The audio recordings from the IHC's Future of the University symposium with talks by Jennifer Washburn and David Marshall is now available on the event webpage....
INT 201GW is a graduate-level course covering the fundamentals of funding searches, research design, and grant writing for students in the arts, humanities and social sciences....
Harold M. Schulweis, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA Sunday, December 6, 2009 / 8:45 a.m. / $5.00 Admission to Breakfast and Talk Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara...
Mary Hancock (Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This presentation focused on the history of visual anthropology and its current theoretical and methodological agendas. Particular attention was paid to visual anthropology in/of...
Catherine Gautier (Geography, UCSB) Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the keynote address for the IHC’s Oil + Water series. Unsustainable use of oil and water by a rapidly growing global population is creating a serious environmental security challenge....
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students Visually stunning and vastly entertaining, Earth Days looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement – from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM SCREENING: There Will be Blood Thursday, November 12 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary panel introduces a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award winning film There Will Be Blood. Panelists question what role oil has played and...
An Evening with Anita Diamant 8:00 p.m. / Thursday, November 12, 2009 / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students In research for his next book, newly self-proclaimed environmentalist and author Colin Beavan vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year: no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more...
Sunday, November 8, 2009 On November 8, 2009, New Sexualities hosted a transdisciplinary, international workshop and panel on Sexuality and Islam in Europe and the Middle East. Panelists Paul Amar (Global Studies, UCSB) Janet Afary (Religious Studies, UCSB), and Fatima El-Tayeb (African American Literature and Culture,...
November 6, 2009 / 9am - 5pm Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 6020 Humanities Social Science Building University of California Santa Barbara This event is free, and open to the public. ABOUT What does the future hold for design after oil? This study day will explore new materials, ideas, policies and design solutions...
Thursday, November 5, 2010 / 3:00-5:30 PM 3:00 PM Jennifer Washburn (author of University Inc.), "University Inc.: Why Public Knowledge and Public Education Are At Risk" 4:00 PM David Marshall (Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science, and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB), "The Plight...
Simon Hutchins (Expedition Director on The Cove) Toni Frohoff (marine mammal biologist) Moderator: Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 4, 2009 / 5:00 PM IV Theater II Simon Hutchins spent 7 years in the Canadian Air Force as an avionics technician, before being posted from his home...
(dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2009) Tuesday, November 3, 2009 / 4:00 PM IV Theater I Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, including renowned former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, and expedition director Simon Hutchins infiltrate a cove near Taiji, Japan to expose both a shocking instance...
Thursday, October 29, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University...
Brice Erickson (Classics, UCSB) Wednesday, October 29 / 5:00 pm 2001a HSSB, Anthropology Seminar Room...
Ned Sublette Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Author and musician Ned Sublette will present a talk based on his new book,The Year Before the Flood. Written a year before Hurricane Katrina, Sublette's memoir is a companion volume to his acclaimed history...
David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director for the American Task Force on Palestine Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
(Irena Salina, 2009, 93 min.) Tuesday, October 20, 2009 / 9:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution and human rights. Interviews with...
(Joe Berlinger, 2009, 104 min.) Tuesday, October 20 , 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This cinéma-vérité feature is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet, the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case in...
Sylvia Earle Monday, October 19, 2009 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall UCSB Admission $10 general / $8 student Oceanographer and 2009 TED Prize-winner Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. She has served as the chief scientist of the National...
TALK:Classroom Chronolects: Creating Contexts for Learning Science in Racially and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms Patricia Baquedano-López (Education, UC Berkeley) Friday, September 25 / 1:30 PM 1623 South Hall (Note special location) MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting DATE CHANGED: see below MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting (note date change) followed by TALK: Non-minimal Responses to...
MAGIC LANTERN FILMS:The Wrestler Friday, April 3 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 6 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Friday, April 10 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 13 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Gran...
Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote address: Ama Ata Aidoo Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater...
Rohit Singh (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 22 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on historical and popular sources, the lecture examined representations of Buddhist and Islamic traditions in Ladakh. Most sources depict the region as a Buddhist...
Rabbi Reuven Firestone Professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Tuesday, May 19, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista...
Tuesday, May 19 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Admission at the door: $5 general / students free Savor a tasty theatrical experience with revolutionary chef Mero Cocinero Karimi and his culinary comrades as they dish up Iranian-Guatemalan-Filipino food, cultural consciousness and humor. Chef...
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 15 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In Hindu liturgical texts and architectural treatises a temple space is understood as the embodied presence of the deity who is housed within, and the deity is...
Laura Shapiro Wednesday, May 13 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Julia Child is most often celebrated as the TV star who introduced Americans to the glories of French cuisine. But while her training and expertise were French, Julia couldn't stand...
Screenings of All In This Tea (2007)and Yum, Yum, Yum! (1990) This event has been cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire. Fresh from a retrospective screening of his films at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the filmmaker’s filmmaker and documentarian Les...
CANCELLED: NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters This event is cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters come the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to present an afternoon of radio, readings and some fine Hidden Kitchen cooking. Hidden Kitchens, ...
Luis Oscar Gómez (Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico) Michaelsen Endowed Visiting Scholar Wednesday, May 6 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Silence and abstinence appear in the ideals and practices of a wide variety of religious traditions. Following...
Screening Followed by Panel Discussion Featuring local Holocaust survivors, Stan Ostern and Edith Ostern, and photographer Rick Nahmias moderated by Dr. Richard Hecht...
RESIDENCY: Zoe Strauss Artist talk: Thursday, April 2 / 8:00 PM Peet's Coffee, 1131 State Street, back courtyard Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 5:00 PM Broida 1610 Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 8:00 PM IV Theater 2 COLLOQUIUM: Medieval Perspectives on Environmental History Friday, April 3 / 3:00-6:00 PM Marine Sciences...
Rabbi David Saperstein Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC Sunday, March 22, 2009 / 3:00 p.m. / Free Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara Co-presented with the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at UCSB as part of its...
Shalini Kakar (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, February 27 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture investigated the phenomenon of “devotional fandom” in the Rajinikanth Fan Club (RFC), exploring the ways in which the over 60,000 fan club...
Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food...
TALK: Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Archaeology and Art History, UCLA) Thursday, January 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB TALK: Moche Socio Political Evolution: A Tale of Adaptation, Divergence and Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru) Monday, January...