of these debates in political campaigns is related...
Laura Nenzi (History, University of Knoxville) Tuesday, October 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conferene Room, HSSB 6020 Nenzi is a social historian of early modern Japan interested in gender, space, memory, and identity. In my first book, Excursions in Identity (2008) she examined the manifold...
Thursday, October 8, 2015 / 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 Humanities and the Brain. Find out...
Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, Munich) Monday, October 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Ancient Near Eastern history specialist Karen Radner sets her research sights on the big picture. She is one of the world’s leading experts on the history of Mesopotamia at the time of the...
Thursday, October 1 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The new Research Focus Group is dedicated to readings about and discussions of the various ways in which the humanities, cognitive psychology, and behavioral/cognitive geography examine and think about human comprehension of space and place,...
Thursday, October 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB This interdisciplinary Health, Medicine and Care Working Group invites new members! Join other faculty, postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate researchers, and community members at the UCSB campus to give and receive feedback on research...