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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist\, Hindu\, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini\, Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini\, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife\, especially the regal Sarus Cranes\, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. \nArjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini\, an environmental NGO in Nepal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/preserving-biodiversity/
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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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno\, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks\, illustrated editions\, and comics\, this moral framework is often softened\, secularized\, or inverted. Through examples from Italy\, the United States\, and Japan\, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction\, irony\, or spectacle\, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or emotional experience. These adaptations reveal how cultures negotiate what kinds of violence (and what kinds of justice) can be shown to children\, turning Dante’s Hell into a mirror of modern moral and pedagogical anxieties. \nMartina Mattei is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on adaptation theory\, children’s literature\, and the transnational reception of canonical texts. Her dissertation examines contemporary adaptations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for children across English-\, Italian-\, and Japanese-language traditions. Through a comparative analysis of picturebooks\, comics\, videogames\, and animation\, she explores how these texts negotiate the poem’s theological\, moral\, and philosophical complexity for young audiences\, revealing local pedagogical and cultural investments. Martina’s work engages broader questions about how canonical texts are transformed when reframed for new readerships\, particularly in visual and age-specific media. She is especially interested in the way themes such as violence\, race\, and spirituality are omitted\, softened\, or reimagined in global childhood adaptations of Dante\, and how these editorial choices reflect shifting notions of literary value\, ethical storytelling\, and cultural authority. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-between-justice-and-horror-the-theological-violence-of-dantes-inferno-recast/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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