June 4, 2022 | Location TBD The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites submissions for our Graduate Student Symposium on topics concerning Asian American studies, broadly defined. This one-day symposium will offer an informal environment for graduate students to come...
May 14-15, 2022 | Zoom A Collaboration Between the UCSB Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Focus Group “What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” Many scholars have questioned what the rise of globalization, facilitated through new forms...
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Monday, June 19, 2017 / 8:30 AM McCune Room and Education 1213 and 1217 The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the...
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...
Kirill Maslinsky (National Research University Higher School of Economics, St. Petersburg, Russia) April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM Mosher Library School punishments are commonly assumed to be school staff's reaction to student misbehavior inside school, but close study of disciplinary records of a small town Soviet...
Salim Yaqub (History, UCSB) January 25, 2017 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 Salim Yaqub discusses Imperfect Strangers, his new book on U.S.-Arab relations in the 1970s. He argues that the seventies were a pivotal decade in U.S.-Arab relations--a time when Americans and Arabs became an inescapable presence in...
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...
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Lyall Harris (book artist) Thursday, May 5, 2016 / 3:00 PM Special Collections, 3rd Floor of Davidson Library Book art at its best is a medium where the maker’s keen use of the material components creates a faceted, more comprehensive and potent language to express content. In...
Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6046 HSSB Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into contact, often...
THE FIFTH BIENNIAL BORDERLANDS INTERNATIONAL GRADUATE STUDENT CONFERENCE Forging Faith(s) in Global Borderlands Keynote Speaker: Christine Shepardson (Religious Studies, University of Tennessee at Knoxville) Friday, March 11 – Sunday, March 13, 2016 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Borderlands are spaces where people of different ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or...
Anne Knowles (Geography, Middlebury College) Alberto Giordano (Geography, Texas State University) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM UCEN Flying A Room Anne Knowles and Alberto Giordano (eds.) present Geographies of the Holocaust. This book is the result of a multi-year collective project that has explored the geographies of...
Friday, February 27-28, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The objective of this interdisciplinary symposium is to bring together scholars who are currently working on histories of children and childhood primarily in Japan and are also situating these works within a larger transregional, transnational or global context....
Anne Allison (Anthropology, Duke University) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At a moment when the Japanese population is declining, marriage and birth rates are down, one-third of people live alone while one-fourth are 65 or older, and reports of “lonely death”...
Vivek Chibber (History, New York University) Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 7:00 PM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room This talk inaugurates a conference on “Labor and Empire” that continues through November 15. Chibber is the author of Postcolonial Theory and the Specter of Capital (2013). Conference participants...
Leslie Mitchner (Rutgers University Press, Editor in Chief) Wednesday, November 5 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In spite of the frequent coverage in the New York Times, Chronicle of Higher Education, Publishers Weekly, Inside Higher Ed, and on listservs, websites, scholarly journal articles and beyond, the...
Friday, October 24 & Monday, October 27 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
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Saturday, August 30, 2014 / Sundown (approx. 8:15 PM) Anisq'Oyo' Park FREE Bring your blankets, chairs, friends, and snacks. This is an alcohol-free event....
Zamira Yusufjonova is a Doctoral Candidate in History. Her dissertation is titled The Bolshevik Emancipation of the Muslim Women of Tajikistan, 1924-1982: What Went Wrong...
John Soboslai is a Doctoral Candidate in Religious Studies. His dissertation is titled Performing One’s Own Death: Martyrdom, Self-Sacrifice and Truth-Telling....
Philip J. Murphy is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. His dissertation is titled Annihilation in God & Remaining in the World: Sufi Devotional Song in Fez, Morocco...
Christopher Kegerreis is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Alexander of Macedon’s Imperial Exploration and its Impact on Hellenistic Geography....
Thomas Doran is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Vulgar Ethology: A Prehistory of Animal Protection in Atlantic Natural History Vulgar Ethology examines how American naturalists conducted, narrated, and valued their interactions with animals in the period leading up to the nineteenth-century animal...
ABOUT The Anthropocene, a newly-coined geologic term, designates the age during which human activity has been the dominant influence on climate and the environment. While subject to the forces of nature, the human species is itself a force that acts upon the natural world. We have...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Participants in this symposium include Stephen Mihm, University of Georgia, author of A Nation of Counterfeiters: Capitalists, Con Men, and the Making of the United States (2009); Naomi Lamoreaux, Yale, author of Insider Lending: Banks, Personal Connections, and Economic...
Friday, May 16 / 1:00 PM Loma Pelona 1108 Speakers: Janet Fiskio (Enviornmental Studies, Oberlin College) Adrian Parr (Sociology, University of Cincinnati) Steven Vanderheiden (Political Science, University of Colorado) Following the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's publication of the "5th Assessment Report," this Symposium will ask how the ever-increasing scientific consensus...
Daniel Botsman (History, Yale University) Tuesday May 13, 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk will begin by considering the place of cows in Japanese society before the Meiji Restoration, particularly in relation to the agrarian economy of the Kansai and surrounding regions. It will then consider the revolutionary changes...
Alison Mudditt and Bruce Robertson (UC Press ) Tuesday, May 6 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UC Press is actively exploring the possibilities for the humanities opened up by digital publishing. Beginning with a workshop at HRI-UC Irvine in Fall 2013, the Press has developed...
Deke Weaver (School of Art and Design and Department of Theater, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Monday, April 14 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB WOLF is Deke Weaver’s third performance in his life-long project, The Unreliable Bestiary – a performance for each letter of the alphabet,...
Saturday, September 28 / 7:00 PM Sunday, September 29 / 7:00 PM Anisq'Oyo' Park With their tongue-in-cheek production of Rosenstern and Guildencrantz, UCSB's Shakespeare in the Park takes a jocular Commedia dell'Arte approach to the two characters of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare's Hamlet....
Bianca Brigidi holds a PhD in History from the University of California, Santa Barbara. Her research dissertation analyzes the California Native American rebellions in the 18th and 19th centuries.Brigidi's work marries folklore, contemporary ethnographic data, historical data, and interdisciplinary explorations of intercultural violence. As a...
Conveners: Mario T. Garcia, Chicano Studies, garcia@history.ucsb.edu Ellen McCracken, Spanish and Portuguese, emccr@spanport.ucsb.edu Description: This group is concerned with the historical and contemporary experiences of people of Chicano/Latino background in the United States. Numbering some 45 million people, Chicano/Latinos have become the largest minority group in the United...
Sarah K. Harris' research interests include information technology regulation and access, digital media literacy and utilizing ethnography to measure IT policy impact. In 2013, she earned her Ph.D. in Film and Media Studies, with a doctoral emphasis in Global Studies, from UC Santa Barbara. Her dissertation,...
Ayla Bozkurt Applebaum is an ethnic Kabardian from Turkey. Kabardians are among the Circassian people which, although indigenous to the Northwest Caucasus, live primarily in exile in Turkey and the Middle East due to their expulsion by Czarist Russia in the mid 19th century. Dr. Bozkurt...
Barbara L. Taylor is a Doctoral Candidate in Music. Her dissertation is titled The Ghosts of Banjos Past: The Early Banjo Revival and Remapping America's Racial Terrain. Diverse cultural activists are contesting conventional knowledge of early banjo history as they construct a subversive reading of "America's...
Rahul Mukherjee is a Doctcoral Candidate in Film and Media Studies. His dissertation is titled Competing Knowledges, Uncertain Futures: A Study of Mediated Technoscience Publics in India. "Through case-studies in India, my dissertation explores media’s role in science controversies. The cases include arguments about effects of...
Andrew Magnusson is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled Muslism-Zoroastrion Relations and Religious Violence in Early Islamic Iran. My dissertation examines Muslim-Zoroastion relations in Iran between the seventh and eleventh centuries. It challenges the lachrymose narrative of Zoroastion history which blames Muslim prosecution for...
Kuan-yen Liu is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Animal-Human Analogy and the Order of Things: A Comparative Study of Victorian British and Late-Qing Chinese Darwinism. This research project will explore the cross-boundary interaction of Darwinism with philosophy, socio-political thought and literature in...
Zachary Horton is a Doctoral Candidate in English. His dissertation is titled Scale and Alterity: Ecology, Media, and Technics After the Human. This dissertation is an interdisciplinary effort to analyze current techno-scientific discourses for underlying scalar frameworks that constrain personal, local, and transnational efforts to think other...
Lawrence Acker is an associate professor at Lindenwood University in St. Charles, Missouri, joining the faculty in January of this year. He is the Lindenwood College of Individualized Education’s Program Director of Health Management. Dr. Acker came to Lindenwood after serving as the Program Chair...
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Thursday, February 28 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This Center for Information Technology and Society and Interdisciplinary Humanities Center symposium brings together a philosopher, activists, and artists to speak about the growing use of unmanned aerial vehicles – or drones – in the world...
Click here to read the official press release regarding Theater of War's performance for the IHC's series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Wafaa Bilal's Artist Talk (originally scheduled for Thursday, February 7 at 4:00 PM in the McCune Conference Room) has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
UC Humanities Research Institute: Through the administration of its own funding programs and those of the UC Humanities Network, UCHRI supports and showcases fellows, working groups, seminars, conferences, workshops and other research formations, on topics traditional to the humanities in disciplines such as literature, philosophy, classics,...
About Research Development: The IHC Research Development staff can support faculty through all aspects of research funding from assisting with individual grant searches to budget preparation and proposal review. IHC staff is available by appointment to work with individual faculty on proposals-in-progress, providing individual research...
Mark Quigley (Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center at the UCLA Film & Television Archive) Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 CCWS is proud to present a talk by Mark Quigley, Manager of the Archive Research & Study Center...
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...
The recipients of this year's UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities awards are: Pavneet Aulakh, English, "Beyond Words: The Visual Turn in Jacobean England" Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film and Media Studies, "Psychonautic Media"...
Dexter Filkins visit to UCSB has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 16, 2013. For more details, click here....
Amber Workman graduated from UCSB in 2012 with a Ph.D. in Hispanic languages and literatures. Her academic work focuses on Mexican literature and Latin American literary journalism....
Sarah Hirsch received her PhD in English from UCSB in 2011....
Carly Thomsen a Doctoral Candidate in Feminist Studies. Her dissertation is titled "I'm Just Me": Queer Critiques of Gay Visibility, Identity, and Community from LGBTQ Women in the Rural Midwest. This dissertation analyzes representations, discourses, experiences, and identities of queer women in the rural Midwestern...
Andrew J. Henkes is both a research fellow at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and a research associate at the University Art Museum at the University of California, Santa Barbara, as well as a lecturer at the University of Southern California’s School of Dramatic Art. His research...
Eric Fenrich is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled The Color of the Moon: The American Manned Space Program and Racial Inclusion, 1957-1978. This project examines the interactions between the U.S. space program and the struggles for racial justice within the United...
Anne Cong-Huyen is a Doctoral Candidate in English. Her dissertation is titled Host and Server: The Literature and Media of Temporariness in an Age of Globalized Networks. This project traces the emergence of temporariness, a term used to conceptualize the widespread phenomena of rising provisional...
Paul Reed Baltimore is a Doctoral Candidate in History. His dissertation is titled From the Camel to the Cadillac: The Culture of Consumption and the U.S.-Saudi Special Relationship. From the Camel to the Cadillac tells a story of how the political economies of the United States...
Conveners Ann Bermingham, History of Art bermingham@arthistory.ucsb.edu Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu "The Uses of the Public University is an RFG devoted to imagining the role of the University of California in serving the State, its citizens, the nation and the world. Fundamental to this role is maintaining the University...
Conveners: Xiojian Zhao, Asian American Studies xiaojian@asamst.ucsb.edu Xiaowei Zheng, History and East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies zheng@eastasia.ucsb.edu This Research Focus Group examines a unique moment in the history of urban/rural relations in modern China: the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Cultural Revolution (1966-76). This movement is one of...
Conveners Peter Alagona, History alagona@history.ucsb.edu Chloe Diamond-Lenow, Feminist Studies cdiamondlenow@umail.ucsb.edu Russell Samolsky, English rsamolsky@english.ucsb.edu This RGF brings the myriad work emerging in the growing field of animal and posthumanist studies together in its diversity. We are talking across disciplinary boundaries- science, social science, and humanities- drawing on disciplines including philosophy, biology, feminist...
Ruthe Hellier-Tinoco, Music rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu Gabriela Soto Laveaga,History gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu Sarah Townsend, Spanish and Portuguese stownsend@spanport.ucsb.edu Contemporary or modern Mexico, covering the twentieth and twenty-first centuries, is the principle focus of this group, with an emphasis on political, ideological, cultural, social, technological, pedagogical, and artistic movements, processes, and activities. Through our research...
Conveners Mary Hancock, Anthropology and History hancock@anth.ucsb.edu David Novak, Music dnovak@music.ucsb.edu The Research Focus Group in Ethnography and Cultural Studies aims to take stock of the ways that ethnographic practice has diversified in response to the challenges of contemporary culture. Our central questions are these: How does contemporary ethnography work?...
Friday, July 27/6:30 PM Theater & Dance Building, UCSB Studio Theater Three new plays written, acted, and danced by the students of the Isla Vista Teen Center will be performed. The performance is free; a reception will follow. Sponsored by Nuestra Voz and I.V. Arts....
Gender, Creative Dissidence, and the Discourses of African Diaspora: A Colloquium in Honor of Ama Ata Aidoo May 24-26, 2012 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB UC-Santa Barbara campus © Nana Kofi Acquah © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. © Ayebia Clarke Publishing Ltd. The African Studies Research Focus Group at UCSB proudly...
Alan Jabbour (Library of Congress, American Folklife Center) Friday, May 18 / 3:00 PM Music Room 1145 Alan Jabbour was a key early figure in the instrumental folk music revival in North America. As a Duke University graduate student in the 1960s, he became fascinated with the history...
Joshua Dean (Political Science, UCSB) Colin Kuehl (Political Science, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Zamira Yusufjonova (History, UCSB) Thursday, May 17th / 4:00pm Lane Room, Ellison Hall Graduate students will present their work in progress. Dean will present “What Does It Mean to Belong to a Nation? An Examination of...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...
Winter 2011-2012 Friday, October 14 (12pm, HSSB 4041) Michele Salzman (UC Riverside) "Elite Contestations, Space and Ideology after the Sack of Rome in 410 Friday, October 14 (3pm in TBA) Emily Gowers (Cambridge) Saturday, October 15 (9:15-4 in HSSB 6020) Multi-Campus Research Group Meeting Monday, October 17 (5pm, HSSB 6020) Deborah Carlson (Texas A&M) "The...
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...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Twilight: Breaking Dawn Friday, Jan 20 at 7&10 PM Monday, Jan 23 at 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4...
David C. Kang (International Relations,USC) Wednesday, January 11 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room HSSB 6020 North Korea remains both a practical problem and an intellectual puzzle,with actions that sometimes appear self-defeating,aggressive,and unpredictable. This talk will make two overarching arguments that help make sense of North...
José Colmeiro (European Languages & Literature, University of Auckland, New Zealand) Tuesday, January 10 / 2:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will examine the global frames of memory, understanding that the traditional spaces, channels and forms of collective memory are being transformed by, and...
Jude Mikal (Research Development Coordinator, IHC) Tuesday, November 8 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Has the search for graduate funding left you feeling lost or overwhelmed? The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is sponsoring a funding search and proposal writing workshop for graduate students...
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...
Ryoko Suzuki (Economics, Keio University) Sandra A. Thompson ( Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 2:30 PM 1205 Education In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. Our work is inspired by Goodwin (2007) and Sidnell (2006). Sidnell’s discussion focuses particularly on a...
Shawn Warner-Garcia (Dept. of Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education This paper explores how the concepts of identity and ideology are linked on an interactional level through stance-taking (Du Bois 2007). Specifically, I demonstrate how stance bridges identity and ideology through...
PAST EVENTS Spring 2006 TALK: Re-membering Revolution: Recent Trends in Cuban Drama Yael Prizant (Theater, UCLA) Thursday, April 20 / 6:00 PM / Old Gym, 101C TALK: Performance and the New Social Order Marko Peljhan (Department of Art, UCSB) Tuesday, May 2 / 5:30 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room,...
The NEH Division of Public Programs supports the development of humanities content and interactivity that excite, inform, and stir thoughtful reflection upon culture, identity, and history in creative and new ways. Grants for America’s Media Makers should encourage dialogue, discussion, and civic engagement, and they should foster...
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