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...
Stephen Sondheim & Frank Rich Saturday, March 8 / 4:00 PM The Granada General public $48.00 - $68.00 / UCSB Students $22.00 Legendary theatrical composer Stephen Sondheim will appear in an on-stage interview with author and New York Times op-ed columnist Frank Rich. Together they will...
June McDaniel (Religious Studies, College of Charleston) Friday, March 7 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored important issues concerning ethnographic fieldwork methods in the study of South Asian religions. Drawing on her fieldwork in West Bengal, McDaniel discussed a range...
Marcus Bleasdale Monday, March 3 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Widely published in Time, Newsweek, and National Geographic magazines, photojournalist Marcus Bleasdale has been covering the brutal exploitation of The Democratic Republic of Congo and its natural resources for nearly a decade. Bleasdale is...
Antonio Skármeta Monday, March 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The acclaimed Chilean writer Antonio Skarmeta whose novel Burning Patience was made into the award-winning film Il Postino, based on an episode in the life of the famous poet Pablo Neruda, will show...
Kendall Busse (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 20 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture examined the nature of divine embodiment in the Mahabharata through an analysis of the terminology used to portray divine bodies and a comparison...
Amandeep Sandhu (Sociology, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 30 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Amandeep Sandhu’s lecture presented his research findings on cultural changes among Indian call center workers performing global service work in Bangalore, India’s Silicon Valley. His lecture...
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...
David Summers (History of Art, University of Virginia) Tuesday, June...
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...
Rajkamal Kahlon (IHC Visiting Artist) Wednesday, May 16 / 4:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Rajkamal Kahlon is a New York-based artist whose work interrogates forms of colonial and racial authority in her dialectical engagement with historical texts. Kahlon’s lecture focused on her current...
Tracy Pintchman (Religious Studies, Loyola University Chicago) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In recent decades a great deal of attention has been devoted to critiquing nineteenth and early twentieth century Western Indological scholarship and its Orientalist and colonialist discourses...
Whitney Davis (Art History, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 3 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Ludwig Wittgenstein's house for his sister Margarethe (Gretl) Stonborough-Wittgenstein, completed in Vienna in 1928, has often been seen as an expression of his philosophy of language. More likely, ...
Suman Mukhopadhyay (Director) Tuesday, April 24 / 6:00 pm 1701 Theater Dance Suman Mukhopadhyay’s debut feature film Herbert is based on Nabarun Bhattacharya’s novel of the same name, which won the highest literary prize in India. The film has received numerous awards, including the Dhaka International...
Claire Farago (History ...
Judith M. Brown (History, Balliol College, Oxford University) Erasmus Society Lecture Series, Westmont College Thursday, April 12 / 7:00 pm Founders Room, Westmont College, 955 La Paz Road, Santa Barbara The lecture explored the impact of South Asian immigrants, including Muslims, Sikhs, and Muslims, in transforming...
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...
Scott Marcus (Music, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, March 9 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Biraha is a folk music genre of the Bhojpuri region of North India situated across eastern Uttar Pradesh and western Bihar. The genre, created in the early...
Inderjit N. Kaur (Sikh Music Heritage Institute, Santa Cruz) Monday, March 5 / 12:30 pm 1414 Bren Hall The lecture addressed two questions: what is Sikh sacred music, and what is Sikh about this music? The answer to both questions derives from the special nature of...
Juan Campo (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, February 21 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture focused on Muslim and Hindu interactions in pilgrimages in the South Indian region of Malabar (present-day Kerala) and their connections with the Hajj...
Farina Mir (History, University of Michigan) Wednesday, February 14 / 3:00 pm 3024 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture explored two themes: the relationship between literature and history, and the nature of gender relations in late colonial India. The lecture examined whether our understanding of...
Will Glover (Architecture and Urban Planning, University of Michigan) Wednesday, February 14 / 12:30 pm 1414 Bren Hall The lecture sought to illumine the distinctive nature of Sikh architecture. After surveying the repertoire of forms, colors, and bulding elements that are shared by Sikh buildings, Hindu...
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...
Isabelle Clark-Decès (Anthropology, Princeton University) Friday, May 19 / 3:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Isabelle Clark-Decès explored new paradigms for the study of South Asian rituals, drawing on her field research on a Tamil ritual that is performed in times...
Moinak Biswas (Film Studies, Jadavpur University, Calcutta) Friday, April 28 / 1:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The lecture explored how the rise to stardom of Uttam Kumar (1926-1980)—who is considered the most successful actor in Bengali cinema—coincided with the fashioning of a new...
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 ...
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Friday, March 3 / 2:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building After a brief reflection on the bias towards text-based methods in Religious Studies, the lecture addressed the all-pervasive importance of oral transmission, music, and other performance forms in...
Olle Qvarnström (History of Religions, Lund University, Sweden) Tuesday, February 28 / 6:00 pm 2252 Humanities and Social Science Building The lecture examined contending constructions of omniscience in Jain and Purva-Mimamsa philosophical traditions. Olle Qvarnström is Professor of the History of Religions at Lund University, Sweden. One...
Friday, January 27 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Following our successful inaugural conference on South Asian Studies in the United States in the fall, we invited all interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a planning meeting of the South...
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...
Friday, December 2 / 9:00 am to 6:00 pm Multicultural Center Theater This conference served to inaugurate our newly established IHC Research Focus Group in South Asian Religions and Cultures. The conference featured nine eminent scholars from around the country reflecting on significant developments in South...
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....
John Walch, Pier Carlo Talenti, and Risa Brainin Friday, May 25 / 4:00 - 5:30 PM Hatlen Theatre Preceding the West Coast Premiere of The ...
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 -...