February 2016

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...

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:...

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...

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...

Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The topic for the February 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG is (Gestalt) Psychology and Architecture. Readings by Geoffrey Scott and Rudolf Arnheim initiate discussions about how architecture and architectural detail determine...

Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm) February 10, 2016 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Join the Health, Medicine and Care RFG will be workshopping a paper by Visiting Scholar Dr. Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm). Title: "THE ENEMY WITHIN: Protection, Visibility and the criminalization of HIV" (for a copy...

Maurice Isserman (History, Hamilton College) Friday, February 5, 2016 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Isserman will speak about his forthcoming book, Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (W.W. Norton & Co, 2016). He is the author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the...

Melanie Joy (Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 5:00 PM Harold Frank Hall 1104 Do you believe that bacon makes everything better? Perhaps you’re a strict vegetarian, or even the more rare and spectacular vegan? Regardless of label, are you truly aware of what...