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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talks and Staged Reading: On Collecting and Hoarding
DESCRIPTION:SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \n4:00 – 5:15 PM\nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff\n \n\n7:00 – 8:00 PM\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough\n \n\nEVENT DETAILS: \nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff \nThe Creative Edge of Collecting \nWilliam Davies King has spent a lifetime collecting nothing in a way he brought to light in his 2008 book Collections of Nothing. His collecting of such things as Cheez-It boxes\, “Place Stamp Here” squares\, hotel door cards\, and the little stickers you find on fruit runs into the tens of thousands of items\, all on the low edge of the valueless and the ephemeral. But he has also spent a lifetime engaged with the arts–drama\, performance art\, collage–and he has explored the ways the activity of the collector\, who thinks through the world\, connects to the work of the artist\, who makes a world through things. In this talk\, King will use exhibits\, imagery\, anecdotes\, and ideas to open up the creative nexus of collecting and its power to re-create the world. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Henry Irving’s “Waterloo”: Theatrical Engagements with Late-Victorian Culture and History (1993)\, Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (1997)\, “A Wind Is Rising”: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill (2000)\, Collections of Nothing (2008)\, and Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton (Michigan\, 2010)\, and he is the editor of critical editions of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2014) and The Iceman Cometh (2020).  \nAn Oikos for Everything: Hoarding against Waste \nThe first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an explosion of interest in hoarding\, and in those whose accumulated possessions overwhelm living spaces\, rendering them unusable and often unsafe. Hoarding is the subject of recent documentary and feature films\, novels\, memoirs\, self-help books\, installation art\, stand-up comedy acts\, and of course\, reality series. In her talk\, Rebecca Falkoff will explore the relationships between hoarding and wasting\, and the narratives through which they are antithetically conjoined. Modern literary and visual texts from Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 Dead Souls to Song Dong’s 2005 Waste Not present hoarding as a way of suspending matter between waste and use in a bounded space of potential. \nRebecca Falkoff is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. She recently completed her first manuscript\, Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding\, and is working on a new project about industrial chemistry and literature\, Modernity in the Air. She has published on illegibility\, flea markets\, and the Ferrante phenomenon. Her work on Carlo Emilio Gadda’s scientific and technical writings was awarded the Romance Studies Early Career Researchers Essay Prize.  \nAudience Q&A will follow. \n\nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\n\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough \nWritten by William Davies King (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nDirected by Risa Brainin (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nCast: Irwin Appel (UCSB Theater and Dance) and Anne Torsiglieri (UCSB Theater and Dance)  \nThe play delves into the mixed-up mind of the mega-collector and asks of that massive pile of stuff–thoughts\, feelings\, and jokes–the crucial question facing us all: What next? \nAudience Q&A will follow. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance’s LAUNCH PAD series\, and the UCSB Library \n\nRelated Exhibit: The Creative Edge of Collecting: The “Nothing” of William Davies King \nUCSB Library exhibited a selection of William Davies King’s ephemera collection in its first floor Mountain Gallery during winter quarter 2020. In The Creative Edge of Collecting\, King confronts the social and psychological impulses to collect\, and also the eye-opening possibilities of the sort of things that one might assemble. Shortly after the exhibition opened\, COVID-19 struck\, and the campus shut down all physical spaces. While UCSB Library remains closed to visitors\, you can still see the exhibition online. Please click here for a walk-through with William Davies King. For more information about the UCSB Library exhibition\, please visit https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/creative-edge-collecting.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talks-staged-reading-exhibit-on-collecting-and-hoarding/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Making Abolition Geographies: Stories from California
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nThis talk explores how visions of abolition guide and connect organizing across a range of social justice struggles. Gilmore will highlight examples relating to environmental justice\, public sector labor unions\, farm workers\, undocumented households\, criminalized youth\, and community based approaches to prevent and resolve gender and interpersonal violence. The vivid California stories she will present reveal how abolition is a practical program for urgent change grounded in the needs\, talents\, and dreams of vulnerable people. Audience Q&A will follow. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place\, Culture\, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project\, Critical Resistance\, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network\, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Recent publications include “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet\, Camp and Heatherton\, eds.\, Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futures of Black Radicalism\, Lubin and Johnson\, eds.\, Verso); a foreword to Bobby M. Wilson’s Birmingham classic America’s Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); and a foreword to Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism\, Black Internationalism\, and Cultures of Resistance (HLT Quan\, ed.\, Pluto). Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nVIVIR LA DEMOCRACIA: HACER GEOGRAFÍAS DE LA ABOLICIÓN: HISTORIAS DE CALIFORNIA \nEsta charla explora cómo las visiones de la abolición guían y conectan la organización a través de una variedad de luchas por la justicia social. Gilmore destacará ejemplos relacionados con la justicia ambiental\, los sindicatos laborales del sector público\, los trabajadores agrícolas\, los hogares indocumentados\, los jóvenes criminalizados y los enfoques comunitarios para prevenir y resolver la violencia de género e interpersonal. Las historias que surgen de California revelan cómo la abolición es un programa práctico para un cambio urgente basado en las necesidades\, talentos y sueños de las personas vulnerables. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore es profesora de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente y directora del Centro para el lugar\, la cultura y la política del Centro de Graduados de la City University of New York. Cofundadora de muchas organizaciones\, incluido el Proyecto de Moratoria de Prisiones de California\, Resistencia Crítica y la Red de Justicia Ambiental de California Central\, Gilmore es autor del galardonado Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Las publicaciones recientes incluyen “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet\, Camp y Heatherton\, eds.\, Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futuros del radicalismo negro\, Lubin y Johnson\, eds.\, Verso); un prólogo del clásico de Birmingham de Bobby M. Wilson\, America’s Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); y un prólogo a Cedric J. Robinson sobre capitalismo racial\, internacionalismo negro y culturas de resistencia (HLT Quan\, ed.\, Plutón). Los próximos proyectos incluyen Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket); y (coeditado con Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Fundación Sara Miller McCune y George D. McCune \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito. Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom.
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