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Humanities Decanted: Juan Cobo Betancourt

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Join us for a dialogue between Juan Cobo Betancourt (History) and Antonio Cortijo (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cobo's new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada. The Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical ...

Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child

Zoom

How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies of children. In doing so, it illustrates the ongoing necessity of Indigenous political savviness in defending communities and nations from the haunted whistlings of Christian religious institutions for Indigenous children ...

Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings, from Glas to his last texts, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war ...

Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve

Zoom

This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of ...

New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 Faculty Fellows, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. Stephanie Malia Hom, French and Italian “On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” Susan Hwang, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies “Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” David Novak, Music “Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”