The Asian/American Studies Collective aims to further the interdisciplinary study of the historical and contemporary experiences of racialized Asian populations in the US. We also seek to highlight the various intersections of positionalities and experiences within Asian American communities and to connect these to broader...
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...
David R. Ambaras (History, North Carolina State University) Wednesday, June 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 David R. Ambaras is a scholar of late nineteenth and early twentieth century Japanese history. His first book, Bad Youth: Juvenile Delinquency and the Politics of Everyday Life in Japan...
Rita Lucarelli (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Monday, June 5, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this lecture the character of the ancient Egyptian magical practices, with a special focus on the role that demons played in magical texts and images, will be thoroughly...
Thursday, June 1, 2017 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room Derek Downey (Navy) Edgar Guapo (Army) Rocio Iribe (Marine Corps) Ruben Maldonado (Marine Corps) Four student veterans will read stories about their military experience. Following the reading there will be time for questions and answers from the...
Derek Katz (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, May 31, 2017 / 3:30 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections In honor of the Music Academy of the West’s 70th Anniversary, the UC Santa Barbara Library has digitized 400 early and fragile concert recordings from the famous conservatory, including special...
Joshua Dubler (Religion, University of Rochester) Thursday, May 25, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Joshua Dubler takes stock of the current critical discourses around mass incarceration and argues that if you are not yet a prison abolitionist there is...
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...
Anya Pokazanyeva Foxen (Philosophy, Cal Poly State University, San Luis Obispo) May 24, 2017 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB In the United States in the 1920s there were two classes of people who could pull off a turban: “Oriental” men and fashionable white women. This fact points to...
Saturday, May 20, 2017/ 1:00 PM Leilah Danielson (History, Northern Arizona University) HSSB 4041 Leilah Danielson is the author of American Gandhi: A.J. Muste and the History of Radicalism in the 20th Century (2014). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday, May 19, 2017 / 12:30 PM-6:30PM Girvetz Hall 1004 Events at Standing Rock - from April 2016 to February 2017 - altered the media landscape, created new ways to protect the water and land, and launched a resurgence of indigenous centered leadership. Join co-founders of...
Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 7:30 PM Participants: Monica Duffy Toft Marc Gopin Moderator: Mark Juergensmeyer UCSB Campbell Hall FREE The question of whether ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) poses an existential threat to the United States and to countries in the Middle East remains a security issue of national and...
Brad Epps (Spanish,University of Cambridge) Monday, May 15, 2017 / 2:00 PM Alumni Hall, Mosher House Foregrounding the human form, its expanses and folds, comings and goings, the cinema of Pedro Almodóvar also foregrounds its artful, artificial construction, its mutability and adaptability, its susceptibility to modification and alteration....
Saturday, May 13, 2017/1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Political Science, Columbia) Alexander Hertel-Fernandez (Political Science, Columbia) is completing a book, Politics at Work, and with Theda Skocpol is writing a study that examines the rise of the Koch political network. Sponsored by the Center for the Study...
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,...
Jacqueline (Jac) Gares (Director) CeCe McDonald (Activist, Prison Reform Advocate) Lal Zimman (Linguistics, UCSB) Wednesday, May 10, 2017/7:0o0 PM Pollock Theater In 2011 CeCe McDonald survived a brutal attack, only to be incarcerated for defending her life. Her story inspired an international movement advocating for her freedom, and since...
Erika Lorraine Milam (History, Princeton) Wednesday, May 10, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Human nature contains the seeds of humanity’s destruction. Or so it seemed to popular consumers of evolutionary theory in the late 1960s who maintained that the essential quality distinguishing...
Heather Blurton (English, UCSB) Shamma Boyarin (English, University of Victoria) Christine Chism (English, UCLA) Paul Cobb (History, University of Pennsylvania) Matthew Fisher (English, UCLA) Sharon Kinoshita (Literature, UCSC) Elias Muhanna (Comparative Literature, Brown) Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UCSB) Daniel Seldon (Literature, UCSC) Friday, May 5, 2017 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Loma Pelona Center This...
Caitlin Rathe (History, UCSB) Friday, May 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building While completing her dissertation, Rathe is affiliated with the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development. Sponsored by the Center for Work, Labor, and Democracy....
May 5, 2017/1:00 PM University Center and Corwin Pavilion The Beyond Academia conference at UC Santa Barbara is an annual event aimed at preparing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in all stages and disciplines to pursue a wide range of career options after graduate school. The conference...
Weavers: Jennifer Bates Lois Bohna Linda Yamane Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room Three Native American basketweavers will discuss the role that weaving plays in each of their communities. The basketweavers will also weave in their traditional style, showcasing each of their designs and techniques. Jennifer Bates...
Scott Heerman (History, University of Miami) Thursday, May 4, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 Scott Heerman is Assistant Professor of History at the University of Miami and is currently the Barbara Thom Postdoctoral Fellow at the Huntington Library. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the...
Janneke Adema (Centre for Disruptive Media, Coventry University) Monday, May 1, 2017/ 4:00 PM Library Room 1312, Mountain Side *This event has been postponed until further notice. The growing membership of for-profit academic networks such as Academia.edu and ResearchGate has gone hand in hand with an increasing use of...
Jenni Sorkin (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB)* Thursday, April 27, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 * This event has been cancelled. Ceramics has been a marginal practice within the history of postwar art. But embedded in a discourse of experimentation with materials,...
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...
Svetlana Maslinskaya (Research Fellow, the Institute of Russian Literature) April 27, 2107 / 4:00 PM BUCHN 1940 The idea of child heroism in Russian literature for children first can be traced to state ideology and analyzed as part of patriotic pedagogical discourse both in the Russian...
Zingha Foma (History, UCSB) April 26, 2017/5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk-showcase, Zingha Foma will present her research project entitled “Afrikan Textiles: Reclaiming Stolen Histories, Identities, and Technologies through Dress Practices.” Informed by historical research, Zingha argues that Afrikan textile production...
Linda Hess (Religious Studies, Stanford University) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM 6056 HSSB Kabir, the iconoclastic fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, composed his poetry orally. His poems, transmitted through song, spread quickly and were soon preserved in manuscripts and other media. Drawing on extensive ethnographic and textual...
Amelia R. Brown (Greek History & Language, University of Queensland) Monday, April 24, 2017 /4:00 PM HSSB 4041 The ancient Greeks were never politically unified before the rise of Rome, yet they succeeded in developing and maintaining a common culture all around the Mediterranean coasts ‘like frogs around...
Prahlad Singh Tipanya and Ensemble Sunday, April 23, 2017 / 8:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The poetry of Kabir, the acclaimed fifteenth-century poet-saint of North India, has had a transformative influence on both Hindu bhakti traditions and the Sikh scriptural tradition enshrined in the Adi Granth....
Jonathan Goldberg (English, Emory) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English, UCSB) Friday, April 21, 2017 / 1:00 PM-4:30 PM Saturday, April 22, 2017 / 8:30 AM-4:00 PM Loma Pelona Conference Center With the present rise of ephemera studies, we hope to investigate the limits, depths, and abilities of the...
Wednesday, April 20, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 11th, 2017 / 12:00 PM Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 12:00 PM Join us for a facilitated brown-bag discussion of timely text. Join for one or all three Thursday sessions: April 20th (part 1), May 11th (part 2) and...
Julie Eizenberg (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Hank Koning (Founding Principle, KoningEizenberg) Thursday, April 20, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Architects Koning Eizenberg take on the idyll of local and neighborhood through the design of recent projects in the Los Angeles region in Urban Hallucinations. They bring...
France Winddance Twine (Sociology, UCSB) Friday, April 14, 2017 / 1:00 PM 4041 Humanities and Social Science Building Twine is the author, most recently, of Outsourcing the Womb: Race, Class & Gestational Surrogacy in a Global Market (2015); Girls with Guns: Firearms, Feminism, Militarism (2013); and...
Miranda Joseph (Gender and Women’s Studies, University of Arizona) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk begins with a review of the extensive critiques of community offered by Joseph and other scholars of critical and cultural theory. While earlier analyses...
Evelyne Laurent-Perrault (History, UCSB) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4080 This talk explores the social roles enslaved and free women of African descent played in urban centers, in spite of the fact that they were perceived as the lowest members of society. Sponsored by the IHC's...
Lorena Wolffer (Artist) Thursday, April 13, 2017 / 12:45 PM meet in front of the Student Resource Building Mapping Dissent is a collaborative public art project with queer feminist and Mexico-City based artist, Lorena Wolffer and part of the ongoing Queer Hemispheres Radical Performance Series. During the performance...
Nathan Schneider (Media Studies, University of Colorado - Boulder) Thursday, April 6, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What motivates people and mobilizes them to create change? In 2011, people in countries around the world rose up against their governments and economic systems,...
Nomi Dave (Music,University of Virginia) Friday, March 10, 2017 / 1:00 PM Music Library 2406 In January 2016, a Guinean hip-hop artist, Tamsir Touré, appeared in court for sexually assaulting a young girl. The case had generated intense coverage over several months after a video of the assault...
Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 Local attorney Marysol Bretado & members of the Latina/o community will discuss this year's UCSB Reads 2017 book selection, Into the Beautiful North, which explores issues of immigration, return migration, and border...
Comments by Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Jannie Scott (Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) Jasmine Yarish (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, March 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Jannie Scott (Postdoctoral Fellow, Center for Black Studies Research, UCSB) "Refashioning Black community in the Wake of Emancipation:...
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...
Donna Orange (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Tuesday, March 7, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thinking about community, badly needed, is in short supply in current public discourse. We will step back here to consider what meanings community might bring...
M.M. McCabe (Emerita Professor of Ancient Philosophy, Kings College, London and Sather Professor, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 3, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 M. M. McCabe is Emerita Professor of Ancient Philosophy at Kings College, London, and is currently Sather Professor of Classics at UC Berkeley. She...
Keith Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Madeline Cantú (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) March 3, 2017 / 3:00 PM Music Building, Room 1219 This lecture will center on the Bengali Bāul songs of Lālan Fakir, an acclaimed nineteenth-century Bāul fakir, and will be followed...
Stuart "Bill" Leslie" (History of Science & Technology, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, March 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Southern California’s smartest defense intellectuals preferred to hang out in some of its toniest beach communities, at RAND in Santa Monica, Hughes Research Laboratories in Malibu, and Nortronics...
Saturday, February 25, 2017 / 2:00 PM Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve a ticket here. In a special Cinephile Saturday program, the Pollock Theater is proud to present Seven Samurai on 35mm film. Kurosawa's masterpiece tells the story of a...
Saturday, February 25, 2017 / 9:30 AM Social Sciences and Media Studies Building 2F, Conference Room 2135 A striking aspect of contemporary Japanese culture is the pervasive nature of discussions and representations of “spirits” (tama or tamashii), generally rooted in vaguely articulated discourses on “animism” (animizumu) that...
Jessica Benjamin (Postdoctoral Program in Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis, NYU) Thursday, February 23, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk Benjamin brings together her psychoanalytic theory of the Third together with her experience with dialogue in the Middle East and with colleagues involved...
Friday, February 17, 2017 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM Annenberg Conference Room, SSMS 4315 Participants: Jeremy Douglass (UCSB) Lisa Han (UCSB) Mél Hogan (Calgary) Melody Jue (UCSB) Paulina Mickiewicz (McGill) Rahul Mukerjee (U Penn) Max Ritts (UBC) Rafico Ruiz (Trent) Chris Russill (Carleton) Bhaskar Sarkar (UCSB) John Shiga (Ryerson) The presence or absence of water determines the...
Juan E. Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edina Lekovic (Director of Policy & Programming, Muslim Public Affairs Council) Yasmin Sallak (Molecular, Cellular, and Developmental Biology, UCSB) Laila Shereen Sakr (Film & Media, UCSB) Sherene Seikaly (History, UCSB) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the aftermath...
Lee Vinsel (Stevens Institute of Technology) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Our culture is obsessed with innovation. Innovation is thought to be the goal of business, policy-making, philanthropy, education, even play. Yet, the vast majority of human activity aims not at creating or...
Marian Schwartz (translator) Thursday, February 16, 2017 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Marian Schwartz has translated over seventy volumes of Russian classic and contemporary fiction, history, biography, criticism, and fine art. She is the principal English translator of the works of Nina Berberova and translated...
Dimitri Gutas (Near Eastern Languages & Civilizations, Yale University) Monday, February 13, 2017 / 5:00 PM HSSB 6020 This talk examines Hellenic science in late antiquity in its historical, social, and political context, including the consolidation of the Aristotelian/(Neo-)Platonic curriculum of higher studies, expressing the scientific...
Margaret Malamud (S.P and Margaret Manasse Chair, College of Arts and Sciences, New Mexico State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Excluded from most schools, enterprising free black women and men in northern urban African American communities established their...
Ann M. Little (History, Colorado State University) Thursday, February 9, 2017 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Esther Wheelwright (1696-1780) embodies the imperial conquest of North America like no other eighteenth-century figure, yet she has been largely written out of the story of American history. Born and raised to...
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...
Nicole Holliday (Linguistics, Pomona College) Friday, February 3, 2017/12:00 PM 3605 South Hall Bring a brown-bag lunch; dessert will be provided. Dr. Nicole Holliday is a Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. Nicole Holliday's research is in sociolinguistics, specifically, how individuals interact...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) and members of the Civic Imagination Project research team Friday, February 3, 2017 / 10:00 AM – 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Transmedia worldbuilding is an approach to creative collaboration in which practitioners build on shared values...
Henry Jenkins (Communication, Journalism, Cinematic Arts and Education, USC) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Henry Jenkins's 2006 book Convergence Culture: Where Old and New Media Collides ended with the speculation that we were acquiring skills through play that would soon...
Nicole Holliday (Linguistics, Pomona College) Thursday, February 2, 2017 / 3:30 PM 3605 South Hall Dr. Nicole Holliday is a Mellon Chau Postdoctoral Fellow in Linguistics and Cognitive Science at Pomona College. Holliday's research is in sociolinguistics, specifically, how individuals interact with language to conceptualize and...
Ayo A. Coly (Comparative Literature and African Studies at Dartmouth College) Wednesday, February 1, 2017 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a recently published essay, Ayo A. Coly has argued that the colonial rhetorical deployment of the African female body to signify Africa sealed the fate...
Tues, Jan. 31, 2017 /4:00 PM UCSB Library, Instruction & Training Room 1312 Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) Ken Kosik (Neuroscience, UCSB) Sameer Pandya (Asian American Studies, UCSB) Kay Young (English, UCSB) By selecting a fiction book this year, after 10 years of non-fiction titles, the UCSB Reads Selection Advisory...
Friday, January 27, 2017 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1960, dancer-choreographer and social activist Anna Halprin taught a revolutionary workshop on her open-air dance deck located on the slopes of Mt. Tamalpais north of San Francisco. A natural environment...
Thursday, January 26, 2017 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge Stephanie Camba is a writer, poet, singer, MC, visual art-maker, fighter, healer, and eternal learner. With transnational origins, they were born in the Philippines and raised in the Marshall Islands. Camba has struggled with finding a...
Sahar Sajadieh (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, Jan 26th, 4:00 PM at UCSB Glass Box Gallery Reception at 3:45pm “How to Explain Pictures to a Live Paro” is an interactive durational performance artwork about gun control policies in the US, and the safety and security...
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...
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...
Michele Valerie Ronnick (Classical and Modern Languages, Literatures, and Cultures, Wayne State University) January 19, 2017 / 6:00 PM Art Design and Architecture Museum For many years only well-born Americans had access to a classically–based liberal arts education. But after the Civil War newly freed slaves aspired to...
Katherine Steele Brokaw (UC Merced) Thursday, January 19 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How does Shakespeare make different kinds of meaning in various local communities? And how can amateur theatre be a form of community engagement for drama and Shakespeare scholars? This talk will...
Wednesday, January 18, 2017 /10:00 AM UCSB Library Paseo Chancellor Henry T. Yang, Executive Vice Chancellor David Marshall, and University Librarian Denise Stephens will hand out free copies of the UCSB Reads 2017 book, Into the Beautiful North by Pulitzer Prize finalist Luis Alberto Urrea, to UCSB...
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...
Rui Kohiyama (Tokyo Woman’s Christian University, Japan) Wednesday, January 11, 2017 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although their initiatives in criticizing child marriage and widowhood in India and foot-binding in...
Jesse Halvorsen (History, UCSB) Friday, December 2, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Halvorsen is completing a dissertation on the logistics industry in Southern California, "Moving Goods, Moving America: Technology, Public Policy, and the Struggle Over North America's Largest Port-Logistics Nexus." Sponsored by the Center for the Study of...
Thursday, December 1, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library (Special Research Collections, 3rd Floor, Mountain Side) A new UCSB Library exhibition in its Special Research Collections will explore the political, cultural, and social struggles of Isla Vista to become an independent, cohesive community, from 1970 to the...
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...
Wu Wenguang (Director, Investigating My Father) Zhang Ping, Liu Xiaolei, Zhang Mengai (Members of The Memory Priject) Moderator: Michael Berry (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies, UCLA) Saturday November 19, 2016 / 2:00pm-5:15pm The Pollock Theater This event is free but space is limited; please reserve...
Benjamin Page (Political Science, Northwestern University) Friday, November 18, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Page, who studies the political attitudes and behavior of the 1%, is the author of Class War? What Americans Really Think about Economic Inequality (2009) and many other books on U.S. public opinion...
Donna Zuckerberg (Eidolon Journal) Friday, November 18, 2016 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The manosphere - a virtual network of more than a hundred thousand men, mostly white and heterosexual, sharing anti-feminist ideology on blogs and internet forums - seems an unlikely place to find classical reception. But...
Harry Boyte (Sabo Center for Democracy and Citizenship, Augsburg College) Thursday, November 17, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the midst of enormous external pressures to narrow or eliminate the public purposes of higher education, how can educators become agents of constructive, democratizing...
Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) Thomas Mapfumo (Blacks Unlimited) Thursday, November 17, 2016 Book Launch: MultiCultural Center, 5:00-6:00 PM Blacks Unlimited Concert: Storke Plaza, 7:00-10:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero is a historian of Zimbabwe and Southern Africa. His book, African Music, Power and Being in Colonial Zimbabwe, documents...
Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Tuesday, November 15, 2016 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater A social justice approach to building campus community encourages activism. What does it look like to have an inclusive university invested in just community values on and off...
Sarah Bond (Classics, University of Iowa) Monday, November 14, 2016 / 5:00 PM HSSB 3041 Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will examine the use of slave labor in monumental building through a broad historical lens. The use of contracted and slave labor...
Sarah Bond (Classics,University of Iowa) Monday, November 14, 2016 / 3:00 PM Public History Seminar Room, HSSB 3208 Sarah Bond, Assistant Professor of Classics at the University of Iowa, will be leading a seminar on GIS mapping of ancient slavery. Sponsored by the IHC's Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning...
Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:30 PM Graduate Student Lounge, Multi Cultural Center, UCSB Friday, November 11, 2016 / 9:00 AM Centennial House, UCSB Saturday, November 12, 2016 / 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra, Santa Barbara The Department of Spanish and Portuguese at UCSB and...
UCSB students: Zenzile Riddick Katie Walker Jonathan Gomez Jasmine Kelekay Moderators: Rick Benjamin (Associate Director for Community Engagement, IHC) Margaret Klawunn (Vice Chancellor for Student Affairs, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB How best might our academic experiences at UCSB be both guided and deepened...
Alice Echols (History, University of Southern California) Friday, November 4, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB In addition to Hot Stuff: Disco and the Remaking of American Culture (2010), Echols has published Scars of Sweet Paradise: The Life and Times of Janis Joplin (1999) and Daring to Be Bad:...
Alice O’Connor (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 5:00 PM UCSB Library, Special Research Collections On November 8, Isla Vista residents will take part in an historic vote that will determine the future of self-governance in the community. With ballot initiatives E and F, they will...
Giuliana Perrone (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 3, 2016 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4065 Through an examination of suits brought by freed people, this talk explores the role that state courts played in constructing - and reconstructing - the black family. Because they lacked legal pasts, former...
Laura Steil (Traveling Faculty, School for International Training, Paris) November 2, 2016 / 5:30 PM 3145 SSMS This talk addresses YouTube-mediated conflicts over artistic authorship and authority, between artists from the African continent and those in the French Diaspora. Arguments regarding the source of popular movements, and whether...
Timon Screech (School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London) Wednesday, November 2, 2016 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 The English East India Company was founded in 1600 as a spice-importing organization. In 1611, it sent a ship to Japan, which arrived in 1613. This talk will...
Friday, October 28, 2016 / 9:00 AM - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Scholars from UCSB examine how and why traditional folktales are continuously renewed and reused in genres as divergent as children's bedtime stories, adult literature, oral folk tales, Disney films, contemporary television programs,...
Cavan Concannon (Religion,University of Southern California) Friday, October 28, 2016/12:00 PM HSSB 4080 Modern historians map the diversity of early Christianity in a variety of ways, from declines into heresy to competition among “varieties” of early Christianities. Drawing particularly on the philosophical work of Gilles Deleuze...
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...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Wednesday, October 26, 2016 / 10:00 AM-12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this workshop, Laura Browder will draw on her sixteen years of creating documentary dramas and museum exhibitions through university-community partnerships to address participants’ questions. These might include...
Enrico Mario Santi (Hispanic Studies, University of Kentucky) October 26, 2016 / 3:00 PM Wofsy Room, 4th Floor Phelps Hall Enrico Mario Santi, the William T. Bryan Professor of Hispanic Studies at University of Kentucky, will discuss Cabrera Infante's Carnavalesque masterpiece in light of Santi's work with the...
Laura Browder (English, University of Richmond) Tuesday, October 25, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2013, Laura Browder was commissioned by the city of Richmond to produce a piece for the RVA Street Art Festival, a four-day festival housed in the disused bus...
Jeremy Douglass (English, UCSB) Eileen Joy (punctum books) John Majewski (Dean, Humanities & Fine Arts) October 20, 2016/4:00 PM Interdisciplinary Research Collaboratory, Library Room 2322 A scholar (Jeremy Douglass), publisher (Eileen A. Joy) and administrator (Dean Majewski) share their work, and their views on DH, scholarly publishing,...
Christopher Prendergast (Modern and Midieval Languages,University of Cambridge) October 20, 2016/5:30 PM Mosher Alumni House, Board Room The harnessing of the developing discipline of comparative philology to various agendas centred on ethnicity, nation and race is well-known as one of the key junction points at which nineteenth-century...
Mary Nash, (History, Universitat de Barcelona) Tuesday October 18, 2016/1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Catalonia has a lengthy history of resistance to the nation's central government, especially in the news recently for its push to succeed from Spain. Professor Nash will discuss Catalonia's role in moving...
Nguyễn Quốc Thành (Founding Director, QUEER FOREVER) Monday, October 17, 2016/5:00 PM 6020 HSSB, McCune Conference Room Nguyễn Quốc Thành holds a Master of Science from Warsaw University, Poland. Since 2007, he has co-organized the Five Flavor Film Festival in Warsaw. In Hà Nội, Nguyễn recently exhibited Soldiers'...
Anne H. Charity Hudley (Linguistics, The College of William and Mary) Friday, October 14, 2016 / 10:00 AM - 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Community-based participatory research (CBPR) empowers community members to fully participate in research from idea conception to interpretation and presentation of findings....
George Lipsitz (Black Studies, UCSB) Barbara Tomlinson (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What is a university and why does the work we do here matter? What is the relationship between what goes on in our classrooms, studios and laboratories...
Karl Jacoby (History, Columbia University) Members of the Ellis family Thursday, October 13, 2016 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To his contemporaries in Gilded Age Manhattan, Guillermo Eliseo was a fantastically wealthy Mexican banker and broker, with an apartment on Central Park West...
Andrew Jewett (History, Harvard University) Friday, October 7, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Andrew Jewett's talk traces fears about science's cultural impact among intellectual and political leaders and ordinary citizens in postwar America. Jewett is the author of Science, Democracy, and the American University: From the Civil...
Alon Shepon (The Weizmann Institute of Science, Israel) October 5, 2016/2:00 PM HSSB 6020 Feeding a growing population while minimizing environmental degradation is a global challenge. It is now clear that because of the enormous regional to global impacts of livestock on air and water quality, ocean health,...
Tuesday, October 4, 2016 / 5:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB New members always welcome! Our group brings together diverse interests on campus and beyond with a broad but common interest on health, medicine and care. Approaches to health and medicine – viewed as an...
Steven Pincus (History, Yale University) Friday, September 30, 2016/1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Historian Steven Pincus speaks on his recently published book, The Heart of the Declaration, which revises our understanding of the Declaration of Independence. He is also the author of 1688: The First Modern Revolution (2011) and...
Anthony McCall (Artist, Director) September 28, 2016 / 5:30 PM SoHo Club, 1221 State Street Please join the History of Art and Architecture Department for a conversation with the artist, Anthony McCall, and an interactive screening of his film Line Describing a Cone. Sponsored by the Department of the...
Monday, June 13, 2106/9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This multidisciplinary conference gathers together leading experts in the broad field of Japanese religious history, as well as emerging young scholars (including advanced graduate students and recent PhDs), from several countries, in what is perhaps the first...
H. Samy Alim (Education, Stanford University) Friday, June 3, 2016 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 H. Samy Alim is Professor of Education and (by courtesy) Anthropology and Linguistics at Stanford University, where he directs African & African American Studies (AAAS), the Center for Race,...
Tuesday, May 31, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB, translator of Tides) Jorge Luis Castillo (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Professors Suzanne Jill Levine and Jorge Luis Castillo will present a bilingual reading of Tides, Levine’s translation...
Keynote: Efraín Kristal (University of California, Los Angeles) Friday, May 27, 2016 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The Graduate Center for Literary Research's third annual graduate conference seeks to explore the topics of translation, memory and exchange within the context of migration. We are interested...
Friday, May 27, 2016 / 5:00 PM CNSI, Elings Hall, UCSB Akshay Cadambi (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Sölen Kiratli (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) HIVE is a sculptural sound instrument, in which the design of sound and spatial geometry are taken as a unified notion. By...
Thursday, May 26, 2016 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB student veterans will present original writings on topics relating to their diverse military experiences, including their reasons for enlisting, their deployments, homecomings, and return to the civilian community. There will be time for questions...
Tuesday, May 24, 2016/ 9:30 AM Corwin Pavilion and the MultiCultural Center Theater Nearly 200 students from area high schools and community organizations will present the results of their work within the SKILLS program through a poster session in Corwin Pavilion and multimedia presentations in the MCC...
Bruce M. Sullivan (Asian Studies and Comparative Study of Religions, Northern Arizona University) May 22, 2016/2:30 PM Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art Hanumān is an extraordinary, even unique, figure in Hindu religious, literary, and artistic traditions. Famously, he has the appearance, and sometimes the character,...
Friday, May 20, 2016 / 7:30 PM Art, Design & Architecture Museum Exhibit: Saturday, May 14-Sunday, May 29. The past two years have been a time of trials and errors, of successes and failures, and times of solitude and community life. The work presented here is the...
Peter Leese (Institute of English, Germanic and Romance Studies, University of Copenhagen) Thursday, May 19, 2016 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB One of the earliest definitions of historical trauma studies is Mark Micale and Paul Lerner’s edited collection Traumatic Pasts: History, Psychiatry and Trauma in...