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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Critical Race Theory (CRT): What It Is\, What It Isn’t\, and What You Need to Know
DESCRIPTION:Critical Race Theory (CRT) seeks to understand why inequality persists in a society that has explicitly condemned racism and has repeatedly adopted laws and policies intended to eliminate it. Drawing on research in history\, social sciences\, and the humanities\, CRT demonstrates how laws and policies can reproduce racial inequality—even when they are adopted without explicit racial bias. CRT is thus an important tool to support our nation’s ongoing efforts to achieve a robust multiracial democracy. \nOver the past year\, CRT has been a source of discussion everywhere – in the media\, in school board meetings\, in classrooms – and has generated many questions. During this session\, Taifha Alexander\, UCLA Law CRT Forward Project Director\, will discuss CRT\, its founding\, and contributions\, and the recent assault on the theory. Audience Q&A will follow. \nTaifha Natalee Alexander currently serves as the CRT Forward Project Director at UCLA School of Law Critical Race Studies Program. She graduated\, with honors\, from both Georgetown Law and UCLA School of Law. Taifha has over twelve years of experience in higher education. Her legal studies and research are focused at the intersection of law\, critical race studies\, higher education\, social justice\, and equity. While a law student at Georgetown\, Taifha’s article\, “We Can’t Breathe: How Top Law Schools Can Resuscitate an Inclusive Climate for Minority and Low-Income Students\,” was published in the Georgetown Journal of Modern Critical Race Perspectives. Since earning her J.D.\, Taifha has served in roles at University of South Carolina Aiken\, UCLA\, and Wofford College\, to manifest the recommendations she put forth in her article. Taifha’s commitment to equity\, justice\, and anti-racism was fostered at St. John’s University in Queens\, NY\, where she earned her Bachelor of Science in Legal Studies. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link\n \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \nImage: Screenshot of the CRT Forward Tracking Project Interactive Map (https://crtforward.law.ucla.edu/)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-critical-race-theory-crt/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: AASC Works-in-Progress
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective’s Work-in-Progress Roundtables are an opportunity for UCSB graduate students to receive feedback on draft presentations of their research. On this occasion\, we will be hearing from three graduate students who will be presenting at the annual conference of the Association for Asian American Studies. \nMika Thornburg (History) | American Models & Hotel Occupiers: The Role of Tourism in the Entanglement of American and Japanese Settler Colonialisms\nClara Chin (English) | oh\, i taste so good: @breadfaceblog and The Intimacies of Self-Curation\nJanna Haider (History) | Entitled to Citizenship: Witness Networks and Asian Settler Colonialism in the Hawaiian Islands\, 1923–1952 \nPlease join us to hear from our presenters and provide valuable feedback. This event is open to all members of the UCSB community. No registration is required. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aasc-works-in-progress-roundtable/
LOCATION:5024 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230313T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Rethinking Non-Violence: The Spiritual and Emotional Lives of Animals in Jain Literature
DESCRIPTION:Why are Jains committed to non-violence (ahiṃsā)? Is it out of a compassion for animals? Is it because of the consequences of violent action on the soul? This talk argues that the answer to these questions depends in part on whether one is reading Jain doctrinal texts or Jain literature. Jain literature in Kannada and Sanskrit offers a rationale for non-violence that is based on an affective materiality that karmically binds souls together across transmigration and in and through animal and human bodies. For these texts\, such bonds mean that the fish on your dinner plate could be your father in ways that complicate the motivations and consequences of non-violence. \nSarah Pierce Taylor is Assistant Professor of South Asian religions at the University of Chicago Divinity School. Her research interests focus on the historical interactions of Jain traditions with Hindu and Buddhist traditions. Her talk will draw on her forthcoming book\, Embodying Souls: Emotion\, Gender\, and Animality in Premodern South Asian Religions\, which engages medieval literature in Sanskrit and Kannada produced by the Digambara Jain community of the western Deccan and argues that Jain literature\, in engaging the breadth of the soul’s experience\, formulated a vision of the human being that exceeded normative constructions and envisioned the human as formerly animal\, conceivably transgendered\, materially bound by emotion\, and relationally connected to a larger group of souls. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rethinking-non-violence-the-spiritual-and-emotional-lives-of-animals-in-jain-literature/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Understanding LatDisCrit Contours
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Alexis Padilla will focus on defining and showing the significance of LatDisCrit as a transdisciplinary sub-field. Padilla will use three illustrative counterstories to capture how disability gets racialized in Latinx marginalization dynamics\, while race/ethnicity serves as a proxy for oppressive disablement through exclusionary processes within US settings. \nDr. Alexis Padilla is the Director of Research at the Disability Policy Consortium. Padilla is the author of Disability\, Intersectional Agency\, and Latinx Identity. Theorizing LatDisCrit Counterstories\, a book that links dis/ability and agency by exploring LatDisCrit’s theory and activist emancipatory practice. It refers to the author’s experiential and analytical views as a blind brown Latinx engaged scholar and activist from the global South living and struggling in the highly racialized global North context of the United States. Padilla is a Ph.D. graduate from the Language\, Literacy\, and Sociocultural Studies Department at the University of New Mexico\, Albuquerque. Padilla is also a lawyer\, sociologist\, and conflict transformation engaged scholar. His work explores emancipatory learning and radical agency in the context of decolonial Latinx theorizing and critical disability studies. His published contributions emphasize the activist/disability advocacy vantage point combined with actionable dimensions of inclusive equity research and practice. Padilla’s postsecondary teaching experience encompasses almost three decades. He has more than 20 years of engagement in advocacy and conflict resolution work with Spanish-speaking families and English Language Learning students with disabilities in various U.S. settings. Since Spring 2020\, he has been affiliated with Phillips Theological Seminary to expand his research agenda and his activism scope into intersectional disability theology. \nRegister here for the Zoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research \nASL interpretation will be provided.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/understanding-latdiscrit-contours/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230315T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Engaging Religious Difference: The Case of Haribhadrasūri
DESCRIPTION:The philosophical corpus attributed to the preeminent eighth-century Śvetāmbara scholar-monk Haribhadrasūri presents one of the most sustained\, systematic\, and multifaceted engagements with religious difference in all of medieval South Asian literature. This talk will examine his various modes of engaging difference and how they fit together: his doxographies surveying the varieties of belief; polemics that advocate critical interrogation of partisan allegiances; rules for debate that seek common ground in the face of divergent identity-based presuppositions; and his philosophical magnum opus on the metaphysics of non-one-sidedness (anekāntavāda)\, which can be read as a way of retrieving agreement in the midst of disagreement. \nAnil Mundra is the Alka Siddhartha Dalal Postdoctoral Fellow for the Study of Jainism at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick. His research focuses on how South Asian philosophers conceptualized doctrinal differences\, navigated disagreements\, and sought agreement with others in the multi-religious ferment of Sanskrit discourse in the late first millennium CE. His talk will draw on his current book project\, No Identity without Diversity: Haribhadrasūri’s Anekāntavāda as a Jain Response to Doctrinal Difference\, which provides a sustained treatment of the contributions of Haribhadrasūri to the development of a premodern Jain cosmopolitanism that accommodated a range of competing voices within a single discourse. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/engaging-religious-difference-the-case-of-haribhadrasuri/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The History of Our Minds: Evidence for Co-Evolution of Cultural and Psychological Processes
DESCRIPTION:Biologically modern humans are more than 200\,000 years old. Many scientists have devoted their lives to understanding how architecture\, social structure\, and language have changed over this history. Yet we know almost nothing about the history of human minds. Behavioral science research has instead focused nearly exclusively on contemporary people\, and psychological theories often draw from taxonomies that assume a culturally and historically stable structure to emotion\, personality\, morality\, and other psychological processes. In this talk\, Joshua Conrad Jackson surveys new insights into how psychological processes may have changed over human history in ways that challenge these taxonomical models. Psychological change is often patterned and predictable based on cultural change\, and general evolutionary principles may explain psychological changes in multiple domains. We now have the methodological and theoretical tools to build a more historically enriched science of human cognition and behavior\, with a basic capacity to make foundational discoveries and an applied capacity to predict human futures. \nJoshua Conrad Jackson is a DRRC Postdoctoral Research Fellow at Northwestern University’s Kellogg School of Management and an incoming professor of Behavioral Science at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business. He studies cultural and historical variation in psychological processes\, focusing especially on morality\, emotion\, religious belief\, and social norm adherence. He also studies the implications of psychological and cultural change for leadership\, conflict\, cooperation\, and human-technology interactions. Dr. Jackson has published over 50 papers and book chapters on these topics\, and has won awards from the Society for Experimental Social Psychology\, the Society for Personality and Social Psychology\, and the Society for Cross-Cultural Research. He received his Ph.D. from the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and his B.A. from McGill University. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Emotions in History Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-history-of-our-minds-evidence-for-co-evolution-of-cultural-and-psychological-processes/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Emotions in History,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Talk: Art\, Art History\, and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Computation and the Humanities is a series of events at the GCLR investigating the impact of computation on literary and visual research. Guests include researchers\, artists\, and practitioners working within and beyond the digital humanities. On March 20th\, we welcome Dr. Leonardo Impett\, who is a University Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and convenor of the MPhil in Digital Humanities at Cambridge University. \nIn this talk\, Impett will introduce his current project\, a new history of machine visuality. The stakes are multiple. In the spirit of histories of visuality\, computer vision might tell us something about the dominant modes of thinking about vision over the last century. We might also want to learn something about the scopic regimes of machine vision systems because of their use in surveillance\, automation\, scientific research and so on. More broadly\, Impett will argue that discourses and practices of visuality (and thus a set of only partially explicit theories about seeing) have been central to the invention and development of neural networks\, and thus to contemporary AI more broadly\, from chat-bots to audio systems. \nZoom attendance link here \nPlease visit the GCLR website for full information. \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-art-art-history-and-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Trust Issues: Debating Medicine and Authority in Medieval India
DESCRIPTION:When it came to medicine in medieval India\, it was hard to know who to trust. Physicians and philosophers employed in royal courts disputed the competing claims to medical authority\, using debates initiated around religious scriptures to assess the authority of canonical Sanskrit medical texts. This talk will focus on arguments made by Ugrāditya\, a physician who was one of many Jain scholars working in the court at Mānyakheṭa of the Rāṣṭrakūṭa king Amoghavarṣa Nṛpatuṅga (r. 815-877). From his position at the center of political power\, Ugrāditya challenged the Sanskrit medical classics and argued that a new understanding of medicine founded on Jain principles was necessary\, negotiating a new space for Jain scholars and physicians in a wider world of medicine. \nEric Gurevitch is a National Endowment for the Humanities Postdoctoral Fellow at Vanderbilt University. His research explores the complex interplay of science and religion in precolonial South Asia and seeks to establish a central place for the sciences in Religious Studies and South Asian Studies. His current book project\, Everyday Sciences: Making Knowledge Local in South Asia\, focuses on a group of Jain authors in southwest India who rewrote the terrain of scholarship in medieval and early modern South Asia by introducing a novel archive of Sanskrit and vernacular texts described as “everyday sciences.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/trust-issues-debating-medicine-and-authority-in-medieval-india/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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