Facilitated by the 2013-14 IHC GAP scholars Tuesday, June 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This year at the IHC, more than fifty writers, architects, artists, historians, poets, literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and preachers have addressed the value of care as it...
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...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies & English, UCSB) "Trauma & Transcendence in Rickerby Hinds' Dreamscape" Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History, UCSB) "The Making of a Multiethnic Society in Mexican Borderlands" Thursday, May 15, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this panel, UCSB’s recipients of the 2013-14...
Friday, May 9, 2014 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 10:00 AM-5:30 PM Arriving on the scene of accidents and emergencies, first responders provide assistance to the wounded, initiating a continuum of care that was first systematized by French military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars. This conference seeks to...
John Hamilton (Comparative Literature, Harvard, author of Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care) Thursday, April 24, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Modern notions of political, legal, and corporate representation may be derived from the ancient figure of the procurator, whose role...
William S. Sax (Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University) Wednesday, April 23, 2014 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he...
Sasha Abramsky (journalist) Thursday, April 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and the author of six books, most recently The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. It was listed by the New York...
Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care? We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...
Matthias Hollwich (architect, HWKN) Thursday, February 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable energy to bring about nothing less than a revolution in the aging experience. Hollwich is the founder of New York architecture...
Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / 5:00 PM* McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB *Note new time. Chris Newfield has been directly involved in current controversies about the future of universities. In this talk, he’ll first describe one of his best university experiences, which was directing...
Sondra Crosby, MD (Medicine, Boston University) Thursday, January 16, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Crosby was one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives. She served as the director of medical care at the Boston Center for...
Jan Haaken (director, Mind Zone) Tuesday, November 19, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Psychologist and filmmaker Jan Haaken will discuss her new documentary film project Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines. Since the First World War, military therapists have been evaluated largely on...
Dir. Jan Haaken, 2013 Monday, November 18, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mind Zone follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control unit as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers in the fight....
Marsha Kinder (Critical Studies, University of Southern California) Friday, November 15, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk traces the speaker’s movement from a book published in the early 1990s on children’s media culture—Playing with Power in Movies, Television and Video Games: From Muppet Babies...
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ratatat Theater Group is proud to present Happy Few, a new play based on the first-person accounts of Santa Barbara veterans and Shakespeare's Henry V. It mixes the stories of veterans about the wars in...
Susan Brison (Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Tuesday, October 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room The undoing of the self in trauma involves the disruption of past from present, the inability to envision a future, and the severing of sustaining connections to community. And yet, with the...
Thomas Trezise (French, Princeton) Monday, October 28, 2013 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust...
Tim O'Brien (author of The Things They Carried) Tuesday, October 22, 2013 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien will discuss the similarities between his own experiences in Vietnam forty years ago and the experiences of...