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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin\, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid’s poetic and metrical effects into English verse. She will then outline her strategies for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence\, gender\, sexuality\, and the body. She will consider throughout how she carefully negotiated Ovid’s playful style and disturbing subject matter to produce a poetic\, accurate\, and ethical translation. \nStephanie McCarter is a professor of Classics at the University of the South in Sewanee\, TN. Her works of translation include Horace’s Epodes\, Odes\, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2020) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics\, 2022)\, which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recently edited and contributed translations to Women in Power (Penguin Classics\, 2024)\, an anthology of classical myths and stories about ancient female rulers. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/translating-ovids-metamorphoses/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the Borders of Life and Death\, Scholarship and Opera
DESCRIPTION:This talk will take you into the process of creating a new\, experimental opera based on a historical ghost story from Pu Songling’s seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece\, Liaozhao’s Strange Tales (Liaozhai zhiyi). Entitled Ghost Village\, the opera is a creative collaboration between Judith Zeitlin\, as scholar and English language librettist\, and the composer Yao Chen\, a China-based\, Chicago-trained professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. \nBuilding on the European operatic tradition\, Ghost Village also evokes Chinese aesthetic and theatrical sensibilities. The eerily beautiful wedding scene\, for example\, draws inspiration from the rich Chinese tradition of spirit marriage and female ghosts. Though set in the past\, this opera speaks to many pressing issues in today’s world\, particularly war\, terrorism\, the refugee crisis\, and the general suffering of innocent individuals through political violence. At the same time\, Ghost Village builds on the long operatic tradition centered on love that crosses the boundaries of life and death\, exemplified by such foundational early works such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (1598)\, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). \nJudith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature\, her innovative work combines literary history with other disciplines\, including visual and material culture\, theater\, music\, medicine\, gender studies\, and film. Her many publications include The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (2007)\, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (1993)\, and co-edited works such as Writing and Materiality in China (2000)\, Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007)\, Chinese Opera Film (2010)\, and The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (2019). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nImage courtesy of Judith Zeitlin
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-making-of-ghost-village/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Roundtable Discussion: Isaac Julien's Once Again...(Statues Never Die)
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Isaac Julien about his process of creating Once Again… (Statues Never Die). Commissioned by the Barnes Foundation on the occasion of its 100th Anniversary in 2022\, Julien’s immersive\, black-and-white\, five-screen\, on-site video installation Once Again… (Statues Never Die) brings to light the relationship between Dr. Albert C. Barnes\, who was an early U.S. collector and exhibitor of African material culture\, and the famed African American philosopher and cultural critic Alain Locke\, known as the “Father of the Harlem Renaissance.” A reception will follow. \nDiscussants will include Mark Nash\, Professor at UC Santa Cruz\, and Jeffrey Stewart\, Distinguished Professor and MacArthur Foundation Chair in Black Studies and Interim Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion at UCSB. Susan Solt\, Distinguished Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz\, will moderate. \nAttendees will receive a link to the complete film. \nTo learn more about Once Again… (Statues Never Die) and to view a trailer\, visit https://www.barnesfoundation.org/whats-on/exhibition/isaac-julien-statues-never-die \nSir Isaac Julien KBE RA is Distinguished Professor of the Arts at UC Santa Cruz\, where he also leads the Isaac Julien Lab together with Arts Professor Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award 2017. Most recently\, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022\, and was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List in 2022. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment and the UCSB Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion \nImage: An installation view of Isaac Julien’s Once Again… (Statues Never Die) at the Barnes Foundation in Philadelphia. Photo: Henrik Kam. Courtesy of the artist
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/roundtable-discussion-isaac-julien/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T160000
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Make a Poem Cry: Creative Writing from California’s Lancaster Prison
DESCRIPTION:Make a Poem Cry is an anthology from one of California’s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodríguez. Rodríguez and formerly incarcerated writer Kenneth E. Hartman have selected work penned from 2016 to 2018. These are poems\, essays\, stories\, and more mined from the depths of familial\, racial\, and economic violence. They are imaginings for how to address trouble and crime without punishment\, dehumanization\, and violence in return. Here’s restorative/transformative justice in action. Here’s redemption in the flesh. Here are voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all. In this TMI series event\, Hartman and Rodríguez will discuss how the project makes visible the experience of incarceration–about which there is too little information–as well as read selected works from the anthology. A reception will follow. \nKenneth E. Hartman was convicted of murder at nineteen and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. After he had served thirty-eight years\, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. commuted his sentence\, and Hartman was paroled in 2017. He’s presently a freelance writer who is also working as a development coordinator and prison programs specialist for a Los Angeles-area nonprofit. His 2009 memoir\, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars\, won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. Hartman edited Too Cruel\, Not Unusual Enough\, a collection of prisoner writings about life sentences without the possibility of parole\, which won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Harper’s. \nLuis J. Rodríguez was the poet laureate of Los Angeles from 2014 to 2016. Across forty years\, he taught creative writing as well as conducted poetry readings\, lectures\, and healing circles in prisons\, juvenile lockups\, and jails throughout the United States\, Mexico\, Central America\, South America\, and Europe. He is the founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. Rodríguez is the author of sixteen books of poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including the best-selling memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-make-a-poem-cry-creative-writing-from-californias-lancaster-prison/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: The Only True Reader Is a Re-reader
DESCRIPTION:“I sometimes think I was born reading. I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands\, my head lost to the world around me.” \nWhat Vivian Gornick did not say when she wrote these sentences was how often the book in her hands was one she had read a number of times before. It became her habit as life went on to re-read the books that had repeatedly seemed important to her\, in order to see whether or how much they had changed—as she had changed. In other words\, for Gornick\, re-reading is one of the great and primary ways in which we capture the meaning of our own accumulated experience. In this talk\, she will take the listener along on her own journey of self-discovery through some of the re-readings that have meant the most to her. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose works include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987)\, Approaching Eye Level (1996)\, The End of the Novel of Love (1997)\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)\, The Men in My Life (2008)\, The Odd Woman and the City (2015)\, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (2020)\, and Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature\, and Feminism in Our Time (2021). The New York Times selected Fierce Attachments as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. \nThe talk will be followed by audience Q&A\, a reception\, and book signing. Copies of Gornick’s books will be available for purchase\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T160000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Maintaining Life\, Repairing the World: Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Literature
DESCRIPTION:The COVID pandemic appeared as a threat to human life\, both in the vital sense (a risk to biological life) and in the social sense (a risk to social life: disruption from the suspension of activities\, lack of public transport\, closure of schools\, etc.). It has revealed radical vulnerabilities: of institutions\, the species\, and the planet; of fragile populations\, workers “on the front line\,” and each individual. The importance of caring for others and for those who care for “us” has become obvious\, while the broader ignorance of society as to what sustains it has finally become evident. The very grammar of care has imposed itself upon all of us\, because our vulnerabilities are never so visible as when the “normal” form of life has been disrupted. The pandemic\, in its destruction of the space of ordinary life and of “weak links” – places where the daily and anonymous interactions occurred – has also undermined the democratic public space. This talk considers how public life and human interactions can recover. Alexandre Gefen and Sandra Laugier will explore how arts and literature contribute to the expectation of reparation and social transformation\, the (re)creation of relationships\, the formation of social resilience and other narratives\, and the development of an ethic of care. \nAlexandre Gefen is a Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)\, and Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. His research focuses on literary theory and contemporary French literature and culture. As founder of the website Fabula.org\, he has developed parallel research interests in the development of Digital Humanities. His recent books include: Vies imaginaires de la littérature française (2014); Réparer le monde: La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017)\, which will appear in English in 2022; and L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention (2021). \nSandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris\, France)\, a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France\, and the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project DEMOSERIES. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein\, Austin\, Cavell)\, moral and political philosophy\, gender studies and the ethics of care\, and popular culture (film and TV series). She has translated most of Stanley Cavell’s work and is among the editors of his Nachlass. Her recent publications include: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013); Politics of the Ordinary. Care\, Ethics\, and Forms of Life (2020); and\, edited with Greg Chase and Juliet Floyd\, Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (2022). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Center for Humanities and Social Change\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-alexandre-gefen-and-sandra-laugier/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: What We Can Do For Each Other
DESCRIPTION:One of the greatest threats against democracy and justice is indolence–defined as a form of militant indifference based on the lack of empathy for the suffering of others. Cristina Rivera Garza will explore how taking part in and contributing to transnational emotional communities in Mexico and the U.S.\, many based on shared experiences of social suffering and the grieving that comes with it\, may help us leap out of ourselves and into the heart of the bond we share with human and non-human beings alike. Audience Q&A will follow. \nCristina Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing and Director of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish Program at the University of Houston. She is an award-winning author\, translator\, and critic. Her recent publications include The Taiga Syndrome\, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana (Dorothy Project\, 2018); The Iliac Crest\, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press\, 2017); Autobiografía del algodón (Random House\, 2020); Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press\, 2020); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation\, translated by Robin Myers (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2020); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain from Modern Mexico\, translated by Laura Kanost (Ohio University Press\, 2020). She is also a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nLO QUE PODEMOS HACER EL UNO POR EL OTRO \nUna de las mayores amenazas contra la democracia y la justicia es la indolencia\, definida como una forma de indiferencia militante basada en la falta de empatía por el sufrimiento de los demás. Cristina Rivera Garza explorará cómo participar y contribuir a las comunidades emocionales transnacionales en México y en los Estados Unidos\, muchas de ellas basadas en experiencias compartidas de sufrimiento social y el duelo que lo acompaña\, puede ayudarnos a salir de nosotros mismos y al corazón del vínculo que compartimos. con seres humanos y no humanos por igual. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nCristina Rivera Garza es Profesora Distinguida de Estudios Hispanos y Escritura Creativa y Directora del Programa de Doctorado en Escritura Creativa en Español de la Universidad de Houston. Es una autora\, traductora y crítica premiada. Sus publicaciones recientes incluyen El mal de la taiga (2012); La cresta de Ilión (2002); Autobiografía del algodón (2020); Dolerse: textos desde un país herido (2011); Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación (2013); y La Castañeda: narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General\, México\, 1910-1930 (2010). Además\, recibió la Beca Genius de la Fundación MacArthur 2020. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-cristina-rivera-garza/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Living Democracy Talk: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED \n\nArtist and filmmaker\, Isaac Julien\, and writer and curator\, Mark Nash\, will screen excerpts from Julien’s film “Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass” in a presentation that will explore the importance of looking to history and biography to articulate contemporary cultural movements. Isaac Julien’s moving image practice draws from and comments on a range of artistic disciplines including film\, theatre\, photography and performance.  \nJulien is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Nash is a Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz where they run the Isaac Julien Lab\, a platform for the innovation of visual and sonic languages for production and the critical reception of moving image\, video art\, and installation work by examining historical and contemporary art practice. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n\nImage: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Courtesy of the Artist\, Metro Pictures New York\, and Victoria Miro London/Venice \n  \nLECCIONES DE LA HORA—FREDERICK DOUGLASS \nEl artista y cineasta Isaac Julien y el escritor y curador Mark Nash proyectarán extractos de la película de Julien “Lecciones de la hora—Frederick Douglass” en una presentación que explorará la importancia de mirar la historia y la biografía para articular los movimientos culturales contemporáneos. La práctica de la imagen en movimiento de Isaac Julien se basa en y comenta sobre una variedad de disciplinas artísticas que incluyen cine\, teatro\, fotografía y actuación. \nJulien es Profesor Distinguido de Artes y Nash es Profesor de Artes en la UC Santa Cruz donde dirigen el Isaac Julien Lab\, una plataforma para la innovación de lenguajes visuales y sonoros para la producción y la recepción crítica de imagen en movimiento\, videoarte\, y trabajos de instalación examinando la práctica del arte histórico y contemporáneo. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nImagen: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Cortesía del artista\, Metro Pictures New York y Victoria Miro London / Venice
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-lessons-of-the-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talks and Staged Reading: On Collecting and Hoarding
DESCRIPTION:SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \n4:00 – 5:15 PM\nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff\n \n\n7:00 – 8:00 PM\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough\n \n\nEVENT DETAILS: \nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff \nThe Creative Edge of Collecting \nWilliam Davies King has spent a lifetime collecting nothing in a way he brought to light in his 2008 book Collections of Nothing. His collecting of such things as Cheez-It boxes\, “Place Stamp Here” squares\, hotel door cards\, and the little stickers you find on fruit runs into the tens of thousands of items\, all on the low edge of the valueless and the ephemeral. But he has also spent a lifetime engaged with the arts–drama\, performance art\, collage–and he has explored the ways the activity of the collector\, who thinks through the world\, connects to the work of the artist\, who makes a world through things. In this talk\, King will use exhibits\, imagery\, anecdotes\, and ideas to open up the creative nexus of collecting and its power to re-create the world. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Henry Irving’s “Waterloo”: Theatrical Engagements with Late-Victorian Culture and History (1993)\, Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (1997)\, “A Wind Is Rising”: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill (2000)\, Collections of Nothing (2008)\, and Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton (Michigan\, 2010)\, and he is the editor of critical editions of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2014) and The Iceman Cometh (2020).  \nAn Oikos for Everything: Hoarding against Waste \nThe first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an explosion of interest in hoarding\, and in those whose accumulated possessions overwhelm living spaces\, rendering them unusable and often unsafe. Hoarding is the subject of recent documentary and feature films\, novels\, memoirs\, self-help books\, installation art\, stand-up comedy acts\, and of course\, reality series. In her talk\, Rebecca Falkoff will explore the relationships between hoarding and wasting\, and the narratives through which they are antithetically conjoined. Modern literary and visual texts from Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 Dead Souls to Song Dong’s 2005 Waste Not present hoarding as a way of suspending matter between waste and use in a bounded space of potential. \nRebecca Falkoff is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. She recently completed her first manuscript\, Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding\, and is working on a new project about industrial chemistry and literature\, Modernity in the Air. She has published on illegibility\, flea markets\, and the Ferrante phenomenon. Her work on Carlo Emilio Gadda’s scientific and technical writings was awarded the Romance Studies Early Career Researchers Essay Prize.  \nAudience Q&A will follow. \n\nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\n\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough \nWritten by William Davies King (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nDirected by Risa Brainin (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nCast: Irwin Appel (UCSB Theater and Dance) and Anne Torsiglieri (UCSB Theater and Dance)  \nThe play delves into the mixed-up mind of the mega-collector and asks of that massive pile of stuff–thoughts\, feelings\, and jokes–the crucial question facing us all: What next? \nAudience Q&A will follow. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance’s LAUNCH PAD series\, and the UCSB Library \n\nRelated Exhibit: The Creative Edge of Collecting: The “Nothing” of William Davies King \nUCSB Library exhibited a selection of William Davies King’s ephemera collection in its first floor Mountain Gallery during winter quarter 2020. In The Creative Edge of Collecting\, King confronts the social and psychological impulses to collect\, and also the eye-opening possibilities of the sort of things that one might assemble. Shortly after the exhibition opened\, COVID-19 struck\, and the campus shut down all physical spaces. While UCSB Library remains closed to visitors\, you can still see the exhibition online. Please click here for a walk-through with William Davies King. For more information about the UCSB Library exhibition\, please visit https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/creative-edge-collecting.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talks-staged-reading-exhibit-on-collecting-and-hoarding/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T173000
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SUMMARY:Symposium: Humanities in Prison
DESCRIPTION:Why study the humanities in prison? Why teach them?  What is the value of prison humanities programs for communities both inside and outside of prisons?  What humanistic texts and skills do we teach? This day-long symposium\, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, will explore the building of intellectual communities across systemic divides through the humanities. The symposium will include the voices of educators and formerly incarcerated individuals and will be of interest to those involved in public humanities\, social justice\, transformative pedagogy and civic engagement.\n\n\nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment; the College of Letters & Science Critical Issues in America series\, Changing Faces of U.S. Citizenship; and the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life \n\nSchedule\n9:00–10:45      Introductory Remarks\nJohn Majewski\, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts (UCSB)\nPanel: Teaching the Classics\nEmilio Capettini (UCSB)\, Michael Morgan (UCSB)\, Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)\, Jessica Wright (USC)\nModerator: Dorota Dutsch (UCSB) \n11:00–12:00      Panel: Teaching Literature and the Arts\nKevin Bott (Wagner College)\, Susan Derwin (UCSB) \n12:00–12:30     Panel: Teaching “Foundations in the Humanities”\n \n12:30–1:30       Lunch \n1:30–3:00      Panel: Supporting Transition\nSister Mary Sean Hodges (Archdiocese of Los Angeles)\, Alfredo H. Cruz\, Tony Kim\, Gary Thomas (Partnership for Re-Entry Program)\nModerator: Susan Derwin (UCSB) \n3:00–3:15      Coffee break \n3:15–4:30      Keynote: “Transformative Justice and Prison Education”\nKaia Stern\, Cofounder and Director of the Prison Studies Project (Harvard University) \n4:30–5:30      Reception \nAll are welcome\, no reservations needed. Parking in Lots 27 and 22
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/symposium-humanities-prison/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T180000
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SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Reading: Of Great Importance
DESCRIPTION:The poems in Of Great Importance discuss taxes and debts\, stocks and flows\, citizenship and labor contracts\, notaries and accountants\, factories and strikes\, freedoms and fundamental rights\, how to make money and how to win elections\, when to declare war and when to found a new state. The collection has been called “a painfully consistent and uncomfortably accurate analysis of power\, economic and social structures and mechanisms which are at the root of the degenerate world in which we wake up each morning.” The poems look at history in order to learn something from it and build upon the best work of thinkers and poets such as Marx\, Keynes\, Heine\, Miłosz\, and especially Kaváfis. \nNachoem M. Wijnberg is a Dutch poet and novelist who has been acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decennia. His poetry has received many Dutch and Belgian awards\, including the 2009 VSB Prize for the best book of poetry. His poetry has been translated into many languages\, ranging from Chinese to Italian\, and published in a variety of journals\, anthologies\, and books. His books translated into English include the poetry volumes Advance Payment (2013) and Divan of Ghalib (2016) and the novel The Jews (2016). Wijnberg is a professor at the University of Amsterdam Business School. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reading-great-importance/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series
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