Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Philip G. Roeder (Political Science, UCSD) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall National-secession campaigns have been explained by development of ethnic identities, grievances over social and economic inequalities and dislocations, greed to seize wealth and power, and tactical opportunities to engage...
Dir. David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, 56 min. Special guest: Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission: $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. From the Big Bang...
Kristoffer Smemo (History, UCSB) Friday, February 13, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Smemo is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of liberal Republicans from the late 1930s through the early Reagan era. Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy....
Erik M. Conway (historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In their new book, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explore the coming of the Penumbra, the shadow of...
T.A. Barron (author, the Merlin Saga) Tuesday, February 10, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB T.A. Barron, highly acclaimed author of the Merlin Saga, The Ancient One, The Hero’s Trail, and many other books, finds great inspiration in the wonders of nature and...
Paul Mendes-Flohr (Modern Jewish History and Thought, University of Chicago Divinity School) Monday, February 9 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista One of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber was born in Vienna (1878) and died in...
Friday, February 6 / 12:00 PM SSMS 2100 Come meet graduate students and faculty working on energy issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. This will be an informal meeting. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Javiera Barandiaran, jba@global.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by IHC's...
Curtis LeBaron (Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Brigham Young University) Friday, February 6, 2015 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Research on routine dynamics has examined when and how varied performance of routines leads to the long-term stability or variation of the routines themselves. However, there has been less attention...
Kathleen Collins (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, February 5, 2015 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall, third floor Kathleen A. Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia...
Wednesday, February 4 / 1:00-2:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will meet Wednesday Feb. 4th, 1-2:30pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. Please come to this meeting to offer suggestions in regard to two current 4Humanities projects. One is the WhatEvery1Says project to...
David L. Kirp (Public Policy, UC Berkeley) Wednesday, February 4, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Renowned education author David Kirp speaks about higher education and his bestselling book, Improbable Scholars; The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools....
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Adam Hochschild (author, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 As we mark the centenary of the First World War, this epochal event is usually remembered as a bloody conflict between...
Anne Knowles (Geography, Middlebury College) Alberto Giordano (Geography, Texas State University) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM UCEN Flying A Room Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano (eds.) present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of...
Wang Haicheng (Art History, University of Washington) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Wang Haicheng, Associate Professor of Art History, at the University of Washington will speak on the topic of his new book, which is a comparative study of the origins and function of...
Catherine Fisk (University of California, Irvine School of Law) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fisk is the author of Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (2009), and Labor Law Stories (2005). Fisk’s research focuses on labor issues in...
Eric Lichtblau ( investigative reporter, The New York Times) Monday, January 26 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Eric Lichtblau unveils the secret history of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II, many of whom were scientists and spies...
Viola Miglio, Björn Birnir, Astradur Eysteinsson, Ander Caballero (UCSB, University of Iceland, Basque Government) Monday, January 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB McCune Room This event is an instantiation of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day, which officially takes place every year on February 21st commemorating the anniversary of the...
Steven Fine (History, Yeshiva University) Monday, January 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Since antiquity, scholars have almost universally -- and correctly — interpreted the menorah bearers of the Arch of Titus spoils panel as triumphal Romans celebrating the defeat of the Jews in the...
Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan) Jody Enders (Medieval Studies, UCSB) Marcella Munson (Florida Atlantic University) Saturday, January 24, 2015 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us on Saturday, January 24 at 9 a.m. in HSSB 6020 for a...
Friday, January 23-24 2015 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our conference addresses current debates surrounding untranslatability and its implications within the postcolonial context of globalization. We have invited scholars and translators from diverse disciplines and perspectives to reflect on the basic notions of...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...
dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...
Ruth Leys (History, John Hopkins University) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory. Among the questions to be posed are: "If the twentieth century was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will...
Michael Fried (History of Art, Johns Hopkins University) Wednesday, January 14, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Fried holds the J.R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. Fried is one of the most influential art historians, art critics, and...
Friday, February 27-28, 2015 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 transregional, transnational or global context....
Instructors: Barbara L.E. Walker, Ph.D (Office of Research) Brian Donnelly, Ph.D (Dept. of English, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center) Mondays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM HSSB 5056 Course Description: A graduate-level course covering the fundamentals of funding searches, research design, and proposal writing for students, in the humanities, arts, and...
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Claire Robison (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, December 10, 2014 / 5:00 pm IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The Indian International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is assuming an increasingly central role in India’s Hindu public sphere, wielding vast economic assets, political influence, and, more recently, a posh...
Ari Shavit (Senior Correspondent, Haaretz) December 02, 2014...
Jean-Yves Marc (Université de Strassbourg) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 6:00 PM HSSB 4080 The Forum at Philippi was not built on the site of the city’s Hellenistic Agora. Rather, the Forum was built as an entirely new project in the Roman imperial period. At the height of...
Anne Allison (Anthropology, Duke University) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At a moment when the Japanese population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death”...
Peter Barnes (entrepreneur, journalist, author) Tuesday, November 18 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future....
Rabbi David Wolpe (Sinai Temple, Los Angeles) Sunday, November 16 / 3:00 PM UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Out of all the figures in the Bible, David is one of the most perplexing and enigmatic. Rabbi David Wolpe takes a fresh look at the biblical David in an...
Rebecca Langlands (Classics, University of Exeter) Friday, November 14, 2014 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Professor Rebecca Langlands will be visiting UCSB to share her expertise in Roman literature and culture, ethics, and the history of sexuality. She will be speaking on her current research, "No-Win Situations: Roman...
Vivek Chibber (History, New York University) Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 7:00 PM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants...
Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....
Thursday, November 6, 2014/ 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 7, 2014 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 8, 2014/ 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra This year, the theme is the binational relationship between the United States and Mexico. We...
Leslie Mitchner (Rutgers University Press, Editor in Chief) Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / 5:00 PM 2635 South Hall This is the first meeting of the EHC Anthropocene graduate colloquium, on the introduction and Chapter 13 from Naomi Klein's most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014). Pizza and drinks will be...
Friday, October 3 / 3:00-4:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2014-15 academic year on Monday, November 3, 3-4:30 pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. A surprise, high-visibility new 4Humanities project will be announced at this...
Lisa Cartwright (Professor of Art and Communication, UC San Diego) Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 2:00 PM 2135 SSMS This talk draws on a multi-year sensory ethnography by Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin, who since 2009 have been documenting the everyday work experience and human-technology interaction...
Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 10:00-3:30 PM Mosher Alumni Hall Gallery Exhibit: 3:30-5:00 PM, UCSB Museum In popular Western perception, the term Bollywood conjures up a constellation of images: melodramatic performances rendered in a riot of colors, exotic locales, exaggerated gestures, and fantastic song and dance...
Kati Marton (former NPR and ABC News Correspondent, author of The Great Escape) Wednesday, October 29, 2014 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion In her critically-acclaimed account of The Great Escape, Kati Marton follows nine survivors over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in...
John H. Summers (Editor, The Baffler) Friday,October 24,2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Summers is the editor of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (2008); editor of Mass Cult and Mid Cult: Essays Against the American Grain (2011), derived from the work of Dwight...
Friday, October 24 & Monday, October 27 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
Thursday, October 23, 2014 / 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 Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities. Find...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 / 2:00-3:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join Kelly Pillsbury and Barbara Walker from the Office of Research as they walk you through COS Pivot, a global funding opportunities database available to the UCSB campus. With an estimated 26,000 records of funding opportunities, Pivot...
Friday, October 17 & Monday, October 23, 2014 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
Caitlin Rosenthal (History,University of California, Berkeley) Friday, October 17, 2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Unlike traditional narratives that privilege the role of factories in England and the North, Rosenthal uses plantation account books to show how slavery and the slave trade facilitated the development of Taylorism and...
Thursday, October 16-Saturday, October 18, 2014 / 9:30 AM UCSB (University Center, Humanities & Social Sciences Building & Loma Pelona Center) "On the Beach: Precariousness, Risk, Forms of Life, Affinity and Play at the Edge of the World," co-hosted by theBABEL Working Group and the UCSB Literature...
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Tuesday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m. Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga music has drawn much scholarly attention due in part to the genre’s imbrication with the Second Chimurenga, the 1960s-70s liberation war that finally dislodged the 90-year long Rhodesian settler rule...
Friday, October 10, 2014 / 11:30 AM -1:30 PM HSSB 4080 Our primary goal is that of rethinking the categories of "paganism" and "idolatry" from a number of theoretical perspectives on the basis of research carried out in different historical and cultural contexts. In the our first...
Friday, October 10, 2014 & Monday, October 13, 2014 7:00 & 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater, $4...
Saturday, October 4, 2014 / 12:30 Sunday, October 5, 2014 / 7:00 Anisq'Oyo' Park, Isla Vista FREE Isla Vista Arts Presents Shakespeare in the Park: Capt'n Lear; King Lear in a 60-minute commedia romp! Bring a blanket, bring a friend....
Shane Hamilton (History, University of Georgia) Friday,October 3, 2014 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Professor Hamilton is the author of Trucking Country: the Road to America’s Wal-Mart Economy (2008), which won the Theodore Saloutos Award for the Best Book in Agricultural History. He is a leading figure among...
Friday, October 3, 2014 & Monday, October 6, 2014 Hook 7:00 pm / Jumanji 10:00 pm Isla Vista Theater, Free! ...
The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities...
For more information please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/graduate-affiliates-program/ ...
Congratulations to Andrew Kalaidjian (English) and Jacqueline Viskup (Theater & Dance). For more information and a list of previous UCSB UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities click here. ...
Saturday,Sept 6, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq’Oyo’ Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event. Go back ...
Saturday, August 30, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....
Saturday, August 23, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....
Zamira Yusufjonova is a Doctoral Candidate in History. Her dissertation is titled The Bolshevik Emancipation of the Muslim Women of Tajikistan, 1924-1982: What Went Wrong...
John Soboslai is a Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies. His dissertation is titled Performing One’s Own Death: Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice and Truth-Telling....
Philip J. Murphy is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. His dissertation is titled Annihilation in God & Remaining in the World: Sufi Devotional Song in Fez, Morocco...
Christopher Kegerreis is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Alexander of Macedon’s Imperial Exploration and its Impact on Hellenistic Geography....
Thomas Doran is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Vulgar Ethology: A Prehistory of Animal Protection in Atlantic Natural History Vulgar Ethology examines how American naturalists conducted, narrated, and valued their interactions with animals in the period leading up to the nineteenth-century animal...
For more information, please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/funding-opportunities/...
Conveners Javiera Barandiaran, Global Studies: jba@global.ucsb.edu Stephan Miescher, History: miescher@history.ucsb.edu Research interests 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 to develop...
ABOUT The Anthropocene, a newly-coined geologic term, designates the age during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. While subject to the forces of nature, the human species is itself a force that acts upon the natural world. We have...
Facilitated by the 2013-14 IHC GAP scholars Tuesday, June 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This year at the IHC, more than fifty writers, architects, artists, historians, poets, literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and preachers have addressed the value of care as it...
Keynote: Professor William Tronzo (UC San Diego) Saturday, May 31 / 9:00 a.m. - 5:00 p.m. AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Medieval Studies Program at UCSB presents an interdisciplinary graduate student conference focused on the theme of "Movement and Mobility in the Middle Ages." Professor William...
Friday, May 30 / 9:30 AM-5:00 PM University Center Lobero Room This is a one-day symposium in honor of the centenary of the birth of Aimé Césaire, the great Martinican poet-statesman (1913-2008). Césaire, in both his literary and political careers, strove to be “the spokesman for those...
Thursday, May 29 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A roundtable with UCSB Profefessors Amber González (Chican@ Studies), Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music), and Ninotchka Bennahum (Dance). Everyone is invited to join this discussion. For more details see: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/performance-and-politics/ Sponsored by the IHC's Performance & Politics RFG....
Adam Krug (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 28 / 4:00 PM 3001E HSSB Adam Krug’s lecture will interrogate the category economy, broadly conceived, as a theoretical tool to interpret the abundant textual and archaeological data on the patronage and proliferation of Buddhist monastic institutions in India from the...
Rabbi Laura Geller (Temple Emanuel, Beverly Hills) Wednesday, May 28 2014 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Geller was raised in Brookline, Massachusetts until she was 15, when her family moved to New York City. She attended the Dalton School, then graduated from Brown University in 1971.Geller...
A celebration of the life and work of Gabriel Garcia Marquez,Nobel prize Colombian writer who recently died, with readings, remembrances and film clips. This event has been postponed. For further information, visit: www.spanport.ucsb.edu Sponsored by the Dept. of Spanish & Portuguese, the program in Latin American...
Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Psychiatry, University of New Mexico) Friday, May 23, 2014 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Registration is required for this workshop. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/reg-histtr-2014 to receive the preparatory readings. Under colonial occupation, Native communities across the Americas endured devastating...
Dara Z. Strolovitch (Department of Politics, Princeton University) Thursday, May 22 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since 2001, the American political landscape has been shaped by a convergence of “bad things” – including wars, natural disasters, and hard economic times – that have interrupted...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Thursday, May 22 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM UCSB Centennial House The Graduate Center for Literary Research cordially invites you to participate in the GCLR Graduate Student Conference on “Disclosure,” Thursday May 22 at the Centennial House from 8:30 am – 5:00 pm. Disclosure evokes hidden, withheld,...
Monday, May 19 / 9:00 AM Student Resources Building, Multipurpose Room Students from three Santa Barbara County high schools who are participating in UCSB's academic outreach program SKILLS will present the results of their original research on the role of language in their lives. Sponsored by the Crossroads...
Saturday, May 17 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Early Modern Center is pleased to announce our thirteenth annual conference, “Transatlantic Ecologies: Utopia to Zoonomia,” featuring keynote speakers Daniel Brayton (Middlebury College) and Gordon Sayre (University of Oregon). Transatlantic Ecologies explores the complex and...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Participants in this symposium include Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009); Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale, author of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 Speakers: Janet Fiskio (Enviornmental Studies, Oberlin College) Adrian Parr (Sociology, University of Cincinnati) Steven Vanderheiden (Political Science, University of Colorado) Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's publication of the "5th Assessment Report," this Symposium will ask how the ever-increasing scientific consensus...
Friday, May 16 / 10:00 AM MultiCultural Center Lounge The American Cultures & Global Contexts Center is proud to present "Antiracism Inc./Works: The Anticonference." Please join us for the academic, artistic, and activist encounter that is sure to reinvigorate our analysis of and commitments to social...
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies & English, UCSB) "Trauma & Transcendence in Rickerby Hinds' Dreamscape" Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History, UCSB) "The Making of a Multiethnic Society in Mexican Borderlands" Thursday, May 15, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this panel, UCSB’s recipients of the 2013-14...
Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Koi Pond Below Storke Tower Sienna Cordoba (History, UCSB) Warren Taylor (Materials Research Lab, UCSB) We invite you to the Koi Pond below Storke Tower for a "bake sale" art installation where you may meet someone from another department; It happened to us,...
Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Presenters: Nicole Filler (Political Science) "In the Pursuit of Social Justice: Identities, Mobilization, and Activism." Travis Seifman (History) "Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions." Magarita Safronova (Political Science) "Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan" Sponsored...
Thursday, May 15 / 1:30-5:00 PM Friday, May 16 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor Room, University Center Composition: making meaning through design is an interdisciplinary symposium that asks how design features—including format, medium, lettering, and images—can alter, enhance, or otherwise affect the transmission of...
Daniel Botsman (History, Yale University) Tuesday May 13, 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk will begin by considering the place of cows in Japanese society before the Meiji Restoration, particularly in relation to the agrarian economy of the Kansai and surrounding regions. It will then consider the revolutionary changes...
Friday, May 9, 2014 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 10:00 AM-5:30 PM Arriving on the scene of accidents and emergencies, first responders provide assistance to the wounded, initiating a continuum of care that was first systematized by French military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars. This conference seeks to...
Thursday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Mosher Alumni House Friday, May 9, / 10:00 AM-1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater This symposium focuses on three central notions associated with the manifold transformations of the Mediterranean Sea in modern times: memory, movement, and migration. It is at the crossroads of...
Alison Mudditt and Bruce Robertson (UC Press ) Tuesday, May 6 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UC Press is actively exploring the possibilities for the humanities opened up by digital publishing. Beginning with a workshop at HRI-UC Irvine in Fall 2013, the Press has developed...
Monday, May 5 / 2:00 PM 6056 HSSB Seminar Room The IHC's Graduate Affiliate Program is pleased to host the first of two public workshops in which graduate scholars will present their work on the topic of care in conjunction with the IHC's the Value of Care...