Monday, November 9, 2015 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall A superlative saga of courage and compassion, Run Boy Run tells the extraordinary true story of a Polish boy who seeks the kindness of others in his solitary struggle to outlast the Nazi occupation and keep...
John Luther Adams (composer, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Become Ocean) Thursday, June 4 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today a growing number of geologists believe we have left the Holocene and entered a new period—the Anthropocene—in which the dominant geologic force is...
Cody Stephens ( History, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, May 29, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Stephens is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of “dependency theory” in the era of the long 1960s. Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy...
Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Elizabeth Heckendorn Cook (English and Comparative Literature, UCSB) John Foran (Sociology, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Jeff Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) David Lea (Geology, USCB) Christopher Walker (English, UCSB) Thursday May 28, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune...
Written by Brian Granger (Lecturer, Theatre, Vanderbilt University) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, May 26 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Eden Falls is a darkly comic allegory about two neighboring families, divided by a huge privacy fence and different values, whose lives...
Laurie Green (History,University of Texas, Austin) Friday, May 22, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Green is the author of Battling the Plantation Mentality: Memphis and the Black Freedom Struggle (2007). Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy Website: http://www.history.ucsb.edu/labor/...
Emily C. Thomas (Art, UCSB) Friday, May 22, 2015 / 5:30 PM Art, Design & Architecture Museum Part One of 'Infinite Human Night Light,' a sculpture and performance project by Emily C. Thomas, will be installed within the exhibition "Mystical Absolutes" held at the Art, Design & Architecture...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building SKILLS Day is the capstone event of the School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society (SKILLS) academic outreach program, a university/community partnership between UCSB and Santa Barbara County schools and youth organizations. SKILLS...
Jason Groves (German, Rutgers University) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB This talk will explore how, since around 1800, literature has offered imaginative ways of relating to the lithosphere beyond extraction and other destructive petrofictions. First coined in 1992 by Amitav Ghosh...
Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC Davis) Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Embracing both genetically-improved seed and ecologically-based farming methods, Pamela Ronald aims to enhance sustainable agriculture. In this talk, she asserts that genetic improvement is a critical component of...
Thursday, May 21, 2015 / 7:00 PM - 10:00 PM Pollock Theater Don’t Think I've Forgotten: Cambodia’s Lost Rock and Roll tracks the twists and turns of Cambodian music as it morphs into rock and roll, blossoms, and is nearly destroyed along with the rest of the...
Participants: Dr. Angelika Hilbeck (Institute of Integrative Biology, ETH Zurich) Dr. Pamela C. Ronald (Plant Pathology, UC-Davis Moderator: Paul Voosen Wednesday, May 20, 2015 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall FREE A key factor in discussions about how best to feed the world’s growing population and...
Katherine Strange Burke (Archaeology,Near Eastern Languages and Cultures, UCLA) Friday, May 15 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 The political transition from Egyptian to Frankish rule at the Mediterranean port of Jaffa at the turn of the twelfth century CE was abrupt. But the ceramic record illustrates...
Janelle Wong (American Studies, University of Maryland) Thursday, May 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Scholars and pundits point to remarkable support among Asian Americans and Latinos for Democratic candidates in recent Presidential elections. Many attribute this support to differences in how the...
SCREENING: Merchants of Doubt Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater The screening is free but tickets are required: visit this page for reservations. CONFERENCE: Sustainable Science Communication: Content, Audience, Media, and Impact Thursday, May 14 2015 / 9:30 AM – 5:00 PM Featured...
Asif Siddiqi (History, Fordham University) Wednesday, May 13, 2015 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 Secrecy was endemic in Soviet society and culture. Information that we might consider benign in the Western context was off-limits to most of the general populace throughout the existence of the Soviet Union. Controls...
Enda Duffy (English, UCSB) James Kearney (English, UCSB) Ross Melnick (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, May 12 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The recipients of the 2014-15 IHC Faculty Release Time awards will present their work. Enda Duffy is a Professor in the English...
May 8, 2015 Flying A Studios Room, University Center An interdisciplinary group of scholars of medieval and early modern Japanese literature, history, religion, and performing arts examine topics related to “War and Remembrance” during Japan’s years of military rule (late 12th to late 19th centuries). Exploring a...
Najeeb Jan (Geography, University of Colorado, Boulder) Friday, May 8, 2015 / 12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building On January 4, 2011, Salman Taseer, the Governor of Punjab, was executed by his own bodyguard, Mumtaz Qadri, for the crime of “Blasphemy against Islam.” This lecture...
Thursday-Friday, May 7-8, 2015 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The conference is free and open to the public. To register to attend, please complete this form. Scientists have declared that we are in living in the Anthropocene, an age in which human behavior and actions are massively...
Thursday, May 7, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Zamira Abman (History, UCSB) "The Bolshevik Emancipation of Muslim women of Tajikistan: What went wrong, 1924-1982." Victoria J. Ballmes (Religious studies, UCSB) "Monumental Memory and the Construction of Jewish Identity in Antiquity" George Blake (Music, UCSB) "Music and Racial Formation...
Ian Condry (Japanese Culture and Media Studies, MIT) Wednesday May 6, 2015 /4:00 PM SSMS 2135 Now that recorded music is always available for free, what are the possible futures for musicians and fans? This talk will explore recent developments in Japan, including the resurgence of...
G. Reginald Daniel ( Sociology, UCSB) Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Paul Spickard (History, UCSB) Lily Anne Y. Welty Tamai (Japanese American National Museum) Ingrid Dineen Wimberly (History,University of La Verne) Monday, May 4 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor This roundtable will focus...
Friday - Sunday, May 1-3, 2015 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 In this conference, former students and colleagues of Patricia Cline Cohen explore the legacy of Cohen’s pioneering work in the cultural history of gender and sexuality. A founder of Women’s Studies (now Feminist Studies) at...
Harold Abramowitz (Blind Spot) Amanda Ackerman (The Book of Feral Flora) Michelle Detorie (After-Cave) Thursday, April 30, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Three Southern California poets will read their work and discuss how the profound instability of the natural world informs...
Andrew Kalaidjian (English) Jacqueline Viskup (Theater & Dance) Tuesday, April 28 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel will feature presentations by the two recipients of the UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities award for 2014-15. Kalaidjian’s dissertation is entitled “Places of Rest: Modernism and Environmental Recovery.” His...
Saturday, April 25, 2105 / 9:00 AM HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room The UCSB Medieval Studies Graduate Student Conference, “Changes in Fashion in the Middle Ages,” looks to analyze fashion at its broadest, spanning not simply clothes and literary genres, but questions of materiality, techniques, politics,...
Peter Galison (Art History, Harvard University) Friday, April 24 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor and State Street Conference Rooms, University Center In her 1965 painting, Rhinoceros, based on a newspaper photograph, contemporary artist Vija Celmins makes conscious reference to Albrecht Dürer’s canonical 1515 print of the...
Martin Ehala (Tartu University, Estonia) Thursday, April 23 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Professor Ehala is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar in the Department of Communications at UCSB. He received his doctorate in linguistics from Cambridge University and is a Professor at the University...
Ursula Heise (English, Institute of the Environment and Sustainability, UCLA) Thursday, April 23, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the early twenty-first century, the majority of the global human population lives in cities. Future population growth will occur mostly in cities. This shift challenges...
Katarzyna Cwiertka (Modern Japan Studies,Leiden University) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building Japan has one of the most sophisticated waste management systems in the world and its household waste generation has been steadily declining since 2003. However, before...
Akira Mizuta Lippit (Film, USC) Wednesday, April 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM SSMS 3145 Among the most enduring effects of the Great East Japan Earthquake (Higashi nihon daishinsai) that struck Japan on March 11, 2011 is the total disruption of spatial order it produced. The earthquake struck the Tohoku region...
Philip Schultz (poet, winner of the Pulitzer Prize) Tuesday, April 21, 2015 / 6:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A public reading by Pulitzer Prize winning poet and writer Philip Schultz from his recently published novel-in-verse The Wherewithal. After reading the manuscript of The Wherewithal before its publication,...
Monday, May 18 / 7:00 PM New Vic Theatre 33 West Victoria Street, Santa Barbara FREE This feature-length documentary recounts the history of Zionism, its leaders, its influence on the Jewish and Palestinian peoples and the inevitable differences between its ideals and its real world embodiment....
Monica Heller (Ontario Institute for Studies in Education, Anthropology, University of Toronto) Friday, April 17, 2015 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Professor Heller’s LISO talk is a special tribute to John Gumperz whose work focused, in large part, on the relationship between the making of social difference and...
Jon Mooallem (journalist, author of Wild Ones) Thursday, April 16, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 While on a hunting trip in Mississippi in 1902, President Theodore Roosevelt refused to kill a weakened black bear that had been tied to a tree by his hunting...
Glenn Kurtz (author) Thursday, April 16 / 8:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall In Europe in August 1938, one year before the outbreak of World War II, Glenn Kurtz’s grandfather captured three minutes of ordinary life in a small, predominantly Jewish town in Poland on 16mm Kodachrome color...
Q&A with director Todd Darling Tuesday, April 14 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Occupy the Farm captures an intense conflict in which community members employ an ingenious strategy to confront a powerful institution (UC Berkeley) in the effort to preserve public land for urban farming. From preparing...
Gavin Wright (History, Stanford University) Friday, April 10, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Wright is the author of Sharing the Prize: the Economics of the Civil Rights Revolution in the American South (2012); Slavery and American Economic Development (2006); Old South, New South: Revolutions in the Southern...
Abdallah Helmy Shehata (Political Science, American University in Cairo) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3824 Ellison Hall Helmy Shehata was an activist during the events and involved in organizing social protest. He is Vice Chairman, Programs Director, of the Sadat Association for...
Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, April 9, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Amazon rainforest of Brazil is cut down to create cattle pastures and agricultural fields. Deforestation brings profit, but it is also linked to deeply held ideals of development and progress...
Bliss Lim (Film and Media Studies, UC Irvine) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:30 PM "Queer Aswang Transmedia: Camp Temporality and Philippine Folklore" In recent years, the aswang – a supernatural creature of Philippine folklore that is often associated with female monstrosity and patriarchal misogyny – is...
The Media Fields Collective at UC Santa Barbara is excited to announce its fifth biennial conference exploring the intersections of media and space. We propose “encounters” as a framework through which these intricate relationships may be addressed. This term has been strategically deployed to think...
Oliver A. Ryder (Director of the Frozen Zoo project and Kleberg Chair at the San Diego Zoo’s Institute for Conservation Research) Thursday, April 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The time in which we currently live has been described as the sixth great episode...
Jodi Magness (Religious Studies, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) Friday, March 13 / 11:30-1:00 AM HSSB 4020 Since 2011, Professor Jodi Magness has been directing excavations in the ancient village of Huqoq in Israel's Galilee. The excavations have brought to light the remains of a monumental Late...
Q&A with director Louis Psihoyos Thursday, March 12, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students Scientists predict we may lose half the species on the planet by the end of the century. They believe we have entered the sixth major extinction event...
Jeremy Hanes (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, March 11 / 4:00 PM* 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building *Please note the change in time. The North Indian goddess Śītalā was once associated with smallpox, a disease that is now only present in lab samples, yet she...
Cybelle Fox ( History, University of California Berkeley) Friday, May 8, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fox is the author of Three Worlds of Relief: Race, Immigration, and the American Welfare State from the Progressive Era to the New Deal (2012). Sponsored by Center for the Study of...
Debra Harry (Gender, Race & Identity, University of Nevada, Reno) Andrea McComb Sanchez (Religious Studies, University of Arizona,Tuscon) Friday, March 6 , 2015 / 8:30 AM -5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Join keynote speakers, Debra Harry and Andrea McComb Sanchez for a lively discussion...
Aaron Ullrey (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Friday, March 6 / 3:00 PM 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building During the medieval period Digambara Jains in Karnataka composed and circulated two magic Tantras containing aggressive magic that was in vogue at the time and that challenged...
Lydia Davis (translator of Swann’s Way and author of Can’t and Won’t) Tuesday, March 3, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence will be Booker International Prize winner Lydia Davis. Davis will read from her latest collection of stories, Can't and...
Patricia Fumerton (English,UCSB) Pamela Smith (History, Columbia) Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28 / 9:00 AM Alumni Hall and West Conference Center We seek to explore the various kinds and forms of making. From manufacturing a sheet of paper, to printing a ballad, to conducting an experiment,...
Friday, February 27-Saturday, February 28, 2015 / 9:00 AM 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...
Richard Widick (scholar/filmmaker) Thursday, February 26 , 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 2015 in Paris, the United Nations will adopt the next universal climate treaty. That treaty, envisioned to replace the Kyoto Protocol in 2020 as the world's leading collective response to global...
Amy Stanley (History, Northwestern University) Wednesday, February 25 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In 1839, a twice-divorced temple daughter from a small village in Echigo ran away to Edo. In a letter home, she wrote that she wanted to enter a daimyo’s service and learn “the conduct and...
Ambassador Marc Ginsberg (CEO of OneVoice) Ghaith al-Omari (Senior Fellow at the Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Wednesday, February 25 / 8:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Ambassador Marc Ginsberg and Ghaith al-Omari, two leading authorities on the Middle East will discuss U.S. foreign policy in the aftermath of...
Brenda Beck (Anthropology, University of Toronto) Wednesday, February 25 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the past decades Brenda Beck has brought a medieval Tamil folk epic, "the Story of Ponnivala", to life through film animation, producing a thirteen-hour series that has been...
Sunday, February 22, 2015 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies, UCSB) Edwin Seroussi (Musicology, Hebrew University) Jonathan Glasser (Anthropology, College of William and Mary) An international panel of scholars and musicians presents lectures on how Jewish and Muslim communities across the Middle East have...
MultiCultural Center Theater Saturday, February 21, 2015 / 8:00 PM Esti Kenan-Ofri (featured guest artist) The concert is free. Seating is limited; please plan to arrive early. A unique concert of shared Jewish and Muslim musical traditions from medieval Spain, modern Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Israel, and Yemen, presented...
Noah Zatz (Law, UCLA) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Zatz is the author of Poverty Unmodified: Critical Reflections on the Deserving/Underserving Distinction and Beyond Misclassification: Tackling the Independent Contractor Problem. Zatz’s research address how work structures both inequality and social citizenship in...
Friday, February 20th, 2015 / 9:30 AM Multipurpose Room, Student Resource Building As climate change threatens communities worldwide, how to transition to cleaner sources of energy remains a global challenge. For developing countries, the stakes are high: they must simultaneously respond to climate change impacts and strive...
Gabrielle Hecht (History, University of Michigan) Friday, February 20, 2015 / 9:30 am Student Resource Building Multipurpose Room The Anthropocene has become a rallying point for interdisciplinarity across the humanities, arts, and natural and social sciences. Yet these conversations easily falter, especially when critics observe that...
Paul Edwards (History and School of Information, University of Michigan) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Why does climate change remain controversial despite an overwhelming scientific consensus? Across the nineteenth and twentieth centuries, constantly changing, poorly standardized data practices created...
Philip G. Roeder (Political Science, UCSD) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall National-secession campaigns have been explained by development of ethnic identities, grievances over social and economic inequalities and dislocations, greed to seize wealth and power, and tactical opportunities to engage...
Dir. David Kennard and Patsy Northcutt, 56 min. Special guest: Mary Evelyn Tucker (Divinity, Environmental Studies, Yale, writer of Journey of the Universe) Thursday, February 19, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission: $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. From the Big Bang...
Kristoffer Smemo (History, UCSB) Friday, February 13, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Smemo is completing a dissertation on the rise and fall of liberal Republicans from the late 1930s through the early Reagan era. Sponsored by Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy....
Erik M. Conway (historian, NASA Jet Propulsion Laboratory) Thursday, February 12, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In their new book, The Collapse of Western Civilization: A View from the Future, Naomi Oreskes and Erik Conway explore the coming of the Penumbra, the shadow of...
T.A. Barron (author, the Merlin Saga) Tuesday, February 10, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB T.A. Barron, highly acclaimed author of the Merlin Saga, The Ancient One, The Hero’s Trail, and many other books, finds great inspiration in the wonders of nature and...
Paul Mendes-Flohr (Modern Jewish History and Thought, University of Chicago Divinity School) Monday, February 9 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero del Mar, Isla Vista One of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Martin Buber was born in Vienna (1878) and died in...
Friday, February 6 / 12:00 PM SSMS 2100 Come meet graduate students and faculty working on energy issues from a variety of disciplinary perspectives in the humanities and social sciences. This will be an informal meeting. Lunch will be provided. RSVP to Javiera Barandiaran, jba@global.ucsb.edu. Sponsored by IHC's...
Curtis LeBaron (Organizational Leadership & Strategy, Brigham Young University) Friday, February 6, 2015 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Research on routine dynamics has examined when and how varied performance of routines leads to the long-term stability or variation of the routines themselves. However, there has been less attention...
Kathleen Collins (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, February 5, 2015 / 4:00 PM Ellison Hall, third floor Kathleen A. Collins is Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota. She is the author of Clan Politics and Regime Transition in Central Asia...
Wednesday, February 4 / 1:00-2:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will meet Wednesday Feb. 4th, 1-2:30pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. Please come to this meeting to offer suggestions in regard to two current 4Humanities projects. One is the WhatEvery1Says project to...
David L. Kirp (Public Policy, UC Berkeley) Wednesday, February 4, 2015 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Renowned education author David Kirp speaks about higher education and his bestselling book, Improbable Scholars; The Rebirth of a Great American School System and a Strategy for America's Schools....
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Adam Hochschild (author, To End All Wars: A Story of Loyalty and Rebellion, 1914-1918) Monday, February 2, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 As we mark the centenary of the First World War, this epochal event is usually remembered as a bloody conflict between...
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...
Wang Haicheng (Art History, University of Washington) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Wang Haicheng, Associate Professor of Art History, at the University of Washington will speak on the topic of his new book, which is a comparative study of the origins and function of...
Catherine Fisk (University of California, Irvine School of Law) Friday, January 30, 2015 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fisk is the author of Working Knowledge: Employee Innovation and the Rise of Corporate Intellectual Property, 1800-1930 (2009), and Labor Law Stories (2005). Fisk’s research focuses on labor issues in...
Eric Lichtblau ( investigative reporter, The New York Times) Monday, January 26 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Eric Lichtblau unveils the secret history of how America became home to thousands of Nazi war criminals after World War II, many of whom were scientists and spies...
Viola Miglio, Björn Birnir, Astradur Eysteinsson, Ander Caballero (UCSB, University of Iceland, Basque Government) Monday, January 26 / 1:00 PM HSSB McCune Room This event is an instantiation of UNESCO's International Mother Language Day, which officially takes place every year on February 21st commemorating the anniversary of the...
Steven Fine (History, Yeshiva University) Monday, January 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Since antiquity, scholars have almost universally -- and correctly — interpreted the menorah bearers of the Arch of Titus spoils panel as triumphal Romans celebrating the defeat of the Jews in the...
Peggy McCracken (Romance Languages & Literatures, University of Michigan) Jody Enders (Medieval Studies, UCSB) Marcella Munson (Florida Atlantic University) Saturday, January 24, 2015 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Please join us on Saturday, January 24 at 9 a.m. in HSSB 6020 for a...
Friday, January 23-24 2015 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Our conference addresses current debates surrounding untranslatability and its implications within the postcolonial context of globalization. We have invited scholars and translators from diverse disciplines and perspectives to reflect on the basic notions of...
Thursday, January 22, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Peter Alagona (History and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Sarah Anderson (Bren School of Environmental Science and Management, UCSB) Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB; UCSB Sustainability Champion) Sharyn Main (Santa Barbara Foundation) Richard Widick (Orfalea Center for Global...
dir. Jennifer Baichwal & Edward Burtynsky, 90 min. Discussant: Casey Walsh (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 7:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater Admission $10 general / $5 students For tickets, visit http://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock. Watermark is a feature documentary from multiple-award winning filmmakers Jennifer Baichwal and Nick de Pencier, and renowned...
Ruth Leys (History, John Hopkins University) Thursday, January 15, 2015 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB An assessment of the latest twists in affect theory. Among the questions to be posed are: "If the twentieth century was the Freudian century, the century of libido, will...
Michael Fried (History of Art, Johns Hopkins University) Wednesday, January 14, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Michael Fried holds the J.R. Herbert Boone Chair in the Humanities at The Johns Hopkins University. Fried is one of the most influential art historians, art critics, and...
Claire Robison (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, December 10, 2014 / 5:00 pm IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The Indian International Society for Krishna Consciousness (ISKCON) is assuming an increasingly central role in India’s Hindu public sphere, wielding vast economic assets, political influence, and, more recently, a posh...
Ari Shavit (Senior Correspondent, Haaretz) December 02, 2014...
Jean-Yves Marc (Université de Strassbourg) Wednesday, November 19, 2014 / 6:00 PM HSSB 4080 The Forum at Philippi was not built on the site of the city’s Hellenistic Agora. Rather, the Forum was built as an entirely new project in the Roman imperial period. At the height of...
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”...
Peter Barnes (entrepreneur, journalist, author) Tuesday, November 18 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion Capps Forum on Ethics and Public Policy Peter Barnes argues that because of globalization, automation, and winner-take-all capitalism, there won’t be enough high-paying jobs to sustain America’s middle class in the future....
Rabbi David Wolpe (Sinai Temple, Los Angeles) Sunday, November 16 / 3:00 PM UCSB Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall Out of all the figures in the Bible, David is one of the most perplexing and enigmatic. Rabbi David Wolpe takes a fresh look at the biblical David in an...
Rebecca Langlands (Classics, University of Exeter) Friday, November 14, 2014 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4020 Professor Rebecca Langlands will be visiting UCSB to share her expertise in Roman literature and culture, ethics, and the history of sexuality. She will be speaking on her current research, "No-Win Situations: Roman...
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...
Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM 2824 Ellison Hall The three graduate student speakers in Political Science (Natasha Bennett, Nicole Filler, and Yanira Rivas Pineda) will comment on a selection of readings on citizenship and civic identity, then open the floor to a broader discussion....
Thursday, November 6, 2014/ 4:30 PM Centennial House Friday, November 7, 2014 / 9:00 AM Graduate Student Lounge, MultiCultural Center, UCSB Saturday, November 8, 2014/ 9:00 AM Casa De La Guerra This year, the theme is the binational relationship between the United States and Mexico. We...
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...
Wednesday, November 5, 2014 / 5:00 PM 2635 South Hall This is the first meeting of the EHC Anthropocene graduate colloquium, on the introduction and Chapter 13 from Naomi Klein's most recent book, This Changes Everything: Capitalism vs. The Climate (2014). Pizza and drinks will be...
Friday, October 3 / 3:00-4:30 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its initial meeting of the 2014-15 academic year on Monday, November 3, 3-4:30 pm, in South Hall 2509. Continuing and new participants are invited. A surprise, high-visibility new 4Humanities project will be announced at this...
Lisa Cartwright (Professor of Art and Communication, UC San Diego) Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 2:00 PM 2135 SSMS This talk draws on a multi-year sensory ethnography by Lisa Cartwright and Steven Rubin, who since 2009 have been documenting the everyday work experience and human-technology interaction...
Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 10:00-3:30 PM Mosher Alumni Hall Gallery Exhibit: 3:30-5:00 PM, UCSB Museum In popular Western perception, the term Bollywood conjures up a constellation of images: melodramatic performances rendered in a riot of colors, exotic locales, exaggerated gestures, and fantastic song and dance...
Kati Marton (former NPR and ABC News Correspondent, author of The Great Escape) Wednesday, October 29, 2014 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion In her critically-acclaimed account of The Great Escape, Kati Marton follows nine survivors over the decades as they flee fascism and anti-Semitism, seek sanctuary in...
John H. Summers (Editor, The Baffler) Friday,October 24,2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Summers is the editor of The Politics of Truth: Selected Writings of C. Wright Mills (2008); editor of Mass Cult and Mid Cult: Essays Against the American Grain (2011), derived from the work of Dwight...
Friday, October 24 & Monday, October 27 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
Thursday, October 23, 2014 / 4:00 – 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities. Find...
Wednesday, October 22, 2014 / 2:00-3:00 PM SSMS 1303 Join Kelly Pillsbury and Barbara Walker from the Office of Research as they walk you through COS Pivot, a global funding opportunities database available to the UCSB campus. With an estimated 26,000 records of funding opportunities, Pivot...
Friday, October 17 & Monday, October 23, 2014 7:00 and 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater / $4...
Caitlin Rosenthal (History,University of California, Berkeley) Friday, October 17, 2014 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Unlike traditional narratives that privilege the role of factories in England and the North, Rosenthal uses plantation account books to show how slavery and the slave trade facilitated the development of Taylorism and...