Wednesday, May 15, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Debate participants: David Cole (Law, Georgetown University) Mary Ellen O’Connell (Law, University of Notre Dame) Avery Plaw (Political Science, Dartmouth University) Moderator:Jeff Greenfield The use of militarized drones – flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry – represents a major shift...
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 2:00 - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, “UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey”) Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the...
Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis) Friday, February 22, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that...
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond) Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February...
Wafaa Bilal (Tisch School, NYU) Thursday, February 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater, UCSB Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the...
Juan Campo (Religious Studies), Richard Hecht (Religious Studies), Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies), Salim Yaqub (History) Moderator: Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies) Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four UCSB professors join in a panel discussion to assess the effects of the war on...
Martha Bragin (Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY) Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The discourse on psychosocial reintegration of combat veterans in the United States has largely been confined to discussions of the best treatment for those diagnosed...
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War) Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for...
Amy Ziering (Producer) Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of...
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How do scholars make sense of acts of violence--even terrorism--that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a...
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012 Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum...
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM IV Theater 2 Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From) Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood...
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Tuesday, October 30, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000...
Introduction by Daniel Eisenberg Saturday, October 20, 2012 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg will introduce and screen his impressionistic film, which is a meditation on the fraught postwar period in Germany, examining larger questions about the continuous and discontinuous threads of history and the...