Ana Elena Puga (Ohio State University/Stanford University) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM Social Sciences and Media Studies building, 2135 (2nd Floor conference room) Ana Elena Puga trains a theater/performance studies lens on the struggle to control public perception of undocumented migrant rights activist Elvira Arellano, who was...
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/ Click...
Sponsored by the Office of Research, the Dean of the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts, and the IHC. You are invited to the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) for two days of events with Dr. Stefanie Walker, Program Officer, Division of Research Programs at the...
Mario T. Garcia (Chicana and Chicano Studies, UCSB) Sal Castro (Retired Teacher, LAUSD) Wednesday, February 23 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Mario Garcia and Sal Castro will discuss their recently published book Blowout! Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice. Based on oral history,...
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 18...
Friday-Saturday, February 18-19, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The Medieval Studies Program in conjunction with the UC Multicampus Research Project for Mediterranean Studies will be hosting a general workshop on topics in Mediterranean Studies and a conference on “Mediterranean Princely Courts and the Transmission of Cultures.”...
Nathaniel W. Dumas (Linguistics, UCSB) Friday, February 18 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Dumas's research focuses on the face-to-face and computer-mediated communicative practices of members of American Stuttering English Speech Communities and how their informal and formal routines afford the social construction and reconfiguring of a particular sociolinguistic,...
Neil Fligstein (Sociology, UC Berkeley) Friday, February 18 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Fligstein is the author of Markets, Politics, and Globalization (1997) and The Architecture of Markets: An Economic Sociology of Capitalist Societies (2002). His current work evaluates how policies in the 1980s and 1990s to “maximize...
Catherine Cole (Theater, Dance and Performance Studies, UC Berkeley) Thursday, February 17, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “If universities can’t find the will to innovate and adapt to changes in the world around them,” says educational innovator David Wiley in Anya Kamenetz’s recent book...
Timmy Gambin (Director of Archaeology, Aurora Trust) Thursday, February 17 / 3:30 PM HSSB 4041 Over the past three years, AURORA Trust, in collaboration with the Italian Ministry of Culture, has carried out a project aimed at mapping and studying the underwater cultural heritage around the Pontine Islands....
Thursday, February 17, 2011 Multi-Cultural Center On February 17, New Sexualities graduate students gathered at the Multi-Cultural Center to participate in a roundtable discussion titled “Positioning Critical Research: Funding and Publishing Sexuality Studies Work in Neoliberal Times.” The discussion was led by Dr. Melissa White, who...
Esther Bates (Executive Director, Elverhøj Museum of History and Art) Ethan Turpin (Local Filmmaker) Wednesday, February 16, 2011 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Solvang’s particular Danishness has evolved in step with the American twentieth- and twenty-first centuries. An emphasis on tourism has both preserved and distorted the...
Monday, February 14 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This symposium marks the first anniversary of the Translation Studies Doctoral Emphasis at UCSB. As Emily Apter observed in the recent MLA Profession 2010, “In this time of economic downturn and the humanities’ consequent vulnerability, translation...
Elizabeth Clark (Religion / History, Duke University) Monday, February 14 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 In recent centuries, many have assumed that marriage, family, and home were normative Christian ideals. Nineteenth-century notions of domesticity and twentieth-century praise of “family values” encouraged the view that Christianity supported a pro-family...
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 11: Anti-Valentine's Day...
The Social Network Friday, February 11 / 7 pm & 10 pm Monday, February 14 / 10 pm I.V. Theater $4...
Daniel Rosenberg (History, University of Oregon) Thursday, February 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The convention of mapping historical chronologies in the form of straight, measured lines is ubiquitous. Yet, like the conventions of historical narrative, this graphic convention has a complex history. This...
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM Corwin Pavilion Is democracy sweeping through the Arab World? Or will current unrest result in autocratic crack-downs, military coups, Islamist regimes, and chaos? How should the US react? What are the implications for America? A public discussion by Middle East specialists...
Mary Hancock (History / Anthropology, UCSB) Discussant: Amit Ahuja (Political Science, UCSB) Thursday, February 10 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd Floor, Ellison Hall The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai examines the dynamics of public memory in the southern Indian city of Chennai, a former colonial port...
Hussein Ibish (Senior Fellow, American Task Force on Palestine) Wednesday, February 9 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4041 Hussein Ibish will discuss Arab- and Muslim-American activism after September 11, 2001. He will address immediate reactions to the terrorist attacks, examining how the communities coped with various kinds of fallout...
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Wednesday, February 9, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB "Surround Sound" explores the affective significance of the relationship between sound and the experience of space, particularly with respect to language acquisition and its role in attachment. The practice of making and...
Ronald Stroud (Classical Languages and Literature, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 8 / 5:30 PM SB Museum of Natural History Located at the narrowest part of the Greek peninsula, Corinth became famous as one of the greatest commercial centers in the ancient world. From early times Corinth also had a...
Jessica Brantley (English, Yale University) Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB More devotional books of hours remain in modern libraries than any other kind of book from late medieval England: almost eight hundred manuscript volumes, and many thousands of printed ones. And yet this fact...
Nicki Lisa Cole (Sociology, UCSB) Monday, February 7 / 10:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Today’s consumer is confronted with a growing variety of “ethical” products in the American marketplace. This presentation examines the practice of ethical consumption of coffee in order to identify the ideological and...
Judy Klitsner (Pardes Institute for Jewish Studies in Jerusalem) Sunday, February 6 / 8:45 AM Congregation B'nai B'rith, 1000 San Antonio Road, Santa Barbara What do the infertile, tent-dwelling mothers of Genesis have in common with the military and spiritual leaders of the book of Judges? In our...
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 4...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Santa Barbara Film Festival Selection STAKELAND Friday February 4/ 7 pm &10 pm I.V. Theater FREE...
Stanley Fish & Cary Nelson Thursday, February 3, 2011 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall Outspoken public intellectuals and academic leaders Stanley Fish and Cary Nelson will go head to head for a lively discussion on the role of academic freedom in higher learning. Fish, a Professor of...
Thursday – Saturday, February 3-5 McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Keynote speakers are Leon Fink (University of Illinois, Chicago) and Anita Chan (China Research Center, University of Technology, Sydney). Panels will address economic development, women and migrant workers, international labor standards, unions, politics, and law. Sponsored by the Center...
John Zammito (History, Rice University) Wednesday, February 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Reinhard Koselleck went farther than most historical theorists toward a conceptualization of historical process as multilayered, moving at different tempi stratum by stratum, yet interacting both synchronically and diachronically across the strata....
Tuesday, February 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This panel uses different media expressions to explore how urban re-productions of space/place often have emotional impacts on people whose values, cultural ways and quality of life are at best secondary to economic interests of...
David Phillips (History, UCLA) Monday, January 31 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Phillips' talk examines some characteristic problems and issues in the study of Athenian law, and of ancient Greek law more generally, through an analysis of the offense of hubris ("intentionally dishonoring behavior"). In addition to...
Friday, January 28, 2011 / 9:00 AM - 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This conference brings together experts on history and philology from the Basque Country, Iceland, and the United States. It focuses on a little known event in Basque history: the cold-blooded killing of...
Marco Jacquemet (Communication Studies, University of San Francisco) Friday, January 28 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education Jacquemet is currently working on a book project, Transidioma: Language and Power in the Age of Globalization, which uses ethnographic and historical data from Mediterranean Europe and the U.S. to examine how...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Never Let Me Go Friday, January 28 at 7pm & 10pm Monday, January 31 at 10pm I.V. Theater $4...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, January 28 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
Jon Jablonski (Davidson Library's Map & Imagery Laboratory, UCSB) Thursday, January 27, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Yifu Tuan's 1977 Space and Place is a signature text of humanistic geography. Written against the backdrop of the rise of feminist, critical, and qualitative geographies, the...
Dir. Tomás Gutiérrez Alea (1968) 97 min. Wednesday, January 26, 2011 / 6:00 PM Introduction by Colin Gardner (Arts, UCSB) MultiCultural Center Theater Directed by Tomás Gutiérrez Alea in 1968, Memories of Underdevelopment (Memorias del Subdesarrollo) tells the story of Sergio, a wealthy bourgeois aspiring writer, who decides to stay...
Edward Soja (Urban Planning, UCLA) Tuesday, January 25, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Unfortunately, this event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. In his 2010 book Seeking Spatial Justice from which this lecture will be drawn, Soja argues that justice has a geography...
Tuesday, January 25 / 1:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Barbara Walker, Director of Research Development for the Social Sciences, Humanities and Fine Arts, will present information about funding opportunities for conferences, meetings, workshops, and seminars. She will outline various programs from agencies such as...
Clyde Woods (Black Studies, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 Woods is the author of Development Arrested: The Blues and Plantation Power in the Mississippi Delta (2000) and editor of Black Geographies and the Politics of Place (2007). He is now part of a community/academic...
John G. Younger (Classics, University of Kansas) Friday, January 21 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 Professor Younger's talk examines the lives of girls and women in the Minoan and Mycenaean cultures of the prehistoric Aegean (ca. 3000-1000 BCE). Testing modern assumptions and expectations against the archaeological, iconographic, and...
Magic Lantern Films presents: Buried Friday, January 21 at 7pm & 10pm Monday, January 24 at 10pm I.V. Theater $4...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability: The NorCal VS SoCal Show Friday, January 21 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
Ali Hendley (Sociology, UCSB) Friday, January 21 / 11:00 AM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB While the private and public spheres are often imagined as separate and opposed, feminist scholars have argued that they are inextricably linked. Challenging the line between public and private, work and home, and...
Peder Anker (Associate Professor, Gallatin School of Individualized Study / The Environmental Studies Program, New York University) Thursday, January 20 / 5:00 PM Buchanan 1930 Why did scientists and laypeople alike in the 1970s talk about the Earth in terms of a Spaceship? And in what way did...
Thursday-Friday, January 20-21, 2011 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The event will build on contemporary retheorizations of the Global South by exploring the rapid transformation of many relationships, communities, and alliances within the Western hemisphere. While the concept of the Hemispheric South suggests a move away from...
Harold Marcuse (History, UCSB) Respondant: Richard Hecht (Religious Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, January 19, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Since the January 2000 Stockholm conference "The Holocaust - Education, Remembrance, and Research," which was attended by high-level representatives from 46 countries, there has been much discussion...
Pierre Sauvage, Documentary Filmmaker of Weapons of the Spirit Tuesday, January 18 / 8:00 p.m. Campbell Hall Pierre Sauvage, award-winning documentary filmmaker and child survivor of the Holocaust, screens and discusses excerpts from his upcoming feature documentary And Crown Thy Good: Varian Fry in Marseille (2011), as well...
Saturday, January 15 / 9:00 am–6:00 pm Loma Pelona Conference Center This day-long workshop brought together scholars from the United States and Asia with leaders of various international nongovernmental organizations (NGOs) to examine the role of religion in global civil society, with a particular focus on...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability Friday, January 14 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
Thursday, January 13, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Is online instruction the future of undergraduate teaching? Is online education truly cost-effective? Can it improve undergraduate education? Is it the form that undergraduate instruction is destined to take? Is the University of California prepared...
Carol Maier (Spanish, Kent State University) Monday, January 10 / 4:00 PM PLEASE NOTE ROOM CHANGE: Phelps 6320 Maier's research interests are focused on translation theory, criticism, practice and pedagogy. She also studies contemporary Peninsular literature, particularly the work of María Zambrano, Rosa Chacel, and Catalan writer Nuria...
I.V. LIVE presents: Improvability. Friday, January 7 at 8pm Embarcadero Hall $3 student / $5 general...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (University of Winchester, UK and Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Thursday, December 2 / 4:00 PM Theater Dance West 2517 Applied drama, theater, and other arts (music, dance, film) valuably form the core of undergraduate and graduate courses, engaging student, faculty, and community collaboration...
Lisa Parks (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, November 30, 2010 / 12:00 PM 5824 Ellison Hall Zeroing in is an apt metaphor for the way citizen-viewers are positioned in relation to world events since they increasingly view them from the perspectives of aerial and orbital machines....
Monday, November 22, 2010 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 The geography of Eurasia is inhabited by populations whose understanding of identity has been redefined due to the shifting borders of empire and nation. The Russian Empire, the Soviet Union, and the new states emerging...
Friday, November 19 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This panel discussion includes Bracha Nir (Communication Disorders, Haifa University) and Yael Maschler (Communication/Hebrew Language, Haifa University). Bracha Nir’s research interests include inter- and intra-genre differentiation, usage based approaches to discourse analysis and to language acquisition, and corpus linguistics. Between...
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 19: The Naughty and Nice Show...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Scott Pilgrim vs. The World Friday, November 19 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 22 / 10:00 PM...
Thursday, November 18 / 3:00 PM Davidson Library, Special Collections Seminar Room (3rd floor) As part of the celebration of Davidson Library's acquisition of its 3 millionth volume, The History of Books and Material Texts RFG is holding an interactive presentation on two book artists from the...
Erika Rappaport (History, UCSB) Thursday, November 18 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB As critics have pointed out, the contemporary conservative “tea party movement” holds little resemblance to that of its self-proclaimed forefathers. This paper elucidates this point but also argues that tea parties have been...
Charmaine Nelson (Art History and Communication Studies, McGill Univeristy, Montreal) Thursday, November 18, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Charmaine Nelson is an Associate Professor of Art History, in the Department of Art History and Communication Studies at McGill University, Montreal. Her research and teaching...
Wednesday, November 17 / 7:00 PM Campbell Hall Sandra Cisneros will give a presentation, Writing in the Time of Mexiphobia or Packing Your Papers: Readings from Unpublished Essays in 'Writings in My Pajamas.’ A panel discussion of the writing of Sandra Cisneros with Ellen McCracken (Spanish &...
Dana Driskel (Film & Media Studies, UCSB) Wednesday, November 17, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In the summer of 1912 the city of Santa Barbara welcomed a “high-tech” industry to the area for the first time. Even then the primary employers within city limits...
Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Tuesday, November 16 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This analysis of the same state-sponsored National Song and Dance Company demonstrates how political powers may work on an African dance company over time yet produce strikingly different results. The debut...
Tuesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Join us to learn how to prepare an effective proposal for the upcoming IHC and UCIRA grant competitions. You will learn details about the programs and what they fund, insights about the review process, and writing...
Colleen Delaney-Rivera (Anthropology, CSU Channel Islands) Monday, November 15, 2010 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The archaeology of the Oxnard Plain of Ventura County has received relatively little attention, with a few notable exceptions. This study focuses on the Chumash occupations of the Oxnard Plain...
Saturday, November 13, 2010 / 6:00 PM 479 Gallery in Old Gym on UCSB campus "Spatium Sets" is a group art exhibition of contemporary art practitioners in collaboration with a solo exhibition of UCSB MFA candidate, Daniela Campins. Venezuelan-born Campins' artwork articulates the idea of space and...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Inception Friday, November 12 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 15 / 10:00 PM...
Hilde Coffe (Department of Sociology/ICS, Utrecht University) Friday, November 12 / 2:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Professor Coffe is the author of over twenty articles appearing in such journals as Electoral Studies, British Journal of Sociology, and Journal of Language and Politics in English and...
Sue Fishkoff, National Correspondent for the Jewish Telegraphic Agency Thursday, November 11 / 7:30 PM Santa Barbara Hillel, 781 Embarcadero Del Mar, Isla Vista In this captivating account of a Bible-based practice that has grown into a multibillion- dollar industry, journalist Sue Fishkoff travels throughout America and to...
Wednesday, November 10, 2010 / 4:00 PM University Art Museum Artist Ann Diener will lead an informal gallery walkthrough of her commissioned wall drawing at the University Art Museum and present a slide talk about her new body of work. Diener’s large-scale, abstract drawings chart and interpret...
Wednesday, November 10 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William David Estrada from the Los Angeles Natural History Museum will speak on his latest book, e. Copies of his book will be available for sale and signing. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group and the Public History...
Emily Engel (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, November 10 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In this analysis of collecting practice in eighteenth-century South America, Engel suggests that viewing and sponsoring works of art, in particular portraits, provided the Bourbon South American viceroys with ways to contemplate...
Marjorie Agosin (Spanish Language and Latin American Literature, Wellesley College) Wednesday, November 10 / 4:00 PM CCS Old Little Theatre Marjorie Agosin is an award-winning poet and Human Rights activist. She has authored almost twenty books of poetry and memoir and has also edited numerous anthologies dedicated to...
Jane Taylor (Institute for Medieval and Renaissance Studies, University of Durham) Friday, November 5 / 2:00 PM HSSB 3041 In her lecture, Dr. Jane Taylor will discuss the question of ré-écriture and changing literary tastes through an analysis of two late Tristan versions, the Tristan of Pierre Sala's...
Magic Lantern Films all shows at the IV Theater all shows $4 Friday, November 5 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM Monday, November 8 / 10:00 PM...
Andrew Ross (Social and Cultural Analysis, New York University) Friday, November 5 / 1:00 PM 4041 HSSB Ross has published 17 books, including No Respect: Intellectuals and Popular Culture (1989), Fast Boat to China: Corporate Flight and the Consequences of Free Trade (2006), The University Against Itself: The...
Alex Wahl (Linguistics, UCSB) TALK: You Don't Fit Inside the Camera, Dude!? Socialization Through Teasing in Conversation Audrey Lopez (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Friday, November 5 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Alex Wahl is an M.A. student in Sociocultural Linguistics at UCSB. His research focuses on language and identity in...
UCSB's premiere improv troupe Fridays at 8:00 PM, Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 students $5 general November 5: Christmas Spooktacular Show...
Robert Gottlieb (Urban & Environmental Policy Institute, Occidental College) Thursday, November 4 / 11:30 AM HSSB 1233 In today’s food system, farm workers face hazardous conditions, low-income neighborhoods lack supermarkets but abound in fast food franchises, and food products are developed to be convenient rather than wholesome. Opposing...
Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard) Rüdiger Campe (German, Yale) Thursday, November 4 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room This second event in the "Keeping Time" series features two talks on the construction of temporal categories in literature and science, from the 17th through the early 19th century. Mario...
Jose Alamillo (Chicano/a Studies, CSU Channel Islands) Wednesday, November 3 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 Jose Alamillo will lecture on his recent book, Making Lemonade out of Lemons: Mexican American Labor & Leisure in a California Town, 1880-1960. Sponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group....
Wednesday, November 3, 2010 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion America's Muslims have become a flashpoint for public debate about freedom of religion, freedom of speech, civil rights, and U.S. relations with Muslim majority countries in the Middle East and Asia. Recently there has been an outcry about...
Dr. John Marciari (San Diego Museum of Art) Tuesday, November 2 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room 6020 HSSB Dr. Marciari recently made international headlines by attributing a painting at the Yale University Art Gallery to Diego Velázquez. Depicting 'The Education of the Virgin Mary', the work was...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music/Theater and Dance, UCSB & University of Winchester, UK ) Monday, November 1, 2010/ 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Each November second since the postrevolutionary nationalistic years of the 1920s the diminutive cemetery on the tiny island of Janitzio, Lake Pátzcuaro, Mexico has been...
Monday-Friday, November 1-5 Gonda van Steen’s first book, Venom in Verse: Aristophanes in Modern Greece was awarded the John D. Criticos Prize from the London Hellenic Society. She recently finished a book titled Liberating Hellenism from the Ottoman Empire (2010), in which revolutionary uses of Aeschylus’...
Twilight: Eclipse & Rocky Horror Picture Show with Improvability performing live between shows Friday, October 29 beginning at 7 PM IV Theater ...
Thursday, October 28 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This topic will be discussed by Ann-elise Lewallen (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Mhoze Chikowero (History, UCSB) The presenters will circulate individual papers beforehand (please email Mhoze Chikowero: chikowero@history.ucsb.edu or Peter Bloom: pbloom@mediandfilm.ucsb.edu for the...
Hugh Wilford (History, CSU Long Beach) Thursday, October 28 / 12:30 PM McCune Room (HSSB 6020) In 1967, it was revealed that the CIA had secretly funded the American Friends of the Middle East, an apparently private group of pro-Arab, anti-Zionist U.S. citizens. This paper reveals the hitherto...
Winner of the Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature Thursday, October 28 / 4:00 PM Corwin Pavilion The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be awarded this year to Jimmy Santiago Baca of New Mexico, a leading poet, essayist, and novelist. Baca...
Thursday, October 28, 2010 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room What does every graduate of UCSB need to know in order to be an educated and enlightened citizen of the 21st century? Panelists include: Linda Adler-Kassner (Director, Writing Program, UCSB); Thomas Carlson (Religious Studies, UCSB); Diane Fujino...
Serena Giordano Wednesday, October 27 / 4:30 PM HSSB 3001 What are the borders of the country of Art? Are ex-votos included within these borders? If not, how would calling them “art” place into question the ritual value of the artwork (Benjamin) in the era before mechanical reproduction?...
Tuesday, October 26 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The UC Institute for Research in the Arts, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Arts Research Initiative are pleased to announce a competition for research and educational projects that engage Isla Vista as a...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 22 / 8:00 PM - "A Very Brady Improv Show: Free Admission for Parents" 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, October 22 at 7 PM & 10 PM Monday, October 25 at 10 PM $4 at I.V Theater...
Cynthia Kaplan (Political Science, UCSB) and Adrienne Edgar (History, UCSB) Thursday, October 21 / 4:00 PM Lane Rm, 3rd fl. Ellison Hall Welcome to all those interested in identity issues! Please join us for the first meeting of the year at which we will preview our planned activities. The...
Ulrich Schollwöck (Theoretical Physics, Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich) Thursday, October 21 / 7:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The difference between past, present and future is one of the most profound human experiences. Surprisingly enough, this experience is not reflected in the fundamental laws of physics,...
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30-4:30 Harbor Room, UCEN Please join the Library for a program on the future of scholarly publishing. Chuck Bazerman (Education) and James Frew (Bren School) will discuss some of the challenges facing traditional journal and monograph publishing, including how to maintain control of...
David Ayón (Senior Fellow, Loyola Marymount) Wednesday, October 20 / 3:30 PM South Hall 1623 David Ayon, a specialist in Latino politics in the U.S., will discuss the role that Latino voters may play in the midterm elections especially with the effects of the immigration debate fueled by...
Jacob Latham (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, October 20, 2010 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB There were at least five disputed episcopal elections in the fourth through the sixth centuries. This intra-Christian competition did not, however, lead to the contestation of space in the form of...
Debut of IHC’s PLATFORM Gallery Tuesday, October 19, 2010 / 6:00 PM 6th Floor, HSSB SNARLED MEGALOPOLIS Visions of the Emerging Face of Megacities This exhibition collects artists’ visualizations of vertiginously growing megacities, with their impulsive structures and grids. Featuring the work of fourteen individual artists from around the world,...
Stanley Burstein (History, CSU Los Angeles) Monday, October 18 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4041 The establishment of direct sea contact between the Mediterranean and South Asia in the first century CE is one of the most remarkable developments in ancient history. Scholarship has focused overwhelmingly on the impact...
Moshe Halbertal & Raghida Dergham Sunday, October 17, 2010 / 3:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion A dialogue between Moshe Halbertal, noted Israeli pholosopher, award-winning author, and Professor of Jewish Thought and Philosophy at Hebrew University and Raghida Dergham, columnist and senior diplomatic correspondent for the London-based newspaper, Al-Hayat,...
McBeth! back by popular demand Sunday, October 17 / 4:00 PM & 7:00 PM Bring a blanket and enjoy a short hour of twisted Shakespeare....
Saturday, October 16 / 5:00 PM & 8:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater In the 1970s, during Zimbabwe’s war of independence against their white Rhodesian rulers, Thomas Mapfumo, often called the Lion of Zimbabwe, created the chimurenga (the Shona word for 'revolutionary struggle'). This unique style combines the...
John Borsos (National Union of Health Care Workers) Friday, October 15 / 1:00 PM HSSB 4041 John Borsos has been a health industry trade unionist for nearly two decades and is currently a leader of the insurgent National Union of Health Care Workers. He holds a Ph.D. in...
Friday, October 15 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 A discussion of "An overview of the question-response system in American English conversation" by Tanya Stivers (UCLA). To receive a PDF copy of the paper under discussion, contact Melissa Curtin (mlcurtin@linguistics.ucsb.edu). Moderator: Mary Bucholtz (UCSB). Discussant: Geoffrey...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 15 / 8:00 PM Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...
Friday, October 15, 2010 / 1:00PM - 4:00PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Maps can add important dimensions to analysis and interpretation in the humanities, illustrating the distribution of phenomena, patterns of activities, processes of landscape change, flows among places, and connections between natural and human environments....
Anna Sapir Abulafia (Vice-President of Lucy Cavendish College, Cambridge University) Thursday, October 14 / 3:30 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Anna Sapir Abulafia's books include Christians and Jews in the Twelfth-Century Renaissance (1995), Christians and Jews in Dispute. Disputational Literature and the Rise of Anti-Judaism in...
Kim Yasuda (Art, UCSB) "Isla Vista: A Public Research Lab" Wednesday, October 13, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB “We are within and part of what we study. Participatory research thus begins with the assumption that all forms of meaning, doing, making, thinking and knowing...
Whitney Winn and Barbara Walker (Office of Research) Tuesday, October 12 / 10:00 AM SSMS 1304 Join us to learn the best way to find sources of funding for your research in the Humanities and Fine Arts. You will learn how to use two campus subscription funding search...
Russell Steinberg, composer/pianist Mitchell Newman, LA Philharmonic violinist Monday, October 11 / 8:00 PM Geiringer Hall Featuring music by Russell Steinberg and text by Daniel Pearl, performed by LA Philharmonic violinist Mitchell Newman and composer/pianist Russel Steinberg. Limited seating, reservation required: please call (805) 893‐2317. Presented in conjunction with...
UCSB's Premiere Comedy Troupe back for their 6th season Friday, October 8 / 8:00 PM - "Live Video Game Improvability" Embarcadero Hall 935 Embarcadero Del Norte $3 Students / $5 General...