Sandy Prita Meier (Art History, Wayne State University) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM HSSB 1174 Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the port cities of the Swahili coast have been nodes of global connectivity for over two millennia. Beginning in the...
Professor Vincent Pecora (English, University of Utah) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Vincent P. Pecora is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization...
Marlene Laruelle (International Affairs, George Washington University) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Marlene Laruelle is a specialist in the politics and history of Russia and Eurasia. She is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian...
Thursday, April 5 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Sister Spit is a rotating collection of artists spanning from film directors, poets, novelists, performance artists, comic book writes, to thespians, who have been touring annually since 1997. This event will include performances by Michelle Tea, Kit...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Wednesday, April 4 / 12:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use our...
John Adams (Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK) Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 / 3:00 PM HSSB 2001a To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development...
MLF presents: SHAME A film by Steve McQueen Friday, Mar 16 at 7&10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Kenneth Frampton (Architecture, Columbia University, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History) Friday, March 16 / 6:00 PM Loma Pelona Center Throughout the developed world, the proliferation of urbanized regions, as opposed to historic cities, has led to a state of affairs in which the practice of...
Friday-Saturday, March 16-17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara is hosting our eleventh annual conference, “Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800.” The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2012 at UCSB and...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar investigated the ways...
Shalini Kakar, (Art History, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm IHC Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB This presentation explores the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar will investigate the ways in which...
Heather Stoll (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry, from immigration to expansions in the franchise, shape political competition? More specifically, when are new social groups successful at forming their...
Harold Meyerson (columnist for the Washington Post and editor of American Prospect) March 10 / 9:30 AM 4041 HSSB Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect as well as a member of the editorial board of Dissent. From 1989 to 2001, he was executive editor of the...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, Mar 9 / 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, Mar 12 / 10 PM...
Wednesday, March 7 & 14, 2012 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlights the work of graduate students in Dr. Mireille Miller-Young’s Global Sex Work and Economies of Desire seminar. Drawing from critical sexualities studies frameworks, UCSB...
Wednesday, March 7 / 4:00-8:00 PM Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00-8:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The goal of this symposium is to create a wider venue for discussion about sexuality research. Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlight the work of graduate...
Friday-Saturday, March 2-3/ 8:30 AM Loma Pelona Center This international conference provides a fundamental assessment of Iran’s experience with constitutionalism. This gathering of constitutional lawyers, academics, and journalists will serve as a forum for an in-depth, critical examination of the past and current Iranian constitutions, and...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, Mar 2 / 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, Mar 5 / 10 PM...
Jessica Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Peter Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Friday, March 2 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 What is the nature of communicating for someone about something –...
Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) Thursday, March 1 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized...
Thursday-Friday, March 1-2, 2012 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The world is experiencing concurrent environmental and socio-economic crises that put dominant models of management and governance into question. A global economy organized around principles of market freedom and individual benefit drives accumulation by...
E. Ann Kaplan (English, Stony Brook University) Monday, February 27 / 4:00 PM This paper, part of an ongoing book project, builds on Kaplan’s 2005 Trauma Culture to argue that along with theorizing memories of past atrocities, we need also to explore a select form of...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Muppets Friday, Feb 24 at 7&10 PM Monday, Feb 27 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB, Department of Music) Friday, February 24 / 5:00 PM 6056 HSSB, IHC Research Seminar Room In this informal gathering we continue to debate issues concerning the notion of “performance studies” and its efficacy in enabling provocations, understandings, and actions. Picking up themes and...
Wang Haicheng (Art, University of Washington) Friday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second...
Thursday-Friday, February 23-24 McCune Conferenc Room, 6020 HSSB Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center Every year UNESCO observes the International Mother Language Day on February 21st, in remembrance of the students that died in Dhaka (Bangladesh) during the Bengali Language Movement protests in 1952. UCSB's Spanish and Portuguese...
Bradley Simpson (History, Princeton University) Thursday, February 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination, and sought to institutionalize its status as a human...
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 21-22 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the interactions and points of contact between the different cultural and linguistic zones that make up the Caribbean region, in support of a less insular, more archipelagic sense of Caribbean culture. Contemporary Caribbean cultures are, as...
Donald Molosi (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, February 18 / 7:00 PM Theater and Dance, Studio Theater "Blue, Black and White," written and performed by Donald Molosi, is an enchanting humanist story about Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw...
Magic lantern Films Present: Melancholia A Film by Lars von Trier IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 17 at 7 pm & 10 pm...
Keith Murphy (Anthropology, UC Irvine) Friday, February 17 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 In this presentation, which stems from an ongoing project with colleagues in Sweden, Murphy will explore the use of analogical reasoning as a means for identifying problems in architectural critique interactions. He will focus in...
Richard White (History, Stanford University) Friday, February 17 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB White is the author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West, Remembering...
Friday, February 17 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will bring together a number of scholars whose research focuses on the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the most significant civil rights protest movement by Mexican Americans in the U.S. The...
Yaba Badoe (director) Thursday, February 16 / 5:00 PM 1701 Theater & Dance West The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of five years, this disturbing expose is the product...
Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan and Davis Center, Harvard University) Thursday, February 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Social mobilization of ethnic groups represents an issue of widespread interest for historians and political scientists. The presentation examines the social movements of Russian speakers in Estonia and Moldova,...
Mark Rosheim (author, Leonardo's Lost Robots) Carlo Pedretti (Art History, UCLA) Sara Taglialagamba (Art History, UCLA) Thursday, February 16 / 11:00 AM Embarcadero Hall A discussion among three outstanding experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Rosheim is a mechanical engineer and author of...
Greg Anderson (History, Ohio State University) Josiah Ober (Classics & Political Science, Stanford) Glenn Patten (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Classical structures (such as the polis) and ideas (such as koinonia) are frequently invoked in discussions of the...
David Makovsky (Director, the Project on the Middle East Peace Process) Ghaith al-Omari (Executive Director, the American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 15 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB Fifteenth Anniversary...
(Michael Moore, 2009, 127 min.) Tuesday, February 14, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The IHC celebrates Valentine’s Day with a screening of Moore’s scathing film, which examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans and asks the question:...
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, UT Austin) Friday, February 10 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4020 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. The UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in New Testament. Steven Friesen holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has also taught at the University of...
Magic lantern Films Present: Puss in Boots IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 10 at 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, Feb 13 at 10 pm...
Thursday-Saturday, February 9-11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference examines the past, present, and future of feminist studies as a field of academic inquiry that is interdisciplinary, transnational, and intersectional. Drawing together former holders of the UCSB Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Women's Studies with current faculty,...
Mario Carretero (Psychology, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid/Flasco, Buenos Aires) Thursday, February 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Memory construction and national identity are key issues for societies. How can we believe and give sense to traditional narratives that explain the origins of nations...
Renee Chow (Environmental Design, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 7, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban living revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, imperial family or peasant, every day activities...
Ron Hassner (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Monday, February 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar Holy places create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, as evidenced by the ongoing struggle over Jerusalem. Drawing on his recent book, War on Sacred Grounds, Ron...
Christine Echeverria Bender (author) Monday, February 6 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Christine Echeverria Bender, a Basque-American writer of historical fiction is coming to UCSB to talk about the artistry and the research that she mixes in her novels. These are tales of...
Magic lantern Films Present: Like Crazy IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 3 at 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, Feb 6 at 10 pm...
Keynote Speakers: Michael Kazin (History, Georgetown University) Tom Hayden (principal author of the Port Huron Statement, political activist) Thursday-Friday, February 2-3, 2012 Corwin Pavilion and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The 1962 Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the early New Left. This conference brings together...
Thursday, February 2 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 Building on the foundation of previous meetings of the 4Humanities@UCSB Research Focus Group devoted to "reframing" public discourse about the humanities, this meeting led by Alan Liu will include a discussion of principles for an overall humanities advocacy...
Jessica Ambler (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Saturday, January 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, UCSB The Ancient Borderlands Winter MRG Meeting will be comprised of small group discussions based on circulated readings as well as providing an opportunity for MRG members to share...
Bradley Parker (History, University of Utah) Friday, January 27 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the...
Magic lantern Films Present: Sons of Norway Fri Jan 27 at 7 and 10 PM. FREE The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 Mon Jan 30 / 10 PM. FREE...
Carlos Morton (Theater & Dance, UCSB) Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Friday, January 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB La Malinche: a play by Carlos Morton; Q&A with the playwright, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco One woman, known as Malinche, Malintzin and Doña...
Eric Arnesen (History, George Washington University) Friday, January 27 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Arnesen offers a provocative talk on the relationship between the idea of a “long civil rights movement” and the historiographical reappraisal of the role played by the Communist Party in post World...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, January 25 / 3:00 PM 2208 North Hall Barbara L.E. Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts will present information about current funding sources for diversity research (research on diversity, multiculturalism, gender, race, LGBT topics) and...
Mark Hall (director) Peter Alagona (History, UCSB) ann-elise Lewallen ( EALCS, UCSB) Mike McGinnis (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sushi, a cuisine formerly found only in Japan, has grown exponentially in other nations, and an industry has been created to...
Dara Horn (author of In the Image, The World to Come, and All Other Nights) Monday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing American Jewish writers, and will share many adventures from...
Saturday, January 21, 2012 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This colloquium will address ideas about the Common Good and the actual realities of political, economic, and social life in the polities of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. This was an...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Friday, Jan 20 at 7&10 PM Monday, Jan 23 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Fred Block ( Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, January 20 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Block is the editor, most recently, of State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technological Policy (2011) and is now writing Karl Polanyi and the Battle of Economic Ideas. Sponsored by the...
Niko Besnier (Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam) Friday, January 20 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Globalization has now become a central focus in sociolinguistics, although works on the question have tended to treat speech communities as homogeneous entities in which shifts in language use affect everyone in...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Thursday, January 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice, from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and...
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture focused on the Hindu samadhi shrine, which marks the final resting-place of a realized saint’s body, as an expression of sacred space in South Asia....
Sharon Farmer (History, UCSB) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, January 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated--if highly contested--history, and has found valence in many different cultures,...
Peter Van Wyck (Media Studies, Concordia University of Montreal) Andrew Lakoff (Anthropology, Sociology & Communications, University of Southern California) Friday, January 13, 2012 / 2:00 PM Catastrophic events produce radical uncertainty. The temporality of such events varies: they could be sudden, unexpected, but ever-possible (e.g. natural...
Landon Storrs (History, University of Houston) Friday, January 13 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Storrs speaks on “Hidden Convictions: the Second Red Scare and the Unmaking of the New Deal” which is also the title of her forthcoming book. In 2000, Storrs published Civilizing Capitalism: The...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: 50/50 Friday, Jan 13 at 7&10 PM Monday, Jan 16 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
David C. Kang (International Relations,USC) Wednesday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 North Korea remains both a practical problem and an intellectual puzzle,with actions that sometimes appear self-defeating,aggressive,and unpredictable. This talk will make two overarching arguments that help make sense of North...
José Colmeiro (European Languages & Literature, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Tuesday, January 10 / 2:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will examine the global frames of memory, understanding that the traditional spaces, channels and forms of collective memory are being transformed by, and...
Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Monday, December 12 / 1-3:00 PM South Hall 2509 In its next meeting, the 4Humanities@UCSB research focus group will think about the core values of the humanities, the frames that surround those, and how we might develop action plans from those values and frames...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Students' Choice: Midnight in Paris Friday, December 2 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM First 50 people will get a free croissant! Gift basket Raffle give away! Isla Vista Theater all films $4...
Daraka Larimore-Hall (Sociology, UCSB) December 2 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Larimore-Hall is the former president of UAW Local 2865, the UC union of TAs, readers, and tutors, and he is currently chair of the Santa Barbara Democratic Party. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of...
Laura Sterponi (UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education) Friday, December 2 / 1:30-3:30 PM Education 1205 In its close association with other perseverative behaviors, echolalia is one of the defining features of autism spectrum disorders. It has traditionally been conceived of as an automatic, pre-reflexive behavior that bears...
Introduction by Mark Rose (English, UCSB) Tuesday, November 29, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) with its dramatic opposition between the rapacious banker Old Man Potter (Lionel Barrymore) and the benevolent George Bailey (James Stewart) remains an allegory...
Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, Nov 21, 2011 / 12:00 PM Crowell Reading Room (6028 HSSB) This talk explores how discourses of sexualization–and particularly pornification or pornetration–obscure critical differences in the ways that “women’s” sexuality emerges in modern popular cultures and social relations. Women of color...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Rise of the Planet of the Apes Friday, Nov 18 at 7 & 10 PM Monday, Nov 21 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all films $4...
Rob Nixon (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, November 18, 2011 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence"...
La Rafle (The Round Up) directed by Roselyne Bosch, 2010, 115 min. Wednesday, November 16 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall In picturesque Montmarte, three children wearing a yellow star play in the streets, oblivious to the darkness spreading over Nazi-occupied France. Their parents do not seem...
Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From Beirut to Cairo to Tunis, the Arab Spring has played out in public space in ways that...
Claudio Fogu (French & Italian Dept., UCSB) Monday, November 14 / 1:00 PM South Hall 2509 Claudio Fogu (Department of French & Italian) will moderate this meeting of the 4Humanities@UCSB group, which centers on discussion of four sets of short readings (and videos) bearing on core features...
Introduction by Clayton Eshleman (Regents Lecturer, UCLA) Thursday, November 10 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Imbued with an African and Vodun spirituality, Aime Cesaire's poetry became increasingly politically-focused in the 1950's. Eshleman's translations of Cesaire have been published by Wesleyan University Press in a bilingual format, with...
Tara McPherson (USC, School of Cinematic Arts) Wednesday, November 9, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a belated recognition of Open Access Week (October 24-30), Tara McPherson, strong advocate and practitioner of open access publishing and explorer of innovative interdisciplinary digital scholarship, will share...
Whitney Winn (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Tuesday, November 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 1302 Join us to find the best ways to find sources of funding for research and activities in the Humanities and Fine Arts. You will learn to...
Jude Mikal (Research Development Coordinator, IHC) Tuesday, November 8 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Has the search for graduate funding left you feeling lost or overwhelmed? The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is sponsoring a funding search and proposal writing workshop for graduate students...
Rick Perlstein (journalist, author of Nixonland) Saturday, November 5, 2011 / 9:30 AM – 4 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Application deadline: Monday, October 10 As part of its yearlong “Public Goods” series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB invites interested faculty and other members...
Rick Perlstein (historian and journalist) November 4 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Perlstein is the author of Before the Storm: Barry Goldwater and the Unmaking of the American Consensus (2001) and Nixonland: The Rise of a President and the Fracturing of America (2009). He is writing...
Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 3 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Professor Smith's research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial...
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Wednesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm 1910 Buchanan Hall It is no secret that religion is a very serious thing—de la vie sérieuse, Durkheim says somewhere. Yet in the lives of the bhakti saints, as told in...
Thursday, November 3 / 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 4 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center (UCSB) Saturday, November 5 / 9:00 AM Casa de la Guerra (downtown Santa Barbara, South-East Corner of De La Guerra Street and De La Guerra Plaza) This year's theme...
Simon Sebag Montefiore (International Best-Selling Historian, author of Catherine the Great & Potemkin, Stalin, and Young Stalin) Thursday, November 3 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Jerusalem is the universal city, the capital of two peoples, the shrine of three faiths; it is the prize of empires,...
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) R. Lane Clark (documentary filmmaker) Thursday, November 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Akosombo Township, designed by the Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis, is the model city at the foot of the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest development project....
Sam Binkley (Sociology, Emerson College) Wednesday, November 2 / 2:00 PM Theater and Dance Building 2517 From "getting loose" to "letting it all hang out" the 1970's were filled with exhortations to free oneself from artificial restraints and discover oneself in a more authentic and creative...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Rocky Horror Picture Show Friday, October 28 at midnight Embarcadero Hall all shows $4...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) October 28 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB O’Connor is the author of Poverty Knowledge: Social Science, Social Policy, and the Poor in 20th Century U.S. History (2001) and Social Science For What?: Philanthropy and the Social Question in a World Turned Rightside Up (2007). Sponsored by...
Demetria Martinez (poet, novelist, and essayist) Thursday, October 27 / 3:30 Corwin Pavilion This year the Luis Leal Award will be presented in the ceremony to Demetria Martinez from New Mexico who is a leading poet, novelist, and essayist. Her most noted book is her novel Mother Tongue about Central American political refugees in...
Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Claudio Fogu (French & Italian, UCSB) Thursday, October 27 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 The new IHC Research Focus Group 4Humanities@UCSB invites faculty and graduate students to its first organization meeting. 4Humanities@UCSB will function both independently and as one of the first local chapters...
Wednesday, October 26 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance, TD 2517 What: A space and place for:- exploring new ideas; sharing ongoing research; putting an idea out there; tackling thorny notions and creative practice; engaging with Faculty and grad students from other disciplines. Who: grad students and...
Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman (History, San Diego State University) Wednesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Professor Elizabeth Cobbs Hoffman challenges the assumption that America is an empire. Rather, it acts as an arbiter and enforcer in a world system where goals...
Monday, Oct 24, 2011 / 12:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room Karl Bryan (Women’s Studies, State University of New York New Paltz) This talk tracks the effects of discourses of gender fluidity as they are deployed by advocates to legitimate the identities and behaviors of gender nonconforming children. Co-sponsored...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Harry Potter 7 Friday, October 21 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 24 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, October 21 / 3:30 PM South Hall 2635 From the late nineteenth century on, there has been a chorus of complaints about the decline of letter-writing as it lost out first to postcards and, finally, to email. This talk will try...
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) Friday, October 21, 2011/ 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human...
Michael Madsen (film director, conceptual artist) Tuesday, October 18, 2011 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Madsen will talk about his own film, Into Eternity, and other media projects that engage questions of nuclear energy and security. Sponsored by the Critical Issues in America Series Speculative...
Paul Amar (Global & International Studies, UCSB) Monday, October 17 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Kickstarting the 2011-12 year with the theme "Disruptions," New Sexualities presents a workshop on masculinity studies in the Middle East. How do everyday theories of masculinity and discourses of...
Monday, October 17, 2011 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $6 general / students free The mind-bending film explores the utter impossibility of storing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, the time estimated by scientists to render it safe. Especially relevant since the earthquake and crisis at the nuclear...
Helmi Kittani (Executive Director, the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development) Eytan Biderman, (Director, the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic Development) Sunday, October 16 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Fifteenth Anniversary Inaugural Event Helmi Kittani, an Arab Israeli economist, became Executive Director of the Center for Jewish-Arab Economic...
Wolf Kittler (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB) Colin Milburn (English,UCD) Friday, October 14, 2011 / 2:00-6:00 pm Wallis Annenberg conference room, SSMS 4315 Serving as an introduction to programs on Speculative Futures (the Critical Issues in America theme for 2011-2), the talks offer both history and post-mortem: the...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Tree of Life Friday, October 14 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 17 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all films $4...
Thursday, October 13 / 4:00 – 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: Public Goods. Find out about collaborative research...
Salman Khan (founder of the Khan Academy) Monday, October 10, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 A hedge-fund manager turned internet superstar, Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a free online educational platform and not-for-profit organization that streams educational lessons...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Super 8 Friday, October 7 at 7&10 PM Monday, October 10 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...