Steve Early (author and unionist) October 7 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Early, who worked for 27 years as an organizer for the Communications Workers of America, is a prolific labor journalist and the author of The Civil Wars in U.S. Labor: Birth of a New Labor...
Herbert H. Clark (Albert Ray Long Professor of Psychology, Stanford University) Friday, October 7 / 3:00-4:30 PM Pollock Theater At the heart of people’s lives as social beings is what they do together—from getting acquainted, gossiping, and transacting business to walking together, playing tennis, and making love. Taking...
Christian Grose ( Political Science, USC) Thursday, October 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Does the election of African-American politicians matter? Grose argues that it does and presents a unified theory of representation in Congress in Black and White. He theorizes that...
Anne Blackburn (South Asian Studies and Buddhist Studies, Cornell University) Friday, October 14 / 5:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building As British and French colonial control deepened in Lanka and Southeast Asia during the latter half of the nineteenth century, Buddhist monks and devotees...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Bridesmaids Friday, September 30 at 7&10 PM Monday,October 3 10 PM Isla Vista Theater all shows $4 "Chick flicks don't have to suck! Bridesmaids sets the bar for any R-Rated comedy this year." -Jen Yamato, Movieline "Bridesmaids is one of those films that is so categorically all-around great...
Ryoko Suzuki (Economics, Keio University) Sandra A. Thompson ( Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 2:30 PM 1205 Education In a reenactment, a speaker re-presents or depicts a previously occurring event, often dramatically. Our work is inspired by Goodwin (2007) and Sidnell (2006). Sidnell’s discussion focuses particularly on a...
Shawn Warner-Garcia (Dept. of Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, September 30 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education This paper explores how the concepts of identity and ideology are linked on an interactional level through stance-taking (Du Bois 2007). Specifically, I demonstrate how stance bridges identity and ideology through...
Statement of Purpose The Interdisciplinary Archaeology Research Focus Group draws together faculty and graduate students across eight departments in the Divisions of Social Sciences and Humanities within the College of Letters and Sciences. Lectures and discussions address current approaches to archaeological method, theory, and material analysis. Our...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Wednesday, July 27 Red Carpet: 5:30 PM Screenings: 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Dress to impress Free food and drink...
Nuestra Voz 2011 Friday, July 22 at 6:00pm FREE! Don't miss it! Everyone welcome! Reception to follow Studio Theater UCSB (Go through the Pardall Tunnel. Walk for 3 minutes. It will be on your right in the Theater & Dance Building) Nuestra Voz presents new plays written, acted, and danced...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, July 22 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, July 25 10 PM...
Magic Lantern Films presents: PAUL Friday, July 15 7&10 PM Monday, July 18 10PM $4 at I.V Theater...
Magic Lantern Films presents: YOUR HIGHNESS Friday, July 8 at 7PM & 10PM Monday, July 11 at 10PM Isla Vista Theater $4...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Rango Friday, June 24 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, June 27 / 10:00 PM Isla Vista Theater $4...
Willeke Wendrich (Department of Near Eastern Languages and Cultures and Cotsen Institute of Archaeology, UCLA) Friday, June 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The north shore of Lake Qarun in the Egyptian Fayum Oasis has the earliest evidence found for the introduction of domesticated wheat...
Shakespeare in the Park presents: The Merry Wives of Windsor Friday, June 3 at 7 pm Saturday, June 4 at 7 pm Anisq'Oyo' Park, Isla Vista Free!...
Seyda Tarim (Gevirtz School of Education, UCSB) Friday, June 3 / 1:30-3:30 PM Educ 1205 This paper examines how Turkish-English bilingual children make use of code-switching to accomplish a variety of actions within their classroom or recess activities at a multiethnic elementary school and at a Turkish Cultural...
Opening Reception: Wednesday, June 1, 2011 / 5:00 - 7:00 PM On View: June 1 - September 15, 2011 Introductory Lecture by Tomaz Andrade (Physic, UCSB) McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Where Platform’s previous shows Snarled Megalopolis and Suburbia explored geographies of large cities and suburbs, Micro-Topologies investigates the...
Saturday, May 28 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This graduate student conference will feature a lecture by Tat-siong Benny Liew, author of What is Asian American Biblical Hermeneutics? Liew will discuss his interdisciplinary work in the fields of religious studies, theology, Asian American studies,...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hal May 27-28: The 24 Hour Improvathon...
Jörg Zinken (Psychology, University of Portsmouth) Friday, May 27 / 1:30 AM 1205 Education Jörg Zinken's research concerns the linguistic mediation of activities, in particular the accomplishment of cooperative embodied activities and how such activities are resourced by the grammatical structures of a language. Sponsored by the IHC’s Language,...
Friday, May 27 / 1:00-4:00 PM McCune Conference Center, HSSB 6020 “Commercial Manuscript Makers in Thirteenth-Century Paris and the Making of the ‘Santa Barbara Bible’” Richard Rouse, History, University of California, Los Angeles “Printing the Hebrew Bible in Early Modern Europe: Christian and Jewish Scholarly Collaboration in an...
Evgenii Bershtein (Russian Language and Literature, Reed College) Thursday, May 26 / 4:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Building 2135 Sergei Mikhailovich Eisenstein (1898-1948), one of the last century's most influential film directors and theoreticians, was also a prolific writer of sexual theory and the author of thousands...
An Interdisciplinary Undergraduate Conference at UCSB Thursday - Friday, May 26-27 Keynote: Young-Hae Chang Heavy Industries (Web Art Group) Thursday, May 26/ 3:00 PM Multi-Cultural Center Theater Auras: The Work of Art in the Age of Digital Reproduction, an interdisciplinary undergraduate conference at UCSB, is proud to present a keynote...
Andrea L Berez (Linguistics, UCSB) Thursday, May 26, 2011 / 3:30 PM Girvetz 2115 This presentation discusses aspects of the directional system in Ahtna, a severely endangered Athabaskan (Native American) language spoken in south central Alaska. The semantic basis of the Ahtna directional system is traditionally riverine, based...
Laura Miller (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 25 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Building on contemporary research in alchemy and gender, I engage the medium of space, examining the connections between the identity of the philosopher-alchemist and the composition of a masculine domestic space. I...
Van Maximillian Carlson (Director) Monday, May 23 / 7:00 PM Pollock Theater Bhopali (2011) documents the experience of second-generation children in Bhopal, India, who have been affected by the Union Carbide gas disaster of 1984, the worst industrial disaster in history, and subsequent contamination of groundwater by Union...
Presented by I.V. LIVE Friday, May 20 / 8:00 PM I.V. Theater 2 A play based entirely on recent interviews of Isla Vista citizens. May 20th AND May 21st Sponsored by I.V. LIVE Website: islavista-arts.org...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 First Annual All Night Lord of the Rings Marathon Friday, May 20 7:00 PM: The Fellowship of the Ring 10:30 PM: The Two Towers 2:00 AM: The Return of the King ...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 20: Improvability....
Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Friday, May 20 / 1:30 PM South Hall 2635 Aurelio Luis Gallardo, a liberal exile from Maximilian’s Mexico, serialized his now-forgotten novel Adah, o el amor de un ángel in 1868-69 in San Francisco, where he was an active participant in local politics and...
Leslie Wallace (History of Art & Architecture, University of Pittsburgh) Friday, May 20 / 4:00 PM HSSB 3041 At the height of Han expansion, the northern frontier of the Han Empire stretched from northern Korea in the east to the Tengger Desert in the west and onward into...
Gemma Rodrigues (Curator of African Art, UCLA Fowler Museum) Wednesday, May 18 / 4:00 PM 2135 Social Science & Media Studies Building This talk examines how the making and remaking of urban space in Zimbabwe’s capital, Harare, are organized around access to land and forms of belonging through...
Tuesday, May 17 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Students from Carpinteria High School will present their research on language and culture in their local community, from surfing to youth groups. Students conducted their research as part of a special high-school class in linguistics as...
Elisabeth Weber (German, Slavic, & Semitic Studies and Comparative Literature, UCSB) Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Monday, May 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall Weber and Marcuse will lead discussions on the following readings: Shoshana Felman’s, "A Ghost in the House of Justice";...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Mel Brooks Night: Featuring Robin Hood: Men in Tights and Spaceballs Friday, May 13 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 16 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 13: The Harry Potter Show!...
Phaedra Pezzulo (Rhetoric and Public Culture, Indiana University) Susan Stonich (Anthropology, Environmental Studies, Geography, and the Interdepartmental Graduate Program in Marine Science, UCSB) Friday, May 13 / 12:00 PM Wallis Annenberg Conference Room (4315 SSMS) “Toxic tours” are visits to sites polluted by poisonous chemicals operated by environmental justice...
Reuel Schiller (Law, UC Hastings) Friday, May 13 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Schiller's areas of academic interest are twentieth-century American legal history, administrative law, and labor and employment law. A forthcoming book compares the legal strategies of the labor movement and the civil rights movement in the...
17th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) Thursday- Saturday, May 12 - 14, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 pm McCune Conference Room, 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building Film stars are worshiped in India, and even temples are dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star Rajinikanth publicly...
Wednesday, May 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Annual Graduate Student Presentations Nation-State or State-Nation? Myths of Nationhood and Support for State Sovereignty in Belarus Francois Zdanowicz (Political Science , UCSB) Brawls, Armed Robbery and Kidnapping: Imperial Russia’s Adjudication in the South Caucasus until the...
Danielle Antoinette Hidalgo (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Drawing upon three years of intensive ethnographic research in both atypical and typical strip clubs in California and Oregon, Hidalgo discusses how embodied labor is negotiated in these clubs. Further, she...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Film stars are worshiped in India and even temples have been dedicated to them by their devotee-fans. The fan clubs of South Indian film star, Rajinikanth have been publicly ritualizing his film...
Michelle Samura (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, May 11, 2011 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel explores emergent possibilities from using a spatial approach to examine, understand, and talk about race relations on college campuses. A spatial lens locates larger racial meanings and ideologies in...
Edward S. Casey (Philosophy, SUNY Stony Brook) Tuesday, May 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The complex and evolving situation at La Frontera, the U.S.-Mexico border, has been central to current discussions of immigration and the effect of drug cartels. In order to illuminate...
Samuel Heilman (Sociology, Queens College and Graduate Center, CUNY) Sunday, May 8 / 3:00 PM UCSB MultiCultural Center From the 1950s until his death in 1994, Menachem Mendel Schneerson--revered by his followers worldwide simply as the Rebbe--built the Lubavitcher movement from a relatively small sect within Hasidic...
Saturday, May 7 / 9:00 AM McCune Conference Room, HSSB This one-day interdisciplinary conference will explore the senses, sensibilities, and the dynamic relationship between the two, in the middle ages. We will explore the problems of the senses, sentience, emotion and knowledge production in a period before...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Green Hornet Friday, May 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 9 / 10:00 PM...
Santa Barbara’s premiere improv group Friday nights at 8 pm Students $3 / general $5 Embarcadero Hall May 6: Improvability....
Friday, May 6 / 9:00 AM MultiCultural Center Graduate Student Lounge This conference, organized by graduate students in Spanish and Portuguese, will feature thirty to forty presenters from universities across the nation. Selected papers will be published in the Fall issue of the graduate academic journal...
Tom Juravich (Sociology and Labor Studies, University of Massachusetts at Amherst) Friday, May 6 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Juravich is a labor educator and musician. He is the author of Chaos on the Shop Floor: A Worker's View of Quality, Productivity and Management (1985); an ethnography of...
Maher Hathout (Senior Advisor, Muslim Public Affairs Council, Los Angeles) Nuha Khoury (History of Art and Architecture, UCSB) Edward Linenthal (History, University of Indiana) Thursday, May 5, 2011 / 7:30 PM MultiCultural Center Theater The battle over plans to build a Muslim religious center near ground zero has thrown...
Carolyn de la Peña (Department of American Studies, UC Davis) Wednesday, May 4 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Carolyn de la Peña will discuss her new book, Empty Pleasures. Sugar substitutes have been a part of American life since saccharin was introduced at the...
Rula Jebreal (Screenwriter, Miral, 2011) Monday, May 2 / 6:00 PM Pollock Theater A free screening of the recently-released film Miral based on the novel and screenplay by Rula Jebreal, and directed by Julian Schnabel. The film paints a stunning portrait of personal conflict, humanitarian courage, and...
Rula Jebreal (Author & Journalist) Monday, May 2 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theatre A discussion with Rula Jebreal on the transformations Italy has undergone under the impact of immigration over the past two decades, and how they influence the role that Italy could play vis-a-vis the current...
Monday, May 2 / 9:00 AM - 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Traditional research on borders and frontiers has typically emphasized the divisive influence of “hard” boundaries imposed by geography, politics, and economics. This conference seeks to widen the narrow conceptions of space underlying traditional...
Deborah E. Lipstadt (Religion, Emory University) Sunday, May 1 / 3:00 PM UCSB Campbell Hall Lipstadt offers a compelling reassessment of the groundbreaking trial that has become a touchstone for judicial proceedings in which victims of genocide confront its perpetrators. As the world continues to confront the ongoing...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The Illusionist Friday, April 29 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, May 2 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 April 29 - Jolly Olde England Show!...
Galina Bolden (School of Communication, Rutgers University) Friday, April 29 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This presentation examines the interactional construction of language competence in bilingual immigrant communities. The focus is on how participants in social interaction resolve problems of understanding that are demonstrably rooted in their divergent...
Friday, April 29 / 4:00 PM Theater and Dance 1701 and Life Sciences Building 1001 This symposium will examine the role of morality in the visual arts from multiple perspectives, including those of practicing artists, art historians, and museum curators. Operating under the assumption that there are...
Najib Bounahai (Professor of Higher Education, Ibn Tofail University, Morocco) Friday, April 29th / 1:00 PM *please note new time and location* 2017 SSMS The talk is about the interplay between cinema and politics in Morocco over the last ten years. Morocco has initiated several ambitious and...
Friday, April 29, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary graduate student conference is concerned with a wide variety of conceptions of space and place, both contemporary and historical, physical and imagined. The conference will explore ideas of place and space, and how these ideas have...
LA Urban Rangers (Art Collective, Los Angeles) Thursday, April 28, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Join Ranger Jenny of the LA Urban Rangers for a campfire program about their past and current projects. An interdisciplinary art collective, the Rangers explore the complex human and...
Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Wednesday, April 27 / 2:00 PM 2206 North Hall This workshop is intended for faculty who are new to UCSB or new to grant writing. It will cover how to find funding for your research, grant writing strategies (including interpreting RFPs, formatting, rhetorical...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 22 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 25 / 10:00 PM...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, April 22 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5...
Ellen Anderson (playwright) Melinda Palacio (poet and novelist) D.J. Palladino (novelist and journalist) Sojourner Kincaid Rolle (poet and playwright) Thursday, April 21, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Four local creative writers will discuss the ways in which notions of place have shaped their work. In “Loving Detroit Like...
Farai "Fafi" Bere (a.k.a 3 Percent) Thursday, April 21 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Lounge A Zimbabwean born academic and musician, Dr. Farai Bere focuses on what he calls Black performativity, the performance of Blackness as a political force and how Black performance can be said to embody...
Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Thursday, April 21 / 4:00 pm 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building This lecture focused on a certain trajectory in recent works by documentary filmmaker Madhusree Dutta: her preoccupation with the triad city-cinema-publics to...
Tuesday, April 19 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB We invite interested faculty and graduate students to join us for a brainstorming meeting for the 2011-2012 IHC series Public Goods. Public Goods will be a year-long program at the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center that will explore...
Monday, April 18 - Friday, April 22 Old Gym Gallery 479 Artist Desiree D'Alessandro, in collaboration with Raymond Douglas, embraces Old Gym Gallery 479's sports and recreation history in this exhibition that focuses on hybridizing the fields of art and athleticism. Ten student boxers from the local...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 The King’s Speech Friday, April 15 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 18 / 10:00 PM...
Friday - Saturday, April 15 - 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference is an interdisciplinary exploration of how form arises from practice. Grammatical, literary, and cultural structures become entrenched over time and with repetition. Ideas and behaviors become increasingly routine, ritualized, automatic, opaque to self-reflection,...
Alessandro Barchiesi (Latin Literature, University of Siena, Arezzo) Friday, April 15, 2011 / 4:00 PM ** PLEASE NOTE TIME CHANGE** HSSB 4041 This lecture will examine representations of Italic landscapes in the Aeneid, especially wilderness, as seen in mountains and woods, and (super)natural phenomena, volcanic and sulphurous. Professor...
Lisa Hajjar (Sociology, UCSB) Trevor Paglen (Author & Experimental Geographer) Thursday, April 14, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Secrecy is not just a matter of keeping information hidden; it is a productive enterprise that involves the creation of certain kinds of spaces, be they economic,...
David Novak (Music, UCSB) Wednesday, April 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The circulation of recordings encourages us to recognize a world of music from above. Scholars have often focused on the cultural blurring caused by the speed of global media, and the ways...
Rose Hayden-Smith (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, April 13 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Hayden-Smith will present an in-depth look at the past and present of the Victory Garden movement. This paper will review historical case studies and discuss current national policies and models as well...
David Wilson (Founding Director, Museum of Jurassic Technology) Wednesday, April 13 / 5:00 PM Broida 1640 David Wilson will present the work of the 19th century philosopher-librarian Nikolai Federov, whose ideas about space travel and habitation influenced the scientist and visionary of Russian Cosmonautics, Konstantin Tsiolkovsky. This story...
Cynthia Felando (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, April 12, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, Santa Barbara was the setting for the first-ever American “reality” television series, An American Family. Conceived by the producer Craig Gilbert as a way to challenge the...
John Schoeberlein (Anthropology, Harvard University) Monday, April 11 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor Ellison Hall John Schoeberlein is Director of the Program on Central Asia and the Caucasus at the Davis Center for Russian and Eurasian Studies and Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at Harvard University. Sponsored...
Ronald Mellor (History, UCLA) Monday, April 11 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Ronald J. Mellor is Distinguished Professor of History at UCLA, where he has been teaching Greek and Roman history since 1976. Prof. Mellor’s research centers on ancient religion and Roman historiography. ...
Saturday, April 9 / 2:30 PM Plaza outside Santa Barbara Museum of Art's Park Wing entrance Ancient Greeks/Modern Lives is part of an extensive National program of workshops and performances to inspire people to come together to read, see, and think about classical literature. This staged reading,...
Ido Haar (editor of I Am Carolyn Parker, dir. Jonathan Demme) Friday, April 8, 2011/12:00 PM 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building (SSMS) Reclaiming home in the wake of disaster is the theme of this month’s meeting of the Environmental Media Initiative Research Group (EMIRG). The discussion...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, April 8 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 11 / 10:00 PM...
Keynote Addresses: Wendy Perron (Editor-in-Chief, Dance Magazine) Marcia B. Siegel (The Village Voice, The Boston Globe) Friday, April 8 /10:00 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This one-day scholarly and artistic conference will discuss Jennifer Muller and the changing world of American modern dance starting in the 1960s and...
Mike McGinnis (Institute of Policy Studies, Victoria University of Wellington) Thursday, April 7, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB For thousands of years, coastal inhabitation by diverse maritime peoples across the Pacific Ocean has included a natural history of adapting to changes in the marine...
Felipe Rojas (Getty Postdoctoral Fellow) Wednesday, April 6 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Felipe's research examines the re-use of Lydian landscapes, monuments, and objects at Sardis in the Roman period. He is a 2011-2012 postdoctoral fellow at the Getty Villa. Sponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands RFG....
Hans-Jörg Rheinberger (Max Planck Institute for the History of Science, Berlin) Tuesday, April 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Experimental systems and their dynamics are the focus of Rheinberger's paper. For a long time, identity and contradiction were the categories in which historical trajectories were...
Lisa Jacobson (History, UCSB) Tuesday, April 5 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB The invasion of Normandy, the creation of an industrial war machine, and the falling reputation of rum—how does whiskey tie them all together? Lisa Jacobson answers this question by exploring the political and...
Ido Haar (Documentary Filmmaker) Friday, April 1, 2011 / 2:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater Just as Mexicans cross U.S. borders illegally to find work as day laborers, thousands of Palestinians do likewise, into neighboring Israel, seeking jobs in construction. For 9 Star Hotel, Israeli filmmaker Ido Haar gained...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 127 Hours Friday, April 1 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, April 3 / 10:00 PM...
Filip DeBoeck (Anthropology, University of Leuven) Thursday, March 31 / 5:00 PM Pollock Theater In Cemetery State, Filip DeBoeck invites us on a bewildering tour of the cemetery of Kintambo, one of the oldest and largest cemeteries in Kinshasa, the capital of the Democratic Republic of Congo. ...
Charles Acland (Communication Studies, Concordia University, Montréal) Thursday, March 31 and Friday, April 1 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Media Fields research collective is excited to announce Contested Territories, its third conference exploring the relationship between media and space. As a theme, ”contested territories” encompasses a...
Marek Halter Wednesday, March 30 / 5:00 PM Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center, 524 Chapala Street, Santa Barbara In The Jewish Odyssey, Marek Halter charts the course of Judaism from its origins in Mesopotamia to its place in the world today. Predating all Western culture, its early development...
Eugene Cruz-Uribe (History, Northern Arizona University) Monday, March 28 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Based upon his field work at a number of sites around Egypt, Dr Cruz-Uribe will develop a theme around the role of pilgrimage in ancient Egypt especially during Roman and Byzantine...
The Early Modern Center's Tenth annual Winter Conference Friday – Saturday, March 11 – 12 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In recent decades, scholars working in the early modern period have been at the vanguard of literary studies. To cite just one example, some of the earliest practitioners...
Ken Mouré Department of History and Classics University of Alberta Thursday, March 10/ 11:00 AM HSSB 3001E Food shortages in Occupied Europe offer a marked contrast to the experience with food rationing in the United States and Britain during World War II. Adding the French experience with rationing to comparative...
Yi-Fu Tuan (Geography, University of Wisconsin-Madison) Wednesday, March 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Plants are truly in place. Animals less so. Humans least of all. That’s the sum of my story. I will elaborate on it in two parts. The first part identifies...
March 8, 2011 Mosher Alumni House On March 8, 2011 the New Sexualities RFG hosted a Sexuality Studies Brainstorming Session titled, “Rethinking the Funding and Form of Sexuality Studies.” This full-day event was held at the Mosher Alumni House. Paul Amar, Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack...
Nazym Shedenova (Professor, Dept. of Sociology, Al-Farabi Kazakh National University, Almaty, Kazakhstan) Monday, March 7 / 12:30 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Prof. Shedenova is a founder of Gender Studies in Kazakhstan and an expert on the role of women in the Kazakhstan labor force. She...
Monday, March 7, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center Queer theorists Lisa Duggan, Macarena Gomez-Barris, J. Jack Halberstam, and Dean Spade presented queer critiques of same-sex marriage and the fight for “marriage equality.” Instead of attempting to merely transform existing, oppressive institutions, panelists insisted on the necessity of moving...
Michael D. Dixon (History, University of Southern Indiana) Monday, March 7 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Corinth, like many Greek poleis ("city-states"), did not enjoy full autonomy and freedom during the Hellenistic period. Between the battles of Chaironeia (338 BC) and Cynoscephalae (197 BC), Corinth was almost continuously...
Friday, March 4 Embarcadero Hall Students $3 / general $5 The Nice Show at 8pm The Naughty Show at 10pm...
Barry Eichengreen (Economics and Political Science, UC Berkeley) Friday, March 4 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 A former advisor to the International Monetary Fund, Eichengreen is the author of Globalizing Capital: A History of the International Monetary System (2008) and Global Imbalances and the Lessons of Bretton Woods...
Philip Goldberg (Author) Thursday, March 3 / 6:30 pm 4041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building For over two hundred years India’s philosophies and practices have been transforming the ways in which Americans understand and engage in religious and spiritual practices. This multimedia presentation illuminated this remarkable history and...
Norihiro Kato (Waseda University, IHC Visiting Scholar) Thursday, March 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk concerns the significance of the most remarkable postwar Japanese icon: Godzilla. In the 50 years since the first movie was made in 1954, a total of 28...
Sabrina Ramet (Political Science, The Norwegian University of Science &Technology) Wednesday, March 2 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall The lecture will focus on Prince Lazar of Serbia, King Arthur of the Celts, and King Olav of Norway, with a passing reference to King Stephen...
Colin Gardner (Art, UCSB) Wednesday, March 2, 2011 / 5:00 PM IHC’s Platform Gallery, 6th Floor HSSB Where Platform's last exhibition, Snarled Megalopolis, visualized the organic shapes generated by cities out of control, Suburbia will highlight landscapes and architectures characterized by regulation, uniformity, and standardization. These landscapes are...
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students / $5 general February 25: The Disney Show...
Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows Part 1 Friday, February 25 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 28 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Julia Ott (History, The New School) Friday, February 25 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Ott’s book of the same title will be published by Harvard University Press in the spring of 2011. Her next project considers the enduring influence of financial institutions and pro-investor ideology in recent...
Neil Denari (Architecture and Urban Planning, UCLA) Friday, February 25 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 Former Director of SCI-ARC from 1997-2001 and recipient of the Ralph Recchia award and the Samuel F. B. Morse Medal for architecture in 2002 from the National Academy of Design in New...
Friday-Saturday, February 25-26, 2011 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UC Santa Barbara This conference will examine the intersection between Geographic Information Systems (GIS) and the spatial turn in the humanities. Participants have been asked to describe their mapping projects in relation to traditional humanities methodologies, research objects, and concerns....