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GOD IN THE TUMULT OF THE GLOBAL SQUARE - NEW PUBLICATION
With funding secured by the Luce Foundation under the Directorship of the Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies, scholars Mark Juergensmeyer, Dinah Griego, and John Soboslai have published a study of religion and conflict in our modern era.
Professor Giles Gunn's New Book
In this narrativized collection of his essays, Gunn introduces each one with a set of comments designed to explain his goal when first writing them and what they mean to him now. The variety of issues he addresses ranges from the theory of culture and cultural criticism (particularly in America), the philosophy of inter- and cross-disciplinary studies, and the psychology and politics of pragmatism to the ethics of human solidarity, the place of culture in the misshaping of international affairs, and the quest of both religion and culture for a new basis for the normative.
Continue Reading Professor Giles Gunn's New BookJan Nederveen-Pieterse Speaks on Multipolarity
The Question of Multipolarity
Listen to Jan Nederveen Pieterse, Visiting Professor at the Institute of Malaysian & International Studies, speak on the question of multipolarity on The Business Station: BFM 89.9.
Department Beginning of the Year Reception
Event Start: September 21, 2015 03:00 PM
Event End: September 21, 2015 05:00 PM
Event Location: SSMS 2001 (2nd floor conference room)
Event Price:
free
Event Details:
Faculty, students, staff, and friends of the Global Studies Department will gather at 3:00 pm in the Conference Room to welcome facutly and students back and our new cohort of MA and PhD students.
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Seeking Tenure-Track Assistant Professor
The Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara seeks to appoint a tenure-track assistant professor whose work focuses on issues of global political economy, beginning July 2016.
Continue Reading Seeking Tenure-Track Assistant ProfessorReligous Pluralism in Global Perspective
Professor Mark Juergensmeyer will give the keynote.
Continue Reading Religous Pluralism in Global PerspectiveProfessor Brysk Oversees Womanstats Project
Award Date: June 09, 2015
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Global Studies Commencement - Sunday, June 14th
Event Start: June 14, 2015 12:00 AM
Event End: June 14, 2015 12:00 AM
Event Details:
The Department of Global Studies will award over 250 degrees to undergraduates at Commencement this Sunday, June 14th at 9:00 am on the fauclty green.
At 4:00 pm, the Masters Students will receive their degrees in Global Studies.
Continue Reading Global Studies Commencement - Sunday, June 14thCongratulations 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.