Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Each year the IHC's Identity Studies RFG sponsors a graduate student panel. Students present their current research - seminar papers, professional papers, dissertation chapter. Nicole Filler, Political Science; "Different Pathways, Common Fates:Assessing the Gender Dynamics of...
Friday, May 12, 2017 / 11:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Twenty presentations will be made in five sessions by advanced graduate students and faculty from seven UC campuses and other universities on topics ranging from identity formation and linked fate, political participation and representation,...
Maria Martinez (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall This discussion will focus on Gabriel Gatti, Ignacio Irazuzta & María Martínez When School Meets the Other: Intercultural Policies in the Basque Inclusive School, Patterns of Prejudice (2017) and From...
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford University) Wednesday, March 8, 2017/ 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Laitin will speak on his recent book (with Claire Adida and Marie-Anne Valfort) , Why Muslim Integration Fails in Christian-Heritage Societies (Harvard; 2016). In 2008-2009, with support from the National...
Devesh Kapur (Director at the Center for the Advanced Study of India, Madan Lal Sobti Associate Professor for the Study of Contemporary India, and Professor of Political Science at the University of Pennsylvania) Monday, February 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Devesh Kapur will...
Pradeep Chhibber (Professor and Indo-American Community Chair in India Studies and Director of the Institute of International Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, January 19, 2017 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall There is a widespread notion within India as well as outside the country that Indian politics, for all...
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Gulnar Nassimova (Political Science, Al Farabi Kazakhstan National University) Thursday, January 12, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kazakhstan, a state in Central Asia, became independent upon the collapse of the Soviet Union. Today’s university youth were socialized in the post-Soviet...
Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Tuesday, November 22, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Contested Transformation constitutes the first comprehensive study of racial and ethnic minorities holding elective office in the United States at the beginning of the twenty-first century. Building on data from the...
Da-chi Liao (Political Science, National Sun Yat-sen University, Taiwan) Thursday, October 27, 2016 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall Dr. Da-chi Liao is a Senior Professor at the Graduate Institute of Political Science at National Sun Yat-sen University (NSYSU), Kaohsiung, Taiwan. She received her Ph.D in Political Science...
Wednesday, May 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Nicole Filler (Political Science, UCSB) Sergey Saluschev (History, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) The roundtable will be a discussion led by graduate students who recently conducted different types...
James F. Brooks (History and Anthropology, UCSB) Tuesday, May 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall The Hopi community of Awat’ovi existed peacefully on Arizona’s Antelope Mesa for generations until one bleak morning in the fall of 1700—raiders from nearby Hopi villages descended on Awat’ovi,...
Lorrie Frasure-Yokley (Political Science, UCLA) Thursday, April 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall 3824 This talk examines racial and ethnic politics outside traditional urban contexts and questions the standard theories we use to understand mobility and government responses to rapid demographic change and political demands. This study,...
Tony Affigne (Political Science, Providence College) Monday, April 4, 2016 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference R00m, HSSB 6020 Is the American political science community prepared for the nation’s new racial configuration, when in a few years the U.S. will become a "minority majority" nation? In this powerful, wide-ranging...
Michael North (Modern History, University of Greifswald, Germany) Tuesday, March 1, 2016 / 4:00 PM 3824 Ellison Hall The political changes of 1989 stimulated a new perception of the Baltic Sea Region, which gained momentum with the Eastern Enlargement of the EU. The new situation encouraged research as...
Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Pei-te Lien (Political Science, UCSB) Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, January 21, 2016 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellision Hall Faculty from different UCSB departments will speak about how their disciplines study identity and the courses available in their departments. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Kanchan Chandra (Politics, New York University) Thursday, November 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Kanchan Chandra, Professor of Politics at New York University, works on questions of ethnicity, democracy, violence, patronage, clientelism, party politics and the politics of South Asia. She is lead...
Narayani Lasala-Blanco (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, October 15, 2015/4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Debates about immigration policies in the United States have been present during electoral campaigns since the 1700s. Zolberg argues that the sustained presence of these debates in political campaigns is related...
Janelle Wong (American Studies, University of Maryland) Thursday, May 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Scholars and pundits point to remarkable support among Asian Americans and Latinos for Democratic candidates in recent Presidential elections. Many attribute this support to differences in how the...
Thursday, May 7, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Zamira Abman (History, UCSB) "The Bolshevik Emancipation of Muslim women of Tajikistan: What went wrong, 1924-1982." Victoria J. Ballmes (Religious studies, UCSB) "Monumental Memory and the Construction of Jewish Identity in Antiquity" George Blake (Music, UCSB) "Music and Racial Formation...
G. Reginald Daniel ( Sociology, UCSB) Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (Japanese American National Museum) Ingrid Dineen Wimberly (History,University of La Verne) Monday, May 4 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor This roundtable will focus...
Martin Ehala (Tartu University, Estonia) Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Ehala is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Communications at UCSB. He received his doctorate in linguistics from Cambridge University and is a Professor at the University...
Abdallah Helmy Shehata (Political Science, American University in Cairo) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Helmy Shehata was an activist during the events and involved in organizing social protest. He is Vice Chairman, Programs Director, of the Sadat Association for...
Philip G. Roeder (Political Science, UCSD) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall National-secession campaigns have been explained by development of ethnic identities, grievances over social and economic inequalities and dislocations, greed to seize wealth and power, and tactical opportunities to engage...
Kathleen Collins (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, February 5, 2015 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall, third floor Kathleen A. Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia...
Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Tuesday, Oct. 14, 4 p.m. Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Zimbabwe’s Chimurenga music has drawn much scholarly attention due in part to the genre’s imbrication with the Second Chimurenga, the 1960s-70s liberation war that finally dislodged the 90-year long Rhodesian settler rule...
Ricardo Ramirez (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) Thursday, March 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor Mobilizing Opportunities examines a widely-acknowledged shift in perception of Latinos from uncertain political relevance in 1990 to a sense that they are redefining American democracy in 2012. ...
Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change. In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed. In Turkey,...
Tuesday, November 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd fl00r Ellison Hall The round-table is a discussion about choosing methods in the study of identity. As part of the round-table, we particularly encourage the participation of graduate students who will be asked to present the puzzle which...
Kenneth Prewitt (Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Director of The Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University) Wednesday, November 13 / 4:00 PM Mosher Alumni House What is Your Race? (Princeton University Press, 2013) traces the tortured history of government race statistics from 1790 to the present. Across three-fourths...
Lilia Sokolinskaja (journalist, Tallinn, Estonia) Thursday, October 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Lilia Sokolinskaja was a leading journalist on Estonian Radio, Program 4. She is an insightful analyst of politics who covered the Estonian Parliament, traveled with the President of Estonia to NATO and European...
Nazym Shedenova (Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) Saule Ualieva (Sociology, East Kazakh Technical University, Oskemen) Monday, May 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Shedenova is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a professor of sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. ...
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev (International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University) Tuesday, May 14 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The concept of Sedentarism is rooted in the "otherizing" of nomadic communities, which has formed a hierarchically structured binary: sedentary (good, progressive, civilized) - nomadic (bad, wild, and bloodthirsty). This mindset...
Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Magarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, May 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work....
Christopher Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Tuesday, February 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not...
Terence Keel (Black Studies, UCSB) Thursday, February 7 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall It is often believed that the modern scientific study of race first emerged in and around the Enlightenment. During this time the study of natural history reached an unprecedented level of maturity and...
Slavomír Horák (International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, January 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Slavomir Horak is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies and a Research Fellow...
Christian Collet (International Christian University, Tokyo) Tuesday, November 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Vietnamese Americans offer two curiosities to the study of racial, ethnic and minority politics. One, they appear more likely than other Asian Pacific populations in the United States to distance...
Vesna Wallace (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since the rise of democracy and freedom of religious expression in Mongolia (beginning in the late 1980′s with Mongolia’s separation from Soviet dominion), debates over who is a true Mongol and what...
Conveners: Cynthia Kaplan | Adrienne Edgar Email: kaplan@polsci.ucsb.edu | edgar@history.ucsb.edu The Identity Research Focus Group explores the diverse dimensions of identity, how it is studied and its implications. The group brings together scholars and graduate students from a wide array of disciplines in order to share their...
Elisabeth Weber (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB) Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Monday, May 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall Weber and Marcuse will lead discussions on the following readings: Shoshana Felman’s, "A Ghost in the House of Justice";...
Wednesday, May 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Annual Graduate Student Presentations Nation-State or State-Nation? Myths of Nationhood and Support for State Sovereignty in Belarus Francois Zdanowicz (Political Science , UCSB) Brawls, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping: Imperial Russia’s Adjudication in the South Caucasus until the...
John Schoeberlein (Anthropology, Harvard University) Monday, April 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor Ellison Hall John Schoeberlein is Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Sponsored...
Mary Hancock (History / Anthropology, UCSB) Discussant: Amit Ahuja (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor, Ellison Hall The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port...
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...
Hilde Coffe (Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University) Friday, November 12 / 2:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Coffe is the author of over twenty articles appearing in such journals as Electoral Studies, British Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Language and Politics in English and...
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) and Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 21 / 4:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Welcome to all those interested in identity issues! Please join us for the first meeting of the year at which we will preview our planned activities. The...
Christopher S. Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Thursday, May 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall In his new project, Parker examines the ideological and sociological origins of what has come to be known as the urban crisis of the 1960s. Parker was...
Laura Hirvi (Visiting Fulbright Student, UCSB) Tuesday, April 27 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall The lecture examines the experiences of Sikhs who migrated to Finland and California, and the impact that this event had on their lives and on the lives of their offspring....
Rogers Brubaker (Sociology, UCLA) Monday, April 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brubaker will return to his influential book, Nationalism Reframed: Nationhood and the National Question in the New Europe, to reflect upon changes since the collapse of the Soviet Union and the re-emergence of...
Karen Lee Ashcraft (University of Colorado, Boulder) Thursday, April 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3824 Management scholars commonly ask how people find meaning in work. Few ask how work is known by its practitioners in a different sense: namely, how work is understood in terms...
Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Friday, February 19 / 12:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Paul Spickard is a specialist on Race and Ethnicity in the United States and in comparative international perspective. An award-winning teacher, among his many books are Japanese Americans: The Formation and...
David Laitin (Political Science, Stanford) Thursday, February 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Rm, 6020 HSSB David D. Laitin is the James T. Watkins IV and Elise V. Watkins Professor of Political Science at Stanford University. Among his many influential books and articles are Nations, States and Violence...
William Fierman (Central Eurasian Studies, Indiana University) Wednesday, January 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor, Ellison Hall William Fierman is Professor of Central Eurasian Studies and Adjunct Professor of Political Science at Indiana University. Professor Fierman is the author of Language Planning and National Development:...