Rabbi Donniel Hartman (President of Shalom Hartmann Institute) May 19, 2016 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel One of the few constants throughout Jewish history years is that Jewish identity has never been simple, and the answer to the question of “Who is a Jew? – far from...
Elizabeth Cobbs (History, Texas A & M University) May 18, 2016 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room. HSSB 6020 Elizabeth Cobbs grants us a sneak preview of her forthcoming PBS documentary film, “American Umpire,” based on her acclaimed history book of the same name. The film recounts America’s...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Nicole Filler (Political Science, UCSB) Sergey Saluschev (History, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) The roundtable will be a discussion led by graduate students who recently conducted different types...
Elisabeth Reber (Linguistics,University of Würzburg) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 The general interest of this talk is to examine how and to what ends participants in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) deploy quoting as an evidential practice in English. PMQs has been named a subgenre...
Gabrielle Starr (English, New York University, author of Feeling Beauty) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 10:45 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the Keynote Address for the IHC Conference The Humanities, the Neurosciences, and the Brain. Gabrielle Starr is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature...
Thursday, May 12 / 5:30 PM Opening address: Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Friday, 13, 2016 / 9:00 AM Conference: HSSB 4080 This interdisciplinary conference gathers scholars working on slavery and captivity across a range of historical contexts, from the chattel slave systems of classical Greece and...
Thursday-Friday, May 12-13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the multiple accords, and discords, that characterize humanistic and neuroscientific approaches to the study of the brain. Gabrielle Starr, author...
Kostas Vlassopoulos (History & Archeology, University of Crete) Thursday, May 12, 2016 / 5:30 PM Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Once upon a time, the study of Greek slavery was at the forefront in the developing field of slavery studies. But the approaches and perspectives that revolutionized...
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Monday, May 11, 2016 /4:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis in South India, this lecture will center on a hereditary community of brahmin men from the village of Kuchipudi...
Julie Carlson, English, UCSB: Moderator Cole Cohen, IHC, UCSB Aranye Fradenburg, English, UCSB Dominique Jullien, French and Italian, UCSB Mark Leffert, M.D., Santa Barbara Jonathan Schooler, Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Ann Taves, Religious Studies, UCSB Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel seeks to celebrate...
James F. Brooks (History and Anthropology, UCSB) Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi,...
Živilė Etevičiūtė (National Gallery of Art, Vilnius, Lithuania) Monday, May 9, 2016 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Živilė Etevičiūtė will discuss the thematic narratives of “Time,” “The City,” and “The Individual” in Soviet era Lithuanian documentaries and then screen a selection of films....
Alva Noë (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is art? Why is it so important? What does it tell us about ourselves? These days it is tempting to look to neuroscience for answers to these questions....
Daniel Aldrich (Political Science, Northeastern University) Tuesday, May 3, 2016 / 4:00 SSMS 2135 The March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and associated tsunami and nuclear meltdowns took nearly 20,000 lives, created half a million refugees, and affected energy policies as far away as Germany, Switzerland,...
Leslie Gilbert-Lurie Tuesday, May 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of Holocaust Remembrance Week, Leslie Gilbert-Lurie will read from her 2009 memoir, written jointly with her mother Rita Lurie. Bending Toward the Sun tells the story of a unique family bond forged...
Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, May 3, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 3041 Jasmine Yarish, a PhD candidate in Political Science, will present material from her dissertation project, "Reconstructing Home: W.E.B Du Bois, Intersectionality, and Abolition Democracy." Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom RFG....
Eva Kor May 5, 2016 / 7:30 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion An exhibition of the Letters of Dr. Josef Mengele will be on display in the UCSB Library (8th Floor Lobby) from April 11 - May 27 courtesy of the Florence and Laurence Spungen Family Foundation. Sponsored by...
Keynote Speaker: Tung-Hui Hu (English Department, University of Michigan) Friday, April 29, 2016 / 11:00 AM-6:00 PM Saturday, April 30, 2016 / 11:00 AM-5:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 As information and communication technologies proliferate, environmental issues become even more entwined at every level of media, including...
Laura Otis (English, Emory University) Thursday, April 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Some emotions are hard to love: spite, self-pity, and hatred among them. Metaphors used to represent these obnoxious urges combine bodily experiences with cultural beliefs. In a tradition stretching from The...
Keynote Speaker: Homay King (History of Art, Bryn Mawr College ) Friday, April 22, 2016 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Davidson Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 This daylong conference will examine concepts related to loss and recuperation across varying time periods and disciplines, with particular emphasis on ephemerality...
Friday, April 22, 2016 / 1:30 - 5:00 PM Saturday, April 23, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 6:00 PM Wallis Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315 Speakers will include: John Brenkman (English, CUNY Graduate Center) Dilip Gaonkar (Communication, Northwestern University) Danny Hoffman (Anthropology, University of Washington, Seattle) Neepa Majumdar (English, University of...
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (Political Science, UCLA) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall 3824 This talk examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard theories we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study,...
Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies, Global Health, Duke University) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the Old Testament injunction “You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything” (Exodus 20:4) to Plato’s parable of the...
Philip Hardie (Latin, Cambridge University) April 19, 2016 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Late-antique Roman poets display a newly energized engagement with the classic poems of Virgil. Through a series of close readings this paper explores the various uses made in particular of...
Joel Beinin (History, Stanford University) Friday, April 15, 2016 / 1:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building Professor Beinin is the author of The Struggle for Workers Rights in Egypt (2010), Workers and Peasants in the Modern Middle East (2001), Was the Red Flag Flying...
Thomas M. Phillip ( Education, UCLA) April 15, 2016 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 In this session, Thomas M. Phillip will share video data from an undergraduate engineering ethics course and offer a preliminary analysis of how the lives of “enemies” and certain civilians were interactionally constructed...
Akosua Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana, Legon) Friday, April 15, 2016 /3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV)...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Thursday, April 14, 2016 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Now happily entrenched at UCSB, Rick Benjamin has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Goddard College, Haverford College, Haystack, New Urban Arts, as...
Ruth Wisse (Emeritus Research Professor in Yiddish and Comparative Literature, Harvard University) April 14, 2016 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith Humor is the most celebrated of all Jewish responses to modernity. In her critically-acclaimed book, No Joke: Making Jewish Humor, Ruth Wisse evokes and applauds the genius...
dir. Peter Landesman, 123 min. Q&A with Dr. David A. Hovda, Director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. While conducting an autopsy on former NFL...
Brigitte Shull (Palgrave Macmillan) Wednesday, April 13, 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Brigitte Shull, Editorial Director of Author & Editorial Services at Palgrave Macmillan, will discuss recent developments in the academic publishing industry, including the path to publication for early career scholars. Learn about what editors look for...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The April 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on the manifold interrelationships between architecture, aesthetics, and neurosciences, a nexus that has gained increasing importance when it comes to discussing perception and...
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (History, UC Santa Barbara) Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Barbieri-Low will lead a discussion of pre-circulated materials from his latest research. For copies of the texts, please email maclean@classics.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of...
Gregory Mitchell (Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Williams College) Monday, April 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian government engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favelas, blighted areas, and red light...
Amy Goodman (Democracy Now!) April 10, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Hear the co-authors of DEMOCRACY NOW!: TWENTY YEARS COVERING THE MOVEMENTS CHANGING AMERICA, Amy Goodman & DENIS MOYNIHAN, as they celebrate the anniversary of their radio & TV news program — and the movements that...
Friday, April 8, 2016/ 1:30-3:30 PM Education 1205 Graduate students in the UCSB Department of Linguistics will present their recent research at the intersection of language documentation and interactional analysis. "Tea Ceremonies and Consonant Mutation: Repetition in Nivkh Discourse as a Means of Preservation" Dibella Caminski (Linguistics, UCSB) In this...
Jaak Panksepp (Professor and Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, Washington State University ) Kay Young (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In his talk, "Addicted to Emotion: How Affective Neuroscience Sheds Light on the Brain Sources...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement,IHC) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:30-5:00 PM UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum In this poetry workshop, led by Rick Benjamin in celebration of National Poetry Month, we will talk and write toward surfacing truths in the geological, historical, cultural and/or...
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Philosophy, University of Paris XIII) Tuesday, April 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Belgian writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint recently displayed at the museum Le Louvre in Paris a machine for reading thoughts. It looked like a shower cabin, connected to a TV...
Tony Affigne (Political Science, Providence College) Monday, April 4, 2016 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference R00m, HSSB 6020 Is the American political science community prepared for the nation’s new racial configuration, when in a few years the U.S. will become a "minority majority" nation? In this powerful, wide-ranging...
Arunima Datta (Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore) Monday, April 4, 2016 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4020 Arunima Datta will be discussing the protean range of intimate relations between men and women in colonial plantation societies. Using legal and other archival records this talk explores the reality...
TALK: Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor Kalindi Vora (Associate Professor, Department of Ethnic Studies, UC San Diego) Wednesday, March 30, 2016 / 12:30 PM HSSB 5th floor, Conference Room This talk thinks through how biological bodies have become a new kind of global biocapital,...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Annie Torsiglieri (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, March 12, 2016 / 7:30 PM Studio Theater, UCSB FREE When Amy learns that one of her young twins is autistic, she...
Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6046 HSSB Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into contact, often...
Anat Hoffman (Executive Director, the Israeli Religious Action Center) Thursday, March 10, 2016 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara Jerusalem is a harsh city to live in. It is a city in struggle, a struggle between narrow-minded Judaism and pluralistic Judaism,...
Mark Winchester (Kanda International University,Tokyo) Tuesday, March 8, 2016 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Hate speech and hate crime in the form of demonstrations and other actions carried out by so-called ‘action conservative’ groups have spread across Japan since the early 2000s. The actions of these neo-fascist ‘action...
Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland, College Park) Monday, March 7, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While most readers are familiar with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Levine will discuss Douglass’ final autobiography, Life and Times of...
Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland, College Park) Monday, March 7, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Levine will be leading us in a discussion of The Heroic Slave. Along with Douglass' novella itself (available online as an etext), we will be discussing the following selections from...
Friday - Saturday, March 4-5, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB and Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House In his Essais, Montaigne suggests that “Childrens playes are not sportes, and should be deemed as their most serious actions” (Florio translation, 1603). Three hundred years later, Sigmund...
Bruce L. Miller (Memory and Aging Center, UC San Francisco) Thursday, March 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While many physical and mental conditions decline with time, creativity is one characteristic that has been observed to improve, both in healthy elders and people with...
Michael North (Modern History, University of Greifswald, Germany) Tuesday, March 1, 2016 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall The political changes of 1989 stimulated a new perception of the Baltic Sea Region, which gained momentum with the Eastern Enlargement of the EU. The new situation encouraged research as...
Laurel Beckman (Art, UCSB) Maya Gurantz (Visiting Lecturer, Art, UCSB) Thursday, February 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Inherent in video art is the uncanny ability to manifest and express the unseen and partially known. Nowhere is this more apparent than in...
Jon Christensen (Editor, Boom: A Journal of California) Wednesday, February 24, 2016 /2:00PM Flying A Studios Room, University Center More than two decades of experience and research on climate change communications has shown us plenty of ways to fail. What have we learned about how to succeed? What...
David Makovsky and Ghaith al-Omari (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) February 24, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall As the Mideast chaos has focused elsewhere, the Israeli and Palestinian issue has been largely sidelined. Negotiated peace, the classic paradigm for the last few decades, has been...
Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Tuesday, February 23, 2016 / 2:00 PM Social Sciences & Media Studies (SSMS) 2135 This talk starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012-13. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town...
Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago, Department of Sociology) Monday, February 22, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline,...
Desmond King (International Relations,University of Oxford) Friday, February 19, 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor King is a renowned scholar of race and politics in American political development, comparative welfare politics and labor market policy, democratization and immigration policy. He is the author of many books, including Making Americans:...
Conveners: Sara Pankenier Weld and Sven Spieker (Germanic & Slavic Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 19, 2016 / 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM University Center, Flying A Studios Room This one-day symposium will investigate Nabokov’s writerly practice as a broadly conceived effort of translation. An émigré writer whose works...
John D. Dunne (Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, February 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the last two decades, some of the most influential scientific studies of meditation have examined practices derived from Buddhism, and the success of...
Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies & EALCS, Director of the East Asia Center, UCSB) Friday, February 12, 2016 / 11:00 AM HSSB 2212 Writing about women’s Islamic piety in Egypt, Saba Mahmood criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency defined solely in terms of resistance, critical discourse, or rebellious...
Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The topic for the February 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG is (Gestalt) Psychology and Architecture. Readings by Geoffrey Scott and Rudolf Arnheim initiate discussions about how architecture and architectural detail determine...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fradenburg will discuss the importance of expression and interpretation -- of embodied meaning-making -- in autopoietic activity generally, and will focus on the particular example of the sigh as a form of...
Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm) February 10, 2016 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Join the Health, Medicine and Care RFG will be workshopping a paper by Visiting Scholar Dr. Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm). Title: "THE ENEMY WITHIN: Protection, Visibility and the criminalization of HIV" (for a copy...
Ariela Gross (Gould School of Law, USC) Monday, February 8, 2016, 4:00 PM SS&MS 2135 This talk, jointly authored by Chantal Thomas and Ariela Gross, critiques some publicists and jurists involved in the contemporary campaign against slavery and in the memorialization of the Atlantic slave trade for the...
Maurice Isserman (History, Hamilton College) Friday, February 5, 2016 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Isserman will speak about his forthcoming book, Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (W.W. Norton & Co, 2016). He is the author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the...
Melanie Joy (Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 5:00 PM Harold Frank Hall 1104 Do you believe that bacon makes everything better? Perhaps you’re a strict vegetarian, or even the more rare and spectacular vegan? Regardless of label, are you truly aware of what...
Gesa Kirsch (English, Bentley University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Gesa Kirsch will examine how the brain has been socially constructed as both metaphor and anatomy in medical history. Specifically, she investigates the ways...
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) Wednesday, February 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor". What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race...
Moderator: John Hajda (Associate Director, SAGE Center) Participants: Julie Carlson (English, UCSB) Scott Grafton (Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join UCSB faculty members in dialogue about their current...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 / 7:00 PM Panelists will include: Donna Beal (MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter) Patricia Cline Cohen (History, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Gwen Morse (Ph.D., R.N.) Moderator: Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies, UCSB) UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is...
Shaul Bassi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy) Tuesday, January 26, 2016 / 8:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Two landmark anniversaries will coincide in 2016: the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, a place that...
Friday-Tuesday, January 22-26, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB #AfterTahrir conference at UCSB. 4 days, 21 sponsors, 28 participants, 18 short films, a critical commemoration of #Jan25 This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings...
Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, January 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellision Hall Faculty from different UCSB departments will speak about how their disciplines study identity and the courses available in their departments. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, Notre Dame) Thursday, January 21, 2106 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human evolutionary history is ongoing, human creativity is expanding, and human populations continue to grow. Getting a handle on “the human” in the Anthropocene is no easy matter. Inter, or even...
Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University & CUNY Graduate Center) Tuesday, January 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking the origins of three monotheisms within one temporal arc makes visible a changed structure of history that not only critiques Western-centrism but offers an alternative, the philosophical...
Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) January 15, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Colin Gordon, Professor of History at the University of Iowa, demonstrates the pedagogical and research value of his new web site, "Growing Apart," which charts social and economic inequality in the United States during the...
Seth Horowitz (The Listening Program) Thursday, January 14, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We build the world from our senses. We see color and form, hear sound and vibration, feel temperature and texture, each sense taking a specific form of energy to...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB New participants welcome! In our first meeting of the quarter we'll workshop a member's project proposal and begin discussing our book selection for the quarter: More Than Medicine. Confirmed RFG members' book copies will...
Benjamin Doherty, Mahmoud Said, Laila Shereen Sakr (R-Shief, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2016/4:00 PM 2135 SSMS R-Shief is an archival and visualizing media system with a five-year archive of over twenty-six billion social media posts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and sites) in more than seventy languages. It has...
Megan Carney (Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle) Tuesday, January 12, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB How does the experience of hunger and food insecurity contribute to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders? What are the conditions displacing increasing numbers of...
Adnan A. Naseemullah (South Asia and International Relations, King's College London) Friday, January 8, 2016 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall This lecture will discuss contemporary industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state capacity, from the point of view of the manufacturing...
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Thursday, January 7, 2016 / 5:00 PM The January 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on spatial orientation and wayfinding strategies humans employ when encountering or traversing different types of spaces. We will discuss issues and problems...
Thursday, December 03, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6036 HSSB The December 2015 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on the perception of different environments throughout the twentieth century. Participants will read (in advance) and discuss texts by Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin...
Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 4:00 Performing Arts Theater Friday, December 4, 2015 / 9:30 AM Mosher Alumni House Saturday, December 5, 2015 / 9:30 AM MultiCultural Center, University Center On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s famous text “The Metamorphosis,” an interdisciplinary conference at...
James F. Brooks (UCSB, History & Anthropology) Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4041 This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising...
December 01, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Professor David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) will introduce the film and lead a Q&A directly after the screening. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the...
Ramona Bajema, Ph.D. Tuesday, December 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ramona Bajema has spent the past four years searching through the post-triple disaster remains in order to better understand what cannot be washed away by a 100-meter high wave that obliterated...
Hilal Elver (UCSB Orfalea Center) November 23, 2015 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room Climate change poses a distinct threat to all aspects of food security, threatening livelihood of already vulnerable people, while current fossil fuel based agricultural practices are responsible for accelerating climate change. Moreover, some mitigation and...
Ambassador Dennis Ross Friday, November 20, 2015 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Ambassador Dennis Ross will discuss and sign copies of his just-released book, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, at 3:00 p.m., Friday, November 20 at UCSB (Location To Be Announced)....
Maria Fedorova (History,UCSB) Friday, November 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Anjan Chatterjee (Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, November 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can neuroscience possibly tell us about aesthetics and art? In this talk, Anjan Chatterjee will offer a framework from which a neuroscientist might deconstruct aesthetic experiences. Chatterjee will discuss findings...
Anrea Acri (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore) Wednesday, November 18, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture will survey the Indic traditions of ṣaḍaṅga-yoga (“six-limbed yoga”) and aṣṭāṅga-yoga (“eight-limbed yoga”) in the Indonesian Archipelago, as illuminated...
Kenneth S. Kosik (The Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human interactions are finely calibrated and many of these interactions are prosocial, that is a social behavior that benefits other individuals or a larger group. The repertoire of...
Kanchan Chandra (Politics, New York University) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics at New York University, works on questions of ethnicity, democracy, violence, patronage, clientelism, party politics and the politics of South Asia. She is lead...
Eric C. Rath (History, University of Kansas) Tuesday November 10/ 2015 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Lunch is both older and newer in Japan than we might imagine. The midday meal is said to have become a norm by the 1700s when most of the population finally...
David Cleveland (Environmental Studies,UCSB) November 10, 2015 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Food that is good for people and for society is also good for the climate—this positive synergy between climate justice and food justice can help motivate needed change. The Neolithic supply side...
Terri Snyder (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton) Monday, November 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Terri Snyder will lead a discussion of her most recent book, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North Africa (Chicago, 2015). Snyder's research interests include slavery...
David Engerman (History, Brandeis University) Friday, November 6, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Engerman’s most recent book is Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (2009). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democray....
November 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The November meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on nineteenth-century ideas of beauty and empathy in art and architecture. Participants will read (in advance) and discuss texts by the psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner and...
Thursday, November 5, 2015/ 4:30 PM Mosher Alumni Friday, November 6, 2015/ 9:00 AM MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 7, 2015/ 9:00 AM Casa de la Guerra This year, the colloquium will be dedicated to the theme of “Real or Fake” in history, culture, literature, cinema,...
Q&A with director Jeff Malmberg Wednesday, November 4, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock Marwencol is a feature documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. A violent attack outside a Kingston, NY bar in...
Lynn Garafola (Dance History, Columbia University) Tuesday, November 3, 2015 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Lynn Garafola is Distinguished Professor of Dance History at Columbia University/Barnard College. A dance historian, critic and contributor for The Nation, Garafola’s importance to Dance and Performance Studies was best...
Friday, October 30/ 1:00 PM Barry Eidlin (Sociology, McGill University) HSSB 4041 Professor Eidlin, a sociologist, is author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Jasbir K. Puar (Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University) Wednesday, October 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational...
Rebecca Seligman (Anthropology, Northwestern University) Thursday, October 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Increasing evidence suggests the importance of meaning in conditioning bodily experiences and outcomes. This talk will explore the relationship between meaning and the body, with particular focus on the neurobiological...
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London) Monday, October 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The killing of Reeva Steenkamp and the trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa touch on some of the most difficult questions of sexual...
Yoram Peri (Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies at the University Maryland at College Park) Sunday, October 18, 2015 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Professor Yoram Peri will present a free, public lecture on "The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the...
Susan Levine (Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago) Friday, October 16, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Susan Levine's most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Friday, October 16, 2015, 12:00 PM HSSB 3041 A new interdisciplinary Research Focus Group on "Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom" will meet for an informal brown-bag lunch to introduce participants to one another and discuss plans for the Fall quarter. All faculty and graduate students...
Thursday, October 15, 2105 / 7:00 PM Century 10 Downtown, Ventura Field trip! Come with us to see National Theatre's simulcast of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, live from London You may purchase tickets here. Sponsored by the IHC's W/Shakespeare RFG....
Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ecstasy, an experience that is widely discussed in the humanities and sought after in the general culture, illuminates many of the difficulties involved in linking research in the humanities...
Narayani Lasala-Blanco (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015/4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Debates about immigration policies in the United States have been present during electoral campaigns since the 1700s. Zolberg argues that the sustained presence of these debates in political campaigns is related...
Laura Nenzi (History, University of Knoxville) Tuesday, October 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conferene Room, HSSB 6020 Nenzi is a social historian of early modern Japan interested in gender, space, memory, and identity. In my first book, Excursions in Identity (2008) she examined the manifold...
Thursday, October 8, 2015 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Humanities and the Brain. Find out...
Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, Munich) Monday, October 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Ancient Near Eastern history specialist Karen Radner sets her research sights on the big picture. She is one of the world’s leading experts on the history of Mesopotamia at the time of the...
Thursday, October 1 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The new Research Focus Group is dedicated to readings about and discussions of the various ways in which the humanities, cognitive psychology, and behavioral/cognitive geography examine and think about human comprehension of space and place,...
Thursday, October 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB This interdisciplinary Health, Medicine and Care Working Group invites new members! Join other faculty, postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate researchers, and community members at the UCSB campus to give and receive feedback on research...
PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION: Quantum Love Story Performance: Tuesday, September 29 / 8:00 PM Installation hours: Wednesday – Friday, September 30-October 2 / 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Glass Box Gallery, Art Building You are invited to attend and experience Quantum Love Story, a live dance performance...