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Mar
March 2014
04
Mar
Imagining the State: Body Politics, Utopian Concepts, Gay Recognition And Conservative Christian Refusal
Davina Cooper (Law & Political Theory,University of Kent) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 If how the state is imagined shapes social and political action, the politics of state imagining provides an important site for progressive reflection. Arguing that those conceptual approaches which support critique...
04
Mar
Dictatorship, Censorship and Sponsorship: State and Donor Control of Popular Theater in Zimbabwe
Praise Zenenga (African Studies,University of Arizona) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This presentation focuses on strategies that popular theater artists used to survive dictatorship, censorship, and lack of sponsorship within the context of a sustained political and economic crisis (1998-2008) in post-independence...
03
Mar
Call for Papers: First Responders: Care in Literature, Art and Psychoanalysis
Thursday-Friday, May 8-9, 2014 Abstract deadline: Monday, March 3, 2014
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Announcements
03
Mar
Black Bodies, Wrong Places: Spatial and Morality Politics of Rolezinho Racialized Youth “Invasions” and Police Repression in the Public Spaces of Today’s Brazil
Osmundo Pinho (Federal University, Reconcavo in Bahia, Brazil) Monday, March 3 / 1:30 PM SSMS 2011 On December 9 2013, in the State of São Paulo, the richest of the Brazilian states, six thousand young people attended an unauthorized funk party, like a rolling, mobile “flash mob” or...
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Feb
American Mysteries: Urban Crime Fiction from Eugène Sue’s Mysteries of Paris to the American Noir & Steampunk
Paul Erickson (American Antiquarian Society) Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Montpellier III, France) February 26-28 & March 1, 2014 Old Little Theatre, College of Creative Studies and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Starting with one of the first literary mass-successes, Eugène Sue’s serialized novel Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43, The Mysteries...
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Feb
Kellyn Johnson’s Work on Theatrical Co-Direction in We Play For the Gods at The Women’s Project
Wednesday, February 26 / 5:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 The rehearsal process of We Play for the Gods at the Women’s Project Theater Company in New York City demonstrates the potential for co-direction as a radical form that challenges mainstream hierarchies in US theatrical production...
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Feb
Sal Castro Memorial Conference on the Emerging Historiography of the Chicano Movement
Friday, February 21 / 8:30 AM-6:30 PM Saturday, February 22 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty-four scholars will showcase the emerging historiography on the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s that represented the largest Mexican American civil rights and empowerment...
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21
Feb
The Employee: A Political History
Jean-Christian Vinel (History, University of Paris-Diderot) Friday, February 21 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Jean-Christian Vinel is a visiting scholar at UC-Santa Barbara in the Winter 2013. He is the editor of La grève en exil : le déclin du syndicalisme et du militantisme aux USA, en...
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21
Feb
The Man With Superpowers: The Yogi in the American Imagination and the Case of Paramahansa Yogananda
Anya Pokazanyeva (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 21 / 4:00 PM 3041 HSSB It might seem logical to assume that a Yogi, by definition, is one who does yoga. However, as these terms first entered the American imagination they did not always do so in accordance...
20
Feb
Dirty Sexy Policy
Thursday-Friday, February 20-21 Pollock Theater Dirty Sexy Policy will bring together prominent scholars, attorneys, activists, regulators, and journalists to explore current challenges facing media policy and the broader stakes that citizens and policy critics share. Participants on three panels will engage in a lively discussion and debate...
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20
Feb
Narrative Care, Ancient and Modern
Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care? We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...
20
Feb
The Recovery of Nazi-Looted Art: The Bloch-Bauer Klimt Paintings
E. Randol Schoenberg (Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP) Thursday, February 20 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The recent disclosure of more than 1,400 artworks found hidden in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt has generated renewed interest in the subject of Nazi-looted art. The upcoming release...
20
Feb
S. Akturk’s Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey
Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change. In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed. In Turkey,...
20
Feb
UNESCO International Mother Language Day: Language and Identity
Thursday, February 20 /1:00-3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day 2014, Caraol Chaski (Institute for Linguistic Evidence) will be speaking on "Forensic Linguistics and Models of Language" at 1:00 PM and Maria Carreira (Spanish, Cal State Long Beach)...
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20
Feb
An Intimate History of the African Revolution: Kwame Nkrumah and the Women in Question
Jean Allman (History, Washington University) Thursday, February 20 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4080 Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence struggle and its first Prime Minister and then President, was a major theorist of pan-Africanism and neocolonialism and arguably one of the most important leaders of what was...
18
Feb
To Grow or Not to Grow: Post-Recession Challenges Facing UC
John Aubrey Douglass (Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 18, 2014 / 4:00 PM
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Feb
4Humanities@UCSB Meeting for the “WhatEvery1Says” Project
Tuesday, February 18 / 3:30-5:00 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB's activities for Winter quarter start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB "WhatEvery1Says" text-harvesting and topic modeling project. The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital...
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Feb
LISO Symposium IV: Multiple Engagements: Complexity in Human Involvement
Friday, February 14- Sunday, February 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB is hosting a three-day international symposium featuring interdisciplinary research on the complexity of naturally occurring human interaction. This symposium will bring together diverse researchers — linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, conversation analysts, child development and communication scholars,...
13
Feb
New Aging: Designing Architecture for All Ages
Matthias Hollwich (architect, HWKN) Thursday, February 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable energy to bring about nothing less than a revolution in the aging experience. Hollwich is the founder of New York architecture...
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Feb
Sex Workers Unite: A History of the Movement from Stonewall to SlutWalk
Melinda Chateauvert (New Orleans Free School) Tuesday, February 11 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater Melinda Chateauvert examines the ways that women working in the sex industry—following activism in the African American and Gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s—have organized through an identity framework known...
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Feb
Re-Reading the Feminist Sixties
Friday, February 7 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fifty years after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark bill that added sex to anti-discrimination law, this conference looks to feminism during a decade that began with liberal reform and exploded...
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06
Feb
The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care
Thomas Lynch (poet, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade) Thomas Long (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) Thursday, February 6, 2014 / 5:00 PM
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Feb
What Are Universities For?
Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / 5:00 PM* McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB *Note new time. Chris Newfield has been directly involved in current controversies about the future of universities. In this talk, he’ll first describe one of his best university experiences, which was directing...
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Jan
Organizing for Economic Democracy
Friday, January 31 / 1:00-5:30 PM Student Resource Building Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union Address to ask Congress to join him in fighting an “unconditional war on poverty” through full employment growth, an all-out “assault” on discrimination...
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30
Jan
Who Cares About Those Who Care? An Argument and Interaction
Eileen Boris (Hull Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, January 30, 2014 / 4:00 PM
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Jan
Master Artists from Japan
Three great artists from Japan, each representing a cultural tradition and its living practices, present a week of performances, demonstrations, and exhibits. Join one event or all with these master artists and their masterful offerings. RSVP required for all events, please RSVP here: http://masterartistsfromjapan.weebly.com/ Schedule of Events MONDAY...
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Jan
Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect
Thursday, January 23 / 6:00 PM Feminist Studies Seminar Room, South Hall The HumAnimality RFG will host a discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. We will consider how Chen draws on queer, critical race and affect theory to contribute to and push...
23
Jan
Helplessness
Deborah Nelson (English, University of Chicago) Thursday, January 23, 2014 / 4:00 PM
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Jan
Intimate Internationalisms: Toward an Anti-Imperialist Erotics of Feminist Solidarity
Tamara Lea Spira (Women's Studies, University of Oregon) Thursday, January 23 / 1:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631A South Hall This talk theorizes the relationship between 1970s U.S. Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. Dr....
23
Jan
CANCELLED Makom: The Place of Space in Jewish Cultures
Barbara Mann (The Jewish Theological Seminary) Thursday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event has been cancelled due to illness. Jews have historically been considered “the people of the book,” a rootless, diasporic collection of communities whose true “place” is...
23
Jan
Choreographic Performance and Politics in 20th century Urban Senegal: a Cosmopolitan History
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Anthropology, Oxford University) Thursday, January 23 / 2:30 PM SSMS 3145 Drawing on her recently published monograph (Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal), this presentation traces the development of the performing arts in Dakar, Senegal, from the 1930s to the contemporary...
21
Jan
The Po-ethics of Mediterranean Melancholia
Laura Sarnelli (IHC Visiting Scholar, University of Naples L'Orientale) Tuesday, January 21, 2014 / 4:00 PM
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Jan
Medical Ethics at Guantanamo Bay Detention Center
Sondra Crosby, MD (Medicine, Boston University) Thursday, January 16, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Crosby was one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives. She served as the director of medical care at the Boston Center for...
16
Jan
Call for Papers: Value of Care Graduate Research Workshops
Deadline: January 31, 2014
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Announcements
09
Jan
Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
Joan Tronto (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, January 9, 2014 / 4:00 PM
08
Jan
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations: Planning Grants
America’s Historical and Cultural Organizations (AHCO) grants provide support for museums, libraries, historic places, and other organizations that produce public programs in the humanities.
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