CONFERENCE: INTIMATE LABORS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, & Sex Work October 4 - 6, 2007 McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 TALK: Inscribing the Word - Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honor of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and...
David Summers (History of Art, University of Virginia) Tuesday, June...
July 6 and July 9: TMNT Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater July 13 and July 16: Disturbia Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater 20 July 20 and July 23: The Host Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...
Claire Farago (History ...
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...
SCREENING: Lost Souls (dir Natalie Sanderson & Sumnima Udas, 2007) Wednesday, April 4 / 6:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater TALK: Radio Was Discovered Before it Was Invented Douglas Kahn (Technocultural Studies, UC Davis) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM Old Little Theater (CCS) Sound in the Arts RFG meeting 3:30 PM CONFERENCE: Latin American...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
VISITING ARTISTS: Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois January 10 –- 12, 2007 Residency Activities VISITING ARTISTS: Keith Johnson in Residence at UCSB Jan 14 - 21 Iridian Arts Presents: Still Life with Mic Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois Thursday, January 11 / 6:30 talk & 8:00 PM performance Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum 2nd Floor Arts...