TALK: Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Archaeology and Art History, UCLA) Thursday, January 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Moche Socio Political Evolution: A Tale of Adaptation, Divergence and Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru) Monday, January 12 / 5:00 PM 2001a HSSB more info
CONFERENCE: The American Right and U.S. Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination Friday-Saturday, January 16-17 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
MEETING: What is Identity? Friday, January 16 / 10:00 AM Ellison Hall, Rm 3814 more info
Senghor and Césaire beyond Négritude
January 16 / 11:00 AM
Psychology 1924 more info
MEETING: Environmental Media RFG Friday, January 16 / 1:00 PM Ellison Hall 1714 more info
Islamic Reformism as a Philosophy of Time
January 16 / 2:00 PM
UCen Flying A Studio more info
MEETING: Torture and the Future RFG Tuesday, January 20 / 7:30 PM Location: TBA more info
Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies TALK: “All Israel will be Saved”: Paul and Augustine on the Redemption of the Jews Paula Fredriksen Tuesday, January 20 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion more info
Regents’ Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies TALK: Kimono and Culture Liza Dalby Tuesday, January 20 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall more info
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Memoirs of a Geisha Liza Dalby and John Nathan Wednesday, January 21 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
ROUNDTABLE: Writing Genre Featuring Liza Dalby Thursday, January 22 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
Magic Lantern Films: Santa Barbara International Film Festival Selection TBA ONE NIGHT ONLY
Friday, January 23 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater / $4
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improvability. UCSB's premiere comedy troupe Friday, January 23 / 8:00 PM $3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
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TALK: The Infrastructure of South-Central Los Angeles: Race, Unions and the “New Inequality” William P. Jones (University of Wisconsin) Friday, January 23 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 more info
SYMPOSIUM: Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture Friday, January 23 / 3:00-6:00 PM Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302) more info
TALK: Chances and Choices: A Community Artist Reflects on Life, Art and Activism Nancy Hom Monday, January 26 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge more info
TALK: Al-Andalus Then and Now: Translating Israel and Palestine Peter Cole Tuesday, January 27 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK AND DEMONSTRATION: Something's Brewing in Arabia: A History of Coffee and Coffee Houses Juan and Magda Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, January 28 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: 1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post Cold War World Mary Sarotte (International Relations, USC) Thursday, January 29 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Dead Bodies/Live Bodies: Myths, Memory and Resurrection in Contemporary Mexican Performance
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
Thursday, January 29 / 5:00 PM
TD 2512 more info
WORKSHOP: Books & Bodies
Friday, January 30 / 1:00 PM
South Hall 2716 more info
Magic Lantern Films: Zack & Miri Make a Porno Friday, January 30 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 2 / 10:00 PM IV Theater / $4 more info
improvability. UCSB's premiere comedy troupe Friday, January 30 / 8:00 PM $3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista more info
SCREENING: The Real Dirt on Farmer John (John Peterson, 2007, 82 minutes) Monday, February 2 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater more info
CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security Thursday-Saturday, February 5-7, 2009 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
ARTIST TALK: Sara Wookey Tuesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security Thursday-Saturday, February 5-7, 2009 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: A Chicano University within a University: The Struggle for Chicano Studies at UCSB, 1968-1970 Marisol Moreno (Chicano/Latino Studies, Long Beach State University) Wednesday, February 4 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1630
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TALK: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and the Creation of the Carceral State: Rethinking The Fall of Labor and The Rise of the Right in Postwar America Heather Thompson (History, UNC-Charlotte) Friday, February 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 more info
TALK: Semiotic Agency Within a Framework of Cooperative Semiosis Charles Goodwin (Linguistics, UCLA) Friday, February 6 / 1:30 PM Phelps 2536
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Magic Lantern Films: Role Models
Friday, February 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 9 / 10:00 PM IV Theater /$4 more info
improvability. UCSB's premiere comedy troupe Friday, February 6 / 8:00 PM $3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista more info
ARTIST TALK: Laurel Beckman February 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Maize and Migration: Connections between Traditional Maize Farming in Mexico and Immigrant Labor in California Mary O’Connor (ISBER, UCSB) Daniela Soleri (Geography, UCSB) Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Affective Communities: The Emotions of Nationhood Ronald Suny (Political Science and History, Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Michigan) Tuesday, February 17 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
ARTIST TALK: Luminous Green Tuesday, February 17 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Book Presentation on A Dolores Huerta Reader Mario T. Garcia (Chicana/Chicano Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, February 18 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Recovering Zora Neale Hurston's Folk Choreography Anthea Kraut (Dance, UC Riverside) Thursday, February 19 / 5:15 PM Girvetz Hall 1004 more info
TALK: Torture and the Law: Can U.S. Officials Be Held Accountable? The Seventh Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Scott Horton and Stuart Taylor Thursday, February 19 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall
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EXHIBITION: The Limits of Knowledge Opening: Thursday, February 19 / 5:00-6:00 PM On view Thursday-Friday, February 19-20 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Social Movements, Social Rights, and the Courts in South Africa and the USA William Forbath (History and Law, UT Austin) Friday, February 20 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 more info
SYMPOSIUM: The Limits of Knowledge: Doubt, Skepticism, and the Visual Friday, February 20 / 10:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
Magic Lantern Films: Happy-Go-Lucky
Friday, February 20 at 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 23 at 10:00 PM IV Theater / $4 more info
improvability. UCSB's premiere comedy troupe Friday, February 20 / 8:00 PM $3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista more info
TALK: The Power of Disengagement: The Idea of Hermit Life in Early China Xiao-bin Ji (EALCS and History, UCSB) Monday, February 23 / 12:00 PM HSSB 2252 more info
TALK: The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB TALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Monday, February 23 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road more info
ARTIST TALK: Josh MacPhee (Just Seeds) + Gregory Sholette in conversation Tuesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
READING AND DISCUSSION: Ana Castillo Wednesday, February 25 / 11:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Style Contrasts, Migration, and Social Class Ben Rampton (King's College London) Thursday, February 26 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room more info
TALK: Somebodies and Nobodies: Closing the Dignity Gap Robert W. Fuller Thursday, February 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Food Politics: Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility Marion Nestle (Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, NYU) Thursday, February 26 / 7:30 PM Marjorie Luke Theater, 721 E. Cota St. Tickets available at the door: $5 general/students free more info
Magic Lantern Films: Let The Right One In
Friday, February 27 at 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, March 2 at 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4 more info
improvability. UCSB's premiere comedy troupe
Friday, February 27 / 8:00 PM $3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista more info
WORKSHOP: Dissertation Writing Roundtable Monday, March 2 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB more info
SCREENING: This is the LA River / Sustainable LA
Monday, March 2 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater more info
ARTIST TALK: Eda Cufer Tuesday, March 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
TALK: Memory Cannot Be Flattened: Culture Clash and Los Angeles History Center Stage David G. Garcia (President's Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSB) Wednesday, March 4 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1623 more info
SEMINAR: Transnational Feminisms in Africa Takyiwaa Manuh (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana) Wednesday, March 4 / 12:15 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631 South Hall more info
ARTIST TALK: The Guerilla Girls Thursday, March 5 / 12:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
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CONFERENCE: The Rupe Conference: Media and the Presidential Election Thursday, March 5 / 2:00-9:30 PM Corwin Pavilion
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TALK: Growing Places: Not a Cornfield and Farmlab Janet Owen Driggs and Jeremy Rosenberg (Metabolic Studio) Thursday, March 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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TALK: The AFL-CIA's Cold War in Honduras – and How Hondurans Felt About It Dana Frank (History, UC Santa Cruz) Friday, March 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041
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ARTIST TALK: Edgar Arceneaux Tuesday, March 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB more info
WORKSHOP: Graduate Students Explore Identity: A Discussion of Current Research Wednesday, March 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall
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CONFERENCE: Reading as a Social Technology Friday, March 13 / 9:00 AM - 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB TALK: Being in the Hands of God: Jewish Perspectives on America’s Social Justice Agenda Rabbi David Saperstein Sunday, March 22 / 3:00 PM Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street
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