Events Archive

AGI Roundtable

International Education: Preparing for Upcoming Challenges

Location: Girvetz 2320

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Recentering the Maghreb: Insights into Protest and their Transnational Impacts

Location: Live Webinar: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84109619472

Lecture, hosted by EAC & EALCS

The Language of Daoist Internal Alchemy

Location: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

Lecture, hosted by EAC

Vincent Goossaert on Mapping the Society of the Chinese Gods: Social Network Analysis and Divine Assemblages in Early Modern China

Location: Attend Zoom lecture using this link. You can view the lecture in person in Girvetz 2320.

CMES Grad Fellows Panel

Transcending Territory: Migration, Race, and Sovereignty

Location: Register for the webinar at this link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_8OsXpYtvQ4Kae2zIqiuMXw  

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

The Impact of the 2024 US Elections on Brazil

Location: Live Webinar in English with Translated Captions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87533603662

Lecture, co-sponsored by CMES, Orfalea Center, and History Department

Eren Tasar on The Expansion of Muslim Atheism in 1960s Central Asia

Location: HSSB 4020

gathering for faculty, hosted by AGI

AGI New Faculty Orientation

Location: Girvetz 2320

"FIlm Screening, hosted by CMES & Iranian Studies Initiative

The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life

Location: Girvetz 2320

MERIP Issue Launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

Carceral Realities and Freedom Dreams

Location: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 Zoom Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84697721573

Lecture, hosted by EAC & EALCS

Okinawa after Area (Studies), or Writing Okinawa in the Settler Colonial University

Location: SSMS 2135

CMES Spotlight Series

The Voice of Algeria: Palestine, the Arab Cause, and Tricontinental Solidarity

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, Hosted by LAIS and Central American Studies Working Group

Community-based archaeology in the Ixil region, Guatemala

Location: LMC South Hall 1415

Book launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

My Brother, My Land: A Story from Palestine

Location: LINK TO LIVE WEBINAR: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/83391765759

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Challenging Amnesia and Hegemonic Narratives in Lebanon

Location: Live Webinar: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/83992447205

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Black Women's Sexuality: A Cross-Cultural Dialogue between Brazil and the US

Location: Live Webinar in English and Portuguese with Translated Captions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81182553301

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Sustainable Commodities for Climate, Nature and People

Location: Live Webinar: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82179993369

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Challenging Amnesia and Hegemonic Narratives in Lebanon

Location: Live Webinar in English and Arabic with Translated Captions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/84455761452

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Chinese Infrastructure and Finance Projects in Egypt

Location: Link to webinar: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81104398433

Book launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

Schooling the Nation: Education and Everyday Politics in Egypt

Location: LINK TO LIVE WEBINAR:  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87587338638

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Black Geographies: Racial Capitalism, Geo-Ontological Exile, and Struggles for Life in Brazil

Location: Link to Live Webinar in Portuguese with Translated Captions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81335735478

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

How We Talk about Tunisia: Interrogating Dominant Narratives

Location: LINK TO LIVE WEBINAR: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84284582124

The Cedric J. Robinson and Elizabeth P. Robinson Conference

Archives Unbound: 50 Years of Hope, Resistance and Rebellion

Lecture, co-organized by LAIS and Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

El poder en disputa. Apuntes para una cartografía de las artes visuales venezolanas en el siglo XXI

Location: Phelps 1425

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Race and Gender in a Tropical Democracy: Xica da Silva and Black Women' Agency in Colonial Brazil

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture and Film Screening, hosted by Orfalea Center and Department of Feminist Studies

Gender in Global Conflicts and Peacebuilding Practices

Location: HSSB 6020, McCune Conference Room

Lecture, hosted by LAIS

Cosmopolitanism and Feminism in Puerto Rico: The Foundational Literature of Alejandro Tapia y Rivera

Location: Girvetz 2320

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Changing Business and Investment Models in the Angola-China Nexus: Projects, Schools and Commerce

Location: Online Event in English and Portuguese with Translated Captions:  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88303955272

Conference, hosted by EALCS and GEARS, co-sponsored by EAC

UCSB Graduate Student Conference: Research on East Asia

Location: HSSB 4041

CMES Spotlight Series

Living Fossils: Anatomies of Race and Reproduction in Egypt

Location: Girvetz 2320

Book launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

Apartheid Remains

Location: Girvetz 2320

"Film Screening and Director's Roundtable, hosted by CMES and Carsey-Wolf Center

Storytelling for the Screen: The Citizen

Location: Pollock Theater, reserve free tickets here.

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Captive Intelligence: Anti-Muslim Racism, Extractive Capital & Liberal Humanism in the Making of Muslim Immigrant Informants

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, co-organized by Africa Initiative and Department of History

Why Dare to Invent the Future?

Location: HSSB 4020 Zoom link for those who can't be present in person: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/81909097511

LAIS Tertulia, co-organized with Department of History

The History and Politics of Wannabe Fascism

Location: HSSB 1174

Webinar, organized by Orfalea Center

Graphic Novels, Art Making & Zines as Trans/Queer Archives

Location: In person: GIRV 2116 Zoom link:  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88476165444

Film Screening and Director's Roundtable, hosted by Orfalea Center

Bad Women of China, directed by He Xiaopei

Location: I.V. THEATER 2, 960 EMBARCADERO DEL NORTE

Burdick Global Scholars Program

Informational Zoom for Prospective Burdick Applicants

Location: Via zoom, click for link.

Book launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

Global Human/ities: Robots, Retroviruses, and the Rest of Us

Location: Girvetz 2320

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Navigating the Date Deluge: A Panel on Social Data and Research Methodolgy

Location: Online Event in English and Portuguese with Translated Captions  https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87055011316

Lecture, co-sponsored by LAIS and Dept. of Spanish and Portuguese

Imperial Death: African Decolonization in Spanish Popular Cinema

Location: ARTS 1349

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

From Zines to Scholarly Publishing

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, co-sponsored by EAC

Cognitive and Semiological Perspectives on European-Language Religious Categories and the Chinese Data

Location: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Burdick Global Scholars Program Seminar, co-sponsored by Department of Black Studies and LAIS

Ethnographies of Blackness

Location: Black Studies Conference Room, South Hall 3709

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Making Digital Tools for Egalitarian Archival Practice, with Juan Cobo Betancourt

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Digital Humanities in India: Towards an Infrastructural Critique Of and With E-Lit

Location: via zoom; link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89653830433

CMES Spotlight Series: a graduate fellows panel

On the Borderland: Making Home, Making Music

Location: Via zoom; click here for registration link.

Tertulia, hosted by LAIS

Politics and the Pink Tide: A Comparative Analysis of Protest in Latin America

Location: Girvetz 2320

Ethnomusicology Forum, co-hosted by Africa Initiative and Orfalea Center

Echoes Across the Limpopo: Azania & Zimbabwe Musics of Self-Liberation

Location: Music Library 2406

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Global & Comparative Education Research

Location: Link to Webinar in English and Portuguese with Translated Captions: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/81950688336

Film Screening, hosted by Carsey-Wolf Center

And, Towards Happy Alleys

Location: Pollock Theater

Workshop, co-sponsored by EAC

New Approaches to Traditional Chinese Food Culture

Location: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

Graduate Student Research Panel, hosted by Africa Initiative

Plotting Fieldworks

Location: Girvetz 2314

Lecture, hosted by EAC

Decolonizing Hong Kong: A Global Event, with Ching Kwan Lee

Location: SSMS 2135

Event, hosted by LAIS

LAIS Graduate Affiliates Welcome Gathering

Location: Girvetz 2320

Burdick Global Scholars Program Seminar, co-sponsored by Department of Black Studies and LAIS

Capitalismo Racial, Violencia de Género y Acumulación en Colombia y México

Location: Girvetz 2320

Book Talk, co-organized by CMES, LAIS, and Dept. of History

Transnational Palestine, with Nadim Bawalsa

Location: HSSB 3001E

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Seismic Transformations: The Cultural Ecologies and Periurban Poetics in Mahraganat Music in Egypt, with Dalia Ibraheem

Location: Girvetz 2320

Book Talk, organized by CMES and Orfalea Center

Sextarianism: Sovereignty, Secularism, and the State in Lebanon, with Maya Mikdashi

Location: Loma Pelona Center

Global Studies Colloquium, co-sponsored by EAC

Labor and Social Revolt in the Sinosphere, with Eli Friedman

Location: In-Person: SSMS 2001 and via zoom:  tinyurl.com/Globalw24

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Ecuador State of Emergency?

Location: Via zoom 

Webinar, organized by Orfalea Center

Racial Justice in Rio de Janeiro's Carnival, with Vítor Antunes

Location: via zoom

Meeting for students, hosted by LAIS

LAIS/EAP Informational Meeting

Location: Girvetz 2320 and via zoom

Global Studies Colloquium, co-sponsored with LAIS

This Chapter May Contain: Fats, Oils, and Other Interchangeable Elements of Power, with Jayson M. Porter

Location: In-Person: SSMS 2001 and via zoom:  tinyurl.com/Globalw24

Panel, hosted by Orfalea Center

LGBTQ Migrations en Argentina: A Dialog Between Artists and Activists

Location: In person at ILP 1320; register for webinar here.

Book Launch, hosted by CMES and Film and Media Studies, co-sponsored by Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

Arabic Glitch

Location: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Digital Humanities as a Network of Self-Descriptions, with Manuel Portela

Location: LSB 1001

Book Talk, hosted by Global Studies Department, co-sponsored by CMES and Orfalea Center

Elastic Empire: Refashioning War through Aid in Palestine, with Lisa Bhungalia

Location: This is a hybrid event. In person talk in SSMS 2001 and zoom link here. Lunch will be served at noon.

Symposium, organized by Central American Studies Working Group and co-sponsored by LAIS

The Horacio Roque Ramirez Memorial Symposium

Location: MCC Theater

Lecture, co-sponsored by Dept of Spanish and Portuguese, Comparative Literature Program, and LAIS

At First Blush: Race, Cosmetics, and the Transnational Performance of Turning Red, with Paul Michael Johnson

Location: Henley Boardroom, Mosher Alumni House

CMES Spotlight Series: a graduate fellows panel

Survival, Technology, and Science

Location: Via Zoom: register here

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Grounding Circulations of the Global in China and Angola

Location: Via Zoom: link here

Talk, hosted by LAIS & Central American Working Studies Group

An Analysis of the National Situation in Guatemala, a conversation with Baltzarar de la Cruz Rodríguez

Location: Dolores Huerta Room, South Hall 1623 * This event will be conducted in Spanish  

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Angola: Southern Africa and the Future of the Global South

Location: Zoom webinar link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89436458355

Orfalea Research Fellows Forum

Orfalea Cluster Forums on Global Sexualities; Global Carceral States; and Water & Infrastructure

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, hosted by EAC, EALCS, and IHC

Genre Matters: Women Reclaiming Narrative Tropes in Qing China, with Maram Epstein

Location: PSYCH 1902

Tertulia, hosted by LAIS

Historical Maya Displacements and the Invasion of Extractive Industries in Guatemala, with Giovanni Batz

Location: HSSB 4020

Book launch, hosted by Orfalea Center

Religious Othering-Global Dimensions, with Mark Juergensmeyer, Kathleen Moore, and Dominic Sachsenmaier

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, co-sponsored by EAC, IHC, Comparative Literature, and Translation Studies

Alice in Wonderland as a Fairytale and a Resource Book in China, with Zongxin Feng

Location: Zoom attendance link

Colloquium, hosted by Africa Initiative

Kasambabezi: The Terrorist Loot Economy and the Cosmos of African Resistance, with Mhoze Chikowero

Location: Girvetz 2320 or via zoom at this link

Lecture, hosted by Orfalea Center

Queer Ruin: Postcolonial Remix and Classical Remit in Shahzia Sikander's Work, with Sadia Abbas

Location: Girvetz 2320

A panel, co-sponsored by Central American Studies Working Group, LAIS, and Las Maestras Center

El retorno del libro: La devolución del Chilam Balam al pueblo maya

Location: MCC Theater

CMES Spotlight Series: a graduate fellows panel

Palestine as Method

Location: Girvetz 2320

Lecture, co-sponsored by Central American Studies Working Group, LAIS, and the Collective of Pueblos Orginarios in Diaspora the

Racialization of Central Americans in Los Angeles, with Alejandro Villalpando

Location: South Hall 1623

Lecture, hosted by the Department of Music and co-sponsored by EAC

Musical Networks and Community Building in Indonesia and Beyond, with Wok the Rok

Location: Music Library 2406

Webinar, hosted by Orfalea Center

Sudan: Revolutionary Consciousness & Transnational Solidarity

Location: Link to webinar: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86359448348

Workshop, co-sponsored by EAC, Dept of Religious Studies, College of Letters and Science, Shinto Studies, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center, and others.

The Makers of Buddhism

Location: Robertson Gymnasium, Seminar Room 1005

International Conference, organized by the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies

The Future of the Amazon

Location: McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

gathering for faculty & students, hosted by AGI

AGI Open House

Location: 2326 Girvetz

Tertulia & Welcome Back Lunch, hosted by LAIS

Khipu, an Andean Instrument of Management, Memory, and Power with Dr. Lydia Fossa

Location: McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020

Book Talk, hosted by EAC, EALCS, IHC, and Anthropology

Ryo Morimoto on "Nuclear Ghost: Atomic Livelihoods in Fukushima's Gray Zone"

Location: SSMS 2135

Film Screening, Co-Sponsored by Carsey-Wolf Center, Religious Studies, & CMES

CWC Global: Lamya's Poem

Location: Pollock Theater

Lecture, hosted by CMES

Sergey Salushchev on Women Negotiating Shariʿa, Zakon, and Adat in the Nineteenth Century Caucasus

Location: Via Zoom, register to attend here.

Book Launch, hosted by Africa Initiative and Mellon-Sawyer Seminar

Gabrielle Hecht & Satyajit Singh on "A Dam for Africa" by Stephen Miescher

Location: HSSB 1174

Graduate Student Seminar, hosted by EAC

Andrew B. Liu on Industrious and Flexible: China’s 1980s reforms, East Asian capitalism, and flexible accumulation

Location: 2320 Girvetz 

Lecture, hosted by EAC

Andrew B. Liu on End of an Era? China's Changing Place in the World Market

Location: 2135 SSMS

symposium, organized by Iranian Studies Initiative and co-sponsored by CMES

Iranian Studies Symposium

Location: Digital Image Lab in the IRC, Arts 1245

public art projection hosted by Arts & Lectures Justice for All, co-presented with AGI and other campus partners.

Woman.Life.Freedom Public Art Projection

Location: The public art projection will run from 8pm - 11pm on the façade of the UCSB Art, Design, and Architecture Museum. This event is free and the UCSB community is welcome to stop by at anytime during the projection.  

Panel, hosted by Capp Center and co-sponsored by EAC and CMES

Manjusha Kulkarni on Challenging Hate: How to Stop Anti-AAPI Violence and Bias

Location: UCSB Multicultural Center Theater and YouTube Livestream here

Panel, hosted by Capp Center and co-sponsored by EAC and CMES

Asian American Activism: Drawing on History, Inspiring the Future

Location: UCSB Multicultural Center Theater and YouTube Livestream here.

"Conference, hosted by Dept of Spanish and Portuguese and co-sponsored by LAIS and the SAGE Center for the Study of the Mind)"

Celebrating the Carnation Revolution: A Conference in Honor of Eduardo Lourenço

Location: 6020 McCune Conference Room, HSSB

Roundtable, hosted by the Department of Spanish & Portuguese and moderated by Burdick Fellow

Elisa Loncón on Popular Power and Constitutional Change: Reflections from Chile

Location: Loma Pelona Center Conference Room

Conference, hosted by Dept of Spanish and Portuguese and co-sponsored by LAIS

Political Reconfigurations, Cultural Practices, and Artistic Manifestations of First Nations of the (Abya Yala) Americas

Location: Thursday April 20 at Loma Pelona Center & Friday April 21 at State Street Room UCen

Lecture, co-hosted by Center for Interdisciplinary Study of Music, Ethnomusicology Forum, Iranian Studies Initiative, and CMES

Farzaneh Hemmasi on Live, Die, Repeat: Burying and Resurrecting Iranian Pop Stars in Southern California

Location: 2406 Music Library

Lecture, hosted by King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and CMES

Dana Sajdi on The Pasha's New Clothes: The History Section of an 18th Century Library from Acre

Location: 4080 HSSB

Workshop, hosted by German Historical Institute and UCSB Migration Initiative, co-organized by CMES faculty affiliate

Knowledge Production in Displacement and Forced Migration Workshop

Location: U-Cen, Flying A room

Graduate Fellows Panel, hosted by CMES

The Land and What Lies Beneath It: Food, Maps & Sanitation

Location: Via Zoom; register to attend here.

Lecture, hosted by King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies and CMES

Keelan Overton on The Deccani Trails of the St Andrews Qur'an Manuscript

Location: 3001E HSSB

Colloquium, hosted by Africa Initiative and History Department

Nyasha Mboti and Steve Zipperstein on Dialogues in History: Conversations on Black life, race, and antiblackness in history

Location: *Note the location of this event has changed to the UCSB MultiCultural Center Lounge.

Lecture, hosted by CMES

Nasser Rabbat on Al-Maqrizi’s Khitat: A Transhistorical Paean to Cairo

Location: 3230 Girvetz Hall

Workshop, hosted by Center for Taiwan Studies and EAC

Global Storytelling: Narrating Childhoods in Taiwan Workshop

Location: UCSB Loma Pelona Conference Center, Room 1108

Colloquium, hosted by Film & Media Department and organized by CMES faculty affiliate

Pelle Valentin Olsen on A Tale of Three Brothers: Ezra, Me’ir, and Hayyawi Sawda’i and a History of Cinema in Iraq

Location: 2135 SSMS

Lecture, hosted by Center for Taiwan Studies

Kristina Kironska on Formosa as a Safe Haven?

Location: 2135 SSMS

Lecture, hosted by LAIS, Department of Spanish and Portuguese, & Comparative Literature Program

Efráin Kristal on War and Translation in Jorge Luis Borges

Location: 1508 Phelps Hall

Lecture, hosted by Africa Initiative

Saki Mafundikwa on Black Ingenuity, White Profits

Location: 2314 Girvetz

Book Talk, hosted by EAC & History Department

Aaron Skabelund on Inglorious, Illegal Bastards: Japan's Self-Defense Force During the Cold War

Location: 4020 HSSB

Book Talk, hosted by Orfalea Center

Lisa Hajjar & David Nevin on The Last Front in the War in Court: Torture and Law at Guantanamo

Location: 6020 HSSB

Book talk, hosted by Orfalea Center & CMES

Jillian Schwedler on Understanding Geographies of Protests: Insights from Jordan

Location: 6020 HSSB

Lecture, hosted by EAC, Center for Taiwan Studies & the Dalai Lama Endowment

Venerable Yifa on Chinese Buddhism and Environmental Ethics

Location: 6020 HSSB

Graduate Fellows Panel, hosted by CMES

The Politics of the Everyday: Crime, Charity & Economy

Location: Via Zoom

Seminar, hosted by CMES and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies

Kathryn Babayan on Archival Practices Beyond the State

Location: 2320 Girvetz

Lecture, hosted by Africa Initiative and Orfalea Center

Admire Mseba on The Politics of Land and Power in Northeastern Zimbabwe

Location: 2320 Girvetz

Lecture, hosted by CMES and King Abdul Aziz Ibn Saud Chair in Islamic Studies

Kathryn Babayan on Anthologizing the City of Isfahan: Family Archives & Urban Knowledge

Location: HSSB 4080

Film Screening, hosted by Africa Initiative

Sarraounia

Location: 2320 Girvetz

Area Global Initiative

AGI centers moved into new offices

Artist Talk, hosted by EAC & Art Department

Soo Kim

Location: Embarcadero Hall

Lecture, hosted by EAC

Mercedes Valmisa on Rethinking Agency for Social and Political Change

Location: Via Zoom

Roundtable, hosted by LAIS

João Roberto Martins Filho and Fabio de Sa e Silva on Populism, Authoritarian Governments, and Brazil Elections

Location: Via Zoom

Graduate Fellows Panel, hosted by CMES

The Native Other: Language, Race & Migration

Location: Via Zoom