Friday, November 8 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your weekend...
Thursday, November 7 / 12:00 PM South Hall 2509 Continuing and new participants are invited to this initial meeting to discuss the important recent report titled “The Heart of the Matter,” which the American Academy of Arts & Science’s Commission on the Humanities and Social Sciences produced for...
Thursday, November 7-Friday, November 8 / 4:30 PM Locations: Thursday, November 7th / Mosher Alumni House Friday, November 8 / MultiCultural Center Saturday, November 9 / Casa de la Guerra Organized by the Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese (University of California, Santa Barbara) and UC-Mexicanistas (Intercampus Research Program). Participants...
Jessamyn Fiore (curator, author) Thursday November 7 / 5:00 PM Pollock Theater Jessamyn Fiore has done extensive research on the Matta-Clark’s life and artistic practice as co-director of the Estate of Gordon Matta-Clark with her mother Jane Crawford, Matta-Clark’s widow. She has curated a number of related exhibitions,...
Jessamyn Fiore (curator, author) Nicholas Olsberg (Director of the Gordon Matta-Clark Archive) Thursday, November 7 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A public conversation about the Matta-Clark archives and his artistic genetics and processes will take place with Jessamyn Fiore and Nicholas Olsberg, independent...
Monday, November 4 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films screens critically acclaimed films as well as cult classics. The diverse selection of films will appeal to a variety of audience tastes. According to the film distributors Swank and Criterion who specialize in college markets, Magic...
Sudhir Mahadevan (Comparative Literature, University of Washington, Seattle) Friday, November 1 / 10:00 AM SSMS 2135 Popular histories of Indian cinema's past expose fundamental aspects of India’s cinematic imaginaries. This presentation surveys some of these histories, juxtaposing the official and corporate narratives with non-official ones. While...
Friday, November 1 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, Isla Vista UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, IMPROVABILITY is the way to get your...
Elspeth Dusinberre (Classics, University of Colorado - Boulder) Friday, November 1 / 6:00 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History 2559 Puesta del Sol The Achaemenid Persian Empire (ca. 550-330 BCE) stretched over thousands of miles and encompassed many different cultures. Thanks to textual, visual, and archaeological...
Susan Brison (Philosophy, Dartmouth College) Tuesday, October 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room The undoing of the self in trauma involves the disruption of past from present, the inability to envision a future, and the severing of sustaining connections to community. And yet, with the...
Paul R. Deslandes (History, University of Vermont) Monday, October 28 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4080 This talk examines physique pictorial magazines, magazines intended for a female teenage audience, and gay pornographic magazines in order to illustrate how celebrations of beautiful male faces and bodies functioned as important and...
Thomas Trezise (French, Princeton) Monday, October 28, 2013 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Thomas Trezise will facilitate a conversation about his new book, Witnessing Witnessing: On the Reception of Holocaust Survivor Testimony. Witnessing Witnessing focuses critical attention on those who receive the testimony of Holocaust...
Monday, October 28 / 7:00 PM IV Theater $4 Magic Lantern Films proudly presents A premiere free screening of The Motel Life starring Emile Hirsch and Dakota Fanning. Followed by a Q&A with the screenwriters Noah Harpster (UCSB Alum) and Micah Fitzwater-Blue. ...
Nathan Connolly (History, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, October 25 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Connolly is the author of By Eminent Domain: Race and Capital in the Building of An American South Florida (2011). Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor and Democracy....
Friday, October 25 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for over seven years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is the...
Christine Borgman (Information Studies, UCLA) Friday, October 25 / 2:00 PM SSMS 2135 Knowledge sharing in science includes sharing research data. Research funding agencies have focused on increasing the supply of data by requiring data management plans and data sharing. Policy makers have paid surprisingly little...
Steven Feld (Anthropology and Music, University of New Mexico) (dir. Nii Yemo Nunu & Steven Feld, 2013) Wednesday, October 23 / 8:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Drawing on their work with Accra's La Drivers Union, Nunu & Feld's film chronicles Ghana's intertwined histories of colonial-era lorry driving...
Tim O'Brien (author of The Things They Carried) Tuesday, October 22, 2013 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) National Book Award winner Tim O’Brien will discuss the similarities between his own experiences in Vietnam forty years ago and the experiences of...
Performance and Politics RFG Monday, October 21 / 3:30 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 Working at the intersection of scholarship, artistic practice, and political life, we explore embodied practice-performance as a vehicle for the shaping, crafting, structuring, and transmission of cultural values and identities, encompassing conventional manifestations,...
Nicole Saffold Maskiell (History, Cornell University) Monday, October 21 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4080 Dr. Maskiell is an expert on family and household relationships within slavery and on slave networks in Dutch and English colonial North America and the Atlantic World. The author of "Elite Slave Networks in...
Ambassador Daniel C. Kurtzer Sunday, October 20 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion With Palestinian-Israeli peace talks underway, it is more imperative than ever to learn and apply the lessons of past negotiations, so as to create an opportunity for a peaceful resolution of the longstanding...
Joseph Hodge (History, West Virginia University) Friday, October 18 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Hodge is the author of Triumph of the Expert: Agrarian Doctrines of Development and the Legacies of British Colonialism (2007). Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday, October 18 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh filled years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is...
Dr. Andy Yatsko (Senior Archaeologist and Navy Region Southwest Archaeologist for the Naval Facilities Engineering Command Southwest in San Diego) Friday, October 18 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB Yatsko will discuss the challenges and opportunities of integrating academic archaeological research and regulatory compliance through his many years of...
Roberto Lovato (Co-Founder of Presente.Org and former Executive Director of the Central American Resource Center) Angelica Salas (Executive Director of Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles) Gloria Campos (Co-Chair of UCSB IDEAS) William I. Robinson (Sociology and Global and International Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 17...
Lilia Sokolinskaja (journalist, Tallinn, Estonia) Thursday, October 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall Lilia Sokolinskaja was a leading journalist on Estonian Radio, Program 4. She is an insightful analyst of politics who covered the Estonian Parliament, traveled with the President of Estonia to NATO and European...
Kenneth Hough (PhD candidate, History, UCSB) Wednesday, October 16 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this classic 1963 film, a school’s civil defense warning system is activated, signaling the onset of nuclear war. The principal closes the school and instructs the teachers to escort the...
Friday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh filled years with themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is...
Giorgio Miescher (University of Basel, Switzerland) Friday, October 11 / 12:00 PM 4080 HSSB The Red Line is a massive fence that stretches over 1,000 kilometers across Namibia and separates this southwest African country into two parts. This fence, constructed by South Africa in the 1960s, stands for...
Thursday, October 10 / 4:00-6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Please join us for the IHC’s eighth annual Open House. Meet new faculty, fellows and staff. Learn about the IHC’s programming series for this academic year: The Value of Care. Find out about collaborative research programs...
Friday, October 4 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall, 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Admission UCSB's premier improvisational comedy troupe performs every Friday evening at Embarcadero Hall. Delighting audiences for ten laugh-filled yearswith themed shows, a dynamic cast, and the funniest skits anywhere, Improvability is the way...
Christopher B. Krebs (Classics, Stanford) Friday, October 4 / 3:00 PM HSSB 4080 Caesar's style has been admired for its stringency and simplicity–and to the detriment of a fuller appreciation of its complexities. His classic texts are worth a second glance. They reveal not only far greater debts...
Wednesday, October 2 / 1:00 PM MultiCultural Center Auditorium This forum will feature the speakers Marcos Vargas, executive director of the Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE) and Manuel Pastor of USC’s Program for Environmental and Regional Equity. Sponsored by CAUSE and the Center for...
Saturday, September 28 / 7:00 PM Sunday, September 29 / 7:00 PM Anisq'Oyo' Park With their tongue-in-cheek production of Rosenstern and Guildencrantz, UCSB's Shakespeare in the Park takes a jocular Commedia dell'Arte approach to the two characters of Tom Stoppard's Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead and Shakespeare's Hamlet....
Ira Katznelson (Political Science, Columbia University) Friday, September 27/ 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB The author of ten books, Katznelson is a former president of the American Political Science Association and current president of the Social Science Research Council. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor...
Friday, June 7 / 4:00-6:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Jason Schwartz (Religious Studies) A Wizard in the Chronicles of Amber: Rethinking the Religious Culture of the Rājput Courts in Light of the Kachwaha's Śākta Preceptor This lecture will retrace the path traveled by the prolific Śākta...
Eugene Yelchin (Award-winning children's writer and illustrator) Wednesday, June 5 / 4:00 PM Old Little Theater Award-winning children’s writer and illustrator Eugene Yelchin will speak about the dramatic role reading played in the Soviet Union, the courage of writers and their readers, and how the struggle...
May 31–June 2 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Summer Institute will serve as a forum for intensive exploration of topics relating broadly to Japanese book history and the ways in which knowledge and reading experiences are structured by material form. Issues that may arise include: the past,...
Karen Wilson (History, UCLA) Thursday, May 30 / 7:30 PM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road Limited Seating and RSVP Required: 964-7869 or audrey@cbbsb.org Jews in the Los Angeles Mosaic, a groundbreaking exhibition on display at the Autry National Center in Griffith Park, tells the...
Sarah Dry (author, independent scholar) Rob Iliffe (History, University of Sussex) Thursday, May 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Isaac Newton generated a huge amount of manuscript material during a long and active life. This rich and daunting archive includes millions of words...
Dr. Ellis Tinios (Art, University of Leeds) Thursday, May 30 / 4:15 PM HSSB 4080 Japanese illustrated woodblock printed books produced between 1680 and 1900 represent a remarkable achievement in terms of their technical perfection, diversity, and beauty. Artists created designs exclusively for reproduction in book form and...
Tuesday, May 28-Wednesday, May 29 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference explores the social, cognitive, philosophical, and religious dynamics of personhood. Participants will explore alterations of subjectivity, altered states of embodiment and emplacement, and cross-disciplinary theories of transient selves. We welcome proposals for full panels...
Irene Checa-Garcia (University of Wyoming) Friday, May 24 / 1:30 PM Educ 1205 Much earlier than they are able to talk, very young children communicate with visible body behavior as they build social interaction with peers and caregivers. Frequently, these interactions focus on asking for some course of...
John Sbardellati (History, University of Waterloo, Ontario) Thursday, May 23 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the 1940s and 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. conducted a sweeping investigation of the motion picture industry. Convinced that film content endangered national security, Hoover’s G-men, joined by conservative...
Philip Deslippe (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, May 22 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB The recent outpouring of scholarly and popular writing on the history of American yoga has largely glossed over the seven decades between Swami Vivekananda in 1893 and the massive influx of swamis and gurus in...
Tuesday, May 21 / 9:00 AM-12:30 PM Multipurpose Room, Student Resources Building High school students in the SKILLS program at Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language and culture in their local communities. In addition, UCSB...
Nazym Shedenova (Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University) Saule Ualieva (Sociology, East Kazakh Technical University, Oskemen) Monday, May 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Shedenova is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a professor of sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. ...
The Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players (Shepherd University) Friday, May 17 / 5:00 PM Theater & Dance West 1701 This year's Medieval Studies Program Graduate Student Conference welcomes a student performance by the Rude Mechanicals Medieval & Renaissance Players. Traveling from Shepherd University in West Virginia, this troupe...
Keynote speaker: Professor Steven Justice (English, UC Berkeley) Friday, May 17 / HSSB 4080 / 12:30pm - 5pm Saturday, May 18 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB / 8:45am - 4:30pm The theme of this year’s conference is, “Says Who? Contested Spaces, Voices, and Texts”. Since Henri Lefebvre’s...
Thursday, May 16 / 7:00 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History, Fleischmann Auditorium Bubonic Plague. Yellow Fever. Cholera. HIV AIDS. For thousands of years, humans have faced devastating epidemics that suddenly kill millions and cause massive social and economical disruption. How have different cultures grappled with...
Wednesday, May 15, 2013 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Debate participants: David Cole (Law, Georgetown University) Mary Ellen O’Connell (Law, University of Notre Dame) Avery Plaw (Political Science, Dartmouth University) Moderator:Jeff Greenfield The use of militarized drones – flying unmanned aircraft equipped with weaponry – represents a major shift...
Negin Farsad (director) Wednesday, May 15 / 6:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Using jokes as a way of combating Islamophobia, a group of Muslim-American stand-up comedians go on a comedy tour throughout the United States. The comedians use this tour as a chance to create dialogue,...
Nazikbek Kydyrmyshev (International Relations, Bishkek Humanities University) Tuesday, May 14 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4020 The concept of Sedentarism is rooted in the "otherizing" of nomadic communities, which has formed a hierarchically structured binary: sedentary (good, progressive, civilized) - nomadic (bad, wild, and bloodthirsty). This mindset...
Saturday, May 11-Sunday, May 12 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room,6020 HSSB Featured plenary speakers: Marjorie Harness Goodwin (Linguistic Anthropology, UCLA), Kira Hall (Linguistics, University of Colorado at Boulder), Susan Speer (Psychology, University of Manchester), and Kathryn Woolard (Anthropology, University of California, San Diego) The LISO conference...
Friday, May 10-Saturday, May 11 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today precarity, a life without any guaranteed work, is becoming the condition of millions of people worldwide. The conference focuses on the social and affective costs of precarity, but also on what possibilities it may open....
Jayne Loader (director) Thursday, May 9 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Released in 1982, “The Atomic Café” was a masterful compilation of U.S. government propaganda films that exposed the madness of the nuclear arms race. Jayne Loader, one of the film’s directors, screens excerpts of...
Geoff Allen (Political Science, UCSB) Natasha Bennett (Political Science, UCSB) Magarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, May 9 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Please join us in learning about new research by graduate students in the field of identity and providing feedback for their future work....
Shalv Weil (Hebrew University of Jerusalem) Wednesday, May 8 / 3:00 PM 3041 HSSB This talk discusses the Hindu temple genre of kirtan as it has been performed in different Jewish topographies by the largest of the three Indian Jewish communities, the Bene Israel of Maharashtra. Nineteenth-century Bene...
John D. Lyons (French, University of Virginia) Wednesday, May 8 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 In the early-modern period European society was shaken by turmoil that touched almost every aspect of culture, though the most visible symptoms were religious and political crises. At stake was the very framework...
Wednesday, May 8 / 12:00 PM-9:00 PM UCSB Pollock Theater and UCen State Street Room Celebrating the publication of The Feminist Porn Book: The Politics of Producing Pleasure (The Feminist Press, 2013), a co-edited volume produced by three UC Santa Barbara professors—Constance Penley, Mireille Miller-Young, and Celine...
James Walters (Theology, Boston University) Monday, May 6 / 4:30 PM HSSB 4041 In addition to evidence for household cults in the terrace houses at Ephesus, three of the units contained installations for cultic activities that "blur" the traditional distinction between public and private space. The likely identification...
John Connelly (History, UC Berkeley) David Nirenberg (History, The University of Chicago) Monday, May 6 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista This event marks the 50th anniversary of the Second Vatican Council and features a dialogue between John Connelly, author...
Sjón (novelist, poet) Monday, May 6 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Well-known Icelandic author Sjón (his pen name means 'sight' or 'vision' in Icelandic) is one of the most interesting contemporary Icelandic novelists and poets. His visit to UCSB will mark the beginning of a...
Nancy Perloff (Getty Research Institute, Los Angeles) Friday, May 3 / 3:00 PM HSSB 1174 Dr. Nancy Perloff is curator of modern and contemporary collections at the Getty Research Institute where she has organized such exhibitions as Monuments of the Future: Designs by El Lissitzky, and Tango with...
Friday, May 3 / 10:00 AM-3:00 PM Keynote Speaker: Tom Boellstorff (Anthropology, UC Irvine) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This workshop engages with the media forms that ethnographic products take (e.g., video, text) and, more broadly, mediation -- its production, consumption, circulation -- as part of socio-cultural life....
Mario Bellatin (author) Paulo Franchetti (Literature Theory, Universidad Estatal de Campinas) Randal Johnson (Spanish & Portuguese, UCLA) Friday, May 3 / Mosher Alumni House, Henley Board Room Saturday, May 4 / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference gathers a variety of work, including that of graduate...
Ikuyo Morimoto (Graduate School of Language, Communication, & Culture, Kwansei Gakuin University, Japan) Friday, May 3 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Morimoto's research examines language use and body behavior in multiparty social interaction both in everyday conversations and in institutional (judicial) contexts. She has been working on videotaped...
Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic & Semitic Studies) Thursday, May 2, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carl Schmitt, in his book Theory of the Partisan, makes a fundamental distinction between wars that are fought in defense of a specific territory and wars that are fought...
Rüdiger Campe (Literature, Yale University) Wednesday, May 1 / 9:30 AM Girvetz 1004 The probabilistic revolution in the 18th century provides a history of the relations between mathematical and rhetorical techniques, between the scientific and the aesthetic. This was a revolution that overthrew the "order of things," notably...
Jonathan Kalan (photographer, writer, journalist) Tuesday, April 30 / 2:00 PM Arts 1237 Jonathan Kalan is an award-winning photographer and journalist specializing in innovation, technology, development and social entrepreneurship in emerging markets. A graduate of UCSB's Global Studies Program, he has traveled to over 44 countries and...
Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB is our campus's local chapter of the international 4Humanities initiative, which uses digital technologies to design and create media campaigns to advocate for the value of the humanities. Following up on 4Humanities@UCSB's previous meetings, when we started humanities...
Emanuele Saccarelli (Political Science, San Diego State University) Friday, April 26 /1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Saccarelli examines the novelist's role working with the OSS in World War II. He is the author of Gramsci and Trotsky in the Shadow of Stalinism. Sponsored by the Center for the...
Katrina Daly-Thompson (Applied Linguistics, UCLA) Friday, April 26 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This timely talk reflects on discourses of identity that pervade local talk and texts in Zimbabwe, a nation beset by political and economic crisis. As she explores questions of culture that...
Ange-Marie Hancock (Political Science, USC) Thursday, April 25 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Hancock is a globally recognized scholar of the study of intersectionality – the study of the intersections of race, gender, class and sexuality politics and their impact on public policy. Her first book,...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center – UC Santa Barbara McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “Narrative-Making in the Aftermath of War” will focus on the capacity of narrative-making to help returning service members deal with the after-effects of war and reintegrate into their communities. This conference is...
Jack Halberstam (English, University of Southern California) April 25, 2013 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater In a new book on “The Wild” Halberstam turns to anarchist thought to elaborate a queer politics for this particular moment of crisis and renewal. As many thinkers have proposed recently,...
Kim Q. Hall (Professor of Philosophy, Appalachian State University) Monday, April 22 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB At its most fundamental level, food is, as Michael Pollan asserts in his book In Defense of Food, a relationship rather than a collection of nutrients. The food...
Michael Zakim (History, Tel Aviv University) April 19 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Zakim is the author of Ready Made Democracy: A History of Men's Dress in the American Republic, 1790-1960. Sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Diana Taylor (Performance Studies/Spanish, NYU) Wednesday, April 17 / 3:30PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What options for political and economic justice do people have when the electoral process has been violated or corrupted, the media sequestered in the hands of power-brokers, and official institutions cannot adjudicate in...
Nina Berman (documentary photographer, Associate Professor of Journalism, Columbia University) Tuesday, April 16, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB War is both everywhere and invisible. It’s there when we shop, when we socialize. We are reminded of it and yet distracted from its effects....
Karen Anzoategui (performer) Saturday, April 13 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Bodies in Space III: A Guerrilla-Style Graduate Conference" invites the UCSB community at large to observe the culmination of this year's conference, a performance directed by Karen Anzoategui and featuring UCSB students....
Scott McCloud (Regents’ Lecturer) Friday, April 12 /10:30 AM -3:00 PM Theater & Dance Building: Courtyard & Room 1530 With graphic novels, sequential art, comic books becoming more prevalent in scholarship and education, the need for interdisciplinary conversation grows so that we might collaboratively imagine the...
Friday, April 12 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Corwin Pavilion This conference is the culminating event of the year-long Figuring Sea Level Rise series. It focuses on several crucial questions in the debate about climate change and sea level rise: who is likely to be immediately affected? What...
Fredrik Logevall (History, Cornell University) Wednesday, April 10 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this talk, Fredrik Logevall discusses his highly acclaimed new book, Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam. Drawing on newly available documents from several...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Joshua Phillips (author of None of Us Were Like This Before) Tuesday, April 9, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Nearly a decade after the exposure of prisoner abuse perpetrated by US military personnel at Abu Ghraib prison in Iraq, the IHC...
Sunday, April 7 / 3:00 PM Lotte Lehman Concert Hall Josh Aronson (director, Orchestra of Exiles) Orchestra of Exiles recounts the dramatic story of Bronislaw Huberman, the celebrated Polish violinist who rescued some of the world’s greatest musicians from Nazi Germany and then created one of the world’s...
Thursday, April 4-Friday, April 5 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote Speaker: Ricardo Dominguez (Visual Arts, UC San Diego) The Media Fields collective will be holding its fourth graduate student conference, on the theme of "Access/Trespass," this April 4th - 5th. The conference features a keynote talk by...
Leo Panitch (Political Science,York University) Sam Gindin (Political Science,York University) Tuesday, April 2 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Panitch has edited the Socialist Register since 1985. He is the author of numerous books including Working Class Politics in Crisis. Gindin was Research Director of the...
Friday, March 15 / 1:00 PM Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) 4041 HSSB Chikowero's book project is “African Music, Identities and Power in Colonial Zimbabwe.” Sponsored by The Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy....
Friday-Saturday, March 15- 16th 2635 South Hall The Transcriptions Center's "Mediating the Nonhuman" conference will take up questions of how media and narrative frames shape how we understand and interact with contemporary events and processes that take place on nonhuman scales: ecological time, high-frequency stock trades,...
Wednesday, March 13 / 5:00 PM Linguistics New Room South Hall, 3605 The New Sexualities Research Focus Group, in coordination with Professor Mireille Miller-Young's Feminist Studies graduate course on Queer of Color Critique, invites faculty and students to attend an open workshop on new directions in the field....
Xavier Livermon (Africana Studies, Wayne State University) Tuesday, March 12 / 4:00 PM 4631A South Hall In this talk, Xavier Livermon argues that liberation is as much a sociocultural construct as it is a political or economic one. Extending the South African queer scholar Mikki van Zyl's analysis...
Bruce Whitehouse (Anthropology, Lehigh University) Friday, March 8 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Once considered a stable democracy, the country of Mali in Africa's western Sahel region experienced an army coup and the loss of its northern regions to separatist and Islamist rebels last year....
Thursday, March 7 / 4:00 PM Valerie Hansen (History, Yale) SAASB 1102C Whenever we speak of the Silk Road, the mind’s eye conjures up a single merchant traveling on a camel laden with goods, most likely on his way to Rome. The discovery of multiple artifacts and...
Wali Ahmadi (Near Eastern Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, March 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will focus on how the wars of the last three decades have been represented in contemporary fiction in Afghanistan. It argues that the war against...
Harry Reese (Studio Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 6 / 4:00 - 5:00 PM Platform Gallery (near the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB) Artist and Professor Harry Reese makes prints, artists’ books, paintings, and public art installations. Reese’s ongoing research in pattern recognition, the book form and...
Thursday, February 28, 2013 / 2:00 - 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Casey Cooper Johnson (filmmaker, “UNMANNED: A Filmmaker's Journey”) Arthur Kroker (Canada Research Chair in Technology, Culture and Theory, Professor of Political Science, and Director of the Pacific Centre for Technology and Culture at the...
David Makovsky (Washington Institute for Near East Policy) Ghaith al-Omari (The American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 27 / 5:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall David Makovsky, Ziegler Distinguished Fellow and Director of the Project on the Middle East Peace Process at the Washington Institute for...
Christopher Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Tuesday, February 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Are Tea Party supporters merely a group of conservative citizens concerned about government spending? Or are they racists who refuse to accept Barack Obama as their president because he's not...
Amy Slaton (History, Drexel University) Friday, February 22 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Slaton is the author of Race, Rigor and Selectivity in U.S. Engineering: The History of an Occupational Color Line (2010) and Reinforced Concrete and the Modernization of American Building, 1900-1930. Her new book project considers...
Caren Kaplan (American Studies, UC Davis) Friday, February 22, 2013 / 1:00 PM SSMS 2135 Before the advent of aviation, industrializing nations sought to produce increasingly accurate surveys of territorial possessions, drawing on new technologies and sciences to interpret and reproduce sights and images. Kaplan will argue that...
Laura Browder (American Studies, University of Richmond) Thursday, February 21, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB To date, more than 280,000 women have served in Iraq, Afghanistan and surrounding regions. Their jobs include working as convoy gunners, searching homes, and conducting IED sweeps. On February...
Dr. Henry Lowood (Curator, History of Science & Technology Collections, Stanford) Tuesday, February 12 / 4:00 PM 1009 SSMS Social Science and Media Studies Building Shortly before the release of id Software’s computer game, DOOM, at the end of 1993, id released a news release announcing the...
Dov Waxman (Political Science, CUNY) Monday, February 11 / 8:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion One in five citizens of Israel is Palestinian. What does this mean for Israel’s future as a Jewish state and for the resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict? This talk tackles these crucial questions and...
Richard Halpern (English, New York University) Wolf Kittler (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies,UCSB) Joseph Roach (Theater, Yale) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM Saturday, February 9 / 8: 30 AM McCune Conference Room. HSSB 6020) Contemporary discussions of "risk" or "speculation" often identify these concepts as distinguishing...
Friday, February 8 / 1:00-5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote Speaker: Richard Halpern, (English, New York University): "The Loss of Hazard: Fugitive Risk in The Merchant of Venice" w/Shakespeare is a new multi-campus research group dedicated to the innovative study of Shakespeare. Convened by Julia...
Nan Enstad (History, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Friday, February 8 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Enstad is the author of Ladies of Labor, Girls of Adventure: Working Women, Popular Culture, and Labor Politics at the Turn of the Twentieth Century. Her new book project is “The Jim...
Friday, February 8 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Please join us for the third meeting of the Ethnography and Cultural Studies Research Focus Group, with roundtable presentations on the theme "Radical Politics." Sponsored by the IHC's Ethnography and Cultural Studies RFG....
Wafaa Bilal (Tisch School, NYU) Thursday, February 7, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Terence Keel (Black Studies, UCSB) Thursday, February 7 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall It is often believed that the modern scientific study of race first emerged in and around the Enlightenment. During this time the study of natural history reached an unprecedented level of maturity and...
Wednesday, February 6 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This event has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience. A discussion of research work-in-progress on topics concerning contemporary Mexico, by faculty and students. If you would like more information please see the RFG website or contact...
Friday, February 1 / 9:30 AM Getty Museum and Research Institute This day-long trip to Los Angeles includes two tours at the Getty Museum and Research Institute focusing on its impressive collection of rare books and manuscripts. For the first session, Marcia Reed, Chief Curator of...
Wednesday, January 30, 2013 / 7:00 PM Marjorie Luke Theatre, Santa Barbara Junior High School Thursday, January 31, 2013 / 4:00 PM Hatlen Theater, UCSB Theater of War is an innovative project that presents professional actors reading scenes from ancient Greek drama about soldiers returning from war. Following the...
Juan Campo (Religious Studies), Richard Hecht (Religious Studies), Kathleen Moore (Religious Studies), Salim Yaqub (History) Moderator: Wade Clark Roof (Religious Studies) Tuesday, January 29, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four UCSB professors join in a panel discussion to assess the effects of the war on...