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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion with Amanda Lucia about Her Book Reflections of Amma
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nThe meeting will be hosted by our South Asia RFG colleague William Elison\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UCSB\, as part of his seminar on Religion and Ideology in Modern India: Current Approaches. This seminar session will feature a discussion with Amanda Lucia about her book\, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (2014)\, which provides an ethnographic analysis of transnationalism and gender in a global movement centered around Amritanandamayi\, who is celebrated as Amma\, “Mother\,” and the “hugging saint.” Following is the UC Press’s description of the book: \n“Globally known as Amma\, meaning “Mother\,” Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the “hugging saint\,” a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day ten thousand people are embraced by the guru one at a time\, events that routinely last ten to twenty hours without any rest for her. Although she was born in 1953 as a low-caste girl in a South Indian fishing village\, today millions revere her as guru and goddess\, a living embodiment of the divine on earth. Reflections of Amma focuses on communities of Amma’s devotees in the United States\, showing how they endeavor to mirror their guru’s behaviors and transform themselves to emulate the ethos of the movement. This study argues that “inheritors” and “adopters” of Hindu traditions differently interpret Hindu goddesses\, Amma\, and her relation to feminism and women’s empowerment because of their inherited religious\, cultural\, and political dispositions. In this insightful ethnographic analysis\, Amanda J. Lucia discovers how the politics of American multiculturalism reifies these cultural differences in “de facto congregations\,” despite the fact that Amma’s embrace attempts to erase communal boundaries in favor of global unity.” \nAmanda Lucia is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion at UC Riverside. Her research explores the global exportation\, appropriation\, and circulation of Hindu traditions\, focusing on religious encounters between South Asians and North Americans since the early nineteenth century. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-with-amanda-lucia-about-her-book-reflections-of-amma/
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:20201109T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to host two events showcasing graduate student research this quarter. Graduate students will be presenting their research as part of the Collective-sponsored graduate seminar ASAM 200. These workshops will be held on November 9th and December 14th from 11am to 1pm PST. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-graduate-student-research/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Embodied Ownership: Sheppard Lee and Proprietary Whiteness in Jacksonian America
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis workshop will discuss a PRECIRCULATED chapter from Merav Schocken’s dissertation\, “Functional Fictions: Practices of Self-Deception in 19th-Century America.” (Please click on the “Download Reading” button above to access the precirculated chapter.) \nThe chapter explores the narrative practices of self-deception that underlie the consolidation of proprietary whiteness in Jacksonian America. Schocken focuses on Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee (1836)\, claiming that the novel registers\, and seeks to reconcile\, anxieties among upper-class whites about the inclusion of propertyless white men in the electorate. Looking at the novel’s representation of whiteness as a neutral category as embodied by its propertyless white protagonist\, Schocken argues that Black subjugation constituted a central yet crucially unacknowledged means by which the white subject\, regardless of class\, affirmed his belonging to the white man’s republic. \nMerav Schocken is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group \nImage: George Catlin\, The Virginia Constitutional Convention\, 1830
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-embodied-ownership-sheppard-lee-and-proprietary-whiteness-in-jacksonian-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slavery%2C Captivity%2C and the Meaning of Freedom RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T130000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nClassicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements\, derived from Greek and Roman civilization\, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador\, Juan de Oñate\, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery\, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources\, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives\, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance. \nKendall Lovely\, a member of the Navajo Nation\, is from Albuquerque\, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University\, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender\, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara\, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings. \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dismembering-classicism-contesting-colonial-and-classical-legacies-in-the-southwest/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nSimone Chess will focus on early modern disability\, queerness\, and adaptive technologies. Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender\, Performance\, and Queer Relations (Routledge\, 2016) and coeditor\, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher\, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. \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-assistive-technologies-and-erotic-adaptation-queer-disability-in-the-renaissance/
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:20201113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T163000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Cowboys in the Colosseum
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin us to workshop “Cowboys in the Colosseum: Papal Power\, Cattle Rustling\, and Meat Supply in Early Modern Italy\,” a chapter from Brad Bouley’s current book project. \nBrad Bouley (Assistant Professor\, Department of History) specializes in histories of religion and science in the early modern\, especially Italian\, context. He is author of Pious Postmortems: Anatomy\, Sanctity\, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe (UPenn\, 2017). His current project\, The Barberini Butchers: Meat\, Murder\, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy\, investigates papal food policies formed during the Counter Reformation in an effort to promote Rome as an early modern city. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean Research Focus Group \nREGISTER HERE \nImage: Claude Lorraine\, Campo Vaccino\, 1636
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-cowboys-in-the-colosseum/
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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