Sébastien Peyrouse (School of Advanced International Studies, Johns Hopkins University) Friday, April 6 / 12:30 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Sébastien Peyrouse is a Senior Research Fellow with the Central Asia-Caucasus Institute & Silk Road Studies Program, a joint center affiliated with Johns Hopkins University’s School of Advanced...
Marlene Laruelle (International Affairs, George Washington University) Thursday, April 5 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Marlene Laruelle is a specialist in the politics and history of Russia and Eurasia. She is Research Professor of International Affairs at the Institute for European, Russian and Eurasian...
John Adams (Archaeology, University of Southampton, UK) Tuesday, April 3rd, 2012 / 3:00 PM HSSB 2001a To the media and in the minds of the general public ‘maritime archaeology’ often suggests the study of shipwrecks, perhaps because of the prominent role they played in the development...
Shalini Kakar (IHC Research Fellow) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm 3041 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture explored the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar investigated the ways...
Shalini Kakar, (Art History, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 3:00 pm IHC Seminar Room, 3041 HSSB This presentation explores the devotional fandom centered around images of Bollywood film star Amitabh Bachchan in the Amitabh Bachchan Fan Association (ABFA) in Kolkata, India. Kakar will investigate the ways in which...
Heather Stoll (Political Science, UCSB) Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall How do changes in society that increase the heterogeneity of the citizenry, from immigration to expansions in the franchise, shape political competition? More specifically, when are new social groups successful at forming their...
Wednesday, March 7 / 4:00-8:00 PM Wednesday, March 14 / 4:00-8:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The goal of this symposium is to create a wider venue for discussion about sexuality research. Organized by the New Sexualities Research Focus Group, these symposia highlight the work of graduate...
Jessica Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Peter Hobson (Institute of Child Health, Department of Behavioural and Brain Sciences, University College London) Friday, March 2 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 What is the nature of communicating for someone about something –...
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (UCSB, Department of Music) Friday, February 24 / 5:00 PM 6056 HSSB, IHC Research Seminar Room In this informal gathering we continue to debate issues concerning the notion of “performance studies” and its efficacy in enabling provocations, understandings, and actions. Picking up themes and...
Wang Haicheng (Art, University of Washington) Friday, February 24 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB This talk will be divided into two parts. The first part will give two case studies of material exchange in Eurasia during the first millennium B.C. In the second...
Donald Molosi (Theater and Dance, UCSB) Saturday, February 18 / 7:00 PM Theater and Dance, Studio Theater "Blue, Black and White," written and performed by Donald Molosi, is an enchanting humanist story about Seretse Khama. He married a white British woman in 1949 and their interracial marriage saw...
Keith Murphy (Anthropology, UC Irvine) Friday, February 17 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 In this presentation, which stems from an ongoing project with colleagues in Sweden, Murphy will explore the use of analogical reasoning as a means for identifying problems in architectural critique interactions. He will focus in...
Yaba Badoe (director) Thursday, February 16 / 5:00 PM 1701 Theater & Dance West The Witches of Gambaga is the extraordinary story of a community of women condemned to live as witches in Northern Ghana. Made over the course of five years, this disturbing expose is the product...
Keiji Sato (Hokkaido University, Japan and Davis Center, Harvard University) Thursday, February 16 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Social mobilization of ethnic groups represents an issue of widespread interest for historians and political scientists. The presentation examines the social movements of Russian speakers in Estonia and Moldova,...
Steven Friesen (Religious Studies, UT Austin) Friday, February 10 / 5:00 PM HSSB 4020 This event has been cancelled. We apologize for any inconvenience. The UCSB-Westmont Annual Lecture in New Testament. Steven Friesen holds a Ph.D. from Harvard University, and has also taught at the University of...
Thursday, February 2 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 Building on the foundation of previous meetings of the 4Humanities@UCSB Research Focus Group devoted to "reframing" public discourse about the humanities, this meeting led by Alan Liu will include a discussion of principles for an overall humanities advocacy...
Bradley Parker (History, University of Utah) Friday, January 27 / 3:30 PM 2001a HSSB It was harvest season. Much of the grain was already processed and had been loaded into one of the storerooms and winnowing was underway in the backyard. The fire started in one of the...
Carlos Morton (Theater & Dance, UCSB) Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Music, Theater & Dance, UCSB) Friday, January 27 / 4:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB La Malinche: a play by Carlos Morton; Q&A with the playwright, facilitated by Ruth Hellier-Tinoco One woman, known as Malinche, Malintzin and Doña...
Niko Besnier (Sociology & Anthropology, University of Amsterdam) Friday, January 20 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Globalization has now become a central focus in sociolinguistics, although works on the question have tended to treat speech communities as homogeneous entities in which shifts in language use affect everyone in...
Mark McLaughlin (Religious Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara) Wednesday, January 18 / 4:00 pm 6056 Humanities and Social Sciences Building This lecture focused on the Hindu samadhi shrine, which marks the final resting-place of a realized saint’s body, as an expression of sacred space in South Asia....
Laura Sterponi (UC Berkeley, Graduate School of Education) Friday, December 2 / 1:30-3:30 PM Education 1205 In its close association with other perseverative behaviors, echolalia is one of the defining features of autism spectrum disorders. It has traditionally been conceived of as an automatic, pre-reflexive behavior that bears...
Mireille Miller-Young (Feminist Studies, UCSB) Monday, Nov 21, 2011 / 12:00 PM Crowell Reading Room (6028 HSSB) This talk explores how discourses of sexualization–and particularly pornification or pornetration–obscure critical differences in the ways that “women’s” sexuality emerges in modern popular cultures and social relations. Women of color...
Claudio Fogu (French & Italian Dept., UCSB) Monday, November 14 / 1:00 PM South Hall 2509 Claudio Fogu (Department of French & Italian) will moderate this meeting of the 4Humanities@UCSB group, which centers on discussion of four sets of short readings (and videos) bearing on core features...
Stuart Tyson Smith (Anthropology, UCSB) Thursday, November 3 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, Ellison Hall Professor Smith's research centers on the civilizations of ancient Egypt and Nubia. He is particularly interested in the identification of ethnicity in the archaeological record and the ethnic dynamics of colonial...
John Stratton Hawley (Religion, Barnard College and Columbia University) Wednesday, November 16 / 3:30 pm 1910 Buchanan Hall It is no secret that religion is a very serious thing—de la vie sérieuse, Durkheim says somewhere. Yet in the lives of the bhakti saints, as told in...
Stephan F. Miescher (History, UCSB) R. Lane Clark (documentary filmmaker) Thursday, November 3 / 12:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Akosombo Township, designed by the Greek urbanist Constantinos A. Doxiadis, is the model city at the foot of the hydroelectric Akosombo Dam, Ghana's largest development project....
Sam Binkley (Sociology, Emerson College) Wednesday, November 2 / 2:00 PM Theater and Dance Building 2517 From "getting loose" to "letting it all hang out" the 1970's were filled with exhortations to free oneself from artificial restraints and discover oneself in a more authentic and creative...
Alan Liu (English, UCSB) Claudio Fogu (French & Italian, UCSB) Thursday, October 27 / 5:00 PM South Hall 2509 The new IHC Research Focus Group 4Humanities@UCSB invites faculty and graduate students to its first organization meeting. 4Humanities@UCSB will function both independently and as one of the first local chapters...
Monday, Oct 24, 2011 / 12:00 PM Feminist Studies Conference Room Karl Bryan (Women’s Studies, State University of New York New Paltz) This talk tracks the effects of discourses of gender fluidity as they are deployed by advocates to legitimate the identities and behaviors of gender nonconforming children. Co-sponsored...
Peter Stallybrass (English, University of Pennsylvania) Friday, October 21 / 3:30 PM South Hall 2635 From the late nineteenth century on, there has been a chorus of complaints about the decline of letter-writing as it lost out first to postcards and, finally, to email. This talk will try...
Paul Amar (Global & International Studies, UCSB) Monday, October 17 / 12:00 PM IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB Kickstarting the 2011-12 year with the theme "Disruptions," New Sexualities presents a workshop on masculinity studies in the Middle East. How do everyday theories of masculinity and discourses of...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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";...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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. ...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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....
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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...
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’...
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...
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,...
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...
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...
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...
Tracy C. Davis (Northwestern University) Wednesday, October 6 / 5:30 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1864, the popular Presbyterian monthly Good Words added a late salvo to the Carlyle-Mill “Negro Question” debate. Despite acknowledging that what Good Words’ British readers knew as “Negro music” –...
Saturday, October 2 / 1:00 PM Plaza de Vera Cruz across the street from the Saturday Farmers Market Please join the IHC’s Food Studies Research Focus Group for a field trip to the Sol Food Festival, a one-day community-created festival to raise awareness of the Sustainable,...
Friday, October 1 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 This workshop will consist of a talk and a data session: Talk: Sandy Thompson (Linguistics, UCSB) and Jean Mulder (Linguistics and Applied Linguistics, University of Melbourne) "The turn-final particle BUT in English conversation" Data session: "Concession and contrast: Intonation Unit-final though...
Friday, June 4 / 10:30 AM IHC Seminar Room Join the Food Studies RFG for an engaging discussion of selections from two books: Sistah Vegan: Black Female Vegans Speak on Food, Identity, Health, and Society, edited by A. Breeze Harper and Hog and Hominy: Soul Food from...
Elaine Chun (English, University of South Carolina) Friday, May 28 / 1:30 PM Education 1205 Discourses about the body, or ‘body talk’, often constitute strategic practices for constructing identities, given that the body is a central text through which sociocultural meanings are displayed and performed. This presentation examines...
Tuesday, May 25, 2010 Mosher Alumni House On May 25, 2010, New Sexualities and Conversations for Change paired up to present “Race and Desire: Black Actors in Adult Film” at the Mosher Alumni House. Panelists Vanessa Blue, Sinnamon Love, and Tyler Knight discussed the politics of race,...
Monday, May 24, 2010 McCune conference Room, 6020 HSSB Organized and moderated by Mireille Miller-Young, the conference featured two panels and the work of seven graduate students. Andrew Seeber, Claudia Yaghoobi Massihi, Elizabeth Rahilly, and Rolando Longoria II presented on a panel titled “Theorizing the Production and...
Monday, May 24 / 3:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Presentations: Mexican Immigrant Farmers and Collaborate Networks in Santa Barbara County Teresa Figueroa (Chicano/a Studies, UCSB) Organizing MILPA’s (Mexican Immigrant Labor and Producers’ Association) Association in Santa Maria Global studies and chicano/a studies undergraduates Erika Herrera, Julio Vera, Jocelyn Gutierrez,...
L. Michael White (Classics, University of Texas at Austin) Thursday, May 20 / 3:30 PM Phelps 1160 L. Michael White is a Professor of Classics at The University of Texas at Austin and the Ronald Nelson Smith Chair in Christian Origins. White also serves as director of the...
Mark Dyczkowski (Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts, Delhi) Wednesday, May 19 / 5:00 pm 2001 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building One of the most notable features of the development of tantric scriptural traditions, especially in the early period of their formation, is the...
Rowena Robinson (Sociology, Jawaharlal Nehru University, New Delhi) J. E. and Lillian Byrne Tipton Distinguished Visiting Professor in Catholic Studies Tuesday, May 18 / 4:00 pm Alumni Hall, Mosher Alumni House The lecture briefly traced the past of Indian Catholics in order to enable us to...
Unfortunately, this event has been canceled. Nile Green (History, UCLA) Friday, May 14 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room Around 1818 the first Muslim printing presses were established in Tabriz (Iran), Bulaq (Egypt) and Lucknow (India). These founding typographic presses were the fruit of distinct local interactions with the...
Christopher S. Parker (Political Science, University of Washington) Thursday, May 6 / 4:00 PM Lane Room, 3rd floor Ellison Hall In his new project, Parker examines the ideological and sociological origins of what has come to be known as the urban crisis of the 1960s. Parker was...
Anna Carla Lopez-Carr Monday, May 3 / 12:00 PM HSSB 4020 Dr. Lopez-Carr is a geographer researching the spatial complexities of urban food security in West Africa. As the developing world continues to urbanize at lightning pace, health research in these newly urbanized areas falls further and further...
Barbara Voorhies (Anthropology, UCSB) Monday, May 3 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB New evidence is presented for the antiquity of Indian gaming in Mesoamerica. Sponsored by the IHC’s Archaeology RFG....
Wednesday, April 28 / 2:00 PM Shepherd's Farm, Santa Barbara Join the Community Sustainable Food Group for a visit to Shepherd's Farm here in Santa Barbara. Transportation will be provided. Location of departure to be announced. Please contact Megan Carney at megcarney@gmail.com for more details. Sponsored by Community...
Laura Hirvi (Visiting Fulbright Student, UCSB) Tuesday, April 27 / 12:00 PM Lane Room, third floor Ellison Hall The lecture examines the experiences of Sikhs who migrated to Finland and California, and the impact that this event had on their lives and on the lives of their offspring....
Saturday, April 24 / 9:30 AM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB During the 2009 American Academy of Religion annual conference the North American Religions Section hosted a roundtable discussion entitled “‘New’ Evangelical History?” It explored the meaning of evangelical history in a plural North American context, suggesting...