Rowena Robinson (Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) J. E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies Tuesday, May 18 / 4:00 pm Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House The lecture briefly traced the past of Indian Catholics in order to enable us to...
Eden Medina (Informatics, Indiana University) Tuesday, May 18 / 4:30 PM Seminar Room, 6046 HSSB From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction of the pioneering British cybernetician Stafford Beer, built a computer network to help make Chile's socialist revolution a reality. The team...
Friday, May 14 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 17 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 14 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Nile Green (History, UCLA) Friday, May 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room Around 1818 the first Muslim printing presses were established in Tabriz (Iran), Bulaq (Egypt) and Lucknow (India). These founding typographic presses were the fruit of distinct local interactions with the...
Jessica Wang (History, University of British Columbia) Friday, May 14 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Wang's American Science in an Age of Anxiety provided a major study of the effects of Cold War anticommunism on the American scientific community. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work,...
Christopher Newfield (English, UCSB) Wednesday, May 12, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, with the University...
Ian Buruma (Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism, Bard College) Tuesday, May 11 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise...
Maude Barlow (Chairperson, Food and Water Watch) Tuesday, May 11, 2010 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were...
Friday, May 7 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 10 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 7 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
J. Douglas Smith (History, Occidental College) Friday, May 7 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Smith's Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia appeared in 2002. His current project examines one of the nation's most serious but understudied distortions of the idea of...
Christopher S. Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Thursday, May 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall In his new project, Parker examines the ideological and sociological origins of what has come to be known as the urban crisis of the 1960s. Parker was...
Wednesday, May 5 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop is for faculty, lecturers, and researchers who need guidance in preparing a budget for research grants. The discussion will be focused on research in humanities, fine arts, and the social sciences. Topics...
Tuesday, May 4 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Meeting Rooms This exhibition is a special compendium which well encapsulates visual cultures, global ethnopoles, and urban public spaces of that time. On street poles, storefront windows, and community centers, historic Asian Pacific American graphic art posters...
Stefan Helmreich (Anthropology, MIT) Tuesday, May 4, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A new generation of marine biologists, employing the science of DNA sequencing, is coming to see the ocean as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in extreme conditions – from...
Anna Carla Lopez-Carr Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4020 Dr. Lopez-Carr is a geographer researching the spatial complexities of urban food security in West Africa. As the developing world continues to urbanize at lightning pace, health research in these newly urbanized areas falls further and further...
Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM MultiCultural Center The mainstream media largely frame the topic of migration by utilizing terms such as illegal and undocumented, which have an immediate impact in shaping public perceptions of criminal behavior. The media also focus much attention to the arrival of...
Barbara Voorhies (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, May 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB New evidence is presented for the antiquity of Indian gaming in Mesoamerica. Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG....
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 30 / 8:00 PM - "Oregon Trail Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Unpredictable Commedia del 'Arte meets Shakespeare in their tragically tragic play, "McBeth" Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM Saturday, May 1 / 7:00 PM Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista Free...
The audio version of the Future of the University series' Future of Publishing in the Humanities event is now available on the event webpage. ...
Theda Skocpol (Harvard, Sociology) Friday, April 30 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center...
Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 3 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
Grigor Hovhannissian (Consul-General of the Republic of Armenia) Thursday, April 29 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 Grigor Hovhannissian. Born in 1971 in Yerevan, Mr. Hovhannissian has an extended academic and professional experience in international affairs. He graduated from the department of Arab Studies of the Yerevan...
Our May 17 deadline for research focus groups and research fellowships is quickly approaching. For application details and other information, please visit: Research Fellowships (Formerly Senior Fellowships) Research Focus Groups ...
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM Shepherd's Farm, Santa Barbara Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd's Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details. Sponsored by Community...
Tuesday, April 2, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and...
Laura Hirvi (Visiting Fulbright Student, UCSB) Tuesday, April 27 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall The lecture examines the experiences of Sikhs who migrated to Finland and California, and the impact that this event had on their lives and on the lives of their offspring....
Regents’ Lecturer Armin Zweite Monday, April 26 / 5:30 PM HSSB 1174 Richter once said: “I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circuitous.” The problem is compounded...
Saturday, April 24 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB During the 2009 American Academy of Religion annual conference the North American Religions Section hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “‘New’ Evangelical History?” It explored the meaning of evangelical history in a plural North American context, suggesting...
Samuel H. Yamashita (History, Pomona College) Friday, April 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Samuel H. Yamashita is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College and an author of numerous publications on Japanese intellectual history including Leaves from An Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 23 / 8:00 PM - "Free Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte FREE...
Alumni Weekend and 40th Anniversary of the Isla Vista Riots Special Event: Isla Vista Film Festival Friday, April 23 / 7:00 PM Saturday, April 24 / 7:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
James Fenelon (Sociology, CSU San Bernardino) Thursday, April 22 / 4:00PM Flying A Studios Room, UCEN American Indian and Native Nation struggles over cultural sovereignty are related to conflicts that Indigenous Peoples are involved with globally: over autonomy, land and resource rights, and about the very nature of...
Hester Blum (English, Penn State University) Thursday, April 22, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the Arctic seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia's claim to Arctic oil resources. "Arctic and Antarctic...
Tristan Weddigen (Art History, Univeristy of Zurich) Wednesday, April 21 / 5:00 PM 1173 HSSB This paper investigates the historical discourse of the textile image. The first case study is dedicated to Raphael's Acts of the Apostles for the Sistine Chapel and examines the visual and biblical self-justification...
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What does the future of publishing in the humanities look like? This panel will discuss the current challenges that academic publishing in the humanities face and new solutions in response to them. E- scholarship, open...
Rogers Brubaker (Sociology, UCLA) Monday, April 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of...
The Second Biannual Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference Friday, April 16 / 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, April 17 / 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, April 18 / 8:30 am – 2:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB BORDERLANDS: frontier zones lying along given boundaries,...
Percy C. Hintzen (African American Studies, UC Berkeley) Friday, April 16 / 4:00 PM HSSB 1174 It is critical for the theorizing and conceptualizing of African diaspora to ask the question: "Why Diaspora?" There is much to be gained from an examination of the work the term does...
Friday, April 16 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 19 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Thomas Andrews (History, University of Colorado) Friday, April 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Andrews, an environmental historian of the American West, won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book of the same title, which reconsiders the social and environmental meaning of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Sponsored by the...
Stephanie Batiste (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 15 / 7:30 PM MCC Theater Stephanie L. Batiste’s one-woman show is a rhythmic perfomative contemplation of the street murders of young people of color in Los Angeles. Batiste processes the obituaries, contained in a young woman’s scrapbook, of...
Karen Lee Ashcraft (University of Colorado, Boulder) Thursday, April 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Management scholars commonly ask how people find meaning in work. Few ask how work is known by its practitioners in a different sense: namely, how work is understood in terms...
For the first time, Isla Vista Arts is asking for undergraduate support for a $2.00 per quarter lock-in fee initiative. Vote YES on Isla Vista Arts Keep the Magic Lantern lit! Keep I.V. LIVE! Keep WORD Magazine on the street...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester) Thursday, April 15, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, was singled out for special attention in the idealistic postrevolutionary years of the 1930s, promoted as a site/sight of authentic Mexicanness, useful for nationalistic and touristic agendas,...
Seetha Raghupathy (IHC Visiting Scholar) Wednesday, April 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Participatory Planning Towards Place Making" continues a multi-year, public art research initiative to expand university investment within a local community context. Through the support of the UCSB Isla Vista Commission and the...
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Academy Award winning documentary The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the...
Monday, April 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The New Sexualities RFG is presenting a research colloquium with two panels discussing the active and conscious creation, adaptation, and manipulation of sexualities. The first panel will be focused on sexuality in politics and the second...
Monday, April 12 / 7:00 PM Arts 1340 ---AND--- Tuesday, April 13 / 7:00 PM Broida 1610 Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. They create original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live...
Norman H. Gershman Sunday, April 11 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Fine art photographer Norman Gershman spent five years collecting the stories of Albanian Muslims who, at grave risk to themselves and their families, harbored Jewish refugees during WWII as part the Islamic tradition of Besa,...
Ian Lindsay (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, 10 April, 5:30 pm McCune Conference Room...
Elizabeth Klarich (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, April 10 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 9 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Double Feature! Friday, April 9 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 12 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 8 1/2 screens in IV Theater 2 Nine screens in IV Theater 1 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
April 8 - 10, 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/ This event is FREE and open to the public. No reservations are necessary. For information about each presenter, please click here This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and...
Jayne Cortez Tuesday, April 6 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Ms. Cortez – whose career has encompassed writing, performing, and teaching – is the author of twelve books of poetry and has performed her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political,...
Introduction by Michael Albright (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 6, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In End of the Line we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna,...
Monday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sam Hamill – a noted poet, translator, and editor – will be reading his poetry. Students, faculty, staff, and the public are all welcome to attend. Sam Hamill was the editor of Spectrum magazine at UC Santa...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 2 / 8:00 PM - "April Fools Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, April 2 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 5 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Peter Roland Bush Tuesday, March 30 / 12:30 PM Girvetz 2119 Peter Bush is an award-winning literary translator born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and now living in Barcelona. He read French and Spanish at Cambridge, and researched Spanish fiction and history in Oxford. After teaching in London schools...
The IHC's Spring Conference, Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California will be taking place shortly. Please join us for this free, public event on Thursday, April 8 through Saturday, April 10. For more information, a full schedule and list of...
Michael Jochim (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, March 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Friday, March 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Laura Edmondson (Theater, Dartmouth) Thursday, March 11 / 5:00 PM Buchanan Hall 1940 Laura Edmondson is a scholar and playwright whose work focuses on East Africa. Her articles on Tanzanian and Ugandan theater have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, TDR: The Drama Review, and the anthologies...
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University: Current and Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing event is now available for steaming on the event webpage....
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB) Monday, March 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of...
Monday, March 8, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB ** Please note time change : the event will begin at 1:00PM, not 12:00PM ** UC Press editors Niels Hooper (history), Naomi Schneider (sociology, current events), Kim Robinson (California regional studies), Jenny Wapner (environmental studies, natural...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, March 5 / 8:00 PM - "Nice Show" Friday, March 5 / 10:00 PM - "Naughty Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, March 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Sven Beckert (History, Harvard) Friday, March 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, and the Policy History Program....
Bruce Smith and Richard Nash (USC and Indiana University) Friday, March 5 / 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Cloning, organ farms, the completion of the Human Genome Project, recombinant DNA, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and other manufactured life forms, all suggest that, depending on one’s point of view,...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB On July 1, 2003 Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and...
Emily Engel (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, March 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the city council of Lima regularly commissioned and exhibited official portrait paintings between 1700 and 1830. By the time of the revolution, the city’s...
Ursula Biemann Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The...
Brian Holmes and Dmitri Vilenski Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer and translator who has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and is currently working on geopolitics and geopoetics...
Steven Topik (History, UC Irvine) Tuesday, March 2 / 12:00 PM 4020 HSSB Professor Steven Topik concentrates on world history, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest...
Michael Fishbane (Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) Tuesday, March 2 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Michael Fishbane will discuss the role of spiritual practices in Judaism -- through ritual and meditation -- which cultivate different types of consciousness and awareness. He...
Friday, February 26 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 26 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM - 4:00PM Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor Saturday, February 27 / 9:45 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As the Medieval Studies Program’s major winter quarter event, this colloquium inaugurates, on the American site, a three-year project involving...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will feature a screening of the documentary The Storm That Swept Mexico and well as a discussion with producer Ray Telles. The panelists are Kate Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) and Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies,...
Jennifer Klein (History, Yale) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) February 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Klein is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home...
Chan Park (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State) Kathy Foley (Theater Arts, UCSC) Wednesday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Studio Theater Intertwined Lives is a collaborative performance between Kathy Foley, a noted puppeteer and mask artist of Southeast Asian and Korean material, and Chan Park, an internationally known...
Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) Wednesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The transmissions of a vast number of artmotifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoric period was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes...
Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin) Tuesday, February 23, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences...
Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Olga Karaskova (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Monday, February 22 / 4:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 This event will feature two talks by visiting scholars from Université de Lille-III, Professor Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art) will discuss “Refashioning...
Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB) David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such...
Friday, February 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 22 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 19 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Friday, February 19 / 12:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Paul Spickard is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in comparative international perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and...
Johanna Drucker Friday, February 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our understanding of the way the graphical organization of codex books supports functionality has increased dramatically in the era of digital design activity. The analysis of format features and design elements in print, once approached...
Saloni Mathur (Art History, University of California, Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 17 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Mathur’s lecture revisited the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on...
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson Wednesday, February 17 / 6:00 PM Isla Vista Theater II Click here for more info about Facs of Life Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are the co-directors of Facs of Life, a feature documentary on Deleuze. Inspired by, and making creative use of, the...
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington) Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone...
Dick Hebdige (Art Studio, UCSB) Tuesday, February 16, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…” Reyner Banham, Scenes from America Deserta In January 2009 the UC Institute...
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB) Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Friday, February 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 12 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea...
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance 2517 Shakespeare is a frequent traveler to Asia, and for nearly two centuries, East Asian theater directors and filmmakers have engaged Shakespeare in a wide range of contexts...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, February 10, 2010 / 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities—Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research,...
Hasan Nuhanovic Wednesday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Orfalea Center Seminar Room, 1005 Robertson Gym Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of...
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 9, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new...
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB) Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 3122 Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in...
Ethan Bronner (Jerusalem Bureau Chief, New York Times) Monday, February 8 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times will combine diplomatic and political analysis with behind-the-scenes stories from his reporting to explore the challenges faced by a...
Tomasz Kizny Monday, February 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied...
Friday, February 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 5 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) Friday, February 5 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept....
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford) Thursday, February 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Among his many influential books and articles are Nations, States and Violence...
Moon-Kie Jung (Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Against the prevalent assumption that the United States is a nation-state, the US is reconceptualized here as an empire-state. In addition to being descriptively more apt, this shift provides a...