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January 6, 2012 To:       Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Faculty From:   David Marshall, Executive Dean and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts                  Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences Re:       Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars   Important Dates: Proposal Workshop                           Friday, January 20, 2012, 12 noon, 4315 SSMS Letter of Intent due                           Monday, February...

The IHC is now accepting applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2012 Summer Stipend program. To be considered for a Summer Stipend, faculty members must submit all application materials by Wednesday, August 31, 2011.  

The IHC is pleased to congratulate the 2011-2012 UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities: Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand of the Department of Religious Studies and Julia Panko of the Department of English.  For further details about this fellowship, which is sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, please...

Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/   Click...

The Conservative and Liberal Democratic coalition government in the United Kingdom is planning to cut government funding to higher education by 80%. They are urging campuses to make up the difference by eliminating programs and faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. I would...

Professor Edward Soja's lecture "Seeking Spatial Justice," originally scheduled for Tuesday January 25, has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will attempt to reschedule the event....

Stanley Katz (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Monday, November 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The financial crisis of the past two years looks like its becoming structural, especially in the public universities.  Is privatization the answer, at least for the "elite" state sector in higher education?  If so, what are the implications both for the elites and "the rest"?  A related question is what can/will replace the traditional, if nervous, balance between research and instruction in universities?  How do we balance the growing pressures for greater inclusion of the college age cohort, and the growing  cost of increasingly specialized research?  The post-World War II history of higher education, with the emergence of the multiversity, has been one of more or less successful adaptation of traditional organizational structures.  But haven't we reached the point at which we can no longer add epicycles without destroying the basic structure of higher education? Click here to listen to a recording of Stanley Katz's talk for the IHC's Faculty Forums series. Sponsored by the IHC's Faculty Forums series and the UCSB Faculty Association.

Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard) Rüdiger Campe (German, Yale) Thursday, November 4 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room This second event in the "Keeping Time" series features two talks on the construction of temporal categories in literature and science, from the 17th through the early 19th century. Mario...

UCHRI California Humanities Scholars for 2010-11 The purpose of the new California Humanities Scholars Program is to recognize graduate students working across the broad range of humanities at the University of California and to use their collective expertise, interests and collaborative energy to create a dynamic...

UCHRI has released its 2011-12 Call for Proposals for five programs:  Collaborative Compositions, Residential Research Group Topic Proposals (for 2012-13), Residential Research Fellowships (for Spring 2011), Conferences and Seminars, and Extramural Explorations.  All can be found online on the UCHRI website at http://www.uchri.org....

The IHC is now accepting applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2010 Summer Stipend program. To be considered for a summer stipend, faculty members must submit all application materials to the IHC by Wednesday, September 1, 2010.

The IHC welcomes applications from UCSB humanities graduate students for the UC Humanities Research Institute's new California Humanities Scholars Program.  The purpose of the California Humanities Scholars Program is to recognize graduate students working across the broad range of humanities at the University of California and to use their collective expertise, interests and collaborative energy to create a dynamic and interactive virtual network.  California Humanities Scholars will be “Citizen Journalists,” reporting on the work happening on their campuses and in their various communities by blogging, tweeting, vlogging, podcasting and other forms of online networking.  The California Humanities Scholars will orchestrate a regular discussion forum on the UC Humanities Network website (currently under development).  Open to all, these forums will offer insights and exchanges on a broad range of issues related to the humanities.

The IHC thanks the many members of the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities who helped to make our Oil + Water series for 2009-2010 a success.  Click here for details about events in this series, which explored the impact of these two vital resources on...

As part of the IHC's year-long Oil+Water series, activist, author and UCSB Regent's Lecturer Maude Barlow will present her talk, The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water.  Please join us at 7:00 PM on Tuesday, May 11 at UCSB’s Corwin Pavilion for this free public event.

Our May 17 deadline for research focus groups and research fellowships is quickly approaching.  For application details and other information, please visit: Research Fellowships (Formerly Senior Fellowships) Research Focus Groups ...

The University of California Institute for Research in the Arts (UCIRA) and the University of California, San Diego are pleased to announce the 4th annual UCIRA State of the Arts conference, to take place at UCSD November 18-21, 2010. Proposals are currently being accepted which address the theme Future Tense: Alternative Arts and Economies in the University.

For the first time, Isla Vista Arts is asking for undergraduate support for a $2.00 per quarter lock-in fee initiative. Vote YES on Isla Vista Arts Keep the Magic Lantern lit! Keep I.V. LIVE! Keep WORD Magazine on the street...

The IHC's Spring Conference, Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California will be taking place shortly. Please join us for this free, public event on Thursday, April 8 through Saturday, April 10. For more information, a full schedule and list of...

The UC Center for New Racial Studies A group of University of California faculty located at eight different campuses has received a significant grant from the UC system to launch the University of California Center for New Racial Studies (UCCNRS), a Multi-Campus Research Program. The UCCNRS will make its official debut in July 2010 and has been assured of UC system-wide support for five subsequent academic years (until June 2015). Our Steering Committee includes scholars from across the entire system, colleagues working in the social sciences and humanities, area studies, public policy, and legal studies. We hope to establish active linkages on every UC campus, and to offer a wide range of support as well as very broad collaborative and networking capabilities.

TALK:Classroom Chronolects: Creating Contexts for Learning Science in Racially and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms Patricia Baquedano-López (Education, UC Berkeley) Friday, September 25 / 1:30 PM 1623 South Hall (Note special location) MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting DATE CHANGED: see below MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting (note date change) followed by TALK: Non-minimal Responses to...

MAGIC LANTERN FILMS:The Wrestler Friday, April 3 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 6 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Friday, April 10 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 13 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Gran...

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 COLLOQUIUM: Medieval Perspectives on Environmental History Friday, April 3 / 3:00-6:00 PM Marine Sciences...

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 TALK: Moche Socio Political Evolution: A Tale of Adaptation, Divergence and Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru) Monday, January...

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...

Visiting poet: Barbara Jane Reyes June 2-3 VISITING ARTIST: Scott Johnson Composer in Residence June 2-6 TALK: Revisioning the History of Ideas about Bodies of the Buddha: A New Approach Michael Radich (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Monday, June 9 / 5:00 PM (note time change) 2252 Humanities and Social...

CONFERENCE: Annual International Graduate Conference on the Cold War Friday, April 4 – Saturday, April 5 Keynote address: Emily Rosenberg (History, UC Irvine) Friday, April 4 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 TALK: Flight of Fancy: Whiteness, Suburbanization, and Identity in San Juan, Puerto Rico Since 1940 Luis Figueroa...

TALK: Loser Take All: Election, Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 Mark Crispin Miller (New York Univ.) Tuesday, January 15 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB TALK: Dorothea Lange and Visual Democracy Linda Gordon (New York University) Friday, January 18 / 11:00 AM 4041 HSSB VISITING ARTIST: Carla Kihlstedt RESEARCH...

CONFERENCE: INTIMATE LABORS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, & Sex Work October 4 - 6, 2007 McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 TALK: Inscribing the Word - Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honor of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and...

July 6 and July 9: TMNT Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater July 13 and July 16: Disturbia Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater 20 July 20 and July 23: The Host Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10...

SCREENING: Lost Souls (dir Natalie Sanderson & Sumnima Udas, 2007) Wednesday, April 4 / 6:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater TALK: Radio Was Discovered Before it Was Invented Douglas Kahn (Technocultural Studies, UC Davis) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM Old Little Theater (CCS) Sound in the Arts RFG meeting 3:30 PM CONFERENCE: Latin American...

VISITING ARTISTS: Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois January 10 –- 12, 2007 Residency Activities VISITING ARTISTS: Keith Johnson in Residence at UCSB Jan 14 - 21 Iridian Arts Presents: Still Life with Mic Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois Thursday, January 11 / 6:30 talk & 8:00 PM performance Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum 2nd Floor Arts...

EXHIBITION: PATTERN LANGUAGE: CLOTHING AS COMMUNICATOR July 7 - August 27, 2006 / University Art Museum CONFERENCE:Languages and Genes an Interdisciplinary Conference Friday / September 8th - 10th...

TALK: Doing Race Research in Education in the New Civil Rights Era Mica Pollock (Graduate School of Education, Harvard) Thursday, April 6 /12:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater ...

CONFERENCE: Disciplining the Horn: Taming an Unruly Instrument Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 / 9:00 AM Registration / Music Building MUSIC AS MEDIA RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP Co-Conveners, John Hajda and...

Looking Beyond the Written Word: Performing Scholarship Through Film Thursday, September 22nd / 5:00 PM– 7:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Experiments with Film – Screenings and Discussion Friday, September 23rd / 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) One: A performance of solo dance/theater Stephanie Nugent Sept....

Visiting Artist Program: July 18-25. Lisa D’Amour, Playwright. Visiting Artist Program: July 17-30. Eve Beglarian, Composer. CONFERENCE: Transliteracies 2005: Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading Keynotes: Anne Balsamo, Walter Bender and Adrian Johns June 17-18 / 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor CONFERENCE: Nollywood...

SEMINAR: Interscapes: Performing the Intercultural in Renaissance and Baroque Drama Leo Cabranes-Grant (Dramatic Art and Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB) Tuesday, March 15 / 4:00 PM / Free / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th Floor TALK: Accepting Imitations: Thomas Bernhard & Glenn Gould Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, Maryland) Friday, March...

TALK: Waves of Performance: Surf Music, Surf as Dance, Timothy Cooley & Judy Bauerlein Tuesday, December 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free CISM Discussion: Discussion on selected essays by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouff, Ralph Lowi Wednesday, December 1 /...

HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB Sanguinary Laws and Horrid Tortures: Punishment and Civilization in Tokugawa Japan’s Encounter with the...

HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB Where the Long Grass Bends Neela Vaswani (Spalding University) Tuesday, January 13 / 3:30-5 PM /...

HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003 at UCSB Anita Pratap "Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Other South Asian Flashpoints" 5:00...

Sylvia Huot “Madness and Monstrosity: Crises of Identity in Medieval French Literature” Wednesday, April 2 / 4:00 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Zeynep Çelik “The Hidden Faces of Modernism” Saturday, April 5 / 1:30 - 2:30 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Yair Dalal and the Al...

For more event listings, please visit the "Executing Justice: America and the Death Penalty" Lecture Series Website Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Wednesday, January 8 / 7:30 pm / General $6 / UCSB students $5 UCSB Campbell Hall Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, with the filmmakers Joe Berlinger...

"Jakob der Lügner" with special appearance by Director Frank Beyer Thursday, September 26 / 7:30 P.M. / Free I.V. Theater 2 Garry Wills "Citizen Believers" Sunday, October 6 / 3:00 P.M. / Free Victoria Hall Francisco A. Lomelí "Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse" Monday, October 7 / 4 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room,...

April 3, 2002 - Satish Kumar "Youth at the Millennium Conference" April 13, 2002 - The Conflict of Civilizations? Senator George J. Mitchell and Professor Samuel P. Huntington April 12, 2002 - "Fellowship/Grant Proposal Workshop For UCSB Faculty" April 15, 2002...

January 16, 2002 - Bradley Graham, Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack January 17, 2002 - Kathleen Bruhn, Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development January 22, 2002 - Rubén Martínez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on...

September 25, October 2, 9,16, 23 November 6 2001 - "Thinking Through The Catastrophe" October 10, 2001 - Frances FitzGerald "National Missile Defenses and the Politics of Nostalgia" October 17, 2001 - Catherine Cole Ghana's Concert Party Theatre October 17, 2001...

April 4, 2001 - Marc Kielburger "The Power of One: How One Person Can Work for Human Rights and Change the World" April 17, 2001 - Daniel Philpott "Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations" April 18, 2001 - Seiji...

January 11, 2001 - Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War and the Future of Intervention January 18, 2001 - Richard Appelbaum, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry January 22, 2001 - Judith Plaskow "Rethinking Jewish Sexual Ethics" January 24,...

October 5, 2000 - Suzanne Jill Levine, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions October 12, 2000 - Mario Garcia, Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography October 12, 2000 - William R. Pace "Globalization and Democracy" October 17, 2000 -...