Events
Week of Events
Laurie Palmer: “How Long I Ask You to Watch”
Laurie Palmer's current work explores matter's agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects, she asks how we might access differing temporalities to re-imagine our entanglements in the material/social world. Laurie Palmer is Professor in the Sculptural Department, School of the Art Institute […]
Anat Gilboa: “Rembrandt’s Depictions of Jewish Themes”
Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, was formed early in his career. Male figures from the Bible such as Moses, Abraham or Jeremiah are represented as heroic protagonists. Female figures, essential to […]
The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia
Robert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. The recipient of several honors, including election as fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Goldman currently serves as editor of “South Asia […]
World Melodrama Film Series – All That Heaven Allows
All That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu
Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs
Anyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person, please contact Nancy Chen <nchenucsc@gmail.com> as soon as possible to reserve a spot. We will be using Google + hangouts as the webinar platform so be prepared to have a Google account. The platform is limited to 10 parties so please rsvp by […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]
UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: “Excavating the Past”
The UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop, “Excavating the Past,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; pre-registration is required, and attendance is limited so please register soon. UC-affiliated scholars may register immediately, non-UC scholars on or after October 8. Papers: Luca […]
Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: “How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right”
The Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress, "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right," in advance. Two graduate students, Sarah Kelman and Brent Crosson, will lead the discussion. All are welcome.
“Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture”
A one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies. The conference will feature a panel of UC Santa Barbara scholars, including John Lee, Chris Thomas, Claudio Fogu, and Fikret Yegül, discussing the archaeology of the Mediterranean, ranging from ancient Greek work to that of the Italian fascists. In the afternoon, there will be […]