Fall 2008

Fall 2008

CONCERT: Tertulia Colombiana
Friday, September 19 / 7:00 PM
CCS Old Little Theater

SYMPOSIUM: A Symposium on the Writings of Pat Mora
Thursday, September 24 / 4:00 PM
South Hall 1623

SYMPOSIUM: Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand’s Works
Thursday-Saturday, September 25-27
various campus locations

TALK: The End of Southern Liberalism: Race, Class and the Defeat of Claude Pepper in the 1950 Florida Democratic Primary
Alex Lichtenstein (History, Florida International Univ.)
Friday, September 26 / 2:00 PM
HSSB 4041

Special World Premier!
Bitter Films & Magic Lantern Films Present:
An Evening with Don Hertzfeldt Featuring the
Premiere of his newest Animated Film
I Am So Proud of You
Friday, September 26 at 8pm ONLY

improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, September 26 / 8:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

SYMPOSIUM: The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 4: Techniques of Mobilization
Sunday-Monday, September 28-29
The Garden Room, Upham Hotel

SYMPOSIUM: Mexico 1968: 40 Years after Tlatelolco
Friday, October 3 / 10:00 AM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

FILM SCREENING: Sex And The City: The Movie
Friday, October 3 / 7:00 PM & 10:00PM
Monday, October 7 / 10:00PM
Isla Vista Theater

TALK: Canning Gender: Laugh Tracks and Sound Effects on Spanish-Language Radio
Dolores Ines Casillas (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, October 8 / 2:00 PM
South Hall 1623

READING: A Conversation with Antje Strubel and Zaia Alexander
Friday, October 10 / 4 – 6 PM
Phelps 1508

improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, October 10 / 8:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

TALK: Responses to WH-questions in English conversation
Sandy Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB)
Barbara Fox (Linguistics, University of Colorado)
Friday, October 10 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536

FILM SCREENING: The Fall
Friday, October 10 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, October 13 / 10:00 PM
Isla Vista Theater

TALK: The History and Future of Pornography Studies at UCSB
Constance Penley (Film and Media, UCSB)
Wednesday, October 15 / 2:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

WORKSHOP: HFA Research Funding: Identifying Sources, Writing, and Submitting Proposals
John Hammond (Research Development Coordinator, IHC)
Wednesday, October 15 / 2:00 PM
Thursday, October 16 / 2:00 PM
HSSB 6056

IHC OPEN HOUSE
Thursday, October 16 / 3:00 – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

TAUBMAN SYMPOSIA IN JEWISH STUDIES
PERFORMANCE: SoulAviv
Thursday, October 16 / 7:30 PM
Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar

MEETING: Environmental Media Research Focus Group
Friday, October 17 / 1:00 PM

FILM SCREENING: Kung-Fu Panda
Friday, October 17 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, October 20 / 10:00 PM
Isla Vista Theater

improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, October 17 / 8:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

TAUBMAN SYMPOSIA IN JEWISH STUDIES
READING: Diane Ackerman
Sunday, October 19 / 3:00 PM
Campbell Hall

FILM SCREENING: Repo: The Genetic Opera
FREE ADVANCE SCREENING!!!
Wednesday, October 22 / 8:00 PM ONLY

Research Focus Group on Identity
Thursday, October 23 / 4:00 PM
6056 HSSB Seminar Rm

TALK: Voices Carry: Behind Bars and Backstage during China’s Revolution and Reform
Claire Conceison (Drama, Tufts)
October 23 / 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

WORKSHOP: Language and Gender
Friday, October 24 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536

FILM SCREENING: Pineapple Express
Friday, October 24 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, October 27 / 10:00 PM
Isla Vista Theater

improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, October 24 / 8:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista

TALK: Latinos and the 2008 Elections: The Critical Difference?
David R. Ayon (Leavey Center for the Study of Los Angeles, Loyola Univ.)
Wednesday, October 29 / 12:00 PM
South Hall 1623

TALK: In Cod We Trust
Brian Fagan (Anthropology, UCSB)
Wednesday, October 29 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

Dias de los Muertos event
FILM SCREENING: Food for the Ancestors
Introduction by Sarah Cline (History, UCSB)
Thursday, October 30 / 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

TALK: Politics of the Living Dead: Lords, Adoption and Inheritance in Tokugawa Japan
Luke Roberts (History, UCSB)
Monday, November 3 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252

SCREENING: The God of Cookery
(Stephen Chow, 1996, 95 minutes)
Monday, November 3 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater

TALK: Catolicos: Resistance and Affirmation in Chicano Catholic History
Mario T. Garcia (Chican@ Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

CONVERSATION: An Evening with David Grossman
Wednesday, November 5 / 7:30 PM
UCSB Campbell Hall

CONFERENCE: University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA)
State of the Arts 2008: Demonstration
Thursday, November 6-8
UC Riverside

TALK: The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers’ Company, and the Statute of Anne
Mark Rose (English, UCSB)
Friday, November 7 / 2:00 PM
South Hall 2635

PERFORMANCE: Lungen
Friday, November 7 / 7:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater

MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Mamma Mia!
Friday, November 7 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, November 10 / 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4

I.V. LIVE presents: improvability.
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte
Isla Vista
Friday, November 7 / 8:00 PM

MEETING: Torture and the Future Research Focus Group
Tuesday, November 11 / 7:30 PM
Location: TBA

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Crossing the Line
Nick Bonner
Wednesday, November 12 / 6:15 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: The Burden of Female Talent in Premodern China: Early Reactions to Li Qingzhao
Ronald Egan (EALCS, UCSB)
Thursday November 13 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252

ROUNDTABLE: Responses to the Global Food Crisis
Thursday, November 13 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

TALK: Collaborative Construction of Talk in Japanese Conversation
Shimako Iwasaki (Linguistics, UCLA)
Friday, November 14 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536

TALK: The Power of Laughter
Mary Beard (Classics, Cambridge Univ.)
Friday, November 14 / 3:00 PM
HSSB 1174

TALK: Religious Fundamentalism: A Clash of Civilizations or a Convergence of Religiosities?
Olivier Roy (CNRS)
Friday, November 14 / 3:30 PM

MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Hamlet 2
Friday, November 14 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, November 17 / 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4

I.V. LIVE presents: improvability.
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte
Isla Vista
Friday, November 7 / 8:00 PM

TALK: Imagination without Borders: The Sixteenth-Century Korean Woman Poet Ho Kyongbon’s Textual Experience of China
Xiaorong Li (EALCS, UCSB)
Monday, November 17 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252

TALK: Heavy Metal Islam: Rock, Resistance, and the Struggle for the Soul of Islam
Monday, November 17 / 4:30 PM
McCune Conf Room
6th Floor HSSB

LECTURE: Global Ethics and the World’s Religions
Hans Küng (Global Ethic Foundation)
Monday, November 17 / 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall

ROUNDTABLE: Religion, Globalization, and the Public Sphere: Paths to Dialogue or Confrontation?
Tuesday, November 18 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Eyebeam Roadshow
WORKSHOPS: Wednesday, November 19 / 12-4 PM
Arts 2220
TALK: Wednesday, November 19 / 5 PM
Broida 1610

TALK: Thought for Food: Literature and Gastronomy
Ronald Tobin (French and Italian, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 19 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

CONFERENCE: 1968: A Global Year of Student-Driven Change
Thursday – Saturday, November 20-22
Corwin Pavilion and McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

CONFERENCE: Conference on the 40th Anniversary of El Plan de Santa Barbara
Friday, November 21 / 1:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

MEETING: Environmental Media RFG
Friday, November 21 / 1:00 PM
IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6046

SEMINAR: Transitions from Medieval to Renaissance Philosophy
Friday, November 21 / 2:00 PM
HSSB 4020

EXHIBIT: AVANT-GARDEN: a (con)temporary sculpture garden
Friday November 21 / reception and tour 4-6 pm
Saturday November 22 / sunrise to sunset

MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: The Dark Knight
Friday, November 21 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, November 24 / 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4

I.V. LIVE presents: improvability.
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte
Isla Vista
Friday, November 21 / 8:00 PM

SCREENING: What’s Cooking?
(Gurinder Chadha, 2000, 109 minutes)
Monday, November 24 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater

WORKSHOP: The History of Books
Tuesday, November 25 / 12:00 PM
South Hall 2714 (NOTE DATE AND TIME CHANGE)

TALK: Media, Madness and Changing Conditions of Communication
John Durham Peters (Media History, U of Iowa)
Tuesday, November 25 / 1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SCREENING: Garlic Is as Good as Ten Mothers
(Les Blank, 1980, 51 minutes)
(Presented in Aromarama)
Monday, December 1 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater

MEETING: Torture and the Future Research Focus Group
Tuesday, December 2 / 7:30 PM
Location: TBA

TALK: Rompiendo Barreras: The De (Constructing) of Femininities and Masculinities
Aida Hurtado (Psychology, UC Santa Cruz)
Wednesday, December 3 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SCREENING: Our Daily Bread
(Nikolaus Geyrhalter, 2005, 92 min.)
Wednesday, December 3 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall

TALK: Epistemological Frontiers of African Art
Germain Loumpet and Alexandra Loumpet (Art History, University of Yaoundé)
Thursday, December 4 / 11:30 AM
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB

TALK: Inside Asian Images: What the Contents of Icons Tell Us About Buddhism, Daoism, and Local Religion in China
James Robson (East Asian Languages and Civilizations, Harvard)
Thursday, December 4 / 4:00 PM
HSSB 2252

SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Chaturanga
Suman Mukhopadhyay (director)
Friday, December 5 / 7:00 PM
Theater Dance 1701

Santa Barbara Premiere! ONE NIGHT ONLY!
Humboldt County
Friday, December 5 at 7PM & 10PM

TALK: Mexicans’ Quotidian Struggles with Migration and Poverty
Pat Zavella (Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz)
Thursday, December 11 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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