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Guest speaker: Aaron McLeran, MAT
The LCM's Film.Literature.Software series is pleased to present a software demo of the recently-released Spore. This newest game from the makers of SimCity and The Sims is perhaps the most sweeping simulation ever, starting from a cellular organism and ending with a spacefaring civilization.
 MAT graduate student Aaron McLeran, who worked on the game's generative music during software development, will be on hand to discuss his work. The Creature Creator program will also be available to allow for a hands-on experience with this unique content-authoring software.
All are welcome for the demo and discussion.
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12/1/2008 SH 2509 (LCM lab) 12:00:00 PM
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| 11/24/2008 |
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 Literature & Mind Symposium
This meeting will focus on topics of attention, distraction, and new media. Reading will include N. Katherine Hayles, "Hyper and Deep Attention: The Generational Divide in Cognitive Modes" (Profession; 2007).
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11/24/2008 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 11/20/2008 |
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LISA SAMUELS
"Gaps, Vexes, and the Digitas"
 Lisa Samuels is a poet, critic, theorist, digital experimental writer, and
co-author with Jerome McGann of the influential essay "Deformance and
Interpretation." Presently
visiting the U.S. from New Zealand, where she is Associate Professor of
English at the University of Auckland, she will give a seminar/talk on
"Gaps, Vexes, and the Digitas" about "gap scans" - annotated deformances of
poetry - and some issues involved in composing her first digital poetry
piece, "Vex Increment." Her context is what she calls the "digitas," a term
for the digital humanities resonating with "civitas", digital acts, and the
digits of our hands. The talk is hosted by the English Department's
Literature.Culture.Media center.
For more information on Lisa Samuels, see the Electronic Poetry Center's
page: http://epc.buffalo.edu/authors/samuels/
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11/20/2008 South Hall 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 11/20/2008 |
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 Marking the 40th anniversary of the Black Student takeover of a computer building on the campus of the University of California at Santa Barbara, a conference, 1968: A Global Year of Student Driven Change, will take place at UCSB from November 20-22, of 2008.
All are welcome! There is no need to register, and no fee to attend. The conference especially welcomes students, academics, artists, and people who are interested in how education changed in the 1960s, especially in 1968, when an upsurge occurred in the willingness of students around the globe to take the nature of their education into their own hands. We invite people to engage in a broad range of issues related to the transformation of education at this time by placing black student activism in a comparative and transnational context.
The English department is a co-sponsor of 1968. Click here for a schedule of events.
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11/20/2008 UCSB campus 8:30:00 AM
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| 11/18/2008 |
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Part of the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center's Global Ecologies Colloquium. The ACGCC presents a film screening
of The End of Suburbia: Oil Depletion & the Collapse of the American Dream.
 This provocative documentary, a regular on the film-festival circuit, examines the history of suburban life and the wisdom of this distinctly American way of life. A post-World War II concept, suburbia attracted droves of people, giving rise to sprawl and all that comes with it -- good and bad. How has the environment been affected by this lifestyle, and is it sustainable? Canadian director Gregory Greene dares to ask all the tough questions (Netflix.com). Since World War II North Americans have invested much of their newfound wealth in suburbia. It has promised a sense of space, affordability, family life and upward mobility. As the population of suburban sprawl has exploded in the past 50 years, so too the suburban way of life has become embedded in the American consciousness. Suburbia, and all it promises, has become the American Dream. But as we enter the 21st century, serious questions are beginning to emerge about the sustainability of this way of life.
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11/18/2008 South Hall 2710 6:00:00 PM
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| 11/17/2008 |
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 Thinking about becoming a teacher?
The English Department Forum Series presents: Careers in Teaching
Find out what it means to pursue a career in teaching at the elementary, secondary, or community college level. Talk with a panel of professionals, including current grad students and Professor Robert Montgomery from the UCSB teaching credential program. You will also learn about graduate programs leading to MAs in education ir teaching credentials, how to apply, what to expect, and how to choose a program that's right for you. Bring your own lunch!
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11/17/2008 South Hall 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 11/14/2008 |
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This year's EMC Fall Colloquium will feature speakers Professor Robert Watson and Professor Beth Tobin, both of whom will present work that illuminates this year's theme, "Before Environmentalism." The Colloquium will take place in the McCune Conference Room in the HSSB at UCSB from 1:00-4:00. [read more]
 Robert N. Watson is a Professor of English at UCLA, and author of Back to Nature: The Green and the Real in the Late Renaissance (Pennsylvania UP, 2006), named the Best Book of Ecocriticism of 2005-2006 by the Association for the Study of Literature and the Environment.
Beth Fowkes Tobin is a Professor of English at Arizona State University, and the author of Colonizing Nature: The Tropics in British Arts and Letters, 1760-1820 (Pennsylvania UP, 2005) and Picturing Imperial Power: Colonial Subjects in Eighteenth-Century British Painting (Duke UP, 1999).
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11/14/2008 6th floor HSSB, McCune Conference Room 1:00:00 PM
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| 11/7/2008 |
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The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Areopagitica, the Stationers' Company, and the Statute of Anne
 Professor Mark Rose will discuss the seventeenth-century publishing practices and developing copyright laws that gave rise to lasting conceptualizations of intellectual property and public access to information. Rose is a Professor Emeritus of the UCSB English Department. He has authored numerous articles on copyright and intellectual property, and his book Authors and Owners: The Invention of Copyright (1993) was a finalist for a National Book Critics Circle Award.
Sponsored by the IHC’s History of Books & Material Texts RFG.
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11/7/2008 South Hall 2635 2:00:00 PM
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| 11/5/2008 |
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| 10/31/2008 |
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 Reading Workshop: 17th-century Copyright hosted by the History of Books and Material Texts Research Focus Group.
This discussion will help participants understand and explore the historical and theoretical context for Mark Rose's Nov. 7 talk "The Public Sphere and the Emergence of Copyright: Aroepagitica, the Stationers' Company, and the Statute of Anne." The three readings are available for download at the IHC's website.
Refreshments will be provided.
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10/31/2008 South Hall 2635 2:30:00 PM
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| 10/28/2008 |
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Shirley Geok-lin Lim, UCSB English professor and award-winning author, and Barry Spacks, the first Poet Laureate of Santa Barbara, will each read selections from their latest books, Princess Shawl and Food for the Journey. Princess Shawl, released this year, has been called "a powerful book" by the acclaimed writer Maxine Hong Kingston, while poet Richard Wilber praises Barry Spacks as "The most companionable of poets." These talented authors will share their work in a delightful and energetic collaboration you won't want to miss.
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10/28/2008 MultiCultural Center Lounge 4:00:00 PM
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| 10/27/2008 |
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 The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music (CISM) cordially invites you to "Music and cheesecake, or, Why art is not a spandrel" with guest speaker Stephen Davies.
Stephen Davies teaches philosophy at the University of Auckland, New Zealand. He is a fellow of the New Zealand Academy of the Humanities and President of the American Society for Aesthetics. He has published numerous books and articles on aesthetics and music, including Philosophical Perspectives on Art (Oxford UP, 2007), Themes in the Philosophy of Music (Oxford, 2003), Musical Work and Performances: A Philosophical Exploration (Clarendon, 2001), and Musical Meaning and Expression (Cornell UP, 1994). [read more]
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10/27/2008 UCen Harbor Room 4:00:00 PM
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| 10/27/2008 |
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Symposium on "Speculations in Neurobiology and Literary Theory: the Brain and the Literary as 'Transducers.' Reading: Chapters 5 and 10 from Gerald Edelman’s Wider than the Sky.
Noelle Batt, professor of English studies, at l'Universite Paris 8, has graciously agreed to give a presentation during the symposium.
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10/27/2008 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 10/24/2008 |
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 You are cordially invited to attend a symposium on the topic of "Careers in New Media and the Digital Humanities," with guest speaker Elizabeth Losh.
Liz will give a short opening presentation outlining her career trajectory from PhD in English to Writing Director of the Humanities Core at UC Irvine. We will then have an open discussion oriented around the following core topics: [read more].
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10/24/2008 South Hall 2635 2:00:00 PM
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| 10/21/2008 |
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 Co-hosted by the Literature and the Environment specialization, and the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center.
Sharon Paltin’s presentation will include a chance to participate in a taste of street theater, to view action photos form the archives of decades of creative collaboration, and to review some basics, themes, suggestions and useful tips for creating and manifesting your very own street theater. Street theater or activist theater includes puppetry, pageantry or parades, dance, props, costumes, sculpture, graffiti and music. [read more]
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10/21/2008 SH 2635 4:30:00 PM
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| 10/16/2008 |
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Brown-bag lunch to follow on October 17th, 12-2pm, in South Hall 2635.
The Gutenberg Parenthesis
(Renegotiating Mediaeval Studies and Media Studies)
This presentation will recommend the notion of a “Gutenberg Parenthesis” as a useful way of combining the suggestions made from several different perspectives that recent developments associated with the digital media and the internet are a reversion to “medieval” conditions prevailing prior to the rise and dominance of literacy, print and the book. [read more]
- Full description of Gutenberg Parenthesis lecture: [PDF]
- Full description of Ballads and Broadsides talk: [PDF]
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10/16/2008 SH 2635 4:30:00 PM
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| 10/13/2008 |
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 The English Department Forum Series Presents:
"Applying to Graduate School"
For students interested in furthering their career in an M.A. or Ph.D program in the study of English or other Humanities.
Find out about deadlines, the GRE Exam and tips on what makes a good application.
You will have the opportunity to ask questions of professors and graduate students.
Professor Ken Hiltner; grad advisor Chelsea Houdyshell; and graduate students Aimee Woznick, Ryan Boyd, and Judith Hicks will attend the forum to provide invaluable insights and answer questions.
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10/13/2008 SH 2635 1:00:00 PM
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| 10/9/2008 |
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Professor Bishnupriya Ghosh will be introducing this searing documentary that examines how the policies of the International Monetary Fund, the World Bank and other aid organizations have changed the Jamaican economy over the past quarter of a century, leaving the local people to struggle in poverty and work in sweatshops. Author Jamaica Kincaid narrates with Belinda Becker to a reggae soundtrack that includes songs by Bob Marley, Ziggy Marley, Mutubaruka and Peter Tosh (Netlfix.com).
Sponsored by the American Cultures & Global Contexts Center.
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10/9/2008 South Hall 2635 6:00:00 PM
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| 10/2/2008 |
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The new Literature.Culture.Media Center in the English dept at UCSB is pleased to present a talk and reading by Stephanie Strickland.
Stephanie Strickland lives in New York. Her fifth book of print poems, Zone : Zero, includes two interactive poems on CD. One, slippingglimpse, was introduced at e-Poetry Paris, 2007; and the other, Ballad of Sand and Harry Soot, was chosen by Heather McHugh for the Boston Review Prize. Two of her books, True North and V: WaveSon.nets/Losing L’una, have won Di Castagnola Prizes from the Poetry Society of America, chosen by Barbara Guest and Brenda Hillman respectively. The Red Virgin: A Poem of Simone Weil was awarded the Brittingham Prize. [more]
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10/2/2008 South Hall 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 9/29/2008 |
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Symposium Topic: Discussion of "Turning Our Ghosts into Ancestors: Psychoanalysis as a Neuroplastic Therapy," ch. 9 (pp. 214-44) of Norman Doidge, The Brain That Changes Itself (Penguin, 2007) and Denise Levertov's poem "Talking to Grief."
The first hour will be devoted to discussion of Doidge; for those who want to remain for a literary half-hour, we will then turn to Levertov's poem.
Discussion Facilitator: Aranye Fradenburg
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9/29/2008 South Hall 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 9/26/2008 |
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Annual fall reception for staff, faculty, and grad students of the Department of English. See Shayna or Joni for more details.
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9/26/2008 UCSB campus 9:00:00 AM
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| 9/25/2008 |
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We seek a candidate who specializes in literature and media technologies or cultures between 1800 and c. 1980, the epoch of modernization from the first industrial revolution to the onset of the current digital revolution. We are particularly interested in candidates whose research focuses on writing, reading, communicational, computational, visual, or sensory media in the period between early-modern technologies of writing and reading and contemporary digital technologies (two areas in which our department has strength). [read more]
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9/25/2008
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| 9/25/2008 |
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Tenure-track Assistant Professor. We invite applications from candidates who specialize in Renaissance drama, including Shakespeare, and who can also teach a range of courses in Renaissance literature. We especially welcome candidates who can intersect with our department's Early Modern Center and other collaborative research and teaching initiatives, and can contribute to the diversity and excellence of the academic community through research, teaching, and service. [read more]
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9/25/2008
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| 9/23/2008 |
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 Come learn about the English department, meet faculty and instructors, find out about opportunities for English majors like studying abroad and English Club, learn about the five different specializations, and more!
Speakers include Professor Carol Pasternack, advising specialist Susan Gosling, and past graduates of the English program.
September 23rd, 2008 from 1pm to 3pm. South Hall 2617.
[Discovery Days PDF]
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9/23/2008 8:00:00 AM
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| 9/22/2008 |
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Required for new grad students in the department.
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9/22/2008 South Hall 9:00:00 AM
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| 9/19/2008 |
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For new and continuing grad students who will teach in the 2008-2008 school year and who have not attended TA-training in the past. Attendance is mandatory as required by the UAW.
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9/19/2008 South Hall 9:00:00 AM
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| 9/6/2008 |
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Barry Spacks has published many short stories, collections of poems, and novels. He was the first poet laureate of Santa Barbara, and is a UCSB English and CCS Literature instructor.
Barry Spack's latest book, Food for the Journey, "continues the poet’s quest to attend gracefully to the things of this world, both common and unusual, and intuit their larger connections" (Cherry Grove Collections).
Maxine Hong Kingston says, "I enjoy reading Barry Spacks’ poetry for his attention to real things, real people, real life. He finds ways to know everything—the earth, the air—as miraculous, as beautiful, as playful."
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9/6/2008
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| 7/7/2008 |
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| 7/7/2008 |
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Just launched is the new EDKB-Wiki (English Department Knowledge Base wiki). Developed with the aid of a UCSB instructional improvement grant, the wiki is designed to serve both instructors and students by housing much of the evolving, shared institutional wisdom of the department--e.g., syllabi for often-taught courses, sample assignments, teaching materials, "best practices," interviews with veteran teachers, guides to research, writing, technology, and much more.
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7/7/2008 8:00:00 AM
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| 7/1/2008 |
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| 6/30/2008 |
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| 6/28/2008 |
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Renowned scholar of Renaissance Literature and beloved professor of the department passes away. April 26, 2008.
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6/28/2008 8:00:00 AM
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| 6/20/2008 |
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| 6/15/2008 |
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You are cordially invite to attend a reception to be held before the 1:00pm Commencement Ceremony celebrating the accomplishments of the Undergraduate Class of 2007-2008.
Sunday, June 15th
10:30am - 12:00 Noon
Girvetz Courtyard
Refreshments will be served
RSVP to Ann at 805-893-4710 or wainwright@english.ucsb.edu
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6/15/2008 Girvetz Courtyard 10:30:00 AM
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| 5/28/2008 |
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Everyone is invited to attend our department's First Annual Undergraduate Honors Colloquium.
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5/28/2008 South Hall 2635 3:00:00 PM
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| 5/24/2008 |
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The 2008 American Cultures and Global Contexts Graduate Conference, an interdisciplinary forum at UC Santa Barbara, presents the problem of citizenship in the era of globalization.
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5/24/2008 Centennial House 9:00:00 AM
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| 5/20/2008 |
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In anticipation of our fifth annual end-of-year conference, “Citizenship in the Era of Globalization,” the ACGCC presents a screening and casual discussion of the 2006 film Children of Men. Aimee Woznick will introduce the film. All are welcome.
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5/20/2008 SH 2710 6:00:00 PM
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| 5/20/2008 |
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Join us for food and drink, American Cultures jeopardy, and discussion and celebration of student Honors theses and projects. Special prizes will be given to outstanding contributors to the American Cultures Specialization.
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5/20/2008 SH 2635 3:00:00 PM
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| 5/15/2008 |
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Please join us for the second meeting of the ACGCC's "Working Paper Series." The Working Papers Series offers graduate students the opportunity to workshop their papers in a supportive environment; we have two 'official' commentators on each paper, one faculty member and one graduate student--and, of course, all who attend the meeting are invited to respond. For this meeting the presenters are Yanoula Athanassakis and Eric Martinsen. They will be presenting their work-in-progress from their dissertations. Copies of their work will be available beginning on Monday May 12th, in the ACGC Center in 2607 South Hall, in a folder marked: "Working Paper Series."
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5/15/2008 ACGCC Center (SH 2710) 6:00:00 PM
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| 5/9/2008 |
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One of the goals of UCSB's Transcriptions Center is "to demonstrate a paradigm—at once theoretical, instructional, and technical—for integrating new information media and technology within the core work of a traditional humanities discipline." With this in mind, the center is hosting a Research
Slam: an experimental research presentation model that seeks to highlight
the unique work done by scholars of media and information technology. . . more |
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5/9/2008 SH 2635, 2509, and 2510 1:00:00 PM
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| 5/3/2008 |
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Participants will explore the ways in which medieval people’s social,
natural, and built environments colored and shaped their states of mind in
a process of dynamic exchange and mutual inflection. The conference will
address questions of how people invested their environments with emotional
value and how they framed their responses to the spaces, both literal and
figurative, in which they circulated. Cat Zusky and Megan Palmer are among
the presenters, and the day will end with the performance of "The Farce of
the Fart," translated by Professor Jody Enders and directed by Andrew
Henkes, graduate student in Theatre and Dance.
Emotion and Environment
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5/3/2008 UCSB Marine Sciences Institute Auditorium 9:30:00 AM
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| 4/11/2008 |
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On Friday, April 11, Medieval Studies is hosting a small colloquium on "Writing History and Lyric in Medieval England," which will showcase two stars of Medieval Studies, both of whom have been major contributors to our knowledge concerning the production, circulation, and reception of texts in medieval England ... more
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4/11/2008 SH 2635 (reception to follow) 3:00:00 PM
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| 3/14/2008 |
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An interdisciplinary one-day conference sponsored by the Early Modern Center, in collaboration with the Transcriptions Project, on the EMC's annual theme.
This one-day conference will be a forum to explore the two interrelated fields of science and technology in the early modern period. For more information about the conference - CFP, conference program and registration, and more - please visit the conference website.
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3/14/2008 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 -- (3/14/08) 8:00:00 AM
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| 3/7/2008 |
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Do scholars in Europe approach American Studies differently than their colleagues in the US?...more ACGCC Events Page
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3/7/2008 HSSB 6020 1:00:00 PM
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| 3/6/2008 |
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Join the ACGCC, the Literature and the Environment Colloquium, and the undergraduate English Club for a screening and discussion of this award-winning film about Edward Burtynsky, the internationally-acclaimed photographer known for his large-scale photographs of nature transformed by industry. Tim Gilmore will offer an introduction to the film, and pizza and refreshments will be served.
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3/6/2008 SH 2635 6:00:00 PM
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| 2/29/2008 |
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The Modernism Group, the long-running Research Focus Group based in the UC Santa Barbara English Dept. and sponsored by the IHC and other Depts., invites you to our Inaugural Meeting of 2008. Our visiting speaker will be Prof. Gregory Castle, Arizona State University ...more.
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2/29/2008 SH 2635 3:00:00 PM
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| 2/28/2008 |
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Richard III
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2/28/2008 SH 2635 6:30:00 PM
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| 2/22/2008 |
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This one day conference seeks to explore the range of identities (both chosen and prescribed) seen in William Faulkner's fiction. As the term "bartering" implies, identity in Faulkner's South is something that is highly gendered as well as multifaceted, a narrative of exchange that is mapped onto interpersonal and intercultural interactions... schedule details on ACGCC Event Homepage.
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2/22/2008 SH 2635 9:00:00 AM
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| 2/14/2008 |
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Titus
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2/14/2008 SH 2635 6:30:00 PM
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| 2/8/2008 |
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| 2/8/2008 |
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Presenting
Rachel Fulton, "Hildegard of Bingen's Theology of Revelation," Jennifer Hellwarth , "Sex, salves, and matters of state in Chrétien de Troyes’ Cligés," Daniel M. Klerman, "Reading and Analyzing Medieval Legal Texts" and Zrinka Stahuljak, "Genealogy and Its Discourse." More details ...
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2/8/2008 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020. 9:30:00 AM
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| 12/29/2007 |
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12/29/2007 Hyatt Regency Chicago 9:00:00 PM
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| 12/15/2007 |
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Please check the following link to the housing website which features the new housing complex for graduate students. There will be almost 700 bed spaces and all graduate students are guaranteed housing in San Clemente Villages.
San Clemente Villages
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12/15/2007 8:00:00 AM
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| 12/14/2007 |
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 Friday, December 14th from 3-5 p.m. SH 2635
Faculty, Graduate Students and Staff are invited to the annual holiday party.
Please bring your special guest(s). Children are welcome!
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12/14/2007 3:00:00 PM
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| 12/7/2007 |
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The ACGCC will host an interdisciplinary roundtable discussion with Professors Josh Schimel (Ecology, Evolution, and Marine Biology) and Eric R.A.N. Smith (Political Science). The topic of the roundtable will be "Global Warming Discourse, Politics, and Culture." We will discuss the IPCC Climate Assessment and related issues, such as changing public perceptions of global warming and the often conflicting rhetorics of climate change science, politics, and popular culture. For more information on the IPCC Climate Assessment, please see the 2007 reports created by the IPCC's three working groups:
Working Group I "The Physical Science Basis of Climate Change": IPCC WG1 Report
Working Group II "Impacts, Adaptation, and Vulnerability": IPCC WGII website.
Working Group III "Mitigation of Climate Change": IPCC WG III Home
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12/7/2007 SH 2617 10:00:00 AM
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| 11/30/2007 |
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This one-day conference investigates the central role played, in the life and work of Leonhard Euler (1707-1783), by the description, calculation and analysis of sites or places (topoi)...more
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11/30/2007 Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, UCSB 10:00:00 AM
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| 11/16/2007 |
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The ACGCC invites all interested graduate students to attend a reception in honor of visiting scholar, Lawrence Buell (Harvard). The public is also invited to attend Professor Buell's lecture, "Environmental Memory and Planetary Survival" on November 15th from 4:00 p.m.-6:00 p.m. in HSSB 6020 (McCune). Please see ACGCC Events Page for more information.
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11/16/2007 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 11/16/2007 |
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch will be held in SH 2635 on Friday, November 16th from 11:30-1:30 pm, and will feature Pax Hehmeyer, Patrick Ludolph and Laura Miller as presenters.
Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations! 
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11/16/2007 11:30:00 AM
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The ACGCC will co-sponsor a lecture by Professor Lawrence Buell of Harvard University, author of several significant studies and this year's Jay Hubbell Award winner. Professor Buell's lecture is part of a year-long series of events sponsored by the ACGCC and intended to promote UCSB's initiative to build upon its already strong programs in Environmental Studies by focusing on how the Humanities contribute to environmental values and activism....more
The Carsey-Wolf Center for Film, Television and New Media is
a co-sponsor for this event.
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11/15/2007 McCune Room, HSSB 4:00:00 PM
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| 11/14/2007 |
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Are you interested in studying abroad? Hear experiences from other English majors that have studied abroad, and get answers to your questions from both students and faculty.
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11/14/2007 SH 2617 3:00:00 PM
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| 11/8/2007 |
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The English Department now has five "specializations" for English majors interested in using four of their elective courses to focus on one of the areas in which the department is doing innovative, nationally recognized research.
Two new specializations--Literature and the Environment, and Literature and the Mind--join the following existing specializations: American Cultures, Early Modern Studies, and Literature and the Culture of Information.
Besides offering courses in their areas, the specializations also often provide an opportunity for undergraduates to interact with faculty and graduate students in other settings outside the classroom-e.g., in colloquia, film and lecture events, student panels, etc.
Come to an information meeting where the faculty directors of the specializations, and the chair of the English Department's Undergraduate Committee, will introduce the vision of the individual specializations and talk with students about courses and activities.
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11/8/2007 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 11/7/2007 |
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Learn how to pursue a career in teaching at the
elementary, secondary or community college level.
Talk with a panel of professionals, including current grad students
and a professor from the UCSB English teaching credential program, and an experienced secondary school English teacher.
Learn about graduate programs leading to MAs in Education or
teaching credentials, how to apply, what to expect, how to choose a program that's right for you, etc.
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11/7/2007 SH 2617 2:00:00 PM
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| 11/2/2007 |
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An event to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the British abolition of the slave trade, and to consider the centrality both of slavery and of abolition to the period 1500-1800.
We are very lucky to welcome Maureen Quilligan (English, Duke University) “Rereading the Black Legend: Racing the Atlantic Slave Trade” and Lynn Festa (English, University of Wisconsin-Madison) “Kin, Kind, Slave: Human Difference and Anti-slavery Discourse in Eighteenth-Century Britain” as this year's invited colloquium speakers. Their talks will allow us to reflect on the importance of the abolition of the British slave trade as a historical and political event, as well as to highlight some of the persistent problems that reverberate from it. EMC Events (for more details)
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11/2/2007 SH 2635 1:00:00 PM
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| 10/31/2007 |
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10/31/2007 SH 2710, 2510 and 2635 8:30:00 AM
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| 10/11/2007 |
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The ACGCC is co-sponsoring a reading and panel discussion featuring Celine Parrenas-Shimizu (Associate Professor of Asian American Studies,) Constance Penley (Professor of Film and Media Studies) and Mireille Miller-Young (Assistant Professor of Women's Studies.)...more
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10/11/2007 McCune Room, HSSB 4:00:00 PM
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The ACGCC will celebrate the beginning of the new academic year with a Welcome Back Party and reading by former UCSB grad Patrick Sharp (currently Associate Professor and Associate Chair of Liberal Studies at Cal State, Los Angeles)...more
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10/5/2007 South Hall 2635 3:00:00 PM
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| 10/4/2007 |
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“Inscribing the Word -- Illuminating the Sequence: Epithets in Honor of John the Evangelist in the Graduals from Paradies bei Soest.” More details... |
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10/4/2007 Flying A Studios Room, University Center, UCSB 4:00:00 PM
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| 9/24/2007 |
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The UCSB Transcriptions Project is proud to announce its recent pedagogic and artistic foray into the online world of "Second Life," a popular 3-D virtual environment that first debuted for public use in 2003 and now supports over 30,000 concurrent users.
Funded by a 2007 Instructional Improvement Grant and developed under the direction of Profs. Rita Raley and Alan Liu, the project has successfully created its own experimental classroom space. This property is currently open for all registered Second Life users to explore and utilize for educational purposes. English department undergrads, grads, and faculty are invited to visit our virtual home at the following SLURL location: http://slurl.com/secondlife/Kerlingarfjoll/179/245/46.
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For more information, please visit the Transcription's Second Life Project blog.
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9/24/2007 8:00:00 AM
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TA Training will take place on Wednesday, September 19 , from 8:30AM-4:30PM in South Hall 2617 (across from the Sankey). Refreshments and lunch will be provided. TA Training is mandatory for all new TAs, though new grad students who aren't teaching are also welcome. Required preparatory "homework"
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Please RSVP by Monday, September 17
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9/19/2007 SH 2617 8:30:00 AM
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| 9/1/2007 |
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 The English Department recently underscored its commitment
to the study of literature and the environment (often referred to as
"ecocriticism") by announcing a number of exciting new programs and
courses. In fact, a total of
fourteen L&E
courses will be taught in 2007-08 from a range of over twice that many that
will now be regularly offered. Undergraduates
can both declare an Undergraduate
Specialization in Literature and the Environment (USLE) for the first time,
as well as have the option of completing it with honors. Graduate
students now have the benefit of a L&E
graduate colloquium, teaching
opportunities, and other exciting new proposals. A number of L&E
events will also be taking place throughout 2007-08. UCSB's commitment to environmental
issues dates from 1969; after one of the worst oil spills in U.S. history off
the coast of Santa Barbara, a group of twenty-one UCSB faculty members calling
themselves the Friends of the Human
Habitat helped create the modern environmental movement. This commitment to
the environment continues today with our English Department, especially the twelve
Professors
that teach L&E courses.
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9/1/2007
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch will be held in SH 2635 on Friday, June 29th from 12-1:30, and will feature Tassie Gniady, Sören Hammerschmidt, and Megan Palmer as presenters.
Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations!
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6/29/2007 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 5/29/2007 |
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Civic Culture: Cities and Towns in the Middle Ages
Please register! UCSB Medieval Studies
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5/29/2007 Centennial House, UCSB 9:15:00 AM
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch, the sixth so far, will be held in SH 2635 on Friday, May 4th from 12-1:30, and will feature Pav Aulakh, Sheena Berwick, Pax Hehmeyer, and Laura Miller as presenters. Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations! 
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5/4/2007 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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 Andrew Elfenbein, Professor of English at the University of Minnesota, will give a talk Thursday, May 3rd, on "The Humanities and the Science of Comprehension" as part of the Transliteracies Project's Paradigms Lecture series. Prof. Elfenbein has been a leader in introducing the perspectives and methods of recent cognitive science to humanists interested in the study of texts. (The Transliteracies History of Reading reading group is also meeting on the Tuesday before the lecture to discuss Prof. Elfenbein's 2006 PMLA article on "Cognitive Science and the History of Reading.") [details]
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5/3/2007 South Hall 2635 4:00:00 PM
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| 4/26/2007 |
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 This lecture will focus on the role of Fortune in Piers Plowman especially the way in which Fortune can or cannot be remedied by human action and ultimately rely on a Langlandian vision of will to experiment with the potentials for human agency that ill fortune creates and destroys.. The Findern manuscript from the second half of the fifteenth century includes a variety of Middle English texts by Chaucer, Gower, Lydgate, and Hoccleve and functioned as a kind of 'commonplace book' for an aristocratic family and its visitors, illustrating the tastes and worldviews of late medieval gentry readers. medievalstudies.ucsb.edu
Sponsored by Medieval Studies, English and the IHC
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4/26/2007 SH 1415 4:00:00 PM
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| 4/18/2007 |
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William St Clair, author of 'The Reading Nation in the Romantic Period' and Senior Research Fellow at Trinity College, Cambridge University, will be giving a lecture called "The Political Economy of Reading" in 2635 SH at 3:30 PM on Wednesday, April 18, 2007. A reception will follow. Prior to the lecture, he will be discussing his work with faculty and graduate students. The discussion will take place at 1:30 PM - 3:00 PM in 2635 SH.
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4/18/2007 SH 2635 1:30:00 PM
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| 4/13/2007 |
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Richard Halpern, professor of English at Johns Hopkins, is author of Shakespeare's Perfume: Sodomy and Sublimity in the Sonnets, Wilde, Freud and Lacan (Penn, 2002), which explores relations between sexuality and aesthetics. Previous books include Shakespeare Among the Moderns (Cornell, 1997) and The Poetics of Primitive Accumulation: English Renaissance Culture and the Genealogy of Capital (Cornell, 1991). Halpern will be speaking on "The Eclipse of Action: Hamlet and Political Economy."
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4/13/2007 SH 2635 3:00:00 PM
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| 4/11/2007 |
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4/11/2007 IHC McCune Conference Room 4:00:00 PM
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| 4/5/2007 |
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The St. Albans Psalter is one of the finest examples of English Romanesque painting. Although illustrating each psalm and the Life of Christ, the selection of images suggests a personal agenda reflecting the needs of its user. The Psalter was given by Geoffrey, Abbot of St. Albans to his beloved but feisty anchoress Christina of Markyate. The lecture examines aspects of patronage and reception relating to these vivid characters.
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4/5/2007 SH 2635 4:00:00 PM
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Wai Chee Dimock, the William Lampson Professor of English and American Studies, focuses her teaching and writing on American literature, law and literature, and world literature. She is especially concerned with the relation of literature to law, philosophy and the history of science. She has authored two books, "Empire for Liberty: Melville and the Poetics of Individualism" and "Residues of Justice: Literature, Law, Philosophy."
Dimock is also co-editor of "Rethinking Class: Literary Studies and Social Formations." In her recent work, she has attempted to link American literature to world literature, and she has two new books in progress:
"Literature for the Planet" and "Deep Time: American Literature and World History."
Also, I encourage you to visit the web site that has been established regarding the 2006-2007 Critical Issues in American Programming, entitled "Torture and the Future: Perspectives from the Humanities."
(Torture and the Future: Perspectives from the Humanities)
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3/13/2007 SH 2635 4:00:00 PM
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| 3/9/2007 |
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Keynote speakers: Ann Bermingham (Art History, UCSB), Lesley Cormack (History, University of Alberta), David Harris Sacks (History, Reed College) and Brian Cowan
(History, McGill). EMC Conference
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3/9/2007 University Center Harbor Room 8:00:00 AM
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| 3/2/2007 |
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Many of the most controversial foreign policy decisions pursued by the United States government in recent years have been defended as means of spreading democracy and of realizing basic human rights. In this regard, the U.S. has been explicit in its attempt to reshape international governance, and to achieve human rights by conjoining these to neoliberal economic policies. Taking up these dynamics, the Human Rights and Neoliberalism Conference will analyze the cultural dimensions of human rights policies, activism and scholarship, and examine closely the ways in which these human rights efforts challenge, extend or otherwise engage the ideals of neoliberalism. Most often associated with free market economies, minimal governmental regulations regarding production, and the dismantling of tariffs and related international trade controls, neoliberalism is also a cultural system, one that claims priority for the individual. Often times echoing the rhetoric of Social Darwinism, advocates of neoliberal policies value individual freedoms and the notion of meritocracy, while arguing against a variety of welfare programs and the recognition of social groups.
Both the international human rights movement and the neoliberal economic imperative (coming of age with Reagan and Thatcher), carry strong cultural assumptions interacting in complex ways that call out for further analysis.
Keynote address: Tariq Ali. For more information, visit:
(http://acc.english.ucsb.edu/conference/humanrights/index.asp)
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3/2/2007 9:30:00 AM
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| 2/28/2007 |
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In this talk, Prof. Reese will talk about the insight and influence of
famed media theorist Marshall McLuhan (The
Medium is the Massage, Understanding Media: The Extensions of Man),
both generally, in terms of cultural history and pattern, and specifically, in
terms of his influence on his own creative work, teaching and practice.
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2/28/2007 SH 2617 4:00:00 PM
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| 2/21/2007 |
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| 2/16/2007 |
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch, the fifth so far, will be held in SH 2635 on Friday, February 16th from 12-1:30, and will feature Judith Hicks, Scott Lehman, Rachel Mann, and Kris McAbee as presenters.
Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations!
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2/16/2007 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 2/15/2007 |
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Medieval Studies Presents a Lecture...
Christopher Baswell, Department of English, UCLA, "The Medieval Virgil Meets the Italian Humanists: MS Cambridge, Jesus College 33"
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2/15/2007 SH 1415 5:00:00 PM
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The Transcriptions Studio is proud to announce its first ever...Transcriptions Research Colloquium.
Please join us for this very special event, which brings together three Transcriptions-affiliated graduate students - Kim Knight (English), Lisa Swanstrom (Comparative Lit.), and Mike Frangos (English) - to present and discuss their recent research in various aspects of "the culture of information." Transcriptions
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2/15/2007 Transcriptions Studio SH 2509 3:00:00 PM
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| 2/14/2007 |
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Lecture by Rebecca Wanzo (Asst.Prof.) Dept.of Women's Studies, Department of African-American & African Studies, The Ohio State University.
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2/14/2007 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 2/8/2007 |
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2/9/2007 3:00 PM - 5:00 PM Lecture at State Street Room
We are very pleased to announce that Professor Roger Chartier, Annenberg Visiting
Professor at the University of Pennsylvania and Directeur d'Études at the École des
Hautes Études in Paris, will direct the Everett Zimmerman Seminar, to be held February 8
and 9, 2007. Professor Chartier's scholarship in early modern European history has been
central to the study of print culture and the history of the book.
Chartier's title for the 2/9 lecture: "Is there a reading revolution in the eighteenth century? Diderot reader of Richardson."...more
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2/8/2007 Seminar at SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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Please register here or contact Edward D. English at 893-3167 or english@history.ucsb.edu.
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2/2/2007 McCune conference Room 2:00:00 PM
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| 1/31/2007 |
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A screening and discussion of the classic 1956 science fiction film, directed by Fred Wilcox and starring Walter Pidgeon, Leslie Nielson, and Anne Francis. Based loosely on Shakespeare's The Tempest and influenced by the work of Sigmund Freud, Forbidden Planet helped pave the way for a new era and quality of science fiction cinema.
Discussion moderated by Robin Chin.
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1/31/2007 SH 2509 Transcriptions Studio 12:00:00 PM
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| 1/26/2007 |
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Monica H. Green is Professor of History at Arizona State University. She has published Making Women’s Medicine Masculine: The Rise of Male Authority in Premodern Gynecology (forthcoming, Oxford University Press) and The “Trotula”: An English Translation of the Medieval Compendium of Women’s Medicine (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2002).
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1/26/2007 McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 4:00:00 PM
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| 1/22/2007 |
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Singer Ron Paris presents the history of rhythm and blues in a special performance that combines lecture and soul music. The performance describes moments in the history of music in America and music's contribution to social justice and human rights. It pays tribute to those R&B pioneers who literally and figuratively made the rope disappear that used to divide white from black audiences. Hear about Charles Brown, Johnnie Ace, Bobby Bland, Ruth Brown, B.B. King and James Brown, with special focus on the Platters (with whom Ron sang in the early 70s) and Sam Cooke.
The event is free and open to the public.
Winter 2007 ACGCC Sponsored Event
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1/22/2007 MCC Theater 4:00:00 PM
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| 1/18/2007 |
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Mark Danner,"Into the Light of Day: Torture, Human Rights, and the War on Terror" on Thursday, January 18 2007 at 8 pm. Free.
Alfred McCoy,"A Short History of Psychological Torture: Its Discovery, Propagation, Perfection, and Legalization" on Thursday, February 1, 2007 at 4 pm. Free.
Also, a day-long (possibly 2-day) conference on Friday, May 28, 2007 in the Multicultural Center.
For more information on all this, see the website at http://www.complit.ucsb.edu/projects/tortureandthefuture/index.html
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1/18/2007 Campbell Hall 8:00:00 PM
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| 1/12/2007 |
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch, the fourth so far, will
be held in SH 2635 on Friday, January 12th from 12-1:30, and will feature Simone Chess, Jessica C. Murphy, and Maggie Sloan as presenters.
Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations!
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1/12/2007 SH 2635 12:00:00 PM
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| 12/29/2006 |
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The English Department of the
University of California at Santa Barbara
cordially invites you to
Our MLA Convention Party
In
the suite of the Department Chair, William Warner
Place: Philadelphia Marriott
Time:
Friday, December 29, 2006
8:30PM – 10:30PM
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12/29/2006 Philadelphia Marriott - Suite of William Warner 8:30:00 PM
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| 12/8/2006 |
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The EMC Brown Bag Lunch is a forum for EMC Grads to present their ongoing work. The upcoming EMC Brown Bag Lunch, the third so far, will be held in SH 2635 on Friday, December 8th from 12-1:30, and will feature Tassie Gniady, Kris McAbee, and Mac Test as presenters.
Please pack a lunch and join us to enjoy and discuss their presentations!
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12/8/2006 SH 2635 12:30:00 PM
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| 12/5/2006 |
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Moderated by Allison Britt and Jenna Taylor, the ACGC Undergraduate Representatives.
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12/5/2006 South Hall 2716 (American Cultures Seminar Room) 5:00:00 PM
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| 12/5/2006 |
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Rama Hoetzlein holds a BA in Computer Science and a BFA in Fine Arts from Cornell University in 2001. In 2002, he co-founded the Game Design Initiative at Cornell University with David Schwartz and developed the GameX platform for interdisciplinary education in game design. Rama has worked with artist George Legrady in the area of information aesthetics for the Seattle Public Library Project and has exhibited at the 2nd Beijing Arts & Science International Exhibition in China. He is currently pursuing an MS and Ph.D from the Media Arts & Technology Program at University of California, Santa Barbara where his research focuses on knowledge organization and intelligent systems.
(http://www.rchoetzlein.com)
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12/5/2006 SH 2635 1:00:00 PM
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Please join the Culture, Gender, and Aesthetics Research Focus Group for a discussion of multitude and materialism. At this, our last meeting of the quarter, we will be discussing Antonio Negri and Michael Hardt's work as well as recent responses to their writing. The meeting will be led by Culture, Gender,and Aesthetics co-convener Maurizia Boscagli, and refreshments will be served. To obtain copies of the readings, contact Susan Cook at scook@umail.ucsb.edu.
The Culture, Gender, and Aesthetics RFG is co-convened by Professors Maurizia Boscagli of English and Bhaskar Sarkar of Film and Media Studies.
Sponsored by the IHC's Culture, Gender, and Aesthetics Research Focus Group
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12/5/2006 IHC Research Sminar Room, HSSB 6056 11:00:00 AM
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| 11/17/2006 |
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A talk by Jed Esty
the Modernism Group
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11/17/2006 SH 2617 3:00:00 PM
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| 11/17/2006 |
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with Paul Yachnin and Dena Goodman
Paul Yachnin, Professor English, McGill University, "Hamlet and the Social Thing in Early Modern England."
Dena Goodman, Professor of History, University of Michigan, "Habermas and Feminist Scholarship: Going Beyond the Public Sphere."
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.
Link to: http://emc.english.ucsb.edu/events.asp
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11/17/2006 SH 2635 1:00:00 PM
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| 4/8/2006 |
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“Manuscript Culture in the Middle Ages: Production, Transmission, & Use”
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4/8/2006 McCUNE CONFERENCE ROOM, 6020 HSSB 9:00:00 AM
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| 1/23/2006 |
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"Living Magnets and the Pathology of Grace in Donne's Religious Verse"
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1/23/2006 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 1/20/2006 |
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"Doctor Faustus and the Seductions of the Text"
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1/20/2006 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 1/17/2006 |
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"What Else is Pastoral?"
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1/17/2006 SH 2635 3:30:00 PM
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| 11/30/2005 |
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Carl Gutierrez-Jones - "Paranoid Designs: Toni Cade Bambara's Those Bones Are Not My Child and 'The Squalor of the Truth.'"
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11/30/2005 3:00:00 PM
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The UC Santa Barbara English Department invites applications for the Arnhold Postdoctoral Scholar Fellowship. This fellowship has a term of one year, but may be renewable for a second year. The fellowship offers recent recipients of the Ph.D. (awarded between January 1, 2003, and June 30, 2006) a unique opportunity to develop their research and teaching interests within the UCSB Early Modern Center; the UCSB Transcriptions Center for literature and the culture of information; and the UC system-wide Transliteracies Project on the technological, social, and cultu | |
Literature.Culture.Media sponsors a lecture and presentation of work by Jeremy Hight on the topic of locative narrative.
Two new specializations for English majors -- 
