UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, March 5 / 8:00 PM - "Nice Show" Friday, March 5 / 10:00 PM - "Naughty Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, March 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Sven Beckert (History, Harvard) Friday, March 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, and the Policy History Program....
Bruce Smith and Richard Nash (USC and Indiana University) Friday, March 5 / 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Cloning, organ farms, the completion of the Human Genome Project, recombinant DNA, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and other manufactured life forms, all suggest that, depending on one’s point of view,...
Thursday, March 4, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB On July 1, 2003 Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and...
Emily Engel (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, March 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the city council of Lima regularly commissioned and exhibited official portrait paintings between 1700 and 1830. By the time of the revolution, the city’s...
Ursula Biemann Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The...
Brian Holmes and Dmitri Vilenski Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer and translator who has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and is currently working on geopolitics and geopoetics...
Steven Topik (History, UC Irvine) Tuesday, March 2 / 12:00 PM 4020 HSSB Professor Steven Topik concentrates on world history, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest...
Michael Fishbane (Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) Tuesday, March 2 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Michael Fishbane will discuss the role of spiritual practices in Judaism -- through ritual and meditation -- which cultivate different types of consciousness and awareness. He...
Friday, February 26 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 26 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM - 4:00PM Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor Saturday, February 27 / 9:45 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As the Medieval Studies Program’s major winter quarter event, this colloquium inaugurates, on the American site, a three-year project involving...
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will feature a screening of the documentary The Storm That Swept Mexico and well as a discussion with producer Ray Telles. The panelists are Kate Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) and Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies,...
Jennifer Klein (History, Yale) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) February 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Klein is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home...
Chan Park (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State) Kathy Foley (Theater Arts, UCSC) Wednesday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Studio Theater Intertwined Lives is a collaborative performance between Kathy Foley, a noted puppeteer and mask artist of Southeast Asian and Korean material, and Chan Park, an internationally known...
Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) Wednesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The transmissions of a vast number of artmotifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoric period was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes...
Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin) Tuesday, February 23, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences...
Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Olga Karaskova (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Monday, February 22 / 4:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 This event will feature two talks by visiting scholars from Université de Lille-III, Professor Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art) will discuss “Refashioning...
Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB) David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such...
Friday, February 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 22 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 19 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Friday, February 19 / 12:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Paul Spickard is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in comparative international perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and...
Johanna Drucker Friday, February 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our understanding of the way the graphical organization of codex books supports functionality has increased dramatically in the era of digital design activity. The analysis of format features and design elements in print, once approached...
Saloni Mathur (Art History, University of California, Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 17 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Professor Mathur’s lecture revisited the legacy of Amrita Sher-Gil, the part-Indian/part-Hungarian painter who stands at the cosmopolitan helm of modern Indian art, by focusing on...
Silvia Maglioni & Graeme Thomson Wednesday, February 17 / 6:00 PM Isla Vista Theater II Click here for more info about Facs of Life Silvia Maglioni and Graeme Thomson are the co-directors of Facs of Life, a feature documentary on Deleuze. Inspired by, and making creative use of, the...
Richard Watts (French and Italian Studies, University of Washington) Wednesday, February 17, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Focusing on Nan Bessora's 2004 novel Petroleum but drawing on a wide range of texts, this paper argues that the ubiquitous deployment of "natural resources" in francophone...
Dick Hebdige (Art Studio, UCSB) Tuesday, February 16, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “In a landscape where nothing officially exists (otherwise it would not be ‘desert’), absolutely anything becomes thinkable, and may consequently happen…” Reyner Banham, Scenes from America Deserta In January 2009 the UC Institute...
John W. I. Lee (History, UCSB) Monday, February 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
Friday, February 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 12 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Thursday, February 11, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The idea of a liberal education is threatened today by the assumption that learning is insignificant if it does not have immediate economic and commercial impact. This panel will examine the values underlying the idea...
Alexander Huang (Comparative Literature and Asian Studies, Penn State University) Wednesday, February 10 / 5:00 PM Theater and Dance 2517 Shakespeare is a frequent traveler to Asia, and for nearly two centuries, East Asian theater directors and filmmakers have engaged Shakespeare in a wide range of contexts...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, February 10, 2010 / 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Saudi Arabia plays a leading role in global economy because of its oil resources. It is also home to Islam’s two leading sacred cities—Mecca and Medina. Drawing on his recent research,...
Hasan Nuhanovic Wednesday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Orfalea Center Seminar Room, 1005 Robertson Gym Hasan Nuhanovic is visiting California for a lecture at the UCLA Human Rights Colloquium Series and joins us at UCSB to give a talk on the events surrounding the fall and genocide of...
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 9, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Academy Award Nominee for Best Documentary Feature, this astonishingly powerful film is at once horrifying and exhilarating. Kimberly Rivers Roberts, an aspiring rap artist, turns her new...
Megan Carney (Anthropology, UCSB) Stefanie Stauffer (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 8 / 2:00 PM SSMS 3122 Megan Carney’s “Food Sovereignty Movements: Implications for Gender Inequality, Citizenship and the Human Right to Food” examines repercussions of food insecurity in the United States, in particular, the experience of households in...
Ethan Bronner (Jerusalem Bureau Chief, New York Times) Monday, February 8 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall - Free Ethan Bronner, Jerusalem Bureau Chief for The New York Times will combine diplomatic and political analysis with behind-the-scenes stories from his reporting to explore the challenges faced by a...
Tomasz Kizny Monday, February 8 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tomasz Kizny will present his documentary photo project that gives faces and voices to the victims of The Great Terror in the USSR (1936-38). First, historic prison portraits of the victims with biographical notes accompanied...
Friday, February 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 5 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Katie Quan (UC Berkeley Labor Center) Friday, February 5 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Quan is Associate Chair of the UC Berkeley Labor Center and this year's Hull Lecturer. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy, the Dept. of Feminist Studies, the Dept....
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford) Thursday, February 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Among his many influential books and articles are Nations, States and Violence...
Moon-Kie Jung (Asian American Studies, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Against the prevalent assumption that the United States is a nation-state, the US is reconceptualized here as an empire-state. In addition to being descriptively more apt, this shift provides a...
Mohammad Amjad Wednesday, February 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB Mohammad Amjad has just returned from Iran where he was an activist in the protest movement following the Iranian elections. An expert in Iranian nuclear diplomacy and foreign policy, he received his PhD in...
Bishnupriya Ghosh (English, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Icons have a glittering life in South Asia, both as enduring images and as fleeting ephemera. We have lengthy and erudite studies of liturgical icons as well as...
Michael Soldatenko (Chicano Studies, Cal State Los Angeles) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM South Hall 1623 Professor Michael Soldatenko will talk on his newly published book Chicano Studies: The Genesis of a Discipline. Professor Soldatenko is Professor and Chair of the Department of Chicano Studies at Cal...
Susan Keller (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, February 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The figure of a woman applying makeup in public was one of the quintessential images of modernity in the early twentieth century, and also highly scandalous. This talk explores the ways...
Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, February 2 / 2:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Professor Roof is a leading sociologist of American religion. He will be speaking about his current project on the “new progressive religious movement,” particularly in southern California. Using a multi-dimensional methodology...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 29 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University : Equity and Access event is now available for listening on the event webpage....
Friday, January 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Michele Back (Hispanic Studies, UC-Riverside) Friday, January 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 One way in which newcomers may access a target language community is by emphasizing the relevance of their own life experiences to that community, in this way validating these experiences and creating a shared meaning...
Jeffrey Perry (independent scholar Friday, January 29 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Dr. Jeffrey B. Perry is an independent, working class scholar who was formally educated at Princeton, Harvard, Rutgers, and Columbia University. He is a long-time union activist and editor for the National Postal Mail Handlers Union. He is...
Stephan Miescher (History, UCSB) Thursday, January 28 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Within the field of African history, scholars have just begun to historicize Africa’s postcolonial era, roughly marked by the independence of Ghana in 1957 to the present. This new endeavor presents significant methodological...
David White (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building David White discussed his 2009 book Sinister Yogis, a historical reconstruction of the history of yoga through the lens of its agents, the yogis of...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, January 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 25 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
Thursday, January 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A panel discussion treating the futures of racial, ethnic, and economic diversity in the UC system in an era of budget crisis and fee "deregulation." Will the University of California still serve all the people...
Satoko Shimazaki (Asian Languages and Civilizations, University of Colorado) Wednesday, January 20 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Tsuruya Nanboku’s Tōkaidō Yotsuya kaidan (Eastern Seaboard Highway, Ghost Story at Yotsuya, 1825), featuring the disfigured ghost of Oiwa, is one of the most sensational and visually oriented...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Larry Bartels (Political Science, Princeton) Friday, January 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Bartels is the author of Presidential Primaries and the Dynamics of Public Choice (1988) and Unequal Democracy: The Political Economy of the New Gilded Age (2008). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor,...
Kara Attrep (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, January 13 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1971 Coca-Cola released its now iconic advertisement, "I'd Like to Teach the World to Sing." This advertisement and its accompanying jingle became hits within the United States. Besides its appeal as...
Introduction by Ronald Egan (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 12, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze, navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as "The River." The Yangtze is about to be...
Greg Levine (Art History, UC Berkeley) Monday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Everyone’s looking for something.” Some of us have found it, or part of it, in Zen Art, though the types of things we look at, the way we talk about them,...
Stuart Smith, (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, January 9 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season January 8 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General ...
Friday, January 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, January 11 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
William Fierman (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University) Wednesday, January 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor, Ellison Hall William Fierman is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Fierman is the author of Language Planning and National Development:...
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....
Harold M. Schulweis, Rabbi Emeritus of Temple Valley Beth Shalom, Encino, CA Sunday, December 6, 2009 / 8:45 a.m. / $5.00 Admission to Breakfast and Talk Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road, Santa Barbara...
Mary Hancock (Anthropology and History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This presentation focused on the history of visual anthropology and its current theoretical and methodological agendas. Particular attention was paid to visual anthropology in/of...
Catherine Gautier (Geography, UCSB) Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the keynote address for the IHC’s Oil + Water series. Unsustainable use of oil and water by a rapidly growing global population is creating a serious environmental security challenge....
Tuesday, November 17, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students Visually stunning and vastly entertaining, Earth Days looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement – from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration...
Thursday, November 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM SCREENING: There Will be Blood Thursday, November 12 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary panel introduces a screening of Paul Thomas Anderson's Academy Award winning film There Will Be Blood. Panelists question what role oil has played and...
An Evening with Anita Diamant 8:00 p.m. / Thursday, November 12, 2009 / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
Tuesday, November 10, 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall $6 general / $5 students In research for his next book, newly self-proclaimed environmentalist and author Colin Beavan vows to make as little environmental impact as possible for one year: no more automated transportation, no more electricity, no more...
Sunday, November 8, 2009 On November 8, 2009, New Sexualities hosted a transdisciplinary, international workshop and panel on Sexuality and Islam in Europe and the Middle East. Panelists Paul Amar (Global Studies, UCSB) Janet Afary (Religious Studies, UCSB), and Fatima El-Tayeb (African American Literature and Culture,...
November 6, 2009 / 9am - 5pm Interdisciplinary Humanities Center 6020 Humanities Social Science Building University of California Santa Barbara This event is free, and open to the public. ABOUT What does the future hold for design after oil? This study day will explore new materials, ideas, policies and design solutions...
Thursday, November 5, 2010 / 3:00-5:30 PM 3:00 PM Jennifer Washburn (author of University Inc.), "University Inc.: Why Public Knowledge and Public Education Are At Risk" 4:00 PM David Marshall (Executive Dean, College of Letters and Science, and Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts, UCSB), "The Plight...
Simon Hutchins (Expedition Director on The Cove) Toni Frohoff (marine mammal biologist) Moderator: Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 4, 2009 / 5:00 PM IV Theater II Simon Hutchins spent 7 years in the Canadian Air Force as an avionics technician, before being posted from his home...
(dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2009) Tuesday, November 3, 2009 / 4:00 PM IV Theater I Using state-of-the-art equipment, a group of activists, including renowned former dolphin trainer Ric O’Barry, filmmaker Louie Psihoyos, and expedition director Simon Hutchins infiltrate a cove near Taiji, Japan to expose both a shocking instance...
Thursday, October 29, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University...
Brice Erickson (Classics, UCSB) Wednesday, October 29 / 5:00 pm 2001a HSSB, Anthropology Seminar Room...
Ned Sublette Tuesday, October 27, 2009 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Author and musician Ned Sublette will present a talk based on his new book,The Year Before the Flood. Written a year before Hurricane Katrina, Sublette's memoir is a companion volume to his acclaimed history...
David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow, The Washington Institute for Near East Policy Ghaith al-Omari, Advocacy Director for the American Task Force on Palestine Wednesday, Oct. 21, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free UCSB Campbell Hall...
(Irena Salina, 2009, 93 min.) Tuesday, October 20, 2009 / 9:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This award-winning documentary builds a case against the growing privatization of the world’s dwindling fresh water supply with an unflinching focus on politics, pollution and human rights. Interviews with...
(Joe Berlinger, 2009, 104 min.) Tuesday, October 20 , 2009 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission $6 general / students $5 This cinéma-vérité feature is the epic story of one of the largest and most controversial legal cases on the planet, the infamous $27 billion “Amazon Chernobyl” case in...
Sylvia Earle Monday, October 19, 2009 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall UCSB Admission $10 general / $8 student Oceanographer and 2009 TED Prize-winner Sylvia Earle has led more than 50 expeditions worldwide involving more than 6,000 hours underwater. She has served as the chief scientist of the National...
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...
Thursday-Saturday, May 24-26 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote address: Ama Ata Aidoo Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater...
Rohit Singh (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 22 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Drawing on historical and popular sources, the lecture examined representations of Buddhist and Islamic traditions in Ladakh. Most sources depict the region as a Buddhist...
Rabbi Reuven Firestone Professor of Medieval Jewish and Islamic Studies, Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion Tuesday, May 19, 2009 / 8:00 p.m. / Free Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista...
Tuesday, May 19 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Admission at the door: $5 general / students free Savor a tasty theatrical experience with revolutionary chef Mero Cocinero Karimi and his culinary comrades as they dish up Iranian-Guatemalan-Filipino food, cultural consciousness and humor. Chef...
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 15 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In Hindu liturgical texts and architectural treatises a temple space is understood as the embodied presence of the deity who is housed within, and the deity is...
Laura Shapiro Wednesday, May 13 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Julia Child is most often celebrated as the TV star who introduced Americans to the glories of French cuisine. But while her training and expertise were French, Julia couldn't stand...
Screenings of All In This Tea (2007)and Yum, Yum, Yum! (1990) This event has been cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire. Fresh from a retrospective screening of his films at New York’s Museum of Modern Art, the filmmaker’s filmmaker and documentarian Les...
CANCELLED: NPR’s The Kitchen Sisters This event is cancelled due to the Jesusita Fire Peabody Award-winning radio producers The Kitchen Sisters come the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center to present an afternoon of radio, readings and some fine Hidden Kitchen cooking. Hidden Kitchens, ...
Luis Oscar Gómez (Center for Asian and African Studies, El Colegio de Mexico) Michaelsen Endowed Visiting Scholar Wednesday, May 6 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Silence and abstinence appear in the ideals and practices of a wide variety of religious traditions. Following...
Screening Followed by Panel Discussion Featuring local Holocaust survivors, Stan Ostern and Edith Ostern, and photographer Rick Nahmias moderated by Dr. Richard Hecht...
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...
Rabbi David Saperstein Director, Religious Action Center of Reform Judaism, Washington, DC Sunday, March 22, 2009 / 3:00 p.m. / Free Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara Co-presented with the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion and Public Life at UCSB as part of its...
Shalini Kakar (History of Art and Architecture, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, February 27 / 4:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture investigated the phenomenon of “devotional fandom” in the Rajinikanth Fan Club (RFC), exploring the ways in which the over 60,000 fan club...
Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies) Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The concept of the Mediterranean diet is a modern invention; the Middle Ages and Renaissance had some very different food...
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...
Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director) Friday, December 5 / 7:00 pm 1701 Theater Dance Chaturanga, based on the novel by Rabindranath Tagore, is Suman Mukhopadhyay's second feature film. It is being screened at this year’s Montreal World Film Festival and Sao Paolo International Film Festival. Suman Mukhopadhyay has worked...
Pankaj Rishi Kumar (Director) Monday, November 3 / 7:00 pm 1004 Girvetz Pankaj Rishi Kumar’s film is a journey into the sweet science of boxing as practiced by two Indian women. The film unfolds as they wrestle with their day-to-day existence as boxers and the conflicts...
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...
Michael Radich (Religious Studies, Victoria University of Wellington, New Zealand) Monday, June 9 / 4:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture presented a significant revisioning of the history of Buddhist notions of the Buddha’s bodies. Through an examination of evidence from three disparate sources that...
Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden) Friday, May 23 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture examined constructions of embodiment in Jain traditions. Particular attention was given to the dietary regimens, sexual practices, purity regulations, and psychophysical disciplines through which...
Steven P. Hopkins (Religion, Swarthmore College) Friday, May 2 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture focused on the charged emotional landscapes of divine, human, and animal bodies in Hamsasandesa (“The Goose Messenger”), a fourteenth-century Sanskrit messenger poem (sandesa-kavya) by Vedantadesika (ca. 1268-1369...
Knut A. Jacobsen (History of Religions, University of Bergen, Norway) Wednesday, April 16 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored the public display of religious bodies in various types of processions in the contemporary South Asian diaspora, with a particular focus...