16
Dec
ARTHUR N. RUPE GREAT DEBATE: Academic Freedom in a Time of Crisis
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free More...
December 2010
15
Dec
IHC congratulates the 2010 Isla Vista Research and Teaching Award winners
The IHC is pleased to announce the winners of the Isla Vista Research and Teaching Awards for 2010.
15
Dec
IHC congratulates the Fall 2010 Faculty Fellows
Click here to view current fellows and award recipients....
12
Dec
Call for papers: IHC graduate student conference
The Productive Geographies Graduate Student Conference Committee is accepting abstracts for their April 29, 2011 event. Click here for the call for papers....
12
Dec
President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities
These fellowships provide salary support to UC faculty conducting research in the Humanities. Each Fellow will receive support to carry out an extended research project, often in conjunction with funds from extramural agencies, campus grants, and sabbatical leave. Active ladder rank faculty, including Lecturers who...
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Dec
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Dec
C is for Collaboration, Creativity, and Community: A Model of Alliances Through Applied Drama, Theater, and Arts Courses
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester, UK and Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Thursday, December 2 / 4:00 PM Theater Dance West 2517 Applied drama, theater, and other arts (music, dance, film) valuably form the core of undergraduate and graduate courses, engaging student, faculty, and community collaboration...
01
Dec
New UC Humanities Network website launches
Visit www.uchumanitiesnetwork.org for system-wide humanities information....
30
Nov
Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq
Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, November 30, 2010 / 12:00 PM 5824 Ellison Hall Zeroing in is an apt metaphor for the way citizen-viewers are positioned in relation to world events since they increasingly view them from the perspectives of aerial and orbital machines....
22
Nov
National Identities: The Changing Identities of Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus
Monday, November 22, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The geography of Eurasia is inhabited by populations whose understanding of identity has been redefined due to the shifting borders of empire and nation. The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the new states emerging...
19
Nov
Constructing (Dis)agreement Through Dialogic Resonance in Hebrew Talk-in-interaction
Friday, November 19 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This panel discussion includes Bracha Nir (Communication Disorders, Haifa University) and Yael Maschler (Communication/Hebrew Language, Haifa University). Bracha Nir’s research interests include inter- and intra-genre differentiation, usage based approaches to discourse analysis and to language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. Between...
19
Nov
Improvability.
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 19: The Naughty and Nice Show...
19
Nov
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Friday, November 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 22 / 10:00 PM...
18
Nov
William Blake and William Morris: The British Roots of Artists’ Books
Thursday, November 18 / 3:00 PM Davidson Library, Special Collections Seminar Room (3rd floor) As part of the celebration of Davidson Library's acquisition of its 3 millionth volume, The History of Books and Material Texts RFG is holding an interactive presentation on two book artists from the...
18
Nov
The Temperance Tea Party: Free Trade, Sacred Tastes and the Sober Consumer in the Early Industrial Britain
Erika Rappaport (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As critics have pointed out, the contemporary conservative “tea party movement” holds little resemblance to that of its self-proclaimed forefathers. This paper elucidates this point but also argues that tea parties have been...
18
Nov
Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Black Slaves, White Tourists and the Problem of Colonial Vision in 19th century Landscapes of Jamaica
Charmaine Nelson (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill Univeristy, Montreal) Thursday, November 18, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Charmaine Nelson is an Associate Professor of Art History, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Her research and teaching...
17
Nov
Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in ‘Writings in My Pajamas’
Wednesday, November 17 / 7:00 PM Campbell Hall Sandra Cisneros will give a presentation, Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in 'Writings in My Pajamas.’ A panel discussion of the writing of Sandra Cisneros with Ellen McCracken (Spanish &...
17
Nov
Save the Humanities in the UK
The Conservative and Liberal Democratic coalition government in the United Kingdom is planning to cut government funding to higher education by 80%. They are urging campuses to make up the difference by eliminating programs and faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. I would...
17
Nov
Flying A Studio: Santa Barbara’s First Brush with High Tech
Dana Driskel (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 17, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1912 the city of Santa Barbara welcomed a “high-tech” industry to the area for the first time. Even then the primary employers within city limits...
16
Nov
Inspired Collisions, Formidable Complicity: Mozambique’s National Song & Dance Company in the Post-Civil War Era
Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, November 16 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This analysis of the same state-sponsored National Song and Dance Company demonstrates how political powers may work on an African dance company over time yet produce strikingly different results. The debut...
16
Nov
Proposal Writing for the Arts: Focus on IHC and UCIRA Graduate Student Grants
Tuesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Join us to learn how to prepare an effective proposal for the upcoming IHC and UCIRA grant competitions. You will learn details about the programs and what they fund, insights about the review process, and writing...
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Upcoming Events
15
Nov
Islands, Interiors, and In Between: Chumash Life on the Oxnard Plain
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
13
Nov
Spatium Sets
Saturday, November 13, 2010 / 6:00 PM 479 Gallery in Old Gym on UCSB campus "Spatium Sets" is a group art exhibition of contemporary art practitioners in collaboration with a solo exhibition of UCSB MFA candidate, Daniela Campins. Venezuelan-born Campins' artwork articulates the idea of space and...
12
Nov
Inception
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Inception Friday, November 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 15 / 10:00 PM...
12
Nov
Fertile Grounds for the Radical Right. Evidence from the Netherlands
Hilde Coffe (Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University) Friday, November 12 / 2:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Coffe is the author of over twenty articles appearing in such journals as Electoral Studies, British Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Language and Politics in English and...
11
Nov
Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority
Sue Fishkoff, National Correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Thursday, November 11 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillion- dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to...
10
Nov
A Conversation with Artist Ann Diener
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / 4:00 PM University Art Museum Artist Ann Diener will lead an informal gallery walkthrough of her commissioned wall drawing at the University Art Museum and present a slide talk about her new body of work. Diener’s large-scale, abstract drawings chart and interpret...
10
Nov
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
Wednesday, November 10 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William David Estrada from the Los Angeles Natural History Museum will speak on his latest book, e. Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group and the Public History...
10
Nov
Self Preservation: The Politics of Art Collecting in 18th-century South
Emily Engel (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, November 10 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this analysis of collecting practice in eighteenth-century South America, Engel suggests that viewing and sponsoring works of art, in particular portraits, provided the Bourbon South American viceroys with ways to contemplate...
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Upcoming Events
10
Nov
Poetry and Human Rights
Marjorie Agosin (Spanish Language and Latin American Literature, Wellesley College) Wednesday, November 10 / 4:00 PM CCS Old Little Theatre Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet and Human Rights activist. She has authored almost twenty books of poetry and memoir and has also edited numerous anthologies dedicated to...
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Upcoming Events
10
Nov
Edward Soja lecture canceled
Professor Edward Soja's lecture "Seeking Spatial Justice," originally scheduled for Tuesday January 25, has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will attempt to reschedule the event....
08
Nov
What is the New Normal in Higher Education?
Stanley Katz (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Monday, November 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The financial crisis of the past two years looks like its becoming structural, especially in the public universities. Is privatization the answer, at least for the "elite" state sector in higher education? If so, what are the implications both for the elites and "the rest"? A related question is what can/will replace the traditional, if nervous, balance between research and instruction in universities? How do we balance the growing pressures for greater inclusion of the college age cohort, and the growing cost of increasingly specialized research? The post-World War II history of higher education, with the emergence of the multiversity, has been one of more or less successful adaptation of traditional organizational structures. But haven't we reached the point at which we can no longer add epicycles without destroying the basic structure of higher education? Click here to listen to a recording of Stanley Katz's talk for the IHC's Faculty Forums series. Sponsored by the IHC's Faculty Forums series and the UCSB Faculty Association.
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Series / Future of the University / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Audio / Visual / Faculty Forums
07
Nov
IHC theme for 2010-2011: Geographies of Place
For the 2010-11 academic year, the IHC’s year-long theme will be “Geographies of Place.” For more information please visit the Geographies of Place web page....
07
Nov
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2011-12 UC President’s Faculty Fellowships in the Humanities
Extended deadline: January 14, 2011
05
Nov
What Happened to Tristan in the Renaissance?
Jane Taylor (Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham) Friday, November 5 / 2:00 PM HSSB 3041 In her lecture, Dr. Jane Taylor will discuss the question of ré-écriture and changing literary tastes through an analysis of two late Tristan versions, the Tristan of Pierre Sala's...
05
Nov
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, November 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 8 / 10:00 PM...
05
Nov
Green Jobs/Sustainable Labor in the Age of Climate Justice
Andrew Ross (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University) Friday, November 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The...
05
Nov
Language and Interaction in the Luso-African Muscial Style Kuduro
Alex Wahl (Linguistics, UCSB) TALK: You Don't Fit Inside the Camera, Dude!? Socialization Through Teasing in Conversation Audrey Lopez (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Friday, November 5 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Alex Wahl is an M.A. student in Sociocultural Linguistics at UCSB. His research focuses on language and identity in...
05
Nov
Improvability.
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 5: Christmas Spooktacular Show...
04
Nov
Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root
Robert Gottlieb (Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College) Thursday, November 4 / 11:30 AM HSSB 1233 In today’s food system, farm workers face hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises, and food products are developed to be convenient rather than wholesome. Opposing...
04
Nov
Keeping Time II
Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard) Rüdiger Campe (German, Yale) Thursday, November 4 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room This second event in the "Keeping Time" series features two talks on the construction of temporal categories in literature and science, from the 17th through the early 19th century. Mario...
03
Nov
Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960
Jose Alamillo (Chicano/a Studies, CSU Channel Islands) Wednesday, November 3 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 Jose Alamillo will lecture on his recent book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group....
03
Nov
The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur’ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion America's Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about...
02
Nov
Velázquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History
Dr. John Marciari (San Diego Museum of Art) Tuesday, November 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB Dr. Marciari recently made international headlines by attributing a painting at the Yale University Art Gallery to Diego Velázquez. Depicting 'The Education of the Virgin Mary', the work was...
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Upcoming Events
01
Nov
Being there (virtually): Night of the Dead on Janitzio and in Hannover
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music/Theater and Dance, UCSB & University of Winchester, UK ) Monday, November 1, 2010/ 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Each November second since the postrevolutionary nationalistic years of the 1920s the diminutive cemetery on the tiny island of Janitzio, Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico has been...
01
Nov
Gonda van Steen (Greek Studies, University of Florida)
Monday-Friday, November 1-5 Gonda van Steen’s first book, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society. She recently finished a book titled Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), in which revolutionary uses of Aeschylus’...
29
Oct
Halloween Triple Feature
Twilight: Eclipse & Rocky Horror Picture Show with Improvability performing live between shows Friday, October 29 beginning at 7 PM IV Theater ...
28
Oct
Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and Among Ainu
Thursday, October 28 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This topic will be discussed by Ann-elise Lewallen (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) The presenters will circulate individual papers beforehand (please email Mhoze Chikowero: chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Peter Bloom: pbloom@mediandfilm.ucsb.edu for the...
28
Oct
The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America
Hugh Wilford (History, CSU Long Beach) Thursday, October 28 / 12:30 PM McCune Room (HSSB 6020) In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. This paper reveals the hitherto...
28
Oct
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be awarded this year to Jimmy Santiago Baca of New Mexico, a leading poet, essayist, and novelist. Baca...
28
Oct
What Do All Students Need To Know?
Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room What does every graduate of UCSB need to know in order to be an educated and enlightened citizen of the 21st century? Panelists include: Linda Adler-Kassner (Director, Writing Program, UCSB); Thomas Carlson (Religious Studies, UCSB); Diane Fujino...
27
Oct
Borders and Miracles of Art
Serena Giordano Wednesday, October 27 / 4:30 PM HSSB 3001 What are the borders of the country of Art? Are ex-votos included within these borders? If not, how would calling them “art” place into question the ritual value of the artwork (Benjamin) in the era before mechanical reproduction?...
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26
Oct
Introducing the IV Research and Teaching Initiative
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The UC Institute for Research in the Arts, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Arts Research Initiative are pleased to announce a competition for research and educational projects that engage Isla Vista as a...
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Upcoming Events
22
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 22 / 8:00 PM - "A Very Brady Improv Show: Free Admission for Parents" 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
22
Oct
Charlie St. Cloud
Friday, October 22 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 25 at 10 PM $4 at I.V Theater...
21
Oct
Welcome to the Identity Studies RFG
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) and Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 21 / 4:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Welcome to all those interested in identity issues! Please join us for the first meeting of the year at which we will preview our planned activities. The...
21
Oct
Why Does Time Have a Future? The Physical Origins of the Arrow of Time
Ulrich Schollwöck (Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Thursday, October 21 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The difference between past, present and future is one of the most profound human experiences. Surprisingly enough, this experience is not reflected in the fundamental laws of physics,...
21
Oct
From 1973 Photo Documentary to 2010 Cyber-Infrastructure Cultural Atlas
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
20
Oct
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Directions
Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30-4:30 Harbor Room, UCEN Please join the Library for a program on the future of scholarly publishing. Chuck Bazerman (Education) and James Frew (Bren School) will discuss some of the challenges facing traditional journal and monograph publishing, including how to maintain control of...
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Upcoming Events
20
Oct
Latinos and the Midterm Elections
David Ayón (Senior Fellow, Loyola Marymount) Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 David Ayon, a specialist in Latino politics in the U.S., will discuss the role that Latino voters may play in the midterm elections especially with the effects of the immigration debate fueled by...
20
Oct
From Literal to Spiritual Soldiers of Christ: The Contestation of Space in Late Antique Rome
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
19
Oct
Snarled Megalopolis
Debut of IHC’s PLATFORM Gallery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6:00 PM 6th Floor, HSSB SNARLED MEGALOPOLIS Visions of the Emerging Face of Megacities This exhibition collects artists’ visualizations of vertiginously growing megacities, with their impulsive structures and grids. Featuring the work of fourteen individual artists from around the world,...
18
Oct
Ancient Northeast Africa and the Indian Ocean Trade
Stanley Burstein (History, CSU Los Angeles) Monday, October 18 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused overwhelmingly on the impact...
17
Oct
Achieving a Two-State Solution
Moshe Halbertal & Raghida Dergham Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A dialogue between Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli pholosopher, award-winning author, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University and Raghida Dergham, columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based newspaper, Al-Hayat,...
17
Oct
Shakespeare in Anis’Oyo’ Park
McBeth! back by popular demand Sunday, October 17 / 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM Bring a blanket and enjoy a short hour of twisted Shakespeare....
16
Oct
An Evening of Music from Zimbabwe with Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited
Saturday, October 16 / 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater In the 1970s, during Zimbabwe’s war of independence against their white Rhodesian rulers, Thomas Mapfumo, often called the Lion of Zimbabwe, created the chimurenga (the Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'). This unique style combines the...
15
Oct
Democracy and Insurgency in Health Care Unionism
John Borsos (National Union of Health Care Workers) Friday, October 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 John Borsos has been a health industry trade unionist for nearly two decades and is currently a leader of the insurgent National Union of Health Care Workers. He holds a Ph.D. in...
15
Oct
Questioning Questioning: A Discussion
Friday, October 15 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 A discussion of "An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation" by Tanya Stivers (UCLA). To receive a PDF copy of the paper under discussion, contact Melissa Curtin (mlcurtin@linguistics.ucsb.edu). Moderator: Mary Bucholtz (UCSB). Discussant: Geoffrey...
15
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
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Oct
15
Oct
Tools for Map Making: A Geographies of Place Workshop
Friday, October 15, 2010 / 1:00PM - 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Maps can add important dimensions to analysis and interpretation in the humanities, illustrating the distribution of phenomena, patterns of activities, processes of landscape change, flows among places, and connections between natural and human environments....
14
Oct
Who Serves Whom in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University) Thursday, October 14 / 3:30 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Anna Sapir Abulafia's books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995), Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in...
13
Oct
Geographies of Place Inaugural Lecture
Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) "Isla Vista: A Public Research Lab" Wednesday, October 13, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “We are within and part of what we study. Participatory research thus begins with the assumption that all forms of meaning, doing, making, thinking and knowing...
12
Oct
How to Find Funding for Your Research: Electronic Search Engine Training for the Humanities and Fine Arts
Whitney Winn and Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Tuesday, October 12 / 10:00 AM SSMS 1304 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Humanities and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use two campus subscription funding search...
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Upcoming Events
11
Oct
Stories From My Favorite Planet
Russell Steinberg, composer/pianist Mitchell Newman, LA Philharmonic violinist Monday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Geiringer Hall Featuring music by Russell Steinberg and text by Daniel Pearl, performed by LA Philharmonic violinist Mitchell Newman and composer/pianist Russel Steinberg. Limited seating, reservation required: please call (805) 893‐2317. Presented in conjunction with...
08
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 8 / 8:00 PM - "Live Video Game Improvability" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
08
Oct
Get Him to the Greek
Friday, October 8 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 11 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
08
Oct
Busy Dying: The United Farm Workers and Caesar Chavez on the Eve of Self-destruction
Matthew Garcia (History, Brown University) Friday, October 8 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Garcia is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. He is now writing a history of the United Farm Workers. Sponsored by...
07
Oct
IHC Open House
Thursday, October 7 / 4:00-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us for the IHC's seventh annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC's two programming series for this academic year: Geographies of Place and Faculty Forums. Find out about...
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Upcoming Events
06
Oct
“I Long for my Home in Kentuck”: Christy’s Minstrels in Britain
Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) Wednesday, October 6 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1864, the popular Presbyterian monthly Good Words added a late salvo to the Carlyle-Mill “Negro Question” debate. Despite acknowledging that what Good Words’ British readers knew as “Negro music” –...
06
Oct
The New Nativism: Arizona, Immigration, Hysteria
Wednesday, October 6 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 This seminar will focus on this emergence of the New Right in the U.S. and its hysteria over immigration as evidenced by recent events in Arizona. Participants will focus on different aspects of the immigration debate. Mario Garcia...
02
Oct
Sol Food Festival
Saturday, October 2 / 1:00 PM Plaza de Vera Cruz across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market Please join the IHC’s Food Studies Research Focus Group for a field trip to the Sol Food Festival, a one-day community-created festival to raise awareness of the Sustainable,...
01
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe Friday, October 1 / 8:00 PM- Opening Night Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
01
Oct
How to Train Your Dragon
Friday, October 1 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 4 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
01
Oct
But but but…: Perspectives on Particles in Context
Friday, October 1 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This workshop will consist of a talk and a data session: Talk: Sandy Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB) and Jean Mulder (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) "The turn-final particle BUT in English conversation" Data session: "Concession and contrast: Intonation Unit-final though...
01
Oct
Stanford Humanities Center
2011-12 Fellowships at the Stanford Humanities Center The Stanford Humanities Center invites applications for 2011-2012 academic-year residential fellowships. The Humanities Center is a multidisciplinary research institute located at the heart of Stanford University. Since its founding in 1980, the Center has provided a collegial environment for...
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30
Sep
IHC welcomes three new California Humanities Scholars
UCHRI California Humanities Scholars for 2010-11 The purpose of the new California Humanities Scholars Program is to recognize graduate students working across the broad range of humanities at the University of California and to use their collective expertise, interests and collaborative energy to create a dynamic...
29
Sep
Improvability Auditions
Wednesday, September 29 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall You think you're funny? Audition for UCSB's premiere comedy troupe....
29
Sep
History, Modernity, and Counterfactuals: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
Christopher Prendergast (French, University of Cambridge) Wednesday, September 29 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Historical explanation is the explanation of outcomes in terms of causal antecedents. All too often however the causal account becomes indistinguishable from a vindicatory narrative, the tale of outcomes told as...
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Upcoming Events
28
Sep
Announcing the Isla Vista Research and Teaching Initiative Grants: deadline November 15
For more information about the Isla Vista Research and Teaching Initiative Grants, please visit https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/ivrti...
24
Sep
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 Friday September 24 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday September 27 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
14
Sep
IHC Open House: October 7
Please join us for the IHC’s seventh annual Open House. Click here for more information....
07
Sep
IHC Welcomes 2010-11 Research Focus Groups
Click here to view the 2010-2011 Research Focus Groups....
07
Sep
06
Sep
UCHRI Calls for Proposals deadlines November 12 and December 17
UCHRI has released its 2011-12 Call for Proposals for five programs: Collaborative Compositions, Residential Research Group Topic Proposals (for 2012-13), Residential Research Fellowships (for Spring 2011), Conferences and Seminars, and Extramural Explorations. All can be found online on the UCHRI website at http://www.uchri.org....
01
Sep
NEH Summer Stipends for 2011
The IHC is now accepting applications for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2010 Summer Stipend program. To be considered for a summer stipend, faculty members must submit all application materials to the IHC by Wednesday, September 1, 2010.
25
Aug
Call for participants: California Humanities Scholars Program for graduate students
The IHC welcomes applications from UCSB humanities graduate students for the UC Humanities Research Institute's new California Humanities Scholars Program. The purpose of the California Humanities Scholars Program is to recognize graduate students working across the broad range of humanities at the University of California and to use their collective expertise, interests and collaborative energy to create a dynamic and interactive virtual network. California Humanities Scholars will be “Citizen Journalists,” reporting on the work happening on their campuses and in their various communities by blogging, tweeting, vlogging, podcasting and other forms of online networking. The California Humanities Scholars will orchestrate a regular discussion forum on the UC Humanities Network website (currently under development). Open to all, these forums will offer insights and exchanges on a broad range of issues related to the humanities.
31
Jul
Psycho Beach Party
Magic Lantern presents An Outdoor Movie Event Psycho Beach Party in Little Acorn Park Saturday July 31st at 9pm Cookiewiches on site, don't forget to BYOB(lanket)! Saturday July 31st at 9pm. An Outdoor Movie Event! Psycho Beach Party in Little Acorn Park. Cookiewiches on site, don't forget to BYOB(lanket)! Follow Magic Lantern Films on...
08
Jul
Greenberg
Thursday, July8 at 10PM Friday, July 9 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 12 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
01
Jul
Ghost Writer
GHOST WRITER Thursday, July 1 at 10PM Friday, July 2 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 5 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Thursday, July 1 at 10PM Friday, July 2 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 5 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
24
Jun
The Crazies
THE CRAZIES Thursday, June 24 at 10PM Friday, June 25 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, June 28 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Thursday, June 24 at 10PM Friday, June 25 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, June 28 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
11
Jun
Oil + Water series concludes
The IHC thanks the many members of the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities who helped to make our Oil + Water series for 2009-2010 a success. Click here for details about events in this series, which explored the impact of these two vital resources on...
11
Jun
IHC Faculty Awards: deadline November 15, 2010
Visit this page to learn about individual, collaborative and release time awards for UCSB faculty....
08
Jun
Tusalava
With live soundtrack by the Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser & Andrew Pask) Tuesday, June 8 / 7:00 PM College of Creative Studies, Old Little Theater A special night of music film and poetry. A screening Len Lye's 1929 modernist classic, Tusalava, will be accompanied with live music by...
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Upcoming Events
04
Jun
Imaginarium Carnival!
Friday, June 4 / 6:00 PM & 9:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Come Enjoy Our Imaginarium Carnival! Doors Open at 6 Snow Cones Hot Dogs Kettle Corn Henna Carnival Games FANTASTIC PRIZES Surprises! Make a Mask Contest - Prizes! IV Circus DJ Robbie Shaw and MidiCulture LIV Snow Cones • Hot Dogs • Kettle...
04
Jun
Soul Food Today and Yesterday: Discussion of Readings from Hog & Hominy and Sistah Vegan
Friday, June 4 / 10:30 AM IHC Seminar Room Join the Food Studies RFG for an engaging discussion of selections from two books: Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, edited by A. Breeze Harper and Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from...
02
Jun
Embodying Stripping: A Spatial Analysis of the Gendered and Sexualized Performances and (Hetero)performativities of Strip Club Locales
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, June 2 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building upon the vast amount of work on interaction-based perspectives on stripping, this talk will incorporate two areas of inquiry that have been absent in the literature: the performance or embodiments...
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Upcoming Events
28
May
improvability
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 28 / 8:00 PM - "Improvathon" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
28
May
“They’re All Real”: Race, Gender, and Authenticity in Asian American Body Talk
Elaine Chun (English, University of South Carolina) Friday, May 28 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Discourses about the body, or ‘body talk’, often constitute strategic practices for constructing identities, given that the body is a central text through which sociocultural meanings are displayed and performed. This presentation examines...
25
May
Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
Andrew Johns (History, BYU) Tuesday, May 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a talk based on his new book, Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party – its congressional leadership,...
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Upcoming Events
25
May
Black Actors in Adult Film
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Mosher Alumni House On May 25, 2010, New Sexualities and Conversations for Change paired up to present “Race and Desire: Black Actors in Adult Film” at the Mosher Alumni House. Panelists Vanessa Blue, Sinnamon Love, and Tyler Knight discussed the politics of race,...
24
May
Theorizing Economies of Desire: A Graduate Student Symposium on Sex Work
Monday, May 24, 2010 McCune conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized and moderated by Mireille Miller-Young, the conference featured two panels and the work of seven graduate students. Andrew Seeber, Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, Elizabeth Rahilly, and Rolando Longoria II presented on a panel titled “Theorizing the Production and...
24
May
www.lovelyweather.com: An Interactive Audio-Visual Installation
Salman Bakht (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Christopher Jette (Music, UCSB) Alejandro Casazi (Art, UCSB) May 24-27 Elings Hall, 2nd Floor (exact location to be determined) www.lovelyweather.com is a work originally designed for viewing on the internet but presented here as an interactive audiovisual installation. This work, part of a...
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Upcoming Events
23
May
Food Security and Farm Labor in California: A Case Study of Santa Barbara County
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Presentations: Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB) Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez,...
21
May
Roman Comedy as Slave Theater
Amy Richlin (Classics, UCLA) Friday, May 21 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For the last 20 years Amy Richlin has been one of the leading figures in classics and feminism. She is the author of Garden of Priapus, Pornography and Representation In Greece and Rome,...
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Upcoming Events
21
May
Avatar
Friday, May 21 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 24 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
20
May
Revisioning an Ancient Synagogue: New Light from the UT Excavations at Ostia
L. Michael White (Classics, University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, May 20 / 3:30 PM Phelps 1160 L. Michael White is a Professor of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins. White also serves as director of the...
20
May
Sacred Waters: Arts and Ecologies of Mami Wata and Other Aquatic Divinities in Africa
Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, May 20, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for "Mother...
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19
May
Early Tantric Theogonies: The Genesis of Pantheons in the Streams of the Current of the Bhairava Tantras
Mark Dyczkowski (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi) Wednesday, May 19 / 5:00 pm 2001 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building One of the most notable features of the development of tantric scriptural traditions, especially in the early period of their formation, is the...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
18
May
Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea
Introduction by Steve Witkowski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and...