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First UCSB Global Studies PhD Defense - Theo LeQuesne

Please come and support our first Global Studies PhD Defense - Theo LeQuesne!

Recruitment: Assistant Professor in Global Migration and Forced Displacement, Department of Global Studies

The Department of Global Studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites applications for a tenure-track faculty position at the level of Assistant Professor, with an anticipated start date of July 1, 2020. The Department is looking for individuals with particular emphasis in the area of Global Migration and Forced Displacement.

#GivingTuesday - Helping Global Studies Students Change the World

Celebrate your UC Santa Barbara experience by helping Gauchos go beyond!

Kapany Chair Anshu Malhotra speaks on Guru Nanak in Popular Imagination in Celebration of his 550th Birthday

Event Start: November 12, 2019 03:00 PM

Event End: November 12, 2019 04:15 PM

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Pop Up Discussion: Living with Activism: Adversity, Hope and Resistance

The Blum Center on Poverty, Inequality, and Democracy is pleased to host a Pop Up Discussion on activism, organizing and change on Tuesday, November 19th from 11:30AM-1PM in 2320 Girvetz Hall. The discussion will focus on Ady Barkan's new book - Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death, Hope and Resistance and will be guided by Dr. Jia-Ching Chen.

"A European Living in America" by Mellichamp Chair Professor Nederveen Pieterse

Mellichamp Endowed Chair Jan Nederveen Pieterse (Department of Global Studies and Sociology, University of California Santa Barbara) has published a new essay in global-e titled, "A European Living in America." Please see below for an excerpt and link to the full essay:

"America, said the poet, is home to ‘the best and the worst’. Where is the America of the New Deal, the Weavers, the 1960s movements that inspired the world, civil rights, women’s, students, anti-war?

Environment and Planning D: Society and Space

Our newest faculty member Professor Charmaine Chua serves as Review and Open Site Editor of the journal, Environment and Planning D: Society and Space. The Global Studies Department looks forward to featuring research from this innovative and interdisciplinary journal, as well as hiring graduate Editorial Assistants to contribute to its goals.

For more information about the journal, please see below:

Society and Space is an international, interdisciplinary scholarly

2019 Career Catalyst Award - Global Major Recipient

Award Date: June 10, 2019

Congratulations 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:

https://news.ucsb.edu/in-focus/ucsb-historians-ya-zuo-and-vladimir-hamed-troyansky-awarded-stanford-humanities

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

https://youtu.be/jIAX4P-SMpA

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.