The Asian/American Studies Collective aims to further the interdisciplinary study of the historical and contemporary experiences of racialized Asian populations in the US. We also seek to highlight the various intersections of positionalities and experiences within Asian American communities and to connect these to broader...
Monday, June 19, 2017 / 8:30 AM McCune Room and Education 1213 and 1217 The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the...
David R. Ambaras (History, North Carolina State University) Wednesday, June 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 David R. Ambaras is a scholar of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese history. His first book, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Japan...
Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Monday, June 5, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this lecture the character of the ancient Egyptian magical practices, with a special focus on the role that demons played in magical texts and images, will be thoroughly...
Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Each year the IHC's Identity Studies RFG sponsors a graduate student panel. Students present their current research - seminar papers, professional papers, dissertation chapter. Nicole Filler, Political Science; "Different Pathways, Common Fates:Assessing the Gender Dynamics of...
Anya Pokazanyeva Foxen (Philosophy, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo) May 24, 2017 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB In the United States in the 1920s there were two classes of people who could pull off a turban: “Oriental” men and fashionable white women. This fact points to...
Friday, May 12, 2017 / 11:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty presentations will be made in five sessions by advanced graduate students and faculty from seven UC campuses and other universities on topics ranging from identity formation and linked fate, political participation and representation,...
Erika Lorraine Milam (History, Princeton) Wednesday, May 10, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing...
Scott Heerman (History, University of Miami) Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 Scott Heerman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami and is currently the Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington Library. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the...
Maria Martinez (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall This discussion will focus on Gabriel Gatti, Ignacio Irazuzta & María Martínez When School Meets the Other: Intercultural Policies in the Basque Inclusive School, Patterns of Prejudice (2017) and From...
Zingha Foma (History, UCSB) April 26, 2017/5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk-showcase, Zingha Foma will present her research project entitled “Afrikan Textiles: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Identities, and Technologies through Dress Practices.” Informed by historical research, Zingha argues that Afrikan textile production...
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Kabir, the iconoclastic fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, composed his poetry orally. His poems, transmitted through song, spread quickly and were soon preserved in manuscripts and other media. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and textual...
Amelia R. Brown (Greek History & Language, University of Queensland) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM HSSB 4041 The ancient Greeks were never politically unified before the rise of Rome, yet they succeeded in developing and maintaining a common culture all around the Mediterranean coasts ‘like frogs around...
Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Ensemble Sunday, April 23, 2017 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The poetry of Kabir, the acclaimed fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, has had a transformative influence on both Hindu bhakti traditions and the Sikh scriptural tradition enshrined in the Adi Granth....
Wednesday, April 20, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 11th, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 12:00 PM Join us for a facilitated brown-bag discussion of timely text. Join for one or all three Thursday sessions: April 20th (part 1), May 11th (part 2) and...
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 This talk explores the social roles enslaved and free women of African descent played in urban centers, in spite of the fact that they were perceived as the lowest members of society. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Lorena Wolffer (Artist) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 12:45 PM meet in front of the Student Resource Building Mapping Dissent is a collaborative public art project with queer feminist and Mexico-City based artist, Lorena Wolffer and part of the ongoing Queer Hemispheres Radical Performance Series. During the performance...
Nomi Dave (Music,University of Virginia) Friday, March 10, 2017 / 1:00 PM Music Library 2406 In January 2016, a Guinean hip-hop artist, Tamsir Touré, appeared in court for sexually assaulting a young girl. The case had generated intense coverage over several months after a video of the assault...
Comments by Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Jannie Scott (Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Jannie Scott (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) "Refashioning Black community in the Wake of Emancipation:...
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford University) Wednesday, March 8, 2017/ 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Laitin will speak on his recent book (with Claire Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort) , Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard; 2016). In 2008-2009, with support from the National...
Keith Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Madeline Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) March 3, 2017 / 3:00 PM Music Building, Room 1219 This lecture will center on the Bengali Bāul songs of Lālan Fakir, an acclaimed nineteenth-century Bāul fakir, and will be followed...
Stuart "Bill" Leslie" (History of Science & Technology, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, March 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Southern California’s smartest defense intellectuals preferred to hang out in some of its toniest beach communities, at RAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics...
Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or...
Ann M. Little (History, Colorado State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story of American history. Born and raised to...
Devesh Kapur (Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania) Monday, February 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Devesh Kapur will...
Ayo A. Coly (Comparative Literature and African Studies at Dartmouth College) Wednesday, February 1, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a recently published essay, Ayo A. Coly has argued that the colonial rhetorical deployment of the African female body to signify Africa sealed the fate...
Pradeep Chhibber (Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies and Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, January 19, 2017 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall There is a widespread notion within India as well as outside the country that Indian politics, for all...
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University) January 19, 2017 / 6:00 PM Art Design and Architecture Museum For many years only well-born Americans had access to a classically–based liberal arts education. But after the Civil War newly freed slaves aspired to...
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Gulnar Nassimova (Political Science, Al Farabi Kazakhstan National University) Thursday, January 12, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kazakhstan, a state in Central Asia, became independent upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today’s university youth were socialized in the post-Soviet...
Rui Kohiyama (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan) Wednesday, January 11, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although their initiatives in criticizing child marriage and widowhood in India and foot-binding in...
Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, November 22, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the...
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Thomas Mapfumo (Blacks Unlimited) Thursday, November 17, 2016 Book Launch: MultiCultural Center, 5:00-6:00 PM Blacks Unlimited Concert: Storke Plaza, 7:00-10:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero is a historian of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. His book, African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, documents...
Sarah Bond (Classics,University of Iowa) Monday, November 14, 2016 / 3:00 PM Public History Seminar Room, HSSB 3208 Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will be leading a seminar on GIS mapping of ancient slavery. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning...
Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4065 Through an examination of suits brought by freed people, this talk explores the role that state courts played in constructing - and reconstructing - the black family. Because they lacked legal pasts, former...
Laura Steil (Traveling Faculty, School for International Training, Paris) November 2, 2016 / 5:30 PM 3145 SSMS This talk addresses YouTube-mediated conflicts over artistic authorship and authority, between artists from the African continent and those in the French Diaspora. Arguments regarding the source of popular movements, and whether...
Timon Screech (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Wednesday, November 2, 2016 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 The English East India Company was founded in 1600 as a spice-importing organization. In 1611, it sent a ship to Japan, which arrived in 1613. This talk will...
Cavan Concannon (Religion,University of Southern California) Friday, October 28, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze...
Nguyễn Quốc Thành (Founding Director, QUEER FOREVER) Monday, October 17, 2016/5:00 PM 6020 HSSB, McCune Conference Room Nguyễn Quốc Thành holds a Master of Science from Warsaw University, Poland. Since 2007, he has co-organized the Five Flavor Film Festival in Warsaw. In Hà Nội, Nguyễn recently exhibited Soldiers'...
Monday, June 13, 2106/9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This multidisciplinary conference gathers together leading experts in the broad field of Japanese religious history, as well as emerging young scholars (including advanced graduate students and recent PhDs), from several countries, in what is perhaps the first...
H. Samy Alim (Education, Stanford University) Friday, June 3, 2016 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 H. Samy Alim is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs African & African American Studies (AAAS), the Center for Race,...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016/ 9:30 AM Corwin Pavilion and the MultiCultural Center Theater Nearly 200 students from area high schools and community organizations will present the results of their work within the SKILLS program through a poster session in Corwin Pavilion and multimedia presentations in the MCC...
Bruce M. Sullivan (Asian Studies and Comparative Study of Religions, Northern Arizona University) May 22, 2016/2:30 PM Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Hanumān is an extraordinary, even unique, figure in Hindu religious, literary, and artistic traditions. Famously, he has the appearance, and sometimes the character,...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Nicole Filler (Political Science, UCSB) Sergey Saluschev (History, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) The roundtable will be a discussion led by graduate students who recently conducted different types...
Elisabeth Reber (Linguistics,University of Würzburg) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 The general interest of this talk is to examine how and to what ends participants in Prime Minister's Questions (PMQs) deploy quoting as an evidential practice in English. PMQs has been named a subgenre...
Thursday, May 12 / 5:30 PM Opening address: Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Friday, 13, 2016 / 9:00 AM Conference: HSSB 4080 This interdisciplinary conference gathers scholars working on slavery and captivity across a range of historical contexts, from the chattel slave systems of classical Greece and...
Kostas Vlassopoulos (History & Archeology, University of Crete) Thursday, May 12, 2016 / 5:30 PM Alhecama Theatre, 914 Santa Barbara Street Once upon a time, the study of Greek slavery was at the forefront in the developing field of slavery studies. But the approaches and perspectives that revolutionized...
Harshita Mruthinti Kamath (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Monday, May 11, 2016 /4:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and performance analysis in South India, this lecture will center on a hereditary community of brahmin men from the village of Kuchipudi...
James F. Brooks (History and Anthropology, UCSB) Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi,...
Daniel Aldrich (Political Science, Northeastern University) Tuesday, May 3, 2016 / 4:00 SSMS 2135 The March 11, 2011 Great East Japan Earthquake and associated tsunami and nuclear meltdowns took nearly 20,000 lives, created half a million refugees, and affected energy policies as far away as Germany, Switzerland,...
Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, May 3, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 3041 Jasmine Yarish, a PhD candidate in Political Science, will present material from her dissertation project, "Reconstructing Home: W.E.B Du Bois, Intersectionality, and Abolition Democracy." Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom RFG....
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (Political Science, UCLA) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall 3824 This talk examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard theories we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study,...
Thomas M. Phillip ( Education, UCLA) April 15, 2016 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 In this session, Thomas M. Phillip will share video data from an undergraduate engineering ethics course and offer a preliminary analysis of how the lives of “enemies” and certain civilians were interactionally constructed...
Akosua Adomako Ampofo (University of Ghana, Legon) Friday, April 15, 2016 /3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Daily, all over the world, women and children (especially) are abused by intimate partners and family members, friends and colleagues. While a legal infrastructure and legal responses will not end gender-based violence (GBV)...
Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The April 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on the manifold interrelationships between architecture, aesthetics, and neurosciences, a nexus that has gained increasing importance when it comes to discussing perception and...
Anthony J. Barbieri-Low (History, UC Santa Barbara) Tuesday, April 12, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Barbieri-Low will lead a discussion of pre-circulated materials from his latest research. For copies of the texts, please email maclean@classics.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of...
Gregory Mitchell (Women's, Gender & Sexuality Studies, Williams College) Monday, April 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB In the run-up to the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics, the Brazilian government engaged in a militarized campaign to clean up favelas, blighted areas, and red light...
Friday, April 8, 2016/ 1:30-3:30 PM Education 1205 Graduate students in the UCSB Department of Linguistics will present their recent research at the intersection of language documentation and interactional analysis. "Tea Ceremonies and Consonant Mutation: Repetition in Nivkh Discourse as a Means of Preservation" Dibella Caminski (Linguistics, UCSB) In this...
Tony Affigne (Political Science, Providence College) Monday, April 4, 2016 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference R00m, HSSB 6020 Is the American political science community prepared for the nation’s new racial configuration, when in a few years the U.S. will become a "minority majority" nation? In this powerful, wide-ranging...
Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6046 HSSB Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into contact, often...
Mark Winchester (Kanda International University,Tokyo) Tuesday, March 8, 2016 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Hate speech and hate crime in the form of demonstrations and other actions carried out by so-called ‘action conservative’ groups have spread across Japan since the early 2000s. The actions of these neo-fascist ‘action...
Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland, College Park) Monday, March 7, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While most readers are familiar with the Narrative of the Life of Frederick Douglass, an American Slave (1845), Levine will discuss Douglass’ final autobiography, Life and Times of...
Robert S. Levine (University of Maryland, College Park) Monday, March 7, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Professor Levine will be leading us in a discussion of The Heroic Slave. Along with Douglass' novella itself (available online as an etext), we will be discussing the following selections from...
Michael North (Modern History, University of Greifswald, Germany) Tuesday, March 1, 2016 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall The political changes of 1989 stimulated a new perception of the Baltic Sea Region, which gained momentum with the Eastern Enlargement of the EU. The new situation encouraged research as...
Lorena Rizzo (University of Bielefeld & Harvard University) Tuesday, February 23, 2016 / 2:00 PM Social Sciences & Media Studies (SSMS) 2135 This talk starts from research conducted in the Western Cape Archives in 2012-13. While working on a collection of photographic albums produced in a Cape Town...
Kimberly Kay Hoang (University of Chicago, Department of Sociology) Monday, February 22, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Kimberly Kay Hoang is an Assistant Professor of Sociology and the College at the University of Chicago. She is the author of Dealing in Desire: Asian Ascendancy, Western Decline,...
Mayfair Yang (Religious Studies & EALCS, Director of the East Asia Center, UCSB) Friday, February 12, 2016 / 11:00 AM HSSB 2212 Writing about women’s Islamic piety in Egypt, Saba Mahmood criticized the narrow definition of women’s agency defined solely in terms of resistance, critical discourse, or rebellious...
Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The topic for the February 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG is (Gestalt) Psychology and Architecture. Readings by Geoffrey Scott and Rudolf Arnheim initiate discussions about how architecture and architectural detail determine...
Ariela Gross (Gould School of Law, USC) Monday, February 8, 2016, 4:00 PM SS&MS 2135 This talk, jointly authored by Chantal Thomas and Ariela Gross, critiques some publicists and jurists involved in the contemporary campaign against slavery and in the memorialization of the Atlantic slave trade for the...
Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, January 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellision Hall Faculty from different UCSB departments will speak about how their disciplines study identity and the courses available in their departments. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Wednesday, January 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB New participants welcome! In our first meeting of the quarter we'll workshop a member's project proposal and begin discussing our book selection for the quarter: More Than Medicine. Confirmed RFG members' book copies will...
IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Thursday, January 7, 2016 / 5:00 PM The January 2016 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on spatial orientation and wayfinding strategies humans employ when encountering or traversing different types of spaces. We will discuss issues and problems...
Thursday, December 03, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6036 HSSB The December 2015 meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on the perception of different environments throughout the twentieth century. Participants will read (in advance) and discuss texts by Gestalt psychologist Kurt Lewin...
James F. Brooks (UCSB, History & Anthropology) Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4041 This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising...
Ramona Bajema, Ph.D. Tuesday, December 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ramona Bajema has spent the past four years searching through the post-triple disaster remains in order to better understand what cannot be washed away by a 100-meter high wave that obliterated...
Anrea Acri (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore) Wednesday, November 18, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture will survey the Indic traditions of ṣaḍaṅga-yoga (“six-limbed yoga”) and aṣṭāṅga-yoga (“eight-limbed yoga”) in the Indonesian Archipelago, as illuminated...
Kanchan Chandra (Politics, New York University) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics at New York University, works on questions of ethnicity, democracy, violence, patronage, clientelism, party politics and the politics of South Asia. She is lead...
Eric C. Rath (History, University of Kansas) Tuesday November 10/ 2015 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Lunch is both older and newer in Japan than we might imagine. The midday meal is said to have become a norm by the 1700s when most of the population finally...
Terri Snyder (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton) Monday, November 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Terri Snyder will lead a discussion of her most recent book, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North Africa (Chicago, 2015). Snyder's research interests include slavery...
November 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The November meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on nineteenth-century ideas of beauty and empathy in art and architecture. Participants will read (in advance) and discuss texts by the psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner and...
Jasbir K. Puar (Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University) Wednesday, October 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational...
Friday, October 16, 2015, 12:00 PM HSSB 3041 A new interdisciplinary Research Focus Group on "Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom" will meet for an informal brown-bag lunch to introduce participants to one another and discuss plans for the Fall quarter. All faculty and graduate students...
Thursday, October 15, 2105 / 7:00 PM Century 10 Downtown, Ventura Field trip! Come with us to see National Theatre's simulcast of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, live from London You may purchase tickets here. Sponsored by the IHC's W/Shakespeare RFG....
Narayani Lasala-Blanco (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015/4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Debates about immigration policies in the United States have been present during electoral campaigns since the 1700s. Zolberg argues that the sustained presence of these debates in political campaigns is related...
Laura Nenzi (History, University of Knoxville) Tuesday, October 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conferene Room, HSSB 6020 Nenzi is a social historian of early modern Japan interested in gender, space, memory, and identity. In my first book, Excursions in Identity (2008) she examined the manifold...
Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, Munich) Monday, October 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Ancient Near Eastern history specialist Karen Radner sets her research sights on the big picture. She is one of the world’s leading experts on the history of Mesopotamia at the time of the...
Thursday, October 1 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The new Research Focus Group is dedicated to readings about and discussions of the various ways in which the humanities, cognitive psychology, and behavioral/cognitive geography examine and think about human comprehension of space and place,...
Thursday, October 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB This interdisciplinary Health, Medicine and Care Working Group invites new members! Join other faculty, postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate researchers, and community members at the UCSB campus to give and receive feedback on research...
Asif Siddiqi (History, Fordham University) Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Secrecy was endemic in Soviet society and culture. Information that we might consider benign in the Western context was off-limits to most of the general populace throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. Controls...
Najeeb Jan (Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder) Friday, May 8, 2015 / 12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building On January 4, 2011, Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, was executed by his own bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, for the crime of “Blasphemy against Islam.” This lecture...
Thursday, May 7, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Zamira Abman (History, UCSB) "The Bolshevik Emancipation of Muslim women of Tajikistan: What went wrong, 1924-1982." Victoria J. Ballmes (Religious studies, UCSB) "Monumental Memory and the Construction of Jewish Identity in Antiquity" George Blake (Music, UCSB) "Music and Racial Formation...
Ian Condry (Japanese Culture and Media Studies, MIT) Wednesday May 6, 2015 /4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Now that recorded music is always available for free, what are the possible futures for musicians and fans? This talk will explore recent developments in Japan, including the resurgence of...
G. Reginald Daniel ( Sociology, UCSB) Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (Japanese American National Museum) Ingrid Dineen Wimberly (History,University of La Verne) Monday, May 4 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor This roundtable will focus...
Martin Ehala (Tartu University, Estonia) Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Ehala is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Communications at UCSB. He received his doctorate in linguistics from Cambridge University and is a Professor at the University...
Katarzyna Cwiertka (Modern Japan Studies,Leiden University) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building Japan has one of the most sophisticated waste management systems in the world and its household waste generation has been steadily declining since 2003. However, before...
Monica Heller (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Anthropology, University of Toronto) Friday, April 17, 2015 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Professor Heller’s LISO talk is a special tribute to John Gumperz whose work focused, in large part, on the relationship between the making of social difference and...
Abdallah Helmy Shehata (Political Science, American University in Cairo) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Helmy Shehata was an activist during the events and involved in organizing social protest. He is Vice Chairman, Programs Director, of the Sadat Association for...
Jodi Magness (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Friday, March 13 / 11:30-1:00 AM HSSB 4020 Since 2011, Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee. The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late...
Jeremy Hanes (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, March 11 / 4:00 PM* 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building *Please note the change in time. The North Indian goddess Śītalā was once associated with smallpox, a disease that is now only present in lab samples, yet she...
Debra Harry (Gender, Race & Identity, University of Nevada, Reno) Andrea McComb Sanchez (Religious Studies, University of Arizona,Tuscon) Friday, March 6 , 2015 / 8:30 AM -5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Join keynote speakers, Debra Harry and Andrea McComb Sanchez for a lively discussion...
Aaron Ullrey (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, March 6 / 3:00 PM 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building During the medieval period Digambara Jains in Karnataka composed and circulated two magic Tantras containing aggressive magic that was in vogue at the time and that challenged...
Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern University) Wednesday, February 25 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In 1839, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo’s service and learn “the conduct and...
Brenda Beck (Anthropology, University of Toronto) Wednesday, February 25 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the past decades Brenda Beck has brought a medieval Tamil folk epic, "the Story of Ponnivala", to life through film animation, producing a thirteen-hour series that has been...
Friday, February 20th, 2015 / 9:30 AM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive...
Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Philip G. Roeder (Political Science, UCSD) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall National-secession campaigns have been explained by development of ethnic identities, grievances over social and economic inequalities and dislocations, greed to seize wealth and power, and tactical opportunities to engage...
Friday, February 6 / 12:00 PM SSMS 2100 Come meet graduate students and faculty working on energy issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. This will be an informal meeting. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Javiera Barandiaran, jba@global.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by IHC's...
Kathleen Collins (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, February 5, 2015 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall, third floor Kathleen A. Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia...
Wednesday, February 4 / 1:00-2:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will meet Wednesday Feb. 4th, 1-2:30pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. Please come to this meeting to offer suggestions in regard to two current 4Humanities projects. One is the WhatEvery1Says project to...
Claire Robison (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, December 10, 2014 / 5:00 pm IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The Indian International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is assuming an increasingly central role in India’s Hindu public sphere, wielding vast economic assets, political influence, and, more recently, a posh...
Jean-Yves Marc (Université de Strassbourg) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 6:00 PM HSSB 4080 The Forum at Philippi was not built on the site of the city’s Hellenistic Agora. Rather, the Forum was built as an entirely new project in the Roman imperial period. At the height of...
Anne Allison (Anthropology, Duke University) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At a moment when the Japanese population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death”...
Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....
Friday, October 3 / 3:00-4:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2014-15 academic year on Monday, November 3, 3-4:30 pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. A surprise, high-visibility new 4Humanities project will be announced at this...
Lisa Cartwright (Professor of Art and Communication, UC San Diego) Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 2:00 PM 2135 SSMS This talk draws on a multi-year sensory ethnography by Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin, who since 2009 have been documenting the everyday work experience and human-technology interaction...
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...
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...
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...