08
Oct
Get Him to the Greek
Friday, October 8 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 11 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
Upcoming Events
08
Oct
Busy Dying: The United Farm Workers and Caesar Chavez on the Eve of Self-destruction
Matthew Garcia (History, Brown University) Friday, October 8 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Garcia is the author of A World of Its Own: Race, Labor and Citrus in the Making of Greater Los Angeles, 1900-1970. He is now writing a history of the United Farm Workers. Sponsored by...
07
Oct
IHC Open House
Thursday, October 7 / 4:00-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us for the IHC's seventh annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC's two programming series for this academic year: Geographies of Place and Faculty Forums. Find out about...
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Upcoming Events
06
Oct
“I Long for my Home in Kentuck”: Christy’s Minstrels in Britain
Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) Wednesday, October 6 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1864, the popular Presbyterian monthly Good Words added a late salvo to the Carlyle-Mill “Negro Question” debate. Despite acknowledging that what Good Words’ British readers knew as “Negro music” –...
06
Oct
The New Nativism: Arizona, Immigration, Hysteria
Wednesday, October 6 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 This seminar will focus on this emergence of the New Right in the U.S. and its hysteria over immigration as evidenced by recent events in Arizona. Participants will focus on different aspects of the immigration debate. Mario Garcia...
02
Oct
Sol Food Festival
Saturday, October 2 / 1:00 PM Plaza de Vera Cruz across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market Please join the IHC’s Food Studies Research Focus Group for a field trip to the Sol Food Festival, a one-day community-created festival to raise awareness of the Sustainable,...
01
Oct
Improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe Friday, October 1 / 8:00 PM- Opening Night Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
01
Oct
How to Train Your Dragon
Friday, October 1 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 4 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
01
Oct
But but but…: Perspectives on Particles in Context
Friday, October 1 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This workshop will consist of a talk and a data session: Talk: Sandy Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB) and Jean Mulder (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) "The turn-final particle BUT in English conversation" Data session: "Concession and contrast: Intonation Unit-final though...
29
Sep
Improvability Auditions
Wednesday, September 29 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall You think you're funny? Audition for UCSB's premiere comedy troupe....
29
Sep
History, Modernity, and Counterfactuals: Walter Benjamin’s ‘Theses on the Philosophy of History’
Christopher Prendergast (French, University of Cambridge) Wednesday, September 29 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Historical explanation is the explanation of outcomes in terms of causal antecedents. All too often however the causal account becomes indistinguishable from a vindicatory narrative, the tale of outcomes told as...
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Upcoming Events
24
Sep
Iron Man 2
Iron Man 2 Friday September 24 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday September 27 at 10 PM $ 4 at I.V Theater...
31
Jul
Psycho Beach Party
Magic Lantern presents An Outdoor Movie Event Psycho Beach Party in Little Acorn Park Saturday July 31st at 9pm Cookiewiches on site, don't forget to BYOB(lanket)! Saturday July 31st at 9pm. An Outdoor Movie Event! Psycho Beach Party in Little Acorn Park. Cookiewiches on site, don't forget to BYOB(lanket)! Follow Magic Lantern Films on...
08
Jul
Greenberg
Thursday, July8 at 10PM Friday, July 9 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 12 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
01
Jul
Ghost Writer
GHOST WRITER Thursday, July 1 at 10PM Friday, July 2 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 5 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Thursday, July 1 at 10PM Friday, July 2 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 5 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
24
Jun
The Crazies
THE CRAZIES Thursday, June 24 at 10PM Friday, June 25 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, June 28 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Thursday, June 24 at 10PM Friday, June 25 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, June 28 at 10PM I.V Theater, only $4 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
08
Jun
Tusalava
With live soundtrack by the Choir Boys (Jeff Kaiser & Andrew Pask) Tuesday, June 8 / 7:00 PM College of Creative Studies, Old Little Theater A special night of music film and poetry. A screening Len Lye's 1929 modernist classic, Tusalava, will be accompanied with live music by...
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Upcoming Events
04
Jun
Imaginarium Carnival!
Friday, June 4 / 6:00 PM & 9:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Come Enjoy Our Imaginarium Carnival! Doors Open at 6 Snow Cones Hot Dogs Kettle Corn Henna Carnival Games FANTASTIC PRIZES Surprises! Make a Mask Contest - Prizes! IV Circus DJ Robbie Shaw and MidiCulture LIV Snow Cones • Hot Dogs • Kettle...
04
Jun
Soul Food Today and Yesterday: Discussion of Readings from Hog & Hominy and Sistah Vegan
Friday, June 4 / 10:30 AM IHC Seminar Room Join the Food Studies RFG for an engaging discussion of selections from two books: Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, edited by A. Breeze Harper and Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from...
02
Jun
Embodying Stripping: A Spatial Analysis of the Gendered and Sexualized Performances and (Hetero)performativities of Strip Club Locales
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, June 2 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building upon the vast amount of work on interaction-based perspectives on stripping, this talk will incorporate two areas of inquiry that have been absent in the literature: the performance or embodiments...
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Upcoming Events
28
May
improvability
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 28 / 8:00 PM - "Improvathon" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
28
May
“They’re All Real”: Race, Gender, and Authenticity in Asian American Body Talk
Elaine Chun (English, University of South Carolina) Friday, May 28 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Discourses about the body, or ‘body talk’, often constitute strategic practices for constructing identities, given that the body is a central text through which sociocultural meanings are displayed and performed. This presentation examines...
25
May
Vietnam’s Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War
Andrew Johns (History, BYU) Tuesday, May 25 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In a talk based on his new book, Vietnam's Second Front: Domestic Politics, the Republican Party, and the War, Andrew L. Johns assesses the influence of the Republican Party – its congressional leadership,...
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Upcoming Events
25
May
Black Actors in Adult Film
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Mosher Alumni House On May 25, 2010, New Sexualities and Conversations for Change paired up to present “Race and Desire: Black Actors in Adult Film” at the Mosher Alumni House. Panelists Vanessa Blue, Sinnamon Love, and Tyler Knight discussed the politics of race,...
24
May
Theorizing Economies of Desire: A Graduate Student Symposium on Sex Work
Monday, May 24, 2010 McCune conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized and moderated by Mireille Miller-Young, the conference featured two panels and the work of seven graduate students. Andrew Seeber, Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, Elizabeth Rahilly, and Rolando Longoria II presented on a panel titled “Theorizing the Production and...
24
May
www.lovelyweather.com: An Interactive Audio-Visual Installation
Salman Bakht (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Christopher Jette (Music, UCSB) Alejandro Casazi (Art, UCSB) May 24-27 Elings Hall, 2nd Floor (exact location to be determined) www.lovelyweather.com is a work originally designed for viewing on the internet but presented here as an interactive audiovisual installation. This work, part of a...
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Upcoming Events
23
May
Food Security and Farm Labor in California: A Case Study of Santa Barbara County
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Presentations: Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB) Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez,...
21
May
Roman Comedy as Slave Theater
Amy Richlin (Classics, UCLA) Friday, May 21 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For the last 20 years Amy Richlin has been one of the leading figures in classics and feminism. She is the author of Garden of Priapus, Pornography and Representation In Greece and Rome,...
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Upcoming Events
21
May
Avatar
Friday, May 21 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 24 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
20
May
Revisioning an Ancient Synagogue: New Light from the UT Excavations at Ostia
L. Michael White (Classics, University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, May 20 / 3:30 PM Phelps 1160 L. Michael White is a Professor of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins. White also serves as director of the...
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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19
May
Early Tantric Theogonies: The Genesis of Pantheons in the Streams of the Current of the Bhairava Tantras
Mark Dyczkowski (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi) Wednesday, May 19 / 5:00 pm 2001 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building One of the most notable features of the development of tantric scriptural traditions, especially in the early period of their formation, is the...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
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...
18
May
Indian Catholics: Issues from the Perspective of Development
Rowena Robinson (Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) J. E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies Tuesday, May 18 / 4:00 pm Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House The lecture briefly traced the past of Indian Catholics in order to enable us to...
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IHC Research Focus Groups
18
May
Does it Take More Courage to be a Cybernetician Than to be a Gunman?
Eden Medina (Informatics, Indiana University) Tuesday, May 18 / 4:30 PM Seminar Room, 6046 HSSB From 1971 to 1973 Chilean and British engineers, working under the direction of the pioneering British cybernetician Stafford Beer, built a computer network to help make Chile's socialist revolution a reality. The team...
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Upcoming Events
14
May
The Messenger
Friday, May 14 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 17 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
14
May
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 14 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
14
May
Everybody Must Get Stones: The Iranian Search for Lithographic Technology
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Nile Green (History, UCLA) Friday, May 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room Around 1818 the first Muslim printing presses were established in Tabriz (Iran), Bulaq (Egypt) and Lucknow (India). These founding typographic presses were the fruit of distinct local interactions with the...
14
May
What are Dogs Good for in a City?: Rabies, Civilization, and Urban Anxiety in New York City, 1850-1920
Jessica Wang (History, University of British Columbia) Friday, May 14 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Wang's American Science in an Age of Anxiety provided a major study of the effects of Cold War anticommunism on the American scientific community. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work,...
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...
11
May
The Muslim Scare in Europe: Hysteria or Threat
Ian Buruma (Democracy, Human Rights & Journalism, Bard College) Tuesday, May 11 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Award-winning author and journalist Ian Buruma will discuss the debates about Muslim radicalism, immigration, and the challenge from religion in several European countries where anti-immigrant populism is on the rise...
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...
07
May
Dear John
Friday, May 7 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 10 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
07
May
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, May 7 / 8:00 PM - "War on Christmas" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
07
May
Democracy’s Doorstep: Reapportionment and the Quest for Equality in Twentieth Century America
J. Douglas Smith (History, Occidental College) Friday, May 7 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Smith's Managing White Supremacy: Race, Politics and Citizenship in Jim Crow Virginia appeared in 2002. His current project examines one of the nation's most serious but understudied distortions of the idea of...
06
May
Assessing the State of Our (Im)perfect Union: Are We More Divided by Race or Partisanship?
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...
05
May
Demystifying Budgets: How to Design a Budget for Your Research Proposal
Wednesday, May 5 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop is for faculty, lecturers, and researchers who need guidance in preparing a budget for research grants. The discussion will be focused on research in humanities, fine arts, and the social sciences. Topics...
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Upcoming Events
04
May
Public Lives of Posters in San Francisco’s Chinatown, Manilatown, and Japantown, 1970s and 1980s
Tuesday, May 4 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Meeting Rooms This exhibition is a special compendium which well encapsulates visual cultures, global ethnopoles, and urban public spaces of that time. On street poles, storefront windows, and community centers, historic Asian Pacific American graphic art posters...
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Upcoming Events
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...
03
May
What’s So Urban About Food Security? The Why and Where of Hunger in Accra Ghana
Anna Carla Lopez-Carr Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4020 Dr. Lopez-Carr is a geographer researching the spatial complexities of urban food security in West Africa. As the developing world continues to urbanize at lightning pace, health research in these newly urbanized areas falls further and further...
03
May
Central American Forced Migration: Conversations for Change
Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM MultiCultural Center The mainstream media largely frame the topic of migration by utilizing terms such as illegal and undocumented, which have an immediate impact in shaping public perceptions of criminal behavior. The media also focus much attention to the arrival of...
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Upcoming Events
03
May
The Deep Prehistory of Indian Gaming: The Perspective from Mesoamerica
Barbara Voorhies (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, May 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB New evidence is presented for the antiquity of Indian gaming in Mesoamerica. Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG....
30
Apr
improvability
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 30 / 8:00 PM - "Oregon Trail Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
30
Apr
Shakespeare in the Park
Unpredictable Commedia del 'Arte meets Shakespeare in their tragically tragic play, "McBeth" Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM Saturday, May 1 / 7:00 PM Anisqoyo Park, Isla Vista Free...
30
Apr
Obama and the Struggle to Reform U.S. Policy
Theda Skocpol (Harvard, Sociology) Friday, April 30 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Skocpol is the author, most recently, of Inequality and American Democracy: What We Know and What We Need to Learn; and The Transformation of American Politics: Activist Government and the Rise of Conservatism. Sponsored by the Center...
30
Apr
White Ribbon
Friday, April 30 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 3 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook ...
29
Apr
Armenia and the Middle East: Recent Political Developments in the Region
Grigor Hovhannissian (Consul-General of the Republic of Armenia) Thursday, April 29 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 Grigor Hovhannissian. Born in 1971 in Yerevan, Mr. Hovhannissian has an extended academic and professional experience in international affairs. He graduated from the department of Arab Studies of the Yerevan...
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Upcoming Events
28
Apr
Field Trip to Shepherd’s Farm
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM Shepherd's Farm, Santa Barbara Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd's Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details. Sponsored by Community...
27
Apr
Blue Gold: World Water Wars
Tuesday, April 2, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In every corner of the globe, we are polluting, diverting, pumping, and wasting our limited supply of fresh water at an expediential level as population and technology grows. The rampant overdevelopment of agriculture, housing and...
27
Apr
The Sikh Gurdwara: Negotiating, Maintaining and Transmitting Immigrants’ Identities
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....
26
Apr
Semblance, Appearance and Disappearance: Critical Strategies in the Work of Gerhard Richter and Other Contemporary Artists
Regents’ Lecturer Armin Zweite Monday, April 26 / 5:30 PM HSSB 1174 Richter once said: “I don't mistrust reality, of which I know next to nothing. I mistrust the picture of reality conveyed to us by our senses, which is imperfect and circuitous.” The problem is compounded...
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Upcoming Events
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Apr
24
Apr
“New” Evangelical Studies Conference
Saturday, April 24 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB During the 2009 American Academy of Religion annual conference the North American Religions Section hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “‘New’ Evangelical History?” It explored the meaning of evangelical history in a plural North American context, suggesting...
23
Apr
Coercion, Compliance and Resistance in Wartime Japan, 1942-45
Samuel H. Yamashita (History, Pomona College) Friday, April 23 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Samuel H. Yamashita is the Henry E. Sheffield Professor of History at Pomona College and an author of numerous publications on Japanese intellectual history including Leaves from An Autumn of Emergencies: Selections from the...
23
Apr
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 23 / 8:00 PM - "Free Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte FREE...
23
Apr
Don’t Bank on Amerika
Alumni Weekend and 40th Anniversary of the Isla Vista Riots Special Event: Isla Vista Film Festival Friday, April 23 / 7:00 PM Saturday, April 24 / 7:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
22
Apr
Indigenous Cultural Sovereignty in a Global Context
James Fenelon (Sociology, CSU San Bernardino) Thursday, April 22 / 4:00PM Flying A Studios Room, UCEN American Indian and Native Nation struggles over cultural sovereignty are related to conflicts that Indigenous Peoples are involved with globally: over autonomy, land and resource rights, and about the very nature of...
22
Apr
Arctic and Antarctic Circles
Hester Blum (English, Penn State University) Thursday, April 22, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2007 a Russian submarine planted a titanium flag on the Arctic seabed under the North Pole, laying the groundwork for Russia's claim to Arctic oil resources. "Arctic and Antarctic...
21
Apr
The Fabrication of the King: Raphael and Le Brun Reflecting on the Textile Medium
Tristan Weddigen (Art History, Univeristy of Zurich) Wednesday, April 21 / 5:00 PM 1173 HSSB This paper investigates the historical discourse of the textile image. The first case study is dedicated to Raphael's Acts of the Apostles for the Sistine Chapel and examines the visual and biblical self-justification...
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Upcoming Events
21
Apr
The Future of Publishing in the Humanities
Wednesday, April 21, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What does the future of publishing in the humanities look like? This panel will discuss the current challenges that academic publishing in the humanities face and new solutions in response to them. E- scholarship, open...
19
Apr
Nationalizing States Revisited
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...
16
Apr
Beyond Borders: Ancient Societies and Their Conceptual Fontiers
The Second Biannual Ancient Borderlands International Graduate Student Conference Friday, April 16 / 1:00 - 6:00 pm Saturday, April 17 / 8:30 am - 4:15 pm Sunday, April 18 / 8:30 am – 2:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB BORDERLANDS: frontier zones lying along given boundaries,...
16
Apr
Re-Theorizing the African Diaspora: Metaphor, Revelation, Recognition and Consciousness
Percy C. Hintzen (African American Studies, UC Berkeley) Friday, April 16 / 4:00 PM HSSB 1174 It is critical for the theorizing and conceptualizing of African diaspora to ask the question: "Why Diaspora?" There is much to be gained from an examination of the work the term does...
16
Apr
Daybreakers
Friday, April 16 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 19 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
16
Apr
Killing for Coal: America’s Deadliest Labor War
Thomas Andrews (History, University of Colorado) Friday, April 16 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Andrews, an environmental historian of the American West, won the 2009 Bancroft Prize for his book of the same title, which reconsiders the social and environmental meaning of the 1914 Ludlow Massacre. Sponsored by the...
15
Apr
Stacks of Obits: A Choreopoem
Stephanie Batiste (English, UCSB) Thursday, April 15 / 7:30 PM MCC Theater Stephanie L. Batiste’s one-woman show is a rhythmic perfomative contemplation of the street murders of young people of color in Los Angeles. Batiste processes the obituaries, contained in a young woman’s scrapbook, of...
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Upcoming Events
15
Apr
Bringing the Body Back to Work: “Incorporating” Occupational Identity
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...
15
Apr
An Authentic Performance of Fishing: Indigenismo, Tourism, Music, and Dance on Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester) Thursday, April 15, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Lake Pátzcuaro, Michoacán, Mexico, was singled out for special attention in the idealistic postrevolutionary years of the 1930s, promoted as a site/sight of authentic Mexicanness, useful for nationalistic and touristic agendas,...
14
Apr
Participatory Planning Towards Place Making
Seetha Raghupathy (IHC Visiting Scholar) Wednesday, April 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Participatory Planning Towards Place Making" continues a multi-year, public art research initiative to expand university investment within a local community context. Through the support of the UCSB Isla Vista Commission and the...
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Upcoming Events
13
Apr
The Silent World
Introduction by Nicole Starosielski (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 13, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Jacques-Yves Cousteau and Louis Malle’s Academy Award winning documentary The Silent World is noted as one of the first films to use underwater cinematography to show the...
12
Apr
Innovation, Adaptation, and Manipulation of Sexualities
Monday, April 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The New Sexualities RFG is presenting a research colloquium with two panels discussing the active and conscious creation, adaptation, and manipulation of sexualities. The first panel will be focused on sexuality in politics and the second...
12
Apr
Cloud Eye Control
Monday, April 12 / 7:00 PM Arts 1340 ---AND--- Tuesday, April 13 / 7:00 PM Broida 1610 Cloud Eye Control is a collaborative performance group from Los Angeles comprised of three members: Chi-wang Yang, Miwa Matreyek, and Anna Oxygen. They create original works that uniquely combine interactive media with live...
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Upcoming Events
11
Apr
Besa: Muslims Who Saved Jews in WWII
Norman H. Gershman Sunday, April 11 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Fine art photographer Norman Gershman spent five years collecting the stories of Albanian Muslims who, at grave risk to themselves and their families, harbored Jewish refugees during WWII as part the Islamic tradition of Besa,...
10
Apr
Nascent Political Institutions in the Southern Caucasus: Late Bronze Age on the Tsaghkahovit Plain, Armenia
Ian Lindsay (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, 10 April, 5:30 pm McCune Conference Room...
10
Apr
Interpreting Leadership through Monumentality: Late Formative Period Pukara, Peru
Elizabeth Klarich (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, April 10 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB...
09
Apr
improvabililty.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 9 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
09
Apr
8 1/2 and Nine
Double Feature! Friday, April 9 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 12 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 8 1/2 screens in IV Theater 2 Nine screens in IV Theater 1 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
08
Apr
Oil + Water: The Case of Santa Barbara and Southern California
April 8 - 10, 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/oil-water-socal/ This event is FREE and open to the public. No reservations are necessary. For information about each presenter, please click here This conference will explore the ways in which oil and water have created and transformed the history and...
06
Apr
From Watts to Dakar: A View of African American Culture in Los Angeles and Beyond
Jayne Cortez Tuesday, April 6 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Ms. Cortez – whose career has encompassed writing, performing, and teaching – is the author of twelve books of poetry and has performed her poems with music on nine recordings. Her voice is celebrated for its political,...
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Upcoming Events
06
Apr
End of the Line
Introduction by Michael Albright (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 6, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In End of the Line we see firsthand the effects of our global love affair with fish as food. It examines the imminent extinction of bluefin tuna,...
05
Apr
Sam Hamill
Monday, April 5 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Sam Hamill – a noted poet, translator, and editor – will be reading his poetry. Students, faculty, staff, and the public are all welcome to attend. Sam Hamill was the editor of Spectrum magazine at UC Santa...
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Upcoming Events
02
Apr
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, April 2 / 8:00 PM - "April Fools Theme Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
02
Apr
Red Cliff
Friday, April 2 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 5 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
30
Mar
Re-Translating La Celestina
Peter Roland Bush Tuesday, March 30 / 12:30 PM Girvetz 2119 Peter Bush is an award-winning literary translator born in Spalding, Lincolnshire, and now living in Barcelona. He read French and Spanish at Cambridge, and researched Spanish fiction and history in Oxford. After teaching in London schools...
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Upcoming Events
13
Mar
The Long Transition: Environmental and Economic Change in Pre-Agricultural Central Europe
Michael Jochim (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, March 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room...
12
Mar
Dead Snow
Friday, March 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
11
Mar
Globalization, Performance, and the Failure of Human Rights: Encounters with Northern Uganda
Laura Edmondson (Theater, Dartmouth) Thursday, March 11 / 5:00 PM Buchanan Hall 1940 Laura Edmondson is a scholar and playwright whose work focuses on East Africa. Her articles on Tanzanian and Ugandan theater have appeared in Theatre Journal, Theatre Research International, TDR: The Drama Review, and the anthologies...
08
Mar
Water: The Sacred Purifier
Nandini Iyer (Religious Studies, UCSB) Monday, March 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Just as the sacred river's roaring voice echoes all nature's sounds, just so, if the devotee wishes to be cleansed by its waters, his heart must respond to the cries of...
08
Mar
Current and Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing
Monday, March 8, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB ** Please note time change : the event will begin at 1:00PM, not 12:00PM ** UC Press editors Niels Hooper (history), Naomi Schneider (sociology, current events), Kim Robinson (California regional studies), Jenny Wapner (environmental studies, natural...
05
Mar
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, March 5 / 8:00 PM - "Nice Show" Friday, March 5 / 10:00 PM - "Naughty Show" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
05
Mar
Fantastic Mr. Fox
Friday, March 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 8 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
05
Mar
The Empire of Cotton: A Global History
Sven Beckert (History, Harvard) Friday, March 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Beckert is the author of The Monied Metropolis: New York City and the Consolidation of the American Bourgeoisie (2001). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy, and the Policy History Program....
05
Mar
Early Modern Center Winter Conference
Bruce Smith and Richard Nash (USC and Indiana University) Friday, March 5 / 2010 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Cloning, organ farms, the completion of the Human Genome Project, recombinant DNA, cyborgs, artificial intelligence, and other manufactured life forms, all suggest that, depending on one’s point of view,...
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Upcoming Events
04
Mar
Source to Sea: The Columbia River Swim
Thursday, March 4, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB On July 1, 2003 Christopher Swain became the first person to swim the entire 1,243 mile length of the Columbia River in the Pacific Northwest. His swim brought stories about the river's disrupted ecosystems and...
03
Mar
Painting the History of a City: Early Municipal Art Collecting in Lima, Peru
Emily Engel (IHC Senior Fellow) Wednesday, March 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB From the capital of the Viceroyalty of Peru, the city council of Lima regularly commissioned and exhibited official portrait paintings between 1700 and 1830. By the time of the revolution, the city’s...
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Upcoming Events
02
Mar
Black Sea Files: A Territorial Research and Art Project on the Caspian Oil Geography
Ursula Biemann Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The artist speaks about her video essay investigating the transformations activated by a new transnational infrastructure, the BTC oil pipeline, which pumps the Caspian Crude from Baku passing through the Caucasus and Turkey. The...
02
Mar
Beyond Protest: Considering the UC Strike
Brian Holmes and Dmitri Vilenski Tuesday, March 2, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Brian Holmes is a theorist, writer and translator who has worked with the French Graphics collective Ne Pas Plier (Do Not Bend) and is currently working on geopolitics and geopoetics...
02
Mar
Was it the Boston Tea Party?: Why Americans Drink Coffee
Steven Topik (History, UC Irvine) Tuesday, March 2 / 12:00 PM 4020 HSSB Professor Steven Topik concentrates on world history, with an emphasis on Latin American and especially Brazilian history. His latest works focus on commodities as a means of studying world history and include The Second Conquest...
02
Mar
Sacred Attunement: Judaism and the Cultivation of Mindfulness in the Everyday
Michael Fishbane (Jewish Studies, University of Chicago) Tuesday, March 2 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista Michael Fishbane will discuss the role of spiritual practices in Judaism -- through ritual and meditation -- which cultivate different types of consciousness and awareness. He...
26
Feb
The Princess and the Frog
Friday, February 26 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, March 1 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...
26
Feb
improvability.
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, February 26 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
26
Feb
Women, Art and Culture in Medieval and Renaissance Europe
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM - 4:00PM Mosher Alumni House, Alumni Hall, 2nd floor Saturday, February 27 / 9:45 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As the Medieval Studies Program’s major winter quarter event, this colloquium inaugurates, on the American site, a three-year project involving...
26
Feb
The Mexican Revolution of 1910: A Centennial Conference
Friday, February 26 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference will feature a screening of the documentary The Storm That Swept Mexico and well as a discussion with producer Ray Telles. The panelists are Kate Bruhn (Political Science, UCSB) and Alex Saragoza (Ethnic Studies,...
26
Feb
Caring for America: Home Health Workers in the Shadow of the Welfare State
Jennifer Klein (History, Yale) Eileen Boris (Feminist Studies, UCSB) February 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Klein is the author of For All These Rights: Business, Labor, and the Shaping of America’s Public-Private Welfare State (2003). Boris is Hull Professor of Feminist Studies and the author of Home...
24
Feb
Intertwined Lives: Korean-American Women 1894-1994
Chan Park (East Asian Languages and Literatures, Ohio State) Kathy Foley (Theater Arts, UCSC) Wednesday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Studio Theater Intertwined Lives is a collaborative performance between Kathy Foley, a noted puppeteer and mask artist of Southeast Asian and Korean material, and Chan Park, an internationally known...
24
Feb
Cultural Diffusion Across Eurasia, 500 BC – AD 200
Anthony Barbieri-Low (History, UCSB) Wednesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The transmissions of a vast number of artmotifs, technologies, and cultural traits from West to East in prehistoric period was due to the speed of communications and trading networks across the Eurasian Steppes...
23
Feb
Cruising
Jill Casid (Art History, University of Wisconsin) Tuesday, February 23, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the rapt attention to digital transformation and the consideration of global cultural flows and liquid images, we may run the risk of losing sight of the material consequences...
22
Feb
Material Texts in Medieval France
Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Olga Karaskova (Histoire de l’Art, Université de Lille-III) Monday, February 22 / 4:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 This event will feature two talks by visiting scholars from Université de Lille-III, Professor Anne-Marie Legaré (Histoire de l’Art) will discuss “Refashioning...
22
Feb
Food at UCSB
Bonnie Crouse (Dining Services, UCSB) David Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Monday, February 22 / 1:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 Bonnie Crouse with be present a talk entitled, "UCSB Dining Services' Sustainability Initiative." A representative from Dining Services will discuss their sustainability initiative and will address issues such...
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Feb
The Twilight Saga: New Moon
Friday, February 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, February 22 / 10:00 PM IV Theater, $4.00 Follow Magic Lantern Films on Facebook...