EMC-Related Events

(10/13/2008)

 

Jason Kelly/Gender Brown Bag Lunch

UCSB alum, Jason Kelly, is visiting UCSB and will be giving a talk on some of his current work as part of the Gender History Brown Bag series.  We will meet Monday, Oct. 13th from 12-2 in HSSB 4020. Jason Kelly is an Assistant Professor of British History at Indiana University-Purdue University at Indianapolis. He will share his work entitled " Black masses, Poltergeists, and Ritual Sex: Reconstructing the Libertine Topography of West Wycombe, Buckinghamshire, UK."

(2/22/2008)

Abjection and Spectacle
Friday, February 22, 2008, McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020)

Session A of this conference (9-11am) is entitled "The Abject Body on Display: The Heritage of the Early Modern Era" and features panelists Jennifer Hammerschmidt (History of Art, UCSB), Sara Orning (Comparative Literature, UCSC), Raphael Cuir (Independent Scholar), and Anita Guerrini (History, UCSB).

"Abjection and Spectacle" is part of the I AM THE MEDIUM event series. I AM THE MEDIUM is organized by Mary McGuire and Noa Turel (History of Art). Faculty advisors: Professors Ann Jensen Adams and Laurie Monahan. The series is sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Visiting Artist program and the Department of History of Art and Architecture. Additional support for this conference is provided by the Women's Center, the Department of Sociology, the Department of Theater and Dance, the History Department, and other participating departments.

For the full schedule, please refer to the conference poster.

 

(1/18/2008)

Fourth International Conference on Technology, Knowledge and Society
January 18-20, 2008, Northeastern University, Boston

This Conference will address a range of critically important themes in the various fields that address the complex and subtle relationships between technology, knowledge and society. The Conference is cross-disciplinary in scope, meeting points for technologists with a concern for the social and social scientists with a concern for the technological. The focus is primarily, but not exclusively, on information and communications technologies.

As well as an impressive line-up of international main speakers, the Conference will also include numerous paper, workshop and colloquium presentations by practitioners, teachers and researchers. Papers submitted for the Conference proceedings will be peer-refereed and published in print and electronic formats in the International Journal of Technology, Knowledge and Society. If you are unable to attend the Conference in person, virtual registrations are also available which allow access to the electronic version of the Conference proceedings.

Full details of the Conference, including an online proposal submission form, are to be found at the Conference website.

(1/11/2008)

Long 18th Century Seminar- "Learning to Look: Art, Science, and Visual Expertise in the 18th Century" (Daniela Bleichmar, University of Southern California)
Friday, January 11, 2008, 1-3pm; The Huntington Library, Overseers Room

About the presenter:

Daniela Bleichmar holds a joint appointment in the Departments of Art History and Spanish and Portuguese at the University of Southern California. She was trained as a cultural historian of early modern science, specializing in the history of the natural sciences in Europe and the Spanish Americas in the period 1500-1800. Her work focuses on the production and uses of visual material in science, the history of collecting and display, the history of the book, and the history of the Spanish empire.

Her research and teaching interests include the history of collecting and display; interactions between art and science; Iberia, the Spanish Americas, and the Atlantic World; colonialism and imperialism; print, books, and reading; scholarly practices; travel; and anatomy and medicine. At USC, she has taught undergraduate courses on the history of the book and reading, on visual and material culture in colonial Latin America and early modern Europe, and on artistic and cultural exchanges between Europe and Asia in the early modern world, as well as graduate seminars on the history of collecting and display and the history of the book.

Dr. Bleichmar is the author of several articles on visual culture and natural history in the Spanish empire and a co-editor of a volume of essays on the history of science, medicine, and technology in the Spanish and Portuguese empire, to be published by Stanford University Press in 2008. She is also working on two new projects, one on collecting in the Spanish Empire and the other on the interactions of global trade, print culture, and empiricism in the Spanish and Portuguese empires in the late sixteenth and early seventeenth centuries. Most recently, Dr. Bleichmar has been named to the Smithsonian Institution monthly magazine's special issue, "36 under 37: America's Young Innovators in the Arts and Sciences."