Martha Bragin (Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY) Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The discourse on psychosocial reintegration of combat veterans in the United States has largely been confined to discussions of the best treatment for those diagnosed...
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (director) Tuesday, January 22 / 6:30 PM Old Little Theater The story of Pinocchio has had universal appeal since its appearance in 1883. In this original performance combining literature, theater, dance and music, the wooden puppet comes to life from the imagination...
Slavomír Horák (International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, January 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Slavomir Horak is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies and a Research Fellow...
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War) Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for...
Tuesday, January 15 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room Discussion of readings to assign in the planned Freshman Seminar on UC. To find the readings for the third meeting please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Also review the first chapter of Clark Kerr 's Uses of the University under...
Greta Krippner (Sociology, University of Michigan) Friday, November 30 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Krippner's Capitalizing on Crisis: the Political Origins of the Rise of Finance won the President’s Book Award from the Social Science History Association and the Viviana Zelizer Award from the American Sociological Association. Sponsored by...
Chris Johanson (Classics, UCLA) Friday, November 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Through textual, visual, and interactive, virtual world-based analysis, this talk will examine and re-evaluate the visual argumentation employed during one of the most critical moments of image manipulation at Rome, the aristocratic funeral...
Rabbi Jonathan Sacks (the United Hebrew Congregations of the Commonwealth) Tuesday, November 27 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall For Jews and for Judaism the twentieth century brought unprecedented suffering and incredible achievements - but as a new century gets going, their role in the future is up for...
Christian Collet (International Christian University, Tokyo) Tuesday, November 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Vietnamese Americans offer two curiosities to the study of racial, ethnic and minority politics. One, they appear more likely than other Asian Pacific populations in the United States to distance...
Jacques Perreault (Classics, Université de Montreal) Friday, November 16 / 5:30 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Pottery production increased greatly during the Archaic period in the Greek world and we know of many different styles and production centers. On the northern Aegean island of Thasos, a...
Amy Ziering (Producer) Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of...
Mark Quigley (Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive) Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 CCWS is proud to present a talk by Mark Quigley, Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center...
Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM Music 1213 Please see website for more information about the material under discussion: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/modern-mexican-studies If you would like to be added to the Modern Mexican Studies RFG database, please contact Ruth. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah Townsend ...
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How do scholars make sense of acts of violence--even terrorism--that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a...
Gary Griggs (Director of the Marine Institute, UC Santa Cruz) Marc Fisher (Senior Associate Vice Chancellor, UCSB) Edward Keller (Earth Scence, UC Santa Cruz, UCSB) Bruce Tiffney ( UCSB College of Creative Studies) Friday, November 9 / 1:00 PM Bren 1414 Speakers will discuss sea level rise in the Santa...
Elizabeth Miller (English, UC Davis) Friday, November 9 / 2:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many radical writers came to believe that large-scale...
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012 Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum...
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM IV Theater 2 Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From) Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood...
Brett Esaki (Liberal Arts, Brooks Institute) Jason Hopkins (Sociology, UCSB) Rolondo Longoria (Sociology, UCSB) Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies,UCSB) Carly Thomsen (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Sex and sexuality have been major hot button issues in recent elections and...
Ann Bermingham (Art History, UCSB) Constance Penley (Film & Media, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Discussion of public expectations for higher education in comparison to the original vision of Clark Kerr. For readings to be discussed at the meeting, please visit: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Sponsored...
Martin S. Indyk (Vice President, Director for Foreign Policy, the Brookings Institution) Sunday, November 4 / 3:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Ambassador Martin S. Indyk will analyze the dramatic developments in the Arab world and their impact on Iran’s bid for dominance in Israel’s neighborhood, including through its nuclear...
Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath of the earthquake and tsunami that hit Japan on March 11, 2011, this symposium will discuss some of the ways in which religious traditions, in Japan and elsewhere, have historically conceptualized and...
Thursday, November 1 / 5:00 PM The Graduate Student Lounge, Multicultural Center Friday, November 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Graduate Student Lounge, 4:00 PM-8:00 PM Saturday, November 3 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM Casa de la Guerra; South-East Corner of De La Guerra Street and De La...
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Tuesday, October 30, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000...
Kathyln Cooney (Art & Architecture, UCLA) Friday, October 26 / 3:30 PM 1173 HSSB Theban funerary arts of the ancient Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasties, particularly wooden nesting coffins, often show evidence of usurpation from other, older individuals, as well as obvious marks where gilding or inlay have...
Paul Pierson (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, October 26/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Pierson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer – and Turned its Back on the Middle Class. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of...
Introduction by Daniel Eisenberg Saturday, October 20, 2012 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg will introduce and screen his impressionistic film, which is a meditation on the fraught postwar period in Germany, examining larger questions about the continuous and discontinuous threads of history and the...
Nguyen Tan Hoang (English / Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College) Friday, October 19 / 11:00 AM UCSB Women's Center Conference Room Nguyen Tan Hoang is a video artist and academic whose work interrogates forms of desire in queer Asian male identities, Vietnamese diasporic cultural production, and trans-Asian...
Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM- 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s eighth annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: Fallout: In the Aftermath of War. Find...
Vesna Wallace (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since the rise of democracy and freedom of religious expression in Mongolia (beginning in the late 1980′s with Mongolia’s separation from Soviet dominion), debates over who is a true Mongol and what...
Wednesday, October 17/ 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers include Assemblyman Das William, Chris Newfield (English, UCSB), and Gene Lucas (Executive Vice Chancellor, UCSB.) Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy and the UCSB Faculty Association....
Maggie Anton (Author, Rashi's Daughters) Wednesday, October 17 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Maggie Anton, award-winning author of the historical fiction series Rashi’s Daughters, discusses her latest novel, Rav Hisda’s Daughter, which brings to life the world of the Talmud from...
Tuesday, October 16 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB Please come to the first meeting of the Modern Mexican Studies Research Focus Group of the IHC. We'll meet to share interests and plan events for the forthcoming year. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah...
Peggy Szymanski (Xerox PARC) Friday, October 12 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Peggy Szymanski, an interaction analyst grounded in the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, is currently exploring practices around mobile telepresence – how people stay connected to their close friends and family as they go about...
David D. Hall (Harvard Divinity School) Thursday, October 11 / 3:30 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB A central question for historians of religion and culture in early modern Europe and early America is how, given the complexities of mapping “popular religion,” the authority of theological paradigms and religious...
Thursday, October 11 / 5:00 PM HSSB 2001A Please join us to launch a new RFG on Ethnography and Cultural Studies. All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to an open meeting to discuss RFG goals and activities for the coming year. Refreshments will be served!...
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, University of Texas Austin) Thursday, October 11 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB The recent work of Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the New Testament suggests that Žižek may have more in common with the author of the Book of Revelation. Žižek’s work may...
Joshua Pilzer (Music, University of Toronto) Tuesday, October 9 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 During the long era of public secrecy about Japanese military sexual slavery, Korean survivors made use of veiled expressive forms such as song to reckon with their experiences and forge...
Monday, October 8 / 3:00 PM South Hall 2509 The 4Humanities@UCSB IHC Research Focus Group, led by Claudio Fogu (French & Italian), Linda Adler-Kassner (Writing Program), and Alan Liu (English), is calling for faculty and graduate students to participate in the second year of the group's activities. The...
Scott Nelson, (History, College of William & Mary) Friday, September 28/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Nelson is the author of Steel Drivin’ Man: John Henry, the Untold Story of An American Legend, which won the Merle Curti Prize for the best book in U.S. social and cultural history...
Friday, July 27/6:30 PM Theater & Dance Building, UCSB Studio Theater Three new plays written, acted, and danced by the students of the Isla Vista Teen Center will be performed. The performance is free; a reception will follow. Sponsored by Nuestra Voz and I.V. Arts....
Friday, July 13 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 16 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission KIDS 18 & UNDER ATTEND FREE! ...
Friday, July 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 9 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission KIDS 18 & UNDER ATTEND FREE! ...
Friday, June 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, July 2 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
Charlotte Becker (English, UCSB) Tina Bruno (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Friday, June 8 / 12:00 South Hall 2510, Early Modern Center The History of Books & Material Texts RFG and the 19th Century Reading Group invite you to attend a research share by Tina...
Thursday, June 7 / 4:00 PM 6674 Sueno, Isla Vista Students from the Spring Urban Art Workshop INT 185UA, led by artist Jorge Alvarez, will be unveiling their first Isla Vista mural this Thursday, June 7th at 4pm. Join us at 6674 Sueno in Isla Vista...
Anchorman Monday, June 4 / 7:00 & 10: 00 PM IV Theater 2 Casa De Mi Padre 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater 1 $4 Admission...
Kerry San Chirico (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Monday, June 4 / 7:30 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In the Banaras region of Uttar Pradesh, so-called Hindu “Other Backward Classes” and “Scheduled Castes” can be found worshiping Yesu (Jesus) and venerating the...
John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis) Renee Blake (New York University) Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina) Monday, June 4 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and Black studies with the purpose of rethinking contemporary relationships between Black Americans...
MLF presents: Lord of the Rings Marathon Friday June 1 starting at 7PM til It All Ends (When Sam Gamgee Returns to the Shire) Costume Contest Lemmas Bread Tolkein Trivia Special deal with Super Cucas for those who attend the movie! Isla Vista Theater show $4...
Ryan Skinner (Music and African American & African Studies, Ohio State University) Friday, June 1, 2012 / 4:00 PM The Orfalea Center Seminar Room 1005 Robertson Gym (detached office wing in front of main Ocean Road entrance) In Mali today, appeals to confront the “scourge” (fléau) of music piracy and affirm...
Friday, June 1 / 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Corporeality has long been a driving issue in performance studies, as scholars and performers have sought to understand the many roles the body has performed throughout history and across cultures. Increasingly, the...
Hubertus Kohle (Professor and Chair, History of Early Modern and Modern Art Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) Wednesday, May 30, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB Professor Kohle is renewing the time-honored “République des lettres” in a modern guise. Renowned for his work in digital art...
Stuart Gray (Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture outlined what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and applied it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He...
Stuart Gray (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 PM 6056 HSSB, Seminar Room This lecture will outline what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and apply it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He will discuss how this approach...
Keynote Speaker: George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Friday, May 25 / 8:00 AM Mosher Alumni House A day-long round-table symposium bringing together community leaders and scholars concerned with the key issues facing Latina/o immigrant communities in California. We will explore the possibilities and challenges of generating activist scholarship. The...
J. Cameron Monroe ( Anthropology, UC Santa Cruz) Friday, May 25 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB Western conceptions of the city have a long and storied history, one that until recently largely dismissed pre-colonial African urbanisms as no more than a passive response to cultural stimulus...
Barbara Junisbai (Assistant Dean, Pritzer College) Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Kazakhstan's international image is of utmost importance to the government. The government's approach to cultivate its image abroad raises a number of questions about identity and nation-building. Should the government...
(Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003, 145 min.) Thursday, May 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this acclaimed documentary, forty corporate insiders and critics -- including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman -- explore the nature and spectacular rise of...
Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand (UC Graduate Fellow in The Humanities) Wednesday, May 23 / 12:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB "I believe in obeying the laws of the land, but when they are contrary to God’s law we will have no part," Reverend Liston Pack stated in 1973 after...
Ann Bermingham (History of Art, UCSB) Catherine Cole (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, May 22, 2012 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From February 23-26, 2012 colleagues from throughout the UC system converged at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the future of the University of...
Rabbi Rick Jacobs (President-Elect, Union for Reform Judaism) Sunday, May 20 / 8:45 AM Breakfast $5.00 Suggested Contribution Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road The Future of Judaism Lecture Series Inaugural Event At this dramatic moment of Jewish history, we must harness the innovation...
"Band, Battle, and Badass Cinema" Friday, May 18 The Givers and Takers LIVE / 7:00 PM Youtube Battle / 8:00 PM (All are encouraged to enter! See Magic Lantern Facebook page for more info) The Artist 10:00 PM $2 Admission The Artist Monday, May 21/ 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
John Hyland (History, Christopher Newport University) Friday, May 18 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 At the beginning of the fifth century BCE, Achaemenid Persia had the largest navy in the world, but after its failed invasions of Greece, the empire limited its warships’ numbers and refused...
Friday, May 18 / 8:30 AM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Students from Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language use in their own communities, which they conducted as participants in UCSB's SKILLS academic outreach and research...
Joshua Dean (Political Science, UCSB) Colin Kuehl (Political Science, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Zamira Yusufjonova (History, UCSB) Thursday, May 17th / 4:00pm Lane Room, Ellison Hall Graduate students will present their work in progress. Dean will present “What Does It Mean to Belong to a Nation? An Examination of...
Isabel Gil (Catholic University of Portugal, Lisbon) May 17, 4:00 PM / University Center Mission Room Isabel Capeloa Gil is Professor of Cultural Theory at the Catholic University of Portugal. Her main research areas include intermedia studies, gender studies as well as representations of war and...
Yanoula Athanassakis (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 16 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk centers on Bich Minh Nguyen’s memoir, Stealing Buddha’s Dinner (2008). In unpacking the scenes of consumption of “foreign,” “native,” and “junk” foods, the talk explores Nguyen’s veiled engagement with...
Sarah Hirsch (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 16 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In Cities of the Dead (1996), Joseph Roach observes that New Orleans is a place "where the dead remain more gregariously present to the living, materially, and spiritually, than they do...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Whitney Winn (Graduate Division) Wednesday, May 16 / 3:30 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 2135 Learn about opportunities for supporting your research career after earning your Ph.D., including post-docs, early career grants, and tenure strategies. Sponsored by the Institute...
Lawrence Baron (History, San Diego State University) Monday, May 14 / 8:00 PM Pollock Theater Ever since it premiered in 1927, "The Jazz Singer" has been considered the paradigmatic film about the Americanization of the children of Jewish immigrants. The movie has inspired remakes and retakes on the...
MLF presents: Red Tails Friday, May 11 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 14 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) Friday, May 11 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War in Africa, Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah launched the Volta River Project which included a hydroelectric dam at Akosombo and an aluminum smelter, operated by...
Friday-Saturday, May 11-12 SRB Multipurpose Room The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the Center for Literature and the Environment will host an innovative event that invites participants to make meaning across fluid boundaries of theory, praxis, social justice movements, disciplinary knowledge, and affective response. ::Bodies in...
Laurel Beckmen (Art, UCSB) Rita Ferri (Visual Arts Coordinator, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission) Colin Gray (local artist) Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Thursday, May 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Something happens when art goes public. Cultural interventions in spaces designated as belonging to the public are...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:15 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) María Herrera-Sobek, Ph.D. (Associate Vice...
Andrew Lih (Communication, USC ) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2010, the British Museum made the remarkable step of having a "Wikipedian in Residence" to coordinate collaboration between grassroots community encyclopedia editors and expert curators in London. Since...
Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology, UCSB) Holly Unruh (Associate Director, UCIRA) Jai Ranganathan (NCEAS) Jarrett Byrnes ( NCEAS) Monday, May 7 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Can academics raise money for their research by convincing members of the public to open their wallets for small...
Saturday, May 5 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference, which has been designed to refocus the study of religion in 19th century America into less institution-based areas of study, brings together former students of Catherine Albanese (Religious Studies, UCSB) to present scholarship that...
MLF presents: CHRONICLE Friday, May 4 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 7 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Patricia Fumerton (English, UCSB) Ann Rosalind Jones (Comparative Literature, Smith College) Julia Reinhard Lupton (English, UC Irvine) Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, May 4, 2012 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium will contribute to the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "Public Goods"...
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Friday, May 4 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Working within a conversation analytic framework, this presentation analyzes the use and function of 'oh' in conversational German and compares it to 'ach/achso' in German and 'oh' in English. The...
Paul Pierson (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 4 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Pierson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (2010). Sponsored by the Colloquium on Work, Labor,...
Yolanda Covington-Ward (African Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday, May 2 / 4:00 PM North Hall, Room 1006 On April 6, 1921, a MuKongo man by the name of Simon Kimbangu laid his hands on a sick woman in the name of Jesus Christ, prayed, and began to tremble. ...
Sarah J. Townsend (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Monday, April 30 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the course of several years beginning in 1933, a character called Troka el Poderoso (Troka the Powerful) regaled young listeners of XFX, the official radio station of Mexico’s Secretariat...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building What can we learn about Vaisnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture focused on the...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can we learn about Vaishnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture will focus on the multivalent dimensions...
Alfred MacAdam (Barnard College, Columbia University) Tuesday, February 21 / 3:30 Phelps 4312 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. Prof. Alfred MacAdam, distinguished scholar and translator of Latin American literature, whose books include Dreams of Reason: Modern Latin American Narratives (Chicago UP), will...
Keynote speaker: Teofilo F. Ruiz (History, UCLA) Saturday, April 28 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 A universal human constant, fear of the unknown transcends time, place, and culture; making the concept ripe for interdisciplinary analysis. Fear of death, the afterlife, and other cultures, religions, and traditions appear in...
The Lady Vanishes Friday, Apr 27 / 7:00 PM Vertigo Friday, Apr 27 / 10:00 PM Monday, Apr 30 / 10:00 PM Free cake and ice cream in honor of Magic Lanterns 8th birthday! Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Bitel (History and Religion, University of Southern California) Friday, April 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This two day event will explore the ways in which community is defined through the production and reception of visual art. The symposium will begin with...
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Ninian Smart Memorial Lecture Thursday, April 26 / 5:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Hawley provided a critical assessment of the “bhakti movement” trope as a bifocal, multilayered notion that draws on...
Isaiah Walker (Brigham Young University- Hawaii ) Wednesday, April 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawaii for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found...
Robert McRuer (English, George Washington University) Monday, April 23 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater McRuer is known for being the catalyst behind bringing queer studies and disability studies into productive conversation. In this presentation, he considers the ways in which disability is situated at the center of...
MLF presents: The Big Lebowski Friday, Apr 20 at 7 & Monday, Apr 23 at 10 PM Reefer Madness Friday, Apr 20 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Kathleen Woodward (English, University of Washington) Friday, April 20 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one hand (risk–taking to reap off–scale financial reward is applauded) as...
Marianne Sharp (Performing Arts, University of Winchester) Thursday, April 19 / 3:45 PM TD 2517 This talk offers a detailed analysis of the voice and body work of renowned British/Irish stage actress Fiona Shaw (better known internationally as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films) in...
Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers University) Oren Bracha (Law, University of Texas) Moderator: Mark Rose (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Two eminent historians of copyright will discuss the transformation of American copyright law from the very limited regime of the early...
Yehuda Bauer (Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem) Thursday, April 19 / 8:00 p.m. Campbell Hall Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event What do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk examines the contemporary ritual practices of fans who worship film stars as gods. Focusing on public display of devotee-fan worship of South Indian film star Rajinikanth in India, and...
Jessica L. Ambler (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Roman rebuilding of Carthage as Colonia Concordia Iulia Karthago in the early first century CE has typically been described by scholars as an act of Roman hegemony, wiping...
Ashraf Zahedi (Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women) Tuesday, April 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Afghan women and youth have been on the forefront of change and have drawn on all forms of publicity to create a favorable...
MLF presents: THE GREY Friday, Apr 13 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 16 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Keynote Speaker: Seana Coulson (University of California San Diego) Saturday, April 14 / 9:00 AM 3605 South Hall The inaugural Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) is a conference dedicated to the relationship between language and cognition, featuring talks approaching the cognition of language from empirical data-driven perspectives....
Julia Panko (English, UCSB, UC Graduate Fellow in Humanities) Friday, April 13 / 3:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB “The whole [reading] device weighs little more than five ounces [and] ...
Friday, April 13 / 3:00 - 5:30 PM Saturday, April 14 / 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote address Bradley Parker (University of Utah) The third biennial graduate student conference on Ancient Borderlands brings together young scholars from around the world to discuss cultural,...
Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff, Regents' Lecturer in Film and Media Studies ) Thursday, April 12, 2012 / 7:30 PM Pollock Theater When Annie Leonard released The Story of Stuff film, she had no idea that her message would resonate so widely. Since its launch in 2007, the...
Kembrew McLeod (Communication Studies, University of Iowa) Tuesday, April 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on the tactics that have been used by hacktivists and other “copyfighters” to resist the expansion of intellectual property laws. Drawing from personal...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...
Barbara Harthorn (Feminist Studies, UCSB ) Mike Goodchild (Geography, UCSB) Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Tuesday, April 10 / 11:45 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Developing an effective interdisciplinary collaborative project involves more time, resources, management, and communication than the average research program. This panel offers strategies for...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB Music, Theater & Dance) and Carol Press (UCSB Theater & Dance) Monday, April 9 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Creative processes and creativity in interdisciplinary performance-making and educational contexts provide the focus for this session. Grounded in a principle of the profound...
Richard Bauman (Communication & Culture, Indiana University) Friday, April 6 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Country people have stood as the domestic Other within contemporary society, providing embodied figurations of what modern people are not—or, in some inflections, are no longer. In this talk, I...
MLF presents: THE ARTIST Friday, Apr 6 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 9 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Sébastien Peyrouse (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, April 6 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...