April 2016

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...

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...

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,...

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...

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.

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...

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...