01 Apr Spring 2004
HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat
A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes
Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB
Sanguinary Laws and Horrid Tortures: Punishment and Civilization in Tokugawa Japan’s Encounter with the West
Daniel Botsman (Harvard)
Friday, April 9 / 12:00 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Critical Perspectives on Restoration Ecology
Monday, April 5 / 7:00 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Imagining Sustainable Communities: Rethinking Democratic Decision Making
Adam Wolpert (The Occidental Art and Ecology Center)
Thursday, April 8 / 4-6 PM / FREE
Girvetz Theatre, UCSB
CONFERENCE: Wal-Mart: Template for 21st Century Capitalism?
Monday, April 12 / 8:30-5:00 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
SYMPOSIUM: Space, Place, and Cultural Forms
Wednesday, April 14 / 3:00-5:00 PM / FREE
Music Room 1145, UCSB
Talk: Patriots: The Vietnam War Remembered from All Sides
Chris Appy
Thrusday, April 15 / 3:30
McCune Conference Room
A Global Measure: Writing, Rights, and Responsibilities
Homi Bhabha
Thursday, April 15 / 4PM / FREE
Corwin Pavilion
Trains of Thought: Modernist Subjectivity and the Colonial Railroad
Niels Buch-Jepsen (Cornell)
Friday, April 16 / 3:30 PM / FREE
South Hall 2635, UCSB
Worlding California Poetics: Theorizing Some Global/Local and
Trans-Pacific Dimensions to the Poetry of Place
Rob Wilson (UC Santa Cruz)
Monday, April 19 / 4 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Surfin’ California History in Film and Music
Tim Cooley (Music, UCSB)
Monday, April 19 / 7:00 PM / FREE
McCune Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Holocaust Testimony in a Genocidal Age
Geoffrey Hartman (Yale)
Monday, April 19 / 8:00 PM / FREE
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
Chicana Butch/Femme: Aged Reflections Based on Participant Observations
Dr. Deena J. González (Loyola Marymount University)
Friday, April 23 / 2 PM / FREE
The Harbor Room, The University Center, UCSB
Increments in Navajo Conversation
Margaret Field (SDSU)
Friday, April 23 / 1:30-3:30 / FREE
2536 Phelps Hall, UCSB
The Revolutionary Impact of A. A. Markov Sr.’s Work on the Alternation of Letters in A.S. Pushkin’s Poem “Eugene Onegin”
Vladimir Uspenskiy (Moscow State University)
Friday, April 23 / 4PM / FREE / Engineering, 1 Room 2124, UCSB
CONFERENCE: America and the Reshaping of a New World Order: Normative Implications, Cultural Constraints
Friday-Saturday, April 23-24 / FREE
Corwin Pavilion, and McCune Conference Room, UCSB
CONFERENCE: 16th Southern California Cervantes Conference
Saturday, April 24 / 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
“Women Dancing Men, Men Dancing Women: Gender and Representations of Roman Gypsies in Turkey.”
Sonia Seeman (Ethnomusicology, UCSB)
Monday, April 26 / 7:00 PM / FREE / McCune Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
FORUM: Home of the Free? A Public Forum on the Patriot Acts
Tuesday, April 27 / 4-6 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
CONFERENCE: Literary Translation: Revisiting the Text in the Humanities
Thursday, April 29 / 9-6 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, and the Harbor Room in the University Center, UCSB
The Formation of the Stele School and its Impact on Qing Dynasty Calligraphy
Professor Qianshen Bai (Boston University)
Thursday, April 29 / 4:00 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Inclusion as a Social Practice: Views of Children with Autism
Olga Solomon (UCLA)
Friday, April 30 / 1:30-3:30 / FREE
Phelps Hall 2536, UCSB
Image of Thought: Samuel Beckett Meets the Hulk
Anthony Uhlmann (University of Western Sydney)
Friday, April 30 / 3:30 PM / FREE
South Hall 2635, UCSB
TALK: Laughing to Go Along, Laughing to Resist
Phil Glenn (Emerson College)
Friday, May 7 / 1:30-3:30 PM / FREE
Phelps Hall 2536, UCSB
CONFERENCE: AfroGeeks: From Technophobia to Technophilia
Friday-Saturday, May 7-8 / 8:30 AM-6:30 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
CONFERENCE: Imagination and the Nation: In, Between, and Beyond States
Saturday, May 8th, 9AM-6:30PM / FREE
Centennial House, UCSB
Stagolee Shot Billy
Cecil Brown
With performances by Ron Paris and Ron Valentine
Monday, May 10
TALK: The Anne Frank We Remember
Alvin Rosenfeld (Indiana University)
Tuesday, May 11 / 7:30 PM / FREE
UCSB Hillel, UCSB
TALK: Tradition and Imagination in a Transnational World
Roger Savage (University of California, Los Angeles)
Wednesday, May 12 / 3-5 PM / FREE
Music Room 1145, UCSB
PANEL: The Rocket Four: Artist Books Today
Moderated by Marcia Reed (Getty Research Institute), and
Roberto Trujillo (Stanford University Library)
Thursday, May 13 / 4 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
COLLOQUIUM: Comparative Lament Traditions Research Focus Group
Saturday, May 15 / 12-5 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
POETRY READING: Jeanne Heuving
Monday, May 17 / 4 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
Moshe Idel
White Letters in Jewish Mysticism and Post-Modern Hermeneutics
Wednesday, May 19 / 7:30 P.M. / Free
UCSB Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista
TALK: The African Studies Research Focus Group Annual Lecture
Chris Albani (Author)
Thursday, May 20
Location and time TBA
CISM FILM DISCUSSION SERIES: Armadillos in our Trousers: Spinal Tap and Eternal Youth
Mark Yeary (UCSB)
Friday, May 21 / 5:00PM / FREE
Location TBA
TALK: Interactional Sociolinguistics, Discourse and Conversation Analysis:
What do they share and how do they differ?
John Gumperz (UC Berkeley)
Friday, May 21 / 1:30-3:30 PM / FREE
2536 Phelps Hall, UCSB
Iraq and the War on Terror: Were We Wrong?
A Debate Between Dr. William Kristol and Ambassador Joseph Wilson
7:30 P.M. / Monday, May 24 / Free
UCSB Campbell Hall
TALK: Can the Unions Put John Kerry in the White House?
Harold Meyerson
Tuesday, May 25 / 3:30 PM / FREE
1111 North Hall, UCSB
“Television Audiences and Factual Programming”
Annette Hill
Friday, June 4th / 10 a.m.
Ellison 1714
Marc Dollinger
California Jews Thursday, June 24 / 7:00 P.M. / Free
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center
524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara