Past Events

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 -...