February 16, 2017 - Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB

16 Feb

Muslim American / American Muslim Community Engagements: Opportunities and Challenges in the Aftermath of the 2016 Elections

Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edina Lekovic (Director of Policy & Programming, Muslim Public Affairs Council) Yasmin Sallak (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB) Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media, UCSB) Sherene Seikaly (History, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath...

16 Feb

The Maintainers, or How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish

Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or...

13:03 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups

16 Feb

Translating the Russian Classics in the Twenty-First Century

Marian Schwartz (translator) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Marian Schwartz has translated over seventy volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated...

11:00 / Upcoming Events

February 2017

Muslim American / American Muslim Community Engagements: Opportunities and Challenges in the Aftermath of the 2016 Elections

The Maintainers, or How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish

Translating the Russian Classics in the Twenty-First Century