Ryan Skinner (Music and African American & African Studies, Ohio State University) Friday, June 1, 2012 / 4:00 PM The Orfalea Center Seminar Room 1005 Robertson Gym (detached office wing in front of main Ocean Road entrance) In Mali today, appeals to confront the “scourge” (fléau) of music piracy and affirm...
Hubertus Kohle (Professor and Chair, History of Early Modern and Modern Art Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität Munich) Wednesday, May 30, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB Professor Kohle is renewing the time-honored “République des lettres” in a modern guise. Renowned for his work in digital art...
(Mark Achbar & Jennifer Abbott, 2003, 145 min.) Thursday, May 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this acclaimed documentary, forty corporate insiders and critics -- including Michael Moore, Noam Chomsky, Naomi Klein and Milton Friedman -- explore the nature and spectacular rise of...
Ann Bermingham (History of Art, UCSB) Catherine Cole (Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, May 22, 2012 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From February 23-26, 2012 colleagues from throughout the UC system converged at UC Santa Barbara to discuss the future of the University of...
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...
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...
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"...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
(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:...
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...
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...
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...
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...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Thursday, January 19, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice, from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography and that the equitable distribution of resources, services, and...
Sharon Farmer (History, UCSB) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, January 17, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Contrary to conventional wisdom, the notion of welfare as a public good has a venerated--if highly contested--history, and has found valence in many different cultures,...
Peter Van Wyck (Media Studies, Concordia University of Montreal) Andrew Lakoff (Anthropology, Sociology & Communications, University of Southern California) Friday, January 13, 2012 / 2:00 PM Catastrophic events produce radical uncertainty. The temporality of such events varies: they could be sudden, unexpected, but ever-possible (e.g. natural...
Introduction by Mark Rose (English, UCSB) Tuesday, November 29, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB It’s a Wonderful Life (1946) with its dramatic opposition between the rapacious banker Old Man Potter (Lionel Barrymore) and the benevolent George Bailey (James Stewart) remains an allegory...
Rob Nixon (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, November 18, 2011 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The violence wrought by climate change, toxic drift, deforestation, oil spills, and the environmental aftermath of war takes place gradually and often invisibly. Using the innovative concept of "slow violence"...
Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Alice O'Connor (History, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From Beirut to Cairo to Tunis, the Arab Spring has played out in public space in ways that...
Tara McPherson (USC, School of Cinematic Arts) Wednesday, November 9, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a belated recognition of Open Access Week (October 24-30), Tara McPherson, strong advocate and practitioner of open access publishing and explorer of innovative interdisciplinary digital scholarship, will share...
Rick Perlstein (journalist, author of Nixonland) Saturday, November 5, 2011 / 9:30 AM – 4 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Application deadline: Monday, October 10 As part of its yearlong “Public Goods” series, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UCSB invites interested faculty and other members...
Mary Robinson (Former President of Ireland) Friday, October 21, 2011/ 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 Mary Robinson, the first woman President of Ireland and former United Nations High Commissioner for Human Rights, has spent most of her life as a human...
Michael Madsen (film director, conceptual artist) Tuesday, October 18, 2011 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Madsen will talk about his own film, Into Eternity, and other media projects that engage questions of nuclear energy and security. Sponsored by the Critical Issues in America Series Speculative...
Monday, October 17, 2011 / 7:30 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $6 general / students free The mind-bending film explores the utter impossibility of storing nuclear waste for 100,000 years, the time estimated by scientists to render it safe. Especially relevant since the earthquake and crisis at the nuclear...
Wolf Kittler (Germanic, Slavic & Semitic Studies, UCSB) Colin Milburn (English,UCD) Friday, October 14, 2011 / 2:00-6:00 pm Wallis Annenberg conference room, SSMS 4315 Serving as an introduction to programs on Speculative Futures (the Critical Issues in America theme for 2011-2), the talks offer both history and post-mortem: the...
Salman Khan (founder of the Khan Academy) Monday, October 10, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Admission: $20 / UCSB Students $10 A hedge-fund manager turned internet superstar, Sal Khan is the founder of the Khan Academy, a free online educational platform and not-for-profit organization that streams educational lessons...