Featured Events

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...

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....

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22 Feb

National Endowment for the Humanities Program Officer to visit UCSB

Sponsored by the Office of Research, the Dean of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the IHC. You are invited to the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) for two days of events with Dr. Stefanie Walker, Program Officer, Division of Research Programs at the...

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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...

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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...

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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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20 May

Sacred Waters: Arts and Ecologies of Mami Wata and Other Aquatic Divinities in Africa

Henry Drewal (Art History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Thursday, May 20, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Arts for sacred waters in Africa are ancient and widespread. They express deeply-held beliefs and practices about the sanctity and power of water. Mami Wata, Pidgin English for "Mother...

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18 May

Plagues and Pleasures on the Salton Sea

Introduction by Steve Witkowski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 18, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once known as the “California Riviera,” the Salton Sea is called one of America’s worst ecological disasters: a fetid, stagnant, salty lake, coughing up dead fish and...

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12 May

The End of the Public University and the Beginning of the Next

Christopher Newfield (English, UCSB) Wednesday, May 12, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB History is replete with nations that declined because their leaders gradually undermined their own best institutions. The U.S. now appears to be doing this to its exemplary higher education system, with the University...

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11 May

The Global Water Crisis and the Coming Battle for the Right to Water

Maude Barlow (Chairperson, Food and Water Watch) Tuesday, May 11, 2010 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion By 2030, demand for fresh water will outstrip supply by forty percent. The global water crisis is the greatest human and ecological crisis of our time. Because most of us were...

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04 May

Alien Ocean: Life at Sea

Stefan Helmreich (Anthropology, MIT) Tuesday, May 4, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A new generation of marine biologists, employing the science of DNA sequencing, is coming to see the ocean as animated by its smallest inhabitants: marine microbes. Thriving in extreme conditions – from...

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