Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 4:00 Performing Arts Theater Friday, December 4, 2015 / 9:30 AM Mosher Alumni House Saturday, December 5, 2015 / 9:30 AM MultiCultural Center, University Center On the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the publication of Franz Kafka’s famous text “The Metamorphosis,” an interdisciplinary conference at...
James F. Brooks (UCSB, History & Anthropology) Thursday, December 3, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4041 This volume has brought together scholars from anthropology, history, psychology, and ethnic studies to share their original research into the lesser-known stories of slavery in North America and reveal surprising...
December 01, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Professor David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) will introduce the film and lead a Q&A directly after the screening. Cowspiracy: The Sustainability Secret is a groundbreaking feature-length documentary following intrepid filmmaker Kip Andersen as he uncovers the...
Ramona Bajema, Ph.D. Tuesday, December 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ramona Bajema has spent the past four years searching through the post-triple disaster remains in order to better understand what cannot be washed away by a 100-meter high wave that obliterated...
Hilal Elver (UCSB Orfalea Center) November 23, 2015 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room Climate change poses a distinct threat to all aspects of food security, threatening livelihood of already vulnerable people, while current fossil fuel based agricultural practices are responsible for accelerating climate change. Moreover, some mitigation and...
Ambassador Dennis Ross Friday, November 20, 2015 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Ambassador Dennis Ross will discuss and sign copies of his just-released book, Doomed to Succeed: The U.S.-Israel Relationship from Truman to Obama, at 3:00 p.m., Friday, November 20 at UCSB (Location To Be Announced)....
Maria Fedorova (History,UCSB) Friday, November 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ms. Fedorova is completing a dissertation on American food aid and agricultural development in the Soviet Union during the 1920s and early 1930s. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Anjan Chatterjee (Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, November 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can neuroscience possibly tell us about aesthetics and art? In this talk, Anjan Chatterjee will offer a framework from which a neuroscientist might deconstruct aesthetic experiences. Chatterjee will discuss findings...
Anrea Acri (Nalanda-Sriwijaya Centre, ISEAS-Yusof Ishak Institute, Singapore) Wednesday, November 18, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture will survey the Indic traditions of ṣaḍaṅga-yoga (“six-limbed yoga”) and aṣṭāṅga-yoga (“eight-limbed yoga”) in the Indonesian Archipelago, as illuminated...
Kenneth S. Kosik (The Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human interactions are finely calibrated and many of these interactions are prosocial, that is a social behavior that benefits other individuals or a larger group. The repertoire of...
Kanchan Chandra (Politics, New York University) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics at New York University, works on questions of ethnicity, democracy, violence, patronage, clientelism, party politics and the politics of South Asia. She is lead...
Eric C. Rath (History, University of Kansas) Tuesday November 10/ 2015 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Lunch is both older and newer in Japan than we might imagine. The midday meal is said to have become a norm by the 1700s when most of the population finally...
David Cleveland (Environmental Studies,UCSB) November 10, 2015 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Food that is good for people and for society is also good for the climate—this positive synergy between climate justice and food justice can help motivate needed change. The Neolithic supply side...
Terri Snyder (American Studies, California State University, Fullerton) Monday, November 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Terri Snyder will lead a discussion of her most recent book, The Power to Die: Slavery and Suicide in British North Africa (Chicago, 2015). Snyder's research interests include slavery...
David Engerman (History, Brandeis University) Friday, November 6, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Engerman’s most recent book is Know Your Enemy: The Rise and Fall of America’s Soviet Experts (2009). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democray....
November 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The November meeting of the Architecture and Mind RFG focuses on nineteenth-century ideas of beauty and empathy in art and architecture. Participants will read (in advance) and discuss texts by the psychologist Gustav Theodor Fechner and...
Thursday, November 5, 2015/ 4:30 PM Mosher Alumni Friday, November 6, 2015/ 9:00 AM MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 7, 2015/ 9:00 AM Casa de la Guerra This year, the colloquium will be dedicated to the theme of “Real or Fake” in history, culture, literature, cinema,...
Q&A with director Jeff Malmberg Wednesday, November 4, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock Marwencol is a feature documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. A violent attack outside a Kingston, NY bar in...
Lynn Garafola (Dance History, Columbia University) Tuesday, November 3, 2015 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Lynn Garafola is Distinguished Professor of Dance History at Columbia University/Barnard College. A dance historian, critic and contributor for The Nation, Garafola’s importance to Dance and Performance Studies was best...
Friday, October 30/ 1:00 PM Barry Eidlin (Sociology, McGill University) HSSB 4041 Professor Eidlin, a sociologist, is author of Labor and the Class Idea in the United States and Canada (forthcoming from Cambridge). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Jasbir K. Puar (Women’s & Gender Studies, Rutgers University) Wednesday, October 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This lecture theorizes oscillating relations between disciplinary, pre-emptive, and increasingly prehensive forms of power that shape human and non-human materialities in Palestine. Calculation, computing, informational...
Rebecca Seligman (Anthropology, Northwestern University) Thursday, October 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Increasing evidence suggests the importance of meaning in conditioning bodily experiences and outcomes. This talk will explore the relationship between meaning and the body, with particular focus on the neurobiological...
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London) Monday, October 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The killing of Reeva Steenkamp and the trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa touch on some of the most difficult questions of sexual...
Yoram Peri (Abraham S. and Jack Kay Chair in Israel Studies at the University Maryland at College Park) Sunday, October 18, 2015 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Professor Yoram Peri will present a free, public lecture on "The Second Assassination of Yitzhak Rabin and the...
Susan Levine (Psychology, University of Illinois-Chicago) Friday, October 16, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Susan Levine's most recent book is School Lunch Politics: The Surprising History of America's Favorite Welfare Program (2010). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Policy....
Friday, October 16, 2015, 12:00 PM HSSB 3041 A new interdisciplinary Research Focus Group on "Slavery, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom" will meet for an informal brown-bag lunch to introduce participants to one another and discuss plans for the Fall quarter. All faculty and graduate students...
Thursday, October 15, 2105 / 7:00 PM Century 10 Downtown, Ventura Field trip! Come with us to see National Theatre's simulcast of Hamlet, starring Benedict Cumberbatch, live from London You may purchase tickets here. Sponsored by the IHC's W/Shakespeare RFG....
Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ecstasy, an experience that is widely discussed in the humanities and sought after in the general culture, illuminates many of the difficulties involved in linking research in the humanities...
Narayani Lasala-Blanco (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015/4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Debates about immigration policies in the United States have been present during electoral campaigns since the 1700s. Zolberg argues that the sustained presence of these debates in political campaigns is related...
Laura Nenzi (History, University of Knoxville) Tuesday, October 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conferene Room, HSSB 6020 Nenzi is a social historian of early modern Japan interested in gender, space, memory, and identity. In my first book, Excursions in Identity (2008) she examined the manifold...
Thursday, October 8, 2015 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Humanities and the Brain. Find out...
Karen Radner (Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität-München, Munich) Monday, October 5, 2015 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Ancient Near Eastern history specialist Karen Radner sets her research sights on the big picture. She is one of the world’s leading experts on the history of Mesopotamia at the time of the...
Thursday, October 1 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The new Research Focus Group is dedicated to readings about and discussions of the various ways in which the humanities, cognitive psychology, and behavioral/cognitive geography examine and think about human comprehension of space and place,...
Thursday, October 1, 2015 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB This interdisciplinary Health, Medicine and Care Working Group invites new members! Join other faculty, postdocs, graduate students, advanced undergraduate researchers, and community members at the UCSB campus to give and receive feedback on research...
PERFORMANCE AND INSTALLATION: Quantum Love Story Performance: Tuesday, September 29 / 8:00 PM Installation hours: Wednesday – Friday, September 30-October 2 / 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM Glass Box Gallery, Art Building You are invited to attend and experience Quantum Love Story, a live dance performance...
Click here to watch the 2015-16 IHC Inaugural Lecture: Ecstasy: Linking the Humanities and the Brain by Ann Taves....
Monday, November 9, 2015 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep...
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Conveners: James Kearney, English kearney@english.ucsb.edu Irwin Appel, Theater and Dance appel@theaterdance.ucsb.edu The w/Shakespeare proposed research focus group is dedicated to the innovative study and performance of Shakespeare. W/Shakespeare invites undergraduates, graduate students, and faculty from across the humanities and the university to think with and about Shakespeare. Our fundamental commitment is...
Conveners: Volker M. Welter, History of Art & Architecture welter@arthistory.ucsb.edu Mary Hegarty, Psychological & Brain Sciences mary.hegarty@psych.ucsb.edu Dan Montello, Geography montello@geog.ucsb.edu Please sign up here to join the RFG. Click here for RFG readings (password protected, please email conveners for the password.) As architectural historian Sir Nikolaus Pevsner once observed, it is nearly impossible...
Conveners: Zakiya Luna, Sociology zluna@soc.ucsb.edu Laury Oaks, Feminist Studies oaks@femst.ucsb.edu This RFG brings together diverse interests on campus and beyond with a broad but common interest on health, medicine and care. Approaches to health and medicine – such as an issue of social justice, a human right, a component of...
John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) Thursday, June 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is...
Cody Stephens ( History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 29, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Stephens is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of “dependency theory” in the era of the long 1960s. Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy...
Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) David Lea (Geology, USCB) Christopher Walker (English, UCSB) Thursday May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune...
Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...
Laurie Green (History,University of Texas, Austin) Friday, May 22, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Green is the author of Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (2007). Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy Website: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/...
Adam Krug (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, May 22 / 4:00 PM 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building The Seven Texts on Siddhi (ca. ninth to tenth centuries) were influential in both the development of Vajrayāna Buddhism in India and the later emergence of the mahāmudrā meditation traditions of...
Emily C. Thomas (Art, UCSB) Friday, May 22, 2015 / 5:30 PM Art, Design & Architecture Museum Part One of 'Infinite Human Night Light,' a sculpture and performance project by Emily C. Thomas, will be installed within the exhibition "Mystical Absolutes" held at the Art, Design & Architecture...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building SKILLS Day is the capstone event of the School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS) academic outreach program, a university/community partnership between UCSB and Santa Barbara County schools and youth organizations. SKILLS...
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB This talk will explore how, since around 1800, literature has offered imaginative ways of relating to the lithosphere beyond extraction and other destructive petrofictions. First coined in 1992 by Amitav Ghosh...
Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC Davis) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Embracing both genetically-improved seed and ecologically-based farming methods, Pamela Ronald aims to enhance sustainable agriculture. In this talk, she asserts that genetic improvement is a critical component of...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pollock Theater Don’t Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the...
Participants: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) Dr. Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC-Davis Moderator: Paul Voosen Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall FREE A key factor in discussions about how best to feed the world’s growing population and...
Katherine Strange Burke (Archaeology,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) Friday, May 15 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 The political transition from Egyptian to Frankish rule at the Mediterranean port of Jaffa at the turn of the twelfth century CE was abrupt. But the ceramic record illustrates...
Janelle Wong (American Studies, University of Maryland) Thursday, May 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Scholars and pundits point to remarkable support among Asian Americans and Latinos for Democratic candidates in recent Presidential elections. Many attribute this support to differences in how the...
SCREENING: Merchants of Doubt Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required: visit this page for reservations. CONFERENCE: Sustainable Science Communication: Content, Audience, Media, and Impact Thursday, May 14 2015 / 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Featured...
Asif Siddiqi (History, Fordham University) Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Secrecy was endemic in Soviet society and culture. Information that we might consider benign in the Western context was off-limits to most of the general populace throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. Controls...
Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) James Kearney (English, UCSB) Ross Melnick (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The recipients of the 2014-15 IHC Faculty Release Time awards will present their work. Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English...
May 8, 2015 Flying A Studios Room, University Center An interdisciplinary group of scholars of medieval and early modern Japanese literature, history, religion, and performing arts examine topics related to “War and Remembrance” during Japan’s years of military rule (late 12th to late 19th centuries). Exploring a...
Najeeb Jan (Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder) Friday, May 8, 2015 / 12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building On January 4, 2011, Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, was executed by his own bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, for the crime of “Blasphemy against Islam.” This lecture...
Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively...
Thursday, May 7, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Zamira Abman (History, UCSB) "The Bolshevik Emancipation of Muslim women of Tajikistan: What went wrong, 1924-1982." Victoria J. Ballmes (Religious studies, UCSB) "Monumental Memory and the Construction of Jewish Identity in Antiquity" George Blake (Music, UCSB) "Music and Racial Formation...
Ian Condry (Japanese Culture and Media Studies, MIT) Wednesday May 6, 2015 /4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Now that recorded music is always available for free, what are the possible futures for musicians and fans? This talk will explore recent developments in Japan, including the resurgence of...
G. Reginald Daniel ( Sociology, UCSB) Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (Japanese American National Museum) Ingrid Dineen Wimberly (History,University of La Verne) Monday, May 4 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor This roundtable will focus...
Friday - Sunday, May 1-3, 2015 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 In this conference, former students and colleagues of Patricia Cline Cohen explore the legacy of Cohen’s pioneering work in the cultural history of gender and sexuality. A founder of Women’s Studies (now Feminist Studies) at...
Harold Abramowitz (Blind Spot) Amanda Ackerman (The Book of Feral Flora) Michelle Detorie (After-Cave) Thursday, April 30, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Three Southern California poets will read their work and discuss how the profound instability of the natural world informs...
The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series explores contemporary societal issues of national and international significance through the presentation of eminent figures who hold divergent viewpoints. “Let us bring the greatest minds of our time together at UCSB,” explains Arthur N. Rupe, “and provide a...
Andrew Kalaidjian (English) Jacqueline Viskup (Theater & Dance) Tuesday, April 28 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel will feature presentations by the two recipients of the UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities award for 2014-15. Kalaidjian’s dissertation is entitled “Places of Rest: Modernism and Environmental Recovery.” His...
Saturday, April 25, 2105 / 9:00 AM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room The UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Changes in Fashion in the Middle Ages,” looks to analyze fashion at its broadest, spanning not simply clothes and literary genres, but questions of materiality, techniques, politics,...
Peter Galison (Art History, Harvard University) Friday, April 24 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor and State Street Conference Rooms, University Center In her 1965 painting, Rhinoceros, based on a newspaper photograph, contemporary artist Vija Celmins makes conscious reference to Albrecht Dürer’s canonical 1515 print of the...
Martin Ehala (Tartu University, Estonia) Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Ehala is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Communications at UCSB. He received his doctorate in linguistics from Cambridge University and is a Professor at the University...
Ursula Heise (English, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA) Thursday, April 23, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the early twenty-first century, the majority of the global human population lives in cities. Future population growth will occur mostly in cities. This shift challenges...
Katarzyna Cwiertka (Modern Japan Studies,Leiden University) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building Japan has one of the most sophisticated waste management systems in the world and its household waste generation has been steadily declining since 2003. However, before...
Akira Mizuta Lippit (Film, USC) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM SSMS 3145 Among the most enduring effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi nihon daishinsai) that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 is the total disruption of spatial order it produced. The earthquake struck the Tohoku region...
Philip Schultz (poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Tuesday, April 21, 2015 / 6:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A public reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet and writer Philip Schultz from his recently published novel-in-verse The Wherewithal. After reading the manuscript of The Wherewithal before its publication,...
Monday, May 18 / 7:00 PM New Vic Theatre 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara FREE This feature-length documentary recounts the history of Zionism, its leaders, its influence on the Jewish and Palestinian peoples and the inevitable differences between its ideals and its real world embodiment....
Monica Heller (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Anthropology, University of Toronto) Friday, April 17, 2015 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Professor Heller’s LISO talk is a special tribute to John Gumperz whose work focused, in large part, on the relationship between the making of social difference and...
Monica Heller (Education & Anthropology, University of Toronto) Friday, April 17 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Monica Heller’s LISO talk is a special tribute to John Gumperz ,whose work focused in large part on the relationship between the making of social difference and the making...
Jon Mooallem (journalist, author of Wild Ones) Thursday, April 16, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a weakened black bear that had been tied to a tree by his hunting...
Glenn Kurtz (author) Thursday, April 16 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall In Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Glenn Kurtz’s grandfather captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16mm Kodachrome color...
Q&A with director Todd Darling Tuesday, April 14 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Occupy the Farm captures an intense conflict in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution (UC Berkeley) in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming. From preparing...
Gavin Wright (History, Stanford University) Friday, April 10, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Wright is the author of Sharing the Prize: the Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2012); Slavery and American Economic Development (2006); Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern...
Abdallah Helmy Shehata (Political Science, American University in Cairo) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Helmy Shehata was an activist during the events and involved in organizing social protest. He is Vice Chairman, Programs Director, of the Sadat Association for...
Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Amazon rainforest of Brazil is cut down to create cattle pastures and agricultural fields. Deforestation brings profit, but it is also linked to deeply held ideals of development and progress...
Bliss Lim (Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:30 PM "Queer Aswang Transmedia: Camp Temporality and Philippine Folklore" In recent years, the aswang – a supernatural creature of Philippine folklore that is often associated with female monstrosity and patriarchal misogyny – is...
The Media Fields Collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its fifth biennial conference exploring the intersections of media and space. We propose “encounters” as a framework through which these intricate relationships may be addressed. This term has been strategically deployed to think...
Oliver A. Ryder (Director of the Frozen Zoo project and Kleberg Chair at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The time in which we currently live has been described as the sixth great episode...
Jodi Magness (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Friday, March 13 / 11:30-1:00 AM HSSB 4020 Since 2011, Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee. The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late...
Q&A with director Louis Psihoyos Thursday, March 12, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event...
Jeremy Hanes (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, March 11 / 4:00 PM* 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building *Please note the change in time. The North Indian goddess Śītalā was once associated with smallpox, a disease that is now only present in lab samples, yet she...
Cybelle Fox ( History, University of California Berkeley) Friday, May 8, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fox is the author of Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (2012). Sponsored by Center for the Study of...
Debra Harry (Gender, Race & Identity, University of Nevada, Reno) Andrea McComb Sanchez (Religious Studies, University of Arizona,Tuscon) Friday, March 6 , 2015 / 8:30 AM -5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Join keynote speakers, Debra Harry and Andrea McComb Sanchez for a lively discussion...
Aaron Ullrey (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, March 6 / 3:00 PM 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building During the medieval period Digambara Jains in Karnataka composed and circulated two magic Tantras containing aggressive magic that was in vogue at the time and that challenged...
Lydia Davis (translator of Swann’s Way and author of Can’t and Won’t) Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence will be Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis. Davis will read from her latest collection of stories, Can't and...
Patricia Fumerton (English,UCSB) Pamela Smith (History, Columbia) Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28 / 9:00 AM Alumni Hall and West Conference Center We seek to explore the various kinds and forms of making. From manufacturing a sheet of paper, to printing a ballad, to conducting an experiment,...
Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28, 2015 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The objective of this interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together scholars who are currently working on histories of children and childhood primarily in Japan and are also situating these works within a larger...
Richard Widick (scholar/filmmaker) Thursday, February 26 , 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2015 in Paris, the United Nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty, envisioned to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 as the world's leading collective response to global...
Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern University) Wednesday, February 25 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In 1839, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo’s service and learn “the conduct and...
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg (CEO of OneVoice) Ghaith al-Omari (Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Wednesday, February 25 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Ambassador Marc Ginsberg and Ghaith al-Omari, two leading authorities on the Middle East will discuss U.S. foreign policy in the aftermath of...
Brenda Beck (Anthropology, University of Toronto) Wednesday, February 25 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the past decades Brenda Beck has brought a medieval Tamil folk epic, "the Story of Ponnivala", to life through film animation, producing a thirteen-hour series that has been...
Sunday, February 22, 2015 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edwin Seroussi (Musicology, Hebrew University) Jonathan Glasser (Anthropology, College of William and Mary) An international panel of scholars and musicians presents lectures on how Jewish and Muslim communities across the Middle East have...
MultiCultural Center Theater Saturday, February 21, 2015 / 8:00 PM Esti Kenan-Ofri (featured guest artist) The concert is free. Seating is limited; please plan to arrive early. A unique concert of shared Jewish and Muslim musical traditions from medieval Spain, modern Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Israel, and Yemen, presented...
Noah Zatz (Law, UCLA) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Zatz is the author of Poverty Unmodified: Critical Reflections on the Deserving/Underserving Distinction and Beyond Misclassification: Tackling the Independent Contractor Problem. Zatz’s research address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in...
Friday, February 20th, 2015 / 9:30 AM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive...
Gabrielle Hecht (History, University of Michigan) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 9:30 am Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room The Anthropocene has become a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that...