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...
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...
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...
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...
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Tuesday, May 24, 2016/ 9:30 AM Corwin Pavilion and the MultiCultural Center Theater Nearly 200 students from area high schools and community organizations will present the results of their work within the SKILLS program through a poster session in Corwin Pavilion and multimedia presentations in the MCC...
Bruce M. Sullivan (Asian Studies and Comparative Study of Religions, Northern Arizona University) May 22, 2016/2:30 PM Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Hanumān is an extraordinary, even unique, figure in Hindu religious, literary, and artistic traditions. Famously, he has the appearance, and sometimes the character,...
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...
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...
Rabbi Donniel Hartman (President of Shalom Hartmann Institute) May 19, 2016 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel One of the few constants throughout Jewish history years is that Jewish identity has never been simple, and the answer to the question of “Who is a Jew? – far from...
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...
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...
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Elisabeth Reber (Linguistics,University of Würzburg) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 The general interest of this talk is to examine how and to what ends participants in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) deploy quoting as an evidential practice in English. PMQs has been named a subgenre...
Gabrielle Starr (English, New York University, author of Feeling Beauty) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 10:45 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the Keynote Address for the IHC Conference The Humanities, the Neurosciences, and the Brain. Gabrielle Starr is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature...
Thursday, May 12 / 5:30 PM Opening address: Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Friday, 13, 2016 / 9:00 AM Conference: HSSB 4080 This interdisciplinary conference gathers scholars working on slavery and captivity across a range of historical contexts, from the chattel slave systems of classical Greece and...
Thursday-Friday, May 12-13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the multiple accords, and discords, that characterize humanistic and neuroscientific approaches to the study of the brain. Gabrielle Starr, author...
Kostas Vlassopoulos (History & Archeology, University of Crete) Thursday, May 12, 2016 / 5:30 PM Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Once upon a time, the study of Greek slavery was at the forefront in the developing field of slavery studies. But the approaches and perspectives that revolutionized...
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Monday, May 11, 2016 /4:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis in South India, this lecture will center on a hereditary community of brahmin men from the village of Kuchipudi...
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...
James F. Brooks (History and Anthropology, UCSB) Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi,...
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....
Lyall Harris (book artist) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 3:00 PM Special Collections, 3rd Floor of Davidson Library Book art at its best is a medium where the maker’s keen use of the material components creates a faceted, more comprehensive and potent language to express content. In...
Alva Noë (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is art? Why is it so important? What does it tell us about ourselves? These days it is tempting to look to neuroscience for answers to these questions....
Daniel Aldrich (Political Science, Northeastern University) Tuesday, May 3, 2016 / 4:00 SSMS 2135 The March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and associated tsunami and nuclear meltdowns took nearly 20,000 lives, created half a million refugees, and affected energy policies as far away as Germany, Switzerland,...
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...
Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, May 3, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 3041 Jasmine Yarish, a PhD candidate in Political Science, will present material from her dissertation project, "Reconstructing Home: W.E.B Du Bois, Intersectionality, and Abolition Democracy." Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom RFG....
Eva Kor May 5, 2016 / 7:30 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion An exhibition of the Letters of Dr. Josef Mengele will be on display in the UCSB Library (8th Floor Lobby) from April 11 - May 27 courtesy of the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation. Sponsored by...