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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Shifting Paradigms Around Neurodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09 \nThis discussion will focus on thinking about new paradigms in autism and neurodiversity. We will read the article titled “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves From the Pathology Paradigm\,” by Nick Walker (from Loud Hands: Autistic People\, Speaking [2012]) and the introduction to Autistic Disturbances (2018) by Julia Miele Rodas. If time permits\, the discussion will also include Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life (2011) by Margaret Price\, which tackles mental illness/health\, college students/faculty\, psychology\, mentally disabled persons\, personal narratives\, communication\, and stereotypes. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-shifting-paradigms-around-neurodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Social Media and the Shape of "Man"
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888 \nInspired by Cho’s ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this work-in-progress talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed—singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more—in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the epistemological violences of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates the assumptions of the specific manner in which “Man” is instantiated online and offers design examples that resist this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \nAlexander Cho is a media scholar\, digital design researcher\, critical theorist\, and pop culture geek. He teaches classes at UCSB on Asian Americans in media as well as on gender and sexuality. His research combines critical race theory\, queer theory\, design thinking\, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-social-media-and-the-shape-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T100000
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SUMMARY:AIIC 2021 8th Annual Symposium: Native Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThe Eighth Annual AIIC Symposium\, “Native Feminisms: Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People\,” seeks to focus Native feminisms by privileging the knowledge of Native women\, girls\, trans\, non-binary\, and two spirit people. As Mishuana Goeman shows\, drawing attention to embodied experience\, positionality\, and spatiality foregrounds relationships between bodies\, minds\, spirits\, and lands as methods of knowledge creation. Relevant topics to broader discussions of Native feminisms include: embodiment\, futurity\, spatiality\, memory\, trauma\, ecological relationality\, community knowledge\, emergence\, collective power\, ceremony\, decolonization\, education\, reclamation\, and felt theory. \nThe AIIC Symposium seeks to explore how Native feminist cartographies help us remap and reimagine the relationship between people\, kin\, communities\, temporality\, and the land. We hope to raise questions about public space and protest\, environment and ecological knowledge\, storytelling\, violence\, education\, Indigeneity\, decolonial thinking\, gender\, and multiraciality. We embrace non-linear\, relational understandings of time\, and presenters will address historical issues of cartography\, contemporary remappings\, and embodied relationships to history\, knowledge creation\, and the land\, as well as the intersection of such topics. \nKeynote Speakers: Mishuana Goeman and Laura Harjo \nDr. Mishuana Goeman\, Tonawanda Band of Seneca\, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies\, Chair of American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from Stanford University’s Modern Thought and Literature and was a UC Presidential Post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley. Her research involves thinking through colonialism\, geography and literature in ways that generate anti-colonial tools in the struggle for social justice. Her book\, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013) was honored at the American Association for Geographic Perspectives on Women and a finalist for best first book from NAISA. “The Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrance Malick’s the New World\,” is in progress with the Indigenous Film Series\, University of Nebraska Press. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Quarterly\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, Settler Colonial Studies\, Wicazo Sa\, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Transmotion\, and American Indian Cultures and Research Journal. She has guest edited journal volumes on Native Feminisms and another on Indigenous Performances. \nDr. Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar teaching Indigenous Planning\, Community Development\, and Indigenous Feminisms. She is an Associate Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She was raised in Sapulpa by Mvskoke parents that were active in Mvskoke community and Muscogee (Creek) Nation politics; Harjo is a lifelong student of emancipatory community processes. Dr. Harjo earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Southern California\, and her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities\, community caretaking\, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis\, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence\, artivism and community engaged knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press\, 2019)\, which employs Mvskoke epistemologies\, and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. \nCosponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); UCSB American Indian Graduate Student Alliance (AIGSA); UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Student Association (AIISA); UCSB Associated Students; UCSB Department of English; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association (GSA); UCSB Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aiic-2021-8th-annual-symposium-native-feminisms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Elemental City: Ecology\, Media and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how the cultural politics of elemental media influence crisis narratives produced in relation to urban change. Taking Calcutta as a case study\, Doctoral Candidate Somak Mukherjee argues that the crisis of postcolonial cities has a distinct ecological imaginary\, borne of tension between mediated pairings of elements and more typical civic imaginaries such as civility\, citizenship\, community\, development\, or progress. Four examples of elements—earth\, air\, water\, and fire—are used as representative figures to explore how their cultural registers comment on questions of method\, archives\, and media in thinking about urban space. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Surojit Kayal. \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. Please register by February 18. 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” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSomak Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Media and Criticism\, Urban History\, and Postcolonial Studies. Somak’s writings have appeared in various print and digital publications in India\, including Huffington Post\, Scroll\, The Citizen\, Humanities Underground\, and Anandabazar Patrika (ABP). \nSurojit Kayal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests include environmental media\, science and technology studies\, digital culture\, and postcolonial studies. Surojit has written previously on environmental communities\, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage: The mouth of the Sealdah bound tunnel as can be seen from the Esplanade station of East West Metro in Kolkata\, November 2020. Image Courtesy: Metro Railways Kolkata
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-elemental-city-ecology-media-and-narratives-of-crisis-in-postcolonial-calcutta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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