01 Jan Winter 2009
TALK: Archaeological Perspectives on the Qin Unification of China
Lothar Von Falkenhausen (Archaeology and Art History, UCLA)
Thursday, January 8 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Moche Socio Political Evolution: A Tale of Adaptation, Divergence and
Luis Jaime Castillo (Pontificia Universidad Catolica del Peru)
Monday, January 12 / 5:00 PM
2001a HSSB
CONFERENCE: The American Right and U.S. Labor: Politics, Ideology, and Imagination
Friday-Saturday, January 16-17
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
MEETING: What is Identity?
Friday, January 16 / 10:00 AM
Ellison Hall, Rm 3814
Senghor and Césaire beyond Négritude
January 16 / 11:00 AM
Psychology 1924
MEETING: Environmental Media RFG
Friday, January 16 / 1:00 PM
Ellison Hall 1714
Islamic Reformism as a Philosophy of Time
January 16 / 2:00 PM
UCen Flying A Studio
MEETING: Torture and the Future RFG
Tuesday, January 20 / 7:30 PM
Location: TBA
Taubman Symposia in Jewish Studies
TALK: “All Israel will be Saved”: Paul and Augustine on the Redemption of the Jews
Paula Fredriksen
Tuesday, January 20 / 8:00 PM
UCSB Corwin Pavilion
Regents’ Lecturer in East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
TALK: Kimono and Culture
Liza Dalby
Tuesday, January 20 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall
SCREENING AND DISCUSSION: Memoirs of a Geisha
Liza Dalby and John Nathan
Wednesday, January 21 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
ROUNDTABLE: Writing Genre
Featuring Liza Dalby
Thursday, January 22 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Magic Lantern Films: Santa Barbara International Film Festival Selection TBA
ONE NIGHT ONLY
Friday, January 23 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4
improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, January 23 / 8:00 PM
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
TALK: The Infrastructure of South-Central Los Angeles: Race, Unions and the “New Inequality”
William P. Jones (University of Wisconsin)
Friday, January 23 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041
SYMPOSIUM: Pre-Modern Perspectives on Torture
Friday, January 23 / 3:00-6:00 PM
Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium (Room 1302)
TALK: Chances and Choices: A Community Artist Reflects on Life, Art and Activism
Nancy Hom
Monday, January 26 / 5:00 PM
MultiCultural Center Lounge
TALK: Al-Andalus Then and Now: Translating Israel and Palestine
Peter Cole
Tuesday, January 27 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK AND DEMONSTRATION: Something’s Brewing in Arabia:
A History of Coffee and Coffee Houses
Juan and Magda Campo (Religious Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, January 28 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: 1989 and the Architecture of Order: International Relations, German Unification, and the Competition to Lead the Post Cold War World
Mary Sarotte (International Relations, USC)
Thursday, January 29 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Dead Bodies/Live Bodies: Myths, Memory and Resurrection in Contemporary Mexican Performance
Ruth Hellier-Tinoco (Theater & Dance, UCSB)
Thursday, January 29 / 5:00 PM
TD 2512
WORKSHOP: Books & Bodies
Friday, January 30 / 1:00 PM
South Hall 2716
Magic Lantern Films: Zack & Miri Make a Porno
Friday, January 30 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 2 / 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4
improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, January 30 / 8:00 PM
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
SCREENING: The Real Dirt on Farmer John
(John Peterson, 2007, 82 minutes)
Monday, February 2 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security
Thursday-Saturday, February 5-7, 2009
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
ARTIST TALK: Sara Wookey
Tuesday, February 3 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
CONFERENCE: Food Sustainability & Food Security
Thursday-Saturday, February 5-7, 2009
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: A Chicano University within a University: The Struggle for Chicano Studies at UCSB, 1968-1970
Marisol Moreno (Chicano/Latino Studies, Long Beach State University)
Wednesday, February 4 / 12:00 PM
South Hall 1630
TALK: The Attica Prison Uprising of 1971 and the Creation of the Carceral State: Rethinking The Fall of Labor and The Rise of the Right in Postwar America
Heather Thompson (History, UNC-Charlotte)
Friday, February 6 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041
TALK: Semiotic Agency Within a Framework of Cooperative Semiosis
Charles Goodwin (Linguistics, UCLA)
Friday, February 6 / 1:30 PM
Phelps 2536
Magic Lantern Films: Role Models
Friday, February 6 / 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 9 / 10:00 PM
IV Theater /$4
improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, February 6 / 8:00 PM
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
ARTIST TALK: Laurel Beckman
February 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Maize and Migration: Connections between Traditional Maize Farming in Mexico and Immigrant Labor in California
Mary O’Connor (ISBER, UCSB)
Daniela Soleri (Geography, UCSB)
Thursday, February 12, 2009 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Affective Communities: The Emotions of Nationhood
Ronald Suny (Political Science and History, Univ. of Chicago and Univ. of Michigan)
Tuesday, February 17 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
ARTIST TALK: Luminous Green
Tuesday, February 17 / 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Book Presentation on A Dolores Huerta Reader
Mario T. Garcia (Chicana/Chicano Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, February 18 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Recovering Zora Neale Hurston’s Folk Choreography
Anthea Kraut (Dance, UC Riverside)
Thursday, February 19 / 5:15 PM
Girvetz Hall 1004
TALK: Torture and the Law: Can U.S. Officials Be Held Accountable?
The Seventh Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate
Scott Horton and Stuart Taylor
Thursday, February 19 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall
EXHIBITION: The Limits of Knowledge
Opening: Thursday, February 19 / 5:00-6:00 PM
On view Thursday-Friday, February 19-20
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Social Movements, Social Rights, and the Courts in South Africa and the USA
William Forbath (History and Law, UT Austin)
Friday, February 20 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041
SYMPOSIUM: The Limits of Knowledge: Doubt, Skepticism, and the Visual
Friday, February 20 / 10:00 AM-5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Magic Lantern Films: Happy-Go-Lucky
Friday, February 20 at 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, February 23 at 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4
improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, February 20 / 8:00 PM
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
TALK: The Power of Disengagement: The Idea of Hermit Life in Early China
Xiao-bin Ji (EALCS and History, UCSB)
Monday, February 23 / 12:00 PM
HSSB 2252
TALK: The Evolution of the Mediterranean Diet from the Middle Ages
Allen James Grieco (History, Villa I Tatti, Harvard University Center for Italian Renaissance Studies)
Monday, February 23 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB
TALK: Confronting Antisemitism in the Twenty-first Century
Robert Wistrich (Hebrew University of Jerusalem)
Monday, February 23 / 7:30 PM
Congregation B’nai B’rith, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road
ARTIST TALK: Josh MacPhee (Just Seeds) + Gregory Sholette in conversation
Tuesday, February 24 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
READING AND DISCUSSION: Ana Castillo
Wednesday, February 25 / 11:00 AM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Style Contrasts, Migration, and Social Class
Ben Rampton (King’s College London)
Thursday, February 26 / 3:30 PM
McCune Conference Room
TALK: Somebodies and Nobodies: Closing the Dignity Gap
Robert W. Fuller
Thursday, February 26 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Food Politics: Personal Responsibility vs. Social Responsibility
Marion Nestle (Nutrition, Food Studies and Public Health, NYU)
Thursday, February 26 / 7:30 PM
Marjorie Luke Theater, 721 E. Cota St.
Tickets available at the door: $5 general/students free
Magic Lantern Films: Let The Right One In
Friday, February 27 at 7:00 PM & 10:00 PM
Monday, March 2 at 10:00 PM
IV Theater / $4
improvability.
UCSB’s premiere comedy troupe
Friday, February 27 / 8:00 PM
$3 students / $5 general
Embarcadero Hall
935 Embarcadero Del Norte, Isla Vista
WORKSHOP: Dissertation Writing Roundtable
Monday, March 2 / 4:00 PM
Crowell Reading Room, 6028 HSSB
SCREENING: This is the LA River / Sustainable LA
Monday, March 2 / 7:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
ARTIST TALK: Eda Cufer
Tuesday, March 3 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: Memory Cannot Be Flattened: Culture Clash and Los Angeles History Center Stage
David G. Garcia (President’s Postdoctoral Fellow at UCSB)
Wednesday, March 4 / 12:00 PM
South Hall 1623
SEMINAR: Transnational Feminisms in Africa
Takyiwaa Manuh (Institute of African Studies, University of Ghana)
Wednesday, March 4 / 12:15 PM
Feminist Studies Conference Room, 4631 South Hall
ARTIST TALK: The Guerilla Girls
Thursday, March 5 / 12:30 PM
MultiCultural Center Theater
CONFERENCE: The Rupe Conference: Media and the Presidential Election
Thursday, March 5 / 2:00-9:30 PM
Corwin Pavilion
TALK: Growing Places: Not a Cornfield and Farmlab
Janet Owen Driggs and Jeremy Rosenberg (Metabolic Studio)
Thursday, March 5 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
TALK: The AFL-CIA’s Cold War in Honduras – and How Hondurans Felt About It
Dana Frank (History, UC Santa Cruz)
Friday, March 6 / 1:00 PM
HSSB 4041
ARTIST TALK: Edgar Arceneaux
Tuesday, March 10 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
WORKSHOP: Graduate Students Explore Identity: A Discussion of Current Research
Wednesday, March 11 / 4:00 PM
Lane Room, Ellison Hall
CONFERENCE: Reading as a Social Technology
Friday, March 13 / 9:00 AM – 5:30 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies at UCSB
TALK: Being in the Hands of God: Jewish Perspectives on America’s Social Justice Agenda
Rabbi David Saperstein
Sunday, March 22 / 3:00 PM
Victoria Hall, 33 West Victoria Street