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Series
13
Nov
Happy Few
Wednesday, November 13, 2013 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ratatat Theater Group is proud to present Happy Few, a new play based on the first-person accounts of Santa Barbara veterans and Shakespeare's Henry V. It mixes the stories of veterans about the wars in...
06
Nov
Life as a Terrorist: The FBI and Me
William T. Vollmann (National Book Award recipient) Wednesday, November 6, 2013 / 4:00 PM
05
Nov
Ethics, Animality and Ahuman Theory
Patricia MacCormack (English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University) Tuesday, November 5, 2013 / 4:00 PM
29
Oct
Relational Selves and Narrative Communities in the Aftermath of Trauma
Susan Brison (Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Tuesday, October 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room The undoing of the self in trauma involves the disruption of past from present, the inability to envision a future, and the severing of sustaining connections to community. And yet, with the...
28
Oct
Witnessing Witnessing: A Conversation with Thomas Trezise
Thomas Trezise (French, Princeton) Monday, October 28, 2013 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust...
22
Oct
After the War
Tim O'Brien (author of The Things They Carried) Tuesday, October 22, 2013 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien will discuss the similarities between his own experiences in Vietnam forty years ago and the experiences of...
17
Oct
Inaugural Lecture: Care of the Wild: Sense, Sentience and the ‘Primitive State’
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, October 17, 2013 /4:00 PM
15
May
Drone Warfare: Prospects and Dangers
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...
09
May
Remembering War, Looking Forward
John W.I. Lee (History, UCSB) with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin
02
May
The Last Guardian of the Earth
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
25
Apr
Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
16
Apr
Seeing War: Identity, Purpose and Play
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
09
Apr
The Legacy of Abu Ghraib
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
07
Mar
Fictions of Friction: Narratives of War and “Post-War” in Contemporary Afghan Literature
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
28
Feb
Life in the Age of Drones
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...
22
Feb
Ontologies of Aerial Observation: Panoramic Reconnaissance and the Pre-History of Air War
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...
21
Feb
When Janey Comes Marching Home: Portraits of Women Combat Veterans
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond) Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February...
12
Feb
Combat Trauma and Moral Injury
Jonathan Shay (author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming) Tuesday, February 12, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
07
Feb
canceled
Wafaa Bilal (Tisch School, NYU) Thursday, February 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
31
Jan
Theater of War
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater, UCSB Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the...
29
Jan
Terror’s Aftermath: New Developments in America and the Middle East
Juan Campo (Religious Studies), Richard Hecht (Religious Studies), Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies), Salim Yaqub (History) Moderator: Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies) Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four UCSB professors join in a panel discussion to assess the effects of the war on...
24
Jan
Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War
Martha Bragin (Hunter College School of Social Work, CUNY) Thursday, January 24, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The discourse on psychosocial reintegration of combat veterans in the United States has largely been confined to discussions of the best treatment for those diagnosed...
16
Jan
Tales from the Front Lines: Reporting from Iraq and Afghanistan
Dexter Filkins (The New Yorker, author of The Forever War) Wednesday, January 16, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Dexter Filkins is one of the most respected combat journalists of his generation. His 2008 book, The Forever War, won the National Book Critics Circle Award for...
15
Nov
The Invisible War (Kirby Dick, 2012 93 min.)
Amy Ziering (Producer) Thursday, November 15, 2012 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The Invisible War is a groundbreaking investigation about one of America’s most shameful and best kept secrets: the epidemic of rape within the U.S. military. The film paints a startling picture of the extent of...
13
Nov
A Sociotheological Approach to Understanding Religious Violence
Mona Sheikh (Danish Institute of International Studies) Mark Juergensmeyer (UCSB Orfalea Center) Tuesday, November 13, 2012 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How do scholars make sense of acts of violence--even terrorism--that are undertaken not just for strategic political gain but to make a...
08
Nov
Where Soldiers Come From
Heather Courtney (director, Where Soldiers Come From) Dominic Fredianelli (artist, subject of Where Soldiers Come From ) Thursday, November 8, 2012 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
08
Nov
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli
Artist Residency: Dominic Fredianelli Tuesday, October 30 – Wednesday, November 8, 2012 Dominic Fredianelli is a graffiti artist from Houghton, Michigan. Dominic was one of the subjects of the Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From. His work has been featured at the National Veterans Art Museum...
05
Nov
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Monday, November 5, 2012 / 7:00 PM and 10:00 PM IV Theater 2 Q&A following the 7:00 PM screening with Dominic Fredianelli (artist and subject of Where Soldiers Come From) Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood...
30
Oct
Where Soldiers Come From
(Heather Courtney, 2011, 90 min.) Tuesday, October 30, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Emmy award-winning documentary Where Soldiers Come From follows the four-year journey of childhood friends who, after graduating from high school in rural Michigan, join the National Guard, enticed by a $20,000...
25
Oct
War in History and Memory
Thursday, October 25, 2012 / 4:00 PM John E. Talbott (History, UCSB) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
20
Oct
Persistence (Daniel Eisenberg, 1997)
Introduction by Daniel Eisenberg Saturday, October 20, 2012 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Filmmaker Daniel Eisenberg will introduce and screen his impressionistic film, which is a meditation on the fraught postwar period in Germany, examining larger questions about the continuous and discontinuous threads of history and the...
01
Jun
Copyright, Piracy, and the Artist: Music and the Politics of Culture in Postcolonial Mali
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...
30
May
Open Access as Possibility
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...
24
May
The Corporation
(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...
22
May
The Uses of the University in 2050: A Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
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...
15
May
Defending the Communications Commons: Hackers, Spies, and Internet Freedom in an Era of Twenty-first Century Statecraft
Sascha Meinrath (Director, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative) Tuesday, May 15, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
10
May
Public Art as a Public Good
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...
08
May
Collaborative Public Goods: Wikipedia’s Engagement with Galleries, Libraries, Archives and Museums (GLAM)
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...
04
May
Renaissance Publics, Material Goods
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"...
03
May
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books
Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard) Thursday, May 3, 2012 / 5:00 PM
24
Apr
The People in Power are Nothing to Fear: Jessica Mitford and the Public Good
Leslie Brody (Creative Writing, University of Redlands) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM
19
Apr
Copyright: What Happened to the Republic of Letters?
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...
17
Apr
Afghan Women and Youth Claiming the Public Spheres
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...
12
Apr
The Story of Making Change
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...
10
Apr
Intellectual Property Wars, New Media, and the Activist Turn
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...
03
Apr
The Archaeology of Shipwrecks: Treasuring the Past?
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...
08
Mar
Globalization, the Commons, and the Limits of Democracy
Boatema Boateng (Communication, UCSD) Thursday, March 8, 2012 / 5:00 PM
01
Mar
Beyond Utopia: Crisis, Values and the Socialities of Nature
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...
16
Feb
Using the Ancient Greeks to Think About Public Goods: a Dialogue
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...
14
Feb
Capitalism: A Love Story
(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:...
09
Feb
Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Myles Jackson (Polytechnic Institute, NYU) Thursday, February 9, 2012 / 4:00 PM
07
Feb
Lessons from China: Past, Present and Future of Field Urbanism
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...
02
Feb
The Port Huron Statement at 50
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...
24
Jan
Sushi: The Global Catch
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...
21
Jan
The Struggle for Civility and Justice: The Common Good in Late Medieval and Renaissance Italy
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...
19
Jan
Seeking Spatial Justice and the Right to the City
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...
18
Jan
Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) Wednesday, January 18, 2012 / 4:00 PM
17
Jan
Welfare as a Public Good
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,...
13
Jan
Catastrophe and Security
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...
29
Nov
It’s a Wonderful Life: Commerce, Community and Christmas
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...
18
Nov
Slow Violence and the Environmentalism of the Poor
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"...
15
Nov
Arab Spring / American Autumn: Reclaiming the Public Sphere
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...
10
Nov
Maps as a Public Good: Crowdsourcing in Fire Emergencies
Michael F. Goodchild (Geography, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM
09
Nov
Animating the Archive: Emerging Forms of Scholarly Publishing
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...
05
Nov
Defending the University
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...
03
Nov
Reclaiming Fair Use: The Best Practices Approach
Peter Jaszi (Law, American University) Thursday, November 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM
27
Oct
The Fog of Freedom: Liberation and Lock-in in the Age of the Internet
Christopher Kelty (Center for Society and Genetics and Information Studies, UCLA) Thursday, October 27, 2011 / 4:00 PM
25
Oct
Articulating The Public Good: Protocols of Liberty and the American Revolution
William Warner (English, UCSB) Tuesday, October 25, 2011 / 4:00 PM
21
Oct
Making Human Rights the Compass for All Ethical Globalization
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...
20
Oct
Public Goods and Those Who Create Them: From Respect to Disdain in Modern America
Nelson Lichtenstein (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 20, 2011 / 4:00 PM
18
Oct
A Conversation with Michael Madsen
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...
17
Oct
Into Eternity (Michael Madsen, 2010, 75 minutes)
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...
14
Oct
Historical Perspectives on Risk
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...
10
Oct
Reinventing Our Education Future
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...
24
Aug
Archaeology Research Focus Group
Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis. Our...
01
Jun
Platform Gallery’s Micro-Topologies Exhibit
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...
26
May
Directional Reference in Ahtna: Endangered Language, Endangered Geographic Knowledge
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...
11
May
Dilemmas of Space as Dilemmas of Race: Exploring Race Relations on College Campuses
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...
10
May
A Matter of Edge: Border vs. Boundary at La Frontera
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...
05
May
Ground Zero and Anti-Muslim Sentiment
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...
29
Apr
Productive Geographies: IHC Graduate Conference
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...
28
Apr
Campfire Talk: The Los Angeles Urban Rangers Enact the Megalopolis!
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...
21
Apr
Writers on Place
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...
19
Apr
Public Goods brainstorming session
Tuesday, April 19 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We invite interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a brainstorming meeting for the 2011-2012 IHC series Public Goods. Public Goods will be a year-long program at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center that will explore...
15
Apr
The Mountains
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...
14
Apr
Blank Spots and a Black Hole: Producing and Puncturing Secrecy in Space and Place
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,...
13
Apr
Sonic Maps of the Japanese Underground
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...
12
Apr
Lost in Santa Barbara: An American Family and the Birth of Reality TV
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...
08
Apr
Bioremediation in the New NOLA
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...
07
Apr
Straddling the Pacific Ocean: Wild Maritime Places in California and New Zealand
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...
01
Apr
9 Star Hotel
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...
09
Mar
Home as Elsewhere
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...
03
Mar
From Godzilla to Hello Kitty: Sanitizing the Uncanny in Postwar Japan
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...
02
Mar
Suburbia
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...
01
Mar
Isla Vista: Near Goleta, But Closer – The Poetics of Place
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...
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25
Feb
Mapping Place: GIS and the Spatial Humanities
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....
18
Feb
Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Cultures
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.”...
17
Feb
Trading Futures: Prospects for California’s University
Catherine Cole (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, February 17, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “If universities can’t find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them,” says educational innovator David Wiley in Anya Kamenetz’s recent book...
16
Feb
Solvang Past and Present
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...
10
Feb
Chronographics: The Emergence of the Timeline and its Relation to Modern Historical Imagination
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...
09
Feb
Surround Sound
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...
03
Feb
Academic Freedom in a Time of Crisis
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Outspoken public intellectuals and academic leaders Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson will go head to head for a lively discussion on the role of academic freedom in higher learning. Fish, a Professor of...
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Faculty Forums / Series / Future of the University / Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Featured Events
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Feb
The Fight to Stay Put
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...
28
Jan
Basque Whaling in the Seventeenth Century
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...
27
Jan
21st Century Tuan: Revisiting “Space and Place” in the i-Age
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...
26
Jan
Memories of Underdevelopment
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...
25
Jan
Seeking Spatial Justice
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...
20
Jan
Reimagining the Hemispheric South
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...
19
Jan
The Global Landscape of Holocaust Memorials Since 1945
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...
13
Jan
Is Online Education the Answer?
Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Is online instruction the future of undergraduate teaching? Is online education truly cost-effective? Can it improve undergraduate education? Is it the form that undergraduate instruction is destined to take? Is the University of California prepared...
30
Nov
Zeroing In: Infrastructure Ruins and Datalands in Afghanistan and Iraq
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....
22
Nov
National Identities: The Changing Identities of Central Asia, Russia, and the Caucasus
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...
18
Nov
Sugar Cane, Slaves and Ships: Black Slaves, White Tourists and the Problem of Colonial Vision in 19th century Landscapes of Jamaica
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...
17
Nov
Flying A Studio: Santa Barbara’s First Brush with High Tech
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...
15
Nov
Islands, Interiors, and In Between: Chumash Life on the Oxnard Plain
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...
13
Nov
Spatium Sets
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...
10
Nov
A Conversation with Artist Ann Diener
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...
08
Nov
What is the New Normal in Higher Education?
Stanley Katz (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Monday, November 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The financial crisis of the past two years looks like its becoming structural, especially in the public universities. Is privatization the answer, at least for the "elite" state sector in higher education? If so, what are the implications both for the elites and "the rest"? A related question is what can/will replace the traditional, if nervous, balance between research and instruction in universities? How do we balance the growing pressures for greater inclusion of the college age cohort, and the growing cost of increasingly specialized research? The post-World War II history of higher education, with the emergence of the multiversity, has been one of more or less successful adaptation of traditional organizational structures. But haven't we reached the point at which we can no longer add epicycles without destroying the basic structure of higher education? Sponsored by the IHC's Faculty Forums series and the UCSB Faculty Association.
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03
Nov
The Manhattan Mosque and Burning Qur’ans: Placing an American Dilemma in Perspective
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...