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UCSB Offers Global Studies PhD
The Global and International Studies Program will offer its first class in a newly approved Ph.D. program starting in Fall Quarter of 2015.
The program will be the first global studies Ph.D. program to be established in the UC system and the only one at a Tier-1 research institution in the United States. The field of global studies draws from several different academic disciplines including global political economy, culture and government.
Continue Reading UCSB Offers Global Studies PhDSovereign Wealth Funds for Development in Africa
Event Start: May 08, 2014 12:00 PM
Event End: May 08, 2014 12:00 PM
Event Location: Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies
Event Details:
Speaker:
Ozlem Arpac Arconian
The Orfalea Center for Global & International Studies
presents
"Sovereign Wealth Funds for Development in Africa"
Crisis and Transformation in Turkish and Greek Political Economies: A Comparative Analysis
Event Start: May 23, 2013 12:00 PM
Event End: May 23, 2013 12:00 PM
Event Location: Orfalea Center Seminar Room
Event Details:
Speaker:
DR. OZLEM ARPAC ARCONIAN, School of Oriental and African Studies (SOAS), University of London Orfalea Center visiting Research Scholar
The Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference 2014
“MATERIALITIES”
February 28–March 1, 2014
University of California Santa Barbara
Santa Barbara, California
Continue Reading The Santa Barbara Global Studies Conference 2014
The Amazing Bud Powell: His Tests and Triumphs
Event Start: November 20, 2013 04:30 PM
Event End: November 20, 2013 04:30 PM
Event Location: MCC Theater
Event Details:
Speaker:
GUTHRIE P. RAMSEY, Edmund J. and Louise W. Kahn Term Professor of Music and Africana Studies at the University of Pennsylvania
Guthrie P. Ramsey
"The Amazing Bud Powell: His Tests and Triumphs”
Giles Gunn: Ideas to Die For: The Cosmopolitan Challenge
Speaker:
Giles Gunn, Global & International Studies
Cosmopolitanism and Its Discontents seeks to address the kinds of challenges that cosmopolitan perspectives and practices face in a world organized increasingly in relation to a proliferating series of global absolutisms – religious, political, social, and economic. While these challenges are often used to support the claim that cosmopolitanism is impotent to resist such totalizing ideologies because it is either a Western conceit or a globalist fiction, Gunn argues that cosmopolitanism is neither.
Continue Reading Giles Gunn: Ideas to Die For: The Cosmopolitan ChallengeInvesting in Whiteness: the UCSB Tragedy and Asian America
I went with a colleague to Isla Vista (IV as we call it) on Sunday, thinking that as faculty members we could offer our support to students and community members. We were not prepared for what we encountered. News sources are calling it the “Isla Vista Massacre” or the “Isla Vista Killings.” On campus we’ve been calling it “the tragedy” or “the shootings.” Usually bustling, IV was still – the quiet permeated at times by the muffled crying of students at the various sites where fellow students had been shot and/or murdered.
Continue Reading Investing in Whiteness: the UCSB Tragedy and Asian America
Gisela Arandia Covarrubias: Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture Series
Event Start: April 24, 2014 04:00 PM
Event End: April 24, 2014 04:00 PM
Event Location: SSMS
Event Details:
Speaker:
Gisela Arandia Covarrubias, UNEAC, the Cuban Union of Artists and Writers
Continue Reading Gisela Arandia Covarrubias: Mellichamp Global Studies Lecture SeriesCongratulations 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.