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Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child

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How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies of children. In doing so, it illustrates the ongoing necessity of Indigenous political savviness in defending communities and nations from the haunted whistlings of Christian religious institutions for Indigenous children ...

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GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods

6206C Phelps Phelps Hall, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This seminar will focus on the concepts, pedagogical designs, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities, ...

Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings, from Glas to his last texts, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war ...

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Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve

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This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of ...

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GCLR Discussion: Ilya Kliger in Conversation with Sven Spieker

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Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger's new book, "Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism" The nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies, institutions, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is, as in the case of Russian realism, ...

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GCLR Talk: Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method

Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work, including in the form of entire universities, specific schools and departments, standalone institutes and centers, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula, to name just a few. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: first, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning, including the sciences, the social ...

New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 Faculty Fellows, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. Stephanie Malia Hom, French and Italian “On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” Susan Hwang, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies “Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” David Novak, Music “Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”

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GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson

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The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of ...

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GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World

Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year's title, "Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World" reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing global socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see ...