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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: India "Right": Making and Unmaking Indian Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed by the Indian Parliament on December 11\, 2019. It amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 and creates an easier path for acquiring Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities—Hindu\, Sikh\, Jain\, Buddhist\, Christian\, and Parsi—from Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, and Afghanistan who entered India before or on December 13\, 2014. The Act does not encompass other (non-Islamic) neighboring countries\, nor does it consider other persecuted minorities—for example\, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar\, the Ahmadiya and Shia of Pakistan\, or the Tamils of Sri Lanka. While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to pass the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) through Parliament without a hitch\, it was unprepared for the massive protests against the Act that soon followed in a number of places in India. The protests were spearheaded by students from across universities in India. The women of Shaheen Bagh\, a Muslim neighborhood in Delhi\, were also at the forefront of the protests. Protests were brought to a halt as riots erupted in Delhi that left 53 people dead and many more injured. Anti-Muslim rhetoric of the ruling BJP leaders preceded the riots as the party geared up for elections to the Delhi Assembly (which it lost) in early February 2020. However\, in the post-riot reckoning it was the protesters who were blamed by the police for the riots and various participants in the protests are facing prosecution\, while the BJP leaders who made inflammatory speeches have gone scot-free. \nAmong more recent events\, the COVID-19 pandemic and a draconian lockdown after mid-March saw many laboring people from metropoles like Delhi walk back to their homes hundreds of miles away\, and the Indian government was unable to do anything for a long time to ease their situation. The government has also used the lockdown—as have other high-handed regimes globally—to reimpose its authority. Other major moves of the government in the last 12 months include making inoperative Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave special status to the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir\, and laying the foundation for the building of a massive Ram Temple where a Muslim mosque once stood before it was demolished by BJP activists in 1992. \nThe UCSB faculty participants in this symposium will discuss the varied ways in which this chain of events has unfolded in India and what these events mean with respect to Indian democracy and its institutions\, the rhetoric of nationalism\, the onslaught on the idea of secularism\, and the economy and the livelihoods of the Indian people. Anshu Malhotra\, Professor of Global Studies and Kundun Kaur Kapany Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, will discuss Shaheen Bagh and Muslim women in India. Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, Assistant Professor of History\, will reflect on the reconfiguration of nationalism in India. Aashish Mehta\, Associate Professor of Global Studies\, will discuss populism\, policy\, and the real economy in India before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Satyajit Singh\, Professor of Global Studies and Political Science\, will reflect on the student protests in perspective. Amit Ahuja\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, will discuss electoral politics and what the recent protests mean for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Global Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-symposium-india-right-making-and-unmaking-indian-citizenship/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T200000
DTSTAMP:20260523T155918
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act\, the Disability Studies Initiative is joining the Carsey-Wolf Center and the UCSB Library to host a virtual discussion with the directors of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020). \nIn the early 1970s\, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation\, discrimination\, and institutionalization. Located in the Catskills\, New York\, ramshackle Camp Jened exploded those confines. Jened was the teens’ freewheeling utopia\, a place where summertime sports\, smoking\, and make-out sessions awaited everyone; campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated west to Berkeley\, California\, a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption\, civil disobedience\, and political participation could change the future for millions. \nCo-directors and producers Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham will join Hannah Garibaldi (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) for a virtual discussion of this fascinating documentary. ASL interpretation will be provided during the event. The film may be viewed in advance on Netflix. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, the UCSB Library\, the Disabled Students Program\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-crip-camp-a-disability-revolution/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T163000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Let's Talk Mediterranean: A Conversation with Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nOn October 23\, Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos will join us for a conversation on the state of premodern Mediterranean studies. Together\, Kinoshita and Catlos run the Mediterranean Seminar\, an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on Mediterranean cultures and societies\, and also the role of the Mediterranean in historical narratives of “the West.” The seminar\, which hosts a range of events (symposia\, colloquia\, workshops)\, has played a vital role in promoting Mediterranean studies in the United States. In recent years\, they have co-edited the groundbreaking volume\, Can We Talk Mediterranean?: Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Palgrave\, 2017). \nSharon Kinoshita (Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz) is a specialist in Old French literature\, medieval Mediterranean studies\, medieval globalism\, and postcolonial theories. She is the author of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (UPenn\, 2006)\, co-editor with Peregrine Horden of A Companion to Mediterranean History (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2014)\, and translator of Marco Polo’s Description of the World (Hackett Press\, 2016). \nBrian Catlos (Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder) is a specialist in medieval Spanish history and author of Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic Books\, 2018)\, Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith\, Power\, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farar\, Straus & Girour\, 2014)\, and Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom\, ca. 1050-1614 (Cambridge UP\, 2015). \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean Research Focus Group \nImage: Petrus de Ebolo (d. 1220) Liber ad honorem Augusti\, sive de rebus Siculis\, scene showing Tancred of Lecce claiming the crown of Sicily
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-lets-talk-mediterranean-a-conversation-with-sharon-kinoshita-and-brian-catlos/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean":MAILTO:badamo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: The Future of Humanity from a Sustainability Point of View
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nIn this meeting\, Professor Sangwon Suh (Bren School) will present research in progress about possible futures of human nature as it relates to selfishness and sustainability. This will be followed by discussion\, moderated by Aili Pettersson Peeker. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” available on our IHC webpage for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSangwon Suh is a professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the sustainability of the human-nature complexity through the understanding of materials and energy exchanges between them. His work contributed to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of quantitative sustainability assessment in the areas of life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology. \nAili Pettersson Peeker is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research concerns cognitive literary studies and how reading literature can allow for selfless experiences. \nREGISTER HERE \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage Credit: Geoff Jones\, “Sustainable innovation”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-the-future-of-humanity-from-a-sustainability-point-of-view/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: “Cripistemologies of Pain”
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nDrawing together insights from disability theory\, literary studies\, and interdisciplinary pain studies\, Lau’s lecture contributes to what Alyson Patsavas has called “cripistemologies of pain” that prompt us to think from the position of pained lived experience to imagine radically different models of care that move beyond the reductive binary of either amelioration or annihilation of pain. Can we theorize a standpoint (or what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has called “sitpoint”) theory of pain that attends to its crip and queer chronicities while also working toward new forms of care and interdependence? \nTravis Chi Wing Lau’s research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture\, health humanities\, and disability studies. Alongside his scholarship\, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship like Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, Public Books\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His poetry has appeared in Barren Magazine\, Wordgathering\, Glass\, South Carolina Review\, Foglifter\, and The New Engagement\, as well as in two chapbooks\, The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press\, 2019) and Paring (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 forthcoming). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cripistemologies-of-pain/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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