Upcoming Events

Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) David Lea (Geology, USCB) Christopher Walker (English, UCSB) Thursday May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune...

Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...

Emily C. Thomas (Art, UCSB) Friday, May 22, 2015 / 5:30 PM Art, Design & Architecture Museum Part One of 'Infinite Human Night Light,' a sculpture and performance project by Emily C. Thomas, will be installed within the exhibition "Mystical Absolutes" held at the Art, Design & Architecture...

Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building SKILLS Day is the capstone event of the School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS) academic outreach program, a university/community partnership between UCSB and Santa Barbara County schools and youth organizations. SKILLS...

Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pollock Theater Don’t Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the...

Participants: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) Dr. Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC-Davis Moderator: Paul Voosen Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall FREE A key factor in discussions about how best to feed the world’s growing population and...

Asif Siddiqi (History, Fordham University) Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Secrecy was endemic in Soviet society and culture. Information that we might consider benign in the Western context was off-limits to most of the general populace throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. Controls...

Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) James Kearney (English, UCSB) Ross Melnick (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The recipients of the 2014-15 IHC Faculty Release Time awards will present their work. Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English...

May 8, 2015 Flying A Studios Room, University Center An interdisciplinary group of scholars of medieval and early modern Japanese literature, history, religion, and performing arts examine topics related to “War and Remembrance” during Japan’s years of military rule (late 12th to late 19th centuries). Exploring a...

G. Reginald Daniel ( Sociology, UCSB) Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (Japanese American National Museum) Ingrid Dineen Wimberly (History,University of La Verne) Monday, May 4 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor This roundtable will focus...

Andrew Kalaidjian (English) Jacqueline Viskup (Theater & Dance) Tuesday, April 28 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel will feature presentations by the two recipients of the UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities award for 2014-15. Kalaidjian’s dissertation is entitled “Places of Rest: Modernism and Environmental Recovery.”  His...

Martin Ehala (Tartu University, Estonia) Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Ehala is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Communications at UCSB.  He received his doctorate in linguistics from Cambridge University and is a Professor at the University...

Akira Mizuta Lippit (Film, USC) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM SSMS 3145 Among the most enduring effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi nihon daishinsai) that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 is the total disruption of spatial order it produced. The earthquake struck the Tohoku region...

Philip Schultz (poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Tuesday, April 21, 2015 / 6:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A public reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet and writer Philip Schultz from his recently published novel-in-verse The Wherewithal. After reading the manuscript of The Wherewithal before its publication,...

Monica Heller (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Anthropology, University of Toronto) Friday, April 17, 2015 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Professor Heller’s LISO talk is a special tribute to John Gumperz whose work focused, in large part, on the relationship between the making of social difference and...

Gavin Wright (History, Stanford University) Friday, April 10, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Wright is the author of Sharing the Prize: the Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2012); Slavery and American Economic Development (2006); Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern...

Abdallah Helmy Shehata (Political Science, American University in Cairo) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Helmy Shehata was an activist during the events and involved in organizing social protest. He is Vice Chairman, Programs Director, of the Sadat Association for...

Bliss Lim (Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:30 PM "Queer Aswang Transmedia: Camp Temporality and Philippine Folklore" In recent years, the aswang – a supernatural creature of Philippine folklore that is often associated with female monstrosity  and patriarchal misogyny – is...

The Media Fields Collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its fifth biennial conference exploring the intersections of media and space. We propose “encounters” as a framework through which these intricate relationships may be addressed. This term has been strategically deployed to think...

Patricia Fumerton (English,UCSB) Pamela Smith (History, Columbia) Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28 / 9:00 AM Alumni Hall and West Conference Center We seek to explore the various kinds and forms of making. From manufacturing a sheet of paper, to printing a ballad, to conducting an experiment,...

Noah Zatz (Law, UCLA) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Zatz is the author of Poverty Unmodified: Critical Reflections on the Deserving/Underserving Distinction and Beyond Misclassification: Tackling the Independent Contractor Problem. Zatz’s research address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in...

Friday, February 20th, 2015 / 9:30 AM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive...

Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...

T.A. Barron (author, the Merlin Saga) Tuesday, February 10, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB T.A. Barron, highly acclaimed author of the Merlin Saga, The Ancient One, The Hero’s Trail, and many other books, finds great inspiration in the wonders of nature and...

Paul Mendes-Flohr (Modern Jewish History and Thought, University of Chicago Divinity School) Monday, February 9 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista One of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber was born in Vienna (1878) and died in...

Wednesday, February 4 / 1:00-2:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will meet Wednesday Feb. 4th, 1-2:30pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. Please come to this meeting to offer suggestions in regard to two current 4Humanities projects. One is the WhatEvery1Says project to...

David L. Kirp (Public Policy, UC Berkeley) Wednesday, February 4, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Renowned education author David Kirp speaks about higher education and his bestselling book, Improbable Scholars; The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools....

Anne Knowles (Geography, Middlebury College) Alberto Giordano (Geography, Texas State University) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM UCEN Flying A Room Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano (eds.) present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of...

Catherine Fisk (University of California, Irvine School of Law) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fisk is the author of Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (2009), and Labor Law Stories (2005). Fisk’s research focuses on labor issues in...

Viola Miglio, Björn Birnir, Astradur Eysteinsson, Ander Caballero (UCSB, University of Iceland, Basque Government) Monday, January 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB McCune Room This event is an instantiation of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day, which officially takes place every year on February 21st commemorating the anniversary of the...

Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan) Jody Enders (Medieval Studies, UCSB) Marcella Munson (Florida Atlantic University) Saturday, January 24, 2015 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us on Saturday, January 24 at 9 a.m. in HSSB 6020 for a...

Friday, January 23-24 2015 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our conference addresses current debates surrounding untranslatability and its implications within the postcolonial context of globalization. We have invited scholars and translators from diverse disciplines and perspectives to reflect on the basic notions of...

Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...

dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...

Ruth Leys (History, John Hopkins University) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory. Among the questions to be posed are: "If the twentieth century was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will...

Claire Robison (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, December 10, 2014 / 5:00 pm IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The Indian International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is assuming an increasingly central role in India’s Hindu public sphere, wielding vast economic assets, political influence, and, more recently, a posh...

Rebecca Langlands (Classics, University of Exeter) Friday, November 14, 2014 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Professor Rebecca Langlands  will be visiting UCSB to share her expertise in Roman literature and culture, ethics, and the history of sexuality. She will be speaking on her current research, "No-Win Situations: Roman...

Vivek Chibber (History, New York University) Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 7:00 PM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants...

Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....

Thursday, November 6, 2014/ 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 7, 2014 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 8, 2014/ 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra This year, the theme is the binational relationship between the United States and Mexico. We...

Leslie Mitchner (Rutgers University Press, Editor in Chief) Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the...

Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / 5:00 PM 2635 South Hall This is the first meeting of the EHC Anthropocene graduate colloquium, on the introduction and Chapter 13 from Naomi Klein's most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014). Pizza and drinks will be...

Friday, October 3 / 3:00-4:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2014-15 academic year on Monday, November 3, 3-4:30 pm, in South Hall 2509.   Continuing and new participants are invited.  A surprise, high-visibility new 4Humanities project will be announced at this...

Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 10:00-3:30 PM Mosher Alumni Hall Gallery Exhibit: 3:30-5:00 PM, UCSB Museum In popular Western perception, the term Bollywood conjures up a constellation of images: melodramatic performances rendered in a riot of colors, exotic locales, exaggerated gestures, and fantastic song and dance...

John H. Summers (Editor, The Baffler) Friday,October 24,2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Summers is the editor of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (2008); editor of Mass Cult and Mid Cult: Essays Against the American Grain (2011), derived from the work of Dwight...

Thursday, October 23, 2014 / 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 Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities.  Find...

Wednesday, October 22, 2014 / 2:00-3:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join Kelly Pillsbury and Barbara Walker from the Office of Research as they walk you through COS Pivot, a global funding opportunities database available to the UCSB campus. With an estimated 26,000 records of funding opportunities, Pivot...

Caitlin Rosenthal (History,University of California, Berkeley) Friday, October 17, 2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Unlike traditional narratives that privilege the role of factories in England and the North, Rosenthal uses plantation account books to show how slavery and the slave trade facilitated the development of Taylorism and...