Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote address: Ama Ata Aidoo Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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, ...
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...