Fall 2007

Fall 2007

CONFERENCE: INTIMATE LABORS: An Interdisciplinary Conference on Domestic, Care, & Sex Work
October 4 – 6, 2007
McCune Conference Room
HSSB 6020

TALK: Inscribing the Word – Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honor of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest
Jeffrey Hamburger (History of Art and Architecture, Harvard)
Thursday, October 4 / 4:00 PM
Flying A Studios Room, UCEN

CALIFORNIA ARTS DAY
Friday, October 5
Introduction to Arts Day 2007
Statewide Event

TALK: Are the Arts of Asia Globalizable? The Case of Japan
Shigemi Inaga (International Research Center for Japanese Studies, Kyoto, Japan)
Friday, October 5 / 4:00 PM
MultiCultural Center

READING & PANEL: THE HYPERSEXUALITY OF RACE: Performing Asian / American Women on Screen and Scene
Thursday, October 11 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM
Celina Parrenas-Shimizu (Asian American Studies, UCSB)
Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies, UCSB)
Mireille Miller Young (Women’s Studies, UCSB)
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

TALK: Gender and Political Culture in the Vietnam Era
Robert O. Self (History, Brown University)
Friday, October 12 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041

RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP: Environmental Media, affiliated with the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Environmental Media Initiative (EMI)
Robert O. Self (History, Brown University)
Friday, October 12
1:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

ARTIST TALK: Walking L.A.
Sara Wookey (World Arts and Cultures, UCLA)
Monday, October 15
5:00 PM
Ballet Studio Theater HSSB

TALK: L.A. Story: Immigrant Workers and the Future of the U.S. Labor Movement
Ruth Milkman, (Sociology, UCLA)
Friday, October 19 / 1:00 – 2:30 PM
HSSB 4041

FILM SCREENING & DISCUSSION: Zabriskie Point
Rajikamal Kahlon
Friday, October 19 / 3:00 PM
South Hall 2635

TALK & BOOK SIGNING: The Struggle for the Temple Mount
Gershom Gorenberg
Sunday, October 21 / 3:00 PM
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

TALK: Shoah Literature: The Universal Aspect
Geoffrey Hartman (English & Comparative Literature, Yale University)
Tuesday October 23 / 8:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

IHC OPEN HOUSE
Thursday October 25 / 3:00 – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

WORKSHOP: Emergence of ‘the West:’ Shifting Hegemonies in the Medieval Mediterranean
Brian Catlos (History, UC Santa Cruz)
Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UC Santa Cruz)
Friday, October 26 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4041

CONFERENCE: Taiwan Studies from International Perspectives
Friday – Saturday
October 26 – 27 / 8:00 AM – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

EXHIBITION: I Am The Medium
October 29 – November 2, 2007
UCSB Campus wide Exhibition

TALK: What’s Wrong with This Picture? The Sudden Demise of Contemporary Costume in the Peking Opera
Joshua Goldstein (USC)
Thursday, November 1 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

SYMPOSIUM & ROUNDTABLE LUNCH: Missed Martydoms
Friday, November 2, 9:00 AM – 2:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/iamthemedium/missedmartyrdoms

TALK: Fictitious Kinships and the Dissolution of Boundaries
Erich Gruen (UC Berkeley)
Friday, November 2 / 3:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

PERFORMANCE & LECTURE: Mystics, Nomads, and Troubadours in Central Asian Music
Theodore Levin (Dartmouth College)
Tuesday, November 6 / 2:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.artsandlectures.ucsb.edu

TALK: The Geography of Newness: Globalization, Modernity and Technology
David Morley (Goldsmiths College, London)
Wednesday, November 7 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

CONFERENCE: The Traveling Box: Containers as the Global Icon of Our Era
November 8 – 10, 2007
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/containers

Common Sense Composer Collective
November 9 – 10 / 8:00 PM
www.iridianarts.com

TALK: Beauty and the Beast
Michael Taussig (Anthropology, Columbia)
Tuesday, November 13 / 12:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

TALK: Alois Riegl and the Baroque
Andrew Hopkins (University of l’Aquila, Italy)
Tuesday, November 13 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

FACULTY WORKSHOP: Humanities and Fine Arts Research Funding
John Hammond (Research Development Coordinator, IHC)
Tuesday, November 13 / 2:00 PM or Wednesday, November 14 / 2:00 PM
IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056

LECTURE: Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival
Lawrence Buell (Harvard University)
Thursday, November 15 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.acc.english.ucsb.edu

RFG MEETING: Torture and the Future
Thursday, November 15 / 5:00 PM
IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/Torture.html

MCC in I.V: Night of Self Expression
Thursday, November 15 / 8:00 PM
Berrilicious in 956 Embarcadero del Norte in I.V.
mcc.sa.ucsb.edu

LECTURE: The Word is Coming to an End
Bruce Ferguson (Arizona State University)
Friday, November 16 / 11:00 AM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Superbad
Friday, November 16
Isla Vista Theater $4
www.magiclanternfilms.org/

PERFORMANCE: Buck World One
Saturday, November 17 / 8:00 PM
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
www.ivlive.net

TALK: Farmers, Temples, and Highland Towns of Stone: The Archaeology of the Ancient Northern Horn of Africa
Matthew Curtis (Anthropology, UCSB)
Monday, November 19 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.ihc.ucsb.edu/research/archaeology.html

TALK: Art, Sex and Theatre
Felice Picano
Tuesday, November 27 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

LECTURE: Unspeakable Acts: Terayama Shuji and Postwar Japan
Carol Fisher Sorgenfrei (UCLA)
Thursday, November 29 / 5:00 PM
HSSB 1105

SYMPOSIUM & FILM SCREENING: Science as Navigation Leonhard Euler’s Journeys
Friday, November 30 / 10:00 AM – 7:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
www.gss.ucsb.edu/Euler.html

TALK: Ancient Maya Science and Secret Languages
Gerardo Aldana (Chican@ Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, December 5 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

TALK: Homosexuality is Not Just for Men. Even Among Women It Is A Splendid Rage!: Representations of Women’s “Perverse Desires” in Early Postwar Japan
Mark McLelland (University of Wollongong, Australia)
Thursday, December 6 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

DISCUSSION: Antonio Negri’s “The Political Monster”
Friday, December 7 / 2:00 PM
IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056

TALK: Ancient Maya Science and Secret Languages
Gerardo Aldana (Chican@ Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, December 5 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB