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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T160000
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talk: Art as Compass and Catalyst for Change
DESCRIPTION:Amplifier.org is “a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times.” In this lecture the Founder of Amplifier will speak on the power of art at threshold moments\, recounting visual campaigns like We The People\, which flooded the streets for the Women’s March and 2017 Presidential Inauguration protests. \nAmplifier believes that in times of uncertainty—in times like these\, when fear and misinformation attempt to divide us—that art is more than beauty or decoration: It is a weapon and a shield. Art has the power to wake people up and serve as a catalyst for real change. It is a megaphone for important but unheard voices that need amplifying. It is a bridge that can unite movements with shared values in ways other mediums cannot. Art gives us symbols to gather around\, builds community\, and helps us feel like we are not alone. But for all the tools art can be in this fight\, for Amplifier it is a compass. It points to the future we want to live in\, and that we want our children to live in. A reception will follow \nAaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer\, a Stanford Media Designer\, and Creative Director of Amplifier. He has photographed over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines and is a Contributing Artist at Harper’s Magazine. Huey is also widely known for his 3\,349-mile solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo) and his TED talk on Native American P.O.W. Camps. Huey is a Stanford Knight Fellow and the first Global Ambassador for Stanford’s d.School\, focusing on media experiments using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world. \nFree Amplifier art stickers will be given to the first 20 attendees. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series and the Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talk-art-as-compass/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200115T190000
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talk: Nations in Crisis\, People in Crisis: Connecting Upheaval
DESCRIPTION:IHC Director Susan Derwin asked Jared Diamond\, UCLA Professor of Geography\, a few questions about his work in light of the current pandemic. Read his comments here. \nNations that successfully navigate crises do so by making selective changes to their identities and actions. When individuals experience crises—mid-life\, financial\, health\, relationship—they may also adopt selective changes to overcome the situation. But some individuals\, like some nations\, are better at navigating upheaval than others. By drawing on the factors that counselors and psychotherapists have identified that affect the likelihood of overcoming personal crisis\, Diamond will examine the extent to which crisis response on the individual scale helps us to understand the outcomes of recent and impending national and world crises. \nJared Diamond is professor of Geography at UCLA and the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Guns\, Germs\, and Steel\, Collapse\, and other books. \nCopies of Diamond’s books will be available for purchase and signing. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series \nImage: Kinuko Y. Craft
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talk-nations-in-crisis-people-in-crisis-connecting-upheaval/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talk: Ady Barkan: Love and Death\, Hope and Resistance
DESCRIPTION:Sitting in that hotel armchair\, I realized that my deadly disease was giving me newfound power at the very moment it was depriving me of so much strength. My voice was growing softer\, but I was being heard by more people than ever before. My legs were disintegrating\, but more and more people were following in my footsteps. Precisely because my days were numbered\, people drew inspiration from my decision to spend them in resistance. Precisely because I faced such obstacles\, my comrades were moved by my message that struggle is never futile. \nIn this talk\, the paralyzed political activist Ady Barkan will explore the existential questions that he has faced in the wake of his terminal diagnosis with ALS\, and that the American people have faced under the Trump administration: What kind of life will our children have\, and what kind of world will they inherit? Which injustices must we accept and which ones demand our resistance? How should we spend our precious time on this earth\, and how should we die? \nA reception will follow. Copies of Eyes to the Wind will be available for purchase and there will be a free book giveaway to the first 20 students to attend with ID. \nAdy Barkan is an organizer at the Center for Popular Democracy and the founder of the Be A Hero campaign. He is the author of Eyes to the Wind: A Memoir of Love and Death\, Hope and Resistance. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, the Department of English\, and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talk-ady-barkan/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191112T210000
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SUMMARY:Screening and Panel Discussion: Surviving Home
DESCRIPTION:SURVIVING HOME is an intimate documentary that follows four U.S. military veterans from different generations over an eight year period as they rebuild their lives after war. Interwoven with veterans’ voices from across the country\, their unique paths of healing and transformation shed light on longterm consequences of war and raise questions about the roots of war and societal cycles of violence. \nA severely injured Iraq War veteran discovers a new voice that helps heal his wounds of war\, as he and his wife struggle to keep their marriage alive. A Vietnam War veteran becomes a Buddhist monk in an effort to come to terms with the carnage and dehumanization of combat. A female Iraq War veteran fights through the effects of Military Sexual Trauma to take on the U.S. government in a class action lawsuit that could improve the lives of the next wave of men and women in uniform. A World War II veteran\, who waited years to receive military benefits\, spends time helping others with the support of a young\, civically-minded Marine Corps veteran looking out for him. \nThrough perseverance\, humor\, inner reflection\, courage\, and the determination to help others\, they overcome many challenges\, yet they cannot foresee each bend in the road that lies ahead. \nThe screening will be followed by a panel discussion with filmmakers Jillian and Matthew Moul and local veterans\, moderated by IHC Director Susan Derwin. \nCopresented by UCSB Veterans and Military Services\, the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, UCSB Multicultural Center\, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity.  Screening made possible through a gift from the Gretler Foundation.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/screening-and-panel-discussion-surviving-home/
LOCATION:Multicultural Center Theater\, 494 UCen Road\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Public Forum: Building a Green New Deal: Community\, Coalition\, and Organizing for Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:In communities\, classrooms\, and protest sites across the country\, people have embraced the call for a Green New Deal as a way of recognizing that climate change presents us with an unprecedented historic challenge—and the need for comprehensive and transformational reform. California’s Central Coast has a powerful tradition of grassroots activism to draw on in rising to the challenge\, from the wide-ranging environmental movement sparked by the 1969 Santa Barbara oil spill to the multi-racial labor\, immigrant\, and indigenous people’s rights organizations leading the struggle for economic justice region-wide. Together\, these and allied organizations have formed the Central Coast Climate Justice Network\, a regional coalition dedicated to developing a collective vision and coalitional strategy for achieving holistic and intersectional environmental justice in our region. Featuring presentations from Network member organizations\, the aim of the forum is to launch a broad\, publicly engaged conversation about the need for transformational thought and action in response to the challenges of climate change\, and in the interest of a more equitable and resilient environmental future. Dinner will be available beginning at 5:45 PM. \nWelcome:  \nSUSAN DERWIN\, Director\, UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center \nMARCOS VARGAS\, Executive Director\, Fund for Santa Barbara \nOpening remarks: \nALICE O’CONNOR\, Professor of History and Director\, UCSB Blum Center \nDAVID PELLOW\, Chair and Dehlsen Professor\, UCSB Environmental Studies Program \nPanelists:   \nCAMERON GRAY\, Transportation and Climate Manager\, Community Environmental Council \nANA ROSA RIZO-CENTINO\, Senior Central Coast Organizer\, Food and Water Action \nVANESSA TERAN\, Policy and Communications Associate\, Mixteco/Indígena Community Organizing Project (MICOP) \nConcluding Remarks: \nMARICELA MORALES\, Executive Director\, Central Coast Alliance United for a Sustainable Economy (CAUSE); Co-convener\, C3JN \nSIGRID WRIGHT\, Executive Director\, Community Environmental Council; Co-convener\, C3JN \nDiscussion and Q & A \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development\, Environmental Studies Program\, the Fund for Santa Barbara\, and the Central Coast Climate Justice Network
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-forum-building-a-green-new-deal-community-coalition-organizing-for-environmental-justice/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T160000
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Inaugural Lecture: Plastic’s Tipping Point
DESCRIPTION:Plastic production\, use\, and pollution have been growing steadily for decades\, without much public comment or concern. But suddenly\, and very recently\, there has been strong and widespread backlash against the pervasiveness of plastic. What prompted this sudden change in public opinion?  Did plastic pollution itself reach a tipping point?  Or did public attitudes toward this pollutant undergo a radical shift? Roland Geyer will discuss the history of global plastic production and disposal and will consider the future of both plastic and public outrage against its environmental impact. A reception will follow. \nRoland Geyer is a Professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at UCSB. In his research he uses the approaches and methods of industrial ecology\, such as life cycle assessment and material flow analysis\, to assess pollution prevention strategies based on reuse\, recycling\, and material and technology substitution. Roland also combines these approaches with research methods from other disciplines in order to study the relationship between environmental performance\, economic viability\, and technical and operational feasibility of pollution prevention strategies. His overarching goal is to help develop the knowledge\, tools\, and methods necessary to reduce the environmental impact from industrial production and consumption. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-inaugural-lecture/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191003T160000
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 3\, from 4-6 pm. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Critical Mass\, our 2019-2020 public events series. Find out about our community-engagement programs and our numerous funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2019/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,All Events,IHC Series
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