James Walters (Theology, Boston University) Monday, May 6 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4041 In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification...
John Connelly (History, UC Berkeley) David Nirenberg (History, The University of Chicago) Monday, May 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and features a dialogue between John Connelly, author...
Sjón (novelist, poet) Monday, May 6 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Well-known Icelandic author Sjón (his pen name means 'sight' or 'vision' in Icelandic) is one of the most interesting contemporary Icelandic novelists and poets. His visit to UCSB will mark the beginning of a...
Nancy Perloff (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Friday, May 3 / 3:00 PM HSSB 1174 Dr. Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute where she has organized such exhibitions as Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, and Tango with...
Friday, May 3 / 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology, UC Irvine) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop engages with the media forms that ethnographic products take (e.g., video, text) and, more broadly, mediation -- its production, consumption, circulation -- as part of socio-cultural life....
Mario Bellatin (author) Paulo Franchetti (Literature Theory, Universidad Estatal de Campinas) Randal Johnson (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA) Friday, May 3 / Mosher Alumni House, Henley Board Room Saturday, May 4 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference gathers a variety of work, including that of graduate...
Ikuyo Morimoto (Graduate School of Language, Communication, & Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Friday, May 3 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Morimoto's research examines language use and body behavior in multiparty social interaction both in everyday conversations and in institutional (judicial) contexts. She has been working on videotaped...
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
Faculty and Staff Harry Munt, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford) Patrick Ryan Williams, Associate Curator and Anthropology Chair, The Field Museum of Chicago Fikret Yegül, Art History Gregory Wilson, Anthropology Voula Tsouna, Philosophy Samuel Thomas, Religion, California Lutheran Christine Thomas, Religious Studies Paul Spickard, History Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology Jo-Ann Shelton, Classics Helen Rhee,...
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Rüdiger Campe (Literature, Yale University) Wednesday, May 1 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 The probabilistic revolution in the 18th century provides a history of the relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques, between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution that overthrew the "order of things," notably...
Click here to read about Martha Bragin's talk for the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, "Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War", in The Bottom Line. ...
Jonathan Kalan (photographer, writer, journalist) Tuesday, April 30 / 2:00 PM Arts 1237 Jonathan Kalan is an award-winning photographer and journalist specializing in innovation, technology, development and social entrepreneurship in emerging markets. A graduate of UCSB's Global Studies Program, he has traveled to over 44 countries and...
Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB is our campus's local chapter of the international 4Humanities initiative, which uses digital technologies to design and create media campaigns to advocate for the value of the humanities. Following up on 4Humanities@UCSB's previous meetings, when we started humanities...
Emanuele Saccarelli (Political Science, San Diego State University) Friday, April 26 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Saccarelli examines the novelist's role working with the OSS in World War II. He is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. Sponsored by the Center for the...
Katrina Daly-Thompson (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This timely talk reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that...
Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science, USC) Thursday, April 25 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Hancock is a globally recognized scholar of the study of intersectionality – the study of the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality politics and their impact on public policy. Her first book,...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
Jack Halberstam (English, University of Southern California) April 25, 2013 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater In a new book on “The Wild” Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal. As many thinkers have proposed recently,...
Kim Q. Hall (Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University) Monday, April 22 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At its most fundamental level, food is, as Michael Pollan asserts in his book In Defense of Food, a relationship rather than a collection of nutrients. The food...
Michael Zakim (History, Tel Aviv University) April 19 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Zakim is the author of Ready Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1790-1960. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Lawrence Acker is an associate professor at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, joining the faculty in January of this year. He is the Lindenwood College of Individualized Education’s Program Director of Health Management. Dr. Acker came to Lindenwood after serving as the Program Chair...
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies/Spanish, NYU) Wednesday, April 17 / 3:30PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated or corrupted, the media sequestered in the hands of power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in...
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
Click here to read the official UCSB press release for the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Karen Anzoategui (performer) Saturday, April 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Bodies in Space III: A Guerrilla-Style Graduate Conference" invites the UCSB community at large to observe the culmination of this year's conference, a performance directed by Karen Anzoategui and featuring UCSB students....
Scott McCloud (Regents’ Lecturer) Friday, April 12 /10:30 AM -3:00 PM Theater & Dance Building: Courtyard & Room 1530 With graphic novels, sequential art, comic books becoming more prevalent in scholarship and education, the need for interdisciplinary conversation grows so that we might collaboratively imagine the...
Friday, April 12 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Corwin Pavilion This conference is the culminating event of the year-long Figuring Sea Level Rise series. It focuses on several crucial questions in the debate about climate change and sea level rise: who is likely to be immediately affected? What...
Fredrik Logevall (History, Cornell University) Wednesday, April 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. Drawing on newly available documents from several...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
Sunday, April 7 / 3:00 PM Lotte Lehman Concert Hall Josh Aronson (director, Orchestra of Exiles) Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s...
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, UC San Diego) The Media Fields collective will be holding its fourth graduate student conference, on the theme of "Access/Trespass," this April 4th - 5th. The conference features a keynote talk by...
Leo Panitch (Political Science,York University) Sam Gindin (Political Science,York University) Tuesday, April 2 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Panitch has edited the Socialist Register since 1985. He is the author of numerous books including Working Class Politics in Crisis. Gindin was Research Director of the...
Friday, March 15 / 1:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) 4041 HSSB Chikowero's book project is “African Music, Identities and Power in Colonial Zimbabwe.” Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday-Saturday, March 15- 16th 2635 South Hall The Transcriptions Center's "Mediating the Nonhuman" conference will take up questions of how media and narrative frames shape how we understand and interact with contemporary events and processes that take place on nonhuman scales: ecological time, high-frequency stock trades,...
Wednesday, March 13 / 5:00 PM Linguistics New Room South Hall, 3605 The New Sexualities Research Focus Group, in coordination with Professor Mireille Miller-Young's Feminist Studies graduate course on Queer of Color Critique, invites faculty and students to attend an open workshop on new directions in the field....
Xavier Livermon (Africana Studies, Wayne State University) Tuesday, March 12 / 4:00 PM 4631A South Hall In this talk, Xavier Livermon argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis...
Bruce Whitehouse (Anthropology, Lehigh University) Friday, March 8 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once considered a stable democracy, the country of Mali in Africa's western Sahel region experienced an army coup and the loss of its northern regions to separatist and Islamist rebels last year....
Thursday, March 7 / 4:00 PM Valerie Hansen (History, Yale) SAASB 1102C Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and...
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
Harry Reese (Studio Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 6 / 4:00 - 5:00 PM Platform Gallery (near the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB) Artist and Professor Harry Reese makes prints, artists’ books, paintings, and public art installations. Reese’s ongoing research in pattern recognition, the book form and...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 2:00 - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, “UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey”) Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the...
Thursday, February 28 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This Center for Information Technology and Society and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center symposium brings together a philosopher, activists, and artists to speak about the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles – or drones – in the world...
David Makovsky (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ghaith al-Omari (The American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 27 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for...
Christopher Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Tuesday, February 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not...
Amy Slaton (History, Drexel University) Friday, February 22 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Slaton is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line (2010) and Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. Her new book project considers...
Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis) Friday, February 22, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that...
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond) Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February...
Click here to read the official press release regarding Theater of War's performance for the IHC's series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Dr. Henry Lowood (Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford) Tuesday, February 12 / 4:00 PM 1009 SSMS Social Science and Media Studies Building Shortly before the release of id Software’s computer game, DOOM, at the end of 1993, id released a news release announcing the...
Dov Waxman (Political Science, CUNY) Monday, February 11 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion One in five citizens of Israel is Palestinian. What does this mean for Israel’s future as a Jewish state and for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This talk tackles these crucial questions and...
Richard Halpern (English, New York University) Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies,UCSB) Joseph Roach (Theater, Yale) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM Saturday, February 9 / 8: 30 AM McCune Conference Room. HSSB 6020) Contemporary discussions of "risk" or "speculation" often identify these concepts as distinguishing...
Friday, February 8 / 1:00-5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote Speaker: Richard Halpern, (English, New York University): "The Loss of Hazard: Fugitive Risk in The Merchant of Venice" w/Shakespeare is a new multi-campus research group dedicated to the innovative study of Shakespeare. Convened by Julia...
Nan Enstad (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Enstad is the author of Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Her new book project is “The Jim...
Friday, February 8 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Please join us for the third meeting of the Ethnography and Cultural Studies Research Focus Group, with roundtable presentations on the theme "Radical Politics." Sponsored by the IHC's Ethnography and Cultural Studies RFG....
Wafaa Bilal (Tisch School, NYU) Thursday, February 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Terence Keel (Black Studies, UCSB) Thursday, February 7 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall It is often believed that the modern scientific study of race first emerged in and around the Enlightenment. During this time the study of natural history reached an unprecedented level of maturity and...
Wednesday, February 6 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. A discussion of research work-in-progress on topics concerning contemporary Mexico, by faculty and students. If you would like more information please see the RFG website or contact...
Friday, February 1 / 9:30 AM Getty Museum and Research Institute This day-long trip to Los Angeles includes two tours at the Getty Museum and Research Institute focusing on its impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts. For the first session, Marcia Reed, Chief Curator of...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater, UCSB Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the...
Click here for information about John E. Talbott's "War in History and Memory" and to listen to the talk. ...
Juan Campo (Religious Studies), Richard Hecht (Religious Studies), Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies), Salim Yaqub (History) Moderator: Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies) Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four UCSB professors join in a panel discussion to assess the effects of the war on...
Martha Bragin (Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY) Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The discourse on psychosocial reintegration of combat veterans in the United States has largely been confined to discussions of the best treatment for those diagnosed...
Massimiliano Finazzer Flory (director) Tuesday, January 22 / 6:30 PM Old Little Theater The story of Pinocchio has had universal appeal since its appearance in 1883. In this original performance combining literature, theater, dance and music, the wooden puppet comes to life from the imagination...
Slavomír Horák (International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, January 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Slavomir Horak is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies and a Research Fellow...
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War) Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for...
Tuesday, January 15 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room Discussion of readings to assign in the planned Freshman Seminar on UC. To find the readings for the third meeting please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Also review the first chapter of Clark Kerr 's Uses of the University under...
Wafaa Bilal's Artist Talk (originally scheduled for Thursday, February 7 at 4:00 PM in the McCune Conference Room) has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....