Joshua Dubler (Religion, University of Rochester) Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Joshua Dubler takes stock of the current critical discourses around mass incarceration and argues that if you are not yet a prison abolitionist there is...
Jacqueline (Jac) Gares (Director) CeCe McDonald (Activist, Prison Reform Advocate) Lal Zimman (Linguistics, UCSB) Wednesday, May 10, 2017/7:0o0 PM Pollock Theater In 2011 CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. Her story inspired an international movement advocating for her freedom, and since...
Weavers: Jennifer Bates Lois Bohna Linda Yamane Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Three Native American basketweavers will discuss the role that weaving plays in each of their communities. The basketweavers will also weave in their traditional style, showcasing each of their designs and techniques. Jennifer Bates...
Jenni Sorkin (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)* Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 * This event has been cancelled. Ceramics has been a marginal practice within the history of postwar art. But embedded in a discourse of experimentation with materials,...
Julie Eizenberg (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Hank Koning (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Thursday, April 20, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighborhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region in Urban Hallucinations. They bring...
Miranda Joseph (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk begins with a review of the extensive critiques of community offered by Joseph and other scholars of critical and cultural theory. While earlier analyses...
Nathan Schneider (Media Studies, University of Colorado - Boulder) Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What motivates people and mobilizes them to create change? In 2011, people in countries around the world rose up against their governments and economic systems,...
Donna Orange (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Tuesday, March 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking about community, badly needed, is in short supply in current public discourse. We will step back here to consider what meanings community might bring...
Jessica Benjamin (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Thursday, February 23, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk Benjamin brings together her psychoanalytic theory of the Third together with her experience with dialogue in the Middle East and with colleagues involved...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edina Lekovic (Director of Policy & Programming, Muslim Public Affairs Council) Yasmin Sallak (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB) Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media, UCSB) Sherene Seikaly (History, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath...
Margaret Malamud (S.P and Margaret Manasse Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Excluded from most schools, enterprising free black women and men in northern urban African American communities established their...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) and members of the Civic Imagination Project research team Friday, February 3, 2017 / 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Transmedia worldbuilding is an approach to creative collaboration in which practitioners build on shared values...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Henry Jenkins's 2006 book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collides ended with the speculation that we were acquiring skills through play that would soon...
Friday, January 27, 2017 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1960, dancer-choreographer and social activist Anna Halprin taught a revolutionary workshop on her open-air dance deck located on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais north of San Francisco. A natural environment...
Katherine Steele Brokaw (UC Merced) Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How does Shakespeare make different kinds of meaning in various local communities? And how can amateur theatre be a form of community engagement for drama and Shakespeare scholars? This talk will...
Thursday, December 1, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library (Special Research Collections, 3rd Floor, Mountain Side) A new UCSB Library exhibition in its Special Research Collections will explore the political, cultural, and social struggles of Isla Vista to become an independent, cohesive community, from 1970 to the...
Wu Wenguang (Director, Investigating My Father) Zhang Ping, Liu Xiaolei, Zhang Mengai (Members of The Memory Priject) Moderator: Michael Berry (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCLA) Saturday November 19, 2016 / 2:00pm-5:15pm The Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve...
Harry Boyte (Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College) Thursday, November 17, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the midst of enormous external pressures to narrow or eliminate the public purposes of higher education, how can educators become agents of constructive, democratizing...
Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater A social justice approach to building campus community encourages activism. What does it look like to have an inclusive university invested in just community values on and off...
UCSB students: Zenzile Riddick Katie Walker Jonathan Gomez Jasmine Kelekay Moderators: Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How best might our academic experiences at UCSB be both guided and deepened...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections On November 8, Isla Vista residents will take part in an historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community. With ballot initiatives E and F, they will...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / 10:00 AM-12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this workshop, Laura Browder will draw on her sixteen years of creating documentary dramas and museum exhibitions through university-community partnerships to address participants’ questions. These might include...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Tuesday, October 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2013, Laura Browder was commissioned by the city of Richmond to produce a piece for the RVA Street Art Festival, a four-day festival housed in the disused bus...
Anne H. Charity Hudley (Linguistics, The College of William and Mary) Friday, October 14, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Community-based participatory research (CBPR) empowers community members to fully participate in research from idea conception to interpretation and presentation of findings....
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Barbara Tomlinson (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is a university and why does the work we do here matter? What is the relationship between what goes on in our classrooms, studios and laboratories...
Karl Jacoby (History, Columbia University) Members of the Ellis family Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West...
Thursday, May 26, 2016 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB student veterans will present original writings on topics relating to their diverse military experiences, including their reasons for enlisting, their deployments, homecomings, and return to the civilian community. There will be time for questions...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Thursday, April 14, 2016 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Now happily entrenched at UCSB, Rick Benjamin has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Goddard College, Haverford College, Haystack, New Urban Arts, as...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement,IHC) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:30-5:00 PM UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum In this poetry workshop, led by Rick Benjamin in celebration of National Poetry Month, we will talk and write toward surfacing truths in the geological, historical, cultural and/or...