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...
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...
CONCERT: Tertulia Colombiana Friday, September 19 / 7:00 PM CCS Old Little Theater SYMPOSIUM: A Symposium on the Writings of Pat Mora Thursday, September 24 / 4:00 PM South Hall 1623 SYMPOSIUM: Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand's Works Thursday-Saturday, September 25-27 various campus locations TALK: The End of...
Visiting poet: Barbara Jane Reyes June 2-3 VISITING ARTIST: Scott Johnson Composer in Residence June 2-6 TALK: Revisioning the History of Ideas about Bodies of the Buddha: A New Approach Michael Radich (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Monday, June 9 / 5:00 PM (note time change) 2252 Humanities and Social...
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...
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...
Steven P. Hopkins (Religion, Swarthmore College) Friday, May 2 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture focused on the charged emotional landscapes of divine, human, and animal bodies in Hamsasandesa (“The Goose Messenger”), a fourteenth-century Sanskrit messenger poem (sandesa-kavya) by Vedantadesika (ca. 1268-1369...
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...
CONFERENCE: Annual International Graduate Conference on the Cold War Friday, April 4 – Saturday, April 5 Keynote address: Emily Rosenberg (History, UC Irvine) Friday, April 4 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 TALK: Flight of Fancy: Whiteness, Suburbanization, and Identity in San Juan, Puerto Rico Since 1940 Luis Figueroa...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
TALK: Loser Take All: Election, Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 Mark Crispin Miller (New York Univ.) Tuesday, January 15 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB TALK: Dorothea Lange and Visual Democracy Linda Gordon (New York University) Friday, January 18 / 11:00 AM 4041 HSSB VISITING ARTIST: Carla Kihlstedt RESEARCH...