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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguín
DESCRIPTION:WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ\nJoin us for a dialogue with Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English)\, who will be speaking with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (Chicana and Chicano Studies) about their new co-edited volume\, The Life\, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet\, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence\, incarceration and drug abuse\, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and political empowerment\, which have resonated across multiple communities in the United States and abroad. Accordingly\, whilst Rodríguez has been the focus of some critical scholarship\, huge segments of his life\, work and legacy remain unexamined. This anthology has commissioned new and unique critical essays and reflections on Rodríguez’s life and works\, putting forward new ideas about bringing the voices of ‘barrio organic intellectuals’ to the fore. The anthology deliberately includes traditional academics as well as more public intellectuals and creative writers from across Europe and the Americas to reflect Rodriguez’s own diverse outputs as a prisoner author and activist. \nJosephine Metcalf is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull\, UK. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre and Programme Director for the MA in Incarceration Studies. \nBen Valdez Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English and Director of The Global Latinidades Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-josephine-metcalf/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMA\, Meta/Physical Therapy. \nThis 2024 exhibition premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance\, video\, and sculpture\, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego\, Cynthia\, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment\, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery\, medical technology\, popular culture\, and references to high art and dollar-store kitsch. An extension of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series\, which began in 2002\, the project continued the artist’s incisive examination of the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness and explores the maladies of middle age. Presented as a multi-chapter narrative\, the installation was accompanied by a series of performances created in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett\, bringing Cynthia’s inner world to life. \nShana Moulton is a California-born and -based artist who works in video\, performance\, and installation. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Art and Anthropology and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Moulton has exhibited her work as a solo artist and in groups at major international museums\, galleries and institutes. She has performed at sites including The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Andy Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, San Francisco\, The Getty\, Los Angeles\, and The Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles. Moulton’s work has been featured in Artforum\, The New York Times\, ArtReview\, Art in America\, Flash Art\, Artpress\, Metropolis M\, BOMB Magazine\, and Frieze. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-shana-moulton/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Melinda Gandara (Santa Barbara City College) about García’s new book\, Rupert García: The Making of an American Artist\, a Testimonio. Rupert García is a compelling story of a working-class Mexican American from California’s Central Valley who became a major American artist with national and international recognition. Mario T. García’s oral history of Rupert García\, based on extensive interviews over many years\, provides a captivating autobiographical narrative of the life and times of an American artist. This testimonio places Rupert García’s art in historical perspective\, spanning his beginnings in Stockton\, California and his time in the Air Force\, including participating in the U.S. war in Vietnam\, to his experience at San Francisco State during the historic San Francisco State student strike in 1968–69. Influenced by history and politics\, Rupert García’s art speaks to a changing America through the eyes of an artist\, speaking to issues of race\, class\, imperialism\, war\, and the role of the artist in society. \nMario T. García is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has published over 20 books over the course of his career\, including Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice and The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-mario-t-garcia/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T092552
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese) about Levine’s new book\, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir. In Unfaithful\, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences\, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors\, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Unfaithful was recently listed by Words Without Borders as a 2025 best book in the field of translation. \nSuzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation\, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s\, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010)\, her most recent translation\, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories\, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-suzanne-jill-levine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Elana Resnick (Anthropology) and Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences) about Resnick’s new book\, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide\, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism’s excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally different account of sustainability and waste itself by uncovering the intersections of international environmental reforms and racialized labor. In Bulgaria\, Roma comprise the bulk of the country’s waste workers\, while anti-Roma racism casts them as socially disposable. Without their labor\, however\, the country cannot meet the sustainability targets required by the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork that spans twenty years\, including eleven months working alongside Romani women street sweepers and years embedded in waste organizations\, political campaigns\, Roma NGOs\, and activist groups\, Resnick examines the power hierarchies that shape both waste management and European geopolitics. \nElana Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she directs the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group. Her research examines waste\, racialization\, labor\, nuclear energy\, and friendship through multi-modal methods. She has published in journals including American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Public Culture. She is the recipient of the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elana-resnick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Melody Jue’s (English) recent co-edited volume\, Informatics of Domination. Jue will be joined by co-editors Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee and contributor Rita Raley (English). Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies) will moderate. Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist\, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought\, inviting fifty scholars\, artists\, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms\, such as essays on artificial intelligence\, disability and protest\, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together\, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems\, networks\, and computation today. \nMelody Jue is a Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University Press\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-melody-jue/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T092552
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Juan Cobo Betancourt
DESCRIPTION: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 writing\, Cobo examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca\, who\, from the 1530s\, found themselves at the center of the invaders’ efforts to transform them into tribute-paying Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown. The book illustrates how successive generations of missionaries and administrators approached the task of drawing the Muisca peoples to Catholicism at a time when it was undergoing profound changes\, and how successive generations of the Muisca interacted with the practices and ideas that the invaders attempted to impose\, variously rejecting or adopting them\, transforming and translating them\, and ultimately making them their own. \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on questions of religion\, colonialism\, law\, and language in colonial Latin America\, with a focus on the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia). Alongside this work\, he co-founded Neogranadina\, a Colombian non-profit foundation devoted to safeguarding the holdings of endangered archives and libraries through digitization\, and to developing digital tools and resources to make them available to broad audiences. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-juan-cobo-betancourt/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T092552
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Lisa Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Lisa Jacobson (History) and Erika Rappaport (History) about Jacobson’s new book\, Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition. \nIn popular memory\, the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals\, alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts and tastemakers to transform wine\, beer\, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists\, trade associations\, restaurateurs\, home economists\, cookbook authors\, and New Deal planners—powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book\, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol’s cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens. \nLisa Jacobson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-lisa-jacobson/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T092552
CREATED:20241010T183731Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Daina Sanchez
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue with Daina Sanchez (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Omar Pimienta (Spanish and Portuguese) about Sanchez’s new book\, The Children of Solaga: Indigenous Belonging across the U.S.-Mexico Border. In The Children of Solaga\, Sanchez examines how Indigenous Oaxacan youth form racial\, ethnic\, community\, and national identities away from their ancestral homeland. Assumptions that Indigenous peoples have disappeared altogether\, or that Indigenous identities are fixed\, persist in the popular imagination. This is far from the truth. Sanchez demonstrates how Indigenous immigrants continually remake their identities and ties to their homelands while navigating racial and social institutions in the U.S. and Latin America\, and\, in doing so\, transform notions of Indigeneity and push the boundaries of Latinidad. Drawing on long-term ethnographic fieldwork between Los Angeles\, California and San Andrés Solaga\, a Zapotec town in the Mexican state of Oaxaca\, The Children of Solaga centers Indigenous ways of knowing and being in the world and adds a much-needed transnational dimension to the study of Indigenous immigrant adaptation and assimilation. Sanchez\, herself a diasporic Solagueña\, argues that the lived experiences of Indigenous immigrants offer a unique vantage point from which to see how migration across settler-borders transforms processes of self-making among displaced Indigenous people. Rather than accept attempts by both Mexico and the U.S. to erase their Indigenous identities or give in to anti-Indigenous and anti-immigrant prejudice\, Oaxacan immigrants and their children defiantly celebrate their Indigenous identities through practices of el goce comunal (“communal joy”) in their new homes. \nDaina Sanchez is an Assistant Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She received her Ph.D. in anthropology from the University of California\, Irvine. She was previously the Mellon-Sawyer Postdoctoral Research Associate at the Center for Latin American and Caribbean Studies at Brown University and a Ford Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Native American and Indigenous Studies Program at the University of Texas at Austin. Her research agenda focuses on race\, migration\, and Indigenous youth. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-daina-sanchez/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T092552
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: William Davies King
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between William Davies King (Theater and Dance) and Jessica Nakamura (Theater and Dance) about King’s new book\, Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’: Eugene O’Neill and Carlotta Monterey O’Neill at Tao House. \nIn this book\, King offers a new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s most famous play by reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated. As an unusually explicit autobiographical drama\, Long Day’s Journey Into Night returns to 1912\, the outset of O’Neill’s writing career\, when he confronted tragedy in his family story and found a way to dramatize his mother\, father\, brother\, and himself in a way that has resonated with audiences since its publication and production in 1956. But King argues that the play originates as much in the moment of its creation\, 1939–1941—in the family relationships\, the historical circumstances\, and the fact that this work would represent a moment of closure of his great career. Key to this heroic story of creation is the intervention of his wife\, Carlotta\, whose diaries enable a day-to-day observation of how the play was written. This book develops a close reading of their house and marriage and also uses many of O’Neill’s previous plays to illuminate the breakthrough of Long Day’s Journey. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and a veteran scholar of Eugene O’Neill\, his life and works\, and his wives. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-william-davies-king/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Hamed-Troyansky’s new book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime\, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries\, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration\, and refugees and immigrants\, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-vladimir-hamed-troyansky/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Swati Chattopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) about Chattopadhyay’s new book\, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire. Chattopadhyay recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. Her book takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces\, objects\, and landscapes of the British empire in India and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants\, women\, children\, subalterns\, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing\, it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. \nSwati Chattopadhyay is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in modern architecture and urbanism and the cultural landscape of the British empire. She is a Founding Editor of PLATFORM and has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop\, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group\, and as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). Her other works include Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012) and Representing Calcutta: Modernity\, Nationalism\, and the Colonial Uncanny (2005). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-swati-chattopadhyay/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Thomas Mazanec
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Thomas Mazanec (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) and Xiaorong Li (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) about Mazanec’s new book\, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Medieval China. \nPoet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts\, Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks\, who first appeared in the latter half of the Tang dynasty\, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition\, incantation\, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world\, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them\, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition\, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation. \nThomas Mazanec is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He researches premodern Chinese literature and religion as well as their encounters with other cultures. He is also interested in world literature\, poetics\, digital humanities\, and translation studies. His publications cover a broad range of topics\, from the evolution of a Sanskrit literary term in medieval China; to systems of monetary\, religious\, and literary debts; to the potential contributions of network analysis to literary history. He is especially fond of the art of literary translation\, maintaining a collection of bizarre and obscure translations of classical Chinese poetry into English and co-editing an online bibliography of Chinese poetry in translation. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-thomas-mazanec/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Janet Afary
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Janet Afary (Religious Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Afary’s new book\, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster\, 1906-1911. Refreshments will be served. \nIn the early twentieth century\, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Mollā Nasreddin. They used folklore\, visual art\, and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world\, impacting the thinking of a generation. \nThis highly-illustrated book explores the milieu in which Mollā Nasreddin was born\, the way the periodical recreated the trickster trope\, and the influence of European graphic artists\, especially Francisco Goya\, on the journal. It focuses on the most creative period\, 1906-11\, when the journal reflected the social and political concerns of three major upheavals: the 1905 Russian Revolution\, the 1906–1911 Iranian Constitutional Revolution\, and the 1908 Young Turk Movement. Afary received the 2023 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association\, awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on the history of journalism. The book also received the 2023 British-Kuwait Friendship Award\, given to the best scholarly work on the Middle East published in the U.K. \nJanet Afary is Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and the author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism\, and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-janet-afary/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Liz Carlisle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Liz Carlisle (Environmental Studies) and Peter Alagona (Environmental Studies) about Carlisle’s new book\, Healing Grounds: Climate\, Justice\, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming. Refreshments will be served. \nA powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman\, that has meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. For another\, it has meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle\, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn\, beans\, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. In Healing Grounds\, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous\, Black\, Latinx\, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies\, nurturing beneficial fungi\, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land\, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This\, Carlisle shows\, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground\, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people. \nLiz Carlisle is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where her work focuses on fostering a more just and sustainable food system. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University\, and she formerly served as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester. Recognized for her academic publishing with the Elsevier Atlas Award\, which honors research with social impact\, Liz has also written numerous pieces for general audience readers\, in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Business Insider\, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is the author of two books about transition to sustainable farming: Lentil Underground (winner of the 2016 Montana Book Award) and Grain by Grain\, coauthored with farmer Bob Quinn. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-liz-carlisle/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Daughter of the Dragon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Yunte Huang (English) and Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies) about Huang’s new book\, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History. Refreshments will be served. \nDaughter of the Dragon is a trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star\, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry\, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress\, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—“Orientally yours.” Now\, more than a century after her birth\, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story\, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood\, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent\, prewar Shanghai\, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows\, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters\, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady\,” “Madame Butterfly\,” or “China Doll\,” Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia\, unabashed sexism\, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth. \nYunte Huang is Distinguished Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and is the author of Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics (2022)\, Transpacific Imaginations: History\, Literature\, Counterpoetics (2008)\, CRIBS (2005)\, Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography\, Translation\, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002)\, and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997)\, and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos. His book\, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (Norton\, 2010)\, won the Edgar Award and was the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Village Voice\, Amazon\, and Kirkus Reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2014-15\, he has also published articles in the New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Daily Beast\, and others. His most recent book is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-daughter-of-the-dragon/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Giuliana Perrone
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Giuliana Perrone (History) and Jeannine DeLombard (English) about Perrone’s new book\, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Refreshments will be served. \nNothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\nNothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877\, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately 700 lawsuits associated with the struggle for Black freedom and equal citizenship. This litigation – the majority through private law – triggered questions about American liberty and reassessed the nation’s legal and political order following the Civil War. Judicial decisions set the terms of debates about racial identity\, civil rights\, and national belonging\, and established that slavery\, as a legal institution and social practice\, remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. The verdicts determined how unresolved facets of slavery would undercut ongoing efforts for abolition and the realization of equality. Insightful and compelling\, this work makes an important intervention in the history of post-Civil War law. \nGiuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of slavery\, abolition\, and race in North America\, American socio-legal history\, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction\, and the development of American political institutions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-giuliana-perrone/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Virus Touch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies) and Elena Aronova (History) about Ghosh’s new book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Refreshments will be served. \nIn The Virus Touch\, Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses\, humans\, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics\, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images\, numbers\, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific\, artistic\, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological\, social\, and ecological catastrophes\, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe\, store\, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities of diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, author of Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular\, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-virus-touch/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Jody Enders\, Translating Medieval Farce
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Jody Enders (French and Italian) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater and Dance) about Enders’ two new edited and translated volumes of medieval French comedies. Refreshments will be served. \nTrial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in Modern English (University of Michigan Press\, 2023)\nIn Trial by Farce\, prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. Newly conceived as much for scholars as for students and theater practitioners\, this repertoire and its familiar stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power\, politics\, class\, gender\, and\, above all\, justice. Through the distinctive blend of wit\, social critique\, and breathless boisterousness that is farce\, we gain a new understanding of comedy itself as form of political correction. In ways presciently modern and even postmodern\, farce paints a different cultural picture of the notoriously authoritarian Middle Ages with its own vision of liberty and justice for all. Theater eternally offers ways for new generations to raise their voices and act. \nImmaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2022)\nIn the sacrilegious world of Immaculate Deception\, the third volume in a series of stage-friendly translations from the Middle French\, twelve engagingly funny satires target religious hypocrisy in that in-your-face way that only true slapstick can muster. There is literally nothing sacred. Why this repertoire and why now? The current political climate has had dire consequences for the pleasures of satire at a cultural moment when we have never needed it more. It turns out that the proverbial Dark Ages had a lighter side; and France’s over 200 rollicking\, frolicking\, singing\, and dancing comedies—more extant than in any other vernacular—have waited long enough for their moment in the spotlight. They are seriously funny: funny enough to reclaim their place in cultural history\, and serious enough to participate in the larger conversation about what it means to be a social influencer\, then and now. Rather than relegate medieval texts to the dustbin of history\, an unabashedly feminist translation can reframe and reject the sexism of bygone days by doing what theater always invites us to do: interpret\, inflect\, and adapt. \nJody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French at UC Santa Barbara and Director of The Public Speaking Initiative. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-jody-enders/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T180000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Hollywood’s Embassies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies) and Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies) about Melnick’s new book\, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. Refreshments will be served. \nBeginning in the 1920s\, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements\, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. \nIn a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo\, Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging\, selling American ideas\, products\, and power\, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences\, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social\, cultural\, racial\, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead\, it is one of negotiation\, booms and busts\, successes and failures\, adoptions and rejections\, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account\, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power. \nRoss Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry\, 1908–1935 (Columbia\, 2012) and coeditor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema\, Television\, and the Archive (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-hollywoods-embassies/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Bones of Contention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater and Dance) and Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cabranes-Grant’s new play\, The Bones of Contention. Refreshments will be served. \nThe Bones of Contention describes the efforts of Yitipaka (an imaginary California town) to regain its economic and social stability after the COVID pandemic. Constructed as two collective latinx murals (one dedicated to the older generation\, one dedicated to younger people)\, the play confronts frictions produced within that community by conflicted financial\, environmental\, political\, and emotional demands. The play also combines different aesthetic styles (with elements that are both Brechtian and magic-realist) in order to envision a space in which nature and cultural differences meet and confront each other. With this play\, Cabranes-Grant has tried to create a pluricultural work\, one that encompasses the extraordinary diversity of California while offering actors and directors an opportunity to support more inclusive forms of story-telling. \nLeo Cabranes-Grant is Professor of Literature\, Performance\, and Intercultural Poetics in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Theater and Dance at UCSB. His scholarly work has received the Association for Theater in Higher Education Best Essay Award (ATHE\, 2011). His most recent book\, From Scenarios to Networks. Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico\, was published by Northwestern University Press (2016). Professor Cabranes has also published four books of poetry and a collection of his plays. His plays have received awards in Puerto Rico (Best Play\, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture\, 2006) and in New York (Asunción Award\, Pregones\, 2011; Hispanic Federation Fuerza Fest Award\, 2022). Professor Cabranes was Editor of the prestigious journal Theatre Survey\, published for the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) by Cambridge University Press. At the moment\, Professor Cabranes is working on two scholarly projects: a book on Søren Kierkegaard’s theories of performance\, and a book on the connections among performance\, racial identities\, and painting in eighteenth-century Mexico. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \nWatch a video of the performance of The Bones of Contention.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-bones-of-contention/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The First Black Archaeologist
DESCRIPTION:Proof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. \nJoin us for a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book\, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar\, teacher\, community leader\, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia\, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s\, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe\, from contemporary publications\, and from newly discovered documents\, this book chronicles\, for the first time\, Gilbert’s remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta\, Georgia\, to the lecture halls of Brown University\, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta’s Paine Institute\, and through his travels in Greece\, western Europe\, and the Belgian Congo\, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture\, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. \nJohn W. I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. His previous publications include A Greek Army on the March (Cambridge University Press) and The Persian Empire (The Great Courses/The Teaching Company). He studies the history of ancient West Asia\, especially war\, society\, and culture in the Greek and Achaemenid world from ca. 650-330 BC\, as well as receptions\, interpretations\, and representations of antiquity in the United States\, especially amongst African American classical scholars during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n\nProof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. All visitors must wear a well-fitting mask that covers their nose and mouth at all times. Bandanas\, gaiters\, face shields alone\, and masks with external valves are not permitted. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.) \nWhen planning your arrival\, please allow extra time for vaccine verification. Doors will open at 3:30 PM. \n\n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-first-black-archaeologist/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Irwin Appel\, Naked Shakes
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a dialogue between Irwin Appel (Theater and Dance) and James Kearney (English) about Appel’s theater company\, Naked Shakes\, and their recent production of Twelfth Night\, staged outside at UCSB’s Commencement Green in front of the lagoon. Audience Q&A will follow. \nNaked Shakes derives its rather provocative name from the principle that an actor in a bare theatrical space\, along with meticulous attention to language\, few technical elements\, and the collective imagination of the audience\, can create what Prospero in The Tempest calls “rough magic\,” hopefully revealing the true heart\, meaning\, driving force\, and original inspiration behind a Shakespeare play. This theatrical style demands actors who are highly skilled in voice and text\, and simultaneously greatly expressive with their physicality and imaginations. Entrances and exits are not necessarily literal or linear; an actor can simply exit by pulling down a mask or picking up a musical instrument. With the inspiration and creative power of our choreographers and designers\, Naked Shakes blends wild\, actor-generated theatricality with razor sharp attention to language and imagery. As an audience member\, one may\, at times\, experience a veritable visual feast while also being able to close one’s eyes and absorb the sound and text as if one were listening to a radio play or podcast. \nIrwin Appel (he/him/his) is Professor and Chair of the Department of Theater and Dance at UCSB. As a professional director\, Equity actor and composer/sound designer\, he has worked with the Shakespeare Center of Los Angeles\, Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, Orlando Shakes\, the New York\, Oregon\, Utah\, New Jersey\, and Colorado Shakespeare Festivals\, Southwest Shakespeare Company\, The Acting Company\, Theatre For a New Audience\, Hartford Stage\, Indiana Repertory Theatre\, Arizona Theatre Company\, PCPA\, both the National Theatre Conservatory and Colorado New Play Summit at the Denver Center of the Performing Arts\, the Bread Loaf Acting Ensemble\, and other prominent regional theaters. In Europe\, he acted the role of Pandarus in Troilus and Cressida in the Czech Republic with the Prague Shakespeare Company at the renowned Estates Theatre where Mozart premiered Don Giovanni in 1787. He is the founder and artistic director of Naked Shakes\, producing Shakespeare’s plays at UCSB\, in the United States\, and internationally since 2006. For Naked Shakes\, he has created two major adaptations of Shakespeare’s plays: first\, The Death of Kings\, combining eight Shakespeare history plays from Richard II through Richard III into one event that has been performed in California\, Arizona\, and the Czech Republic. Second and most recently\, he combined Shakespeare’s Antony and Cleopatra and Julius Caesar\, along with parts of George Bernard Shaw’s Caesar and Cleopatra\, into one play entitled Immortal Longings. He has also has led workshops and lectured about Naked Shakes in China\, Greece\, Switzerland\, Poland\, and the Czech Republic. He is a graduate of Princeton University and the Juilliard School. www.deathofkings.com \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-naked-shakes-twelfth-night/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Tae-Yeoun Keum (Political Science) and Andrew Norris (Political Science) about Keum’s new book\, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought. Audience Q&A will follow. \nPlato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals\, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment\, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments\, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others\, such as Karl Popper\, have railed against the deceptive power of myth\, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. \nTae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century\, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More\, Bacon\, Leibniz\, the German Idealists\, Cassirer\, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking. \nTae-Yeoun Keum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB and was previously the Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church\, Oxford. She is a political theorist broadly interested in ancient political thought and its reception\, 20th century German social thought\, and the intersection of political theory and literature. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and History of Political Thought. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-plato-and-the-mythic-tradition-in-political-thought/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Swati Rana (English) and Stephanie L. Batiste (English) about Rana’s new book\, Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. Audience Q&A will follow. \nA vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial\, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures\, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960\, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall\, Ameen Rihani\, Dalip Singh Saund\, José Garcia Villa\, and José Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream\, from individualism to imperialism\, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation\, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood\, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison\, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven. \nSwati Rana is Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in twentieth-century U.S. literature\, comparative ethnic literature\, and transnational American studies. Her research has appeared in American Literary History\, American Literature\, and Journal of Asian American Studies\, and her creative writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Crazyhorse\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Wasafiri\, and elsewhere.  \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-race-characters-ethnic-literature-and-the-figure-of-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Ben Olguín (English\, UCSB) and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Social and Cultural Analysis\, NYU) about Olguín’s new book\, Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature. Audience Q&A will follow. \nViolentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature\, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities\, or Latinidades\, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentología\, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence\, this book adapts the neologism “violentology” as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history\, life\, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities – and featuring multiple generations of Latinx combatants\, wartime non-combatants\, and “peacetime” civilians – Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate\, contradictory\, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies\, and corresponding negotiations of power\, or ideologies\, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and\, ultimately\, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm. \nBen Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English\, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University\, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow\, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. In addition to articles published in Cultural Critique\, American Literary History\, Aztlán\, Frontiers\, Biography\, MELUS\, and Nepantla\, Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History\, Culture\, and Politics (University of Texas Press\, 2010). \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the College of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press\, 2016); Des/posesión: Género\, territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación (PUEG-UNAM\, 2014); Aunt Lute’s Anthology of U.S. Women’s Writing\, Volume II (Aunt Lute Press\, 2008); The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press\, 2003). Saldaña-Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades\, including Casa de Las Americas Literary Prize for the Best Book in Studies of Latinos in the United States; John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association; Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-violentologies-violence-identity-and-ideology-in-latina-o-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
DESCRIPTION:Click here for a 20% publisher’s discount on The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus \n  \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) and Debra Blumenthal (History) about Reynolds’ new book\, The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us\, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic\, Old Catalan\, Castilian\, Hebrew\, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco\, Algeria\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Lebanon\, and Syria. \nWhile the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades\, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings\, adaptations\, hybridizations\, and appropriations involved. \nDwight Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language & Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and affiliate faculty member of the Department of Music\, Department of Theater and Dance\, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and the Comparative Literature Program. He is the author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007) and Heroic Poets\, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995). He is the editor and co-author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (2015) and co-editor\, with Scott Marcus and Virginia Danielson\, of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Vol. VI\, the Middle East and Central Asia (2002). He is also section editor for and contributing author to The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period  (Part IV: Popular Prose; 2006). In 2010 with his team he published the online digital archive housing field recordings\, field notes\, historical background\, Arabic texts\, English translations\, photographs and a special “virtual performance” mode for the Arabic oral epic poem Sirat Bani Hilial. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-musical-heritage-of-al-andalus/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Helen Morales (Classics) and Vilna Bashi-Treitler (Black Studies) about Morales’ new book\, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\nA witty\, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greco-Roman myths and their legacy\, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways — glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Even today\, myths are still informing harmful practices like diet culture and school dress codes. But in Antigone Rising\, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they can be told — and read — in different ways. Through these stories\, whether it’s Antigone’s courageous stand against tyranny or Procne and Philomela punishing a powerful man\, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity\, empowerment\, and catharsis. Antigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted\, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo\, spark resistance\, and rail against unjust regimes. \nHelen Morales is a classicist and cultural critic with interests that include the ancient novel\, Greek imperial poetry\, mythology\, literary criticism\, sexual ethics\, diversity\, and pilgrimage. These interests are always connected to major contemporary concerns—leadership\, class\, race\, sexual politics\, aesthetics\, law—a better understanding of which\, in her view\, comes through appreciating their investment in Classics. She is the author of Pilgrimage to Dollywood (2014)\, Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (2007 and 2010)\, and Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius’ “Leucippe and Clitophon” (2004). She is also editor of the journal Ramus. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-antigone-rising-the-subversive-power-of-the-ancient-myths/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nJoin us online for a dialogue between Jessica Nakamura (Theater and Dance) and Catherine Nesci (French and Italian\, Comparative Literature) about Nakamura’s new book\, Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan. Audience Q&A will follow. \nIn Transgenerational Remembrance\, Jessica Nakamura investigates the role of artistic production in the commemoration and memorialization of the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945) in Japan since 1989. During this time\, survivors of Japanese aggression and imperialism\, previously silent about their experiences\, have sparked contentious public debates about the form and content of war memories. Working from theoretical frameworks of haunting and ethics\, Nakamura develops an analytical lens based on the Noh theater ghost. Noh emphasizes the agency of the ghost and the dialogue between the dead and the living. Integrating her Noh-inflected analysis into ethical and transnational feminist queries\, Nakamura shows that performances move remembrance beyond current evidentiary and historiographical debates. \nJessica Nakamura’s research focuses on theater and performance in the Asia-Pacific. Her essays have appeared in the journals Modern Drama\, Performance Research\, and Trans Asia Photography Review and in the edited volumes Performance in a Militarized Culture and Performing the Secular. Nakamura has trained in Japanese Dance\, Chinese Beijing Opera\, and Balinese Dance. Her directing work includes productions of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma and Gao Xingjian’s Wild Man; she most recently translated and directed Family Portrait by contemporary Japanese playwright Shu Matsui. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-transgenerational-remembrance-performance-and-the-asia-pacific-war-in-contemporary-japan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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