Inaugural Lecture: Care of the Wild: Sense, Sentience and the ‘Primitive State’

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16 Oct

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...

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11 Oct

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...

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10 Oct

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...

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04 Oct

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...

12:34 / Upcoming Events / I.V. Live
04 Oct

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...

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02 Oct

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...

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28 Sep

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....

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27 Sep

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...

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12 Aug

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...

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19 Jun

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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19 Jun

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19 Jun

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...

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17 Jun

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...

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13 Jun

  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,...

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13 Jun

  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...

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11 Jun

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...

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11 Jun

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...

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10 Jun

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...

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10 Jun

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...

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10 Jun

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...

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05 Jun

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...

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31 May

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,...

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30 May

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...

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30 May

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...

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28 May

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...

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21 May

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...

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20 May

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. ...

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17 May

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...

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17 May

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...

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16 May

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...

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15 May

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...

14:29 / The Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Fallout: In the Aftermath of War
15 May

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,...

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11 May

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...

09:36 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
10 May

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....

10:50 / Upcoming Events
09 May

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...

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09 May

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....

10:13 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
08 May

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...

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08 May

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...

10:07 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
06 May

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...

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03 May

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....

11:57 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
03 May

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...

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03 May

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...

09:23 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
01 May

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,...

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01 May

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...

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30 Apr

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...

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26 Apr

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...

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26 Apr

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...

12:44 / Upcoming Events / IHC Research Focus Groups
18 Apr

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...

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13 Apr

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....

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12 Apr

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...

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12 Apr

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...

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04 Apr

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...

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02 Apr

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...

13:42 / Upcoming Events
07 Mar

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...

13:21 / IHC Research Focus Groups / Upcoming Events
06 Mar

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...

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28 Feb

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...

14:10 / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Fallout: In the Aftermath of War
28 Feb

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...

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22 Feb

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...

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22 Feb

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...

10:33 / Series / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Fallout: In the Aftermath of War
22 Feb

Call for Nominations

The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, on behalf of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts and the Graduate Division, is now accepting applications for the UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities program, now in its fourth year.
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