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Italy After the February 2013 Elections: What Future for Italy and Europe?
Event Start: April 10, 2013 12:00 PM
Event End: April 10, 2013 12:00 PM
Event Details:
Speaker:
ROLAND BENEDIKTER, European Foundation Fellow 2009-13; Orfalea Center visiting Research Scholar; The Europe Center, Stanford University
Chumash Cave Art Is Center Of I Madonnari Festival
The I Madonnari Italian Street Painting Festival will celebrate its 28th anniversary from at the Santa Barbara Mission. A ceremony at noon on Monday, May 26, on the Mission steps will introduce and thank the major festival sponsors and featured artist Jessea Gay Marie as her street painting is concluded. Read more.
The chalk drawings are at the Mission all week for viewing, so stop by!
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Sikh Studies Conference, May 16 & 17
Sikh Studies Conference, May 16 & 17
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Sports As Soft Power: The Role of Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Event Start: October 31, 2013 02:30 PM
Event End: October 31, 2013 02:30 PM
Event Location: Orfalea Center Seminar Room
Event Details:
Speaker:
Ambassador Derek Shearer, Chevalier Professor of Diplomacy and World Affairs at Occidental College in Los Angeles
The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
presents
Sports As Soft Power: The Role of Public Diplomacy in the 21st Century
Prof. Paul Amar Tops Publishing Rankings
On September 29th, 2013, Jadaliyya.com, one of the most popular online magazines on Middle East affairs, announced that the article "Why Mubarak is Out," originally published on January 28th, 2011, and written by Global Studies professor Paul Amar, ranked as
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William Domhoff, Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture Series
Event Start: January 23, 2014 05:00 PM
Event End: January 23, 2014 05:00 PM
Event Location: SSMS Conference Room 2135
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Speaker:
G. William Domhoff, Research Professor in Psychology and Sociology at UC Santa Cruz
G. William Domhoff, a major scholar who has published one of sociology’s bestsellers, and an outstanding speaker, gives the Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture
Continue Reading William Domhoff, Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture SeriesThe Governance Report: Sovereignty, Fiscal Policy, Innovations, Trade-offs, Indicators
Event Start: March 06, 2013 02:00 PM
Event End: March 06, 2013 02:00 PM
Event Location: Orfalea Center Seminar Room
Event Details:
Speaker:
HELMUT ANEHEIER, Editor Hertie School of Governance, Berlin
Professor Rich Appelbaum Receives a Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center
UC Santa Barbara professors Rich Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein receive a residency from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio Center to write a book about workers’ rights in a global economy. Just a little over a year ago, the worst accident in the history of the garment industry occurred when the Rana Plaza industrial building collapsed. For UC Santa Barbara professors Richard Appelbaum and Nelson Lichtenstein, the event was a chilling worst-case scenario in the realm of workers’ rights.
Continue Reading Professor Rich Appelbaum Receives a Residency from the Rockefeller Foundation’s Bellagio CenterCongratulations 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.