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Aug
NEH Summer Stipends for 2018
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Jun
Announcing the 2017-18 IHC Public Events Series Crossings + Boundaries
This year the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s public events series will explore the forces that shape boundaries, the energies that collect around them, and the urgencies that spur their crossing. Under certain conditions, movement across boundaries can liberate, empower, and stimulate creativity, while under different conditions, it can cause trauma,...
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Announcements
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Dec
The 2017 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is ISIS an Existential Threat to the United States?
Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall The question of whether ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) poses an existential threat to the United States and to countries in the Middle East remains a security issue of national and international consequence. Monica...
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Announcements
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Nov
Humanities in the Community awards
The IHC congratulates the recipients of the 2016 Humanities in the Community summer awards.
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Oct
UCSB faculty participate in the 2016 “Write to Change the World” Workshop
IHC congratulates the 2016 UCSB participants in the “Write to Change the World” OpEd Project workshops:
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Aug
Paid IHC Project Opportunity for Humanities Graduate Student | Deadline Thursday, Dec 15 2016
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center seeks a graduate student to work with humanities center faculty and staff leadership to design and implement a communications project that consists of creating a database of faculty on campus who are involved in publicly-engaged teaching and research. The project will...
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Announcements
09
Aug
WATCH Past IHC Events on Vimeo
Talks by previous speakers for the IHC's public events series are now available on Vimeo....
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Announcements
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Jul
IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows Program 2017-18
The 2017-18 IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows program seeks graduate students to work as instructors in a correspondence program on “Foundations in the Humanities” for prisoners in North Kern State Prison and Kern Valley State Prison. The curriculum for the course consists of brief foundational readings in the humanities, including works by Yusef Komunyakaa, Jack London, Tim O’Brien, Sandra Cisneros, and Annie Dillard.
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Announcements
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Jun
23rd Annual Language, Interaction, and Social Organization Conference
Monday, June 19, 2017 / 8:30 AM McCune Room and Education 1213 and 1217 The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the...
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Jun
Embodying the Borderland: Nakamura Sueko as Runaway Woman and Pirate Queen
David R. Ambaras (History, North Carolina State University) Wednesday, June 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 David R. Ambaras is a scholar of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese history. His first book, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Japan...
05
Jun
Magic and Demonology in Ancient Egypt
Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Monday, June 5, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this lecture the character of the ancient Egyptian magical practices, with a special focus on the role that demons played in magical texts and images, will be thoroughly...
01
Jun
Presentation by UCSB Student Veterans
Thursday, June 1, 2017 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room Derek Downey (Navy) Edgar Guapo (Army) Rocio Iribe (Marine Corps) Ruben Maldonado (Marine Corps) Four student veterans will read stories about their military experience. Following the reading there will be time for questions and answers from the...
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Upcoming Events
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May
Hearing the Music Academy of the West: Recording a Community Through the Decades
Derek Katz (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, May 31, 2017 / 3:30 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections In honor of the Music Academy of the West’s 70th Anniversary, the UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized 400 early and fragile concert recordings from the famous conservatory, including special...
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Upcoming Events
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May
Break Every Yoke: Religion, Justice, and the End of Mass Incarceration
Joshua Dubler (Religion, University of Rochester) Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Joshua Dubler takes stock of the current critical discourses around mass incarceration and argues that if you are not yet a prison abolitionist there is...
25
May
Annual Identity Studies Graduate Student Panel
Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Each year the IHC's Identity Studies RFG sponsors a graduate student panel. Students present their current research - seminar papers, professional papers, dissertation chapter. Nicole Filler, Political Science; "Different Pathways, Common Fates:Assessing the Gender Dynamics of...
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May
Turbans, Certain to Charm! South Asian Men, White Women, and the Gendering of Early American Yoga
Anya Pokazanyeva Foxen (Philosophy, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo) May 24, 2017 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB In the United States in the 1920s there were two classes of people who could pull off a turban: “Oriental” men and fashionable white women. This fact points to...
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May
Workers’ Education in the 1930s and Beyond
Saturday, May 20, 2017/ 1:00 PM Leilah Danielson (History, Northern Arizona University) HSSB 4041 Leilah Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
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Upcoming Events
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May
Water Is Life: Standing With Standing Rock
Friday, May 19, 2017 / 12:30 PM-6:30PM Girvetz Hall 1004 Events at Standing Rock - from April 2016 to February 2017 - altered the media landscape, created new ways to protect the water and land, and launched a resurgence of indigenous centered leadership. Join co-founders of...
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May
2017 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is ISIS an Existential Threat to the United States?
Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 7:30 PM Participants: Monica Duffy Toft Marc Gopin Moderator: Mark Juergensmeyer UCSB Campbell Hall FREE The question of whether ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) poses an existential threat to the United States and to countries in the Middle East remains a security issue of national and...
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May
Almodóvar’s Queer Cinematic Excesses: Verbal-Visual Disjunctions, Haptic Intensities and the Post-filmic Turn
Brad Epps (Spanish,University of Cambridge) Monday, May 15, 2017 / 2:00 PM Alumni Hall, Mosher House Foregrounding the human form, its expanses and folds, comings and goings, the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar also foregrounds its artful, artificial construction, its mutability and adaptability, its susceptibility to modification and alteration....
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Upcoming Events
13
May
How Employers Recruit Their Workers into Politics
Saturday, May 13, 2017/1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Political Science, Columbia) Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Political Science, Columbia) is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Sponsored by the Center for the Study...
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Upcoming Events
12
May
Politics of Race, Immigration, and Ethnicity Consortium (PRIEC) Conference
Friday, May 12, 2017 / 11:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty presentations will be made in five sessions by advanced graduate students and faculty from seven UC campuses and other universities on topics ranging from identity formation and linked fate, political participation and representation,...
10
May
Free Cece (2016, 87 min.)
Jacqueline (Jac) Gares (Director) CeCe McDonald (Activist, Prison Reform Advocate) Lal Zimman (Linguistics, UCSB) Wednesday, May 10, 2017/7:0o0 PM Pollock Theater In 2011 CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. Her story inspired an international movement advocating for her freedom, and since...
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May
Creatures of Cain: Human Nature and the Politics of Violence During the Cold War
Erika Lorraine Milam (History, Princeton) Wednesday, May 10, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing...
05
May
Medieval Bestsellers vs. Masterpieces: What We Read Now & What They Read Then
Heather Blurton (English, UCSB) Shamma Boyarin (English, University of Victoria) Christine Chism (English, UCLA) Paul Cobb (History, University of Pennsylvania) Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UCSC) Elias Muhanna (Comparative Literature, Brown) Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UCSB) Daniel Seldon (Literature, UCSC) Friday, May 5, 2017 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Loma Pelona Center This...
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Upcoming Events
05
May
Food Assistance Policies and the Transformation of the Public/ Private Welfare State in the U.S. and Britain, 1972-1988
Caitlin Rathe (History, UCSB) Friday, May 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building While completing her dissertation, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. Sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy....
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Upcoming Events
05
May
Beyond Academia
May 5, 2017/1:00 PM University Center and Corwin Pavilion The Beyond Academia conference at UC Santa Barbara is an annual event aimed at preparing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in all stages and disciplines to pursue a wide range of career options after graduate school. The conference...
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Upcoming Events
04
May
Community Basketweaving
Weavers: Jennifer Bates Lois Bohna Linda Yamane Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Three Native American basketweavers will discuss the role that weaving plays in each of their communities. The basketweavers will also weave in their traditional style, showcasing each of their designs and techniques. Jennifer Bates...
04
May
Freedom’s Struggle: Black Kidnapping and State Formation in the Age of Atlantic Emancipation
Scott Heerman (History, University of Miami) Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 Scott Heerman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami and is currently the Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington Library. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the...
01
May
Academia.Edu & Self-Branding: The Metricisation of Scholars and Scholarly Networks
Janneke Adema (Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University) Monday, May 1, 2017/ 4:00 PM Library Room 1312, Mountain Side *This event has been postponed until further notice. The growing membership of for-profit academic networks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate has gone hand in hand with an increasing use of...
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Upcoming Events
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Apr
Ceramics as a Medium and Its Discontents
Jenni Sorkin (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)* Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 * This event has been cancelled. Ceramics has been a marginal practice within the history of postwar art. But embedded in a discourse of experimentation with materials,...
27
Apr
When School Meets the Other: Intercultural Policies in the Basque Inclusive School
Maria Martinez (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall This discussion will focus on Gabriel Gatti, Ignacio Irazuzta & María Martínez When School Meets the Other: Intercultural Policies in the Basque Inclusive School, Patterns of Prejudice (2017) and From...
27
Apr
A Child Hero: Heroic Biographies in Children’s Literature
Svetlana Maslinskaya (Research Fellow, the Institute of Russian Literature) April 27, 2107 / 4:00 PM BUCHN 1940 The idea of child heroism in Russian literature for children first can be traced to state ideology and analyzed as part of patriotic pedagogical discourse both in the Russian...
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Upcoming Events
27
Apr
School discipline inside and out: the limits of Soviet school’s disciplinary authorities
Kirill Maslinsky (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia) April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM Mosher Library School punishments are commonly assumed to be school staff's reaction to student misbehavior inside school, but close study of disciplinary records of a small town Soviet...
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Apr
Afrikan Textiles: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Identities, and Technologies through Dress Practices
Zingha Foma (History, UCSB) April 26, 2017/5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk-showcase, Zingha Foma will present her research project entitled “Afrikan Textiles: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Identities, and Technologies through Dress Practices.” Informed by historical research, Zingha argues that Afrikan textile production...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
24
Apr
When a Text Is a Song: Kabir Oral-Musical Traditions in North India
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Kabir, the iconoclastic fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, composed his poetry orally. His poems, transmitted through song, spread quickly and were soon preserved in manuscripts and other media. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and textual...
24
Apr
Like Frogs Around a Pond: Maritime Religion in Ancient Greek Culture
Amelia R. Brown (Greek History & Language, University of Queensland) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM HSSB 4041 The ancient Greeks were never politically unified before the rise of Rome, yet they succeeded in developing and maintaining a common culture all around the Mediterranean coasts ‘like frogs around...
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Apr
Kabir in Song: A Night of North Indian Devotional Music
Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Ensemble Sunday, April 23, 2017 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The poetry of Kabir, the acclaimed fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, has had a transformative influence on both Hindu bhakti traditions and the Sikh scriptural tradition enshrined in the Adi Granth....
21
Apr
Transience, Garbage, Excess, Loss: The Ephemeral, 1500-1800
Jonathan Goldberg (English, Emory) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English, UCSB) Friday, April 21, 2017 / 1:00 PM-4:30 PM Saturday, April 22, 2017 / 8:30 AM-4:00 PM Loma Pelona Conference Center With the present rise of ephemera studies, we hope to investigate the limits, depths, and abilities of the...
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Upcoming Events
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Apr
After Roe: The Lost History of the Abortion Debate
Wednesday, April 20, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 11th, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 12:00 PM Join us for a facilitated brown-bag discussion of timely text. Join for one or all three Thursday sessions: April 20th (part 1), May 11th (part 2) and...
20
Apr
Urban Hallucinations
Julie Eizenberg (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Hank Koning (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Thursday, April 20, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighborhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region in Urban Hallucinations. They bring...
14
Apr
Diversity, Sexuality and Inequality in the San Francisco Tech Industry
France Winddance Twine (Sociology, UCSB) Friday, April 14, 2017 / 1:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and...
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Upcoming Events
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Apr
Beyond the Romance of Community: Envisioning Queer Collectivity, Contesting Racial Capitalism
Miranda Joseph (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk begins with a review of the extensive critiques of community offered by Joseph and other scholars of critical and cultural theory. While earlier analyses...
13
Apr
Questioning Narratives of Black “Dis-placement” in the Province of Caracas, 1760-1809
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 This talk explores the social roles enslaved and free women of African descent played in urban centers, in spite of the fact that they were perceived as the lowest members of society. Sponsored by the IHC's...
13
Apr
Mapping Dissent
Lorena Wolffer (Artist) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 12:45 PM meet in front of the Student Resource Building Mapping Dissent is a collaborative public art project with queer feminist and Mexico-City based artist, Lorena Wolffer and part of the ongoing Queer Hemispheres Radical Performance Series. During the performance...
06
Apr
Revolution as Storytime: The Uprisings of 2011 and the Art of Viral Narrative
Nathan Schneider (Media Studies, University of Colorado - Boulder) Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What motivates people and mobilizes them to create change? In 2011, people in countries around the world rose up against their governments and economic systems,...
10
Mar
Sexual Violence and the Politics of Forgiveness in Guinea: Musical Interventions
Nomi Dave (Music,University of Virginia) Friday, March 10, 2017 / 1:00 PM Music Library 2406 In January 2016, a Guinean hip-hop artist, Tamsir Touré, appeared in court for sexually assaulting a young girl. The case had generated intense coverage over several months after a video of the assault...
09
Mar
Migrant Stories from the Community
Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 Local attorney Marysol Bretado & members of the Latina/o community will discuss this year's UCSB Reads 2017 book selection, Into the Beautiful North, which explores issues of immigration, return migration, and border...
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Upcoming Events
09
Mar
Rethinking Reconstruction
Comments by Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Jannie Scott (Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Jannie Scott (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) "Refashioning Black community in the Wake of Emancipation:...
08
Mar
Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford University) Wednesday, March 8, 2017/ 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Laitin will speak on his recent book (with Claire Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort) , Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard; 2016). In 2008-2009, with support from the National...
07
Mar
My Other’s Keeper: Radical Ethics and Visions of Community
Donna Orange (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Tuesday, March 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking about community, badly needed, is in short supply in current public discourse. We will step back here to consider what meanings community might bring...
03
Mar
Seeing and Saying: Plato on Virtue and Knowledge
M.M. McCabe (Emerita Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Kings College, London and Sather Professor, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 3, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 M. M. McCabe is Emerita Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Kings College, London, and is currently Sather Professor of Classics at UC Berkeley. She...
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Upcoming Events
03
Mar
Celebrating an Embodied Feminine: Lālan Fakir and the Bāuls of Bengal
Keith Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Madeline Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) March 3, 2017 / 3:00 PM Music Building, Room 1219 This lecture will center on the Bengali Bāul songs of Lālan Fakir, an acclaimed nineteenth-century Bāul fakir, and will be followed...
02
Mar
The Beach Boys: Classified Research with a Southern California Vibe
Stuart "Bill" Leslie" (History of Science & Technology, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, March 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Southern California’s smartest defense intellectuals preferred to hang out in some of its toniest beach communities, at RAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics...
01
Mar
The 2017 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence: Yusef Komunyakaa
Wednesday, March 1, 2017 / 7:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater FREE This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is internationally renowned poet Yusef Komunyakaa. He is the author of seventeen books of poetry, including Neon Vernacular: New and Selected Poems (1994), winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Komunyakaa's other works include Warhorses (2008); Taboo: The Wishbone Trilogy, Part 1 (2006); Pleasure Dome: New & Collected Poems, 1975-1999 (2001); Talking Dirty to the Gods (2000); and Thieves of Paradise (1998), which was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award. His most recent collections of poetry include The Chameleon Couch (2011), Testimony: A Tribute to Charlie Parker (2013), and Emperor of Water Clocks (2015). He is the author of Gilgamesh: A Verse Play (2006), and, in collaboration with composer T.J. Anderson, the opera libretto Slip Knot.
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Feb
Seven Samurai (Dir. Akira Kurosawa, 3 hours and 27 minutes)
Saturday, February 25, 2017 / 2:00 PM Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve a ticket here. In a special Cinephile Saturday program, the Pollock Theater is proud to present Seven Samurai on 35mm film. Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a...
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Upcoming Events
25
Feb
Invisible Empire: Spirits and Animism in Contemporary Japan
Saturday, February 25, 2017 / 9:30 AM Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 2F, Conference Room 2135 A striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture is the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of “spirits” (tama or tamashii), generally rooted in vaguely articulated discourses on “animism” (animizumu) that...
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Upcoming Events
23
Feb
The Discarded and The Dignified—The Politics of the Fear that “Only One Can Live”
Jessica Benjamin (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Thursday, February 23, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk Benjamin brings together her psychoanalytic theory of the Third together with her experience with dialogue in the Middle East and with colleagues involved...
17
Feb
Saturation
Friday, February 17, 2017 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315 Participants: Jeremy Douglass (UCSB) Lisa Han (UCSB) Mél Hogan (Calgary) Melody Jue (UCSB) Paulina Mickiewicz (McGill) Rahul Mukerjee (U Penn) Max Ritts (UBC) Rafico Ruiz (Trent) Chris Russill (Carleton) Bhaskar Sarkar (UCSB) John Shiga (Ryerson) The presence or absence of water determines the...
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Upcoming Events
16
Feb
Muslim American / American Muslim Community Engagements: Opportunities and Challenges in the Aftermath of the 2016 Elections
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edina Lekovic (Director of Policy & Programming, Muslim Public Affairs Council) Yasmin Sallak (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB) Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media, UCSB) Sherene Seikaly (History, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath...
16
Feb
The Maintainers, or How to Give Up the Innovation Fetish
Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or...
16
Feb
Translating the Russian Classics in the Twenty-First Century
Marian Schwartz (translator) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Marian Schwartz has translated over seventy volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated...
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Upcoming Events
13
Feb
The Reception of Aristotelian Science in Early Islam: A Historical Account
Dimitri Gutas (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale University) Monday, February 13, 2017 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 This talk examines Hellenic science in late antiquity in its historical, social, and political context, including the consolidation of the Aristotelian/(Neo-)Platonic curriculum of higher studies, expressing the scientific...
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Upcoming Events
09
Feb
Communities for Empowerment: Antebellum African American Literary and Debating Societies
Margaret Malamud (S.P and Margaret Manasse Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Excluded from most schools, enterprising free black women and men in northern urban African American communities established their...
09
Feb
The Many Captivities of Esther Wheelwright: Communities of Women in the Northeast Borderlands
Ann M. Little (History, Colorado State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story of American history. Born and raised to...
06
Feb
The Other One Percent: Indians in America
Devesh Kapur (Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania) Monday, February 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Devesh Kapur will...
03
Feb
Linguistics in the Time of Mass Incarceration: Designing Partnerships Between Linguists, Students, and Formerly or Currently Incarcerated Individuals
Nicole Holliday (Linguistics, Pomona College) Friday, February 3, 2017/12:00 PM 3605 South Hall Bring a brown-bag lunch; dessert will be provided. Dr. Nicole Holliday is a Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. Nicole Holliday's research is in sociolinguistics, specifically, how individuals interact...
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03
Feb
Think Critically, Act Creatively: Worldbuilding for Civic Engagement
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) and members of the Civic Imagination Project research team Friday, February 3, 2017 / 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Transmedia worldbuilding is an approach to creative collaboration in which practitioners build on shared values...
02
Feb
Remixing the Civic Imagination
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Henry Jenkins's 2006 book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collides ended with the speculation that we were acquiring skills through play that would soon...
02
Feb
Intonational Variation Beyond Black and White: Language and Identity in the Speech of Biracial Men
Nicole Holliday (Linguistics, Pomona College) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 3:30 PM 3605 South Hall Dr. Nicole Holliday is a Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. Holliday's research is in sociolinguistics, specifically, how individuals interact with language to conceptualize and...
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Upcoming Events
01
Feb
The Postcolonial Afterlife of Sarah Baartman: African Women’s Discourses of the Female Body
Ayo A. Coly (Comparative Literature and African Studies at Dartmouth College) Wednesday, February 1, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a recently published essay, Ayo A. Coly has argued that the colonial rhetorical deployment of the African female body to signify Africa sealed the fate...
31
Jan
Why Read Fiction?
Tues, Jan. 31, 2017 /4:00 PM UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) Ken Kosik (Neuroscience, UCSB) Sameer Pandya (Asian American Studies, UCSB) Kay Young (English, UCSB) By selecting a fiction book this year, after 10 years of non-fiction titles, the UCSB Reads Selection Advisory...
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Upcoming Events
27
Jan
Radical Bodies: Anna Halprin; Simone Forti; Yvonne Rainer in CA and NY 1955 – 1972
Friday, January 27, 2017 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1960, dancer-choreographer and social activist Anna Halprin taught a revolutionary workshop on her open-air dance deck located on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais north of San Francisco. A natural environment...
26
Jan
UCSB Reads & Immigration Awareness Week Spoken Word Performances
Thursday, January 26, 2017 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge Stephanie Camba is a writer, poet, singer, MC, visual art-maker, fighter, healer, and eternal learner. With transnational origins, they were born in the Philippines and raised in the Marshall Islands. Camba has struggled with finding a...
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Upcoming Events
26
Jan
How to Explain Pictures to a Live Paro
Sahar Sajadieh (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, Jan 26th, 4:00 PM at UCSB Glass Box Gallery Reception at 3:45pm “How to Explain Pictures to a Live Paro” is an interactive durational performance artwork about gun control policies in the US, and the safety and security...
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Upcoming Events
25
Jan
Imperfect Strangers: Americans, Arabs, and U.S.-Middle East Relations in the 1970s
Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) January 25, 2017 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Salim Yaqub discusses Imperfect Strangers, his new book on U.S.-Arab relations in the 1970s. He argues that the seventies were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations--a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence in...
19
Jan
Parties, Ideology, and Ethnic Politics: Ideological Polarization in Multi-Ethnic Societies
Pradeep Chhibber (Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies and Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, January 19, 2017 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall There is a widespread notion within India as well as outside the country that Indian politics, for all...
19
Jan
Black Classicism in the United States
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University) January 19, 2017 / 6:00 PM Art Design and Architecture Museum For many years only well-born Americans had access to a classically–based liberal arts education. But after the Civil War newly freed slaves aspired to...
19
Jan
Making Shakespeare: Theatre as Community Engagement
Katherine Steele Brokaw (UC Merced) Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How does Shakespeare make different kinds of meaning in various local communities? And how can amateur theatre be a form of community engagement for drama and Shakespeare scholars? This talk will...
18
Jan
UCSB Reads Book Giveaway
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 /10:00 AM UCSB Library Paseo Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Denise Stephens will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, to UCSB...
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Jan
The Political Culture of University Youth in Kazakhstan: A Discussion of Research Design and Fieldwork
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Gulnar Nassimova (Political Science, Al Farabi Kazakhstan National University) Thursday, January 12, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kazakhstan, a state in Central Asia, became independent upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today’s university youth were socialized in the post-Soviet...
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Jan
American Women Missionaries, Christian Homes and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan
Rui Kohiyama (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan) Wednesday, January 11, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although their initiatives in criticizing child marriage and widowhood in India and foot-binding in...
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Dec
Call For Papers: Migrations, Third Annual Graduate Center for Literary Research Conference
DEADLINE EXTENDED: Proposals are due via email by Friday, March 4, 2016. If you are a graduate student in the Humanities, either at the MA or PhD level, please submit an abstract of 200-300 words to GCLR Student Coordinator Katie Jan, katieljan@gmail.com, and please be sure to include your presentation title, academic affiliation and contact information. Participants will be notified of their acceptance in late March. Conference date: May 27, 2016 University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, California
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Dec
Deregulation Discourses and Regulatory Reform in American Transportation, 1974-1979.
Jesse Halvorsen (History, UCSB) Friday, December 2, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Halvorsen is completing a dissertation on the logistics industry in Southern California, "Moving Goods, Moving America: Technology, Public Policy, and the Struggle Over North America's Largest Port-Logistics Nexus." Sponsored by the Center for the Study of...
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Dec
Isla Vista: Voices from the Community
Thursday, December 1, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library (Special Research Collections, 3rd Floor, Mountain Side) A new UCSB Library exhibition in its Special Research Collections will explore the political, cultural, and social struggles of Isla Vista to become an independent, cohesive community, from 1970 to the...
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Nov
Contested Transformation–Race, Gender, and Political Leadership in Early 21st Century America
Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, November 22, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the...
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Nov
Investigating My Father and “Reading Hunger” with The Memory Project
Wu Wenguang (Director, Investigating My Father) Zhang Ping, Liu Xiaolei, Zhang Mengai (Members of The Memory Priject) Moderator: Michael Berry (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCLA) Saturday November 19, 2016 / 2:00pm-5:15pm The Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve...
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Nov
Billionaires and Stealth Politics
Benjamin Page (Political Science, Northwestern University) Friday, November 18, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Page, who studies the political attitudes and behavior of the 1%, is the author of Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (2009) and many other books on U.S. public opinion...
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Nov
Arms and the Manosphere
Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon Journal) Friday, November 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The manosphere - a virtual network of more than a hundred thousand men, mostly white and heterosexual, sharing anti-feminist ideology on blogs and internet forums - seems an unlikely place to find classical reception. But...
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Nov
Public Universities and the Future of Democracy
Harry Boyte (Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College) Thursday, November 17, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the midst of enormous external pressures to narrow or eliminate the public purposes of higher education, how can educators become agents of constructive, democratizing...
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Nov
Chimurenga Intersections
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Thomas Mapfumo (Blacks Unlimited) Thursday, November 17, 2016 Book Launch: MultiCultural Center, 5:00-6:00 PM Blacks Unlimited Concert: Storke Plaza, 7:00-10:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero is a historian of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. His book, African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, documents...
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Nov
Can We “Teach to Transgress”?
Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater A social justice approach to building campus community encourages activism. What does it look like to have an inclusive university invested in just community values on and off...
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Nov
Community-Engaged Participatory Pedagogy in the Arts Program
Application Deadline: Wednesday, November 15, 2017 The IHC invites proposals from UCSB faculty members for funding through its Community-Engaged Participatory Pedagogy in the Arts Program. Awards up to $4000 will be made for visual and performing art projects housed within undergraduate or graduate courses at UCSB that will take place in Winter, Spring or Fall of 2018, or Winter or Spring of 2019.
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Nov
Monumental Mausolea: Building Projects and Slave Labor from Antiquity to the World Cup
Sarah Bond (Classics, University of Iowa) Monday, November 14, 2016 / 5:00 PM HSSB 3041 Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will examine the use of slave labor in monumental building through a broad historical lens. The use of contracted and slave labor...
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Nov
The Topography of Servitude: Mapping Ancient Slave Rebellions
Sarah Bond (Classics,University of Iowa) Monday, November 14, 2016 / 3:00 PM Public History Seminar Room, HSSB 3208 Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will be leading a seminar on GIS mapping of ancient slavery. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning...
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Nov
The XX Colloquium on Mexican Literature, Canon Perdido
Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:30 PM Graduate Student Lounge, Multi Cultural Center, UCSB Friday, November 11, 2016 / 9:00 AM Centennial House, UCSB Saturday, November 12, 2016 / 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra, Santa Barbara The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB and...
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Nov
The Engaged Classroom: Learning at the Intersection of Campus and Community
UCSB students: Zenzile Riddick Katie Walker Jonathan Gomez Jasmine Kelekay Moderators: Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How best might our academic experiences at UCSB be both guided and deepened...
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Nov
Orphans in the Storm: The Building and Loan Crisis of the 1930s
Alice Echols (History, University of Southern California) Friday, November 4, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB In addition to Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2010), Echols has published Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999) and Daring to Be Bad:...
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03
Nov
Democracy Matters: The Road to Self-Governance in Isla Vista
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections On November 8, Isla Vista residents will take part in an historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community. With ballot initiatives E and F, they will...
03
Nov
Slaves into Citizens: Legitimizing Black Domestic Relationships in Reconstruction-Era State Courts
Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4065 Through an examination of suits brought by freed people, this talk explores the role that state courts played in constructing - and reconstructing - the black family. Because they lacked legal pasts, former...
02
Nov
Sources and Currents: YouTube-mediated Conflicts in a Transnational “Afro” Dance Scene
Laura Steil (Traveling Faculty, School for International Training, Paris) November 2, 2016 / 5:30 PM 3145 SSMS This talk addresses YouTube-mediated conflicts over artistic authorship and authority, between artists from the African continent and those in the French Diaspora. Arguments regarding the source of popular movements, and whether...
02
Nov
The Shogun’s Silver Telescope: God, Art & Money in the First English Voyages to Japan,1611-23
Timon Screech (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Wednesday, November 2, 2016 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 The English East India Company was founded in 1600 as a spice-importing organization. In 1611, it sent a ship to Japan, which arrived in 1613. This talk will...
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Oct
Re-framing the Folktale
Friday, October 28, 2016 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Scholars from UCSB examine how and why traditional folktales are continuously renewed and reused in genres as divergent as children's bedtime stories, adult literature, oral folk tales, Disney films, contemporary television programs,...
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Oct
An Assemblage Approach to Early Christianity: Deleuze, Latour, and the Letters of Dionysios of Corinth
Cavan Concannon (Religion,University of Southern California) Friday, October 28, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze...
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Oct
Taiwanese Nationalism in the Age of Cross-Strait Integration under Ma’s Administration
Da-chi Liao (Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan) Thursday, October 27, 2016 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall Dr. Da-chi Liao is a Senior Professor at the Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D in Political Science...
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Oct
The Porous University: Creating Successful Community-Based Public Art, Drama, and Archive Projects
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / 10:00 AM-12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this workshop, Laura Browder will draw on her sixteen years of creating documentary dramas and museum exhibitions through university-community partnerships to address participants’ questions. These might include...
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Oct
The Afterlife of Three Trapped Tigers
Enrico Mario Santi (Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky) October 26, 2016 / 3:00 PM Wofsy Room, 4th Floor Phelps Hall Enrico Mario Santi, the William T. Bryan Professor of Hispanic Studies at University of Kentucky, will discuss Cabrera Infante's Carnavalesque masterpiece in light of Santi's work with the...
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Oct
Driving Richmond: From Pop-up Public Art Exhibition to University Class—and Transit Museum
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Tuesday, October 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2013, Laura Browder was commissioned by the city of Richmond to produce a piece for the RVA Street Art Festival, a four-day festival housed in the disused bus...
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Oct
The Digital Humanities Revolution: Supporting 21st Century Scholarship
Jeremy Douglass (English, UCSB) Eileen Joy (punctum books) John Majewski (Dean, Humanities & Fine Arts) October 20, 2016/4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, Library Room 2322 A scholar (Jeremy Douglass), publisher (Eileen A. Joy) and administrator (Dean Majewski) share their work, and their views on DH, scholarly publishing,...
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Oct
Culture, Politics and Comparative Philology in the Nineteenth Century: A French Riposte
Christopher Prendergast (Modern and Midieval Languages,University of Cambridge) October 20, 2016/5:30 PM Mosher Alumni House, Board Room The harnessing of the developing discipline of comparative philology to various agendas centred on ethnicity, nation and race is well-known as one of the key junction points at which nineteenth-century...
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Oct
The Resurgence of Feminism in Catalonia: 1970-1975
Mary Nash, (History, Universitat de Barcelona) Tuesday October 18, 2016/1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Catalonia has a lengthy history of resistance to the nation's central government, especially in the news recently for its push to succeed from Spain. Professor Nash will discuss Catalonia's role in moving...
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Oct
Talk: Nguyễn Quốc Thành Artist/Curator Talk
Nguyễn Quốc Thành (Founding Director, QUEER FOREVER) Monday, October 17, 2016/5:00 PM 6020 HSSB, McCune Conference Room Nguyễn Quốc Thành holds a Master of Science from Warsaw University, Poland. Since 2007, he has co-organized the Five Flavor Film Festival in Warsaw. In Hà Nội, Nguyễn recently exhibited Soldiers'...
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Oct
Engaging Undergraduates Through Community-Based Participatory Research
Anne H. Charity Hudley (Linguistics, The College of William and Mary) Friday, October 14, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Community-based participatory research (CBPR) empowers community members to fully participate in research from idea conception to interpretation and presentation of findings....
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Oct
Insubordinate Spaces for Intemperate Times: Why Civic Engagement Matters Now
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Barbara Tomlinson (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is a university and why does the work we do here matter? What is the relationship between what goes on in our classrooms, studios and laboratories...