January 2016

Wednesday, January 27, 2016 / 7:00 PM Panelists will include: Donna Beal (MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter) Patricia Cline Cohen (History, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Gwen Morse (Ph.D., R.N.) Moderator: Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies, UCSB) UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is...

Friday-Tuesday, January 22-26, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB #AfterTahrir conference at UCSB. 4 days, 21 sponsors, 28 participants, 18 short films, a critical commemoration of #Jan25 This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings...

Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, Notre Dame) Thursday, January 21, 2106 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human evolutionary history is ongoing, human creativity is expanding, and human populations continue to grow. Getting a handle on “the human” in the Anthropocene is no easy matter. Inter, or even...

Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University & CUNY Graduate Center) Tuesday, January 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking the origins of three monotheisms within one temporal arc makes visible a changed structure of history that not only critiques Western-centrism but offers an alternative, the philosophical...

Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) January 15, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Colin Gordon, Professor of History at the University of Iowa, demonstrates the pedagogical and research value of his new web site, "Growing Apart," which charts social and economic inequality in the United States during the...

Benjamin Doherty, Mahmoud Said, Laila Shereen Sakr (R-Shief, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2016/4:00 PM 2135 SSMS R-Shief is an archival and visualizing media system with a five-year archive of over twenty-six billion social media posts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and sites) in more than seventy languages. It has...

Mary Karr (The Liars’ Club, The Art of Memoir) Wednesday, February 10 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is best-selling memoirist, poet and essayist Mary Karr. Her most recent publication, The Art of Memoir, features excerpts from her favorite memoirs and anecdotes from fellow writers' experiences. The Art of Memoir breaks down the key elements of great literary memoir and expands our concepts of memory and identity, illuminating the cathartic power of reflecting on the past.

IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Thursday, January 7, 2016 / 5:00 PM The January 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on spatial orientation and wayfinding strategies humans employ when encountering or traversing different types of spaces. We will discuss issues and problems...