CALENDAR
Thursday, May 9
A Streetcar Named Desire by Tennessee Williams
9:00 PM, Hatlen Theater
The Department of Theater & Dance at UCSB continues its 2012-2013 season of drama and dance with this production directed by Irwin Appel.
A Streetcar Named Desire reveals to the very depths the character of Blanche du Bois, a woman whose life has been undermined by her romantic illusions, which lead her to reject the realities of life with which she is faced. Performances run from May 10 - 19, 2013 with a preview on May 9, 2013. Tickets are $13 and $17. For more info, visit
http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Sunday, May 19
Infinite Space: The Architecture of Lohn Lautner
3:00 PM, Pollock Theater
Filmmaker Murray Grigor traces Lautner's pursuit of unusual beauty, exploring the dramatic spaces he designed. Among them are the Chemosphere in Los Angeles, and the Elrod House in Palm Springs. A reception will follow the screening. Part of the Art/Architecture on Film series. Tickets are $5 and $10.
Monday, May 20
ROUNDTABLE: Recent Research on Kazakhstan
4:00 PM, Lane Room, Ellison Hall
Shedenova is a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley and a professor of sociology at Al-Farabi Kazakh National University in Almaty, Kazakhstan. Ualieva is a visiting scholar at UCSB and a professor of sociology at East Kazakh Technical University, in Oskemen, Kazakhstan. They will lead a round-table discussion on current social science research in Kazakhstan.
Tuesday, May 21
SYMPOSIUM: SKILLS Day: School Kids Investigating Language in Life and Society
9:00 AM, Student Resources Building, Multipurpose Room
High school students in the SKILLS program at Carpinteria High School and Santa Barbara High School will present the results of their original research on language and culture in their local communities. In addition, UCSB undergraduate students in sociocultural linguistics will present the results of their original research on California youth language, drawing on data collected by SKILLS high school student-researchers.
TALK: Why Don’t Commuters Choose the Nearest Train Station?
12:00 PM, 5824 Ellison Hall
Presented by Jianhong Xia, professor of Geography from Curtin University. We usually assume that each commuter is an efficient traveller, which means they maximize trip utility. From a spatial optimization perspective, a commuter should choose the nearest station to reach their destination. However, based on a survey at seven train stations in Perth, Western Australia, between 30 and 80 percent of commuters choose the nearest station. Many factors could affect this travel behavior. From a logistic regression model, five factors were found to be significant (p-value < 0.05), indicating that commuters are more likely to choose the non-nearest station for longer commutes, shorter wait times, higher train frequency, lower costs, and inbound journeys.
Black Star, Crescent Moon: Islam and Muslims in the Black Radical Imagination Sohail Daulatzai
6:00 PM, MultiCultural Center Lounge
Sohail Daulatzai discusses the pre-9/11 history in which Blackness, Islam, and the politics of the Muslim Third World found common cause. She will explore the significance of this forgotten history as it is related to contemporary politics and arts, when Black artists and activists imagined themselves not as national minorities but as part of a global majority. Free.
Wednesday, May 22
UCSB Gospel Choir
12:00 AM, UCSB Music Bowl
Directed by Victor Bell, the choir will perform traditional and contemporary songs drawn from African American religious traditions.
UCSB Gamelan Ensemble
12:00 AM, UCSB Music Bowl
The ensemble will present traditional music of Central and Western Java in a performance directed by Chad Nielson.
Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America
6:00 PM, MultiCultural Center Theater
Featuring immigrant stories as well as interviews with Nobel Laureate Rigoberta Menchú, Pulitzer Prize-winner Junot Díaz, filmmakers Peter Getzels and Eduardo Lopez reveal the direct connection between the history of U.S. intervention in Latin America and the current immigration crisis. Free.
UCSB Percussion Ensemble Presents "Starry Nights"
7:30 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
Jon Nathan directs "Starry Nights," a program of music for percussion ensemble about heavens, planets, stars and gods. Featured are Peter Schulthrope's aboriginal myth How the Stars were Made, Michael Burritt's Doomsday Machine, and the sprawling seven movement work, Aztec Gods, by orchestration legend Gardner Reed. Tickets are $7 and $15.
Thursday, May 23
TALK: J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War
4:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
In the 1940s and 1950s, J. Edgar Hoover’s F.B.I. conducted a sweeping investigation of the motion picture industry. Convinced that film content endangered national security, Hoover’s G-men, joined by conservative pressure groups, accused Hollywood of subverting “the American Way” through its depiction of social problems, class differences, and alternative political ideologies. The talk will be led by John Sbardellati, professor of History from the University of Waterloo in Ontario. Sbardellati is the author of J. Edgar Hoover Goes to the Movies: The FBI and the Origins of Hollywood’s Cold War, published by Cornell University Press in 2012.
7:00 PM, Pollock Theater
Filmmaker Matteo Garrone's contemporary mob drama explores organized crime in Italy and highlights members of the Casalesi clan, a crime syndicate within the Camorra — a traditional criminal organization based in Naples and Caserta, in the southern Italian region of Campania. Part of the Dark Side of Italian Cinema film series. Tickets are $5.
Friday, May 24
1:30 PM, Education 1205
This talk will be led by Irene Checa-Garcia, professor of Linguistics from the University of Wyoming. Much earlier than they are able to talk, very young children communicate with visible body behavior as they build social interaction with peers and caregivers. Frequently, these interactions focus on asking for some course of action. How do these infants achieve their goal without words?
Eurydice by Sarah Ruhl
8:00 PM, Hatlen Theater
The Department of Theater & Dance at UCSB continues its 2012-2013 season of drama and dance with this production directed by Jeff Mills. After dying on her wedding day, Eurydice travels to the Underworld where she reunites with her deceased Father. Through her eyes we explore the damaging arbitrariness of social convention, the pain of grieving, and the struggle for selfhood. Performances run from May 24 - June 1, 2013. Tickets are $13 and $17. For more info, visit
http://www.theaterdance.ucsb.edu
Sunday, May 26
UCSB Wind Ensemble: 20th Anniversary Alumni Reunion Concert
1:30 PM, Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall
All Alumni of the UCSB University Wind Ensemble are invited to attend, bring family and friends, and perform with the current Wind Ensemble! Free. Alumni RSVP at:
<mailto:ucsbwindensemble@gmail.com>
Tuesday, May 28
CONFERENCE: Personhood, Possession and Place: Embodiment and Emplacement in Special Contexts
12:00 PM, McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
This conference explores the social, cognitive, philosophical, and religious dynamics of personhood. Participants will explore alterations of subjectivity, altered states of embodiment and emplacement, and cross-disciplinary theories of transient selves.
Seekers without Borders: Perennial Wisdom for the Spiritually Independent
6:00 PM, MultiCultural Center Theater
Rabbi Rami Shapiro's exploration of Perennial Wisdom, five questions that offer an understanding of life and how best to live it, crosses religious borders and speaks directly to the emerging vanguard of spiritually independent seekers of truth. Free.
Wednesday, May 29
Schooling the World: The White Man's Last Burden
Schooling the World: The White Man’s Last Burden
6:00 PM, MultiCultural Center Theater
Challenging the assumption that the Western model of education improves lives wherever it is, Carol Black's controversial film gives insight to the effects of Western education as a panacea for world issues. Free.