11
Feb
The Social Network
The Social Network Friday, February 11 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 14 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
The Social Network
10
Feb
Chronographics: The Emergence of the Timeline and its Relation to Modern Historical Imagination
Daniel Rosenberg (History, University of Oregon) Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The convention of mapping historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured lines is ubiquitous. Yet, like the conventions of historical narrative, this graphic convention has a complex history. This...
10
Feb
Political Upheaval in the Middle East
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Is democracy sweeping through the Arab World? Or will current unrest result in autocratic crack-downs, military coups, Islamist regimes, and chaos? How should the US react? What are the implications for America? A public discussion by Middle East specialists...
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Upcoming Events
10
Feb
The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai
Mary Hancock (History / Anthropology, UCSB) Discussant: Amit Ahuja (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor, Ellison Hall The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port...
09
Feb
The Evolution of Arab- and Muslim-American Activism in the Post-9/11 Decade
Hussein Ibish (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 9 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout...
09
Feb
Surround Sound
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Surround Sound" explores the affective significance of the relationship between sound and the experience of space, particularly with respect to language acquisition and its role in attachment. The practice of making and...
09
Feb
UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities
Call for Nominations UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities 2011-2012 UC Humanities Network – UC Santa Barbara The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities...
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08
Feb
Magic and Religion in Ancient Corinth
Ronald Stroud (Classical Languages and Literature, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 8 / 5:30 PM SB Museum of Natural History Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. From early times Corinth also had a...
07
Feb
The Vernacular Book of Hours
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale University) Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB More devotional books of hours remain in modern libraries than any other kind of book from late medieval England: almost eight hundred manuscript volumes, and many thousands of printed ones. And yet this fact...
07
Feb
“You’re Not Just Buying Coffee”: Ethical Consumerism in the Shadow of Global Capital
Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 7 / 10:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today’s consumer is confronted with a growing variety of “ethical” products in the American marketplace. This presentation examines the practice of ethical consumption of coffee in order to identify the ideological and...
06
Feb
The Tent, the Field, and the Battlefield: How the Stories of Biblical Matriarchs Mine and Undermine Each Other
Judy Klitsner (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem) Sunday, February 6 / 8:45 AM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Road, Santa Barbara What do the infertile, tent-dwelling mothers of Genesis have in common with the military and spiritual leaders of the book of Judges? In our...
04
Feb
Improvability
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 4...
04
Feb
STAKELAND
Magic Lantern Films presents: Santa Barbara Film Festival Selection STAKELAND Friday February 4/ 7 pm &10 pm I.V. Theater FREE...
03
Feb
Academic Freedom in a Time of Crisis
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Outspoken public intellectuals and academic leaders Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson will go head to head for a lively discussion on the role of academic freedom in higher learning. Fish, a Professor of...
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Series / Future of the University / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Featured Events / Faculty Forums
03
Feb
West Meets East: The International Labor Organization from Geneva to the Pacific Rim
Thursday – Saturday, February 3-5 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote speakers are Leon Fink (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Anita Chan (China Research Center, University of Technology, Sydney). Panels will address economic development, women and migrant workers, international labor standards, unions, politics, and law. Sponsored by the Center...
02
Feb
Drilling Down: Can Historians Operationalize Koselleck’s Stratigraphical Times?
John Zammito (History, Rice University) Wednesday, February 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Reinhard Koselleck went farther than most historical theorists toward a conceptualization of historical process as multilayered, moving at different tempi stratum by stratum, yet interacting both synchronically and diachronically across the strata....
01
Feb
The Fight to Stay Put
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel uses different media expressions to explore how urban re-productions of space/place often have emotional impacts on people whose values, cultural ways and quality of life are at best secondary to economic interests of...
31
Jan
Some Problems with Hubris in Ancient Greek Law
David Phillips (History, UCLA) Monday, January 31 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Phillips' talk examines some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law, and of ancient Greek law more generally, through an analysis of the offense of hubris ("intentionally dishonoring behavior"). In addition to...
28
Jan
Basque Whaling in the Seventeenth Century
Friday, January 28, 2011 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference brings together experts on history and philology from the Basque Country, Iceland, and the United States. It focuses on a little known event in Basque history: the cold-blooded killing of...
28
Jan
Credibility and Referential Accuracy during Asylum Hearings
Marco Jacquemet (Communication Studies, University of San Francisco) Friday, January 28 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education Jacquemet is currently working on a book project, Transidioma: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization, which uses ethnographic and historical data from Mediterranean Europe and the U.S. to examine how...
28
Jan
NEH Program Officer to visit UCSB on February 22-23
For more information, please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/neh/...
28
Jan
Never Let Me Go
Magic Lantern Films presents: Never Let Me Go Friday, January 28 at 7pm & 10pm Monday, January 31 at 10pm I.V. Theater $4...
28
Jan
Improvability
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, January 28 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
27
Jan
21st Century Tuan: Revisiting “Space and Place” in the i-Age
Jon Jablonski (Davidson Library's Map & Imagery Laboratory, UCSB) Thursday, January 27, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Yifu Tuan's 1977 Space and Place is a signature text of humanistic geography. Written against the backdrop of the rise of feminist, critical, and qualitative geographies, the...
26
Jan
Memories of Underdevelopment
Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1968) 97 min. Wednesday, January 26, 2011 / 6:00 PM Introduction by Colin Gardner (Arts, UCSB) MultiCultural Center Theater Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in 1968, Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) tells the story of Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, who decides to stay...
25
Jan
Seeking Spatial Justice
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography...
25
Jan
Funding for Conferences, Meetings, Workshops, and Seminars in the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts
Tuesday, January 25 / 1:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Barbara Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, will present information about funding opportunities for conferences, meetings, workshops, and seminars. She will outline various programs from agencies such as...
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Upcoming Events
21
Jan
The Crisis, Los Angeles’ Black Communities, and the Failed State Debate
Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part of a community/academic...
21
Jan
Women in Prehistoric Greece
John G. Younger (Classics, University of Kansas) Friday, January 21 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Younger's talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and...
21
Jan
Buried
Magic Lantern Films presents: Buried Friday, January 21 at 7pm & 10pm Monday, January 24 at 10pm I.V. Theater $4...
21
Jan
Improvability.
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability: The NorCal VS SoCal Show Friday, January 21 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
21
Jan
The Not-so-Separate Spheres: Private Chefs Negotiate Professionalism and Intimate Service
Ali Hendley (Sociology, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB While the private and public spheres are often imagined as separate and opposed, feminist scholars have argued that they are inextricably linked. Challenging the line between public and private, work and home, and...
20
Jan
Spaceship Earth: A History of Ecological Designs
Peder Anker (Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study / The Environmental Studies Program, New York University) Thursday, January 20 / 5:00 PM Buchanan 1930 Why did scientists and laypeople alike in the 1970s talk about the Earth in terms of a Spaceship? And in what way did...
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Upcoming Events
20
Jan
Reimagining the Hemispheric South
Thursday-Friday, January 20-21, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The event will build on contemporary retheorizations of the Global South by exploring the rapid transformation of many relationships, communities, and alliances within the Western hemisphere. While the concept of the Hemispheric South suggests a move away from...
19
Jan
The Global Landscape of Holocaust Memorials Since 1945
Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Respondant: Richard Hecht (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, January 19, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance, and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion...
18
Jan
Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Award
This award supports an innovative project in the visual, performing, and media arts that engages creatively with issues of interdisciplinary concern. The competition is open to faculty and graduate students. Both individual and collaborative projects are eligible. IHC awards support scholarly and creative work that...
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18
Jan
America and the Holocaust
Pierre Sauvage, Documentary Filmmaker of Weapons of the Spirit Tuesday, January 18 / 8:00 p.m. Campbell Hall Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as well...
17
Jan
IMAGE UPLOAD
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15
Jan
The Role of Religion in Global Civil Society: A Focus on South and Southeast Asia
Saturday, January 15 / 9:00 am–6:00 pm Loma Pelona Conference Center This day-long workshop brought together scholars from the United States and Asia with leaders of various international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to examine the role of religion in global civil society, with a particular focus on...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
14
Jan
Improvability.
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, January 14 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
13
Jan
Is Online Education the Answer?
Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Is online instruction the future of undergraduate teaching? Is online education truly cost-effective? Can it improve undergraduate education? Is it the form that undergraduate instruction is destined to take? Is the University of California prepared...
10
Jan
Interrogating Fidelity through Nuria Amat’s Emily Dickinson: A Workshop in Re-Retranslation
Carol Maier (Spanish, Kent State University) Monday, January 10 / 4:00 PM PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Phelps 6320 Maier's research interests are focused on translation theory, criticism, practice and pedagogy. She also studies contemporary Peninsular literature, particularly the work of María Zambrano, Rosa Chacel, and Catalan writer Nuria...
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Upcoming Events
07
Jan
Improvability.
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability. Friday, January 7 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
07
Jan
06
Jan
Literature Fellowships: Translation Projects
These fellowships support projects for the translation of specific works of prose, poetry, or drama from other languages into English. Translations of writers and of works which are not well represented in English translation are encouraged. The work to be translated should be of interest...
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01
Jan
2012 UC Humanities Research Institute Working Groups Selected
On behalf of the UC Humanities Network, UCHRI is pleased to announce the selections for the first round of working groups on "The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work":
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Announcements
16
Dec
ARTHUR N. RUPE GREAT DEBATE: Academic Freedom in a Time of Crisis
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free More...
15
Dec
IHC congratulates the 2010 Isla Vista Research and Teaching Award winners
The IHC is pleased to announce the winners of the Isla Vista Research and Teaching Awards for 2010.
15
Dec
IHC congratulates the Fall 2010 Faculty Fellows
Click here to view current fellows and award recipients....
12
Dec
Call for papers: IHC graduate student conference
The Productive Geographies Graduate Student Conference Committee is accepting abstracts for their April 29, 2011 event. Click here for the call for papers....
12
Dec
President’s Faculty Research Fellowships in the Humanities
These fellowships provide salary support to UC faculty conducting research in the Humanities. Each Fellow will receive support to carry out an extended research project, often in conjunction with funds from extramural agencies, campus grants, and sabbatical leave. Active ladder rank faculty, including Lecturers who...
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11
Dec
02
Dec
C is for Collaboration, Creativity, and Community: A Model of Alliances Through Applied Drama, Theater, and Arts Courses
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester, UK and Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Thursday, December 2 / 4:00 PM Theater Dance West 2517 Applied drama, theater, and other arts (music, dance, film) valuably form the core of undergraduate and graduate courses, engaging student, faculty, and community collaboration...
01
Dec
New UC Humanities Network website launches
Visit www.uchumanitiesnetwork.org for system-wide humanities information....
30
Nov
Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq
Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, November 30, 2010 / 12:00 PM 5824 Ellison Hall Zeroing in is an apt metaphor for the way citizen-viewers are positioned in relation to world events since they increasingly view them from the perspectives of aerial and orbital machines....
22
Nov
National Identities: The Changing Identities of Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus
Monday, November 22, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The geography of Eurasia is inhabited by populations whose understanding of identity has been redefined due to the shifting borders of empire and nation. The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the new states emerging...
19
Nov
Constructing (Dis)agreement Through Dialogic Resonance in Hebrew Talk-in-interaction
Friday, November 19 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This panel discussion includes Bracha Nir (Communication Disorders, Haifa University) and Yael Maschler (Communication/Hebrew Language, Haifa University). Bracha Nir’s research interests include inter- and intra-genre differentiation, usage based approaches to discourse analysis and to language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. Between...
19
Nov
Improvability.
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 19: The Naughty and Nice Show...
19
Nov
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Friday, November 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 22 / 10:00 PM...
18
Nov
William Blake and William Morris: The British Roots of Artists’ Books
Thursday, November 18 / 3:00 PM Davidson Library, Special Collections Seminar Room (3rd floor) As part of the celebration of Davidson Library's acquisition of its 3 millionth volume, The History of Books and Material Texts RFG is holding an interactive presentation on two book artists from the...
18
Nov
The Temperance Tea Party: Free Trade, Sacred Tastes and the Sober Consumer in the Early Industrial Britain
Erika Rappaport (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As critics have pointed out, the contemporary conservative “tea party movement” holds little resemblance to that of its self-proclaimed forefathers. This paper elucidates this point but also argues that tea parties have been...
18
Nov
Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Black Slaves, White Tourists and the Problem of Colonial Vision in 19th century Landscapes of Jamaica
Charmaine Nelson (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill Univeristy, Montreal) Thursday, November 18, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Charmaine Nelson is an Associate Professor of Art History, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Her research and teaching...
17
Nov
Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in ‘Writings in My Pajamas’
Wednesday, November 17 / 7:00 PM Campbell Hall Sandra Cisneros will give a presentation, Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in 'Writings in My Pajamas.’ A panel discussion of the writing of Sandra Cisneros with Ellen McCracken (Spanish &...
17
Nov
Save the Humanities in the UK
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...
17
Nov
Flying A Studio: Santa Barbara’s First Brush with High Tech
Dana Driskel (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 17, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1912 the city of Santa Barbara welcomed a “high-tech” industry to the area for the first time. Even then the primary employers within city limits...
16
Nov
Inspired Collisions, Formidable Complicity: Mozambique’s National Song & Dance Company in the Post-Civil War Era
Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, November 16 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This analysis of the same state-sponsored National Song and Dance Company demonstrates how political powers may work on an African dance company over time yet produce strikingly different results. The debut...
16
Nov
Proposal Writing for the Arts: Focus on IHC and UCIRA Graduate Student Grants
Tuesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Join us to learn how to prepare an effective proposal for the upcoming IHC and UCIRA grant competitions. You will learn details about the programs and what they fund, insights about the review process, and writing...
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Upcoming Events
15
Nov
Islands, Interiors, and In Between: Chumash Life on the Oxnard Plain
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
13
Nov
Spatium Sets
Saturday, November 13, 2010 / 6:00 PM 479 Gallery in Old Gym on UCSB campus "Spatium Sets" is a group art exhibition of contemporary art practitioners in collaboration with a solo exhibition of UCSB MFA candidate, Daniela Campins. Venezuelan-born Campins' artwork articulates the idea of space and...
12
Nov
Inception
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Inception Friday, November 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 15 / 10:00 PM...
12
Nov
Fertile Grounds for the Radical Right. Evidence from the Netherlands
Hilde Coffe (Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University) Friday, November 12 / 2:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Coffe is the author of over twenty articles appearing in such journals as Electoral Studies, British Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Language and Politics in English and...
11
Nov
Kosher Nation: Why More and More of America’s Food Answers to a Higher Authority
Sue Fishkoff, National Correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Thursday, November 11 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillion- dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to...
10
Nov
A Conversation with Artist Ann Diener
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / 4:00 PM University Art Museum Artist Ann Diener will lead an informal gallery walkthrough of her commissioned wall drawing at the University Art Museum and present a slide talk about her new body of work. Diener’s large-scale, abstract drawings chart and interpret...
10
Nov
The Los Angeles Plaza: Sacred and Contested Space
Wednesday, November 10 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William David Estrada from the Los Angeles Natural History Museum will speak on his latest book, e. Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group and the Public History...
10
Nov
Self Preservation: The Politics of Art Collecting in 18th-century South
Emily Engel (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, November 10 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this analysis of collecting practice in eighteenth-century South America, Engel suggests that viewing and sponsoring works of art, in particular portraits, provided the Bourbon South American viceroys with ways to contemplate...
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Upcoming Events
10
Nov
Poetry and Human Rights
Marjorie Agosin (Spanish Language and Latin American Literature, Wellesley College) Wednesday, November 10 / 4:00 PM CCS Old Little Theatre Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet and Human Rights activist. She has authored almost twenty books of poetry and memoir and has also edited numerous anthologies dedicated to...
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Upcoming Events
10
Nov
Edward Soja lecture canceled
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....
08
Nov
What is the New Normal in Higher Education?
Stanley Katz (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Monday, November 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The financial crisis of the past two years looks like its becoming structural, especially in the public universities. Is privatization the answer, at least for the "elite" state sector in higher education? If so, what are the implications both for the elites and "the rest"? A related question is what can/will replace the traditional, if nervous, balance between research and instruction in universities? How do we balance the growing pressures for greater inclusion of the college age cohort, and the growing cost of increasingly specialized research? The post-World War II history of higher education, with the emergence of the multiversity, has been one of more or less successful adaptation of traditional organizational structures. But haven't we reached the point at which we can no longer add epicycles without destroying the basic structure of higher education? Sponsored by the IHC's Faculty Forums series and the UCSB Faculty Association.
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Series / Future of the University / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Audio / Visual / Faculty Forums
07
Nov
IHC theme for 2010-2011: Geographies of Place
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....
07
Nov
CALL FOR PROPOSALS: 2011-12 UC President’s Faculty Fellowships in the Humanities
Extended deadline: January 14, 2011
05
Nov
What Happened to Tristan in the Renaissance?
Jane Taylor (Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham) Friday, November 5 / 2:00 PM HSSB 3041 In her lecture, Dr. Jane Taylor will discuss the question of ré-écriture and changing literary tastes through an analysis of two late Tristan versions, the Tristan of Pierre Sala's...
05
Nov
Exit Through the Gift Shop
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, November 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 8 / 10:00 PM...
05
Nov
Green Jobs/Sustainable Labor in the Age of Climate Justice
Andrew Ross (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University) Friday, November 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The...
05
Nov
Language and Interaction in the Luso-African Muscial Style Kuduro
Alex Wahl (Linguistics, UCSB) TALK: You Don't Fit Inside the Camera, Dude!? Socialization Through Teasing in Conversation Audrey Lopez (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Friday, November 5 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Alex Wahl is an M.A. student in Sociocultural Linguistics at UCSB. His research focuses on language and identity in...
05
Nov
Improvability.
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 5: Christmas Spooktacular Show...
04
Nov
Food Justice: A New Social Movement Takes Root
Robert Gottlieb (Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College) Thursday, November 4 / 11:30 AM HSSB 1233 In today’s food system, farm workers face hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises, and food products are developed to be convenient rather than wholesome. Opposing...
04
Nov
Keeping Time II
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...
03
Nov
Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960
Jose Alamillo (Chicano/a Studies, CSU Channel Islands) Wednesday, November 3 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 Jose Alamillo will lecture on his recent book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group....
03
Nov
The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur’ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion America's Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about...
02
Nov
Velázquez in the Basement: Connoisseurship and the Politics of Art History
Dr. John Marciari (San Diego Museum of Art) Tuesday, November 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB Dr. Marciari recently made international headlines by attributing a painting at the Yale University Art Gallery to Diego Velázquez. Depicting 'The Education of the Virgin Mary', the work was...
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Upcoming Events
01
Nov
Being there (virtually): Night of the Dead on Janitzio and in Hannover
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music/Theater and Dance, UCSB & University of Winchester, UK ) Monday, November 1, 2010/ 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Each November second since the postrevolutionary nationalistic years of the 1920s the diminutive cemetery on the tiny island of Janitzio, Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico has been...
01
Nov
Gonda van Steen (Greek Studies, University of Florida)
Monday-Friday, November 1-5 Gonda van Steen’s first book, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society. She recently finished a book titled Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), in which revolutionary uses of Aeschylus’...
29
Oct
Halloween Triple Feature
Twilight: Eclipse & Rocky Horror Picture Show with Improvability performing live between shows Friday, October 29 beginning at 7 PM IV Theater ...
28
Oct
Usable Pasts: Memory and Self-craft Through History, Song and Clothwork in Zimbabwe and Among Ainu
Thursday, October 28 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This topic will be discussed by Ann-elise Lewallen (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) The presenters will circulate individual papers beforehand (please email Mhoze Chikowero: chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Peter Bloom: pbloom@mediandfilm.ucsb.edu for the...
28
Oct
The American Friends of the Middle East: The CIA, Arabism, and Anti-Zionism in Cold War America
Hugh Wilford (History, CSU Long Beach) Thursday, October 28 / 12:30 PM McCune Room (HSSB 6020) In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. This paper reveals the hitherto...
28
Oct
Jimmy Santiago Baca
Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be awarded this year to Jimmy Santiago Baca of New Mexico, a leading poet, essayist, and novelist. Baca...
28
Oct
What Do All Students Need To Know?
Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room What does every graduate of UCSB need to know in order to be an educated and enlightened citizen of the 21st century? Panelists include: Linda Adler-Kassner (Director, Writing Program, UCSB); Thomas Carlson (Religious Studies, UCSB); Diane Fujino...
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Oct
Borders and Miracles of Art
Serena Giordano Wednesday, October 27 / 4:30 PM HSSB 3001 What are the borders of the country of Art? Are ex-votos included within these borders? If not, how would calling them “art” place into question the ritual value of the artwork (Benjamin) in the era before mechanical reproduction?...
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Oct
Introducing the IV Research and Teaching Initiative
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The UC Institute for Research in the Arts, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Arts Research Initiative are pleased to announce a competition for research and educational projects that engage Isla Vista as a...
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Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 22 / 8:00 PM - "A Very Brady Improv Show: Free Admission for Parents" 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
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Oct
Charlie St. Cloud
Friday, October 22 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 25 at 10 PM $4 at I.V Theater...
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Oct
Welcome to the Identity Studies RFG
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) and Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 21 / 4:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Welcome to all those interested in identity issues! Please join us for the first meeting of the year at which we will preview our planned activities. The...
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Oct
Why Does Time Have a Future? The Physical Origins of the Arrow of Time
Ulrich Schollwöck (Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Thursday, October 21 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The difference between past, present and future is one of the most profound human experiences. Surprisingly enough, this experience is not reflected in the fundamental laws of physics,...
21
Oct
From 1973 Photo Documentary to 2010 Cyber-Infrastructure Cultural Atlas
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...
20
Oct
The Future of Scholarly Publishing: Challenges and Directions
Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30-4:30 Harbor Room, UCEN Please join the Library for a program on the future of scholarly publishing. Chuck Bazerman (Education) and James Frew (Bren School) will discuss some of the challenges facing traditional journal and monograph publishing, including how to maintain control of...
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Oct
Latinos and the Midterm Elections
David Ayón (Senior Fellow, Loyola Marymount) Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 David Ayon, a specialist in Latino politics in the U.S., will discuss the role that Latino voters may play in the midterm elections especially with the effects of the immigration debate fueled by...
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Oct
From Literal to Spiritual Soldiers of Christ: The Contestation of Space in Late Antique Rome
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
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Oct
Snarled Megalopolis
Debut of IHC’s PLATFORM Gallery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6:00 PM 6th Floor, HSSB SNARLED MEGALOPOLIS Visions of the Emerging Face of Megacities This exhibition collects artists’ visualizations of vertiginously growing megacities, with their impulsive structures and grids. Featuring the work of fourteen individual artists from around the world,...
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Oct
Ancient Northeast Africa and the Indian Ocean Trade
Stanley Burstein (History, CSU Los Angeles) Monday, October 18 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused overwhelmingly on the impact...
17
Oct
Achieving a Two-State Solution
Moshe Halbertal & Raghida Dergham Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A dialogue between Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli pholosopher, award-winning author, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University and Raghida Dergham, columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based newspaper, Al-Hayat,...
17
Oct
Shakespeare in Anis’Oyo’ Park
McBeth! back by popular demand Sunday, October 17 / 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM Bring a blanket and enjoy a short hour of twisted Shakespeare....
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Oct
An Evening of Music from Zimbabwe with Thomas Mapfumo and the Blacks Unlimited
Saturday, October 16 / 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater In the 1970s, during Zimbabwe’s war of independence against their white Rhodesian rulers, Thomas Mapfumo, often called the Lion of Zimbabwe, created the chimurenga (the Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'). This unique style combines the...
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Oct
Democracy and Insurgency in Health Care Unionism
John Borsos (National Union of Health Care Workers) Friday, October 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 John Borsos has been a health industry trade unionist for nearly two decades and is currently a leader of the insurgent National Union of Health Care Workers. He holds a Ph.D. in...
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Oct
Questioning Questioning: A Discussion
Friday, October 15 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 A discussion of "An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation" by Tanya Stivers (UCLA). To receive a PDF copy of the paper under discussion, contact Melissa Curtin (mlcurtin@linguistics.ucsb.edu). Moderator: Mary Bucholtz (UCSB). Discussant: Geoffrey...
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Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
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Oct
Tools for Map Making: A Geographies of Place Workshop
Friday, October 15, 2010 / 1:00PM - 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Maps can add important dimensions to analysis and interpretation in the humanities, illustrating the distribution of phenomena, patterns of activities, processes of landscape change, flows among places, and connections between natural and human environments....
14
Oct
Who Serves Whom in Medieval Jewish-Christian Relations
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University) Thursday, October 14 / 3:30 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Anna Sapir Abulafia's books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995), Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in...
13
Oct
Geographies of Place Inaugural Lecture
Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) "Isla Vista: A Public Research Lab" Wednesday, October 13, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “We are within and part of what we study. Participatory research thus begins with the assumption that all forms of meaning, doing, making, thinking and knowing...
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Oct
How to Find Funding for Your Research: Electronic Search Engine Training for the Humanities and Fine Arts
Whitney Winn and Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Tuesday, October 12 / 10:00 AM SSMS 1304 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Humanities and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use two campus subscription funding search...
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