Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 / 5:00 - 7:00 PM On View: June 1 - September 15, 2011 Introductory Lecture by Tomaz Andrade (Physic, UCSB) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Where Platform’s previous shows Snarled Megalopolis and Suburbia explored geographies of large cities and suburbs, Micro-Topologies investigates the...
Andrea L Berez (Linguistics, UCSB) Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 3:30 PM Girvetz 2115 This presentation discusses aspects of the directional system in Ahtna, a severely endangered Athabaskan (Native American) language spoken in south central Alaska. The semantic basis of the Ahtna directional system is traditionally riverine, based...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...
Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) Tuesday, May 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The complex and evolving situation at La Frontera, the U.S.-Mexico border, has been central to current discussions of immigration and the effect of drug cartels. In order to illuminate...
Maher Hathout (Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Edward Linenthal (History, University of Indiana) Thursday, May 5, 2011 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown...
Friday, April 29, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary graduate student conference is concerned with a wide variety of conceptions of space and place, both contemporary and historical, physical and imagined. The conference will explore ideas of place and space, and how these ideas have...
LA Urban Rangers (Art Collective, Los Angeles) Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Join Ranger Jenny of the LA Urban Rangers for a campfire program about their past and current projects. An interdisciplinary art collective, the Rangers explore the complex human and...
Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...
Alessandro Barchiesi (Latin Literature, University of Siena, Arezzo) Friday, April 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM ** PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE** HSSB 4041 This lecture will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. Professor...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Trevor Paglen (Author & Experimental Geographer) Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Secrecy is not just a matter of keeping information hidden; it is a productive enterprise that involves the creation of certain kinds of spaces, be they economic,...
David Novak (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, April 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The circulation of recordings encourages us to recognize a world of music from above. Scholars have often focused on the cultural blurring caused by the speed of global media, and the ways...
Cynthia Felando (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, Santa Barbara was the setting for the first-ever American “reality” television series, An American Family. Conceived by the producer Craig Gilbert as a way to challenge the...
Ido Haar (editor of I Am Carolyn Parker, dir. Jonathan Demme) Friday, April 8, 2011/12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS) Reclaiming home in the wake of disaster is the theme of this month’s meeting of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group (EMIRG). The discussion...
Mike McGinnis (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For thousands of years, coastal inhabitation by diverse maritime peoples across the Pacific Ocean has included a natural history of adapting to changes in the marine...
Ido Haar (Documentary Filmmaker) Friday, April 1, 2011 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 Star Hotel, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained...
Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Plants are truly in place. Animals less so. Humans least of all. That’s the sum of my story. I will elaborate on it in two parts. The first part identifies...
Norihiro Kato (Waseda University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, March 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk concerns the significance of the most remarkable postwar Japanese icon: Godzilla. In the 50 years since the first movie was made in 1954, a total of 28...
Colin Gardner (Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 2, 2011 / 5:00 PM IHC’s Platform Gallery, 6th Floor HSSB Where Platform's last exhibition, Snarled Megalopolis, visualized the organic shapes generated by cities out of control, Suburbia will highlight landscapes and architectures characterized by regulation, uniformity, and standardization. These landscapes are...
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara This conference will examine the intersection between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the spatial turn in the humanities. Participants have been asked to describe their mapping projects in relation to traditional humanities methodologies, research objects, and concerns....
Friday-Saturday, February 18-19, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Medieval Studies Program in conjunction with the UC Multicampus Research Project for Mediterranean Studies will be hosting a general workshop on topics in Mediterranean Studies and a conference on “Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Cultures.”...
Esther Bates (Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History and Art) Ethan Turpin (Local Filmmaker) Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the...
Daniel Rosenberg (History, University of Oregon) Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The convention of mapping historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured lines is ubiquitous. Yet, like the conventions of historical narrative, this graphic convention has a complex history. This...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Surround Sound" explores the affective significance of the relationship between sound and the experience of space, particularly with respect to language acquisition and its role in attachment. The practice of making and...
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel uses different media expressions to explore how urban re-productions of space/place often have emotional impacts on people whose values, cultural ways and quality of life are at best secondary to economic interests of...
Friday, January 28, 2011 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference brings together experts on history and philology from the Basque Country, Iceland, and the United States. It focuses on a little known event in Basque history: the cold-blooded killing of...
Jon Jablonski (Davidson Library's Map & Imagery Laboratory, UCSB) Thursday, January 27, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Yifu Tuan's 1977 Space and Place is a signature text of humanistic geography. Written against the backdrop of the rise of feminist, critical, and qualitative geographies, the...
Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1968) 97 min. Wednesday, January 26, 2011 / 6:00 PM Introduction by Colin Gardner (Arts, UCSB) MultiCultural Center Theater Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in 1968, Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) tells the story of Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, who decides to stay...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography...
Thursday-Friday, January 20-21, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The event will build on contemporary retheorizations of the Global South by exploring the rapid transformation of many relationships, communities, and alliances within the Western hemisphere. While the concept of the Hemispheric South suggests a move away from...
Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Respondant: Richard Hecht (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, January 19, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance, and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion...
Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, November 30, 2010 / 12:00 PM 5824 Ellison Hall Zeroing in is an apt metaphor for the way citizen-viewers are positioned in relation to world events since they increasingly view them from the perspectives of aerial and orbital machines....
Monday, November 22, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The geography of Eurasia is inhabited by populations whose understanding of identity has been redefined due to the shifting borders of empire and nation. The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the new states emerging...
Charmaine Nelson (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill Univeristy, Montreal) Thursday, November 18, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Charmaine Nelson is an Associate Professor of Art History, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Her research and teaching...
Dana Driskel (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 17, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1912 the city of Santa Barbara welcomed a “high-tech” industry to the area for the first time. Even then the primary employers within city limits...
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
Saturday, November 13, 2010 / 6:00 PM 479 Gallery in Old Gym on UCSB campus "Spatium Sets" is a group art exhibition of contemporary art practitioners in collaboration with a solo exhibition of UCSB MFA candidate, Daniela Campins. Venezuelan-born Campins' artwork articulates the idea of space and...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / 4:00 PM University Art Museum Artist Ann Diener will lead an informal gallery walkthrough of her commissioned wall drawing at the University Art Museum and present a slide talk about her new body of work. Diener’s large-scale, abstract drawings chart and interpret...
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion America's Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music/Theater and Dance, UCSB & University of Winchester, UK ) Monday, November 1, 2010/ 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Each November second since the postrevolutionary nationalistic years of the 1920s the diminutive cemetery on the tiny island of Janitzio, Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico has been...
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
Debut of IHC’s PLATFORM Gallery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6:00 PM 6th Floor, HSSB SNARLED MEGALOPOLIS Visions of the Emerging Face of Megacities This exhibition collects artists’ visualizations of vertiginously growing megacities, with their impulsive structures and grids. Featuring the work of fourteen individual artists from around the world,...
Moshe Halbertal & Raghida Dergham Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A dialogue between Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli pholosopher, award-winning author, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University and Raghida Dergham, columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based newspaper, Al-Hayat,...
Friday, October 15, 2010 / 1:00PM - 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Maps can add important dimensions to analysis and interpretation in the humanities, illustrating the distribution of phenomena, patterns of activities, processes of landscape change, flows among places, and connections between natural and human environments....
Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) "Isla Vista: A Public Research Lab" Wednesday, October 13, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “We are within and part of what we study. Participatory research thus begins with the assumption that all forms of meaning, doing, making, thinking and knowing...