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July - December, 2006

Conference on "Religion and California"
December 7th and 8th
Karpeles Manuscript Library Museum, 21 W. Anapamu St., Santa Barbara
Keynote: John C. Green, "The Christian Right and the 21st Century," 7:30 pm
Panel Discussion, "Religion and Public Life in the Pacific Region: Fluid Identities,” Wade Clark Roof and Mark Silk, co-editors (AltaMira Press, 2005) 10:00 am

Department of Dramatic Art & Dance presents
Unmasked, Seven Dances by Students and Faculty
December 1 - 3, 2006, Hatlen Theater, UCSB
Cost: $13.00 Students/Seniors/UCSB Staff $17.00 General
Contact: Box Office 805-893-3535

Eye or Ear: Walter Benjamin on Optical and Acoustical Media
December 1, 2006, 10:30 am, HSSB 6th Floor, UCSB, Free
Conference Presented by the Department of Germanic, Slavic, and Semitic Studies
Investigates the relationship between three aspects of Bejamin's work: his language theory, his media theory, and his radio praxis. More.

Making Publics Fall Colloquium
Presented by the Early Modern Center, Department of English
Friday, November 17, 1:00 - 5:00 p.m.
With Paul Yachnin, Professor of English, McGill University, and Dena Goodman, Professor of History, University of Michigan. Each presenter will speak for 40-50 minutes, with a 10 minute discussion after each talk, and the colloquium will conclude with a roundtable discussion followed by a reception.

UCSB Department of Dramatic Art presents, INDEPENDENCE
A play by Lee Blessing
November 10, 11, 12, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18 at 8:00 PM
November 12 & 18 at 2:00 PM

Jeff MacSwan, Arizona State University
Thursday, November 16, 3:30 p.m.
South Hall 1430
Presented by the Linguistics Department
Grammatical constraints on language mixing below sentential boundaries: What kind of theory should a theory of codeswitching be? More

Franco-American Relations: Are We Still Talking?
Mr. Larrieu, French Consul, Los Angeles
Wednesday, November 15, 4:00
University Center Lobero Room, UCSB
Presented by the Department of French and Italian
Mr. Larrieu will address Franco-American relations. All undergraduate and graduate students, as well as faculty, are welcome. The talk will be in English, with a Question and Answer sessions.

Agriculture and Landscape in Maya Forest: An Alternative Environmental History
Anabel Ford (ISBER, UCSB)
Monday, November 13 / 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Existing interpretations of Maya agricultural practices depend on occidental perspectives on agricultural practice, failing to recognize the cultural legacy of the Maya forest garden. Overwhelming evidence that the forest ecosystems are largely anthropogenic allows a reexamination of the Maya data. By integrating data from archaeology, ethnology, economic botany, ecology and agro-forestry with paleoclimatic research, I argue that the Maya developed skills and knowledge from more than 5,000 years of continuous intimate contact with Neotropical ecosystems. Far from destroying habitat, these practices provide insights relevant to conservation of the region and the survival of the forest and its people. Dr. Anabel Ford is an archaeologist who has studied the ancient Maya landscape for three decades, focusing on its forest environment and its role in the development of the Mesoamerican civilizations. Sponsored by the IHC's Archaeology Research Focus Group.

Eruptions of Violence in Banlieue Culture: French Media Appropriations of Black Americanisms
Peter Bloom, (Film and Media Studies, UC Santa Barbara)
Wednesday, November 8, 5:30 PM
IHC Seminar Room, Humanities & Social Sciences Bldg, 6056
Beur cinema, which focuses on portrayals of a second, third, and now a fourth generation of North African immigrants born in France, has been incorporated into French film and media culture as a means of transforming racial difference into a spectacle of violent confrontation. In his talk, Bloom examines how a semiotics of the social grievance among residents in the French housing estates has been transformed into a racial spectacle in the mode of African American popular cultural forms in which film, music, and media are part an extended continuum of representations that redefine the stakes for French integration politics. The selective quoting of African American entertainment forms as applied to beur and banlieue culture is none other than the return of the repressed French colonial legacy reenacted as the visualization of violent spectacle as anarchic pleasure. The talk will focus on three films: Abdellatif Kechiche's L'Esquive [Games of Love and Chance] (2004), Jean-FranÁois Richet's Ma 6-T va crack-er [My 6-T {inner city} is Gonna Crack] (1997), and the Luc Besson-produced big-budget feature Banlieue 13 [District 13] (2004).

The Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop 2: Space, State and Statelessness
Garden Room, Upham Hotel, Santa Barbara
November 4-6
The second Subaltern-Popular Faculty Workshop proposes to address the locational problem of subalternity by examining the spatial bases of state formation and the condition of statelessness. We will have research papers and 4 plenaries: “Gendering the State”, “State and Space”, “Law, Violence, Sovereignty”, and “Statelessness.” Agenda.
Sponsored by The Subaltern-Popular MRG, UCOP, Office of the EVC, and the IHC.

America's Kingdom: Mythmaking on the Saudi Oil Frontier
Robert Vitalis, University of Pennsylvania
Wednesday, November 1, 4 PM
McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
Robert Vitalis discusses his new book, America’s Kingdom, which debunks myths that surround the United States’ “special relationship” with Saudi Arabia. Taking aim at belief that the Arabian American Oil Company, ARAMCO, made miracles happen in the desert, Robert Vitalis shows that nothing could be further from the truth. Rather, oil led the U.S. government to follow the company to the kingdom. Eisenhower agreed to train Ibn Saud’s army, Kennedy sent jets to defend the kingdom and Lyndon Johnson sold it missiles. Oil and ARAMCO quickly became America’s largest single overseas private enterprise.
Sponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies, Center for Middle East Studies, Global and International Studies, Department of Political Science and the IHC.

HEE-KYUNG JUHN, Piano
A University Artists Series Concert
J.S. Bach - Goldberg Variations
Friday, October. 27, 7 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
$12/general, $7/students - Tickets at the door
Faculty member and acclaimed pianist Hee-Kyung Juhn ("...a superb pianist... technically brilliant...subtle" New York Concert Review) presents a CD release (MSR Classics) concert of one of the monuments of keyboard literature - the Goldberg Variations of J.S. Bach.
Also featured will be Bach/Busoni's Chaconne in D Minor.

UC Santa Barbara ACM Multimedia 2006 Conference
October 23-27
ACM Multimedia is the premier annual multimedia conference, covering all aspects of multimedia computing. The ACM Multimedia Interactive Art Program seeks to bring together the arts and multimedia communities to create the stage to explore, discuss, and push the limits for the advancement of both multimedia technology through the arts, and the arts through multimedia technology. More.
Sponsored by: UC Santa Barbara's Interdisciplinary Humanities Centerand Media Arts & Technology Program, CREATE, and the University of California Institutite for Research in the Arts, Intel, Leonardo, and ACM.

Department of Dramatic Art presents
Shakespeare's Timons of Athens
October 13-22, UCSB Hatlen Theater
Theatre Artists Group/Theatre UCSB in association with the Lit Moon World Shakespeare Festival present a rarely seen Shakespeare gem. More information.

Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Annual Open House
Wednesday, October 11, 4:00 pm, McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020
There will be a divisional welcome to new HFA faculty Members by Dean David Marshall, an introduction to the IHC's programs and funding opportunities as well as information on Research Focus Groups for 2006-07. David Theo Goldberg from the UC Humanities Research Institute and Kim Yasuda from the UC Institute for Research in the Arts will be present to talk about system-wide Humanities and Fine Arts programs. More.

PEONY PAVILION
October 6, 7, 8, Lobero Theater
This timeless Chinese love story, now set in a brilliant new operatic production, unfolds over three performances. From the mists of the Ming Dynasty comes a tale of love, beauty, and marriage so profound that it still resonates with modern audiences more than 400 years later. The Peony Pavilion is considered one of the world's greatest artistic accomplishments — the supreme achievement of Chinese kunqu opera, an art form refined over centuries and combining literature, music, dance, and drama with extraordinary purity and precision. While recent productions have struggled with greater and lesser degrees of success with the work's massive structure (originally 55 acts over 20 hours), no one has succeeded more brilliantly than the esteemed Taiwanese literary scholar and producer Kenneth Pai (Pai Hsien-yung) — Professor Emeritus at UC Santa Barbara. To bring his interpretation of Tang Xianzu's epic love story (often compared to Shakespeare's Romeo and Juliet) to life, Pai has broken with tradition and selected young, beautiful actors for the cast, introducing a greater sense of vigor and eroticism to the centuries-old story. Here, an extraordinary cast of performers — the brightest talents from Taiwan, Hong Kong, and mainland China, all trained by masters of kunqu — reenacts the story of Du Liniang and Liu Mengmei, lovers caught forever in the bloom of their eternal youth.

Jeff Greenfield, Lecture: The Best of Times, The Worst of Times – Ethics and Politics in the Mass Media Age
Oct. 2, 3:00 pm, UCSB Campbell Hall, Free
CNN Senior Analyst and TIME magazine columnist, is a contributor to Inside Politics, the nation's first program devoted exclusively to politics. More.....

20th CENTURY AMERICAN MUSIC presented by the UCSB Music Department
SAT., OCT. 7, 8 p.m., Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
$12/general, $7/students - Tickets at the door
This Guest Artist Recital features soprano Terry Rhodes, Professor, University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill, mezzo-soprano Ellen Williams, Professor, Meredith College, Raleigh, NC, and pianist Benton Hess, Distinguished Professor, Eastman School of Music, in an exciting program of solos and duets of 20th century American music with works by Larsen, Hoiby, Hoekman, Vercoe, and Hess.

HARRY GIRVETZ MEMORIAL LECTURE FEATURING KEVIN PHILLIPS
Thursday, October 19, 8 pm, Campbell Hall, UCSB, Free
In his best-selling new book, American Theocracy: The Peril and Politics of Radical Religion, Oil and Borrowed Money, Kevin Phillips examines the axis of religion, politics, and borrowed money that threatens to destroy the nation. One of the country's preeminent political observers, Phillips is the author of twelve books including The Emerging Republican Majority, The Politics of Rich and Poor, and American Dynasty. Courtesy of Borders, copies of American Theocracy will be available for purchase and signing at this event. The Harry Girvetz Memorial Lecture Series explores the philosophy of liberalism in American Public life which was the primary area of expertise of Dr. Harry Girvetz, professor of philosophy. Girvetz was an influential force in shaping the early years of the UC Santa Barbara campus and was equally prominent in state and regional politics. Sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics, Religion, and Public Life, IHC, Department of Political Science, Global & International Studies Program, Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, Office of Community Relations, and UCSB Affiliates.

Amy Goodman, host of Democracy Now! presented by KCSB and the Center for Film, Television, and New Media
Sunday, September 24, 7:30 PM, UCSB Campbell Hall
Lecture and discussion in relation to her upcoming book Static Government, Liars, Media Cheerleaders, and the People Who Fight Back, written with brother David Goodman, also in attendance. The tour marks the tenth anniversary of Democracy Now! and at the same time benefit community radio stations throughout the country.

Jane Callister paintings featured in southwestNET: Painting at the Scotsdale Museum of Contemporary Art
September 16, 2006 - January 28, 2007
Professor Jane Callister is the Chair of the Art Department at UC Santa Barbara. This exhibition is part of an ongoing "southwestNET" series which focuses on contemporary art in the southwest. It includes work by artists who live in Arizona, Texas, and California.
Read what the Los Angeles Times has to say in this 10/01/06 article:
http://www.calendarlive.com/galleriesandmuseums/cl-ca contemp1oct01,0,6914958.story?coll=cl-art-top-right

Walter H. Capps Center Presents James Fallows of the Atlantic Monthly
September 17, 2006

UCIRA Exhibit Featured at Santa Barbara Art Museum
September 1-11
In connection with Between Past and Future: New Photography and Video from China, the Santa Barbara Museum of Art will host the UCIRA art installation Labor Exchange: How Much for a Buck? The exhibit comments on sustainable models for material culture and issues surrounding human labor withon a global exchange market. The installation is part of the Labor Exchange project headed by Professor of Art and UCIRA Co-Director, Kim Yasuda.

UCSB SUMMER THEATER LAB PERFORMANCES
July 24 - August 4
Summer Theater Lab 2006 is currently in progress. All performances are free and open to the public. For a listing of performances, please visit:
http://www.dramadance.ucsb.edu/drama_stl.php

PATTERN LANGUAGE: CLOTHING AS COMMUNICATOR
UNIVERSITY ART MUSEUM EXHIBIT
July 7 - August 27
A fascinating exploration of clothing as a medium for personal expression and as a mode of communication between wearers, their clothes, and the fashion system. Over 40 wearable works of art by such well-known artists and designers as Issey Miyake, James Rosenquist, Yoko Ono, Joseph Beuys, and Mimi Smith examine the boundaries between form and function, and between fantasy and practicality.

NEW FACULTY HIRES IN THE HUMANITIES AND ARTS
July 1

VISIT THE DEPARTMENT OF FILM AND MEDIA STUDIES
July 1
Formerly known as Film Studies, the department recently changed its name to reflect its concentrated and serious focus of film as well as include the broader focus of television and new media. The Department of Film and Media Studies was founded in 1972 and is home to over 500 majors and a new MA/PhD graduate program which just completed its first year.

UCSB Historian Awarded Prestigious Prize for Acclaimed Book
Tsuyoshi Hasegawa, a professor of history at UC Santa Barbara, has been awarded the prestigious Yomiuri Yoshino Sakuzo prize in Japan for "Racing the Enemy: Stalin, Truman, and the Surrender of Japan" (Harvard University Press, 2005), a critically acclaimed book about the role of the atomic bomb in Japan's surrender at the end of World War II.