01 Sep Fall 2006
EXHIBITION: PATTERN LANGUAGE: CLOTHING AS COMMUNICATOR
July 7 – August 27, 2006 / University Art Museum
CONFERENCE:Languages and Genes an Interdisciplinary Conference
Friday / September 8th – 10th / 8:30 AM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Music as Media
John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, September 29 / 12:00 PM/ IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
CONFERENCE: Activist Scholarship: Documenting Undocumented Spaces
Guest Speaker Prof. Laura E. Pérez (Ethnic Studies, Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB)
Thursday, October 5 / 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM / Multi-Cultural Center
PANEL: Lebanon, Palestine, Israel and Beyond: Perspectives on Conflict in the Middle East
Gershon Shafir, Richard Falk, Juan Campo, Salim Yaqub, Mark Juergensmeyer
Monday, October 9 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Sound in the Arts
Steve Roden
Tuesday, October 10 / 4:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
EXHIBITION: Open Container Opened
Wednesday, October 11 / 12 -2 pm
College of Creative Studies
SPECIAL EVENT: IHC Open House
Wednesday, October 11 / 4:00 PM/ 6th Floor, HSSB
TALK: Memory, Performance and The Idea Of The Museum
Dennis Kennedy (Trinity College, Dublin)
Tuesday, October 17 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
HARRY GIRVETZ MEMORIAL LECTURE: American Theocracy
Kevin Phillips
Thursday, October 19 / 8:00 PM / Campbell Hall
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Music as Media
John Hajda and Howie Giles
Friday, October 20 / 12:00 PM / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
CONFERENCE: International Conference on Taiwan Literature and History
Friday October 20 / 8:30 AM
Saturday, October 21 / 8:30 AM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TAUBMAN SYMPOSIA IN JEWISH STUDIES: Coming Together, Coming Apart: A Memoir of Heartbreak and Promise in Israel
Daniel Gordis
Sunday, October 22 / 3:00 PM / Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
TALK: Chinese Religiosities: Vicissitudes Of Modernity And State Formation
Mayfair Yang (UCSB)
Monday, October 23 / 12:00 PM / East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, 2252 HSSB
CONFERENCE: ACM Multimedia Conference (fee required)
October 23-27, Doubletree Hotel, Santa Barbara
EXHIBITION: (free) California Nanosystems Institute, UCSB
TALK: Infante’s Havana
Enrico Mario Santi (Univ. of Kentucky)
Tuesday, October 31 / 3:00 PM / Wofsy Seminar Room, 4312 Phelps Hall
TALK: America’s Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Robert Vitalis (University of Pennsylvania)
Wednesday, November 1 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
TALK: Deus Irae: Attila and Leo in Italy, 452
Michael Blodgett (UCSB, History)
Friday, November 3/ 10:00 AM / IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
RFG MEETING: Music as Media
Howie Giles and John Hajda
Friday, November 3 / 12:00 PM / IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
WORKSHOP: The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 2: Space, State, and Statelessness
November 4-6, 2006 / Garden Room, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
TALK: Fusion and Performance: Euripides, Brecht, Soyinka
Professor Joachim Fiebach
Monday, November 6 / 5:30 pm / Dramatic Arts Seminar Room, Old Gym 101C
PRESENTATION: Cyberinfrastructure: Tools for the Humanities, Arts & Social Sciences
Carol Hobson (UCDARnet)
Tuesday, November 7 / 11:30 AM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
TALK: Eruptions of Violence in Banlieue Culture: French Media Appropriations of Black Americanisms
Peter Bloom (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 8 / 5:30 PM / IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
MULTIMEDIA MUSICAL PRODUCTION: Children of a Vanished World with selections from White Rose
Thursday, November 9 / 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall, UCSB / General public $12.00 / UCSB Students $8.00
PANEL: Defending Human Rights: Perspectives from Mexico, Nepal and Zimbabwe
Mandira Sharma, Veronica Cruz, & Arnold Tsunga
Monday, November 13 / 12:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
TALK: Agriculture and Landscape in Maya Forest: An Alternative Environmental History
Anabel Ford (ISBER, UCSB)
Monday, November 13 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
OPENING RECEPTION: Edible Empire: African Cocoa in a Global Economy
Curated by Justin Bengry, Ellen Caldwell, and Bianca Murillo
Tuesday, November 14 / 4:30 PM / Faculty Club, UCSB
TALK: In the Shadow of Akosombo:
Long-Term Livelihood Strategies in the Context of Environ-mental Change and State Neglect in Ghana
Dzodzi Tsikata (University of Ghana)
Tuesday, November 14 / 6:00 PM / South Hall 4631A
RFG MEETING: Naming and Renaming: Understanding Max Neuhaus and his “”Sound Installations”
Cory Mathews (Music, UCSB)
Friday, November 17 / 11:00 AM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
COLLOQUIUM: Making Publics: 1500-1800
Paul Yachnin (English, McGill University) & Dena Goodman (History, University Michigan)
Friday, November 17 / 1-5:00 PM / South Hall 2635
RFG MEETING: Translation Studies
Elide Valarini Oliver (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB)
Monday, November 20 / 3:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB
LECTURE:At the Meniscus: Khrushchev and the Challenge of Nuclear Bluff, Suez to Cuba
Timothy Naftali
Monday, November 27th / 3:00 PM / The McCune Room (6th floor HSSB)
TALK: Reconsidering Orientalism Using Historical Maps: A Digital Perspective
Yuki Ishimatsu (UC Berkeley)
Wednesday, November 29 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
READING AND DISCUSSION: Unconfessed
Yvette Christiansë
Thursday, November 30 / 4:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Homer, the Trojan War, and History
Ralph Gallucci (Classics, UCSB)
Friday, December 1 / 9:30 AM / IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 /
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Music as Media
Friday, December 1 / 12:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 /
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Synaesthesia in the Arts, Religion, and Cognitive Neuroscience
Monday, December 4 / 12:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 /
READING DISCUSSION: The Time of the Multitude: Materialism Today
Tuesday, December 5 / 11:00 AM / IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 /
TALK: Delito por bailar el chachachá: Text and Counterfeit
Alfred Mac Adam (Barnard & Columbia)
Tuesday, December 5 / 3:00 PM / Wofsey Seminar Room, 4312 Phelps Hall /
RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: African Studies
Tuesday, December 5 / 5:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
Bianca Murillo (History, UCSB), Timothy Mechlinski (Sociology, UCSB) /
CONFERENCE: Interrogating African Modernity: Art, Cultural Politics, and Global Identities
Dates: May 4 —- May 5, 2007
Venue: University of California Santa Barbara Convener: Dr. Sylvester Okwunodu Ogbechie