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Feb
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 19 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
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Feb
Migrants, Ethnicity, and Membership in Europe: The View from Germany
Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Friday, February 19 / 12:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Paul Spickard is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in comparative international perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and...
19
Feb
Learning from the Codex
Johanna Drucker Friday, February 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our understanding of the way the graphical organization of codex books supports functionality has increased dramatically in the era of digital design activity. The analysis of format features and design elements in print, once approached...
17
Feb
India and Gaugin’s Tahitian Nudes: Mapping Modernism In A Global Frame
Saloni Mathur (Art History, University of California, Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 17 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Mathur’s lecture revisited the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on...
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17
Feb
Facs of Life
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson Wednesday, February 17 / 6:00 PM Isla Vista Theater II Click here for more info about Facs of Life Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are the co-directors of Facs of Life, a feature documentary on Deleuze. Inspired by, and making creative use of, the...
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17
Feb
Oil, Water, and the Sacred: Super/Natural Resources in Francophone Postcolonial Fiction
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington) Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone...
16
Feb
Desert Studies: An Art-Centered Initiative
Dick Hebdige (Art Studio, UCSB) Tuesday, February 16, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…” Reyner Banham, Scenes from America Deserta In January 2009 the UC Institute...
13
Feb
The Mitrou Archaeological Project: 2005 Field Season
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB) Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
12
Feb
The Wild Hunt
Friday, February 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
12
Feb
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 12 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
11
Feb
The Place of Liberal Arts in a Public University
Thursday, February 11, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea...
10
Feb
Asian Shakespeares: Theatricality and Authenticity in an Age of Localization
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance 2517 Shakespeare is a frequent traveler to Asia, and for nearly two centuries, East Asian theater directors and filmmakers have engaged Shakespeare in a wide range of contexts...
10
Feb
Water, Oil, and the Global Production of Islamic Sacred Space: Mecca in Modernity
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, February 10, 2010 / 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities—Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research,...
10
Feb
Under the U.N. Flag: The International Community and the Genocide in Srebrenica
Hasan Nuhanovic Wednesday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Orfalea Center Seminar Room, 1005 Robertson Gym Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of...
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09
Feb
Trouble the Water
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 9, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new...
08
Feb
Food Studies RFG Paper Workshop
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB) Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 3122 Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in...
08
Feb
Covering the Israeli-Palestinian Conflict in 2010: A Report from the Ground
Ethan Bronner (Jerusalem Bureau Chief, New York Times) Monday, February 8 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times will combine diplomatic and political analysis with behind-the-scenes stories from his reporting to explore the challenges faced by a...
08
Feb
Stalin’s Great Terror: Historic Photo Documents and Memorial Culture Today
Tomasz Kizny Monday, February 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied...
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05
Feb
A Serious Man
Friday, February 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
05
Feb
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 5 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
05
Feb
Missing Link: China and Global Struggles Against Walmart
Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) Friday, February 5 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept....
04
Feb
Muslims in Europe: Do They Face Higher Barriers To Mobility?
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford) Thursday, February 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Among his many influential books and articles are Nations, States and Violence...
03
Feb
Constituting the U.S. Empire-State and White Supremacy
Moon-Kie Jung (Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Against the prevalent assumption that the United States is a nation-state, the US is reconceptualized here as an empire-state. In addition to being descriptively more apt, this shift provides a...
03
Feb
The Iranian Presidential Election and the Emergence of the Green Movement
Mohammad Amjad Wednesday, February 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy, he received his PhD in...
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03
Feb
Moving Technologies: Global Icons in South Asia
Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Icons have a glittering life in South Asia, both as enduring images and as fleeting ephemera. We have lengthy and erudite studies of liturgical icons as well as...
03
Feb
Chicano Studies: The Genesis of a Discipline
Michael Soldatenko (Chicano Studies, Cal State Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1623 Professor Michael Soldatenko will talk on his newly published book Chicano Studies: The Genesis of a Discipline. Professor Soldatenko is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal...
03
Feb
Taking to the Streets: Women, Makeup, and the Public Sphere
Susan Keller (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The figure of a woman applying makeup in public was one of the quintessential images of modernity in the early twentieth century, and also highly scandalous. This talk explores the ways...
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02
Feb
New Progressive Religious Movement
Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 2 / 2:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Professor Roof is a leading sociologist of American religion. He will be speaking about his current project on the “new progressive religious movement,” particularly in southern California. Using a multi-dimensional methodology...
29
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 29 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
29
Jan
Where the Wild Things Are
Friday, January 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
29
Jan
“Bellas Melodías”: Failed Reification of a Newcomer’s Experience in a Target Language Community
Michele Back (Hispanic Studies, UC-Riverside) Friday, January 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 One way in which newcomers may access a target language community is by emphasizing the relevance of their own life experiences to that community, in this way validating these experiences and creating a shared meaning...
29
Jan
The Importance of Hubert Harrison (1883-1927): The Voice of Harlem Radicalism
Jeffrey Perry (independent scholar Friday, January 29 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is...
28
Jan
The Methodological Challenges of Researching Postcolonial African Histories
Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) Thursday, January 28 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Within the field of African history, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa’s postcolonial era, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor presents significant methodological...
27
Jan
Sinister Yogis
David White (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building David White discussed his 2009 book Sinister Yogis, a historical reconstruction of the history of yoga through the lens of its agents, the yogis of...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
22
Jan
improvability. : Christmas in July, in January
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
22
Jan
Michael Jackson’s This Is It
Friday, January 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 25 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
21
Jan
The Future of the University: Equity and Access
Thursday, January 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A panel discussion treating the futures of racial, ethnic, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee "deregulation." Will the University of California still serve all the people...
20
Jan
Reading the Female Ghost: Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan on Stage and Page
Satoko Shimazaki (Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado) Wednesday, January 20 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tsuruya Nanboku’s Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (Eastern Seaboard Highway, Ghost Story at Yotsuya, 1825), featuring the disfigured ghost of Oiwa, is one of the most sensational and visually oriented...
15
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
15
Jan
Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age
Larry Bartels (Political Science, Princeton) Friday, January 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor,...
13
Jan
“Teaching the World to Sing in Harmony?”: Music, Advertising, and Multiculturalism
Kara Attrep (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, January 13 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1971 Coca-Cola released its now iconic advertisement, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." This advertisement and its accompanying jingle became hits within the United States. Besides its appeal as...
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12
Jan
Up the Yangtze
Introduction by Ronald Egan (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be...
11
Jan
On the Look and Logos of Zen Art
Greg Levine (Art History, UC Berkeley) Monday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it, or part of it, in Zen Art, though the types of things we look at, the way we talk about them,...
09
Jan
The Kushites Strike Back!
Ancient Egypt’s New Kingdom Empire & the Nubian Dynasty
Stuart Smith, (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, January 9 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
08
Jan
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 8 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General ...
08
Jan
Zombieland
Friday, January 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 11 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
06
Jan
Language in Post-Soviet Central Asia and Azerbaijan: Policies and Processes
William Fierman (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University) Wednesday, January 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor, Ellison Hall William Fierman is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Fierman is the author of Language Planning and National Development:...
06
Dec
Judaism as a World Religion in a Global Universe
Harold M. Schulweis, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA Sunday, December 6, 2009 / 8:45 a.m. / $5.00 Admission to Breakfast and Talk Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara...
18
Nov
Engaging the Visual in the Anthropology of South Asia
Mary Hancock (Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This presentation focused on the history of visual anthropology and its current theoretical and methodological agendas. Particular attention was paid to visual anthropology in/of...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
17
Nov
Why Oil and Water?
Catherine Gautier (Geography, UCSB) Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the keynote address for the IHC’s Oil + Water series. Unsustainable use of oil and water by a rapidly growing global population is creating a serious environmental security challenge....
17
Nov
Earth Days
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students Visually stunning and vastly entertaining, Earth Days looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement – from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration...
12
Nov
Southern California’s Oil: Past and Futures
Thursday, November 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM SCREENING: There Will be Blood Thursday, November 12 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary panel introduces a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award winning film There Will Be Blood. Panelists question what role oil has played and...
12
Nov
An Evening with Anita Diamant
An Evening with Anita Diamant 8:00 p.m. / Thursday, November 12, 2009 / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
10
Nov
No Impact Man
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students In research for his next book, newly self-proclaimed environmentalist and author Colin Beavan vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year: no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more...
08
Nov
Sexuality and Islam
Sunday, November 8, 2009 On November 8, 2009, New Sexualities hosted a transdisciplinary, international workshop and panel on Sexuality and Islam in Europe and the Middle East. Panelists Paul Amar (Global Studies, UCSB) Janet Afary (Religious Studies, UCSB), and Fatima El-Tayeb (African American Literature and Culture,...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
06
Nov
Imagining Design After Oil
November 6, 2009 / 9am - 5pm Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 6020 Humanities Social Science Building University of California Santa Barbara This event is free, and open to the public. ABOUT What does the future hold for design after oil? This study day will explore new materials, ideas, policies and design solutions...
05
Nov
The Future of the University
Thursday, November 5, 2010 / 3:00-5:30 PM 3:00 PM Jennifer Washburn (author of University Inc.), "University Inc.: Why Public Knowledge and Public Education Are At Risk" 4:00 PM David Marshall (Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science, and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB), "The Plight...
04
Nov
The Cove: Filming and Thinking though the Dolphin-Human Interaction
Simon Hutchins (Expedition Director on The Cove) Toni Frohoff (marine mammal biologist) Moderator: Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 4, 2009 / 5:00 PM IV Theater II Simon Hutchins spent 7 years in the Canadian Air Force as an avionics technician, before being posted from his home...
03
Nov
The Cove
(dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2009) Tuesday, November 3, 2009 / 4:00 PM IV Theater I Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, including renowned former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, and expedition director Simon Hutchins infiltrate a cove near Taiji, Japan to expose both a shocking instance...
29
Oct
The Future of the University: The Future of Graduate Education in the Humanities
Thursday, October 29, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University...
29
Oct
Under the Shadows of Argos: The Classical Greek village of Lerna in the Peleponesse
Brice Erickson (Classics, UCSB) Wednesday, October 29 / 5:00 pm 2001a HSSB, Anthropology Seminar Room...
27
Oct
The Year Before the Flood
Ned Sublette Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Author and musician Ned Sublette will present a talk based on his new book,The Year Before the Flood. Written a year before Hurricane Katrina, Sublette's memoir is a companion volume to his acclaimed history...
21
Oct
How America Can Bring Arabs and Israelis Together Towards Peace and Coexistence
David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director for the American Task Force on Palestine Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
20
Oct
Flow – For Love of Water
(Irena Salina, 2009, 93 min.) Tuesday, October 20, 2009 / 9:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution and human rights. Interviews with...
20
Oct
Crude
(Joe Berlinger, 2009, 104 min.) Tuesday, October 20 , 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This cinéma-vérité feature is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet, the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case in...
19
Oct
Sustainable Seas – The Vision, The Reality
Sylvia Earle Monday, October 19, 2009 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall UCSB Admission $10 general / $8 student Oceanographer and 2009 TED Prize-winner Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. She has served as the chief scientist of the National...
24
May
Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo
Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote address: Ama Ata Aidoo Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater...
22
May
Beyond Orientalist Frameworks: Towards a Religious Studies Model of Buddhism and Islam in Ladakh
Rohit Singh (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 22 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on historical and popular sources, the lecture examined representations of Buddhist and Islamic traditions in Ladakh. Most sources depict the region as a Buddhist...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
19
May
Who Are the Real Chosen People? The Meaning of Chosenness in Judaism, Christianity and Islam
Rabbi Reuven Firestone Professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Tuesday, May 19, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista...
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May
The Cooking Show con Karimi & Comrades: A Live Cooking Performance for Your Heart, Mind, Stomach & Funny Bone
Tuesday, May 19 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Admission at the door: $5 general / students free Savor a tasty theatrical experience with revolutionary chef Mero Cocinero Karimi and his culinary comrades as they dish up Iranian-Guatemalan-Filipino food, cultural consciousness and humor. Chef...
15
May
Embodying the Divine in the Minaksi-Sundaresvara Temple
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 15 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In Hindu liturgical texts and architectural treatises a temple space is understood as the embodied presence of the deity who is housed within, and the deity is...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
13
May
Rebel Without a Cuisine: Julia Child and the Making of the American Cook
Laura Shapiro Wednesday, May 13 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Julia Child is most often celebrated as the TV star who introduced Americans to the glories of French cuisine. But while her training and expertise were French, Julia couldn't stand...
08
May
An evening with filmmaker Les Blank
Screenings of All In This Tea (2007)and Yum, Yum, Yum! (1990) This event has been cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire. Fresh from a retrospective screening of his films at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the filmmaker’s filmmaker and documentarian Les...
07
May
NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters
CANCELLED: NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters This event is cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters come the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to present an afternoon of radio, readings and some fine Hidden Kitchen cooking. Hidden Kitchens, ...
06
May
Silence and Abstinence: Axes in Religious Belief and Practice
Luis Oscar Gómez (Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico) Michaelsen Endowed Visiting Scholar Wednesday, May 6 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Silence and abstinence appear in the ideals and practices of a wide variety of religious traditions. Following...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
19
Apr
Four Seasons Lodge
Screening Followed by Panel Discussion Featuring local Holocaust survivors, Stan Ostern and Edith Ostern, and photographer Rick Nahmias moderated by Dr. Richard Hecht...
22
Mar
Being the Hands of God: Jewish Perspectives on America’s Social Justice Agenda
Rabbi David Saperstein Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC Sunday, March 22, 2009 / 3:00 p.m. / Free Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara Co-presented with the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at UCSB as part of its...
27
Feb
Devotional Fanscapes in Popular Culture: Rajinikanth Fan Club—A New Political Force?
Shalini Kakar (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, February 27 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture investigated the phenomenon of “devotional fandom” in the Rajinikanth Fan Club (RFC), exploring the ways in which the over 60,000 fan club...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
23
Feb
The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages
Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food...
05
Dec
Chaturanga
Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director) Friday, December 5 / 7:00 pm 1701 Theater Dance Chaturanga, based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore, is Suman Mukhopadhyay's second feature film. It is being screened at this year’s Montreal World Film Festival and Sao Paolo International Film Festival. Suman Mukhopadhyay has worked...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
03
Nov
Punches n Ponytails
Pankaj Rishi Kumar (Director) Monday, November 3 / 7:00 pm 1004 Girvetz Pankaj Rishi Kumar’s film is a journey into the sweet science of boxing as practiced by two Indian women. The film unfolds as they wrestle with their day-to-day existence as boxers and the conflicts...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
09
Jun
The Buddha as Embodied in Gnosis: Revisioning the History of Buddha Body Conceptions
Michael Radich (Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Monday, June 9 / 4:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture presented a significant revisioning of the history of Buddhist notions of the Buddha’s bodies. Through an examination of evidence from three disparate sources that...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
23
May
Disciplining the Body: Reflections on Embodiment in Jain Traditions
Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden) Friday, May 23 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture examined constructions of embodiment in Jain traditions. Particular attention was given to the dietary regimens, sexual practices, purity regulations, and psychophysical disciplines through which...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
16
Apr
Bodies on Display: Religious Processions in the South Asian Diaspora
Knut A. Jacobsen (History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway) Wednesday, April 16 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored the public display of religious bodies in various types of processions in the contemporary South Asian diaspora, with a particular focus...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
08
Mar
A Little Night Conversation
Stephen Sondheim & Frank Rich Saturday, March 8 / 4:00 PM The Granada General public $48.00 - $68.00 / UCSB Students $22.00 Legendary theatrical composer Stephen Sondheim will appear in an on-stage interview with author and New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich. Together they will...
07
Mar
What Not to Do with a Tantrika: Some Notes on Ethnography in India
June McDaniel (Religious Studies, College of Charleston) Friday, March 7 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored important issues concerning ethnographic fieldwork methods in the study of South Asian religions. Drawing on her fieldwork in West Bengal, McDaniel discussed a range...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
03
Mar
Conflict in Congo – The Challenge of Visual Journalism
Marcus Bleasdale Monday, March 3 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Widely published in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic magazines, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has been covering the brutal exploitation of The Democratic Republic of Congo and its natural resources for nearly a decade. Bleasdale is...
03
Mar
Il Postino: The World of Antonio Skármeta
Antonio Skármeta Monday, March 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The acclaimed Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta whose novel Burning Patience was made into the award-winning film Il Postino, based on an episode in the life of the famous poet Pablo Neruda, will show...
20
Feb
Vigrahas and Murtis: Observations on the Bodies of the Gods in the Mahabharata
Kendall Busse (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 20 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture examined the nature of divine embodiment in the Mahabharata through an analysis of the terminology used to portray divine bodies and a comparison...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
30
Jan
Globalization of Services and the Making of a New Global Service Labor Force in India’s Silicon Valley
Amandeep Sandhu (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 30 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Amandeep Sandhu’s lecture presented his research findings on cultural changes among Indian call center workers performing global service work in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. His lecture...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
05
Jun
Is it Really the End of Everything?
David Summers (History of Art, University of Virginia) Tuesday, June...
16
May
You Said It Wouldn’t Hurt: Revisualizing (South Asian) History through the Grotesque
Rajkamal Kahlon (IHC Visiting Artist) Wednesday, May 16 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Rajkamal Kahlon is a New York-based artist whose work interrogates forms of colonial and racial authority in her dialectical engagement with historical texts. Kahlon’s lecture focused on her current...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
09
May
New Voices, New Challenges, and New Opportunities in Hindu Studies
Tracy Pintchman (Religious Studies, Loyola University Chicago) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In recent decades a great deal of attention has been devoted to critiquing nineteenth and early twentieth century Western Indological scholarship and its Orientalist and colonialist discourses...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
03
May
Standpoint, Subjectivity, and Gender: Wittgenstein’s House for His Sister in Vienna, 1926-1928
Whitney Davis (Art History, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Ludwig Wittgenstein's house for his sister Margarethe (Gretl) Stonborough-Wittgenstein, completed in Vienna in 1928, has often been seen as an expression of his philosophy of language. More likely, ...
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Apr
Herbert
Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director) Tuesday, April 24 / 6:00 pm 1701 Theater Dance Suman Mukhopadhyay’s debut feature film Herbert is based on Nabarun Bhattacharya’s novel of the same name, which won the highest literary prize in India. The film has received numerous awards, including the Dhaka International...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
16
Apr
Whose Renaissance? The Peripatetic Life of Objects in the Era of Globalization
Claire Farago (History ...
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Apr
Britain’s Changing Religious Landscape: The Impact of South Asian Migration
Judith M. Brown (History, Balliol College, Oxford University) Erasmus Society Lecture Series, Westmont College Thursday, April 12 / 7:00 pm Founders Room, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara The lecture explored the impact of South Asian immigrants, including Muslims, Sikhs, and Muslims, in transforming...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
09
Mar
Now “Ladies” Also Sing: Gender Politics in Post-1990 Biraha, A North Indian Folk Music Tradition
Scott Marcus (Music, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, March 9 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Biraha is a folk music genre of the Bhojpuri region of North India situated across eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar. The genre, created in the early...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
05
Mar
What is Sikh Sacred Music? The Structure and Role of Music in Sikh Traditions
Inderjit N. Kaur (Sikh Music Heritage Institute, Santa Cruz) Monday, March 5 / 12:30 pm 1414 Bren Hall The lecture addressed two questions: what is Sikh sacred music, and what is Sikh about this music? The answer to both questions derives from the special nature of...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
21
Feb
Between Mecca and Malabar: Pilgrimage in the Formation of Muslim and Hindu Identities in the Indian Ocean Region
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 21 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture focused on Muslim and Hindu interactions in pilgrimages in the South Indian region of Malabar (present-day Kerala) and their connections with the Hajj...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
14
Feb
Fiction as Historical Archive? Reconfiguring Inquiry into India’s Colonial Past
Farina Mir (History, University of Michigan) Wednesday, February 14 / 3:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture explored two themes: the relationship between literature and history, and the nature of gender relations in late colonial India. The lecture examined whether our understanding of...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
14
Feb
Is There Such a Thing as Sikh Architecture?
Will Glover (Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan) Wednesday, February 14 / 12:30 pm 1414 Bren Hall The lecture sought to illumine the distinctive nature of Sikh architecture. After surveying the repertoire of forms, colors, and bulding elements that are shared by Sikh buildings, Hindu...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
19
May
Between Culture and Consciousness: On the Role of Effigies in Tamil Rituals
Isabelle Clark-Decès (Anthropology, Princeton University) Friday, May 19 / 3:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Isabelle Clark-Decès explored new paradigms for the study of South Asian rituals, drawing on her field research on a Tamil ritual that is performed in times...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
28
Apr
The City and the Citizen: Forms in Bengali and Bombay Cinema of the 1950s
Moinak Biswas (Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta) Friday, April 28 / 1:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture explored how the rise to stardom of Uttam Kumar (1926-1980)—who is considered the most successful actor in Bengali cinema—coincided with the fashioning of a new...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
03
Mar
Kabir Says, “Listen!” Bringing the Oral-Performative into Textual Studies in India
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Friday, March 3 / 2:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building After a brief reflection on the bias towards text-based methods in Religious Studies, the lecture addressed the all-pervasive importance of oral transmission, music, and other performance forms in...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
28
Feb
The Jaina-Mimamsa Debate on Omniscience
Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden) Tuesday, February 28 / 6:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Science Building The lecture examined contending constructions of omniscience in Jain and Purva-Mimamsa philosophical traditions. Olle Qvarnström is Professor of the History of Religions at Lund University, Sweden. One...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
27
Jan
South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
Friday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Following our successful inaugural conference on South Asian Studies in the United States in the fall, we invited all interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a planning meeting of the South...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
02
Dec
South Asian Studies in the United States
Friday, December 2 / 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Multicultural Center Theater This conference served to inaugurate our newly established IHC Research Focus Group in South Asian Religions and Cultures. The conference featured nine eminent scholars from around the country reflecting on significant developments in South...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
25
May
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 Preceding the West Coast Premiere of The ...