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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...

18 Feb

The Natural and the Supernatural in the Scientific Study of Meditation and the Cognitive Science of Religion

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...

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04 Jun

Music of the Anthropocene

John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) Thursday, June 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is...

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06 Feb

The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care

Thomas Lynch (poet, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade) Thomas Long (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) Thursday, February 6, 2014 / 5:00 PM

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12 Feb

Combat Trauma and Moral Injury

Jonathan Shay (author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming) Tuesday, February 12, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

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16 Feb

Using the Ancient Greeks to Think About Public Goods: a Dialogue

Greg Anderson (History, Ohio State University) Josiah Ober (Classics & Political Science, Stanford) Glenn Patten (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Classical structures (such as the polis) and ideas (such as koinonia) are frequently invoked in discussions of the...

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24 Aug

Archaeology Research Focus Group

Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis. Our...

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09 Mar

Home as Elsewhere

Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Plants are truly in place. Animals less so. Humans least of all. That’s the sum of my story. I will elaborate on it in two parts. The first part identifies...

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20 May

Sacred Waters: Arts and Ecologies of Mami Wata and Other Aquatic Divinities in Africa

Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, May 20, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for "Mother...

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19 May

The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades: A Live Cooking Performance for Your Heart, Mind, Stomach & Funny Bone

Tuesday, May 19 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Admission at the door: $5 general / students free Savor a tasty theatrical experience with revolutionary chef Mero Cocinero Karimi and his culinary comrades as they dish up Iranian-Guatemalan-Filipino food, cultural consciousness and humor. Chef...

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08 May

An evening with filmmaker Les Blank

Screenings of All In This Tea (2007)and Yum, Yum, Yum! (1990) This event has been cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire. Fresh from a retrospective screening of his films at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the filmmaker’s filmmaker and documentarian Les...

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03 Mar

Conflict in Congo – The Challenge of Visual Journalism

Marcus Bleasdale Monday, March 3 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Widely published in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic magazines, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has been covering the brutal exploitation of The Democratic Republic of Congo and its natural resources for nearly a decade. Bleasdale is...

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05 Jun

Is it Really the End of Everything?

David Summers (History of Art, University of Virginia) Tuesday, June...

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03 May

Standpoint, Subjectivity, and Gender: Wittgenstein’s House for His Sister in Vienna, 1926-1928

Whitney Davis (Art History, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Ludwig Wittgenstein's house for his sister Margarethe (Gretl) Stonborough-Wittgenstein, completed in Vienna in 1928, has often been seen as an expression of his philosophy of language. More likely, ...

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16 Apr

Whose Renaissance? The Peripatetic Life of Objects in the Era of Globalization

Claire Farago (History ...

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