Ambassador Marc Ginsberg (CEO of OneVoice) Ghaith al-Omari (Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Wednesday, February 25 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Ambassador Marc Ginsberg and Ghaith al-Omari, two leading authorities on the Middle East will discuss U.S. foreign policy in the aftermath of...
Brenda Beck (Anthropology, University of Toronto) Wednesday, February 25 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the past decades Brenda Beck has brought a medieval Tamil folk epic, "the Story of Ponnivala", to life through film animation, producing a thirteen-hour series that has been...
Sunday, February 22, 2015 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edwin Seroussi (Musicology, Hebrew University) Jonathan Glasser (Anthropology, College of William and Mary) An international panel of scholars and musicians presents lectures on how Jewish and Muslim communities across the Middle East have...
MultiCultural Center Theater Saturday, February 21, 2015 / 8:00 PM Esti Kenan-Ofri (featured guest artist) The concert is free. Seating is limited; please plan to arrive early. A unique concert of shared Jewish and Muslim musical traditions from medieval Spain, modern Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Israel, and Yemen, presented...
Noah Zatz (Law, UCLA) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Zatz is the author of Poverty Unmodified: Critical Reflections on the Deserving/Underserving Distinction and Beyond Misclassification: Tackling the Independent Contractor Problem. Zatz’s research address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in...
Friday, February 20th, 2015 / 9:30 AM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive...
Gabrielle Hecht (History, University of Michigan) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 9:30 am Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room The Anthropocene has become a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that...
Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Philip G. Roeder (Political Science, UCSD) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall National-secession campaigns have been explained by development of ethnic identities, grievances over social and economic inequalities and dislocations, greed to seize wealth and power, and tactical opportunities to engage...
Dir. David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, 56 min. Special guest: Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission: $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. From the Big Bang...
Kristoffer Smemo (History, UCSB) Friday, February 13, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Smemo is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of liberal Republicans from the late 1930s through the early Reagan era. Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy....
Erik M. Conway (historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In their new book, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explore the coming of the Penumbra, the shadow of...
T.A. Barron (author, the Merlin Saga) Tuesday, February 10, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB T.A. Barron, highly acclaimed author of the Merlin Saga, The Ancient One, The Hero’s Trail, and many other books, finds great inspiration in the wonders of nature and...
Paul Mendes-Flohr (Modern Jewish History and Thought, University of Chicago Divinity School) Monday, February 9 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista One of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber was born in Vienna (1878) and died in...
Friday, February 6 / 12:00 PM SSMS 2100 Come meet graduate students and faculty working on energy issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. This will be an informal meeting. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Javiera Barandiaran, jba@global.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by IHC's...
Curtis LeBaron (Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Brigham Young University) Friday, February 6, 2015 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Research on routine dynamics has examined when and how varied performance of routines leads to the long-term stability or variation of the routines themselves. However, there has been less attention...
Kathleen Collins (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, February 5, 2015 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall, third floor Kathleen A. Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia...
Wednesday, February 4 / 1:00-2:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will meet Wednesday Feb. 4th, 1-2:30pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. Please come to this meeting to offer suggestions in regard to two current 4Humanities projects. One is the WhatEvery1Says project to...
David L. Kirp (Public Policy, UC Berkeley) Wednesday, February 4, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Renowned education author David Kirp speaks about higher education and his bestselling book, Improbable Scholars; The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools....
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Adam Hochschild (author, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 As we mark the centenary of the First World War, this epochal event is usually remembered as a bloody conflict between...
Anne Knowles (Geography, Middlebury College) Alberto Giordano (Geography, Texas State University) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM UCEN Flying A Room Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano (eds.) present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of...
Wang Haicheng (Art History, University of Washington) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Wang Haicheng, Associate Professor of Art History, at the University of Washington will speak on the topic of his new book, which is a comparative study of the origins and function of...
Catherine Fisk (University of California, Irvine School of Law) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fisk is the author of Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (2009), and Labor Law Stories (2005). Fisk’s research focuses on labor issues in...
Eric Lichtblau ( investigative reporter, The New York Times) Monday, January 26 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Eric Lichtblau unveils the secret history of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II, many of whom were scientists and spies...
Viola Miglio, Björn Birnir, Astradur Eysteinsson, Ander Caballero (UCSB, University of Iceland, Basque Government) Monday, January 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB McCune Room This event is an instantiation of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day, which officially takes place every year on February 21st commemorating the anniversary of the...
Steven Fine (History, Yeshiva University) Monday, January 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Since antiquity, scholars have almost universally -- and correctly — interpreted the menorah bearers of the Arch of Titus spoils panel as triumphal Romans celebrating the defeat of the Jews in the...
Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan) Jody Enders (Medieval Studies, UCSB) Marcella Munson (Florida Atlantic University) Saturday, January 24, 2015 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us on Saturday, January 24 at 9 a.m. in HSSB 6020 for a...
Friday, January 23-24 2015 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our conference addresses current debates surrounding untranslatability and its implications within the postcolonial context of globalization. We have invited scholars and translators from diverse disciplines and perspectives to reflect on the basic notions of...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...
dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...
Ruth Leys (History, John Hopkins University) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory. Among the questions to be posed are: "If the twentieth century was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will...
Michael Fried (History of Art, Johns Hopkins University) Wednesday, January 14, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Fried holds the J.R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. Fried is one of the most influential art historians, art critics, and...
Friday, February 27-28, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The objective of this interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together scholars who are currently working on histories of children and childhood primarily in Japan and are also situating these works within a larger transregional, transnational or global context....