April 2012

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20 Apr

Kathleen Woodward (English, University of Washington) Friday, April 20 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one hand (risk–taking to reap off–scale financial reward is applauded) as...

10:44 / Upcoming Events
15 Apr

Application Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018 Awards will be given to ladder rank faculty to release them from teaching one quarter to concentrate on research projects. Recipients must be in residence during the fellowship term; while the award releases the recipient from teaching responsibilities, it does not exempt him or her from service and advising responsibilities. Award recipients will be designated IHC Fellows and may be asked to deliver a public lecture or hold a seminar on a topic related to their research during their tenure as fellows. The award does not provide for release from summer teaching, nor does it provide a salary supplement. It will be calculated as a replacement cost of up to $5,000 for one course, and awarded funds must be expended within twelve months of the announcement of the award. Faculty may receive this award once every five years, and must not teach during the award quarter.
14:41 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Faculty
15 Apr

Application Deadline: Monday, April 16, 2018 Awards will be made to support collaborative projects. Eligible projects include conferences at UCSB or in the Santa Barbara area; collaborative research or instructional projects by faculty in one or more departments/programs; and initiatives to bring visiting scholars and arts practitioners to campus for collaborative research or teaching (where appropriate such scholars may be appointed Visiting Fellows of the IHC).  Award amounts up to $3000.
14:36 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Faculty
14 Apr

Keynote Speaker: Seana Coulson (University of California San Diego) Saturday, April 14 / 9:00 AM 3605 South Hall The inaugural Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) is a conference dedicated to the relationship between language and cognition, featuring talks approaching the cognition of language from empirical data-driven perspectives....

11:28 / Upcoming Events
12 Apr

Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff, Regents' Lecturer in Film and Media Studies ) Thursday, April 12, 2012 / 7:30 PM Pollock Theater When Annie Leonard released The Story of Stuff film, she had no idea that her message would resonate so widely. Since its launch in 2007, the...

10:50 / Series / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
10 Apr

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday,  April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...

12:39 / Uncategorized / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
09 Apr

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco  (UCSB Music, Theater & Dance) and Carol Press (UCSB Theater & Dance) Monday, April 9 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Creative processes and creativity in interdisciplinary performance-making and educational contexts provide the focus for this session. Grounded in a principle of the profound...

11:23 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
06 Apr

Richard Bauman (Communication & Culture, Indiana University) Friday, April 6 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Country people have stood as the domestic Other within contemporary society, providing embodied figurations of what modern people are not—or, in some inflections, are no longer. In this talk, I...

12:57 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
06 Apr

Sébastien Peyrouse (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, April 6 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...

10:54 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups / Research Focus Groups
05 Apr

Winter 2011-2012 Friday, October 14 (12pm, HSSB 4041) Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) "Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410 Friday, October 14 (3pm in TBA) Emily Gowers (Cambridge) Saturday, October 15 (9:15-4 in HSSB 6020) Multi-Campus Research Group Meeting Monday, October 17 (5pm, HSSB 6020) Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) "The...

11:18 / Uncategorized
05 Apr

Professor Vincent Pecora (English, University of Utah) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Vincent P. Pecora is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization...

10:25 / Upcoming Events
05 Apr

Thursday, April 5 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Sister Spit is a rotating collection of artists spanning from film directors, poets, novelists, performance artists, comic book writes, to thespians, who have been touring annually since 1997. This event will include performances by  Michelle Tea, Kit...

10:00 / Upcoming Events
16 Mar

Kenneth Frampton (Architecture, Columbia University, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History) Friday, March 16 / 6:00 PM Loma Pelona Center Throughout the developed world, the proliferation of urbanized regions, as opposed to historic cities, has led to a state of affairs in which the practice of...

16:21 / Upcoming Events
16 Mar

Friday-Saturday, March 16-17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara is hosting our eleventh annual conference, “Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800.”  The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2012 at UCSB and...

12:12 / Upcoming Events
14 Mar

Shalini Kakar, (Art History, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm IHC Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB This presentation explores the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar will investigate the ways in which...

11:17 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups / IHC Research Fellow
14 Mar

Heather Stoll (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry, from immigration to expansions in the franchise, shape political competition?  More specifically, when are new social groups successful at forming their...

11:11 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
10 Mar

Harold Meyerson (columnist for the Washington Post and editor of American Prospect) March 10 / 9:30 AM 4041 HSSB Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect as well as a member of the editorial board of Dissent. From 1989 to 2001, he was executive editor of the...

11:56 / Upcoming Events
07 Mar

Wednesday, March 7 & 14, 2012 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlights the work of graduate students in Dr. Mireille Miller-Young’s Global Sex Work and Economies of Desire seminar. Drawing from critical sexualities studies frameworks, UCSB...

12:26 / Upcoming Events
01 Mar

Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) Thursday, March 1 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized...

12:56 / Upcoming Events
24 Feb

Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB, Department of Music) Friday, February 24 / 5:00 PM 6056 HSSB, IHC Research Seminar Room In this informal gathering we continue to debate issues concerning the notion of “performance studies” and its efficacy in enabling provocations, understandings, and actions. Picking up themes and...

16:12 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
23 Feb

Thursday-Friday, February 23-24 McCune Conferenc Room, 6020 HSSB Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center Every year UNESCO observes the International Mother Language Day on February 21st, in remembrance of the students that died in Dhaka (Bangladesh) during the Bengali Language Movement protests in 1952. UCSB's Spanish and Portuguese...

14:06 / Upcoming Events
23 Feb

Bradley Simpson (History, Princeton University) Thursday, February 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination, and sought to institutionalize its status as a human...

12:10 / Upcoming Events
21 Feb

Tuesday-Wednesday, February 21-22 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the interactions and points of contact between the different cultural and linguistic zones that make up the Caribbean region, in support of a less insular, more archipelagic sense of Caribbean culture. Contemporary Caribbean cultures are, as...

12:51 / Upcoming Events
18 Feb

Donald Molosi  (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, February 18 / 7:00 PM Theater and Dance, Studio Theater "Blue, Black and White," written and performed by Donald Molosi, is an enchanting humanist story about Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw...

15:38 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
17 Feb

Richard White (History, Stanford University) Friday, February 17 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB White is the author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West, Remembering...

14:01 / Upcoming Events
16 Feb

Yaba Badoe  (director) Thursday, February 16 / 5:00 PM 1701 Theater & Dance West The Witches of  Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of five  years, this disturbing expose is the product...

15:32 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
16 Feb

Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan and Davis Center, Harvard University) Thursday, February 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Social mobilization of ethnic groups represents an issue of widespread interest for historians and political scientists.  The presentation examines the social movements of Russian speakers in Estonia and Moldova,...

15:20 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
16 Feb

Mark Rosheim (author, Leonardo's Lost Robots) Carlo Pedretti (Art History, UCLA) Sara Taglialagamba (Art History, UCLA) Thursday, February 16 / 11:00 AM Embarcadero Hall  A discussion among three outstanding experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Rosheim is a mechanical engineer and author of...

13:41 / Upcoming Events
14 Feb

(Michael Moore, 2009, 127 min.) Tuesday, February 14, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The IHC celebrates Valentine’s Day with a screening of Moore’s scathing film, which examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans and asks the question:...

12:29 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
09 Feb

Thursday-Saturday, February 9-11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference examines the past, present, and future of feminist studies as a field of academic inquiry that is interdisciplinary, transnational, and intersectional. Drawing together former holders of the UCSB Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Women's Studies with current faculty,...

15:12 / Upcoming Events
06 Feb

Christine Echeverria Bender (author) Monday, February 6 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Christine Echeverria Bender, a Basque-American writer of historical fiction is coming to UCSB to talk about the artistry and the research that she mixes in her novels. These are tales of...

10:47 / Upcoming Events
02 Feb

Keynote Speakers: Michael Kazin (History, Georgetown University) Tom Hayden (principal author of the Port Huron Statement, political activist) Thursday-Friday, February 2-3, 2012 Corwin Pavilion and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The 1962 Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the early New Left. This conference brings together...

12:08 / Upcoming Events / Public Goods
24 Jan

Mark Hall (director) Peter Alagona (History, UCSB) ann-elise Lewallen ( EALCS, UCSB) Mike McGinnis (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sushi, a cuisine formerly found only in Japan, has grown exponentially in other nations, and an industry has been created to...

13:43 / Uncategorized / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
20 Jan

Fred Block ( Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, January 20 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Block is the editor, most recently, of State of Innovation: The U.S. Government’s Role in Technological Policy (2011) and is now writing Karl Polanyi and the Battle of Economic Ideas. Sponsored by the...

13:48 / Upcoming Events
18 Jan

January 6, 2012 To:       Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Faculty From:   David Marshall, Executive Dean and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts                  Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences Re:       Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars   Important Dates: Proposal Workshop                           Friday, January 20, 2012, 12 noon, 4315 SSMS Letter of Intent due                           Monday, February...

12:00 / Archive / Announcements
18 Jan

Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture focused on the Hindu samadhi shrine, which marks the final resting-place of a realized saint’s body, as an expression of sacred space in South Asia....

11:40 / IHC Research Focus Groups
17 Jan

Sharon Farmer (History, UCSB) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, January 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated--if highly contested--history, and has found valence in many different cultures,...

12:13 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods
15 Jan

Application Deadline: Tuesday, January 16, 2018 (For projects taking place in the next academic year) The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center offers annual awards (up to $1500) to support innovative creative projects in the visual, performing and media arts that engage with issues of interdisciplinary concern. The competition is open to UCSB faculty and graduate students. Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible.
16:29 / IHC Funding Opportunities / Faculty / Graduate Student
13 Jan

Peter Van Wyck (Media Studies, Concordia University of Montreal) Andrew Lakoff (Anthropology, Sociology & Communications, University of Southern California) Friday, January 13, 2012 / 2:00 PM Catastrophic events produce radical uncertainty. The temporality of such events varies: they could be sudden, unexpected, but ever-possible (e.g. natural...

14:14 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Public Goods