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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reclaiming Confiscated African Histories
DESCRIPTION:Zoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/s/81168927411 \nHow do histories of a people get confiscated? And what is the significance of indigenous epistemologies in reclaiming stolen\, silent\, and distorted histories? These are some of the fundamental questions that underlie Professor Shadreck Chirikure’s research on Great Zimbabwe\, a prominent symbol of African civilizations of Southern Africa that colonial historiography tried very hard to wrest away from Africans over the last two centuries. Professor Chirikure has produced several publications from his archaeological work at Great Zimbabwe and related sites\, including his recent book\, Great Zimbabwe: Reclaiming a “Confiscated” Past. We welcome him to UCSB to speak to us about this significant book. \nProfessor Chirikure holds a British Academy Global Professorship within the School of Archaeology at Oxford. He is Professor of Archaeology\, Director of the Archaeological Materials Laboratory\, Director of the African Heritage Hub and Research Centre\, and a former Head of the Department of Archaeology at the University of Cape Town. \nCo-sponsored by the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group and the Africa Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-reclaiming-confiscated-african-histories/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211119T160000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Phillis Wheatley's Desire to Look
DESCRIPTION:At a time when aesthetic philosophy defined whiteness in terms of the ability to behold and surveil the world\, Phillis Wheatley Peters developed new forms of countervisuality in Poems on Various Subjects\, Religious and Moral (1773). Badley’s essay focuses on Peters’ ekphrastic poetry\, which portrays her lyric personae gazing upon paintings\, people\, and landscapes in ways that mark the limits of visual perception. By dramatizing spectatorship as a meditation upon opaque surfaces and inscrutable sentiments\, Peters conjures a Romantic subjectivity that recasts the racial and gendered hierarchies of the eighteenth century. \nChip Badley is a Lecturer in English at the University of California\, Davis. He is at work on a book project concerning aesthetics\, race\, and sexuality in American literature during the long nineteenth century. His writing has appeared or is forthcoming in J19: A Journal of Nineteenth-Century Americanists\, the Henry James Review\, and the Oxford Handbook of Charles Dickens. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-phillis-wheatleys-desire-to-look/
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:20211116T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T110000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
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LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T201853Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Graduate Student Research: Ryan Arellano and Jing Yu
DESCRIPTION:The IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) Research Focus Group will be hosting a graduate student research roundtable on November 16th from 9:30-11 am in the IHC Seminar Room (HSSB 6056). During this roundtable\, two advanced graduate students\, Ryan Arellano (Education) and Jing Yu (Education)\, will be presenting their works-in-progress for feedback and comments from attendees. The roundtable will occur during the first hour\, and we welcome attendees to stay afterward for refreshments outside in the HSSB courtyard. We welcome all parties interested in Asian American Studies work! For questions\, please email: aasc.ucsb@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-graduate-student-research-ryan-arellano-and-jing-yu/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
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:20211115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211115T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211011T172800Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211012T181451Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Why Different Models of Disability?
DESCRIPTION:Rachel Lambert (Assistant Professor in Special Education and Mathematics Education\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on the different models of disability\, including medical\, social\, political/ relational and complex embodiment. Lambert’s scholarly work investigates the intersections between Disability Studies in Education and mathematics education. She has conducted longitudinal studies of how Latinx students with learning disabilities construct identities as mathematics learners\, and how mathematical pedagogy shapes how teachers perceive students as disabled. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84716751476?pwd=d3JPWlN0eVFoVlBYeHFtSU1OdGJ6QT09 \nCo-sponsored by the IHC Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, CODE\, the Associated Students Commission on Disability Equality\, and the UCSB Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-why-different-models-of-disability/
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:20211112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211112T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211108T164836Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211108T164836Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Work of War: Gender and Care in Kabul\, Afghanistan
DESCRIPTION:Zoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84686450683 \nFollowing widows and their families in the aftermath of a suicide attack in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, this talk centers the lives and aspirations of widows amidst serial war and serial humanitarianism. As white sentimentality structures landscapes of care in Kabul\, refusal is what remains. This research is based on more than four years of fieldwork between 2006 and 2013. \nDr. Anila Daulatzai is a sociocultural anthropologist and the Chancellor’s Fellow at UC Berkeley. She has taught in prisons and in universities across three continents. She has been conducting research in Afghanistan as well as with Afghan refugees in Pakistan since 1995. Between 2006 and 2013\, she carried out ethnographic fieldwork in Kabul and taught at Kabul University and at the American University of Afghanistan. Her past and current research projects look at widowhood\, heroin use\, and polio through the lens of serial war. She is currently completing her book manuscript\, provisionally titled “War and What Remains Everyday Life in Contemporary Kabul\, Afghanistan.” \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Anthropology \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84686450683
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-work-of-war-gender-and-care-in-kabul-afghanistan/
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:20211110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211110T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Post and the Shell: The Sacrificability of Animals in the Vedic Village
DESCRIPTION:Zoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87209704725 \nIn this talk\, Jonathan Dickstein will discuss anatomical and residential animal taxonomies as represented in canonical Vedic texts of the second and first millennia BCE. The Brāhmaṇas (900-650 BCE) in particular emphasize a residence-based categorization of animals into two main categories: “village animals” (grāmya) and “wilderness animals” (āraṇya). Following a discussion of the complexities of these two classes\, Dickstein will pivot to the relationship between residence and the concept of medha\, a quasi-anatomical characteristic that establishes a being’s fitness for sacrifice. The objective of this talk is to highlight the Vedic ontologization of residence\, explore the anatomization of sacrificability\, and preview ethical perspectives on killing and eating animals in the Vedic and post-Vedic periods. \nJonathan Dickstein is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on South Asian religious traditions\, comparative ethics\, animals and religion\, and religion and ecology. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87209704725
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-post-and-the-shell-the-sacrificability-of-animals-in-the-vedic-village/
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:20211109T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T163000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211011T165152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211220T192240Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Works-in-Progress Series: Developing an Archive
DESCRIPTION:In our first Works-in-Progress workshop\, we will discuss various strategies and resources for developing archives related to Shakespeare and Global Media. This will include cultivating a multimedia bibliography that extends to potential source texts\, critical works\, and theoretical approaches\, as well as developing questions and frameworks that interrogate established modes of scholarly production. We will consider questions like: What does it mean to do “global Shakespeare”? What methods and approaches push the boundaries of scholarship? Where and how do we engage with productions that are considered under the umbrella of “global Shakespeare”? What resources are available to us\, and what is missing? \nThrough this workshop series\, we hope to generate new research and expand upon work already in progress. We invite scholars from all disciplines who are interested in broadening their own research skillset to join our workshop. This first event will also serve as a stepping stone to further discussion in the winter and spring quarters among our developing community. \nResources and bibliographies from these events will be available after the completion of this event. \nRegister to Attend \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84344069992 \nImage: “Archives’ stacks” by dolescum is licensed under CC BY-NC-SA 2.0 \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-works-in-progress-series-developing-an-archive/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211109T110000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211109T181721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211109T201921Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Graduate Student Research: Sam Harris and Kendall Ota
DESCRIPTION:The IHC Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) Research Focus Group will be hosting a graduate student research roundtable on November 9th from 9:30-11 am in the IHC Seminar Room (HSSB 6056). During this roundtable\, two advanced graduate students\, Sam Harris (Education) and Kendall Ota (Sociology)\, will be presenting their works-in-progress for feedback and comments from attendees. The roundtable will occur during the first hour\, and we welcome attendees to stay afterward for refreshments outside in the HSSB courtyard. We welcome all parties interested in Asian American Studies work! For questions\, please email: aasc.ucsb@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-graduate-student-research-sam-harris-and-kendall-ota/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
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:20211108T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211108T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211004T220756Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211220T202734Z
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SUMMARY:RFG Reading Group Discussion: Leah DeVun's "The Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for our second IHC Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group reading discussion. We will be discussing Leah DeVun’s “Monstrous Races: Mapping the Borders of Sex” in The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (New York: Columbia University Press\, 2021). Please email reemtaha@ucsb.edu or jessicazisa@ucsb.edu for access to the reading. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-reading-group-discussion-leah-devuns-the-monstrous-races-mapping-the-borders-of-sex/
LOCATION:3001E HSSB\, HSSB UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211029T113000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211014T190008Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Exploding the Khoi and San Colonial Stereotypes\, Reclaiming African Histories
DESCRIPTION:Academic historians have largely represented the Khoi and the San people of Southern Africa as marginal to the production of the region’s history\, deleting their place in the emergence and development of African civilization and self-liberation. As a public historian\, intellectual\, activist and healer\, Attaqua’s voice has intervened to forcefully reframe the history of the indigenous people of Southern Africa. In this talk\, she will speak about the Khoi and San’s long struggle against the historical and epistemic silencing. \nAttaqua is a South African indigenous historian\, social justice activist\, knowledge keeper\, and oral and visual storyteller. She was born in District Six\, Cape Town\, in 1964. She is from the clan Herandien from Zoar\, the Attaqua nation in the Western Cape. A fighter against the Apartheid state\, she was forced to flee South Africa to Germany and the United Kingdom\, where she studied and assisted the banned South African Congress of Trade Unions. She returned to South Africa in 1990 where she continued to work for the Department of International Affairs of the African National Congress. In 1994\, Attaqua joined the film industry where she cut her teeth in fiction and documentary film making. She lives in Johannesburg where she works doing holistic indigenous treatments and consultations dealing with colonial\, inter-generational\, historical and oppression trauma. \nCo-sponsored by the IHC African Studies Research Focus Group and the Africa Center \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86978353518?pwd=dzZsQ0ZsOVVaNmhFTjR3bk95K3ZEZz09 \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-exploding-the-khoi-and-san-colonial-stereotypes-reclaiming-african-histories/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211025T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211001T191444Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211001T194408Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities
DESCRIPTION:Please join the Disability Studies Initiative for a discussion of Disability Studies and the Environmental Humanities: Toward an Eco-Crip Theory (available online after signing into the UCSB library). We will focus our discussion on two chapters: “Bodies of Nature: The Environmental Politics of Disability” by Alison Kafer and “Cripping Sustainability\, Realizing Food Justice” by Kim Q. Hall. \nThis event will be moderated by Olivia Henderson. A second year graduate student in the Department of English at UC Santa Barbara\, Olivia is interested in disability studies\, ecocriticism\, and early modern literature. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82378344471?pwd=Tlc1SEZ1cGdhbGdEbnJaQ1pKMVBQdz09 \nCo-sponsored by the IHC Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the UCSB Comparative Literature Program\, and the UCSB English Department
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-studies-and-the-environmental-humanities/
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:20211022T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211022T103000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211214T184242Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211214T184727Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Welcome Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective invites you to our Welcome Breakfast. Meet other graduate students interested in Asian/American Studies while enjoying coffee and pastries. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-welcome-breakfast/
LOCATION:HSSB Courtyard\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20211021T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211021T113000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210927T195313Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211208T193748Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Chalk Talk: Moving Beyond One Dimensional Shakespeare in the Classroom
DESCRIPTION:Students often shy away from Shakespeare in their classes\, but educators can also get nervous about teaching the Bard! Our goal for our pedagogical discussion is to reflect on our own experiences learning about and teaching Shakespeare in the classroom and how we can enhance our future teaching practices\, particularly through the lens of utilizing global media and socio-culturally aware pedagogy. We will provide links to optional pre-event resources after registration\, but we invite everyone from any discipline interested in developing their understanding of the Bard in the classroom to join us in our discussion. \nSponsored by the IHC What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group \nRegister to Attend \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81896036637
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-chalk-talk-moving-beyond-one-dimensional-shakespeare-in-the-classroom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211018T150000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210927T191559Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210928T173332Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Reading Group Discussion: The Possibilities of Undisciplining with Sharon Kinoshita’s “Worlding Medieval French Literature”
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on October 18th at 2 pm in HSSB 3001E for a reading group discussion of Sharon Kinoshita’s chapter\, “Worlding Medieval French Literature\,” in eds. Christie McDonald and Susan Rubin Suleiman\, French Global: A New Approach to Literary History (New York: Columbia University Press\, 2010). As the first IHC Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group event of the year\, we will begin by discussing Kinoshita’s chapter and where un-disciplining and re-disciplining might possibly lead us as we focus our attention on the intersections of premodern histories of race and gender beyond a Eurocentric purview. Please email jessicazisa@ucsb.edu for access to the reading. \nSponsored by the IHC Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group and UCSB Medieval Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-reading-group-discussion-the-possibilities-of-undisciplining-with-sharon-kinoshitas-worlding-medieval-french-literature/
LOCATION:3001E HSSB\, HSSB UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T121000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211015T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20211008T164142Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211014T180558Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Making Sense of Melothesia: Embodying the Zodiac in Ancient Rome and India
DESCRIPTION:In this talk Tejas Aralere will present a comparative analysis of the zodiacal melothesia as it appears in Manilius’s Astronomica\, a Latin astrological epic poem (ca. 20–40 CE)\, and in Sphujidhvaja’s Yavana Jātaka ( “Greek Horoscopy”)\, a Sanskrit astrological treatise (ca. second century CE). Melothesia refers to the mapping of the twelve signs of the Babylonian zodiac on twelve regions of the human body over which they possess particular influence. In a brief discussion of the connections between these two texts\, Aralere will show how the Romans and Indians employ the zodiacal melothesia in strikingly different ways and for different purposes that reflect their distinctive cultural contexts. This makes earlier theories that posit “direct transmission” of the Yavana Jātaka from Greece to India highly implausible. Aralere’s comparative study will illuminate the connections between Manilius’s use of melothesia and Roman imperial political ideologies and Sphujidhvaja’s use of melothesia and Vedic ritual and legal traditions. \nThis event will be held in person (4080 HSSB) with the option to join via Zoom here: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81601164112. \nTejas Aralere is a doctoral student in the Department of Classics at UC Santa Barbara. His research explores the complex networks of exchange of ancient astronomical\, astrological\, and medical knowledge between the Mediterranean and India and seeks to re-evaluate Orientalist narratives that claim that “rational” scientific knowledge flowed unidirectionally from the ancient Mediterranean to India. \nSponsored by the IHC South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and UCSB Department of Classics
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-making-sense-of-melothesia-embodying-the-zodiac-in-ancient-rome-and-india/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211007T120000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Welcome Meeting Two: What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our second meeting of the IHC-sponsored Research Focus Group “What is a Shakespeare?” This will be the second of two welcome meetings we are hosting for the group (in order to cover more scheduling needs). \n“What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty focused on investigating the notion of “global Shakespeare.” We are interested in understanding both the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted in a global context and how an emphasis on Shakespeare has obscured other valuable insights culturally\, socially\, theoretically\, and politically. \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87356746729?pwd=MDQvaXY5NzlLMWxRK1BDUUFUU3NpUT09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-welcome-meeting-two-what-is-a-shakespeare-shakespeare-and-global-media/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211005T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210921T200939Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210923T171650Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Welcome Meeting One: What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media
DESCRIPTION:Come join us for our first meeting of the IHC-sponsored Research Focus Group “What is a Shakespeare?” This will be the first of two welcome meetings we are hosting for the group (in order to cover more scheduling needs). The second meeting will be Thursday\, October 7th at 11am PST (more info here). \n“What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” is an interdisciplinary group of graduate students and faculty focused on investigating the notion of “global Shakespeare.” We are interested in understanding both the ways that Shakespeare has been adapted in a global context and how an emphasis on Shakespeare has obscured other valuable insights culturally\, socially\, theoretically\, and politically. \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/88212028319 \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-welcome-meeting-one-what-is-a-shakespeare-shakespeare-and-global-media/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210604T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210528T170241Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210601T160914Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Race\, Caste\, Hierarchy\, Difference: Reflections on Isabel Wilkerson’s Caste
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nIn Caste: The Origins of Our Discontents\, Isabel Wilkerson brings together the freighted categories of “race” and “caste” and argues that\, while the two are not synonymous\, they “can and do coexi st in the same culture and serve to reinforce each other.” Wilkerson suggests that racism is the visible manifestation of a hidden and insidious caste system\, a system of social domination that uses human differences in order to construct a ranking of human value. “Race\, in the United States\, is the visible agent of the unseen force of caste. Caste is the bones\, race the skin.” Wilkerson examines the “modern-day caste protocols” in the “inner workings of American hierarchy” in which she makes unsettling comparisons between America’s four-hundred-year-old racial hierarchies\, India’s three-thousand-year-old caste system\, and Nazi Germany’s racializing project of Aryanism. \nIn this talk Vincent Wimbush will interrogate the ways in which the categories of race\, caste\, hierarchy\, and difference coincide\, collide\, and collude in Wilkerson’s work\, reflecting out of his own studies of the ways in which Black communities in the United States have historically negotiated meaning and power through engaging\, resisting\, and transgressing the sociocultural formations woven around racializing regimes of signification. Amit Ahuja will respond to Wimbush’s talk and will reflect on Wilkerson’s book from the perspective of his studies of the processes of inclusion and exclusion at work in caste hierarchies\, ethnic politics\, and racialized subaltern groups in India. \nVincent Wimbush is Director of the Institute for Signifying Scriptures and Professor Emeritus at Claremont Graduate University. His publications include African Americans and the Bible: Sacred Texts and Social Textures (editor\, 2000); The Bible and African Americans: A Brief History (2003); and White Men’s Magic: Scripturalization as Slavery (2014). Amit Ahuja is Associate Professor of Political Science at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His publications include Mobilizing the Marginalized: Ethnic Parties without Ethnic Movements (2019) and a forthcoming volume\, The Janus Faced Leviathan: The State and Internal Security in Modern India. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-race-caste-hierarchy-difference-reflections-on-isabel-wilkersons-caste/
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:20210527T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T133000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210525T154355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210525T210649Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Willing Ethnic-Nationalists\, Diffusion\, and Resentment: A Micro-Foundational Account
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nUsing evidence concerning the consolidation of Hindu nationalism in India\, Aseema Sinha presents new ethnographic data about the variety of popular support for the Hindutva project and proposes an interactive theory of social identity. This framework helps us understand how Hindu nationalism becomes embedded in society. She argues that Hindu nationalism in India could be fruitfully analyzed by focusing on the processes through which ideas of exclusive nationalism spread among middle classes and are expressed in micro-level psychological changes at the individual level. The consolidation of Hindu nationalism in India is being authored not only by parties and the state but also by societal actors\, and more specifically ordinary middle-class Indians. Hindu nationalism has been spreading in micro-public spheres in times of apparent peace and between elections and with the participation of willing supporters\, bystanders\, and hardliners. Sinha suggests the need to focus on interlinked micro-level mechanisms such as diffusion and emulation of Hindu-centric beliefs and ideas\, mobilization by hardliners and organizations\, and impunity protected by state agencies. \nAseema Sinha is the Wagener Chair of South Asian Politics and George R. Roberts Fellow in the Government Department at Claremont McKenna College. Her research interests focus on the political economy of India\, India-China comparisons\, and the rise of India as an emerging power. Her publications include The Regional Roots of Developmental Politics in India: A Divided Leviathan (Indiana University Press\, 2005)\, which was awarded the Joseph W. Elder Prize in the Indian Social Sciences by the American Institute of Indian Studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-willing-ethnic-nationalists-diffusion-and-resentment-a-micro-foundational-account/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210513T171610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210525T210250Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sri Sabhapati Swami and the "Translocalization" of Sivarajayoga
DESCRIPTION:Keith Cantú’s talk will center on the life and yogic literature of the Tamil yogi Sri Sabhapati Swami (Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ\, 1828–1923/4). The first part of the talk will consist of an overview of Sabhapati’s life and historical context\, including his interactions and falling out with the founders of the Theosophical Society\, his literature and visual diagrams in numerous prestige and Indian vernacular languages\, his Śaiva yogic cosmology and perspectives on Hindu traditions and other religions\, and his network of “admirers” and students across South Asia. Cantú will then shift to a more open-ended discussion about the theoretical framework of global “translocalization\,” including evidence for pan-Indian “mesolocalization\,” and will argue that in Sabhapati’s case this kind of framework is useful when analyzing the ways in which religious ideas travel and change when circulating between local\, mesolocal\, and translocal audiences in the modern period. \nKeith Edward Cantú will receive his doctoral degree in Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, this spring (2021). A specialist in South Asian religions\, he is the co-editor of City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sā̃i\, a volume of nineteenth-century Bengali songs translated by Carol Salomon. He is also the author of several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters\, including “Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir\,” a translation of the “Eighth Instruction” of a Sanskrit alchemical text called the Rasāyanakhaṇḍa about the alchemical wonders of Śrīśailam\, and “Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-sri-sabhapati-swami-and-the-translocalization-of-sivarajayoga/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174848
CREATED:20210414T210405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T165141Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: A Disability Studies Perspective on Universal Design for Learning
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nProfessor Rachel Lambert (Education\, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She will shed light on its development\, including roots in Universal Design. She will describe the radical possibilities in UDL\, as well as critiques. She will present some of her own work\, which seeks to integrate design thinking as a process for educators to use UDL to (re)design curriculum\, spaces and systems. \nPrior to the workshop\, participants are encouraged to read chapter 4\, “Universal Design\,” from Jay Timothy Dolmage’s Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (2017)\, available here. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB Disabled Students Program \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-a-disability-studies-perspective-on-universal-design-for-learning/
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:20210419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T110000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210310T220806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T204735Z
UID:10000540-1618826400-1618830000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: Embracing Ecological Uncertainty through Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Uncertainty is a central psychological dimension of the ecological crisis. The science of climate change brings into view widely divergent scenarios; the discrepancy between these more or less catastrophic visions of the future undermines our ontological security (in Anthony Giddens’s terminology). Dr. Caracciolo argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty. He describes this process as a shift from a primarily negative understanding of uncertainty (as something to be avoided at all costs) to a more complex\, nuanced appreciation. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Sowon Park. \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 April 15. 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. \nMarco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of five books\, including most recently Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). \nSowon Park is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Together with Professor Sangwon Suh\, she is one of the conveners of the Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-embracing-ecological-uncertainty-through-narrative/
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:20210408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210316T182204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T161823Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn this RFG talk\, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932.” \nJoshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University\, Toronto. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-lingvo-internacia-the-esperanto-movement-in-china-and-japan-1905-1932/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Transregional East Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group":MAILTO:wfleming@eastasian.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T134500
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210310T182837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T183000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Designing Disability
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nWe will be discussing Professor Elizabeth Guffey’s introduction and chapter 1 to her latest book\, Designing Disability (Bloomsbury\, 2018). A Professor of Art & Design History\, and Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art\, Criticism and Theory at State University of New York at Purchase\, Professor Guffey co-edited Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture (Routledge). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-designing-disability/
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:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210309T193005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T193144Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Blood Files: Epidemic\, Medium\, Milieu
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nEpidemics make us keenly aware of our multispecies distributions: of changes to our microbial makeup\, of the mediums (body fluids to the elements) that enable transmission. While our body makes us aware of fevers and aches\, we need technical mediation beyond the everyday thermometer to track and understand changing microbial-human relations. Epidemic media—a range of technologies\, microscopes to PCR machines—are the subject of Bishnupriya Ghosh’s book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Drawing on two research sites thousands of miles apart yet embedded in the global biomedical complex—a retrovirus laboratory at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, and a modest clinical point of care at the Humsafar offices in Mumbai—Ghosh considers how the ordinary technology of the “blood file” (samples\, data\, and pictures) makes the medium intelligible as a milieu. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of Global Studies and English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her first two books\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers University Press\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke University Press\, 2011)\, addressed cultures of globalization. Her recent work includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge\, 2020) and a new monograph on viral emergence\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-blood-files-epidemic-medium-milieu/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210216T211233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210224T202855Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cannabis and South Asia
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09 \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \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/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cannabis-and-south-asia/
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:20210305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210225T185348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T211202Z
UID:10000535-1614960000-1614967200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Kings and Cripples in the Arthurian World
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09 \nWhile the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one\, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture\, its imagery and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world\, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure\, the Rich Fisher King. This talk looks at such linkage through Arthurian texts and illustrated manuscripts\, especially the vast Lancelot Prose Cycle. \nChristopher Baswell is the Acting Chair of the Department of English and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College. He is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB English Department Early Modern Center \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-kings-and-cripples-in-the-arthurian-world/
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260417T174849
CREATED:20210222T200855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210222T200855Z
UID:10000533-1614700800-1614704400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Disability Justice Conversation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin Gary White\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Eric Kruger\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Afiya Browne\, UCSB’s Multicultural Center\, Sam del Castillo\, Graduate Division and graduate student\, and Shanna Killeen\, Disability Studies Initiative RFG\, for a conversation about accessibility and intersectional justice. This conversation will discuss information\, tools\, and resources for creating intentional and accessible spaces and community engagement. This conversation also aims to help us think through what this moment of remote work means for our communities. How do graduate students navigate access in an already inaccessible world? Our hope is to have an impactful conversation about resources and accessibility as a foundation and not an add on\, and to help us imagine how creating accessible spaces benefits us all. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Muticultural Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-disability-justice-conversation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sam del Castillo":MAILTO:diversitypeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="American Indian & Indigenous Collective RFG":MAILTO:ucsbaiic@gmail.com
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