Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The topic for the February 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG is (Gestalt) Psychology and Architecture. Readings by Geoffrey Scott and Rudolf Arnheim initiate discussions about how architecture and architectural detail determine...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fradenburg will discuss the importance of expression and interpretation -- of embodied meaning-making -- in autopoietic activity generally, and will focus on the particular example of the sigh as a form of...
Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm) February 10, 2016 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Join the Health, Medicine and Care RFG will be workshopping a paper by Visiting Scholar Dr. Maria Jansson (University of Stockholm). Title: "THE ENEMY WITHIN: Protection, Visibility and the criminalization of HIV" (for a copy...
Ariela Gross (Gould School of Law, USC) Monday, February 8, 2016, 4:00 PM SS&MS 2135 This talk, jointly authored by Chantal Thomas and Ariela Gross, critiques some publicists and jurists involved in the contemporary campaign against slavery and in the memorialization of the Atlantic slave trade for the...
Maurice Isserman (History, Hamilton College) Friday, February 5, 2016 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Isserman will speak about his forthcoming book, Continental Divide: A History of American Mountaineering (W.W. Norton & Co, 2016). He is the author of Fallen Giants: A History of Himalayan Mountaineering from the...
Melanie Joy (Sociology, University of Massachusetts Boston) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 5:00 PM Harold Frank Hall 1104 Do you believe that bacon makes everything better? Perhaps you’re a strict vegetarian, or even the more rare and spectacular vegan? Regardless of label, are you truly aware of what...
Gesa Kirsch (English, Bentley University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Gesa Kirsch will examine how the brain has been socially constructed as both metaphor and anatomy in medical history. Specifically, she investigates the ways...
Tiffany Willoughby-Herard (African American Studies, UC Irvine) Wednesday, February 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 The presentation discusses a key historiographical intervention about so-called "cheap labor". What did calls for the protection of "civilized labor" and a "white wage" mean to the history of race...
Moderator: John Hajda (Associate Director, SAGE Center) Participants: Julie Carlson (English, UCSB) Scott Grafton (Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join UCSB faculty members in dialogue about their current...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 / 7:00 PM Panelists will include: Donna Beal (MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter) Patricia Cline Cohen (History, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Gwen Morse (Ph.D., R.N.) Moderator: Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies, UCSB) UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is...
Shaul Bassi (Ca' Foscari University of Venice, Italy) Tuesday, January 26, 2016 / 8:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Two landmark anniversaries will coincide in 2016: the 400th anniversary of William Shakespeare’s death and the 500th anniversary of the establishment of the Jewish Ghetto of Venice, a place that...
Friday-Tuesday, January 22-26, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB #AfterTahrir conference at UCSB. 4 days, 21 sponsors, 28 participants, 18 short films, a critical commemoration of #Jan25 This four-day research collaboration workshop will take place at UC Santa Barbara on the five-year anniversary of the Tahrir Square Uprisings...
Mary Karr (The Liars’ Club, The Art of Memoir) Wednesday, February 10 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE...
Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, January 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellision Hall Faculty from different UCSB departments will speak about how their disciplines study identity and the courses available in their departments. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, Notre Dame) Thursday, January 21, 2106 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human evolutionary history is ongoing, human creativity is expanding, and human populations continue to grow. Getting a handle on “the human” in the Anthropocene is no easy matter. Inter, or even...
Susan Buck-Morss (Cornell University & CUNY Graduate Center) Tuesday, January 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking the origins of three monotheisms within one temporal arc makes visible a changed structure of history that not only critiques Western-centrism but offers an alternative, the philosophical...
Colin Gordon (History, University of Iowa) January 15, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Colin Gordon, Professor of History at the University of Iowa, demonstrates the pedagogical and research value of his new web site, "Growing Apart," which charts social and economic inequality in the United States during the...
Seth Horowitz (The Listening Program) Thursday, January 14, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We build the world from our senses. We see color and form, hear sound and vibration, feel temperature and texture, each sense taking a specific form of energy to...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB New participants welcome! In our first meeting of the quarter we'll workshop a member's project proposal and begin discussing our book selection for the quarter: More Than Medicine. Confirmed RFG members' book copies will...
Benjamin Doherty, Mahmoud Said, Laila Shereen Sakr (R-Shief, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2016/4:00 PM 2135 SSMS R-Shief is an archival and visualizing media system with a five-year archive of over twenty-six billion social media posts (Twitter, Facebook, Instagram, YouTube, and sites) in more than seventy languages. It has...
Megan Carney (Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle) Tuesday, January 12, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB How does the experience of hunger and food insecurity contribute to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders? What are the conditions displacing increasing numbers of...
Adnan A. Naseemullah (South Asia and International Relations, King's College London) Friday, January 8, 2016 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall This lecture will discuss contemporary industrial development in a new era of drastically constricted state capacity, from the point of view of the manufacturing...
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Thursday, January 7, 2016 / 5:00 PM The January 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on spatial orientation and wayfinding strategies humans employ when encountering or traversing different types of spaces. We will discuss issues and problems...