Winter 2003

Winter 2003

For more event listings, please visit the
“Executing Justice: America and the Death Penalty” Lecture Series Website

Paradise Lost: The Child Murders at Robin Hood Hills
Wednesday, January 8 / 7:30 pm / General $6 / UCSB students $5
UCSB Campbell Hall

Paradise Lost 2: Revelations, with the filmmakers
Joe Berlinger and Bruce Sinofksy
Thursday, January 9 / 7:30 pm General $6 / UCSB students $5
UCSB Campbell Hall

Cecilia E. Ford
“A Dialogue on ‘Pragmatic Projection’: Units of Language and the Emergence of Turn Trajectories from Sequences”
Friday, January 10 / 1:30 – 3:30 P.M. / Free
Phelps Hall 2536

Arthur Green
“The Song of Songs in the Jewish Mystical Tradition”
Sunday, January 12 / 3 P.M. / Free
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

Bernard Comrie
“Linguistics, Genetics, Archeology, and the Prehistory of Human Migrations”
Tuesday, January 14 / 3:00 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Michael Beckerman
“New Worlds of Dvorak: Searching in America for the Composer’s Inner Life”
Wednesday, January 15 / 4 P.M./ Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Ruth Ellen Gruber
“Virtually Jewish: Reinventing Jewish Culture in Europe”
Thursday, January 16 / 7:30 P.M. / Free
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center

Frida, the Film:
An Interdisciplinary Discussion of the Art and Life of Frida Kahlo
Friday, January 17 / 1:00-3:30 P.M./ Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Andrew Goble
“The Scrolls of Infirmity: Depicting Afflictions in Medieval Japan”
Friday, 17 January / 3_5 P.M. / Free
1174 Humanities and Social Sciences Building

Ambassador Joseph C. Wilson, IV
“Iraq: Disarmament or Conquest?”
Wednesday, January 22 / 4:00 P.M. / Free
UCSB Campbell Hall

Stuart Banner
The Death Penalty: An American History
Wednesday, January 22 / 4 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Medieval Studies Colloquium
“Sin and Forgiveness”
Friday, January 24 / 9 AM- 4:30PM / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Executing Justice? A Debate on America and the Death Penalty
With Gerry Spence, Judge Alex Kozinski and Moderated by Stuart Banner
Monday, January 27 / 7:00-9:00 P.M./ Free
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

Tom Segev
“Beyond Sharon and Arafat”
Sunday, February 2 / 1:00 P.M. / Free
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

Patricia Krommer and Christopher Ponnet
“Pax Christi: The Catholic Peace Movement and U.S. Foreign Policy”
Monday, February 3 / Noon / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Sogobi (2001, 90 minutes)
With an appearance by filmmaker James Benning
Wednesday, February 5 / 5 P.M./ Free
Isla Vista Theater 1

William Warner
“Hacking Hollywood to Liberate Film: The Matrix: and ‘Bullet Time'”
Friday, February 7 / 3:30 P.M./ Free
2635 South Hall

“Histories, Poetics, and Politics of Homeland Security”
A Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara
Friday, February 7 / 4:00 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Ahmed Rashid
“Jihad: The Rise of Militant Islam in Central Asia”
Sunday, February 9 / 3:00 P.M. / $6 UCSB students & $8 general
UCSB Campbell Hall

Mark A. Meadow
“Pieter Bruegel the Elder’s ‘Netherlandish Proverbs’ and the Practice of Rhetoric”
Monday, February 10 / 4-6 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Zapatistas, Literature, and the Chicano Experience:
An Interdisciplinary Panel and Book Signing with Graciela Limón
Friday, February 14 / 1:00-3:00 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

“Bodies, Bawdies, and Nobodies”: Early Modern Women, 1500-1800
Keynote Speaker: Felicity Nussbaum, Professor of English, UCLA
February 21-22 / 8:30 AM – 6:00 PM/ Free
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Alexis Navarro
“Vatican II in the Twenty-First Century: The Catholic Church at the Crossroads”
Monday, February 24 / Noon / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

William Gravely
“The Civil Right Not To Be Lynched: Law, Government, and Activist Citizenry
Respond to the Killing of Willie Earle (1947)”
Monday, February 24 / 4:00 / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Marc Mauer
“Race to Incarcerate”
Tuesday, Feb. 25 / 4PM
MultiCultural Center Theater

Richard Falk
“American Civil Liberties and Human Rights Under Siege”
Wednesday, February 26 / 8:00 p.m. / Free
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

Paul Spickard and Jane Naomi Iwamura
Revealing the Sacred in Asian and Pacific America
Thursday, February 27 / 4 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Capitalism and Its Culture: Rethinking Mid-20th Century American Thought
A Conference at the University of California, Santa Barbara
February 28 – March 1

UCSB Worldwatch Symposium
The Challenge of Sustainable Development
March 4,6,7 & 8

Death Letters (52 minutes, 2001)
With appearance by filmmaker, Fabrice Ziolkowski
Monday, March 3 / 7:00 P.M. / Free
UCSB Buchanan Hall 1910

Daniel Matt
“Kabbalah and Contemporary Cosmology: Discovering the Resonances”
Thursday, March 6 / 7:30 P.M. / Free
UCSB Corwin Pavilion

Terry Gross
Host of National Public Radio’s Fresh Air
Friday, March 7 / 8 P.M. / $25, 20 / UCSB Students $15, 13
UCSB Campbell Hall

The Cultural Turn IV:
Instituting and Institutions
Friday, March 7th and Saturday, March 8th

William F. Hanks
“Reference and Indexical Construal”
Friday, March 7 / 1:30 -3:30 P.M. / Free
Mission Room, University Center

Michael Thaler
“Unlikely Witnesses: Children’s Voices in the Holocaust”
Monday, March 10 / 5 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Michael Taussig
The Language of Flowers
Monday, March 10 / 7:00 P.M. / Free
UCSB Buchanan Hall 1910

Scanner
“Remembering How to Forget”
Wednesday, March 12 / 5:00 P.M. / Free
Isla Vista Theater I

Ann Anagnost
“Is the Fatherland Really a Motherland?”
Friday, March 14 / 12:00 Noon – 2:00 P.M. / Free
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB

Shifting Frontiers V:
“Violence, Victims, and Vindication in Late Antiquity”
Thursday, March 20-March 23
McCune Conference Room / 6020 HSSB