RESIDENCY: Zoe Strauss
Artist talk: Thursday, April 2 / 8:00 PM
Peet's Coffee, 1131 State Street, back courtyard
Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 5:00 PM
Broida 1610
Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 8:00 PM
IV Theater 2
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COLLOQUIUM: Medieval Perspectives on Environmental History
Friday, April 3 / 3:00-6:00 PM
Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302)
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TALK: Origins of the Maya Forest
Anabel Ford (ISBER/ MesoAmerican Research Center, UCSB)
Tuesday, April 7 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Drama in the Delta: Digital Reenactment and the Civil Rights Performances at Arkansas’ Wartime Camps for Japanese Americans
Emily Roxworthy (UCSD)
Tuesday, April 7 / 6:10 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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ARTIST TALK: Amy Franceschini: Futurefarmers
Wednesday, April 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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CONFERENCE: Media Fields 2: Infrastructures
Thursday-Friday, April 9-10
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB and Alumni House
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SCREENINGS: The GreenScreen Project
Saturday, April 11
Location TBA
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TALK: Defining Manga Anew by Way of History: Shin manga no kakikata (1928)
Miriam Wattles (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB)
Monday, April 13 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
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Title: Media and Self-Determination in Resistance to Neoliberalism: Supplying Communities in Struggle with the Tools to Narrate their Own Histories
Simon Sedillo
Tuesday, April 14 / 7:00 PM
MCC Theater
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ARTIST TALK: Fritz Haeg: Welcoming the Wild
Fritz Haeg
Tuesday, April 14 / 5:00 PM
1610 Broida Hall
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MEETING: Torture and the Future RFG
Tuesday, April 14 / 7:30 PM
Location TBA
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WORKSHOP: Sacred Books
Thursday, April 16 / 3:00 PM
2714 South Hall
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SEMINAR:  Wealth of Selves:  Multiple Identities, Mestiza Consciousness and the Subject of Politics
Edwina Barvosa (Chicana/Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Thursday, April 16 / 4:00 PM
Lane Room, Ellison Hall, third floor
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PANEL DISCUSSION: The Landscape of the Maya Forest: A Friendly, Local, Community Store
Macduff Everton (Photographer)
Anabel Ford (ISBER, UCSB)
Caroline MacDougall (Herbal Coffee Expert)
Michael Marzolla (moderator, UC Cooperative Extension) 
Thursday, April 16 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The Clash of Interpretations: Interpreting the Quran in the Modern World
Abdelwahab Meddeb (Comparative Literature, Université de Paris X)
Thursday, April 16 / 4:00 PM
UCen Flying A Studio
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SYMPOSIUM: Catalan Scenes
Monday, April 20 / 9:00 AM – 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The Tibetan Science of Healing: An Introduction
Barbara Gerke (EALCS, UCSB)
Wednesday, April 22 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
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TALK: This Is Your Brain. This Is Your Brain On Video Games
Rene Weber (Communication, UCSB)
Wednesday, April 22 / 7:30 PM
Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Center
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TALK: “Keep on Saving”: A Transnational History of How Other Nations Forged Cultures of Thrift When America Didn’t
Sheldon Garon (History, Princeton University)
Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM
HSSB 2252
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MEETING: Environmental Media RFG
Friday, April 24 / 1:00 PM
Orfalea Center Conference Room, Robertson Gym
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SCREENING: The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie
(Luis Buñuel, 1972, 102 min.)
Friday, April 24 / 8:00 PM
IV Theater
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CONFERENCE: CMES Spring Conference 2009: Centering Central Asia: Gender, State, and Nation
Friday-Saturday, April 24-25
MCC Theater and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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WORKSHOP: Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 5: Occupation
Saturday-Monday, April 25-27, 2009
Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
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TALK: Audience and Spectatorship in Ren Bonian’s Portraits of the Shanghai Art World
Tuesday, April 28 / 4-5:30pm
HSSB 2252
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SCREENING AND TALK: Performing in the Kitchen: Bobby Baker’s Kitchen Show
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Performing Arts, Univ. of Winchester)
Wednesday, April 29 / 4:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The Big Squeeze: Tough Times for the American Worker
Steven Greenhouse (The New York Times)
Thursday, April 30 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall
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CONFERENCE: Food Matters: Arts, Activism and Research
Friday, May 1 / 8:30 AM-5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: "Rasta" Sufis and Muslim Youth Culture in Mali
Benjamin F. Soares (African Studies Centre, Leiden, The Netherlands)
Friday, May 1 / 11:00 AM
4020 HSSB
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PANEL DISCUSSION: From Main Street to Wall Street: What News Gets Reported and What Does Not
Steven Greenhouse, Ann Louise Bardach and Peter Dreier
Friday, May 1 / 1:00 PM
State Street Room, UCen
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MEDIEVAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM: Dynamics of Exchange and Identity
Saturday, May 2 / 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
Marine Sciences Auditorium
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TALK: Portents and Politics in Nineteenth-Century Japan: Kurosawa Tokiko and the Comet of 1858
Laura Nenzi (History, University of Tennessee)
Tuesday, May 5 / 12:15 PM
HSSB 2252
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DISCUSSION: Sweet Tea: A Discussion with E. Patrick Johnson
E. Patrick Johnson (Performance Studies, Northwestern University)
Tuesday, May 5 / 2:00 PM
2514 Theater and Dance
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PERFORMANCE: Pouring Tea: Black Gay Men of the South Tell Their Tales
E. Patrick Johnson (Performance Studies, Northwestern University)
Tuesday, May 5 / 6:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
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TALK: Silence and Abstinence:  Axes in Religious Belief and Practice
Luis Gomez (University of Michigan)
Wednesday, May 6 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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CANCELLED: NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
event cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire
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TALK: Excavating Neolithic Caves in Attica: Rituals to Pan and the Origins of Agriculture in Greek Prehistory
Giannakopoulou Ioulia (Lilian) Karali (National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, Greece)
Thursday, May 7 / 5:00 PM
HSSB 2001a
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MEETING: Environmental Media Research Focus Group
Friday, May 8 / 3:00 PM
Orfalea Conference Room, 1015 Robertson Gym
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TALK: Transborder Nationhood and the Politics of Belonging in Germany and Korea
Rogers Brubaker (Sociology, UCLA)
Friday, May 8 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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CANCELLED: 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.
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PANEL DISCUSSION: Christianity and Empire: Unity and Diversity in New Worlds
Fernando Cervantes (J.E. & Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies, Department of Religious Studies, UCSB) Monday, May 11 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Rebel Without a Cuisine: Julia Child and the Making of the American Cook
Laura Shapiro
Wednesday, May 13 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Re-imagining International Law for a New Politics of Human Rights
Abdullahi An-Na'im (Charles Howard Chandler Professor of Law, Emory University Law School)
Thursday, May 14 / 7:00 PM
MCC Theater
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TALK: Declarations of Dependence: Labor, Personhood, and Welfare in South Africa and Beyond
James Ferguson (Anthropology, Stanford University)
Tuesday, May 19 / 11:00 AM
McCune Conference Room
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PERFORMANCE:  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
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TALK: Tangerines: Literary Objects and the Limits of Representation
Sophie Volpp (EALC, UC Berkeley)
Wednesday, May 20 / 4:00 PM
HSSB 2252
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TALK: Edward Teller the Communist?: American Scientists and the National Security State during the Cold War
Zuoyue Wang (Harvey Mudd College and California State Polytechnic University, Pomona)
Wednesday, May 20 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: From Maceo to Obama: Race, Nationhood and Republicanism in the Americas
Mark Sawyer (Political Science, UCLA)
Thursday, May 21 / 4:00 PM
Lane Room, Ellison Hall, third floor
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CONFERENCE: Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice, and Global Ecologies
Friday – Saturday, May 22-23
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Ancient Map, Modern State: Toward a Geo-History of the Meiji Restoration
Kären Wigen (History, Stanford University)
Tuesday, May 26 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252
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TALK: The Minster and the Privy
Kathy Lavezzo (English, University of Iowa)
Tuesday, May 26 / 4:00PM
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TALK: Thirteen Prolegomena to a Conversation-Analytic Account of Action(s)
Emanuel A. Schegloff (Sociology, UCLA)
Friday, May 29 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 256
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MEETING: Environmental Media Research Focus Group
Friday, May 29 / 3:00 PM
Orfalea Conference Room, 1015 Robertson Gym
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WORKSHOP: After Words: Writing Following the Fire
Saturdays: June 13, 20, 27 / 1:00 PM - 3:00 PM
Faulkner Gallery (East & West), Santa Barbara Central Public Library, 40 East Anapamu Street
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DISCUSSION: A Discussion with Director Laura Dunn
Friday, June 26, 2009 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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