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Location, Location, Location: Spatial Planning and the Making of Fungible Environmental Values in Contemporary China
Event Start: November 17, 2016 04:30 PM
Event End: November 17, 2016 05:45 PM
Event Location: 1930 Buchanan
Event Price:
free to the public
Event Details:
Geography Colloquium
UCSB Department of Geography
November 17, 3:30-4:45 pm, 1930 Buchanan
"Why the US and Global Economies Are Growing More Unstable" A Lecture by Jack Rasmus
Jack Rasmus
St. Mary’s College
Thursday, Oct 27
3:30 PM, SS&MS 2nd Floor
Conference Room 2135
PLEASE NOTE THE TIME CHANGE TO 3:30 PM
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CALL FOR PAPERS 2016: The Global Rise of the Right?
Many nations have witnessed rapid change of their political landscapes in 2015--16. Some
scholars claim that we are experiencing a global rise of the right, pointing to patterns of
nativism, nationalism, securitization, militarization, terrorism scare, anti--immigration
sentiments, disillusionment with the established political parties as well as enmity towards
further economic globalization. Yet, is it appropriate to speak about a global shift towards the
Department Professors Release "The Global Turn"
We are excited to announce the upcoming release of "The Global Turn" -- a new book by our very own Dr. Eve Darian-Smith and Dr. Philip McCarty!
"Darian-Smith and McCarty have given us a major new contribution to the study of the global. Among the core elements are the
negotiating of multiple forms of knowledge, decentering the production of global knowledge, and recognizing non-western
epistemologies. This is a must read." - Saskia Sassen
2017 Orfalea Reunion Seminar (Mar 30-Apr 1)
Former students of Paul Orfalea gathered at Dr. Juergensmeyer's house on the weekend of March 31st to catch up with one another and participate in a two-day career development seminar. It was a great way to revisit and expand on the some of the skills Paul taught in his beloved UCSB seminars. Participants were welcomed by a reception at Woodstock's in IV on Thursday night. On Friday and Saturday, they partipated in morning seminars with Paul and afternoon case studies with Dr. Juergensmeyer.
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Global Societies Journal, 2017 Edition
The 2017 volume of Global Societies Journal is currently taking submissions! The journal is produced by graduate and undergraduate students in UCSB's Global Studies department and features scholarship from students at UCSB as well as UCLA, UCR and UC Berkeley! You can access past volumes at the GSJ eScholarship page: http://escholarship.org/uc/gis_globalsocieties
Dr. Nederveen Pieterse Co-Edits Book on China
A new book from Routledge Publishing, edited by Changgang Guo, Liu Debin, and Jan Nederveen Pieterse:
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UCSB Braces for Trump Budget Cuts
Sciences and Arts programs are expecting to lose mollions in grant dollars, especially those studying climate change. For the full story, see the article below.
http://www.independent.com/news/2017/mar/30/ucsb-braces-trumps-proposed-budget-cuts/
Continue Reading UCSB Braces for Trump Budget CutsCongratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on his new book, “Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State”
Please see this article in UCSB's The Current to learn more: https://news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/new-book-reveals-ottoman-origins-refugee-resettlement-middle-east
Congratulations to Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky on the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship!
To learn more about Dr. Hamed-Troyansky's work through the Stanford Humanities Center Fellowship, please see this article:
Global Studies PhD Student Eugene Riordan, Jr Receives GSA Excellence in Teaching Award AND Dixon-Levy GSA Service Award
Please join us in celebrating Eugene and the other winners at 7pm on May 31 (register here). To learn more about these awards, please see this website.
Global Studies PhD Student Mariah Miller and Anthropology PhD Student MacKenzie Wade Co-teach INT CS 130: Alternative Foods; Alternative Economies in Winter 2022
Mariah Miller and MacKenzie Wade
Miller and Wade created this course through a collaboration with the College of Creative Studies and Graduate Division, thorough the Crossroads 2.0 Program. Please see this link for more information on the course and the Crossroads 2.0 Program.
Global Studies PhD Student Maya Zaynetdinova Awarded IHC Public Humanities Graduate Fellow
Maya Zaynetdinova is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Global Studies, an educator, and content creator. She is researching and writing a blog about sociocultural history of the decentralized technology of blockchain and its impacts on global societies. Maya is particularly interested in blockchain’s potential for environmental activism and sustainable change. She aims to make this complex technology more accessible to the public through her writing and public presenting. Read her IHC article here.
GLOBAL STUDIES COLLOQUIUM SERIES
The Department of Global Studies' Colloquium Series is a lecture and lunch series, which has been made possible by the generosity of the Orfalea Endowment for the Master's Program in Global Studies. The Colloquium Series strives to open and explore a wide range of interdisciplinary debates and their interaction and engagement with the global, hosting new guest speakers each quarter from UCSB and beyond. Professor Jan Nederveen Pieterse is currently the Director of the Colloquium Series. For more information, please contact our Orfalea Colloquium Fellow Brett Aho at: brettaho@ucsb.edu
When? Various Wednesdays, 12:30-2pm
Where? Zoom link https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84246564996 (talks will be recorded and posted on our YouTube channel)
Who? The Global Studies Colloquium Series is open to everyone interested in attending the talks.
Special Presentation: Miguel Fuentes' Research Software
Through his higher education programs, Miguel Fuentes has learned how different software can make research give him visually useful results, more in depth analysis and simply easier paths towards writing. Miguel is offering this introductory course to some (or all) the research tools he's encountered through the years: from software to find the literature he needs to write, software that make writing easier —as they break down the parts of an essay or a dissertation—, to software that help him catalog and analyze data in a systematized way. The presentation's goal will be three-fold: 1) skim through different software, 2) go more in depth on how to start using the software, and 3) dialogue with participants on how to use this software according to your needs.
The ability to use qualitative and quantitative methods landed Miguel the job he currently has at the Williams Research Institute, and using this software made it easier to develop advanced skills to do so. If you're entering the job market soon, these are tools that can definitely help make your case during the selection process! If you're an experienced researcher, these tools can make your writing and analysis easier, or can help your RAs manage your data more efficiently. In any case, software can be as useful as you want it to be.