Winter 2004

Winter 2004

HOME FREE? Liberty, security and the 21st century American Habitat
A program of linked events including lectures, panel discussions, film screenings and a series of new undergraduate classes
Fall and Winter 2003/2004 at UCSB

Where the Long Grass Bends
Neela Vaswani (Spalding University)
Tuesday, January 13 / 3:30-5 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Sufficient Self
Andrea Zittel
Wednesday January 14 / 5-6:30 / FREE
Isla Vista Theatre / 960 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista

Chicana Butch/Femme: Aged Reflections Based on Participant Observations
Dr. Deena J. González (Loyola Marymount University)
THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED

The Long Summer: How Climate Changed Civilization
Brian Fagan (UCSB)
Wednesday, January 21 / 3:30-5 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Moving the Center: Language, Culture and Globalization
Ngugi wa Thiong’o (UC Irvine)
Thursday, January 22 / 4 PM / FREE
Girvetz 1004, UCSB

Big Dreams, Rural Schools: Mexican Americans and Public Education, 1870-1950
Vicki L. Ruiz, (UC Irvine)
Monday, January 26 / 4 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

A Seminar in Honor of Bert States
Facilitator: Alice Rayner (Stanford University)
Tuesday, January 27 / 7-9 PM / FREE
Voice Room, Performing Arts Wing of HSSB, Room 1105, UCSB

CONFERENCE: Cultural Conflicts and Collaborations in the Middle Ages
Saturday, January 31 / 9-5 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

CONFERENCE: Interdisciplinary Studies in Popular Music Conference
Saturday, January 31 / 8 AM-6 PM – Sunday February 1 / 8 AM-4 PM / FREE
Locations: Saturday: The Department of Music, Geiringer Hall & Room 1145, UCSB
Sunday: The McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

The Art of the Author Interview
Sarah Anne Johnson
Monday, February 2 / 3:30-5 / FREE / Refreshments
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Jerome Rothenberg (UCSD)
Introduction by Suzanne Jill Levine
Tuesday, February 3 / 4-6 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Modern Staging of Traditional Chinese Drama
Chen Shi-Zheng (Director, Choreographer, Singer and Actor)
Wednesday, February 4 / 3:30-5 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Incoherent Empire
Michael Mann (UCLA)
Thursday, February 5 / 4-6PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Cultures of War: Pearl Harbor, Hiroshima, 9/11
John Dower (MIT)
Thursday, February 5 / 4PM / FREE
Campbell Hall, UCSB

Visualizing Cultures: East Meets West, West Meets East
John Dower (MIT)
Friday, February 6 / 1PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Documentaries, Docudrama and World Governance
Victoria Riskin and David Rintels
Monday, February 9 / 7-9PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Critical Poetics: American Resources for Theorizing America
Paul Bové (University of Pittsburgh)
Wednesday, February 11 / 12-1:30 / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Rhetorics of the Technological Sublime – The New, the Shiny and the Symbolic
David Morley (University of London)
Tuesday, February 17 / 12-2 PM / FREE / Refreshments
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Kindness As a Key to Humanity’s Future
Dame Anita Roddick (Founder, The Body Shop)
Tuesday, February 17 / 8 PM / FREE
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB

The Moral Vision of Cesar Chavez
Frederick John Dalton
Thursday, February 19 / 4 PM / FREE
Multicultural Center Lounge, UCSB

Interior Decoration in the Noble Homes of Late Seventeenth-Century Dauphiné
Donna Bohanan (Auburn University)
Friday, February 20 / 11:30-12:30 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB

Abraham: A Journey to the Heart of Three Faiths
Bruce Feiler (author of Walking the Bible)
Sunday, February 22 / 3 PM / $8 General, $6 UCSB Students
Campbell Hall, UCSB

Screening the Page/Paging the Screen: Digital Poetics and the Differential Text
Marjorie Perloff (Stanford)
Tuesday, February 24 / 4-6 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB
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TALK: The U.S. Supreme Court’s Sexual Revolution? 1965-1973
Mark Stein (York University)
Wednesday, February 25 / 4-6 / FREE
Women’s Studies Conference Room, 4703 South Hall, UCSB

The Life Journey of Child Holocaust Survivors
Dr. Robert Krell, Child Psychiatrist, Author, Child Survivor
Thursday, February 26 / 5:00 P.M. / FREE
Bronfman Family Jewish Community Center

American Military Power versus Cosmopolitanism?
Mary Kaldor
Thursday, February 26 / 4 PM / FREE
Girvetz 1004, UCSB

Mock Towns and Command Centers: The Expanding Landscape of Preparedness
Matthew Coolidge (Director, Center for Land Use Interpretation)
Wednesday, March 3 / 5PM / FREE
Isla Vista Theatre, 960 Embarcadero del Norte, Isla Vista

The Subaltern and The Popular
Monday, March 8, 9-6:30 / Tuesday, March 9, 9-5:45 / FREE
Corwin Pavilion, UCSB

Making Audio Visible: The Lessons of Visual Language for the Textualization of Sound
Charles Bernstein, Introduction by William Warner
Tuesday, March 9 / 4-6 PM / FREE
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, UCSB