Spring 2005

Spring 2005

Visiting Artist Program:
July 18-25. Lisa D’Amour, Playwright.

Visiting Artist Program:
July 17-30. Eve Beglarian, Composer.

CONFERENCE: Transliteracies 2005: Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading
Keynotes: Anne Balsamo, Walter Bender and Adrian Johns
June 17-18 / 8:30 AM – 5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

CONFERENCE: Nollywood Rising: Global Perspectives on the Nigerian Film Industry
Monday-Friday, June 13-17
Hilton Los Angeles/Universal City

TALK: Grammar Discovery in Sinhala: Corpus Linguistics and Field Methods
John Paolillo (Indiana University)
Friday, June 3 / 4:00 PM / Free / UCen Harbor Room, UCSB

CISM Marxism/Post-Structuralism Reading Discussion Group: Jazz Revolutions
Discussion led by Rob Wallace (UCSB)
Wednesday, June 1 / 2:00 PM / Free / Refreshments / 1835 Ellison Hall, UCSB

PERFORMANCE: Ensemble for Contemporary Music
Scott Deal (Percussionist)
Tuesday, May 31 / 8:00 PM / Lotte Lehmann Hall

TALK: The Future of American Judaism 350th Commemoration of Jewish Life in America
Jonathan D. Sarna (Brandeis University)
Tuesday, May 31 / 8:00 PM / Free / Congregation B’nai B’rith, 900 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara

Lecture Demonstration: Dancing to Live Instrumentalists
Scott Deal (Percussionist)
Friday, May 27 / 12:00 PM / Free / HSSB Modern Dance Studio

Composers Forum: From Creation to Concert Hall
Scott Deal (Percussionist)
Thursday, May 26 / 4:00 PM / Free / Music 1213

Canceled DEBATE: The 5th Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate The American News Media-Liberal or Conservative Bias?
Eric Alterman and Robert Novak
Wednesday, May 25 / 8:00PM /$10Public,$8Student / Campbell Hall, UCSB Canceled

ART SYMPOSIUM
Gary Baseman (Animator)
Wednesday, May 25 / 5:00 PM / Free / Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero Del Norte

Solo Concert
Scott Deal (Percussionist)
Tuesday, May 24 / 8:30 PM / Free / Old Little Theater

CISM Marxism/Post-Structuralism Reading Discussion Group
The Philosophy of Alain Badiou, a discussion led by Ly Chong Jalao
Monday May 23 / 2:00 – 4:00 PM / Free / IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056

CONFERENCE: Media Ownership: Research and Regulation Spring Rupe Conference
Saturday, May 21 / 9:00 AM / Free / Victoria Hall Theatre, 33 W. Victoria St., Santa Barbara

RESIDENCY: Todd London (New Dramatists, NYC)
Friday-Saturday, May 20-21, 2005

DISCUSSION: Playwrights in Process
Sarah Ruhl (Playwright)
Friday, May 20 / 4:00 PM / Free / Hatlen Theater, UCSB

Seminar: Violence in Land Disputes in Twelfth-Century Tuscany.
Chris Wickham (University of Birmingham)
Thursday, May 19 / 4:00 PM / Harbor Room, University center, UCSB.

TALK: Talking to Strangers: Race and Citizenship
Danielle Allen (University of Chicago)
Note Time Change: Thursday, May 19 / 4:00 PM / Free / Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB

READING: Talk To Strangers
Saul Williams (Poet)
Thursday, May 19 / 8:00 PM / $5 Public, $3 Student / Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero Del Norte

CONFERENCE: AfroGEEKS – Global Blackness and the Digital Public Sphere
May 19 – 21, 2005
All Events at Corwin Pavilion, on the UCSB campus

WORKSHOP: Telegram, A Writing Workshop
Saul Williams (Poet)
Wednesday, May 18 / 3:00 PM / Free / Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB

ART SYMPOSIUM
Llyn Foulkes (Kent Gallery, New York)
Wednesday, May 18 / 5:00 PM / Free / Isla Vista Theater, 960 Embarcadero Del Norte

SYMPOSIUM: Transcribing Now: Means and Meanings in the Transcription of Spoken Interaction
Sunday, May 15 / 8:00 AM-5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

CONFERENCE: American Identities & Global Crises: American Cultures & Global Contexts
George Lipsitz, keynote (UC Santa Cruz)
Saturday, May 14 / 9:00 AM / Free / Centennial House, UCSB

TALK: On Creaturely Life: From Rilke to Celan
Eric Santner (University of Chicago)
Friday, May 13 / 2:00 PM / Free /6309 Phelps Hall (Steinhauer Library), UCSB

Canceled: TALK: Britten’s Cosmicomedy: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Daniel Albright (Harvard University)
Tuesday, May 10 / 4:30 PM / Free / 1145 Music Building, UCSB Canceled

TALK: Backlash Blues: The Structural Adjustment of American Democracy
Vijay Prashad (Trinity College, Connecticut)
Monday, May 9 / 4:00 PM / Free / Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB

PANEL: Media Ownership & Media Bias: A Crisis in the Newsroom
Lionel Barber (Financial Times), Bill Keller (The New York Times), Jacob Weisberg (Slate), Virginia Postrel (Columnist) & Ann Louise Bardach (The Media Project)
Saturday, May 7/3:00 PM/$10 Public, $5 Student / Lobero Theater, 33 E. Canon Perdido St.

TALK: Riot Nights on Sunset Strip
Mike Davis (UC Irvine)
Friday, May 6 / 4:00 PM / Reception / Free / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB

FILM: THE GOVERNOR’S NEW CLOTHES
Mweze Dieudonne Ngangura (Award-winning African filmmaker)
Friday, May 6 / 6:00pm / Free / Buchanan Hall 1930

FILM & TALK: Imaginary Witness: Hollywood and the Holocaust
Michael Berenbaum (Former Director of the US Holocaust Memorial Museum)
Thursday, May 5 / 7:30 PM / Free / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB

TALK: Rich Man, Poor Man: the problems of letter 87 of Seneca
Brad Inwood (University of Toronto)
Friday, April 29 / 3:30 PM / Free / HSSB 4020

TALK: Latina/o Theatre Today
Anne García-Romero (Dramatic Art, UCSB), Caridad Svich (Theatre and Dance, UCSD) and Ricardo Bracho (Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Thursday, April 28 / 5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, Free

TALK: Character and Strategy: The Rhetorical Side of Culture
James Jasper
Wednesday, April 27 / 12:00 PM / Free / Ellison 2711, UCSB

SYMPOSIUM: AAU Task Force
Wednesday, April 27 / 10:00 AM / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Historians in Trouble
Jon Wiener (UC Irvine)
Monday, April 25 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Actaeon’s Coat
Laurie Shannon (Duke University)
Friday, April 22 / 2:00 PM / Free / English Department Seminar Room, South Hall, 2635

TALK: TRANSNATIONAL BLACK POLITICS AND THE LIMITS OF RACIAL REASONING
Michael Hanchard (Northwestern University)
Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 PM / Free / MultiCultural Center Theater

TALK: What’s the Matter with Reception Studies: On the Origins, Persistence and Limitations of Paradigm
Janice Radway (Duke University)
Thursday, April 21 / 1:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

SEMINAR: Derrida, Artaud and Theatre
Eric Prieto (French and Italian, UCSB)
Wednesday, April 20 / 4:30 PM / Free / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor

Canceled TALK: What’s Happening in Iraq Now
Haifa Zangana
Tuesday, April 19 / 4:00 PM / Free / Multicultural Center Theater Canceled

TALK: Probationary Americans: Contemporary Immigration Policies and the Shaping of Asian American Communities
John S.W. Park & Edward J.W. Park
Tuesday, April 19 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

CONFERENCE: Identity Formation in the Middle Ages: Images, Literature, and Culture
Saturday, April 16 / 9:30 AM-5:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Photographic Spirituality and the Creation of Resonance
Albert Chong
Wednesday, April 13 / 3:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Visibility, Hybridity, Exotica: or Music in the Real World
John Hutnyk (Goldsmiths College, London)
Tuesday, April 12 / 3:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Questions of Violence and Racism in a Diverse Society: The Findings of the Peruvian Truth and Reconciliation Commission
Carlos Ivan Degregori (University of Utrecht)
Monday, April 11 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Film, Music and Migration
Deniz Gokturk (UC Berkeley)
Friday, April 8 / 2:00 PM / Free / Graduate Student Lounge

TALK: Welfare Reform, Race, and the Sexual Demonization of Social Justice
Anna Marie Smith (Cornell University)
Thursday, April 7 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

SYMPOSIUM: Topics in Modernism
Christy Cannariato (English, UCSB) and Heidi Brevik (French, Brown University)
Friday, April 8 / 3:00 PM / Free /IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor

TALK: Public Domains: Politics and Performance
Annette Levine, Jason Scott and Ottiliana Rolandsson
Wednesday, April 6 / 4:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor

RECEPTION: Social Sciences Public Policymaker-in-Residence
Hannah-Beth Jackson
Tuesday, April 5 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor