CONFERENCE: Disciplining the Horn: Taming an Unruly Instrument
Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 / 9:00 AM Registration / Music Building
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MUSIC AS MEDIA RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP
Co-Conveners, John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, January 13 / 12:00 PM / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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CONFERENCE: Music and the Moving Image: An Interdisciplinary Graduate Conference
Saturday-Sunday, January 14-15 / 10:00 AM / Music 1145 and Geiringer Hall
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DEBATE: The 5th Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: The American News Media-Liberal or Conservative Bias?
Eric Alterman and Tucker Carlson
Saturday, January 14 / 3:00 PM / $10 Public, $5 Student / Campbell Hall
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IHC Visiting Artist Awards
Application Deadline: Monday, January 15
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MASTERCLASS: Carol Rodland
(Violist, New England Conservatory)
Monday, January 16 / 7:00 PM / Geiringer Hall, Music Building
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UC Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) Informational Meeting
Wednesday, January 18 / 10:00 AM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Academic Ornamentality: Terry Eagleton and Elaine Marks Reading Discussion
Wednesday / January 18 / 3:00 PM
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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TALK: Jewish Myth and Contemporary Fiction
Mark Jay Mirsky (English, City University of New York)
Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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CONFERENCE: Immigration and Democracy
Keynote Address: Pierrette Hondagneu-Sotelo (Sociology, USC)
Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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CANCELED TALK: Performance and the New Social Order
Marko Peljhan (Department of Art, UCSB)
Thursday, January 19 / 5:00 PM / Old Gym 101C CANCELED
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TALK: The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity, and Islam
Jon D. Levenson (Jewish Studies, Harvard University)
Wednesday, January 25 / 8:00 PM / Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street
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TALK: Freedom is Not Enough: The Secret of the Sixties that Transformed America
Nancy MacLean (History, Northwestern University)
Thursday, January 26 / 4:00 PM / Multicultural Center Theater
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SOUTH ASIAN RELIGIONS AND CULTURE RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP
Co-Conveners, Barbara Holdrege and Gurinder Singh Mann
Friday, January 27 / 3:00 pm / 3041 HSSB
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FILM FESTIVAL: Latino CineMedia
Thursday, February 2 – Sunday, February 12
Program: www.sblatinofilm.com Tickets: www.sbfilmfestival.org
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SYMPOSIUM: Santa Barbara County Arts Commission Annual Symposium on the Arts
Thursday, February 2 / 8:30 AM - 3:30 PM / $15 / Royal Scandinavian Inn - 400 Alisal Road, Solvang
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Talk: When Affirmative Action Was White
Ira Katznelson (Political Science & History, Columbia University)
Thursday, February 2 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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MEETING: Music as Media Research Focus Group
Co-conveners: John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, February 3 / 12:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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COLLOQUIUM: Medieval Studies Colloquium: Death and the Hereafter
Friday, February 3 / 1:00 PM – 5:00 PM / Saturday, February 4 / 9:30 AM – 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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FILM and Q&A: The Shape of Water (Kum-Kum Bhavnani, 2006)
Monday, February 6 / 6:30 PM / Victoria Hall Theater, 33 W. Victoria St.
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TALK: Electric Wonder Shows
Fred Nadis (Visiting Researcher, UCSB)
Tuesday, February 7 / 5:00 PM / Old Gym 101C
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TALK: Narrative and Poetic Style of Native Americans
Ofelia Zepeda (Linguistics, University of Arizona)
Tuesday, February 7 / 6:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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VISITING ARTIST: Meredith Monk
Wednesday, February 8 – Friday, February 10
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TALK: Recovering Pleasure: Searching for Libido in Two Languages
Bruce Benderson (Author and Journalist)
Friday, February 10 / 12:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The Mitrou Archaeological Project: 2005 Field Season
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB)
Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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IHC GRANTS Deadline: February 15 / 5:00 PM
IHC Visual, Performing, Media Arts Award
IHC Graduate Collaborative Award
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PERFORMANCE: Sweet Soul Music
Ron Paris
Wednesday, February 15 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The Media’s Financial Influence on Politics
John Dunbar (Center for Public Integrity)
Friday, February 17 / 12:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: A Right to Live without Violence, Nuclear Weapons and War
Mairead Corrigan Maguire
Tuesday, February 21 / 8:00 PM / Corwin Pavilion
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TALK: Ornament II
Elizabeth Freudenthal and Sarah McLemore
Wednesday, February 22 / 3:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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Symposium on Asian American Literary Studies
(featuring Maxine Hong Kingston)
Thursday, February 23 / 1:00-6:00 PM / McCune Room, 6020 HSSB
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SYMPOSIUM: Performance Studies
Dick Hebdige (Art, Film Studies and IHC, UCSB); Catherine Cole (Dramatic Art and IHC, UCSB); Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Dramatic Art, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 22 / 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Selling Out: Modernism and the Art of Scandal
Sean Latham (English, University of Tulsa)
Friday, February 24 / 3:30 PM / 2635 South Hall
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SYMPOSIUM: Straws in the Wind: Ballads and Broadsides, 1500 – 1800
Friday, February 24 & Saturday, February 25 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Translating Convent Life, From Rapture to the Quotidian
Amanda Powell (Romance Languages, U. of Oregon)
Friday, February 24 / 12:00 PM / Wofsey Seminar Room, 4312 Phelps Hall
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SCREENING: Keep Not Silent (Ilil Alexander, 2004, 52 mins.)
Q&A with producer, Pamela T. Rosenberg
Tuesday, February 28 / 8:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater
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TALK: Sphere of Feelings: Theatricality in Chinese Aesthetics and Beyond
Haiping Yan (Theater, UCLA)
Friday, March 3 / 2:00 PM / Voice Room, HSSB 1105 NOTE DATE CHANGE
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GRANT DEADLINE: MARCH 1, 2006
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TALK: Sphere of Feelings: Theatricality in Chinese Aesthetics and Beyond
Haiping Yan (Theater, UCLA)
Friday, March 3 / 2:00 PM / (NOTE DATE CHANGE) / Voice Room, HSSB 1105
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POETRY READING: Migrations/Migraciones (Read in English and Spanish)
Gloria Gervitz and Mark Schafer
Tuesday, March 7 / 2:00 PM
Santa Barbara Museum of Art 1130 State Street, Sterling Morton West Gallery
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Garrett Scott Remembered
Tuesday, March 7 - Friday, March 10
SCREENING: Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story (2002)
Tuesday, March 7 / 3:00 PM / IV Theater
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TALK: Maidu Myths: The Challenges of Translation
William Shipley (Linguistics, UCSC)
Tuesday, March 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Decoding the Semiospheres of African American Cultural Narratives: Sign, Text, and Ideology in the Narrative Paintings of Jacob Lawrence
Elliott Butler-Evans (English, UCSB)
Wednesday, March 8 / 3:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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FILM SCREENING: Shadows
John Cassavetes (1957)
Wednesday, March 8 / 5:00 PM / South Hall 2716
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Cul de Sac: A Suburban War Story CANCELED
Garrett Scott Remembered
Thursday, March 9 / 3:00 PM / IV Theater
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Garrett Scott Remembered
SCREENING: Occupation: Dreamland
Friday, March 10 / 7:00 and 9:30 PM / IV Theater / $4
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TALK: The Long Transition: Environmental and Economic Change in Pre-Agricultural Central Europe
Michael Jochim (Anthropology, UCSB)
Monday, March 13 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Aragon versus Turkey: Tirant Lo Blanc and Mehmet the Conqueror
David Abulafia (Mediterranean Studies, Cambridge University)
Wednesday, March 15 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: Tantric Studies: Current Trends and Future Trajectories
Paul Muller-Ortega (Religion, Univ. Rochester)
Wednesday, March 15 / 3:00 PM / Religious Studies Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB
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TALK: Contestations Over Wildlife Property Rights In Kenya
N. Kabiri (University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill)
Wednesday, March 15/ 5:00 PM / Building/Room to be announced.
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Music as Media Research Focus Group meeting
Co-Conveners John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, March 17 / 12:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
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TALK: Desperately Seeking the King: Pardon Tales from Early Modern Spain
Luis Corteguera (History, University of Kansas)
Tuesday, March 21 / 3:00 PM / HSSB 4020
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CONFERENCE: 8th Annual Middle East Studies Conference - The Resurgence of Shi’i Islam: Religion, Politics, and Society in Times of War
Saturday, March 25 / 8:00 AM-6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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IHC Spring Course List
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