YOUR WEEKLY GUIDE TO INTERNATIONAL EVENTS AT UCSB
This free weekly listing of international events at UCSB is a public service of the Global & International Studies Program. Passport Online is e-mailed to subscribers every Friday, and posted online every Monday.
**** Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Love's Labour's Lost (performance)
Friday, November 13 / 8:00 p.m. / The Granada, downtown Santa Barbara
Saturday, November 14 / 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. / The Granada, downtown Santa Barbara
1. TONIGHT! An Evening of Chinese Music with Melody of China (performance)
Friday, November 13 / 8:00 p.m. / MultiCultural Center Theater
2. Why Oil and Water? (Keynote Address by Catherine Gautier, Geography, UCSB)
Tuesday, November 17 / 4:00 p.m. / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (free)
3. Earth Days (film)
Tuesday, November 17 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall
4. UCSB Conference on World Literature
Foundational Texts: Translation, Circulation, Diffusion and Adaptation
Wednesday, November 18 - Friday, November 20 (free)
5. Sexuality and Islam: Europe and the Middle East (workshop)
Wednesday, November 18 / 12:00 noon / Global Studies Seminar Room, SSMS 2001 (free)
6. West Papua: Free to Choose (documentary slide show by local filmmaker Craig Harris)
Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 p.m. / Theatre & Dance TD-W1701 (free)
7. Engaging the Visual in the Anthropology of South Asia
Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 p.m. / Religious Studies Library, HSSB 3024 (free)
8. Goodbye Lenin (German Film Series: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall)
Thursday, November 19 / 7:00 p.m. / Theatre & Dance, room 2600 (free and open to all)
ALSO TONIGHT **** Shakespeare's Globe Theatre: Love's Labour's Lost (performance)
Friday, November 13 / 8:00 p.m. / The Granada, downtown Santa Barbara
Saturday, November 14 / 2:00 p.m. and 8:00 p.m. / The Granada, downtown Santa Barbara
“The Globe - an instant hit with both the crowds and the critics.” npr.org
“Sends its audience out in a mood of high exultation.” The Observer, London
Shakespeare’s boisterous send-up of all those who try to turn their back on life is a mighty display of every weapon in the youthful playwright’s comic arsenal, from excruciating cross-purposes and impersonations, to drunkenness, bust-ups, and pratfalls. It is a joyful banquet of language, groaning with puns, rhymes, bizarre syntax, grotesque coinages, and parodies. This heady combination receives royal treatment from the famed Globe ? the world’s pre-eminent exponent of the Bard’s immortal works. Directed by artistic director Dominic Dromgoole, the Globe’s production “mixes bare-faced cheek with bare-cheeked bottoms” (The Guardian, London), employing Renaissance staging, costumes, and live music.
For tickets and information <https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1579>
1. TONIGHT! An Evening of Chinese Music with Melody of China (performance)
Friday, November 13 / 8:00 p.m. / MultiCultural Center Theater
Formed by a group of enthusiastic professional musicians from some of the most prestigious music conservatories in China, Melody of China is the premiere Chinese music ensemble in the San Francisco Bay Area. . Multi-instrumentalist Hong Wang, Linhong Li on pipa (Chinese lute), and Haiyue Zhang on ruan (moon guitar) and liuqin (Chinese mandolin) will play an array of classical, folk, and contemporary music.
Tickets $5 students / $15 general. Contact the A.S. Ticket Office at 805-893-2064.
For information <http://www.mcc.ucsb.edu/Calendar/index.aspx#C> or call MCC at 893-8411.
2. Why Oil and Water? (Keynote Address by Catherine Gautier, Geography, UCSB)
Tuesday, November 17 / 4:00 p.m. / McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (free)
This talk is the keynote address for the IHC’s Oil + Water series. Unsustainable use of oil and water by a rapidly growing global population is creating a serious environmental security challenge. Intensified competition for these dwindling resources threatens global security. Oil and water are intertwined in many ways. Each needs the other in its respective extraction process, and the use of one accelerates the depletion of the other. Oil and water are also linked through climate change. Oil burning emits carbon dioxide responsible for the enhanced greenhouse effect and consequent global warming that modifies the water cycle and water availability.
The looming peak in oil represents a visible surrogate for most natural resource depletion, more conspicuously advertised than upcoming water shortages. One must question why “peak oil” has become a proxy for a host of dwindling Earth resources that may have dramatic consequences for humanity. While oil is considered a catalyst for economic growth and often associated with wealth and power, water tends to be conceived as a commons, inspiring hope for multinational cooperation around water resources. In this presentation, we will lay the groundwork for the IHC’s Oil + Water series. We will also reflect, together, on the problem of translating the scientific data relevant to these challenges to humanists.
Sponsored by the IHC’s Oil + Water series.
For details <http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_fall09/_nov/gautier.html>
3. Earth Days (film)
Tuesday, November 17 / 7:30 p.m. / UCSB Campbell Hall
“A rapturous and enlightening testament to what the environmental movement has meant in America, and to why it now means more than ever.” Entertainment Weekly
Visually stunning and vastly entertaining, Earth Days looks back to the dawn of the modern environmental movement ? from its post-war rustlings in the 1950s to the first wildly successful 1970 Earth Day celebration and the subsequent firestorm of political action. Personal testimony from the era’s pioneers, like former Secretary of the Interior Stewart Udall, and rare archival media create a poetic meditation on humanity’s complex relationship with nature and an engaging history of the revolutionary achievements ? and missed opportunities ? of groundbreaking eco-activism.
Presented in conjunction with the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center series OIL + WATER.
General public $6.00, UCSB Students $5.00
For tickets and information <https://artsandlectures.sa.ucsb.edu/Details.aspx?PerfNum=1644>
4. UCSB Conference on World Literature
Foundational Texts: Translation, Circulation, Diffusion and Adaptation
Wednesday, November 18 - Friday, November 20 (free)
This conference focuses on canonical or sacred texts -- from Homer’s Odyssey to Murakami’s Genji, from Cervantes to Mayan hieroglyphs, from Dante to Coetzee, from Goethe to Glissant, from the Thousand and One Nights to Jorge Luis Borges -- in a global perspective: how they are translated, appropriated, transformed, how they travel across different cultures and languages, their foundational status evolving accordingly in a post-European world.
For complete schedule <http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/foundationaltexts/>
5. Sexuality and Islam: Europe and the Middle East (workshop)
Wednesday, November 18 / 12:00 noon / Global Studies Seminar Room, SSMS 2001 (free)
This transdisciplinary, international workshop aims to push the boundaries of sexuality studies. The workshop will feature the following presentations:
- Paul Amar (Law & Society, UCSB): Natasha Wars and Harasser Invasions: Perverse Sexuality and ‘Human Security’ Politics in Neoliberal Cairo
- Janet Afary (Religious Studies, UCSB): Construction of Heteronormativity in Modern Iran
- Fatima El-Tayeb (African-American Literature and Culture, UCSD): Queer Muslim Bodies and European Performative Politics
For information <http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_fall09/_nov/newsexualities.html>
6. West Papua: Free to Choose (documentary slide show by local filmmaker Craig Harris)
Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 p.m. / Theatre & Dance TD-W1701 (free)
A look into the Indigenous People of West Papua, their fascinating culture and on-going fight for independence from Indonesian rule.
7. Engaging the Visual in the Anthropology of South Asia
Wednesday, November 18 / 4:00 p.m. / Religious Studies Library, HSSB 3024 (free)
This presentation will focus on the history of visual anthropology and its current theoretical and methodological agendas. Particular attention will be paid to visual anthropology in/of South Asia.
Mary Hancock is Professor of Anthropology and History at UCSB. She received a Ph.D. in Anthropology from the University of Pennsylvania and is the author of Womanhood in the Making: Domestic Ritual and Public Culture in Urban South India (1999) and The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai (2008).
Presented by the IHC South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
<http://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/events/event_files/past/_fall09/_nov/hancock.html>
8. Goodbye Lenin (German Film Series: 20th Anniversary of the Fall of the Wall)
Thursday, November 19 / 7:00 p.m. / Theatre & Dance, room 2600 (free and open to all)
East Germany, 1989: A young man protests against the regime. His mother suffers a heart attack and falls into a coma as she watches police arrest him. The mother awakens some months later when the GDR no longer exists. Since she has to avoid any excitement, her son tries to set up the GDR for her in their flat. (Directed by Wolfgang Becker, 2003, 121 minutes)