Spring 2006

Spring 2006

TALK: Doing Race Research in Education in the New Civil Rights Era
Mica Pollock (Graduate School of Education, Harvard)
Thursday, April 6 /12:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater

Music as Media Research Focus Group
Co-Conveners John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, April 7 / 12:00 PM / Friday, April 28 / 12:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB

CONFERENCE: 2006 UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Conference
Manuscript Culture in the Middle Ages: Production, Transmission & Use
Saturday, April 8 / 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

2 TALKS: Interdisciplinary
Archaeology Lectures
Monday, April 10 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: The Resurgence of Anti-Semitism in Europe
Bernard-Henri Lévy
Monday, April 10 / 8:00 PM / Campbell Hall

TALK: Wal-Mart: The Face of Twenty-First-Century Capitalism
Nelson Lichtenstein (History, UCSB) Das Williams (Santa Barbara City Council)
Wednesday, April 12 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SYMPOSIUM: Sexism and War
Thursday, April 13 /3:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Moderated by V. Spike Peterson (Political Science, University of Arizona)

TALK: Ornament III: Graduate Colloquium
Emily Davis and Jacob Berman
Friday, April 14 / 3:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB

TALK: Taiwan Literature and Beyond: Four Writers on the Fictions of Literature of the Realties of the Taiwan Literary Scene
Shih Shu-ch’ing, Ping Lu, Luo Yijun & Li Zishu
Thursday, April 20 / 5:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Re-membering Revolution: Recent Trends in Cuban Drama
Yael Prizant (Theater, UCLA)
Thursday, April 20 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C

CONFERENCE: 9th Annual Workshop on American Indigenous Languages
Friday, April 21 / 9:00 AM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

VISITING ARTIST: California EAR Unit
Saturday, April 22 / 7:00 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Tickets: $30 / UCSB Students $10

PERFORMANCE: An Evening with Madame F
Claudia Stevens
Monday, April 24 / 8:00 PM / Hatlen Theatre

TALK: Political Sense and Sensibility: Gramsci to Bourdieu
Patrick McGee (English, Louisiana State University)
Friday, April 28 / 3:00 PM South Hall 2635

TALK: Performance and the New Social Order
Marko Peljhan (Art, UCSB)
Tuesday, May 2 / 5:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB

SYMPOSIUM: The Global Cultures in Transition Research Initiative’s Symposium on Alternative Networks
Thursday, May 4 / 2:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SCREENING: Dangerous Liaisons: Israel and the U.S.
Jacqueline Rose (English, Queen Mary University)
Monday, May 8 / 2:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Praying for Pardon: Devotional Indulgences in Late Medieval England
Robert N. Swanson (History, Univ. Birmingham)
Tuesday, May 9 / 4:00 PM / Lobero Room, UCen

PROJECT PRESENTATION AND DISCUSSION: A Digital Drawing Model The Temple of Artemis Project
Fikret K. Yegül (Professor of History of Art and Architecture, UCSB)
4 pm Tuesday, May 9 / History of Art and Architecture Dept. Seminar Room, 2622 Arts Building

TALK: Tibet’s Imagined Geography: Definitions from the Periphery
Gray Tuttle (Tibetan Studies, Columbia)
Wednesday, May 10 / 3:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

CONFERENCE: Translation in a Non-Literary Age
Wednesday – Friday, May 10 – 12 / 4:00 PM
Multicultural Center Theater / Flying A Room, UCen

DISCUSSION: Grants and the UC System
John Hammond (Research Development Coordinator, IHC)
Thursday, May 11 / 1:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB

SEMINAR: Purging Purgatory:
Indulgences in England under Henry VIII
Robert N. Swanson (History, Univ. Birmingham)
Thursday, May 11 / 4:00PM / Lobero Room, UCen

LECTURE AND ROUNDTABLE: Frenchness and the African Diaspora
Charles Tshimanga-Kashama,
Didier Gondola, and Peter Bloom
Friday, May 12 / 4:00 PM / South Hall 2635

TALK: Reporter’s Notebook
Nancy Cleeland (Journalist, Los Angeles Times)
Friday, May 12 / 7:00 PM / Flying A Studios Room, UCen

CONFERENCE: Labor and Employment
Research Fund Graduate Student Conference
Saturday, May 13 / 9:30 AM – 7:00 PM / 4th floor, HSSB

CONFERENCE: Racing Across Borders: National and Transnational Narratives
Keynote: Shelley Streeby (Literature, UCSD)
Saturday, May 13 / 9:00 AM / Centennial House

WORKSHOP: Subaltern & the Popular: The Body
Sunday-Sunday, May 14-15
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SCREENING: Network:The Antiquities Trade
(Dir. Andreas Apostolidis, 2006)
Monday, May 15 / 5:00 PM / History Department, 4020 HSSB

TALK: The Poet’s Duty in Time of War
Sojourner Kincaid Rolle
Tuesday, May 16 / 12:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

VISITING ARTIST: Trost Architekti and Projekt ATOL
In conjunction with the Makrolab Installation
May 16 – 25, 2006 / Campus Point, UCSB

TALK: The Ethics of Promiscuity
Brad Epps (Harvard University)
Thursday, May 18 / 3:00pm / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: New Playwrights and New Acting Paradigms in Argentina
Gustavo Geirola (Spanish, Whittier College)
Thursday, May 18 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C

TALK: Lyndon Johnson’s Living-Room War: The Johnson Administration, TV News, and Vietnam
Chester Pach (History, Ohio University)
Thursday, May 18 / 7:00 PM / McCune, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Race, Crime, and Citizenship
Kimberle Williams Crenshaw (Law, Columbia & UCLA)
Thursday May 18 / 5:00 PM / MCC Theater

PANEL: Intersections In Music Research: Perspectives From The Humanities And Social Sciences
Timothy Taylor (UCLA) and Peter Vorderer (USC)
Friday, May 19 / 12:00 PM / 2252 HSSB

The Whitey Voice: Linguistic agency, (anti)racism, and the discursive construction of Whiteness in a Black American barbershop
H. Samy Alim
Friday, May 19 / 1:30 PM /Multicultural Center Theater

TALK: Futurist Cinema, Literature, and War: A. G. Bragaglia’s “Thais” (1917)
Lucia Re (Professor of Italian, UCLA)
Friday, May 19th / 4:00PM / South Hall 2635

CONFERENCE: UC Institute for Research in the Arts
State of the Arts Conference
Friday, May 19 – Saturday, May 20
www.ucira.ucsb.edu

PERFORMANCE: The Monument Project
Luis Alfaro (performer, playwright) with Nuestra Voz
Friday, May 19 / 4:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista

TALK: Mapping the Makrolab Territories
Brian Holmes
Saturday, May 20 / 3:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: The International Polar Foundation
Johan Berte
Monday, May 22 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Powerful Performatives: From “America” to “Hemispheric”
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies, NYU)
Tuesday, May 23 / 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Through the Looking Glass: Women in the Exodus Narrative
Avivah Gottlieb Zornberg
Tuesday, May 23 / 7:30 PM / Congregation
B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road

PANEL: On the Verge: how new plays and
playwrights emerge in the American Theatre
John Walch, Pier Carlo Talenti, and Risa Brainin
Friday, May 25 / 4:00 – 5:30 PM / Hatlen Theatre

DISSCUSSION: Living with the War on Terror
Paul Amar, Lisa Parks and Lisa Hajjar
Thursday, May 25 / 3:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

ARTIST TALK: Part Asian, 100% Hapa
Kip Fulbeck (Art, UCSB)
Thursday, June 1 / 4:00 PM / Multicultural Center Theater

SCREENING: Hiding is the First Act
Brian Springer (Art, UCSB)
Thursday, June 1 / Reception 5:00 PM Screening 6:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

SYMPOSIUM: Topics in Modernism
Andrea Fontenot and Rebecca Mitchell
Friday, June 2 / 3:00 PM / South Hall 2635

FESTIVAL: Chilla Vista
Sunday, June 4 / 12:00-8:00PM
People’s Park & Embarcadero Hall

TALK: The Belated Witness:Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival
Michael G. Levine (German, Rutgers)
Sunday, June 4 / 3:00 PM / Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara

TALK: The History of Coal Oil Point Natural Reserve
Jill Jensen (History, UCSB)
Wednesday, June 4 / 4:00 PM / Phelps 1160

TALK & WORKSHOP: Praxis on Parade in the AIDS Industrial Complex
Pato Hebert, (Institute for Gay Men’s Health)
Wednesday, June 7 / 5:00 PM / Dolores Huerta Room, 1623 South Hall

TALK: Literary Fat Rabbis re(ci)divivus: Hellenism in Jewish Babylonia
Daniel Boyarin (Near Eastern Studies and Rhetoric, UCB)
Monday, June 12 / 3:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

CONVENTION: The Nollywood Convention 2006: Nollywood, African Cinema and Beyond
Los Angeles, California, USA
June 15 – 17, 2006