Thursday, October 16-Saturday, October 18, 2014 / 9:30 AM UCSB (University Center, Humanities & Social Sciences Building & Loma Pelona Center) "On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity and Play at the Edge of the World," co-hosted by theBABEL Working Group and the UCSB Literature...
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Tuesday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m. Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga music has drawn much scholarly attention due in part to the genre’s imbrication with the Second Chimurenga, the 1960s-70s liberation war that finally dislodged the 90-year long Rhodesian settler rule...
Friday, October 10, 2014 / 11:30 AM -1:30 PM HSSB 4080 Our primary goal is that of rethinking the categories of "paganism" and "idolatry" from a number of theoretical perspectives on the basis of research carried out in different historical and cultural contexts. In the our first...
Friday, October 10, 2014 & Monday, October 13, 2014 7:00 & 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater, $4...
Saturday, October 4, 2014 / 12:30 Sunday, October 5, 2014 / 7:00 Anisq'Oyo' Park, Isla Vista FREE Isla Vista Arts Presents Shakespeare in the Park: Capt'n Lear; King Lear in a 60-minute commedia romp! Bring a blanket, bring a friend....
Shane Hamilton (History, University of Georgia) Friday,October 3, 2014 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Professor Hamilton is the author of Trucking Country: the Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy (2008), which won the Theodore Saloutos Award for the Best Book in Agricultural History. He is a leading figure among...
Friday, October 3, 2014 & Monday, October 6, 2014 Hook 7:00 pm / Jumanji 10:00 pm Isla Vista Theater, Free! ...
Saturday,Sept 6, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq’Oyo’ Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event. Go back ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....
Saturday, August 23, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....
Facilitated by the 2013-14 IHC GAP scholars Tuesday, June 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This year at the IHC, more than fifty writers, architects, artists, historians, poets, literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and preachers have addressed the value of care as it...
Keynote: Professor William Tronzo (UC San Diego) Saturday, May 31 / 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Medieval Studies Program at UCSB presents an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the theme of "Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages." Professor William...
Friday, May 30 / 9:30 AM-5:00 PM University Center Lobero Room This is a one-day symposium in honor of the centenary of the birth of Aimé Césaire, the great Martinican poet-statesman (1913-2008). Césaire, in both his literary and political careers, strove to be “the spokesman for those...
Thursday, May 29 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A roundtable with UCSB Profefessors Amber González (Chican@ Studies), Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music), and Ninotchka Bennahum (Dance). Everyone is invited to join this discussion. For more details see: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/performance-and-politics/ Sponsored by the IHC's Performance & Politics RFG....
Adam Krug (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 28 / 4:00 PM 3001E HSSB Adam Krug’s lecture will interrogate the category economy, broadly conceived, as a theoretical tool to interpret the abundant textual and archaeological data on the patronage and proliferation of Buddhist monastic institutions in India from the...
Rabbi Laura Geller (Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills) Wednesday, May 28 2014 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Geller was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts until she was 15, when her family moved to New York City. She attended the Dalton School, then graduated from Brown University in 1971.Geller...
A celebration of the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Nobel prize Colombian writer who recently died, with readings, remembrances and film clips. This event has been postponed. For further information, visit: www.spanport.ucsb.edu Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, the program in Latin American...
Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Psychiatry, University of New Mexico) Friday, May 23, 2014 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Registration is required for this workshop. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/reg-histtr-2014 to receive the preparatory readings. Under colonial occupation, Native communities across the Americas endured devastating...
Dara Z. Strolovitch (Department of Politics, Princeton University) Thursday, May 22 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since 2001, the American political landscape has been shaped by a convergence of “bad things” – including wars, natural disasters, and hard economic times – that have interrupted...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Thursday, May 22 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM UCSB Centennial House The Graduate Center for Literary Research cordially invites you to participate in the GCLR Graduate Student Conference on “Disclosure,” Thursday May 22 at the Centennial House from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Disclosure evokes hidden, withheld,...
Monday, May 19 / 9:00 AM Student Resources Building, Multipurpose Room Students from three Santa Barbara County high schools who are participating in UCSB's academic outreach program SKILLS will present the results of their original research on the role of language in their lives. Sponsored by the Crossroads...
Saturday, May 17 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Early Modern Center is pleased to announce our thirteenth annual conference, “Transatlantic Ecologies: Utopia to Zoonomia,” featuring keynote speakers Daniel Brayton (Middlebury College) and Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon). Transatlantic Ecologies explores the complex and...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Participants in this symposium include Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009); Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale, author of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 Speakers: Janet Fiskio (Enviornmental Studies, Oberlin College) Adrian Parr (Sociology, University of Cincinnati) Steven Vanderheiden (Political Science, University of Colorado) Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's publication of the "5th Assessment Report," this Symposium will ask how the ever-increasing scientific consensus...
Friday, May 16 / 10:00 AM MultiCultural Center Lounge The American Cultures & Global Contexts Center is proud to present "Antiracism Inc./Works: The Anticonference." Please join us for the academic, artistic, and activist encounter that is sure to reinvigorate our analysis of and commitments to social...
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies & English, UCSB) "Trauma & Transcendence in Rickerby Hinds' Dreamscape" Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History, UCSB) "The Making of a Multiethnic Society in Mexican Borderlands" Thursday, May 15, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this panel, UCSB’s recipients of the 2013-14...
Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Koi Pond Below Storke Tower Sienna Cordoba (History, UCSB) Warren Taylor (Materials Research Lab, UCSB) We invite you to the Koi Pond below Storke Tower for a "bake sale" art installation where you may meet someone from another department; It happened to us,...
Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Presenters: Nicole Filler (Political Science) "In the Pursuit of Social Justice: Identities, Mobilization, and Activism." Travis Seifman (History) "Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions." Magarita Safronova (Political Science) "Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan" Sponsored...
Thursday, May 15 / 1:30-5:00 PM Friday, May 16 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor Room, University Center Composition: making meaning through design is an interdisciplinary symposium that asks how design features—including format, medium, lettering, and images—can alter, enhance, or otherwise affect the transmission of...
Daniel Botsman (History, Yale University) Tuesday May 13, 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk will begin by considering the place of cows in Japanese society before the Meiji Restoration, particularly in relation to the agrarian economy of the Kansai and surrounding regions. It will then consider the revolutionary changes...
Friday, May 9, 2014 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 10:00 AM-5:30 PM Arriving on the scene of accidents and emergencies, first responders provide assistance to the wounded, initiating a continuum of care that was first systematized by French military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars. This conference seeks to...
Thursday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Mosher Alumni House Friday, May 9, / 10:00 AM-1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater This symposium focuses on three central notions associated with the manifold transformations of the Mediterranean Sea in modern times: memory, movement, and migration. It is at the crossroads of...
Monday, May 5 / 2:00 PM 6056 HSSB Seminar Room The IHC's Graduate Affiliate Program is pleased to host the first of two public workshops in which graduate scholars will present their work on the topic of care in conjunction with the IHC's the Value of Care...
Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford University) Thursday, May 1 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For...
Sheron Wray (Dance, UC Irvine) Wednesday, April 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This is an interdisciplinary dance-led documentary about 17 University of California Irvine students who traveled to explore the roots of jazz dance in sub-Saharan Africa. With their dance professor, Sheron Wray, and...
Monday, April 28 / 7:30 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The Santa Barbara premiere screening of Aftermath, winner of the Yad Vashem Chairman's Award at last year’s Jerusalem Film Festival. The riveting story of two Polish brothers who come to terms with their village’s long hidden role...
John Hamilton (Comparative Literature, Harvard, author of Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care) Thursday, April 24, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Modern notions of political, legal, and corporate representation may be derived from the ancient figure of the procurator, whose role...
Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director, Abraham.In.Motion) Wednesday, April 23 / 3:00 - 4:30 PM HSSB Ballet Studio Duke University Professor and Artist-Scholar Tommy DeFrantz will speak publicly with Artistic Director and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham. They will...
William S. Sax (Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University) Wednesday, April 23, 2014 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he...
Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Tuesday, April 22 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room Thomas DeFrantz is Professor of African and African American Studies/Dance at Duke University and President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. The author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of...
Mike Parker Pearson (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Friday, April 18 / 4:00 PM 1701 Theater and Dance Building Stonehenge is one of the greatest mysteries of world prehistory but it is now beginning to give up some of its secrets. In the last ten years, an...
Heather Cassils (artist) Friday, April 18 / 6:00 PM SRB Multi-Purpose Room* *Please note the room and time change for this event. Heather Cassils is an artist who uses the physical body as sculptural mass with which to rupture societal norms. Drawing on conceptualism, feminism, body art, gay male...
James Simpson (English, Harvard University) Thursday, April 17 / 3:30 PM Henley Board Room, Mosher Alumni House James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He has taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a University...
Thursdays: April 17, May 1, May 15, May 29 12:00pm-2:00pm (lunch included) Education Building Board Room, 4th floor The seminar will provide a systematic and detailed explanation of the grant writing process, including interactive workshops on best practices for generating research proposal ideas, writing strategies, and...
Deke Weaver (School of Art and Design and Department of Theater, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Monday, April 14 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB WOLF is Deke Weaver’s third performance in his life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary – a performance for each letter of the alphabet,...
Deborah Diamond (Curator, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution) Sunday, April 13 / 2:30 pm Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street) Yoga is a global phenomenon practiced by millions of people seeking spiritual insight and better health. Debra...
Charles Bazerman (Education, UCSB) Friday, April 11 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education Bazerman proposes a new theory of writing and rhetoric which conceives writing as a form of situated social activity, typically displaced over time and space. Because of these dislocations, understandings of genre and activity system are...
Gary Shteyngart (author, Super Sad True Love Story, Little Failure) Thursday, April 10 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall, UCSB FREE UC Santa Barbara is pleased to welcome Gary Shteyngart as the inaugural Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence. He will read selections from latest book, Little Failure: A...
Monday April 7 2:00-4:00PM 6056 HSSB Seminar Room The IHC's Graduate Affiliate Program is pleased to host the first of two public workshops in which graduate scholars will present their work on the topic of care in conjunction with the IHC Value of Care Series. Presenters: • Lynette Arnold...
Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Borderlands, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other...
Sasha Abramsky (journalist) Thursday, April 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and the author of six books, most recently The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. It was listed by the New York...
Warren Taylor (Materials Research Lab, UCSB) Tuesday, April 1 / 8:00 AM Northern edge of the Campus Lagoon (Spot #1 on the Walking Tour of UCSB Campus Lagoon Area) In this event, the of three first symposia, we will begin by having a discussion about material science and...
Ned Kaufman (Historic Preservation, Columbia University) Thursday, March 13 / 7:00 PM The Presidio at the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation Dr. Kaufman will make a presentation around the general themes of rethinking the economics of heritage and historic preservation as a tool for achieving...
Ned Kaufman (Historic Preservation, Columbia University) Thursday, March 13 / 1:00 PM UCSB MultiCultural Center Dr. Ned Kaufman will do a lunchtime talk about his current research around historic conservation, social justice, intangible resources, sustainability and the economics of heritage. He will also discuss his career...
Rens Bod (Digital Humanities, University of Amsterdam) David Marshall (Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts, UCSB) Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Wednesday, March 12 / 12:00 PM South Hall 2509 How can we think comparatively about what the humanities mean in multiple areas of the world with educational and funding systems...
Howard Brick (History, University of Michigan) Friday, March 7 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Professor Brick is the author of Age of Contradiction: American Thought & Culture in the 1960s (2000) and Transcending Capitalism: Visions of a New Society in Modern America (2006). Sponsored by the Center...
Ricardo Ramirez (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) Thursday, March 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor Mobilizing Opportunities examines a widely-acknowledged shift in perception of Latinos from uncertain political relevance in 1990 to a sense that they are redefining American democracy in 2012. ...
Ambassador Dennis Ross (The Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ghaith al-Omari (Executive Director, the American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, March 5 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Veteran Middle East peace negotiators, Ambassador Dennis Ross (counselor and William Davidson Distinguished Fellow at The Washington...
Davina Cooper (Law & Political Theory,University of Kent) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 If how the state is imagined shapes social and political action, the politics of state imagining provides an important site for progressive reflection. Arguing that those conceptual approaches which support critique...
Praise Zenenga (African Studies,University of Arizona) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This presentation focuses on strategies that popular theater artists used to survive dictatorship, censorship, and lack of sponsorship within the context of a sustained political and economic crisis (1998-2008) in post-independence...
Osmundo Pinho (Federal University, Reconcavo in Bahia, Brazil) Monday, March 3 / 1:30 PM SSMS 2011 On December 9 2013, in the State of São Paulo, the richest of the Brazilian states, six thousand young people attended an unauthorized funk party, like a rolling, mobile “flash mob” or...
Paul Erickson (American Antiquarian Society) Marie-Eve Thérenty (Université Montpellier III, France) February 26-28 & March 1, 2014 Old Little Theatre, College of Creative Studies and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Starting with one of the first literary mass-successes, Eugène Sue’s serialized novel Les Mystères de Paris (1842-43, The Mysteries...
Wednesday, February 26 / 5:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 The rehearsal process of We Play for the Gods at the Women’s Project Theater Company in New York City demonstrates the potential for co-direction as a radical form that challenges mainstream hierarchies in US theatrical production...
Friday, February 21 / 8:30 AM-6:30 PM Saturday, February 22 / 9:00 AM-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty-four scholars will showcase the emerging historiography on the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s that represented the largest Mexican American civil rights and empowerment...
Jean-Christian Vinel (History, University of Paris-Diderot) Friday, February 21 /1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Jean-Christian Vinel is a visiting scholar at UC-Santa Barbara in the Winter 2013. He is the editor of La grève en exil : le déclin du syndicalisme et du militantisme aux USA, en...
Anya Pokazanyeva (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 21 / 4:00 PM 3041 HSSB It might seem logical to assume that a Yogi, by definition, is one who does yoga. However, as these terms first entered the American imagination they did not always do so in accordance...
Thursday-Friday, February 20-21 Pollock Theater Dirty Sexy Policy will bring together prominent scholars, attorneys, activists, regulators, and journalists to explore current challenges facing media policy and the broader stakes that citizens and policy critics share. Participants on three panels will engage in a lively discussion and debate...
Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care? We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...
E. Randol Schoenberg (Burris, Schoenberg & Walden, LLP) Thursday, February 20 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall The recent disclosure of more than 1,400 artworks found hidden in the Munich apartment of Cornelius Gurlitt has generated renewed interest in the subject of Nazi-looted art. The upcoming release...
Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change. In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed. In Turkey,...
Thursday, February 20 /1:00-3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In honor of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day 2014, Caraol Chaski (Institute for Linguistic Evidence) will be speaking on "Forensic Linguistics and Models of Language" at 1:00 PM and Maria Carreira (Spanish, Cal State Long Beach)...
Jean Allman (History, Washington University) Thursday, February 20 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4080 Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence struggle and its first Prime Minister and then President, was a major theorist of pan-Africanism and neocolonialism and arguably one of the most important leaders of what was...
Tuesday, February 18 / 3:30-5:00 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB's activities for Winter quarter start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB "WhatEvery1Says" text-harvesting and topic modeling project. The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital...
Friday, February 14- Sunday, February 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB is hosting a three-day international symposium featuring interdisciplinary research on the complexity of naturally occurring human interaction. This symposium will bring together diverse researchers — linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, conversation analysts, child development and communication scholars,...
Matthias Hollwich (architect, HWKN) Thursday, February 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable energy to bring about nothing less than a revolution in the aging experience. Hollwich is the founder of New York architecture...
Melinda Chateauvert (New Orleans Free School) Tuesday, February 11 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater Melinda Chateauvert examines the ways that women working in the sex industry—following activism in the African American and Gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s—have organized through an identity framework known...
Friday, February 7 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fifty years after Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, a landmark bill that added sex to anti-discrimination law, this conference looks to feminism during a decade that began with liberal reform and exploded...
Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / 5:00 PM* McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB *Note new time. Chris Newfield has been directly involved in current controversies about the future of universities. In this talk, he’ll first describe one of his best university experiences, which was directing...
Friday, January 31 / 1:00-5:30 PM Student Resource Building Fifty years ago this month, President Lyndon B. Johnson used his State of the Union Address to ask Congress to join him in fighting an “unconditional war on poverty” through full employment growth, an all-out “assault” on discrimination...
Three great artists from Japan, each representing a cultural tradition and its living practices, present a week of performances, demonstrations, and exhibits. Join one event or all with these master artists and their masterful offerings. RSVP required for all events, please RSVP here: http://masterartistsfromjapan.weebly.com/ Schedule of Events MONDAY...
Thursday, January 23 / 6:00 PM Feminist Studies Seminar Room, South Hall The HumAnimality RFG will host a discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. We will consider how Chen draws on queer, critical race and affect theory to contribute to and push...
Tamara Lea Spira (Women's Studies, University of Oregon) Thursday, January 23 / 1:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631A South Hall This talk theorizes the relationship between 1970s U.S. Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. Dr....
Barbara Mann (The Jewish Theological Seminary) Thursday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event has been cancelled due to illness. Jews have historically been considered “the people of the book,” a rootless, diasporic collection of communities whose true “place” is...
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Anthropology, Oxford University) Thursday, January 23 / 2:30 PM SSMS 3145 Drawing on her recently published monograph (Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal), this presentation traces the development of the performing arts in Dakar, Senegal, from the 1930s to the contemporary...
Sondra Crosby, MD (Medicine, Boston University) Thursday, January 16, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Crosby was one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives. She served as the director of medical care at the Boston Center for...
Friday, December 6 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
David A. Kirby (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; University of Manchester) Tuesday, December 3 / 1:00 PM 2135 SSMS Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered...
Tuesday, November 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd fl00r Ellison Hall The round-table is a discussion about choosing methods in the study of identity. As part of the round-table, we particularly encourage the participation of graduate students who will be asked to present the puzzle which...
Monday, November 25 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Monday, November 25 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Gideon Raff (Director, Prisoners of War) Sunday, November 24 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Gideon Raff, creator, writer and director of the award-winning Israeli television drama series, Prisoners of War (Hatufim), which served as the inspiration for its critically acclaimed US adaptation, Homeland, shows clips from...
Friday, November 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Thursday, November 21 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its second meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 21 (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Following up on its previous meeting, which focused on the “Heart of the Matter” report produced by...
Tsim Schneider (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 21 / 5:00 PM 2001a HSSB Spanish missions in the San Francisco Bay area of California represent the endpoint of 200 years of Catholic missionization on the North American continent and the far northern frontier of colonial New Spain in 1776. The...
Patricia MacCormack (English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University) Wednesday, November 20th / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for a talk from Platform Guest Speaker Patricia MacCormack and to celebrate Platform's latest exhibit, Post-Human Nature, with a small reception. EXHIBITION: August...
Jan Haaken (director, Mind Zone) Tuesday, November 19, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Psychologist and filmmaker Jan Haaken will discuss her new documentary film project Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines. Since the First World War, military therapists have been evaluated largely on...
Facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, UCSB) Monday, November 18 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB How do notions of endurance and ephemerality enable us to consider notions of performance and politics? How do embodied practices constitute meaning and knowledge? What is the efficacy of performance...
Dir. Jan Haaken, 2013 Monday, November 18, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mind Zone follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control unit as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers in the fight....
Monday, November 18 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM I.V. Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college...
Marsha Kinder (Critical Studies, University of Southern California) Friday, November 15, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk traces the speaker’s movement from a book published in the early 1990s on children’s media culture—Playing with Power in Movies, Television and Video Games: From Muppet Babies...
Friday, November 15 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM I.V. Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college...
Friday, November 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Leon Wieseltier (Literary Editor, The New Republic) Thursday, November 14 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Leon Wieseltier, noted writer, critic, and literary editor of The New Republic, is the author of Kaddish (1998), which was a finalist for the National...
Thursday, November 14 / 4:30 PM Phelps Hall 6320 The GCLR invites graduate students engaged in literary, interdisciplinary research to participate in our Fall roundtable. Roundtable participants will provide a paper-in-progress for questions and comments; participants that subsequently present the workshopped paper at a conference are...
Arthur F. Marotti (English, Wayne State University) Thursday, November 14 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This talk discusses some of the hundreds of (mostly anonymous) poems that survive in various manuscripts from the early modern period in only one or two copies. It examines...
Kenneth Prewitt (Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Director of The Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University) Wednesday, November 13 / 4:00 PM Mosher Alumni House What is Your Race? (Princeton University Press, 2013) traces the tortured history of government race statistics from 1790 to the present. Across three-fourths...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ratatat Theater Group is proud to present Happy Few, a new play based on the first-person accounts of Santa Barbara veterans and Shakespeare's Henry V. It mixes the stories of veterans about the wars in...
Friday, November 8 / 7:00 & 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in...