Lilia Sokolinskaja (journalist, Tallinn, Estonia) Thursday, October 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Lilia Sokolinskaja was a leading journalist on Estonian Radio, Program 4. She is an insightful analyst of politics who covered the Estonian Parliament, traveled with the President of Estonia to NATO and European...
Kenneth Hough (PhD candidate, History, UCSB) Wednesday, October 16 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the...
Friday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh filled years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is...
Giorgio Miescher (University of Basel, Switzerland) Friday, October 11 / 12:00 PM 4080 HSSB The Red Line is a massive fence that stretches over 1,000 kilometers across Namibia and separates this southwest African country into two parts. This fence, constructed by South Africa in the 1960s, stands for...
Thursday, October 10 / 4:00-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s eighth annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Value of Care. Find out about collaborative research programs...
Friday, October 4 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh-filled yearswith themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is the way...
Christopher B. Krebs (Classics, Stanford) Friday, October 4 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts...
Tuesday, October 22 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) more...
Wednesday, October 2 / 1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Auditorium This forum will feature the speakers Marcos Vargas, executive director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and Manuel Pastor of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. Sponsored by CAUSE and the Center for...
Saturday, September 28 / 7:00 PM Sunday, September 29 / 7:00 PM Anisq'Oyo' Park With their tongue-in-cheek production of Rosenstern and Guildencrantz, UCSB's Shakespeare in the Park takes a jocular Commedia dell'Arte approach to the two characters of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare's Hamlet....
Ira Katznelson (Political Science, Columbia University) Friday, September 27/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB The author of ten books, Katznelson is a former president of the American Political Science Association and current president of the Social Science Research Council. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor...
Stephanie Batiste (English and Black Studies) and Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History) have received 2013-14 fellowships from the UC Humanities Network. Details here. ...
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Bianca Brigidi holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research dissertation analyzes the California Native American rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries.Brigidi's work marries folklore, contemporary ethnographic data, historical data, and interdisciplinary explorations of intercultural violence. As a...
Deadline to apply is July 15, 2013. For more information please visit https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/graduate-affiliates-program/...
Conveners: Mario T. Garcia, Chicano Studies, garcia@history.ucsb.edu Ellen McCracken, Spanish and Portuguese, emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu Description: This group is concerned with the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Chicano/Latino background in the United States. Numbering some 45 million people, Chicano/Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United...
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Dr. Ninotchka Bennahum, Theater & Dance bennahum@theaterdance.ucsb.edu Dr. Stephanie Batiste, English & Black Studies sbatiste@english.ucsb.edu Dr. Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu Relationships between and explorations of performance and politics form the core of this new Research Focus Group. Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic practice, and political life, we aim to...
Kate McDonald, History kmcdonald@history.ucsb.edu Sabine Frühstück, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies fruhstuck@eastasian.ucsb.edu We have come together as an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty members from the departments of History, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, Religious Studies, Music, and Film & Media Studies to examine, discuss and...
Sarah K. Harris' research interests include information technology regulation and access, digital media literacy and utilizing ethnography to measure IT policy impact. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, from UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation,...
Ayla Bozkurt Applebaum is an ethnic Kabardian from Turkey. Kabardians are among the Circassian people which, although indigenous to the Northwest Caucasus, live primarily in exile in Turkey and the Middle East due to their expulsion by Czarist Russia in the mid 19th century. Dr. Bozkurt...
Barbara L. Taylor is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. Her dissertation is titled The Ghosts of Banjos Past: The Early Banjo Revival and Remapping America's Racial Terrain. Diverse cultural activists are contesting conventional knowledge of early banjo history as they construct a subversive reading of "America's...
Rahul Mukherjee is a Doctcoral Candidate in Film and Media Studies. His dissertation is titled Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures: A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India. "Through case-studies in India, my dissertation explores media’s role in science controversies. The cases include arguments about effects of...
Andrew Magnusson is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Muslism-Zoroastrion Relations and Religious Violence in Early Islamic Iran. My dissertation examines Muslim-Zoroastion relations in Iran between the seventh and eleventh centuries. It challenges the lachrymose narrative of Zoroastion history which blames Muslim prosecution for...
Kuan-yen Liu is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Animal-Human Analogy and the Order of Things: A Comparative Study of Victorian British and Late-Qing Chinese Darwinism. This research project will explore the cross-boundary interaction of Darwinism with philosophy, socio-political thought and literature in...
Zachary Horton is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Scale and Alterity: Ecology, Media, and Technics After the Human. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary effort to analyze current techno-scientific discourses for underlying scalar frameworks that constrain personal, local, and transnational efforts to think other...
Friday, June 7 / 4:00-6:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Jason Schwartz (Religious Studies) A Wizard in the Chronicles of Amber: Rethinking the Religious Culture of the Rājput Courts in Light of the Kachwaha's Śākta Preceptor This lecture will retrace the path traveled by the prolific Śākta...
Eugene Yelchin (Award-winning children's writer and illustrator) Wednesday, June 5 / 4:00 PM Old Little Theater Award-winning children’s writer and illustrator Eugene Yelchin will speak about the dramatic role reading played in the Soviet Union, the courage of writers and their readers, and how the struggle...
May 31–June 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Summer Institute will serve as a forum for intensive exploration of topics relating broadly to Japanese book history and the ways in which knowledge and reading experiences are structured by material form. Issues that may arise include: the past,...
Karen Wilson (History, UCLA) Thursday, May 30 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Limited Seating and RSVP Required: 964-7869 or audrey@cbbsb.org Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic, a groundbreaking exhibition on display at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, tells the...
Sarah Dry (author, independent scholar) Rob Iliffe (History, University of Sussex) Thursday, May 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words...
Dr. Ellis Tinios (Art, University of Leeds) Thursday, May 30 / 4:15 PM HSSB 4080 Japanese illustrated woodblock printed books produced between 1680 and 1900 represent a remarkable achievement in terms of their technical perfection, diversity, and beauty. Artists created designs exclusively for reproduction in book form and...
Tuesday, May 28-Wednesday, May 29 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the social, cognitive, philosophical, and religious dynamics of personhood. Participants will explore alterations of subjectivity, altered states of embodiment and emplacement, and cross-disciplinary theories of transient selves. We welcome proposals for full panels...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Click here for a schedule and registration information....
Irene Checa-Garcia (University of Wyoming) Friday, May 24 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Much earlier than they are able to talk, very young children communicate with visible body behavior as they build social interaction with peers and caregivers. Frequently, these interactions focus on asking for some course of...
John Sbardellati (History, University of Waterloo, Ontario) Thursday, May 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the 1940s and 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. conducted a sweeping investigation of the motion picture industry. Convinced that film content endangered national security, Hoover’s G-men, joined by conservative...
Philip Deslippe (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 22 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB The recent outpouring of scholarly and popular writing on the history of American yoga has largely glossed over the seven decades between Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and the massive influx of swamis and gurus in...
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Tuesday, May 21 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resources Building High school students in the SKILLS program at Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language and culture in their local communities. In addition, UCSB...
Nazym Shedenova (Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) Saule Ualieva (Sociology, East Kazakh Technical University, Oskemen) Monday, May 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Shedenova is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a professor of sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. ...
The Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players (Shepherd University) Friday, May 17 / 5:00 PM Theater & Dance West 1701 This year's Medieval Studies Program Graduate Student Conference welcomes a student performance by the Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players. Traveling from Shepherd University in West Virginia, this troupe...
Keynote speaker: Professor Steven Justice (English, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 17 / HSSB 4080 / 12:30pm - 5pm Saturday, May 18 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB / 8:45am - 4:30pm The theme of this year’s conference is, “Says Who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts”. Since Henri Lefebvre’s...
Thursday, May 16 / 7:00 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Fleischmann Auditorium Bubonic Plague. Yellow Fever. Cholera. HIV AIDS. For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions and cause massive social and economical disruption. How have different cultures grappled with...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Debate participants: David Cole (Law, Georgetown University) Mary Ellen O’Connell (Law, University of Notre Dame) Avery Plaw (Political Science, Dartmouth University) Moderator:Jeff Greenfield The use of militarized drones – flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry – represents a major shift...
Negin Farsad (director) Wednesday, May 15 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Using jokes as a way of combating Islamophobia, a group of Muslim-American stand-up comedians go on a comedy tour throughout the United States. The comedians use this tour as a chance to create dialogue,...
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev (International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University) Tuesday, May 14 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The concept of Sedentarism is rooted in the "otherizing" of nomadic communities, which has formed a hierarchically structured binary: sedentary (good, progressive, civilized) - nomadic (bad, wild, and bloodthirsty). This mindset...
Saturday, May 11-Sunday, May 12 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room,6020 HSSB Featured plenary speakers: Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Linguistic Anthropology, UCLA), Kira Hall (Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder), Susan Speer (Psychology, University of Manchester), and Kathryn Woolard (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego) The LISO conference...
Friday, May 10-Saturday, May 11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today precarity, a life without any guaranteed work, is becoming the condition of millions of people worldwide. The conference focuses on the social and affective costs of precarity, but also on what possibilities it may open....
Jayne Loader (director) Thursday, May 9 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Released in 1982, “The Atomic Café” was a masterful compilation of U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film’s directors, screens excerpts of...
Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Magarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, May 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work....
Shalv Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Wednesday, May 8 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB This talk discusses the Hindu temple genre of kirtan as it has been performed in different Jewish topographies by the largest of the three Indian Jewish communities, the Bene Israel of Maharashtra. Nineteenth-century Bene...
John D. Lyons (French, University of Virginia) Wednesday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 In the early-modern period European society was shaken by turmoil that touched almost every aspect of culture, though the most visible symptoms were religious and political crises. At stake was the very framework...
Wednesday, May 8 / 12:00 PM-9:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater and UCen State Street Room Celebrating the publication of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013), a co-edited volume produced by three UC Santa Barbara professors—Constance Penley, Mireille Miller-Young, and Celine...
James Walters (Theology, Boston University) Monday, May 6 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4041 In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification...
John Connelly (History, UC Berkeley) David Nirenberg (History, The University of Chicago) Monday, May 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and features a dialogue between John Connelly, author...
Sjón (novelist, poet) Monday, May 6 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Well-known Icelandic author Sjón (his pen name means 'sight' or 'vision' in Icelandic) is one of the most interesting contemporary Icelandic novelists and poets. His visit to UCSB will mark the beginning of a...
Nancy Perloff (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Friday, May 3 / 3:00 PM HSSB 1174 Dr. Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute where she has organized such exhibitions as Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, and Tango with...
Friday, May 3 / 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology, UC Irvine) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop engages with the media forms that ethnographic products take (e.g., video, text) and, more broadly, mediation -- its production, consumption, circulation -- as part of socio-cultural life....
Mario Bellatin (author) Paulo Franchetti (Literature Theory, Universidad Estatal de Campinas) Randal Johnson (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA) Friday, May 3 / Mosher Alumni House, Henley Board Room Saturday, May 4 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference gathers a variety of work, including that of graduate...
Ikuyo Morimoto (Graduate School of Language, Communication, & Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Friday, May 3 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Morimoto's research examines language use and body behavior in multiparty social interaction both in everyday conversations and in institutional (judicial) contexts. She has been working on videotaped...
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
Faculty and Staff Harry Munt, British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow, University of Oxford) Patrick Ryan Williams, Associate Curator and Anthropology Chair, The Field Museum of Chicago Fikret Yegül, Art History Gregory Wilson, Anthropology Voula Tsouna, Philosophy Samuel Thomas, Religion, California Lutheran Christine Thomas, Religious Studies Paul Spickard, History Stuart Tyson Smith, Anthropology Jo-Ann Shelton, Classics Helen Rhee,...
Wednesday, May 15 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Click here for more information....
Rüdiger Campe (Literature, Yale University) Wednesday, May 1 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 The probabilistic revolution in the 18th century provides a history of the relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques, between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution that overthrew the "order of things," notably...
Click here to read about Martha Bragin's talk for the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, "Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War", in The Bottom Line. ...
Jonathan Kalan (photographer, writer, journalist) Tuesday, April 30 / 2:00 PM Arts 1237 Jonathan Kalan is an award-winning photographer and journalist specializing in innovation, technology, development and social entrepreneurship in emerging markets. A graduate of UCSB's Global Studies Program, he has traveled to over 44 countries and...
Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB is our campus's local chapter of the international 4Humanities initiative, which uses digital technologies to design and create media campaigns to advocate for the value of the humanities. Following up on 4Humanities@UCSB's previous meetings, when we started humanities...
Emanuele Saccarelli (Political Science, San Diego State University) Friday, April 26 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Saccarelli examines the novelist's role working with the OSS in World War II. He is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. Sponsored by the Center for the...
Katrina Daly-Thompson (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This timely talk reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that...
Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science, USC) Thursday, April 25 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Hancock is a globally recognized scholar of the study of intersectionality – the study of the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality politics and their impact on public policy. Her first book,...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
Jack Halberstam (English, University of Southern California) April 25, 2013 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater In a new book on “The Wild” Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal. As many thinkers have proposed recently,...
Kim Q. Hall (Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University) Monday, April 22 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At its most fundamental level, food is, as Michael Pollan asserts in his book In Defense of Food, a relationship rather than a collection of nutrients. The food...
Michael Zakim (History, Tel Aviv University) April 19 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Zakim is the author of Ready Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1790-1960. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Lawrence Acker is an associate professor at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, joining the faculty in January of this year. He is the Lindenwood College of Individualized Education’s Program Director of Health Management. Dr. Acker came to Lindenwood after serving as the Program Chair...
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies/Spanish, NYU) Wednesday, April 17 / 3:30PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated or corrupted, the media sequestered in the hands of power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in...
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
Click here to read the official UCSB press release for the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Karen Anzoategui (performer) Saturday, April 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Bodies in Space III: A Guerrilla-Style Graduate Conference" invites the UCSB community at large to observe the culmination of this year's conference, a performance directed by Karen Anzoategui and featuring UCSB students....
Scott McCloud (Regents’ Lecturer) Friday, April 12 /10:30 AM -3:00 PM Theater & Dance Building: Courtyard & Room 1530 With graphic novels, sequential art, comic books becoming more prevalent in scholarship and education, the need for interdisciplinary conversation grows so that we might collaboratively imagine the...
Friday, April 12 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Corwin Pavilion This conference is the culminating event of the year-long Figuring Sea Level Rise series. It focuses on several crucial questions in the debate about climate change and sea level rise: who is likely to be immediately affected? What...
Fredrik Logevall (History, Cornell University) Wednesday, April 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. Drawing on newly available documents from several...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
Sunday, April 7 / 3:00 PM Lotte Lehman Concert Hall Josh Aronson (director, Orchestra of Exiles) Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s...
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, UC San Diego) The Media Fields collective will be holding its fourth graduate student conference, on the theme of "Access/Trespass," this April 4th - 5th. The conference features a keynote talk by...
Leo Panitch (Political Science,York University) Sam Gindin (Political Science,York University) Tuesday, April 2 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Panitch has edited the Socialist Register since 1985. He is the author of numerous books including Working Class Politics in Crisis. Gindin was Research Director of the...
Friday, March 15 / 1:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) 4041 HSSB Chikowero's book project is “African Music, Identities and Power in Colonial Zimbabwe.” Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday-Saturday, March 15- 16th 2635 South Hall The Transcriptions Center's "Mediating the Nonhuman" conference will take up questions of how media and narrative frames shape how we understand and interact with contemporary events and processes that take place on nonhuman scales: ecological time, high-frequency stock trades,...
Wednesday, March 13 / 5:00 PM Linguistics New Room South Hall, 3605 The New Sexualities Research Focus Group, in coordination with Professor Mireille Miller-Young's Feminist Studies graduate course on Queer of Color Critique, invites faculty and students to attend an open workshop on new directions in the field....
Xavier Livermon (Africana Studies, Wayne State University) Tuesday, March 12 / 4:00 PM 4631A South Hall In this talk, Xavier Livermon argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis...
Bruce Whitehouse (Anthropology, Lehigh University) Friday, March 8 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once considered a stable democracy, the country of Mali in Africa's western Sahel region experienced an army coup and the loss of its northern regions to separatist and Islamist rebels last year....
Thursday, March 7 / 4:00 PM Valerie Hansen (History, Yale) SAASB 1102C Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and...
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
Harry Reese (Studio Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 6 / 4:00 - 5:00 PM Platform Gallery (near the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB) Artist and Professor Harry Reese makes prints, artists’ books, paintings, and public art installations. Reese’s ongoing research in pattern recognition, the book form and...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 2:00 - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, “UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey”) Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the...
Thursday, February 28 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This Center for Information Technology and Society and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center symposium brings together a philosopher, activists, and artists to speak about the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles – or drones – in the world...
David Makovsky (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ghaith al-Omari (The American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 27 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for...
Christopher Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Tuesday, February 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not...
Amy Slaton (History, Drexel University) Friday, February 22 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Slaton is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line (2010) and Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. Her new book project considers...
Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis) Friday, February 22, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that...
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond) Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February...
Click here to read the official press release regarding Theater of War's performance for the IHC's series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....