Fall 2004

Fall 2004

TALK: Waves of Performance: Surf Music, Surf as Dance, Timothy Cooley & Judy Bauerlein
Tuesday, December 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

CISM Discussion: Discussion on selected essays by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouff, Ralph Lowi
Wednesday, December 1 / 4:00 PM / Ellison Hall room 1835 / Free / Refreshments

Visual Culture Research Focus Group Presentation, Laurie Monahan (UCSB)
Wednesday, December 1 / 4:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

TALK: South African Theatre in Post-Apartheid Democracy, Malcolm Purkey (Artistic Director,
Market Theatre of Johannesburg, South Africa)
Tuesday, November 23 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

TALK: Social Response, Galician Style?: The Aftermath of the “Prestige” Disaster, Gabriel Rei-Doval (Professor of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee)
Tuesday, November 23 / 3:30 PM / Building 387, Room 101, UCSB / Free

TALK: Douhet and Mrs. Dalloway: Rethinking Totality in the War Metropolis, Paul Saint-Amour (Associate Prof. of English, Pomona College)
Friday, November 19 / 3:00 PM / South Hall 2617, 2nd floor / Free

TALK: Absolute Music, Absolute Spirit: Re-examining Adorno on Late Beethoven, James Donelan (Writing Program, UCSB)
Thursday, November 18 / 4:00 pm / IHC’s NEW Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

READING GROUP MEETING: CISM, Led by Professor Bhaskar Sarkar (Film Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 17 / 4:00 PM / Ellison 1710 (Film Studies Seminar room), UCSB / Free / Refreshments

TALK: Media Ownership and Copyright, William Warner (Professor of English, Director of UC Digital Cultures Project, UCSB) & Dr. Sarah Pritchard (University Librarian, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 17 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

TALK: Women in Israel – The Myths, Realities and the Current Situation, Rina Bar-Tal (Chair, Israel Women’s Network)
Tuesday, November 16 / 7:30 PM / UCSB Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista / Free

TALK: Voices for Justice: Defending Human Rights in Afghanistan, Congo and Russia, Habib Rahiab, Maitre Honore Musoko & Natalia Zhukova (Human Rights Watch Defenders)
Tuesday, November 16 / 4:00 PM / Corwin Pavillion, UCSB / Free

POETRY READING: Zhang Er and Leonard Schwartz
Saturday, November 13 / 3:00 PM / Asian Gallery, Santa Barbara Museum of Art / Free

TALK: Launching Wars, Counting Votes and Investigating Masculinities: Feminist Post-Election, Cynthia Enloe (Clark University)
Wednesday, November 10 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

SYMPOSIUM: Cedric Robinson’s Radical Thought: Toward Critical Social Theories and Practice
November 5-7

TALK: Media Concentration and the Entertainment Industry, Stanton “Larry” Stein (Senior Partner of Alschuler Grossman Stein & Kahan LLP)
Wednesday, November 3 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free

TALK: The Rhetoric of Class in the Age of Globalization, Michael Denning (Yale)
Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

TALK: Living Better Electrically: Ronald Reagan, General Electric, and the Fiat of Electricity, Timothy Raphael (Rutgers University)
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor/ Free

TALK: Judaism and Islam: A Conversation, A. James Rudin (American Jewish Committee) Akbar Ahmed (American University)
Sunday, October 24 / 3:00 PM Campbell Hall, UCSB / Free

SYMPOSIUM: HOME FREE? Isla Vista: Classrooms of the Community
Kris Miller Fisher (College of Creative Studies), Harry Reese (Art), and Kim Yasuda (Art)
Wednesday, October 20 / 7:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

IHC OPEN HOUSE
Wednesday, October 19 / 4:00 PM / Free / Refreshments
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor

TALK: Feeds, Funnels, Filters and US: The Public’s Interest in the Media Environment,
Patricia Aufderheide (Professor in the School of Communication and Director of the Center for Social Media, American University)
Monday, October 18 / 4:00 PM /McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

TALK: Bodies in Commotion: Disability and Contemporary Performance, Petra Kuppers (Bryant College) & Carrie Sandahl (Florida State University)
Tuesday, October 12 / 4:00 PM / HSSB 1105 (“Voice Room”), in the Performing Arts Wing* / Free / Refreshments

SYMPOSIUM: Topics in Modernism, Bill Carter (Germanic, Slavic and Semitic Studies Department), Suzanne Braswell (French Department), and Carolyn Butcher (English Department) UCSB
Friday, October 8 / 3:00 PM / 2617 South Hall, UCSB / Free

TALK: Thomas Frank, Class War and Culture War in 21st Century America
Thursday, October 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB, 6th Floor / Free

LECTURE: Ambassador Dennis Ross, The Missing Peace: The Inside Story of the Fight for Middle East Peace
Tuesday September 28th / 8:00 p.m. / Campbell Hall

TALK: William Germano, vice president and publishing director for Routledge in New York.
Tuesday September 28th / 4:00 p.m. / McCune Conference Room, 6th floor HSSB