Creating a Humanities Advocacy Media Plan Date TBD (South Hall 2509) -- [Please fill out the Doodle Poll to help determine the date] This meeting will consist of two parts: 1. Discussion of principles for an overall media strategy First we will add to the foundation of core values,...
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...
Framing/Strategies for Action (Monday, Dec 12, 1-3 pm) Moderator: Linda Adler-Kassner (Professor and Director, Writing Program) Our next meeting will involve us in thinking about our core values, the frames that surround those, and how we might develop action plans from those values and frames to speak to...
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...
THE FOURTH BIANNUAL ANCIENT BORDERLANDS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Innovation in Borderland Regions BORDERLANDS, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other...
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...
Core Issues in Public Discourse on the Humanities (Monday, November 14, 2011, 1-3 pm, South Hall 2509) We have divided the readings according to four broad categories that might help frame our discussion on Thursday. We propose that we do as many readings as we can, and...
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...
Steve Early (author and unionist) October 7 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Early, who worked for 27 years as an organizer for the Communications Workers of America, is a prolific labor journalist and the author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Labor...
Herbert H. Clark (Albert Ray Long Professor of Psychology, Stanford University) Friday, October 7 / 3:00-4:30 PM Pollock Theater At the heart of people’s lives as social beings is what they do together—from getting acquainted, gossiping, and transacting business to walking together, playing tennis, and making love. Taking...
Christian Grose ( Political Science, USC) Thursday, October 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Does the election of African-American politicians matter? Grose argues that it does and presents a unified theory of representation in Congress in Black and White. He theorizes that...
Anne Blackburn (South Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies, Cornell University) Friday, October 14 / 5:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building As British and French colonial control deepened in Lanka and Southeast Asia during the latter half of the nineteenth century, Buddhist monks and devotees...
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Magic Lantern Films Presents: Bridesmaids Friday, September 30 at 7&10 PM Monday,October 3 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4 "Chick flicks don't have to suck! Bridesmaids sets the bar for any R-Rated comedy this year." -Jen Yamato, Movieline "Bridesmaids is one of those films that is so categorically all-around great...
Ryoko Suzuki (Economics, Keio University) Sandra A. Thompson ( Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 2:30 PM 1205 Education In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. Our work is inspired by Goodwin (2007) and Sidnell (2006). Sidnell’s discussion focuses particularly on a...
Shawn Warner-Garcia (Dept. of Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education This paper explores how the concepts of identity and ideology are linked on an interactional level through stance-taking (Du Bois 2007). Specifically, I demonstrate how stance bridges identity and ideology through...
PAST EVENTS Spring 2006 TALK: Re-membering Revolution: Recent Trends in Cuban Drama Yael Prizant (Theater, UCLA) Thursday, April 20 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C TALK: Performance and the New Social Order Marko Peljhan (Department of Art, UCSB) Tuesday, May 2 / 5:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room,...
Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis. Our...
The NEH Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster...
Deadline November 15, 2011. For more information, visit this page....
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Wednesday, July 27 Red Carpet: 5:30 PM Screenings: 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Dress to impress Free food and drink...
Nuestra Voz 2011 Friday, July 22 at 6:00pm FREE! Don't miss it! Everyone welcome! Reception to follow Studio Theater UCSB (Go through the Pardall Tunnel. Walk for 3 minutes. It will be on your right in the Theater & Dance Building) Nuestra Voz presents new plays written, acted, and danced...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, July 22 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, July 25 10 PM...
Magic Lantern Films presents: PAUL Friday, July 15 7&10 PM Monday, July 18 10PM $4 at I.V Theater...
Magic Lantern Films presents: YOUR HIGHNESS Friday, July 8 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 11 at 10PM Isla Vista Theater $4...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Rango Friday, June 24 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, June 27 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4...
Conveners Ali Hendley, Sociology, ahendley@umail.ucsb.edu Lisa Jacobson, History, jacobson@history.ucsb.edu Erika Rappaport, History, rappaport@history.ucsb.edu The Food Studies Research Focus Group brings together faculty and graduate students to discuss ongoing research on a variety of food-related topics. These include: the cultural, social and political meanings of food in diverse settings and...
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Conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music, Theater & Dance (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Nina Bennahum,Theater & Dance (bennahum@theaterdance.ucsb.edu) Dorota Dutsch, Classics ...
Conveners: Enda Duffy (English) & Eric Prieto (French & Italian)...
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Conveners: Cynthia Kaplan | Adrienne Edgar Email: kaplan@polsci.ucsb.edu | edgar@history.ucsb.edu The Identity Research Focus Group explores the diverse dimensions of identity, how it is studied and its implications. The group brings together scholars and graduate students from a wide array of disciplines in order to share their...
Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis....
The IHC African Studies Research Focus is an interdisciplinary group of faculty and graduate students with diverse research interests in African studies. Established in 1998, the group meets approximately two to three times a quarter to share ongoing research interests in African studies and to...
Convenors: Linda Adler-Kassler | Alan Liu E-mail: adler-kassner@writing.ucsb.edu ayliu@english.ucsb.edu The general 4Humanities initiative (https://4humanities.org/original-4humanities-collective/) includes scholars, students, and others engaged in advocacy for the humanities in the U.S., U.K., Canada, Australia, Italy, Greece, Mexico, and India (current locations). It provides an online platform for humanities advocacy that...
People • Past Events • Ph.D. Emphasis Program • Contact us For information about the Ancient Mediterranean Studies program please visit www.ams.ucsb.edu *Map of HSSB Registering for the Core Seminar for Credit Interested graduate students can receive 2 credits per quarter for attending the meetings by registering for the...
Willeke Wendrich (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) Friday, June 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian Fayum Oasis has the earliest evidence found for the introduction of domesticated wheat...
Shakespeare in the Park presents: The Merry Wives of Windsor Friday, June 3 at 7 pm Saturday, June 4 at 7 pm Anisq'Oyo' Park, Isla Vista Free!...
Seyda Tarim (Gevirtz School of Education, UCSB) Friday, June 3 / 1:30-3:30 PM Educ 1205 This paper examines how Turkish-English bilingual children make use of code-switching to accomplish a variety of actions within their classroom or recess activities at a multiethnic elementary school and at a Turkish Cultural...
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 / 5:00 - 7:00 PM On View: June 1 - September 15, 2011 Introductory Lecture by Tomaz Andrade (Physic, UCSB) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Where Platform’s previous shows Snarled Megalopolis and Suburbia explored geographies of large cities and suburbs, Micro-Topologies investigates the...
Saturday, May 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This graduate student conference will feature a lecture by Tat-siong Benny Liew, author of What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Liew will discuss his interdisciplinary work in the fields of religious studies, theology, Asian American studies,...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hal May 27-28: The 24 Hour Improvathon...
Jörg Zinken (Psychology, University of Portsmouth) Friday, May 27 / 1:30 AM 1205 Education Jörg Zinken's research concerns the linguistic mediation of activities, in particular the accomplishment of cooperative embodied activities and how such activities are resourced by the grammatical structures of a language. Sponsored by the IHC’s Language,...
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020 “Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the ‘Santa Barbara Bible’” Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles “Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration in an...
Evgenii Bershtein (Russian Language and Literature, Reed College) Thursday, May 26 / 4:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Building 2135 Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), one of the last century's most influential film directors and theoreticians, was also a prolific writer of sexual theory and the author of thousands...
An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference at UCSB Thursday - Friday, May 26-27 Keynote: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Web Art Group) Thursday, May 26/ 3:00 PM Multi-Cultural Center Theater Auras: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, an interdisciplinary undergraduate conference at UCSB, is proud to present a keynote...
Andrea L Berez (Linguistics, UCSB) Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 3:30 PM Girvetz 2115 This presentation discusses aspects of the directional system in Ahtna, a severely endangered Athabaskan (Native American) language spoken in south central Alaska. The semantic basis of the Ahtna directional system is traditionally riverine, based...
Laura Miller (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 25 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage the medium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I...
Van Maximillian Carlson (Director) Monday, May 23 / 7:00 PM Pollock Theater Bhopali (2011) documents the experience of second-generation children in Bhopal, India, who have been affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984, the worst industrial disaster in history, and subsequent contamination of groundwater by Union...
Presented by I.V. LIVE Friday, May 20 / 8:00 PM I.V. Theater 2 A play based entirely on recent interviews of Isla Vista citizens. May 20th AND May 21st Sponsored by I.V. LIVE Website: islavista-arts.org...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 First Annual All Night Lord of the Rings Marathon Friday, May 20 7:00 PM: The Fellowship of the Ring 10:30 PM: The Two Towers 2:00 AM: The Return of the King ...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 20: Improvability....
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Friday, May 20 / 1:30 PM South Hall 2635 Aurelio Luis Gallardo, a liberal exile from Maximilian’s Mexico, serialized his now-forgotten novel Adah, o el amor de un ángel in 1868-69 in San Francisco, where he was an active participant in local politics and...
Leslie Wallace (History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Friday, May 20 / 4:00 PM HSSB 3041 At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into...
Gemma Rodrigues (Curator of African Art, UCLA Fowler Museum) Wednesday, May 18 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Science & Media Studies Building This talk examines how the making and remaking of urban space in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, are organized around access to land and forms of belonging through...
Tuesday, May 17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Students from Carpinteria High School will present their research on language and culture in their local community, from surfing to youth groups. Students conducted their research as part of a special high-school class in linguistics as...
Elisabeth Weber (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB) Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Monday, May 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall Weber and Marcuse will lead discussions on the following readings: Shoshana Felman’s, "A Ghost in the House of Justice";...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Mel Brooks Night: Featuring Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs Friday, May 13 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 16 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 13: The Harry Potter Show!...
Phaedra Pezzulo (Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University) Susan Stonich (Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, UCSB) Friday, May 13 / 12:00 PM Wallis Annenberg Conference Room (4315 SSMS) “Toxic tours” are visits to sites polluted by poisonous chemicals operated by environmental justice...
Reuel Schiller (Law, UC Hastings) Friday, May 13 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Schiller's areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the...
Faculty Fellows - Spring 2011 Release Time Thomas Carlson, Religious Studies, Toward the Heart of the Secular: On Modernity as a Form of Love Lisa Jacobson, History, Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: Alcohol’s Quest for Legitimacy after Prohibition Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History, Sanitizing Revolt: Physicians, Public Health, and Repression...