17th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Thursday- Saturday, May 12 - 14, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Film stars are worshiped in India, and even temples are dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star Rajinikanth publicly...
Wednesday, May 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Annual Graduate Student Presentations Nation-State or State-Nation? Myths of Nationhood and Support for State Sovereignty in Belarus Francois Zdanowicz (Political Science , UCSB) Brawls, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping: Imperial Russia’s Adjudication in the South Caucasus until the...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Drawing upon three years of intensive ethnographic research in both atypical and typical strip clubs in California and Oregon, Hidalgo discusses how embodied labor is negotiated in these clubs. Further, she...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Film stars are worshiped in India and even temples have been dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star, Rajinikanth have been publicly ritualizing his film...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...
Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) Tuesday, May 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The complex and evolving situation at La Frontera, the U.S.-Mexico border, has been central to current discussions of immigration and the effect of drug cartels. In order to illuminate...
Samuel Heilman (Sociology, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY) Sunday, May 8 / 3:00 PM UCSB MultiCultural Center From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic...
Saturday, May 7 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the senses, sensibilities, and the dynamic relationship between the two, in the middle ages. We will explore the problems of the senses, sentience, emotion and knowledge production in a period before...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Green Hornet Friday, May 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 9 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 6: Improvability....
Friday, May 6 / 9:00 AM MultiCultural Center Graduate Student Lounge This conference, organized by graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese, will feature thirty to forty presenters from universities across the nation. Selected papers will be published in the Fall issue of the graduate academic journal...
Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Friday, May 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of...
Maher Hathout (Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Edward Linenthal (History, University of Indiana) Thursday, May 5, 2011 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown...
Carolyn de la Peña (Department of American Studies, UC Davis) Wednesday, May 4 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carolyn de la Peña will discuss her new book, Empty Pleasures. Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the...
Rula Jebreal (Screenwriter, Miral, 2011) Monday, May 2 / 6:00 PM Pollock Theater A free screening of the recently-released film Miral based on the novel and screenplay by Rula Jebreal, and directed by Julian Schnabel. The film paints a stunning portrait of personal conflict, humanitarian courage, and...
Rula Jebreal (Author & Journalist) Monday, May 2 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theatre A discussion with Rula Jebreal on the transformations Italy has undergone under the impact of immigration over the past two decades, and how they influence the role that Italy could play vis-a-vis the current...
Monday, May 2 / 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional...
Deborah E. Lipstadt (Religion, Emory University) Sunday, May 1 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Lipstadt offers a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators. As the world continues to confront the ongoing...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Illusionist Friday, April 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 2 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 April 29 - Jolly Olde England Show!...
Galina Bolden (School of Communication, Rutgers University) Friday, April 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This presentation examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent...
Friday, April 29 / 4:00 PM Theater and Dance 1701 and Life Sciences Building 1001 This symposium will examine the role of morality in the visual arts from multiple perspectives, including those of practicing artists, art historians, and museum curators. Operating under the assumption that there are...
Najib Bounahai (Professor of Higher Education, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco) Friday, April 29th / 1:00 PM *please note new time and location* 2017 SSMS The talk is about the interplay between cinema and politics in Morocco over the last ten years. Morocco has initiated several ambitious and...
Friday, April 29, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary graduate student conference is concerned with a wide variety of conceptions of space and place, both contemporary and historical, physical and imagined. The conference will explore ideas of place and space, and how these ideas have...
LA Urban Rangers (Art Collective, Los Angeles) Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Join Ranger Jenny of the LA Urban Rangers for a campfire program about their past and current projects. An interdisciplinary art collective, the Rangers explore the complex human and...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, April 27 / 2:00 PM 2206 North Hall This workshop is intended for faculty who are new to UCSB or new to grant writing. It will cover how to find funding for your research, grant writing strategies (including interpreting RFPs, formatting, rhetorical...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 25 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, April 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5...
Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...
Farai "Fafi" Bere (a.k.a 3 Percent) Thursday, April 21 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Bere focuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody...
Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 pm 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building This lecture focused on a certain trajectory in recent works by documentary filmmaker Madhusree Dutta: her preoccupation with the triad city-cinema-publics to...
Tuesday, April 19 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We invite interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a brainstorming meeting for the 2011-2012 IHC series Public Goods. Public Goods will be a year-long program at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center that will explore...
Monday, April 18 - Friday, April 22 Old Gym Gallery 479 Artist Desiree D'Alessandro, in collaboration with Raymond Douglas, embraces Old Gym Gallery 479's sports and recreation history in this exhibition that focuses on hybridizing the fields of art and athleticism. Ten student boxers from the local...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The King’s Speech Friday, April 15 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 18 / 10:00 PM...
Friday - Saturday, April 15 - 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is an interdisciplinary exploration of how form arises from practice. Grammatical, literary, and cultural structures become entrenched over time and with repetition. Ideas and behaviors become increasingly routine, ritualized, automatic, opaque to self-reflection,...
Alessandro Barchiesi (Latin Literature, University of Siena, Arezzo) Friday, April 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM ** PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE** HSSB 4041 This lecture will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. Professor...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Trevor Paglen (Author & Experimental Geographer) Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Secrecy is not just a matter of keeping information hidden; it is a productive enterprise that involves the creation of certain kinds of spaces, be they economic,...
David Novak (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, April 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The circulation of recordings encourages us to recognize a world of music from above. Scholars have often focused on the cultural blurring caused by the speed of global media, and the ways...
Rose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well...
David Wilson (Founding Director, Museum of Jurassic Technology) Wednesday, April 13 / 5:00 PM Broida 1640 David Wilson will present the work of the 19th century philosopher-librarian Nikolai Federov, whose ideas about space travel and habitation influenced the scientist and visionary of Russian Cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. This story...
Cynthia Felando (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, Santa Barbara was the setting for the first-ever American “reality” television series, An American Family. Conceived by the producer Craig Gilbert as a way to challenge the...
John Schoeberlein (Anthropology, Harvard University) Monday, April 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor Ellison Hall John Schoeberlein is Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Sponsored...
Ronald Mellor (History, UCLA) Monday, April 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ronald J. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman history since 1976. Prof. Mellor’s research centers on ancient religion and Roman historiography. ...
Saturday, April 9 / 2:30 PM Plaza outside Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Park Wing entrance Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives is part of an extensive National program of workshops and performances to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature. This staged reading,...
Ido Haar (editor of I Am Carolyn Parker, dir. Jonathan Demme) Friday, April 8, 2011/12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS) Reclaiming home in the wake of disaster is the theme of this month’s meeting of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group (EMIRG). The discussion...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 11 / 10:00 PM...
Keynote Addresses: Wendy Perron (Editor-in-Chief, Dance Magazine) Marcia B. Siegel (The Village Voice, The Boston Globe) Friday, April 8 /10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This one-day scholarly and artistic conference will discuss Jennifer Muller and the changing world of American modern dance starting in the 1960s and...
Mike McGinnis (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For thousands of years, coastal inhabitation by diverse maritime peoples across the Pacific Ocean has included a natural history of adapting to changes in the marine...
Felipe Rojas (Getty Postdoctoral Fellow) Wednesday, April 6 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Felipe's research examines the re-use of Lydian landscapes, monuments, and objects at Sardis in the Roman period. He is a 2011-2012 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa. Sponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG....
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Tuesday, April 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Experimental systems and their dynamics are the focus of Rheinberger's paper. For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were...
Lisa Jacobson (History, UCSB) Tuesday, April 5 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and...
Ido Haar (Documentary Filmmaker) Friday, April 1, 2011 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 Star Hotel, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 127 Hours Friday, April 1 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 3 / 10:00 PM...
Filip DeBoeck (Anthropology, University of Leuven) Thursday, March 31 / 5:00 PM Pollock Theater In Cemetery State, Filip DeBoeck invites us on a bewildering tour of the cemetery of Kintambo, one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Charles Acland (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal) Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Media Fields research collective is excited to announce Contested Territories, its third conference exploring the relationship between media and space. As a theme, ”contested territories” encompasses a...
Marek Halter Wednesday, March 30 / 5:00 PM Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara In The Jewish Odyssey, Marek Halter charts the course of Judaism from its origins in Mesopotamia to its place in the world today. Predating all Western culture, its early development...
Eugene Cruz-Uribe (History, Northern Arizona University) Monday, March 28 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Based upon his field work at a number of sites around Egypt, Dr Cruz-Uribe will develop a theme around the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt especially during Roman and Byzantine...
The IHC is pleased to congratulate the 2011-2012 UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities: Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand of the Department of Religious Studies and Julia Panko of the Department of English. For further details about this fellowship, which is sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, please...
The Early Modern Center's Tenth annual Winter Conference Friday – Saturday, March 11 – 12 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In recent decades, scholars working in the early modern period have been at the vanguard of literary studies. To cite just one example, some of the earliest practitioners...
Ken Mouré Department of History and Classics University of Alberta Thursday, March 10/ 11:00 AM HSSB 3001E Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative...
Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Plants are truly in place. Animals less so. Humans least of all. That’s the sum of my story. I will elaborate on it in two parts. The first part identifies...
March 8, 2011 Mosher Alumni House On March 8, 2011 the New Sexualities RFG hosted a Sexuality Studies Brainstorming Session titled, “Rethinking the Funding and Form of Sexuality Studies.” This full-day event was held at the Mosher Alumni House. Paul Amar, Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack...
Nazym Shedenova (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) Monday, March 7 / 12:30 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She...
Monday, March 7, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center Queer theorists Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack Halberstam, and Dean Spade presented queer critiques of same-sex marriage and the fight for “marriage equality.” Instead of attempting to merely transform existing, oppressive institutions, panelists insisted on the necessity of moving...
Michael D. Dixon (History, University of Southern Indiana) Monday, March 7 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Corinth, like many Greek poleis ("city-states"), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously...
Friday, March 4 Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 The Nice Show at 8pm The Naughty Show at 10pm...
Barry Eichengreen (Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 4 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods...
Philip Goldberg (Author) Thursday, March 3 / 6:30 pm 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building For over two hundred years India’s philosophies and practices have been transforming the ways in which Americans understand and engage in religious and spiritual practices. This multimedia presentation illuminated this remarkable history and...
Norihiro Kato (Waseda University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, March 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk concerns the significance of the most remarkable postwar Japanese icon: Godzilla. In the 50 years since the first movie was made in 1954, a total of 28...
Sabrina Ramet (Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology) Wednesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall The lecture will focus on Prince Lazar of Serbia, King Arthur of the Celts, and King Olav of Norway, with a passing reference to King Stephen...
Colin Gardner (Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 2, 2011 / 5:00 PM IHC’s Platform Gallery, 6th Floor HSSB Where Platform's last exhibition, Snarled Megalopolis, visualized the organic shapes generated by cities out of control, Suburbia will highlight landscapes and architectures characterized by regulation, uniformity, and standardization. These landscapes are...
TALK: Home as Elsewhere Wednesday, March 9 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For further details, click here....
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 25: The Disney Show...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Friday, February 25 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 28 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Julia Ott (History, The New School) Friday, February 25 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent...
Neil Denari (Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA) Friday, February 25 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 Former Director of SCI-ARC from 1997-2001 and recipient of the Ralph Recchia award and the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal for architecture in 2002 from the National Academy of Design in New...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara This conference will examine the intersection between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the spatial turn in the humanities. Participants have been asked to describe their mapping projects in relation to traditional humanities methodologies, research objects, and concerns....
Ana Elena Puga (Ohio State University/Stanford University) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies building, 2135 (2nd Floor conference room) Ana Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the struggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, who was...
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/ Click...
Sponsored by the Office of Research, the Dean of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the IHC. You are invited to the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) for two days of events with Dr. Stefanie Walker, Program Officer, Division of Research Programs at the...
Mario T. Garcia (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) Sal Castro (Retired Teacher, LAUSD) Wednesday, February 23 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mario Garcia and Sal Castro will discuss their recently published book Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice. Based on oral history,...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 18...
Friday-Saturday, February 18-19, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Medieval Studies Program in conjunction with the UC Multicampus Research Project for Mediterranean Studies will be hosting a general workshop on topics in Mediterranean Studies and a conference on “Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Cultures.”...
Nathaniel W. Dumas (Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, February 18 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Dumas's research focuses on the face-to-face and computer-mediated communicative practices of members of American Stuttering English Speech Communities and how their informal and formal routines afford the social construction and reconfiguring of a particular sociolinguistic,...
Neil Fligstein (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, February 18 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the 1980s and 1990s to “maximize...
Catherine Cole (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, February 17, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “If universities can’t find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them,” says educational innovator David Wiley in Anya Kamenetz’s recent book...
Timmy Gambin (Director of Archaeology, Aurora Trust) Thursday, February 17 / 3:30 PM HSSB 4041 Over the past three years, AURORA Trust, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, has carried out a project aimed at mapping and studying the underwater cultural heritage around the Pontine Islands....
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center On February 17, New Sexualities graduate students gathered at the Multi-Cultural Center to participate in a roundtable discussion titled “Positioning Critical Research: Funding and Publishing Sexuality Studies Work in Neoliberal Times.” The discussion was led by Dr. Melissa White, who...
Winter term deadline to be announced. To review last year's call for proposals, visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/ucgradfellows/. Questions may be directed to IHC Associate Director Emily Zinn: ezinn@ihc.ucsb.edu....
Esther Bates (Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History and Art) Ethan Turpin (Local Filmmaker) Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the...
Monday, February 14 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium marks the first anniversary of the Translation Studies Doctoral Emphasis at UCSB. As Emily Apter observed in the recent MLA Profession 2010, “In this time of economic downturn and the humanities’ consequent vulnerability, translation...
Elizabeth Clark (Religion / History, Duke University) Monday, February 14 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 In recent centuries, many have assumed that marriage, family, and home were normative Christian ideals. Nineteenth-century notions of domesticity and twentieth-century praise of “family values” encouraged the view that Christianity supported a pro-family...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 (more...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 11: Anti-Valentine's Day...
The Social Network Friday, February 11 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 14 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Daniel Rosenberg (History, University of Oregon) Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The convention of mapping historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured lines is ubiquitous. Yet, like the conventions of historical narrative, this graphic convention has a complex history. This...
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Is democracy sweeping through the Arab World? Or will current unrest result in autocratic crack-downs, military coups, Islamist regimes, and chaos? How should the US react? What are the implications for America? A public discussion by Middle East specialists...
Mary Hancock (History / Anthropology, UCSB) Discussant: Amit Ahuja (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor, Ellison Hall The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port...
Hussein Ibish (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 9 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Surround Sound" explores the affective significance of the relationship between sound and the experience of space, particularly with respect to language acquisition and its role in attachment. The practice of making and...
Call for Nominations UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities 2011-2012 UC Humanities Network – UC Santa Barbara The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities...
Ronald Stroud (Classical Languages and Literature, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 8 / 5:30 PM SB Museum of Natural History Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. From early times Corinth also had a...
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale University) Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB More devotional books of hours remain in modern libraries than any other kind of book from late medieval England: almost eight hundred manuscript volumes, and many thousands of printed ones. And yet this fact...
Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 7 / 10:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today’s consumer is confronted with a growing variety of “ethical” products in the American marketplace. This presentation examines the practice of ethical consumption of coffee in order to identify the ideological and...
Judy Klitsner (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem) Sunday, February 6 / 8:45 AM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Road, Santa Barbara What do the infertile, tent-dwelling mothers of Genesis have in common with the military and spiritual leaders of the book of Judges? In...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 4...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Santa Barbara Film Festival Selection STAKELAND Friday February 4/ 7 pm &10 pm I.V. Theater FREE...
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Outspoken public intellectuals and academic leaders Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson will go head to head for a lively discussion on the role of academic freedom in higher learning. Fish, a Professor of...
Thursday – Saturday, February 3-5 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote speakers are Leon Fink (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Anita Chan (China Research Center, University of Technology, Sydney). Panels will address economic development, women and migrant workers, international labor standards, unions, politics, and law. Sponsored by the Center...
John Zammito (History, Rice University) Wednesday, February 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Reinhard Koselleck went farther than most historical theorists toward a conceptualization of historical process as multilayered, moving at different tempi stratum by stratum, yet interacting both synchronically and diachronically across the strata....