The IHC’s 2024-25 public events series will explore Key Passages: processes of transition and experiences of transformation—historical events, social movements, global dislocations, and journeys undertaken—that have altered thought, shifted cultural paradigms, or sparked other forms of consequential change. The series will also examine temporal passages,...
Joshua Dubler (Religion, University of Rochester) Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Joshua Dubler takes stock of the current critical discourses around mass incarceration and argues that if you are not yet a prison abolitionist there is...
Jacqueline (Jac) Gares (Director) CeCe McDonald (Activist, Prison Reform Advocate) Lal Zimman (Linguistics, UCSB) Wednesday, May 10, 2017/7:0o0 PM Pollock Theater In 2011 CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. Her story inspired an international movement advocating for her freedom, and since...
Weavers: Jennifer Bates Lois Bohna Linda Yamane Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Three Native American basketweavers will discuss the role that weaving plays in each of their communities. The basketweavers will also weave in their traditional style, showcasing each of their designs and techniques. Jennifer Bates...
Jenni Sorkin (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)* Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 * This event has been cancelled. Ceramics has been a marginal practice within the history of postwar art. But embedded in a discourse of experimentation with materials,...
Julie Eizenberg (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Hank Koning (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Thursday, April 20, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighborhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region in Urban Hallucinations. They bring...
Miranda Joseph (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk begins with a review of the extensive critiques of community offered by Joseph and other scholars of critical and cultural theory. While earlier analyses...
Nathan Schneider (Media Studies, University of Colorado - Boulder) Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What motivates people and mobilizes them to create change? In 2011, people in countries around the world rose up against their governments and economic systems,...
Donna Orange (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Tuesday, March 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking about community, badly needed, is in short supply in current public discourse. We will step back here to consider what meanings community might bring...
Jessica Benjamin (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Thursday, February 23, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk Benjamin brings together her psychoanalytic theory of the Third together with her experience with dialogue in the Middle East and with colleagues involved...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edina Lekovic (Director of Policy & Programming, Muslim Public Affairs Council) Yasmin Sallak (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB) Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media, UCSB) Sherene Seikaly (History, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath...
Margaret Malamud (S.P and Margaret Manasse Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Excluded from most schools, enterprising free black women and men in northern urban African American communities established their...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) and members of the Civic Imagination Project research team Friday, February 3, 2017 / 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Transmedia worldbuilding is an approach to creative collaboration in which practitioners build on shared values...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Henry Jenkins's 2006 book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collides ended with the speculation that we were acquiring skills through play that would soon...
Friday, January 27, 2017 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1960, dancer-choreographer and social activist Anna Halprin taught a revolutionary workshop on her open-air dance deck located on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais north of San Francisco. A natural environment...
Katherine Steele Brokaw (UC Merced) Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How does Shakespeare make different kinds of meaning in various local communities? And how can amateur theatre be a form of community engagement for drama and Shakespeare scholars? This talk will...
Thursday, December 1, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library (Special Research Collections, 3rd Floor, Mountain Side) A new UCSB Library exhibition in its Special Research Collections will explore the political, cultural, and social struggles of Isla Vista to become an independent, cohesive community, from 1970 to the...
Wu Wenguang (Director, Investigating My Father) Zhang Ping, Liu Xiaolei, Zhang Mengai (Members of The Memory Priject) Moderator: Michael Berry (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCLA) Saturday November 19, 2016 / 2:00pm-5:15pm The Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve...
Harry Boyte (Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College) Thursday, November 17, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the midst of enormous external pressures to narrow or eliminate the public purposes of higher education, how can educators become agents of constructive, democratizing...
Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater A social justice approach to building campus community encourages activism. What does it look like to have an inclusive university invested in just community values on and off...
UCSB students: Zenzile Riddick Katie Walker Jonathan Gomez Jasmine Kelekay Moderators: Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How best might our academic experiences at UCSB be both guided and deepened...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections On November 8, Isla Vista residents will take part in an historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community. With ballot initiatives E and F, they will...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / 10:00 AM-12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this workshop, Laura Browder will draw on her sixteen years of creating documentary dramas and museum exhibitions through university-community partnerships to address participants’ questions. These might include...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Tuesday, October 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2013, Laura Browder was commissioned by the city of Richmond to produce a piece for the RVA Street Art Festival, a four-day festival housed in the disused bus...
Anne H. Charity Hudley (Linguistics, The College of William and Mary) Friday, October 14, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Community-based participatory research (CBPR) empowers community members to fully participate in research from idea conception to interpretation and presentation of findings....
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Barbara Tomlinson (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is a university and why does the work we do here matter? What is the relationship between what goes on in our classrooms, studios and laboratories...
Karl Jacoby (History, Columbia University) Members of the Ellis family Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB, translator of Tides) Jorge Luis Castillo (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Professors Suzanne Jill Levine and Jorge Luis Castillo will present a bilingual reading of Tides, Levine’s translation...
Thursday, May 26, 2016 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB student veterans will present original writings on topics relating to their diverse military experiences, including their reasons for enlisting, their deployments, homecomings, and return to the civilian community. There will be time for questions...
Peter Leese (Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen) Thursday, May 19, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB One of the earliest definitions of historical trauma studies is Mark Micale and Paul Lerner’s edited collection Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in...
Gabrielle Starr (English, New York University, author of Feeling Beauty) Friday, May 13, 2016 / 10:45 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk is the Keynote Address for the IHC Conference The Humanities, the Neurosciences, and the Brain. Gabrielle Starr is a scholar of eighteenth-century British literature...
Thursday-Friday, May 12-13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. This interdisciplinary conference will explore the multiple accords, and discords, that characterize humanistic and neuroscientific approaches to the study of the brain. Gabrielle Starr, author...
Julie Carlson, English, UCSB: Moderator Cole Cohen, IHC, UCSB Aranye Fradenburg, English, UCSB Dominique Jullien, French and Italian, UCSB Mark Leffert, M.D., Santa Barbara Jonathan Schooler, Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB Ann Taves, Religious Studies, UCSB Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel seeks to celebrate...
Alva Noë (Philosophy, UC Berkeley) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is art? Why is it so important? What does it tell us about ourselves? These days it is tempting to look to neuroscience for answers to these questions....
Laura Otis (English, Emory University) Thursday, April 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Some emotions are hard to love: spite, self-pity, and hatred among them. Metaphors used to represent these obnoxious urges combine bodily experiences with cultural beliefs. In a tradition stretching from The...
Deborah Jenson (Romance Studies, Global Health, Duke University) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the Old Testament injunction “You shall not make to yourselves any graven image, or any likeness of anything” (Exodus 20:4) to Plato’s parable of the...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Thursday, April 14, 2016 /4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Now happily entrenched at UCSB, Rick Benjamin has also taught at Brown University, the Rhode Island School of Design, Goddard College, Haverford College, Haystack, New Urban Arts, as...
dir. Peter Landesman, 123 min. Q&A with Dr. David A. Hovda, Director of the UCLA Brain Injury Research Center Wednesday, April 13, 2016 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. While conducting an autopsy on former NFL...
Jaak Panksepp (Professor and Baily Endowed Chair of Animal Well-Being Science, Washington State University ) Kay Young (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In his talk, "Addicted to Emotion: How Affective Neuroscience Sheds Light on the Brain Sources...
Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement,IHC) Thursday, April 7, 2016 / 3:30-5:00 PM UCSB Art, Design & Architecture Museum In this poetry workshop, led by Rick Benjamin in celebration of National Poetry Month, we will talk and write toward surfacing truths in the geological, historical, cultural and/or...
Pierre Cassou-Noguès (Philosophy, University of Paris XIII) Tuesday, April 5, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Belgian writer Jean-Philippe Toussaint recently displayed at the museum Le Louvre in Paris a machine for reading thoughts. It looked like a shower cabin, connected to a TV...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Annie Torsiglieri (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, March 12, 2016 / 7:30 PM Studio Theater, UCSB FREE When Amy learns that one of her young twins is autistic, she...
Bruce L. Miller (Memory and Aging Center, UC San Francisco) Thursday, March 3, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB While many physical and mental conditions decline with time, creativity is one characteristic that has been observed to improve, both in healthy elders and people with...
Laurel Beckman (Art, UCSB) Maya Gurantz (Visiting Lecturer, Art, UCSB) Thursday, February 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Inherent in video art is the uncanny ability to manifest and express the unseen and partially known. Nowhere is this more apparent than in...
John D. Dunne (Center for Investigating Healthy Minds, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, February 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the last two decades, some of the most influential scientific studies of meditation have examined practices derived from Buddhism, and the success of...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, February 11, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Fradenburg will discuss the importance of expression and interpretation -- of embodied meaning-making -- in autopoietic activity generally, and will focus on the particular example of the sigh as a form of...
Gesa Kirsch (English, Bentley University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, February 4, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Gesa Kirsch will examine how the brain has been socially constructed as both metaphor and anatomy in medical history. Specifically, she investigates the ways...
Moderator: John Hajda (Associate Director, SAGE Center) Participants: Julie Carlson (English, UCSB) Scott Grafton (Psychological and Brain Sciences, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, January 28, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join UCSB faculty members in dialogue about their current...
Wednesday, January 27, 2016 / 7:00 PM Panelists will include: Donna Beal (MPH, MCHES, Vice President of Program Services and Advocacy, Alzheimer's Association California Central Chapter) Patricia Cline Cohen (History, UCSB) Kenneth Kosik (Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Gwen Morse (Ph.D., R.N.) Moderator: Laury Oaks (Feminist Studies, UCSB) UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is...
Agustin Fuentes (Anthropology, Notre Dame) Thursday, January 21, 2106 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human evolutionary history is ongoing, human creativity is expanding, and human populations continue to grow. Getting a handle on “the human” in the Anthropocene is no easy matter. Inter, or even...
Seth Horowitz (The Listening Program) Thursday, January 14, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We build the world from our senses. We see color and form, hear sound and vibration, feel temperature and texture, each sense taking a specific form of energy to...
Megan Carney (Social Sciences, University of Washington, Seattle) Tuesday, January 12, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB How does the experience of hunger and food insecurity contribute to the uneven distribution of life chances across borders? What are the conditions displacing increasing numbers of...
Anjan Chatterjee (Neuroscience, University of Pennsylvania) Thursday, November 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can neuroscience possibly tell us about aesthetics and art? In this talk, Anjan Chatterjee will offer a framework from which a neuroscientist might deconstruct aesthetic experiences. Chatterjee will discuss findings...
Kenneth S. Kosik (The Neuroscience Research Institute, UCSB) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human interactions are finely calibrated and many of these interactions are prosocial, that is a social behavior that benefits other individuals or a larger group. The repertoire of...
Q&A with director Jeff Malmberg Wednesday, November 4, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required. Visit this page for reservations: http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock Marwencol is a feature documentary about the fantasy world of Mark Hogancamp. A violent attack outside a Kingston, NY bar in...
Rebecca Seligman (Anthropology, Northwestern University) Thursday, October 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Increasing evidence suggests the importance of meaning in conditioning bodily experiences and outcomes. This talk will explore the relationship between meaning and the body, with particular focus on the neurobiological...
Ann Taves (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ecstasy, an experience that is widely discussed in the humanities and sought after in the general culture, illuminates many of the difficulties involved in linking research in the humanities...
Thursday, October 8, 2015 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Humanities and the Brain. Find out...
John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) Thursday, June 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is...
Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) David Lea (Geology, USCB) Christopher Walker (English, UCSB) Thursday May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune...
Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB This talk will explore how, since around 1800, literature has offered imaginative ways of relating to the lithosphere beyond extraction and other destructive petrofictions. First coined in 1992 by Amitav Ghosh...
Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC Davis) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Embracing both genetically-improved seed and ecologically-based farming methods, Pamela Ronald aims to enhance sustainable agriculture. In this talk, she asserts that genetic improvement is a critical component of...
Participants: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) Dr. Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC-Davis Moderator: Paul Voosen Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall FREE A key factor in discussions about how best to feed the world’s growing population and...
SCREENING: Merchants of Doubt Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required: visit this page for reservations. CONFERENCE: Sustainable Science Communication: Content, Audience, Media, and Impact Thursday, May 14 2015 / 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Featured...
Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively...
Harold Abramowitz (Blind Spot) Amanda Ackerman (The Book of Feral Flora) Michelle Detorie (After-Cave) Thursday, April 30, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Three Southern California poets will read their work and discuss how the profound instability of the natural world informs...
Ursula Heise (English, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA) Thursday, April 23, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the early twenty-first century, the majority of the global human population lives in cities. Future population growth will occur mostly in cities. This shift challenges...
Jon Mooallem (journalist, author of Wild Ones) Thursday, April 16, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a weakened black bear that had been tied to a tree by his hunting...
Q&A with director Todd Darling Tuesday, April 14 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Occupy the Farm captures an intense conflict in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution (UC Berkeley) in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming. From preparing...
Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Amazon rainforest of Brazil is cut down to create cattle pastures and agricultural fields. Deforestation brings profit, but it is also linked to deeply held ideals of development and progress...
Oliver A. Ryder (Director of the Frozen Zoo project and Kleberg Chair at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The time in which we currently live has been described as the sixth great episode...
Q&A with director Louis Psihoyos Thursday, March 12, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event...
Lydia Davis (translator of Swann’s Way and author of Can’t and Won’t) Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence will be Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis. Davis will read from her latest collection of stories, Can't and...
Richard Widick (scholar/filmmaker) Thursday, February 26 , 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2015 in Paris, the United Nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty, envisioned to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 as the world's leading collective response to global...
Gabrielle Hecht (History, University of Michigan) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 9:30 am Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room The Anthropocene has become a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that...
Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Dir. David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, 56 min. Special guest: Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission: $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. From the Big Bang...
Erik M. Conway (historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In their new book, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explore the coming of the Penumbra, the shadow of...
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...
dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...
Peter Barnes (entrepreneur, journalist, author) Tuesday, November 18 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future....
Facilitated by the 2013-14 IHC GAP scholars Tuesday, June 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This year at the IHC, more than fifty writers, architects, artists, historians, poets, literary critics, psychologists, anthropologists, sociologists and preachers have addressed the value of care as it...
Dr. Maria Yellow Horse Brave Heart (Psychiatry, University of New Mexico) Friday, May 23, 2014 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Registration is required for this workshop. Please register at http://tinyurl.com/reg-histtr-2014 to receive the preparatory readings. Under colonial occupation, Native communities across the Americas endured devastating...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Stephanie Batiste (Black Studies & English, UCSB) "Trauma & Transcendence in Rickerby Hinds' Dreamscape" Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History, UCSB) "The Making of a Multiethnic Society in Mexican Borderlands" Thursday, May 15, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this panel, UCSB’s recipients of the 2013-14...
Friday, May 9, 2014 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB 10:00 AM-5:30 PM Arriving on the scene of accidents and emergencies, first responders provide assistance to the wounded, initiating a continuum of care that was first systematized by French military surgeons during the Napoleonic Wars. This conference seeks to...
John Hamilton (Comparative Literature, Harvard, author of Security: Politics, Humanity, and the Philology of Care) Thursday, April 24, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Modern notions of political, legal, and corporate representation may be derived from the ancient figure of the procurator, whose role...
William S. Sax (Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University) Wednesday, April 23, 2014 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he...
Gary Shteyngart (author, Super Sad True Love Story, Little Failure) Thursday, April 10 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall, UCSB FREE UC Santa Barbara is pleased to welcome Gary Shteyngart as the inaugural Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence. He will read selections from latest book, Little Failure: A...
Sasha Abramsky (journalist) Thursday, April 3, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sasha Abramsky is a freelance journalist and the author of six books, most recently The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives. It was listed by the New York...
Francis Dunn (Classics, UCSB) Thursday, February 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is at stake in our interest -- even obsession -- with narrative forms of care? We have become familiar, in recent years, with narrative medicine, narrative social work, and narrative forensics,...
Matthias Hollwich (architect, HWKN) Thursday, February 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Matthias Hollwich is on a mission. The Bavarian architect is focusing his considerable energy to bring about nothing less than a revolution in the aging experience. Hollwich is the founder of New York architecture...
Chris Newfield (English, UCSB) Tuesday, February 4, 2014 / 5:00 PM* McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB *Note new time. Chris Newfield has been directly involved in current controversies about the future of universities. In this talk, he’ll first describe one of his best university experiences, which was directing...
Sondra Crosby, MD (Medicine, Boston University) Thursday, January 16, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Crosby was one of the first doctors allowed to travel to Guantanamo to independently examine Guantanamo captives. She served as the director of medical care at the Boston Center for...
Jan Haaken (director, Mind Zone) Tuesday, November 19, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Psychologist and filmmaker Jan Haaken will discuss her new documentary film project Mind Zone: Therapists Behind the Front Lines. Since the First World War, military therapists have been evaluated largely on...
Dir. Jan Haaken, 2013 Monday, November 18, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mind Zone follows therapists with the 113th Army Combat Stress Control unit as they carry out two conflicting missions: protecting soldiers from battle fatigue and keeping these same soldiers in the fight....
Marsha Kinder (Critical Studies, University of Southern California) Friday, November 15, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk traces the speaker’s movement from a book published in the early 1990s on children’s media culture—Playing with Power in Movies, Television and Video Games: From Muppet Babies...