01 Jan Winter 2005
SEMINAR: Interscapes: Performing the Intercultural in Renaissance and Baroque Drama
Leo Cabranes-Grant (Dramatic Art and Spanish and Portuguese, UCSB)
Tuesday, March 15 / 4:00 PM / Free / IHC Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th Floor
TALK: Accepting Imitations: Thomas Bernhard & Glenn Gould
Thomas Cousineau (Washington College, Maryland)
Friday, March 11 / 3:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
VISITING ARTIST INITIATIVE EVENT: Cultural Narrative Structure in Multi-Linear Cinema
Jean-Louise Boissier (Professor, Universite de Paris VIII, Paris)
Tuesday, March 8 / 4:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
Note: Workshop March 7-9 / 10:00 AM-4:00 PM / E-Studio, Dept of Art
TALK: Colonizing Badakhshan
Robert Crews (Stanford University)
Tuesday, March 8 / 4:00 PM / Free / HSSB 4020, 4th floor
READING GROUP: CISM Discussion Group Event
Led by Professor Pieter van den Toorn
Monday, March 7 / 2:00 PM / Free / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor
CALCULATING IMAGES: REPRESENTATION BY ALGORITHM IN MEDICINE, SCIENCE, AND ART
Sven Spieker / March 4-5, 2005 / Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB
READING GROUP: CISM Discussion Group Event
Rob Wallace (English, UCSB)
Thursday, March 3 / 4:00 PM / Free / 1835 Ellison, UCSB
TALK: New Paradigms in Global Entertainment Economics; or, The Companies That Ate Hollywood
Jennifer Holt (University of Southern California and UCSB)
Thursday, March 3 / 3:30 PM / Free / Flying A Studio, UCen, UCSB
CONFERENCE: Science, Theatre, Audience, Reader: Theoretical Physics in Drama and Narrative;
P. Abbott, P. Frisch, B. Greene, W. King, W. Storm, K. Young)
Thursday, March 3 – Saturday, March 5 / Register / Schedule
TALK: Arab-Israeli Peacemaking
Aaron David Miller (President, Seeds of Peace)
Wednesday, March 2 / 7:30 PM / Free / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
TALK: Translating Japanese Literature Since the Mid-1980s
John Treat (Yale University)
Wednesday, March 2 / 12:30 PM (NOTE TIME CHANGE) / Free / 3201 HSSB, 3rd floor, UCSB
SCREENING: 13 Lakes (2004, Director James Benning)
Tuesday, March 1 / 6:00 PM / Free / Buchanan 1920
TALK: Economies of Grace: Counting Female Piety in Medieval Britain;
Jocelyn Wogan-Browne (Fordham University, NY)
Monday, February 28 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
TALK: From Babel to Pentecost (and back again?); David Edgar (Playwright)
Friday, February 25 / 4:00 PM / Free / Hatlen Theater, UCSB
CONFERENCE: Memory: 1500-1800
Friday, February 25 / 9:00 AM-5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
DEBATE: The Spread of Nuclear Weapons: A Debate Renewed;; Kenneth Waltz (Columbia University) Scott Sagan (Stanford University)
Thursday, February 24 / NOTE: 7:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
SEMINAR: The Haunted Stage: The Theatre as Memory Machine; Marvin Carlson (City University of New York)
Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM / Free / Old Gym, Room 101C, UCSB
TALK: Public Monuments and the Discourse of the Nation in 19th-Century Italy; Catherine Brice (Institut D’études Politique, Paris)
Thursday, February 24 / 4:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
3 on 3: triangulating OUT OF SITE; DAVE HICKEY
Thursday, February 23 / 5:00 PM / IV Theater, UCSB / Free
TALK: Anxious Omni Science: Surveillance as Narrative Form; Thomas Y. Levin (Princeton University / Getty Research Institute)
Wednesday, February 23 / 4:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
TALK: Rethinking the Indigenous; James Clifford (UC Santa Cruz)
Tuesday, February 22 / 4:00 PM / Free / University Center Flying A Room, UCSB
TALK: The Anti-Sweatshop Movement and the Struggle for Social Justice; Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Tuesday February, 22 / 3:30 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
SCREENING: Three Tails – music by Steve Reich, video by Beryl Korot; Eric Prieto and Rob Wallace (UCSB)
Thursday, February 17 / 4:00 PM / Free / LOCATION TBA
TALK: America & the Human Future: Surviving Vietnam, 9/11 and Iraq; Robert Jay Lifton (Harvard University)
Wednesday, February 16th / 8:00 PM / Free / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
3 on 3: triangulating OUT OF SITE; CECILE WHITING
Wednesday, February 16 / 5:00 PM / IV Theater, UCSB / Free
TALK: The Future of Forgetting: The Imaginary 20th and 21st Century; Norman Klein (California Institute for the Arts)
Monday, February 14 / 5:00 PM / Free/ McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
MEETING: Culture and Finance Capital ; Elizabeth Freudenthal (English, UCSB).
Monday, February 14 / 2:00 PM / Free / Refreshments / IHC’s Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor
TALK: Media and Politics in the United States Today; Robert McChesney (University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign)
Sunday, February 13 / 3:00 PM / Free / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB
TALK: From “Hystories” to the Historical: Key Transitions in Thinking About the Past, 1500-1700
Daniel Woolf (University of Alberta, Canada)
Friday, February 11 / 3:30 PM / Free / English Department Seminar Room, South Hall 2635
Gender Queer / Queer Genders: Conversations Among Artists, Activists & Academics
Friday-Sunday, February 11-13 / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
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TALK: Chasing After Kabuki Icons: An Actor’s Experience; David Furumoto
Thursday, February 10 / 7:00 PM / Free / Buchanan 1920
TALK: Race and Class in the African American Civil Rights Movement: Reflections on History and Lessons for the Present
Michael Honey (U of Washington), Cedric Robinson (UCSB), Jack O’Dell (Civil Rights Organizer).
Thursday, February 10 / 4:00 PM / Free / Multicultural Center Theater, UCSB
TALK: Phonetics and My Fair Lady; Peter Ladefoged (Professor Emeritus, Linguistics, UCLA)
Thursday, February 10 / 3:30 PM / Free / Reception / U Cen: Santa Barbara Harbor Room, UCSB
3 on 3: triangulating OUT OF SITE; THOMAS CROW
Thursday, February 10 / 5:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
TALK: Equal Marriage Advocacy: Challenge and Compromise; Celia Kitzinger (University of York)
Wednesday, February, 9 / 12:00 PM / Free / Sociology Conference Room, Ellison 2824
TALK: Immortality and Senatorial Control: Statue-Rituals in Republican Rome; Jorg Rupke (University of Erfurt, Germany)
Tuesday, February 8 / 2:00 PM / Free / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor
TALK: Comix 101; Art Spiegelman (Graphic Novelist)
Monday, February 7 / 8:00 PM / $20 Public $15 UCSB Students / Campbell Hall, UCSB
TALK: Turkey and the European Union: Mutual Challenges of Citizenship; Soli Ozel (Istanbul Bilgi University)
Monday, February 7 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
CONFERENCE: Writing Research in the Making
Saturday-Sunday, February 5-6 / Buchanan Hall 1910, UCSB
CANCELED TALK: Decolonizing the Mind: The Politics of Language in African Literature in 2005; Ngûgî wa Thiong’o (University of California, Irvine)
Friday, January 28 / 1 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free CANCELED
TALK: The Perfect Crime: Rodney King & the Politics of Photomechanical Representation; Lucia Ricciardelli (Ph.D. Candidate in the Department of History of Art and Architecture)
Thursday, January 27 / 4:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
TALK: Japanese Girls’ Fantasy Men in the Flesh; Laura Miller (Anthropology Department, Loyola University, Chicago)
Wednesday, January 26 / 4:00 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free
Symposium: Topics in Modernism IHC Modernist Studies Research Focus Group
Friday, January 21 / 3:00 PM / IHC Research Seminar Room, 6056 HSSB, 6th floor / Free
CANCELED TALK: The Conversion of Abraham to Judaism, Christianity and Islam; Jon D. Levenson (Albert A. List Professor of Jewish Studies, Harvard University)
Wednesday, January 19 / 8:00 PM / Corwin Pavilion, UCSB / Free CANCELED
TALK: Arrest the Music! Fela and His Rebel Art and Politics; Tejumola Olaniyan (University of Wisconsin, Madison)
Tuesday, January 18 / 6:30 PM / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB, 6th Floor / Free
TALK: C.L.R. James on Politics, Resistance, and the State; Christopher Phelps (Ohio State University)
Monday, January 10 / 12:00 PM / 4041 HSSB, 4th floor / Free