Professor Steven Friesen's talk, "Violence, Holy War, and the Book of Revelation: Zižek and John, Together at Last", originally scheduled for February 10, has been canceled until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Professor Alfred MacAdam's seminar "The 'Closelaborations' of Borges and Bioy Casares", originally scheduled for February 21, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
January 6, 2012 To: Humanities, Arts, and Social Science Faculty From: David Marshall, Executive Dean and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts Melvin Oliver, Dean of Social Sciences Re: Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars Important Dates: Proposal Workshop Friday, January 20, 2012, 12 noon, 4315 SSMS Letter of Intent due Monday, February...
SEMINAR: INT 201GW: Grant and Fellowship Writing for the Social Sciences, Fine Arts and Humanities. Jude Mikal (Research Development Coordinator – IHC) Barbara Walker (Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts) Monday, January 9 / 2:00 PM HSSB 6056 A graduate-level six week course covering...
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Faculty Fellows - Spring 2011 Release Time Thomas Carlson, Religious Studies, Toward the Heart of the Secular: On Modernity as a Form of Love Lisa Jacobson, History, Fashioning New Cultures of Drink: Alcohol’s Quest for Legitimacy after Prohibition Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History, Sanitizing Revolt: Physicians, Public Health, and Repression...
The IHC is pleased to congratulate the 2011-2012 UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities: Jenna Gray-Hildenbrand of the Department of Religious Studies and Julia Panko of the Department of English. For further details about this fellowship, which is sponsored by the UC Humanities Network, please...
TALK: Home as Elsewhere Wednesday, March 9 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For further details, click here....
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/ Click...
Winter term deadline to be announced. To review last year's call for proposals, visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/ucgradfellows/. Questions may be directed to IHC Associate Director Emily Zinn: ezinn@ihc.ucsb.edu....
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Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free More...
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The Productive Geographies Graduate Student Conference Committee is accepting abstracts for their April 29, 2011 event. Click here for the call for papers....
Visit www.uchumanitiesnetwork.org for system-wide humanities information....
The Conservative and Liberal Democratic coalition government in the United Kingdom is planning to cut government funding to higher education by 80%. They are urging campuses to make up the difference by eliminating programs and faculty in the humanities, social sciences, and fine arts. I would...
Professor Edward Soja's lecture "Seeking Spatial Justice," originally scheduled for Tuesday January 25, has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience, and will attempt to reschedule the event....
For the 2010-11 academic year, the IHC’s year-long theme will be “Geographies of Place.” For more information please visit the Geographies of Place web page....
Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard) Rüdiger Campe (German, Yale) Thursday, November 4 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room This second event in the "Keeping Time" series features two talks on the construction of temporal categories in literature and science, from the 17th through the early 19th century. Mario...
Twilight: Eclipse & Rocky Horror Picture Show with Improvability performing live between shows Friday, October 29 beginning at 7 PM IV Theater ...
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
UCHRI California Humanities Scholars for 2010-11 The purpose of the new California Humanities Scholars Program is to recognize graduate students working across the broad range of humanities at the University of California and to use their collective expertise, interests and collaborative energy to create a dynamic...
For more information about the Isla Vista Research and Teaching Initiative Grants, please visit https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/ivrti...
Please join us for the IHC’s seventh annual Open House. Click here for more information....
Click here to view the 2010-2011 Research Focus Groups....
UCHRI has released its 2011-12 Call for Proposals for five programs: Collaborative Compositions, Residential Research Group Topic Proposals (for 2012-13), Residential Research Fellowships (for Spring 2011), Conferences and Seminars, and Extramural Explorations. All can be found online on the UCHRI website at http://www.uchri.org....
The IHC thanks the many members of the UCSB and Santa Barbara communities who helped to make our Oil + Water series for 2009-2010 a success. Click here for details about events in this series, which explored the impact of these two vital resources on...
Visit this page to learn about individual, collaborative and release time awards for UCSB faculty....
The audio version of the Future of the University series' Future of Publishing in the Humanities event is now available on the event webpage. ...
Our May 17 deadline for research focus groups and research fellowships is quickly approaching. For application details and other information, please visit: Research Fellowships (Formerly Senior Fellowships) Research Focus Groups ...
For the first time, Isla Vista Arts is asking for undergraduate support for a $2.00 per quarter lock-in fee initiative. Vote YES on Isla Vista Arts Keep the Magic Lantern lit! Keep I.V. LIVE! Keep WORD Magazine on the street...
The IHC's Spring Conference, Oil+Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California will be taking place shortly. Please join us for this free, public event on Thursday, April 8 through Saturday, April 10. For more information, a full schedule and list of...
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University: Current and Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing event is now available for steaming on the event webpage....
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University : Equity and Access event is now available for listening on the event webpage....
IHC is proud to partner with the Community Environmental Council on all its public programming for the Oil and Water series....
The audio recordings from the IHC's Future of the University symposium with talks by Jennifer Washburn and David Marshall is now available on the event webpage....
INT 201GW is a graduate-level course covering the fundamentals of funding searches, research design, and grant writing for students in the arts, humanities and social sciences....
TALK:Classroom Chronolects: Creating Contexts for Learning Science in Racially and Linguistically Diverse Classrooms Patricia Baquedano-López (Education, UC Berkeley) Friday, September 25 / 1:30 PM 1623 South Hall (Note special location) MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting DATE CHANGED: see below MEETING: LISO Fall Organizational Meeting (note date change) followed by TALK: Non-minimal Responses to...
MAGIC LANTERN FILMS:The Wrestler Friday, April 3 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 6 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: The Curious Case of Benjamin Button Friday, April 10 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 13 / 10:00 PM IV Theater $4 MAGIC LANTERN FILMS: Gran...
RESIDENCY: Zoe Strauss Artist talk: Thursday, April 2 / 8:00 PM Peet's Coffee, 1131 State Street, back courtyard Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 5:00 PM Broida 1610 Artist talk: Tuesday, April 7 / 8:00 PM IV Theater 2 COLLOQUIUM: Medieval Perspectives on Environmental History Friday, April 3 / 3:00-6:00 PM Marine Sciences...
TALK: Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Archaeology and Art History, UCLA) Thursday, January 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB TALK: Moche Socio Political Evolution: A Tale of Adaptation, Divergence and Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru) Monday, January...
CONCERT: Tertulia Colombiana Friday, September 19 / 7:00 PM CCS Old Little Theater SYMPOSIUM: A Symposium on the Writings of Pat Mora Thursday, September 24 / 4:00 PM South Hall 1623 SYMPOSIUM: Writing, Performance, and Theatricality in George Sand's Works Thursday-Saturday, September 25-27 various campus locations TALK: The End of...
Visiting poet: Barbara Jane Reyes June 2-3 VISITING ARTIST: Scott Johnson Composer in Residence June 2-6 TALK: Revisioning the History of Ideas about Bodies of the Buddha: A New Approach Michael Radich (Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Monday, June 9 / 5:00 PM (note time change) 2252 Humanities and Social...
CONFERENCE: Annual International Graduate Conference on the Cold War Friday, April 4 – Saturday, April 5 Keynote address: Emily Rosenberg (History, UC Irvine) Friday, April 4 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 TALK: Flight of Fancy: Whiteness, Suburbanization, and Identity in San Juan, Puerto Rico Since 1940 Luis Figueroa...
TALK: Loser Take All: Election, Fraud and the Subversion of Democracy, 2000-2008 Mark Crispin Miller (New York Univ.) Tuesday, January 15 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB TALK: Dorothea Lange and Visual Democracy Linda Gordon (New York University) Friday, January 18 / 11:00 AM 4041 HSSB VISITING ARTIST: Carla Kihlstedt RESEARCH...
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...
July 6 and July 9: TMNT Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater July 13 and July 16: Disturbia Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10 p.m. Tickets $4 Isla Vista Theater 20 July 20 and July 23: The Host Friday 7 p.m and 9:30 p.m. Monday 10...
SCREENING: Lost Souls (dir Natalie Sanderson & Sumnima Udas, 2007) Wednesday, April 4 / 6:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater TALK: Radio Was Discovered Before it Was Invented Douglas Kahn (Technocultural Studies, UC Davis) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM Old Little Theater (CCS) Sound in the Arts RFG meeting 3:30 PM CONFERENCE: Latin American...
VISITING ARTISTS: Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois January 10 –- 12, 2007 Residency Activities VISITING ARTISTS: Keith Johnson in Residence at UCSB Jan 14 - 21 Iridian Arts Presents: Still Life with Mic Todd Reynolds and Luke Dubois Thursday, January 11 / 6:30 talk & 8:00 PM performance Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum 2nd Floor Arts...
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...
TALK: Doing Race Research in Education in the New Civil Rights Era Mica Pollock (Graduate School of Education, Harvard) Thursday, April 6 /12:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Theater ...
CONFERENCE: Disciplining the Horn: Taming an Unruly Instrument Saturday-Sunday, January 7-8 / 9:00 AM Registration / Music Building MUSIC AS MEDIA RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP Co-Conveners, John Hajda and...
Looking Beyond the Written Word: Performing Scholarship Through Film Thursday, September 22nd / 5:00 PM– 7:00 PM / MultiCultural Center Experiments with Film – Screenings and Discussion Friday, September 23rd / 8:00 AM – 6:00 PM / McCune Conference Room (6020 HSSB) One: A performance of solo dance/theater Stephanie Nugent Sept....
Visiting Artist Program: July 18-25. Lisa D’Amour, Playwright. Visiting Artist Program: July 17-30. Eve Beglarian, Composer. CONFERENCE: Transliteracies 2005: Conversation Roundtables on Online Reading Keynotes: Anne Balsamo, Walter Bender and Adrian Johns June 17-18 / 8:30 AM - 5:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor CONFERENCE: Nollywood...
SEMINAR: Interscapes: Performing the Intercultural in Renaissance and Baroque Drama Leo Cabranes-Grant (Dramatic Art and Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB) Tuesday, March 15 / 4:00 PM / Free / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th Floor TALK: Accepting Imitations: Thomas Bernhard & Glenn Gould Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, Maryland) Friday, March...
TALK: Waves of Performance: Surf Music, Surf as Dance, Timothy Cooley & Judy Bauerlein Tuesday, December 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free CISM Discussion: Discussion on selected essays by Ernesto Laclau and Chantal Mouff, Ralph Lowi Wednesday, December 1 /...
HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB Sanguinary Laws and Horrid Tortures: Punishment and Civilization in Tokugawa Japan’s Encounter with the...
HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB Where the Long Grass Bends Neela Vaswani (Spalding University) Tuesday, January 13 / 3:30-5 PM /...
HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes Fall and Winter 2003 at UCSB Anita Pratap "Island of Blood: Frontline Reports from Sri Lanka, Afghanistan and Other South Asian Flashpoints" 5:00...
Sylvia Huot “Madness and Monstrosity: Crises of Identity in Medieval French Literature” Wednesday, April 2 / 4:00 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Zeynep Çelik “The Hidden Faces of Modernism” Saturday, April 5 / 1:30 - 2:30 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Yair Dalal and the Al...
For more event listings, please visit the "Executing Justice: America and the Death Penalty" Lecture Series Website Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills Wednesday, January 8 / 7:30 pm / General $6 / UCSB students $5 UCSB Campbell Hall Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, with the filmmakers Joe Berlinger...
"Jakob der Lügner" with special appearance by Director Frank Beyer Thursday, September 26 / 7:30 P.M. / Free I.V. Theater 2 Garry Wills "Citizen Believers" Sunday, October 6 / 3:00 P.M. / Free Victoria Hall Francisco A. Lomelí "Nuevomexicano Cultural Legacy: Forms, Agencies, and Discourse" Monday, October 7 / 4 P.M. / Free McCune Conference Room,...
April 3, 2002 - Satish Kumar "Youth at the Millennium Conference" April 13, 2002 - The Conflict of Civilizations? Senator George J. Mitchell and Professor Samuel P. Huntington April 12, 2002 - "Fellowship/Grant Proposal Workshop For UCSB Faculty" April 15, 2002...
January 16, 2002 - Bradley Graham, Hit to Kill: The New Battle over Shielding America from Missile Attack January 17, 2002 - Kathleen Bruhn, Mexico: The Struggle for Democratic Development January 22, 2002 - Rubén Martínez, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family on...
September 25, October 2, 9,16, 23 November 6 2001 - "Thinking Through The Catastrophe" October 10, 2001 - Frances FitzGerald "National Missile Defenses and the Politics of Nostalgia" October 17, 2001 - Catherine Cole Ghana's Concert Party Theatre October 17, 2001...
April 4, 2001 - Marc Kielburger "The Power of One: How One Person Can Work for Human Rights and Change the World" April 17, 2001 - Daniel Philpott "Revolutions in Sovereignty: How Ideas Shaped Modern International Relations" April 18, 2001 - Seiji...
January 11, 2001 - Michael Ignatieff, Virtual War and the Future of Intervention January 18, 2001 - Richard Appelbaum, Behind the Label: Inequality in the Los Angeles Apparel Industry January 22, 2001 - Judith Plaskow "Rethinking Jewish Sexual Ethics" January 24,...
October 5, 2000 - Suzanne Jill Levine, Manuel Puig and the Spider Woman: His Life and Fictions October 12, 2000 - Mario Garcia, Luis Leal: An Auto/Biography October 12, 2000 - William R. Pace "Globalization and Democracy" October 17, 2000 -...