Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) Friday, May 11 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB In the early 1960s, at the height of the Cold War in Africa, Ghana’s president Kwame Nkrumah launched the Volta River Project which included a hydroelectric dam at Akosombo and an aluminum smelter, operated by...
Friday-Saturday, May 11-12 SRB Multipurpose Room The Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative and the Center for Literature and the Environment will host an innovative event that invites participants to make meaning across fluid boundaries of theory, praxis, social justice movements, disciplinary knowledge, and affective response. ::Bodies in...
Laurel Beckmen (Art, UCSB) Rita Ferri (Visual Arts Coordinator, Santa Barbara County Arts Commission) Colin Gray (local artist) Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Thursday, May 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Something happens when art goes public. Cultural interventions in spaces designated as belonging to the public are...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:15 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) María Herrera-Sobek, Ph.D. (Associate Vice...
Andrew Lih (Communication, USC ) Tuesday, May 8, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2010, the British Museum made the remarkable step of having a "Wikipedian in Residence" to coordinate collaboration between grassroots community encyclopedia editors and expert curators in London. Since...
Kum-Kum Bhavnani (Sociology, UCSB) Holly Unruh (Associate Director, UCIRA) Jai Ranganathan (NCEAS) Jarrett Byrnes ( NCEAS) Monday, May 7 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Can academics raise money for their research by convincing members of the public to open their wallets for small...
Saturday, May 5 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference, which has been designed to refocus the study of religion in 19th century America into less institution-based areas of study, brings together former students of Catherine Albanese (Religious Studies, UCSB) to present scholarship that...
MLF presents: CHRONICLE Friday, May 4 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, May 7 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Patricia Fumerton (English, UCSB) Ann Rosalind Jones (Comparative Literature, Smith College) Julia Reinhard Lupton (English, UC Irvine) Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, May 4, 2012 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium will contribute to the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center's "Public Goods"...
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Friday, May 4 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Working within a conversation analytic framework, this presentation analyzes the use and function of 'oh' in conversational German and compares it to 'ach/achso' in German and 'oh' in English. The...
Paul Pierson (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 4 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Pierson is the author, with Jacob Hacker, of Winner-Take-All Politics: How Washington Made the Rich Richer - and Turned its Back on the Middle Class (2010). Sponsored by the Colloquium on Work, Labor,...
Yolanda Covington-Ward (African Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday, May 2 / 4:00 PM North Hall, Room 1006 On April 6, 1921, a MuKongo man by the name of Simon Kimbangu laid his hands on a sick woman in the name of Jesus Christ, prayed, and began to tremble. ...
Please join us Tuesday, May 22 at 3:00 PM in 6020 HSSB for a report on "The Uses of the University in 2050" faculty charrette, which took place February 23-26 at UCSB. Click here for more information. ...
Sarah J. Townsend (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Monday, April 30 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the course of several years beginning in 1933, a character called Troka el Poderoso (Troka the Powerful) regaled young listeners of XFX, the official radio station of Mexico’s Secretariat...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building What can we learn about Vaisnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture focused on the...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can we learn about Vaishnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture will focus on the multivalent dimensions...
Alfred MacAdam (Barnard College, Columbia University) Tuesday, February 21 / 3:30 Phelps 4312 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. Prof. Alfred MacAdam, distinguished scholar and translator of Latin American literature, whose books include Dreams of Reason: Modern Latin American Narratives (Chicago UP), will...
Keynote speaker: Teofilo F. Ruiz (History, UCLA) Saturday, April 28 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 A universal human constant, fear of the unknown transcends time, place, and culture; making the concept ripe for interdisciplinary analysis. Fear of death, the afterlife, and other cultures, religions, and traditions appear in...
The Lady Vanishes Friday, Apr 27 / 7:00 PM Vertigo Friday, Apr 27 / 10:00 PM Monday, Apr 30 / 10:00 PM Free cake and ice cream in honor of Magic Lanterns 8th birthday! Isla Vista Theater $4 Admission...
Keynote Speaker: Lisa Bitel (History and Religion, University of Southern California) Friday, April 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This two day event will explore the ways in which community is defined through the production and reception of visual art. The symposium will begin with...
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Ninian Smart Memorial Lecture Thursday, April 26 / 5:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Hawley provided a critical assessment of the “bhakti movement” trope as a bifocal, multilayered notion that draws on...
Isaiah Walker (Brigham Young University- Hawaii ) Wednesday, April 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Surfing has been a significant sport and cultural practice in Hawaii for more than 1,500 years. In the last century, facing increased marginalization on land, many Native Hawaiians have found...
Robert McRuer (English, George Washington University) Monday, April 23 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater McRuer is known for being the catalyst behind bringing queer studies and disability studies into productive conversation. In this presentation, he considers the ways in which disability is situated at the center of...
MLF presents: The Big Lebowski Friday, Apr 20 at 7 & Monday, Apr 23 at 10 PM Reefer Madness Friday, Apr 20 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Kathleen Woodward (English, University of Washington) Friday, April 20 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A hyper–keyword in contemporary American culture, risk pervades the discourse of entrepreneurial culture and finance capitalism on the one hand (risk–taking to reap off–scale financial reward is applauded) as...
Marianne Sharp (Performing Arts, University of Winchester) Thursday, April 19 / 3:45 PM TD 2517 This talk offers a detailed analysis of the voice and body work of renowned British/Irish stage actress Fiona Shaw (better known internationally as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films) in...
Meredith McGill (English, Rutgers University) Oren Bracha (Law, University of Texas) Moderator: Mark Rose (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Two eminent historians of copyright will discuss the transformation of American copyright law from the very limited regime of the early...
Yehuda Bauer (Academic Advisor, Yad Vashem) Thursday, April 19 / 8:00 p.m. Campbell Hall Holocaust Remembrance Week Inaugural Event What do we mean by “genocide”? Why are humans the only living creatures that kill their own kind in huge numbers? What place does the Holocaust occupy...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk examines the contemporary ritual practices of fans who worship film stars as gods. Focusing on public display of devotee-fan worship of South Indian film star Rajinikanth in India, and...
Jessica L. Ambler (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 18 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Roman rebuilding of Carthage as Colonia Concordia Iulia Karthago in the early first century CE has typically been described by scholars as an act of Roman hegemony, wiping...
Ashraf Zahedi (Land of the Unconquerable: The Lives of Contemporary Afghan Women) Tuesday, April 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Afghan women and youth have been on the forefront of change and have drawn on all forms of publicity to create a favorable...
MLF presents: THE GREY Friday, Apr 13 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 16 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Keynote Speaker: Seana Coulson (University of California San Diego) Saturday, April 14 / 9:00 AM 3605 South Hall The inaugural Cognition and Language Workshop (CLaW) is a conference dedicated to the relationship between language and cognition, featuring talks approaching the cognition of language from empirical data-driven perspectives....
Julia Panko (English, UCSB, UC Graduate Fellow in Humanities) Friday, April 13 / 3:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB “The whole [reading] device weighs little more than five ounces [and] ...
Friday, April 13 / 3:00 - 5:30 PM Saturday, April 14 / 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote address Bradley Parker (University of Utah) The third biennial graduate student conference on Ancient Borderlands brings together young scholars from around the world to discuss cultural,...
Annie Leonard (The Story of Stuff, Regents' Lecturer in Film and Media Studies ) Thursday, April 12, 2012 / 7:30 PM Pollock Theater When Annie Leonard released The Story of Stuff film, she had no idea that her message would resonate so widely. Since its launch in 2007, the...
Kembrew McLeod (Communication Studies, University of Iowa) Tuesday, April 10, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on the tactics that have been used by hacktivists and other “copyfighters” to resist the expansion of intellectual property laws. Drawing from personal...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...
Barbara Harthorn (Feminist Studies, UCSB ) Mike Goodchild (Geography, UCSB) Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Tuesday, April 10 / 11:45 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Developing an effective interdisciplinary collaborative project involves more time, resources, management, and communication than the average research program. This panel offers strategies for...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB Music, Theater & Dance) and Carol Press (UCSB Theater & Dance) Monday, April 9 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Creative processes and creativity in interdisciplinary performance-making and educational contexts provide the focus for this session. Grounded in a principle of the profound...
Richard Bauman (Communication & Culture, Indiana University) Friday, April 6 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Country people have stood as the domestic Other within contemporary society, providing embodied figurations of what modern people are not—or, in some inflections, are no longer. In this talk, I...
MLF presents: THE ARTIST Friday, Apr 6 at 7&10 PM Monday, Apr 9 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Sébastien Peyrouse (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, April 6 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...
Winter 2011-2012 Friday, October 14 (12pm, HSSB 4041) Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) "Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410 Friday, October 14 (3pm in TBA) Emily Gowers (Cambridge) Saturday, October 15 (9:15-4 in HSSB 6020) Multi-Campus Research Group Meeting Monday, October 17 (5pm, HSSB 6020) Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) "The...
Sandy Prita Meier (Art History, Wayne State University) Thursday, April 5 / 5:00 PM HSSB 1174 Located at the crossroads of Africa and the Indian Ocean, the port cities of the Swahili coast have been nodes of global connectivity for over two millennia. Beginning in the...
Professor Vincent Pecora (English, University of Utah) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Vincent P. Pecora is the author of Self and Form in Modern Narrative (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1989), Households of the Soul (Johns Hopkins University Press, 1997), Secularization...
Marlene Laruelle (International Affairs, George Washington University) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Marlene Laruelle is a specialist in the politics and history of Russia and Eurasia. She is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian...
Thursday, April 5 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Sister Spit is a rotating collection of artists spanning from film directors, poets, novelists, performance artists, comic book writes, to thespians, who have been touring annually since 1997. This event will include performances by Michelle Tea, Kit...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Jude Mikal (IHC) Wednesday, April 4 / 12:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use our...
John Adams (Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK) Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 / 3:00 PM HSSB 2001a To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development...
MLF presents: SHAME A film by Steve McQueen Friday, Mar 16 at 7&10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Kenneth Frampton (Architecture, Columbia University, author of Modern Architecture: A Critical History) Friday, March 16 / 6:00 PM Loma Pelona Center Throughout the developed world, the proliferation of urbanized regions, as opposed to historic cities, has led to a state of affairs in which the practice of...
Friday-Saturday, March 16-17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Early Modern Center of the University of California at Santa Barbara is hosting our eleventh annual conference, “Early Modern Social Networks, 1500-1800.” The conference will take place on March 16-17, 2012 at UCSB and...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar investigated the ways...
Shalini Kakar, (Art History, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm IHC Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB This presentation explores the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar will investigate the ways in which...
Heather Stoll (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry, from immigration to expansions in the franchise, shape political competition? More specifically, when are new social groups successful at forming their...
Harold Meyerson (columnist for the Washington Post and editor of American Prospect) March 10 / 9:30 AM 4041 HSSB Meyerson is executive editor of the American Prospect as well as a member of the editorial board of Dissent. From 1989 to 2001, he was executive editor of the...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, Mar 9 / 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, Mar 12 / 10 PM...
Wednesday, March 7 & 14, 2012 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlights the work of graduate students in Dr. Mireille Miller-Young’s Global Sex Work and Economies of Desire seminar. Drawing from critical sexualities studies frameworks, UCSB...
Wednesday, March 7 / 4:00-8:00 PM Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00-8:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The goal of this symposium is to create a wider venue for discussion about sexuality research. Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlight the work of graduate...
Friday-Saturday, March 2-3/ 8:30 AM Loma Pelona Center This international conference provides a fundamental assessment of Iran’s experience with constitutionalism. This gathering of constitutional lawyers, academics, and journalists will serve as a forum for an in-depth, critical examination of the past and current Iranian constitutions, and...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, Mar 2 / 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, Mar 5 / 10 PM...
Jessica Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Peter Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Friday, March 2 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 What is the nature of communicating for someone about something –...
Professor Steven Friesen's talk, "Violence, Holy War, and the Book of Revelation: Zižek and John, Together at Last", originally scheduled for February 10, has been canceled until further notice. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) Thursday, March 1 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For over forty years, "Looking Glass" was the nickname of the Airborne Command Post--an essential element in the command and control of the Strategic Air Command's forces. This made-for-TV docudrama is a fictionalized...
Thursday-Friday, March 1-2, 2012 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The world is experiencing concurrent environmental and socio-economic crises that put dominant models of management and governance into question. A global economy organized around principles of market freedom and individual benefit drives accumulation by...
Professor Alfred MacAdam's seminar "The 'Closelaborations' of Borges and Bioy Casares", originally scheduled for February 21, has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
E. Ann Kaplan (English, Stony Brook University) Monday, February 27 / 4:00 PM This paper, part of an ongoing book project, builds on Kaplan’s 2005 Trauma Culture to argue that along with theorizing memories of past atrocities, we need also to explore a select form of...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Muppets Friday, Feb 24 at 7&10 PM Monday, Feb 27 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB, Department of Music) Friday, February 24 / 5:00 PM 6056 HSSB, IHC Research Seminar Room In this informal gathering we continue to debate issues concerning the notion of “performance studies” and its efficacy in enabling provocations, understandings, and actions. Picking up themes and...
Wang Haicheng (Art, University of Washington) Friday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second...
Thursday-Friday, February 23-24 McCune Conferenc Room, 6020 HSSB Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni Center Every year UNESCO observes the International Mother Language Day on February 21st, in remembrance of the students that died in Dhaka (Bangladesh) during the Bengali Language Movement protests in 1952. UCSB's Spanish and Portuguese...
Bradley Simpson (History, Princeton University) Thursday, February 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 During the Cold War countless peoples and movements in both the decolonizing world and the advanced industrial states mobilized under the banner of self-determination, and sought to institutionalize its status as a human...
Tuesday-Wednesday, February 21-22 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the interactions and points of contact between the different cultural and linguistic zones that make up the Caribbean region, in support of a less insular, more archipelagic sense of Caribbean culture. Contemporary Caribbean cultures are, as...
Donald Molosi (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, February 18 / 7:00 PM Theater and Dance, Studio Theater "Blue, Black and White," written and performed by Donald Molosi, is an enchanting humanist story about Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw...
Magic lantern Films Present: Melancholia A Film by Lars von Trier IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 17 at 7 pm & 10 pm...
Keith Murphy (Anthropology, UC Irvine) Friday, February 17 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 In this presentation, which stems from an ongoing project with colleagues in Sweden, Murphy will explore the use of analogical reasoning as a means for identifying problems in architectural critique interactions. He will focus in...
Richard White (History, Stanford University) Friday, February 17 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB White is the author of The Middle Ground: Indians, Empires, and Republics in the Great Lakes Region, 1650-1815, "It's Your Misfortune and None of my Own": A History of the American West, Remembering...
Friday, February 17 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will bring together a number of scholars whose research focuses on the Chicano Movement of the 1960s and 1970s, the most significant civil rights protest movement by Mexican Americans in the U.S. The...
Yaba Badoe (director) Thursday, February 16 / 5:00 PM 1701 Theater & Dance West The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of five years, this disturbing expose is the product...
Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan and Davis Center, Harvard University) Thursday, February 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Social mobilization of ethnic groups represents an issue of widespread interest for historians and political scientists. The presentation examines the social movements of Russian speakers in Estonia and Moldova,...
Mark Rosheim (author, Leonardo's Lost Robots) Carlo Pedretti (Art History, UCLA) Sara Taglialagamba (Art History, UCLA) Thursday, February 16 / 11:00 AM Embarcadero Hall A discussion among three outstanding experts on the work of Leonardo da Vinci. Mark Rosheim is a mechanical engineer and author of...
Greg Anderson (History, Ohio State University) Josiah Ober (Classics & Political Science, Stanford) Glenn Patten (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Classical structures (such as the polis) and ideas (such as koinonia) are frequently invoked in discussions of the...
David Makovsky (Director, the Project on the Middle East Peace Process) Ghaith al-Omari (Executive Director, the American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 15 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall The Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB Fifteenth Anniversary...
(Michael Moore, 2009, 127 min.) Tuesday, February 14, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The IHC celebrates Valentine’s Day with a screening of Moore’s scathing film, which examines the impact of corporate dominance on the everyday lives of Americans and asks the question:...
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, UT Austin) Friday, February 10 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4020 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. The UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in New Testament. Steven Friesen holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has also taught at the University of...
Magic lantern Films Present: Puss in Boots IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 10 at 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, Feb 13 at 10 pm...
Thursday-Saturday, February 9-11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference examines the past, present, and future of feminist studies as a field of academic inquiry that is interdisciplinary, transnational, and intersectional. Drawing together former holders of the UCSB Pre-Doctoral Fellowship in Women's Studies with current faculty,...
Mario Carretero (Psychology, Universidad Autonoma, Madrid/Flasco, Buenos Aires) Thursday, February 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Memory construction and national identity are key issues for societies. How can we believe and give sense to traditional narratives that explain the origins of nations...
Renee Chow (Environmental Design, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 7, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Until the middle of the twentieth century, Chinese urban living revolved around courtyards. Whether for housing or retail, administration or religion, imperial family or peasant, every day activities...
Ron Hassner (Political Science, UC Berkeley) Monday, February 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar Holy places create the potential for military, theological, or political clashes, as evidenced by the ongoing struggle over Jerusalem. Drawing on his recent book, War on Sacred Grounds, Ron...
Christine Echeverria Bender (author) Monday, February 6 / 10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Christine Echeverria Bender, a Basque-American writer of historical fiction is coming to UCSB to talk about the artistry and the research that she mixes in her novels. These are tales of...
Magic lantern Films Present: Like Crazy IV Theater Only $4 Friday, Feb 3 at 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, Feb 6 at 10 pm...
Keynote Speakers: Michael Kazin (History, Georgetown University) Tom Hayden (principal author of the Port Huron Statement, political activist) Thursday-Friday, February 2-3, 2012 Corwin Pavilion and McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The 1962 Port Huron Statement was the most important manifesto of the early New Left. This conference brings together...
Thursday, February 2 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 Building on the foundation of previous meetings of the 4Humanities@UCSB Research Focus Group devoted to "reframing" public discourse about the humanities, this meeting led by Alan Liu will include a discussion of principles for an overall humanities advocacy...
Jessica Ambler (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Saturday, January 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, UCSB The Ancient Borderlands Winter MRG Meeting will be comprised of small group discussions based on circulated readings as well as providing an opportunity for MRG members to share...
Bradley Parker (History, University of Utah) Friday, January 27 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the...
Magic lantern Films Present: Sons of Norway Fri Jan 27 at 7 and 10 PM. FREE The Black Power Mix Tape 1967-1975 Mon Jan 30 / 10 PM. FREE...
Carlos Morton (Theater & Dance, UCSB) Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Friday, January 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB La Malinche: a play by Carlos Morton; Q&A with the playwright, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco One woman, known as Malinche, Malintzin and Doña...
Eric Arnesen (History, George Washington University) Friday, January 27 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Arnesen offers a provocative talk on the relationship between the idea of a “long civil rights movement” and the historiographical reappraisal of the role played by the Communist Party in post World...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, January 25 / 3:00 PM 2208 North Hall Barbara L.E. Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities, and Fine Arts will present information about current funding sources for diversity research (research on diversity, multiculturalism, gender, race, LGBT topics) and...
Mark Hall (director) Peter Alagona (History, UCSB) ann-elise Lewallen ( EALCS, UCSB) Mike McGinnis (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, January 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sushi, a cuisine formerly found only in Japan, has grown exponentially in other nations, and an industry has been created to...
Dara Horn (author of In the Image, The World to Come, and All Other Nights) Monday, January 23 / 7:30 PM Congregation B’nai B’rith 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Award-winning novelist Dara Horn will discuss the challenges and opportunities facing American Jewish writers, and will share many adventures from...
Saturday, January 21, 2012 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This colloquium will address ideas about the Common Good and the actual realities of political, economic, and social life in the polities of Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy. This was an...