Dara Z. Strolovitch (Department of Politics, Princeton University) Thursday, May 22 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since 2001, the American political landscape has been shaped by a convergence of “bad things” – including wars, natural disasters, and hard economic times – that have interrupted...
A LAUNCH PAD reading of a new play Written by Christina McMahon (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Directed by Risa Brainin (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Thursday, May 22, 2014 / 5:00 - 7:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB A closet. A cry for help. Body broken, mind broken,...
Thursday, May 15 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Presenters: Nicole Filler (Political Science) "In the Pursuit of Social Justice: Identities, Mobilization, and Activism." Travis Seifman (History) "Edo dachi: Performing Identity in Ryukyuan Diplomatic Processions." Magarita Safronova (Political Science) "Cultural Change and Political Behavior: Study of Ethnic Russians in Latvia and Kazakhstan" Sponsored...
Thursday, May 15 / 1:30-5:00 PM Friday, May 16 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM Santa Barbara Harbor Room, University Center Composition: making meaning through design is an interdisciplinary symposium that asks how design features—including format, medium, lettering, and images—can alter, enhance, or otherwise affect the transmission of...
Daniel Botsman (History, Yale University) Tuesday May 13, 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 This talk will begin by considering the place of cows in Japanese society before the Meiji Restoration, particularly in relation to the agrarian economy of the Kansai and surrounding regions. It will then consider the revolutionary changes...
Fred Turner (Communication, Stanford University) Thursday, May 1 / 4:00 PM SSMS 2135 In the early 1960s, young bohemians swayed together under the swirling lights of psychedelic slide shows, surrounded by walls of amplified sound, in dance halls and art galleries from Greenwich Village to San Francisco. For...
Sheron Wray (Dance, UC Irvine) Wednesday, April 30 / 3:30 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 This is an interdisciplinary dance-led documentary about 17 University of California Irvine students who traveled to explore the roots of jazz dance in sub-Saharan Africa. With their dance professor, Sheron Wray, and...
Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Kyle Abraham (Artistic Director, Abraham.In.Motion) Wednesday, April 23 / 3:00 - 4:30 PM HSSB Ballet Studio Duke University Professor and Artist-Scholar Tommy DeFrantz will speak publicly with Artistic Director and MacArthur Fellow Kyle Abraham. They will...
William S. Sax (Anthropology, South Asia Institute, Heidelberg University) Wednesday, April 23, 2014 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB William S. ('Bo') Sax studied at Banaras Hindu University, the University of Wisconsin, the University of Washington (Seattle), and the University of Chicago, where he...
Thomas F. DeFrantz (African and African American Studies/Dance, Duke University) Tuesday, April 22 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room Thomas DeFrantz is Professor of African and African American Studies/Dance at Duke University and President of the Society of Dance History Scholars. The author of Dancing Revelations: Alvin Ailey's Embodiment of...
Mike Parker Pearson (Institute of Archaeology, University College London) Friday, April 18 / 4:00 PM 1701 Theater and Dance Building Stonehenge is one of the greatest mysteries of world prehistory but it is now beginning to give up some of its secrets. In the last ten years, an...
James Simpson (English, Harvard University) Thursday, April 17 / 3:30 PM Henley Board Room, Mosher Alumni House James Simpson is the Donald P. and Katherine B. Loker Professor of English at Harvard University (2004-). He has taught at the University of Cambridge, where he was a University...
Deborah Diamond (Curator, Arthur M. Sackler Gallery and Freer Gallery of Art, Smithsonian Institution) Sunday, April 13 / 2:30 pm Mary Craig Auditorium, Santa Barbara Museum of Art (1130 State Street) Yoga is a global phenomenon practiced by millions of people seeking spiritual insight and better health. Debra...
Charles Bazerman (Education, UCSB) Friday, April 11 / 1:30 PM 1205 Education Bazerman proposes a new theory of writing and rhetoric which conceives writing as a form of situated social activity, typically displaced over time and space. Because of these dislocations, understandings of genre and activity system are...
Friday, April 4-Sunday, April 6 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Borderlands, broadly defined, are spaces where disparate ethnicities, cultures, religions, political systems, or linguistic traditions come into close contact and require both individuals and societies to adapt culturally, politically, economically, or technologically to encounters with other...
Rens Bod (Digital Humanities, University of Amsterdam) David Marshall (Dean of Humanities & Fine Arts, UCSB) Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Wednesday, March 12 / 12:00 PM South Hall 2509 How can we think comparatively about what the humanities mean in multiple areas of the world with educational and funding systems...
Ricardo Ramirez (Political Science, University of Notre Dame) Thursday, March 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall 3rd floor Mobilizing Opportunities examines a widely-acknowledged shift in perception of Latinos from uncertain political relevance in 1990 to a sense that they are redefining American democracy in 2012. ...
Davina Cooper (Law & Political Theory,University of Kent) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM South Hall 2635 If how the state is imagined shapes social and political action, the politics of state imagining provides an important site for progressive reflection. Arguing that those conceptual approaches which support critique...
Praise Zenenga (African Studies,University of Arizona) Tuesday, March 4 / 12:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This presentation focuses on strategies that popular theater artists used to survive dictatorship, censorship, and lack of sponsorship within the context of a sustained political and economic crisis (1998-2008) in post-independence...
Osmundo Pinho (Federal University, Reconcavo in Bahia, Brazil) Monday, March 3 / 1:30 PM SSMS 2011 On December 9 2013, in the State of São Paulo, the richest of the Brazilian states, six thousand young people attended an unauthorized funk party, like a rolling, mobile “flash mob” or...
Wednesday, February 26 / 5:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, HSSB 6028 The rehearsal process of We Play for the Gods at the Women’s Project Theater Company in New York City demonstrates the potential for co-direction as a radical form that challenges mainstream hierarchies in US theatrical production...
Anya Pokazanyeva (Religious Studies, UCSB) Friday, February 21 / 4:00 PM 3041 HSSB It might seem logical to assume that a Yogi, by definition, is one who does yoga. However, as these terms first entered the American imagination they did not always do so in accordance...
Thursday, February 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor, Ellison Hall This roundtable will focus on Sener Akturk's Regimes of Ethnicity and Nationhood in Germany, Russia, and Turkey, which examines why ethnic policies change. In Germany, the case is why the citizenship law changed. In Turkey,...
Jean Allman (History, Washington University) Thursday, February 20 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4080 Kwame Nkrumah, the leader of Ghana’s independence struggle and its first Prime Minister and then President, was a major theorist of pan-Africanism and neocolonialism and arguably one of the most important leaders of what was...
Tuesday, February 18 / 3:30-5:00 PM South Hall 2509 4Humanities@UCSB's activities for Winter quarter start with a meeting on Tuesday, Feb. 18th, 3:30-5:00 (South Hall 2509) focused on starting work on the 4Humanities@UCSB "WhatEvery1Says" text-harvesting and topic modeling project. The mission of the project is corpora-scale digital...
Friday, February 14- Sunday, February 16 McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB UCSB is hosting a three-day international symposium featuring interdisciplinary research on the complexity of naturally occurring human interaction. This symposium will bring together diverse researchers — linguists, sociologists, anthropologists, conversation analysts, child development and communication scholars,...
Melinda Chateauvert (New Orleans Free School) Tuesday, February 11 / 4:00 PM Multicultural Center Theater Melinda Chateauvert examines the ways that women working in the sex industry—following activism in the African American and Gay liberation movements of the 1960s and 70s—have organized through an identity framework known...
Thursday, January 23 / 6:00 PM Feminist Studies Seminar Room, South Hall The HumAnimality RFG will host a discussion of Mel Chen’s Animacies: Biopolitics, Racial Mattering, and Queer Affect. We will consider how Chen draws on queer, critical race and affect theory to contribute to and push...
Tamara Lea Spira (Women's Studies, University of Oregon) Thursday, January 23 / 1:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631A South Hall This talk theorizes the relationship between 1970s U.S. Third World queer and feminist movements and Latin American anti-imperialist revolutions of the late twentieth century. Dr....
Hélène Neveu Kringelbach (Anthropology, Oxford University) Thursday, January 23 / 2:30 PM SSMS 3145 Drawing on her recently published monograph (Dance Circles: Movement, Morality and Self-Fashioning in Urban Senegal), this presentation traces the development of the performing arts in Dakar, Senegal, from the 1930s to the contemporary...
David A. Kirby (Centre for the History of Science, Technology and Medicine; University of Manchester) Tuesday, December 3 / 1:00 PM 2135 SSMS Before 1968, censor boards in the US and UK dictated which aspects of science they considered appropriate for movies and which scientific subjects they considered...
Tuesday, November 26 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd fl00r Ellison Hall The round-table is a discussion about choosing methods in the study of identity. As part of the round-table, we particularly encourage the participation of graduate students who will be asked to present the puzzle which...
Thursday, November 21 / 12:00 PM SH 2509 4Humanities@UCSB will hold its second meeting of the 2013-14 academic year on Thursday, November 21 (noon – 1:30, South Hall 2509). Following up on its previous meeting, which focused on the “Heart of the Matter” report produced by...
Tsim Schneider (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 21 / 5:00 PM 2001a HSSB Spanish missions in the San Francisco Bay area of California represent the endpoint of 200 years of Catholic missionization on the North American continent and the far northern frontier of colonial New Spain in 1776. The...
Facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, UCSB) Monday, November 18 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB How do notions of endurance and ephemerality enable us to consider notions of performance and politics? How do embodied practices constitute meaning and knowledge? What is the efficacy of performance...
Arthur F. Marotti (English, Wayne State University) Thursday, November 14 / 4:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB This talk discusses some of the hundreds of (mostly anonymous) poems that survive in various manuscripts from the early modern period in only one or two copies. It examines...
Kenneth Prewitt (Carnegie Professor of Public Affairs and Director of The Scholarly Knowledge Project, Columbia University) Wednesday, November 13 / 4:00 PM Mosher Alumni House What is Your Race? (Princeton University Press, 2013) traces the tortured history of government race statistics from 1790 to the present. Across three-fourths...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
Slavomír Horák (International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Thursday, January 17 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall Slavomir Horak is a Visiting Fulbright Scholar at the Central Asia – Caucasus Institute, Johns Hopkins University School of Advanced and International Studies and a Research Fellow...
Tuesday, January 15 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room Discussion of readings to assign in the planned Freshman Seminar on UC. To find the readings for the third meeting please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Also review the first chapter of Clark Kerr 's Uses of the University under...
Christian Collet (International Christian University, Tokyo) Tuesday, November 20 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Vietnamese Americans offer two curiosities to the study of racial, ethnic and minority politics. One, they appear more likely than other Asian Pacific populations in the United States to distance...
Jacques Perreault (Classics, Université de Montreal) Friday, November 16 / 5:30 PM Santa Barbara Museum of Natural History Pottery production increased greatly during the Archaic period in the Greek world and we know of many different styles and production centers. On the northern Aegean island of Thasos, a...
Wednesday, November 14 / 4:00 PM Music 1213 Please see website for more information about the material under discussion: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/modern-mexican-studies If you would like to be added to the Modern Mexican Studies RFG database, please contact Ruth. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah Townsend ...
Elizabeth Miller (English, UC Davis) Friday, November 9 / 2:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Enlightenment radicals and their heirs had seen free print as an agent of revolutionary transformation, but by the end of the nineteenth century, many radical writers came to believe that large-scale...
Brett Esaki (Liberal Arts, Brooks Institute) Jason Hopkins (Sociology, UCSB) Rolondo Longoria (Sociology, UCSB) Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies,UCSB) Carly Thomsen (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 5:00 PM McCune Room, 6020 HSSB Sex and sexuality have been major hot button issues in recent elections and...
Ann Bermingham (Art History, UCSB) Constance Penley (Film & Media, UCSB) Monday, November 5 / 3:00 PM IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Discussion of public expectations for higher education in comparison to the original vision of Clark Kerr. For readings to be discussed at the meeting, please visit: www.ihc.ucsb.edu/the-uses-of-the-public-university/ Sponsored...
Kathyln Cooney (Art & Architecture, UCLA) Friday, October 26 / 3:30 PM 1173 HSSB Theban funerary arts of the ancient Egyptian 20th and 21st Dynasties, particularly wooden nesting coffins, often show evidence of usurpation from other, older individuals, as well as obvious marks where gilding or inlay have...
Nguyen Tan Hoang (English / Film Studies at Bryn Mawr College) Friday, October 19 / 11:00 AM UCSB Women's Center Conference Room Nguyen Tan Hoang is a video artist and academic whose work interrogates forms of desire in queer Asian male identities, Vietnamese diasporic cultural production, and trans-Asian...
Vesna Wallace (Religious Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 18 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Since the rise of democracy and freedom of religious expression in Mongolia (beginning in the late 1980′s with Mongolia’s separation from Soviet dominion), debates over who is a true Mongol and what...
Tuesday, October 16 / 4:00 PM Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB Please come to the first meeting of the Modern Mexican Studies Research Focus Group of the IHC. We'll meet to share interests and plan events for the forthcoming year. Co-conveners: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Music (rhellier-tinoco@music.ucsb.edu) Gabriela Soto Laveaga, History (gsotolaveaga@history.ucsb.edu) Sarah...
Peggy Szymanski (Xerox PARC) Friday, October 12 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Peggy Szymanski, an interaction analyst grounded in the methods of conversation analysis and ethnography, is currently exploring practices around mobile telepresence – how people stay connected to their close friends and family as they go about...
Thursday, October 11 / 5:00 PM HSSB 2001A Please join us to launch a new RFG on Ethnography and Cultural Studies. All interested graduate students and faculty are welcome to an open meeting to discuss RFG goals and activities for the coming year. Refreshments will be served!...
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, University of Texas Austin) Thursday, October 11 / 6:00 PM McCune Conference Center, 6020 HSSB The recent work of Slovenian Marxist philosopher Slavoj Žižek on the New Testament suggests that Žižek may have more in common with the author of the Book of Revelation. Žižek’s work may...
Joshua Pilzer (Music, University of Toronto) Tuesday, October 9 / 5:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, HSSB 6056 During the long era of public secrecy about Japanese military sexual slavery, Korean survivors made use of veiled expressive forms such as song to reckon with their experiences and forge...
Monday, October 8 / 3:00 PM South Hall 2509 The 4Humanities@UCSB IHC Research Focus Group, led by Claudio Fogu (French & Italian), Linda Adler-Kassner (Writing Program), and Alan Liu (English), is calling for faculty and graduate students to participate in the second year of the group's activities. The...
Charlotte Becker (English, UCSB) Tina Bruno (History of Art & Architecture, UCSB) Friday, June 8 / 12:00 South Hall 2510, Early Modern Center The History of Books & Material Texts RFG and the 19th Century Reading Group invite you to attend a research share by Tina...
Kerry San Chirico (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Monday, June 4 / 7:30 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In the Banaras region of Uttar Pradesh, so-called Hindu “Other Backward Classes” and “Scheduled Castes” can be found worshiping Yesu (Jesus) and venerating the...
John Baugh (Washington University in St. Louis) Renee Blake (New York University) Tracey Weldon (University of South Carolina) Monday, June 4 / 8:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This interdisciplinary symposium brings together scholars in sociolinguistics and Black studies with the purpose of rethinking contemporary relationships between Black Americans...
Friday, June 1 / 9:00 AM - 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Corporeality has long been a driving issue in performance studies, as scholars and performers have sought to understand the many roles the body has performed throughout history and across cultures. Increasingly, the...
Stuart Gray (Political Science, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture outlined what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and applied it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He...
Stuart Gray (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, May 30 / 4:00 PM 6056 HSSB, Seminar Room This lecture will outline what Gray terms a historical-comparative approach to political philosophy and apply it to a study of ancient Greek and Indian conceptions of ruling. He will discuss how this approach...
Barbara Junisbai (Assistant Dean, Pritzer College) Thursday, May 24 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Kazakhstan's international image is of utmost importance to the government. The government's approach to cultivate its image abroad raises a number of questions about identity and nation-building. Should the government...
John Hyland (History, Christopher Newport University) Friday, May 18 / 4:00 PM HSSB 4041 At the beginning of the fifth century BCE, Achaemenid Persia had the largest navy in the world, but after its failed invasions of Greece, the empire limited its warships’ numbers and refused...
Joshua Dean (Political Science, UCSB) Colin Kuehl (Political Science, UCSB) Margarita Safronova (Political Science, UCSB) Zamira Yusufjonova (History, UCSB) Thursday, May 17th / 4:00pm Lane Room, Ellison Hall Graduate students will present their work in progress. Dean will present “What Does It Mean to Belong to a Nation? An Examination of...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) Wednesday, May 9 / 3:15 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Speakers: Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, Ph.D. (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB, author of Embodying Mexico, Oxford University Press, 2011) María Herrera-Sobek, Ph.D. (Associate Vice...
Andrea Golato (Germanic Languages and Literatures, University of Illinois, Urbana-Champaign) Friday, May 4 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Working within a conversation analytic framework, this presentation analyzes the use and function of 'oh' in conversational German and compares it to 'ach/achso' in German and 'oh' in English. The...
Yolanda Covington-Ward (African Studies, University of Pittsburgh) Wednesday, May 2 / 4:00 PM North Hall, Room 1006 On April 6, 1921, a MuKongo man by the name of Simon Kimbangu laid his hands on a sick woman in the name of Jesus Christ, prayed, and began to tremble. ...
Sarah J. Townsend (Spanish & Portuguese, UCSB) Monday, April 30 / 2:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Over the course of several years beginning in 1933, a character called Troka el Poderoso (Troka the Powerful) regaled young listeners of XFX, the official radio station of Mexico’s Secretariat...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building What can we learn about Vaisnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture focused on the...
Vasudha Narayanan (Religion, University of Florida) Monday, April 30 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB What can we learn about Vaishnava theology when we study the largest "Hindu" temple ever built? Using inscriptions, art, and architecture as sources, this lecture will focus on the multivalent dimensions...
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Ninian Smart Memorial Lecture Thursday, April 26 / 5:00 pm 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building In this lecture Hawley provided a critical assessment of the “bhakti movement” trope as a bifocal, multilayered notion that draws on...
Robert McRuer (English, George Washington University) Monday, April 23 / 5:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater McRuer is known for being the catalyst behind bringing queer studies and disability studies into productive conversation. In this presentation, he considers the ways in which disability is situated at the center of...
Marianne Sharp (Performing Arts, University of Winchester) Thursday, April 19 / 3:45 PM TD 2517 This talk offers a detailed analysis of the voice and body work of renowned British/Irish stage actress Fiona Shaw (better known internationally as Aunt Petunia in the Harry Potter films) in...
Julia Panko (English, UCSB, UC Graduate Fellow in Humanities) Friday, April 13 / 3:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB “The whole [reading] device weighs little more than five ounces [and] ...
Friday, April 13 / 3:00 - 5:30 PM Saturday, April 14 / 9:45 AM - 6:00 PM McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Keynote address Bradley Parker (University of Utah) The third biennial graduate student conference on Ancient Borderlands brings together young scholars from around the world to discuss cultural,...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) and UCSB students Tuesday, April 10 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Extracts of interdisciplinary performances (work-in-progress), engaging music, theater, film, movement, performance art, and multimedia created and performed by undergraduate students of Music and Theater, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco, through her...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB Music, Theater & Dance) and Carol Press (UCSB Theater & Dance) Monday, April 9 / 7:00 PM TD 1703 Creative processes and creativity in interdisciplinary performance-making and educational contexts provide the focus for this session. Grounded in a principle of the profound...
Richard Bauman (Communication & Culture, Indiana University) Friday, April 6 / 1:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Country people have stood as the domestic Other within contemporary society, providing embodied figurations of what modern people are not—or, in some inflections, are no longer. In this talk, I...