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25 Dec

DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals are due via email by Friday, March 4, 2016. If you are a graduate student in the Humanities, either at the MA or PhD level, please submit an abstract of 200-300 words to GCLR Student Coordinator Katie Jan, katieljan@gmail.com, and please be sure to include your presentation title, academic affiliation and contact information. Participants will be notified of their acceptance in late March. Conference date: May 27, 2016 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California
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01 Dec

Thursday, December 1, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library (Special Research Collections, 3rd Floor, Mountain Side) A new UCSB Library exhibition in its Special Research Collections will explore the political, cultural, and social struggles of Isla Vista to become an independent, cohesive community, from 1970 to the...

14:16 / IHC Series / Community Matters / Upcoming Events
18 Nov

Benjamin Page (Political Science, Northwestern University) Friday, November 18, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Page, who studies the political attitudes and behavior of the 1%, is the author of Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (2009) and many other books on U.S. public opinion...

12:20 / Upcoming Events
18 Nov

Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon Journal) Friday, November 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The manosphere - a virtual network of more than a hundred thousand men, mostly white and heterosexual, sharing anti-feminist ideology on blogs and internet forums - seems an unlikely place to find classical reception. But...

11:46 / Upcoming Events
17 Nov

Mhoze Chikowero  (History, UCSB) Thomas Mapfumo (Blacks Unlimited) Thursday, November 17, 2016 Book Launch: MultiCultural Center, 5:00-6:00 PM Blacks Unlimited Concert: Storke Plaza, 7:00-10:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero  is a historian of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. His book, African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, documents...

12:00 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
15 Nov

Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater A social justice approach to building campus community encourages activism. What does it look like to have an inclusive university invested in just community values on and off...

14:51 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Community Matters
15 Nov

Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 The IHC invites proposals from UCSB faculty members for funding through its Community-Engaged Participatory Pedagogy in the Arts Program.  Awards up to $4000 will be made for visual and performing art projects housed within undergraduate or graduate courses at UCSB that will take place in Winter, Spring or Fall of 2018, or Winter or Spring of 2019. 
12:47 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Faculty
10 Nov

Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:30 PM Graduate Student Lounge, Multi Cultural Center, UCSB Friday, November 11, 2016 / 9:00 AM Centennial House, UCSB Saturday, November 12, 2016 / 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra, Santa Barbara The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB and...

12:16 / Upcoming Events
10 Nov

UCSB students: Zenzile Riddick Katie Walker Jonathan Gomez Jasmine Kelekay Moderators: Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2016  / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How best might our academic experiences at UCSB be both guided and deepened...

11:33 / Series / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Community Matters
28 Oct

Friday, October 28, 2016 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Scholars from UCSB examine how and why traditional folktales are continuously renewed and reused in genres as divergent as children's bedtime stories, adult literature, oral folk tales, Disney films, contemporary television programs,...

16:52 / Upcoming Events
28 Oct

Cavan Concannon (Religion,University of Southern California) Friday, October 28, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze...

12:21 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
26 Oct

Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / 10:00 AM-12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this workshop, Laura Browder will draw on her sixteen years of creating documentary dramas and museum exhibitions through university-community partnerships to address participants’ questions. These might include...

13:45 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Community Matters
26 Oct

Enrico Mario Santi (Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky) October 26, 2016 / 3:00 PM Wofsy Room, 4th Floor Phelps Hall Enrico Mario Santi, the William T. Bryan Professor of Hispanic Studies at University of Kentucky, will discuss Cabrera Infante's Carnavalesque masterpiece in light of Santi's work with the...

11:16 / Upcoming Events
20 Oct

Jeremy Douglass (English, UCSB) Eileen Joy (punctum books) John Majewski (Dean, Humanities & Fine Arts) October 20, 2016/4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, Library Room 2322 A scholar (Jeremy Douglass), publisher (Eileen A. Joy) and administrator (Dean Majewski) share their work, and their views on DH, scholarly publishing,...

13:08 / Upcoming Events
18 Oct

Mary Nash, (History, Universitat de Barcelona) Tuesday October 18, 2016/1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Catalonia has a lengthy history of resistance to the nation's central government, especially in the news recently for its push to succeed from Spain. Professor Nash will discuss Catalonia's role in moving...

13:03 / Upcoming Events
17 Oct

Nguyễn Quốc Thành (Founding Director, QUEER FOREVER) Monday, October 17, 2016/5:00 PM 6020 HSSB, McCune Conference Room Nguyễn Quốc Thành holds a Master of Science from Warsaw University, Poland. Since 2007, he has co-organized the Five Flavor Film Festival in Warsaw. In Hà Nội, Nguyễn recently exhibited Soldiers'...

10:47 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
13 Oct

Karl Jacoby (History, Columbia University) Members of the Ellis family Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West...

12:13 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Community Matters
05 Jul

Conveners Clio Yun-Chen Lu (History of Art and Architecture) clio610@hotmail.com Chi-Ting Peng (History) chitingpeng@gmail.com Paul Spickard (History) spickard@history.ucsb.edu Various historical developments started from, came to or converged on Taiwan: the indigenous development of Austronesian languages and cultures for thousands of years, Spanish and Dutch colonization at the Age of...

12:18 / Research Focus Groups
13 Jun

Monday, June 13, 2106/9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This multidisciplinary conference gathers together leading experts in the broad field of Japanese religious history, as well as emerging young scholars (including advanced graduate students and recent PhDs), from several countries, in what is perhaps the first...

13:07 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
03 Jun

H. Samy Alim (Education, Stanford University) Friday, June 3, 2016 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 H. Samy Alim is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs African & African American Studies (AAAS), the Center for Race,...

14:49 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
31 May

Tuesday, May 31, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB, translator of Tides) Jorge Luis Castillo (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Professors Suzanne Jill Levine and Jorge Luis Castillo will present a bilingual reading of Tides, Levine’s translation...

13:05 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Humanities and the Brain
27 May

Keynote: Efraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles) Friday, May 27, 2016 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Graduate Center for Literary Research's third annual graduate conference seeks to explore the topics of translation, memory and exchange within the context of migration. We are interested...

12:01 / Upcoming Events
27 May

Friday, May 27, 2016 / 5:00 PM CNSI, Elings Hall, UCSB Akshay Cadambi (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Sölen Kiratli (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) HIVE is a sculptural sound instrument, in which the design of sound and spatial geometry are taken as a unified notion. By...

00:13 / Upcoming Events
26 May

Thursday, May 26, 2016 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB student veterans will present original writings on topics relating to their diverse military experiences, including their reasons for enlisting, their deployments, homecomings, and return to the civilian community. There will be time for questions...

13:26 / Series / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Community Matters
20 May

Friday, May 20, 2016 / 7:30 PM Art, Design & Architecture Museum Exhibit: Saturday, May 14-Sunday, May 29. The past two years have been a time of trials and errors, of successes and failures, and times of solitude and community life. The work presented here is the...

12:47 / Upcoming Events
19 May

Peter Leese (Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen) Thursday, May 19, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB One of the earliest definitions of historical trauma studies is Mark Micale and Paul Lerner’s edited collection Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in...

13:23 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Humanities and the Brain
18 May

Elizabeth Cobbs (History, Texas A & M University) May 18, 2016 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room. HSSB 6020 Elizabeth Cobbs grants us a sneak preview of her forthcoming PBS documentary film, “American Umpire,” based on her acclaimed history book of the same name. The film recounts America’s...

12:37 / Upcoming Events
18 May

Wednesday, May 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Nicole Filler (Political Science, UCSB) Sergey Saluschev (History, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) The roundtable will be a discussion led by graduate students who recently conducted different types...

12:21 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
10 May

Julie Carlson, English, UCSB: Moderator Cole Cohen, IHC, UCSB Aranye Fradenburg, English, UCSB Dominique Jullien, French and Italian, UCSB Mark Leffert, M.D., Santa Barbara Jonathan Schooler, Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Ann Taves, Religious Studies, UCSB Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel seeks to celebrate...

14:40 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Humanities and the Brain
10 May

IHC congratulates Alanna Bartolini (English), UCSB's representative to the Metadata Central workshop at UCLA. 
13:25 / Announcements
09 May

Živilė Etevičiūtė (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania) Monday, May 9, 2016 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020  Živilė Etevičiūtė will discuss the thematic narratives of “Time,” “The City,” and “The Individual” in Soviet era Lithuanian documentaries and then screen a selection of films....

12:28 / Upcoming Events
03 May

Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Tuesday, May 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie will read from her 2009 memoir, written jointly with her mother Rita Lurie. Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged...

14:52 / Upcoming Events
29 Apr

Keynote Speaker: Tung-Hui Hu (English Department, University of Michigan) Friday, April 29, 2016 / 11:00 AM-6:00 PM Saturday, April 30, 2016 / 11:00 AM-5:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 As information and communication technologies proliferate, environmental issues become even more entwined at every level of media, including...

12:31 / Upcoming Events
22 Apr

Friday, April 22, 2016 / 1:30 - 5:00 PM Saturday, April 23, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Wallis Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315 Speakers will include: John Brenkman (English, CUNY Graduate Center) Dilip Gaonkar (Communication, Northwestern University) Danny Hoffman (Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle) Neepa Majumdar (English, University of...

13:03 / Upcoming Events
21 Apr

Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (Political Science, UCLA) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall 3824 This talk examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard theories we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study,...

15:50 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
19 Apr

Philip Hardie (Latin, Cambridge University) April 19, 2016 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Late-antique Roman poets display a newly energized engagement with the classic poems of Virgil. Through a series of close readings this paper explores the various uses made in particular of...

12:46 / Upcoming Events
17 Apr

Application Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018 The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center offers pre-doctoral fellowships to support UCSB doctoral candidates and advanced MFA students whose research facilitates dialogue across the traditional disciplinary boundaries within the arts and humanities, and/or between the arts & humanities, sciences, and social sciences.
16:44 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Graduate Student
14 Apr

Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Thursday, April 14, 2016 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Now happily entrenched at UCSB, Rick Benjamin has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Goddard College, Haverford College, Haystack, New Urban Arts, as...

14:04 / Upcoming Events / Community Matters / Series
13 Apr

dir. Peter Landesman, 123 min. Q&A with Dr. David A. Hovda, Director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. While conducting an autopsy on former NFL...

15:05 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Humanities and the Brain
13 Apr

Brigitte Shull (Palgrave Macmillan) Wednesday, April 13, 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Brigitte Shull, Editorial Director of Author & Editorial Services at Palgrave Macmillan, will discuss recent developments in the academic publishing industry, including the path to publication for early career scholars. Learn about what editors look for...

14:15 / Upcoming Events
13 Apr

Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The April 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on the manifold interrelationships between architecture, aesthetics, and neurosciences, a nexus that has gained increasing importance when it comes to discussing perception and...

12:57 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
12 Apr

Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (History, UC Santa Barbara) Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Barbieri-Low will lead a discussion of pre-circulated materials from his latest research. For copies of the texts, please email maclean@classics.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of...

13:04 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
10 Apr

Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) April 10, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Hear the co-authors of DEMOCRACY NOW!: TWENTY YEARS COVERING THE MOVEMENTS CHANGING AMERICA, Amy Goodman & DENIS MOYNIHAN, as they celebrate the anniversary of their radio & TV news program — and the movements that...

11:59 / Upcoming Events
08 Apr

Friday, April 8, 2016/ 1:30-3:30 PM Education 1205 Graduate students in the UCSB Department of Linguistics will present their recent research at the intersection of language documentation and interactional analysis. "Tea Ceremonies and Consonant Mutation: Repetition in Nivkh Discourse as a Means of Preservation" Dibella Caminski  (Linguistics, UCSB) In this...

12:19 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
07 Apr

Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement,IHC) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:30-5:00 PM UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum In this poetry workshop, led by Rick Benjamin in celebration of National Poetry Month, we will talk and write toward surfacing truths in the geological, historical, cultural and/or...

13:19 / Series / Upcoming Events / Community Matters
30 Mar

TALK: Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora (Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego) Wednesday, March 30, 2016 / 12:30 PM HSSB 5th floor, Conference Room This talk thinks through how biological bodies have become a new kind of global biocapital,...

12:30 / Upcoming Events
12 Mar

A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Annie Torsiglieri (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, March 12, 2016 / 7:30 PM Studio Theater, UCSB FREE When Amy learns that one of her young twins is autistic, she...

19:30 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / The Humanities and the Brain
11 Mar

THE FIFTH BIENNIAL BORDERLANDS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or...

15:29 / Uncategorized
10 Mar

Anat Hoffman (Executive Director, the Israeli Religious Action Center) Thursday, March 10, 2016 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara Jerusalem is a harsh city to live in. It is a city in struggle, a struggle between narrow-minded Judaism and pluralistic Judaism,...

15:12 / Upcoming Events / Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies
03 Mar

Bruce L. Miller (Memory and Aging Center, UC San Francisco) Thursday, March 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While many physical and mental conditions decline with time, creativity is one characteristic that has been observed to improve, both in healthy elders and people with...

12:13 / The Humanities and the Brain / Upcoming Events / IHC Series
24 Feb

Jon Christensen (Editor, Boom: A Journal of California) Wednesday, February 24, 2016 /2:00PM Flying A Studios Room, University Center More than two decades of experience and research on climate change communications has shown us plenty of ways to fail. What have we learned about how to succeed? What...

14:08 / Upcoming Events
19 Feb

Desmond King (International Relations,University of Oxford) Friday, February 19, 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor King is a renowned scholar of race and politics in American political development, comparative welfare politics and labor market policy, democratization and immigration policy. He is the author of many books, including Making Americans:...

14:53 / Upcoming Events
19 Feb

Conveners: Sara Pankenier Weld and Sven Spieker (Germanic & Slavic Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 19, 2016 / 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM University Center, Flying A Studios Room This one-day symposium will investigate Nabokov’s writerly practice as a broadly conceived effort of translation. An émigré writer whose works...

13:02 / Upcoming Events
18 Feb

John D. Dunne (Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, February 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the last two decades, some of the most influential scientific studies of meditation have examined practices derived from Buddhism, and the success of...

14:35 / The Humanities and the Brain / Idee Levitan IHC Endowment / Upcoming Events / IHC Series