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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: All the Frost Melts: A Trilingual Reading in Dolgan\, Russian\, and English
DESCRIPTION:This trilingual reading of writings by Indigenous writer Kseniia Bolshakova will include portions from her autobiographical novel All the Frost Melts\, which was recently translated into English after being published in Dolgan and Russian in 2024. It will feature writer Kseniia Bolshakova reading in Dolgan\, linguist Karina Sheifer (UC Santa Barbara) reading in Russian\, and translator Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego) reading in English. The reading also will include imagery from life in the Russian Arctic. This event is being held in conjunction with INT 94LE: Literature and Experience and the longstanding California Graduate Slavic Colloquium\, being held at UCSB for the first time ever on April 18\, 2026. \nKseniia Bolshakova is an Indigenous decolonial writer and a member of the Dolgan Tribal community Yjdyŋa. She was born and raised in the tundra and the village of Popigai in the Russian Arctic. As one of the youngest keepers of the Dolgan language—spoken by only 1000 people—she is deeply committed to preserving her native tongue and traditional knowledge\, as well as advocating for Indigenous rights and social justice. Her debut novel\, Buluus da irer / All The Frost Melts\, was first published in a bilingual Dolgan-Russian edition and presented at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York in 2024. \nKarina Sheifer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at UCSB. Her fieldwork focuses on language contact and change as well as documentation and digitalization of Indigenous languages of Siberia and the Far East\, namely Northern Tungusic (Evenki and Even)\, Siberian Turkic (Dolgan and Yakut)\, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Itelmen and Chukchi). Although her main research interest is in linguistics\, an integral part of her work is an interaction with minority national communities in terms of education and promotion of Indigenous languages\, literatures\, and cultures. \nAinsley Morse teaches in the Department of Literature at UC-San Diego and translates from Russian\, Ukrainian and the languages of former Yugoslavia. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the post-war Soviet period\, particularly unofficial or “underground” poetry\, as well as the avant-garde\, children’s literature and contemporary poetry. With Anastasiya Osipova\, she co-runs Cicada Press\, a small press that publishes Eastern European and Russian poetry in translation; she also translates and edits for Tamizdat Project Press. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Arnhold Arts and Humanities Commons\, and Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-all-the-frost-melts-a-trilingual-reading-in-dolgan-russian-and-english/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260412T100000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Between Catastrophe and Creativity: Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s Nobel Prize and the Jewish Response to Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In December 1966\, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970) received the Nobel Prize in literature—the only author writing in Hebrew to receive that distinguished honor. Rabbi Jeffrey Saks will trace how Agnon’s remarkable acceptance speech vividly expresses the intertwining of personal destiny\, Jewish history\, and the art of storytelling. Standing before the crowned heads of Europe\, Agnon recounted his life\, not merely as a biographical sketch but as a narrative shaped by the catastrophe of Jerusalem’s destruction and centuries of exile. Agnon portrayed his literary calling as divine compensation for the lost sacred songs of the Temple. He cast himself as a Levite tasked to write in place of singing—to render music in prose that consoles pain and channels longing. His works\, suffused with layers of biblical\, rabbinic\, and folk textures\, grow from that center: the artist as healer of ancient wounds. Saks explores how that theme animates Agnon’s writing and surveys the intertwined biographical stations leading to the platform at the Nobel Prize ceremony. \nRabbi Jeffrey Saks is a prominent Modern Orthodox educator\, writer\, and editor based in Jerusalem. He holds a BA\, MA\, and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Saks is best known as the founding director of The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education and its online learning platform\, WebYeshiva.org. Since January 2019\, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Tradition\, a leading journal of Orthodox Jewish thought\, and currently serves as the Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-between-catastrophe-and-creativity-shmuel-yosef-agnons-nobel-prize-and-the-jewish-response-to-trauma/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T173000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Accumulation by Dispossession: The Timber Salvage Project on Ghana’s Volta Lake
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on the timber salvage project on Ghana’s Volta Lake to theorize how accumulation by dispossession is reproduced through contemporary environmental governance. It situates salvage within the lake’s longer history of state-led development and displacement following the Akosombo Dam. Framed around sustainability\, safety\, and economic opportunity\, timber extraction reworks a shared lake space into a site of value capture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and document analysis\, the talk shows how state and corporate actors consolidate profit through restricted access and uneven benefit sharing. It traces global connections and foregrounds the inequalities and injustice enacted\, advancing debates on green grabbing and environmental justice. \nEric Tamatey Lawer is a human geographer whose research and teaching lie at the intersection of human geography and development studies. His work is grounded in the political ecology of natural resources\, examining how power\, policy\, and spatial transformations shape livelihoods and environments in Africa and beyond. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Ghana Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of History\, Environmental Studies Program\, and Africa Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-accumulation-by-dispossession-the-timber-salvage-project-on-ghanas-volta-lake/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ghana Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Childhood and the Role of Adults in the Identity Formation of Children in Ghanaian Children’s Literature
DESCRIPTION:The perception of childhood seems to vary across cultures and literature is a key conveyor of cultural heritage. heritage. In this talk\, Clara Asare-Nyarko will explore childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children in Ghanaian children’s literature. \nAlthough the development of children’s literature in Ghana began in the 1950s and a significant volume has been produced for young readers\, research on children’s literature in Ghana remains largely a neglected area (Yitah & Komasi\, 2009). The use of story as agent of socialisation is a conscious and deliberate process and people usually develop understanding of who they are in close relationship with the society they belong to (Stephens\, 1992; Stryker & Burke\, 2000). Using four books for young readers by Ghanaian authors and social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner\, 1979)\, this study explores childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children. Childhood is often defined more by behaviour\, responsibility and societal norms rather than just age in Ghana (Kyei-Gyamfi\, 2025) and adults play prominent roles in this crucial formative period children learn to coexist and interact in a more interconnected world. \nClara Asare-Nyarko is a final-year doctoral student in the Department of English\, University of Cape Coast\, Ghana and University of Hildesheim\, Germany. She holds a Master of Arts in Translation Studies from Pan African University and ASTI in University of Buea\, Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group and Ghana Studies Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-childhood-and-the-role-of-adults-in-the-identity-formation-of-children-in-ghanaian-childrens-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,Ghana Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Melinda Gandara (Santa Barbara City College) about García’s new book\, Rupert García: The Making of an American Artist\, a Testimonio. Rupert García is a compelling story of a working-class Mexican American from California’s Central Valley who became a major American artist with national and international recognition. Mario T. García’s oral history of Rupert García\, based on extensive interviews over many years\, provides a captivating autobiographical narrative of the life and times of an American artist. This testimonio places Rupert García’s art in historical perspective\, spanning his beginnings in Stockton\, California and his time in the Air Force\, including participating in the U.S. war in Vietnam\, to his experience at San Francisco State during the historic San Francisco State student strike in 1968–69. Influenced by history and politics\, Rupert García’s art speaks to a changing America through the eyes of an artist\, speaking to issues of race\, class\, imperialism\, war\, and the role of the artist in society. \nMario T. García is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has published over 20 books over the course of his career\, including Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice and The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-mario-t-garcia/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T120000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: The Central Issues of the Priestly Struggle in the Dead Sea Scrolls
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rachel Elior’s writings have stimulated lively discussions among scholars in her areas of research. These include\, among others\, early Jewish mysticism\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, Messianism\, Hasidism\, and the role of women in Jewish culture. In her talk for the Taubman Symposia\, presented as an online webinar\, she will speak about the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls as a way of understanding the deep oppositional diversity of Jewish culture in Late Antiquity. Her talk addresses the dispute between\, on one hand\, the priestly writers (priests from the house of Zadok) who left the magnificent library of sacred writings discovered at Qumran\, and on the other\, the oral teachers known as the sages (Pharisees). The latter defined the Qumran library as “s’farim chitzonim\,” books to remain outside of the emerging canon. As Elior explains\, those matters involve everywhere the central themes of canon and censorship\, and the shifting authority among sacred texts and their interpreters – exemplified by the adoption of the lunar over the solar calendar\, a fundamental change in the source of authority. Join the webinar on February 22 to hear Professor Elior’s talk on this fascinating but little-known chapter in Jewish history. \nElior studied at the Hebrew University/Jerusalem (PhD summa cum laude\, 1976). She has taught at that institution since 1978 and serves there as the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Thought. Elior has published nine books on Jewish mysticism\, six of which have been translated into English\, Spanish\, and Polish. Additionally\, she has edited ten books\, edited and annotated three further books\, and authored 120 articles on mysticism. Her work has garnered numerous distinguished awards. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-the-central-issues-of-the-priestly-struggle-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T180000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260219T214921Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Looking\, After the Fires
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, unprecedented wildfires ravaged multiple continents. The fires grow ever larger\, more destructive\, and more ubiquitous as our changing climate plunges us further into the Pyrocene. Despite the scale of the devastation\, small moments of optimism can be found in elemental ecological reflexes. Fires have motivated similar bursts of creative response from human cultural networks as well\, inspiring – perhaps necessitating – new ways to conceive of ourselves in relation to our landscapes. Drawing across disciplines\, this talk explores collected depictions of post-fire landscapes in Italy\, Japan\, and California and searches for new ways to consider human relationships to the landscape and built environment. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMegumi Aihara is a Landscape Architect. She has played a significant role in the design and construction of landscapes of all scales across the United States and beyond. Her work at SAW and her past teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts focuses on blurring distinctions between landscape and architecture. She holds an MLA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Landscape Architect in California and Hawaii. \nDan Spiegel is an Architect. He is a Continuing Lecturer in Architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design\, where he coordinates advanced graduate studios. Dan’s work spans scales and timelines\, intertwining the conceptual with the practical\, using a background in Public Policy to deploy design as a tool for community engagement and development. He holds an M.Arch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Architect in California and Hawaii. \nTogether\, Megumi and Dan founded the hybrid practice SAW (pronounced “Saw”) in San Francisco\, CA in 2014. Their work spans scales\, timelines\, disciplines\, and continents. SAW was the recipient of the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York in 2018\, Design Vanguard from Architectural Record in 2019\, New Talent from Metropolis Magazine\, Next Progressives from Architect Magazine\, Emerging Talent from the Monterey Design Conference\, as well as several regional and national awards from the American Institute of Architects. Their work has been published and exhibited widely\, including the solo show “Other Objectives” at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and the recent installation “Looking\, After the Fires” at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/looking-after-the-fires/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Childhood Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in:\n– children’s media\, literature\, and culture\n– historical childhoods\n– children’s rights\n– education\n– child pyschology\n– sociology of childhood \nThe Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes graduate and undergraduate students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Free food and drinks provided. \nLearn about our on-campus Childhood Studies community (courses\, affiliated faculty\, and graduate students)\, research and conference opportunities offered by the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, and proposals for a new Childhood and Youth Studies Minor and Ph.D. Emphasis in Childhood Studies. Join us for more information on programming\, research opportunities\, mentorship\, participation in an annual Undergraduate Research Showcase\, talks and reading groups\, and a like-minded community on campus. \nWe extend a special invitation to the Winter 2026 undergraduate students of Children’s Literature\, Young Humans\, Media and Children\, The Modern Girl\, Family Communication\, Educating the Native\, Fairytale Cinema\, and Fantasy and the Fantastic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-childhood-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese) about Levine’s new book\, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir. In Unfaithful\, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences\, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors\, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Unfaithful was recently listed by Words Without Borders as a 2025 best book in the field of translation. \nSuzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation\, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s\, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010)\, her most recent translation\, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories\, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-suzanne-jill-levine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T171503Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber
DESCRIPTION:The Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour\, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly\, about Tatour’s recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin)\, Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2025). The book maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race\, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism\, settler colonialism\, capitalism\, and heteropatriarchy. The roundtable participants will discuss the longstanding tradition of theorizing race in Palestine studies\, race and international law\, the politics of racialization\, anti-Palestinian racism\, antiracism and solidarity\, and Israel’s current genocidal war on Gaza. \nLana Tatour is a Lecturer in Development at the School of Social Sciences\, UNSW Sydney. She works on settler colonialism\, indigeneity\, race\, citizenship\, human rights\, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together Research Focus Group\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, UCSB’s Center for Middle-East Studies\, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-race-and-the-question-of-palestine-lana-tatour-in-conversation-with-bishnupriya-ghosh-and-elisabeth-weber/
LOCATION:1930 Buchanan\, Buchanan Hall\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Elana Resnick (Anthropology) and Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences) about Resnick’s new book\, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide\, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism’s excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally different account of sustainability and waste itself by uncovering the intersections of international environmental reforms and racialized labor. In Bulgaria\, Roma comprise the bulk of the country’s waste workers\, while anti-Roma racism casts them as socially disposable. Without their labor\, however\, the country cannot meet the sustainability targets required by the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork that spans twenty years\, including eleven months working alongside Romani women street sweepers and years embedded in waste organizations\, political campaigns\, Roma NGOs\, and activist groups\, Resnick examines the power hierarchies that shape both waste management and European geopolitics. \nElana Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she directs the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group. Her research examines waste\, racialization\, labor\, nuclear energy\, and friendship through multi-modal methods. She has published in journals including American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Public Culture. She is the recipient of the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elana-resnick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T111500
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing\, Generation Z\, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave
DESCRIPTION:The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk\, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book\, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society\, which examines a new wave of Egyptian picturebooks published in Egypt since the early 2000s\, she will trace the historical development of Egyptian children’s literature until the neoliberal context\, marked by changing cultural aspirations. Her talk will focus in particular on a cluster of picturebooks that socialize children into emerging neoliberal spaces\, showing how these texts normalize new forms of childhood\, domestic life\, and mobility\, and how they translate broader political-economic shifts into everyday narratives addressed to young readers. \nYasmine Motawy is a scholar\, critic\, translator\, editor\, and consultant specializing in children’s literature. She has served on major regional and international award juries\, including the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award\, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award\, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature\, and chaired the 2025 Sawiris Cultural Award. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (2018). In 2022\, she received AUC’s Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award. Her latest book is Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (2025). She currently serves on the board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2025–2027). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-domesticating-the-future-egyptian-childrens-publishing-generation-z-and-the-neoliberal-ideology-of-the-new-wave/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251104T202133Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T202133Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251104T201709Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T202028Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-27-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250825T193923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T212926Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Keepers of the Flame: Learning to Be in Relation with Fire
DESCRIPTION:Keepers of the Flame is an initiative rooted in relationships—between cultural fire practitioners and students/faculty\, and between people\, plants\, and fire. In a context of settler colonial environmental policy and increasing risk of catastrophic fire\, Keepers centers respect for Indigenous fire practitioners\, recognition of fire as part of the landscape\, and personal\, place-based understandings with fire. With attention to the environmental injustices of land theft and fire suppression and the inequitable impacts of catastrophic fire\, through Keepers\, we begin to cultivate a respectful relation with fire. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBeth Rose Middleton is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011\, UA Press) and Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River (2018\, UA Press). A collaborative social scientist\, Beth Rose strives to develop and sustain partnerships with Tribes and Native/Indigenous non-profit organizations on environmental health\, sustainable rural economic development\, the historical and political context of river restoration\, the reintroduction of low-intensity fire for land/water/community health\, and Indigenous-led stewardship and climate adaptation. Beth Rose received her B.A. in Nature and Culture from UC Davis and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from UC Berkeley. Beth Rose mentors undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs in Native American Studies\, Ecology\, Public Health Sciences\, Geography\, and Community Development. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/keepers-of-the-flame/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T163000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251218T234759Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251223T002643Z
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: James A. Diamond
DESCRIPTION:Within the walls of the well-known Warsaw Ghetto uprising\, another kind of resistance was mounted\, not by combatants\, but rather by a group of poets\, artists\, and historians known as the Oyneg Shabbes collective. Far less known than the Ghetto\, that literary and artistic circle composed and ultimately buried thousands of documents attesting to the suffering under Nazi oppression. Among those documents\, recovered after the war\, was a manuscript of weekly sermons delivered during three years in the Ghetto (1939–42) by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943)\, Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno (Poland). As a Hasidic leader\, Shapira desperately tried to preserve his and his community’s faith confronted by unimaginable hardship\, pain\, and loss. He persisted in the face of mass deportations and continued to meticulously edit his sermons even after he had ceased delivering them and there was no longer a community to comfort and inspire. It is a rare testament to one human being’s struggle with the incomprehensible evil of the Holocaust and with his own herculean resistance to it. \nDiamond has occupied the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at Waterloo University for the past twenty-five years. He holds law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School\, Toronto University (LLB\, 1978) and New York University School of Law (LLM\, 1979). In 1990s he received an MA (1992) and PhD (1999) in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-james-a-diamond/
LOCATION:Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, 524 Chapala St.\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T113000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251031T230250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T172952Z
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad
DESCRIPTION:Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem\, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion\, culture and mental health\, the sanctification of space in Israel\, and Maghrebi Jewish culture. His perspective is consistently two-fold\, as he seeks to highlight the interface between\, on one hand\, social actors as individuals\, and on the other\, the collective level of social norms\, cultural symbols and political ideologies. Professor Bilu’s Taubman Symposium\, “Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad\,” emanates from his 2020 book\, With Us More than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad\, which won the 2015 Goldberg Prize for the best academic book-length manuscript in Hebrew. Taking into account the cultural toolkit used by the Hasidim to make their absent Rabbi (and designated messiah) present\, Bilu explores the messianic fervor that seized the Hasidic movement of Chabad-Lubavitch on the 1994 passing of the widely revered Lubavitcher Rebbe. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-messianism-in-post-schneerson-chabad/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250723T200151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T215559Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Spheres of Injustice: Minority Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:How can we revitalize minority politics while making the fight against discrimination beneficial for all? Bruno Perreau proposes thinking about minority experiences relationally. How one person is governed has a direct impact on how another is. Legal provisions that protect gender can be used to protect race; those that protect disability can protect age\, sexual orientation\, or class\, and so on. This is what Perreau calls intrasectionality\, a new concept and an innovative legal strategy to tackle today’s political challenges. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University. He is the founding chair of MIT’s Center of Excellence in French Studies. Perreau is also the author of thirteen books on French and US institutions\, bioethics\, family policies\, queer cultures\, minority politics\, and contemporary theories of justice\, among them The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press\, 2014)\, Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, Les Défis de la République (with Joan W. Scott\, Presses de Sciences Po\, 2017)\, and Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence (MIT Press\, 2025). \nCoponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/spheres-of-injustice-minority-politics-today/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251010T185208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T221816Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno\, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks\, illustrated editions\, and comics\, this moral framework is often softened\, secularized\, or inverted. Through examples from Italy\, the United States\, and Japan\, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction\, irony\, or spectacle\, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or emotional experience. These adaptations reveal how cultures negotiate what kinds of violence (and what kinds of justice) can be shown to children\, turning Dante’s Hell into a mirror of modern moral and pedagogical anxieties. \nMartina Mattei is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on adaptation theory\, children’s literature\, and the transnational reception of canonical texts. Her dissertation examines contemporary adaptations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for children across English-\, Italian-\, and Japanese-language traditions. Through a comparative analysis of picturebooks\, comics\, videogames\, and animation\, she explores how these texts negotiate the poem’s theological\, moral\, and philosophical complexity for young audiences\, revealing local pedagogical and cultural investments. Martina’s work engages broader questions about how canonical texts are transformed when reframed for new readerships\, particularly in visual and age-specific media. She is especially interested in the way themes such as violence\, race\, and spirituality are omitted\, softened\, or reimagined in global childhood adaptations of Dante\, and how these editorial choices reflect shifting notions of literary value\, ethical storytelling\, and cultural authority. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-between-justice-and-horror-the-theological-violence-of-dantes-inferno-recast/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20251021T165111Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251021T165731Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist\, Hindu\, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini\, Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini\, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife\, especially the regal Sarus Cranes\, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. \nArjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini\, an environmental NGO in Nepal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/preserving-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250709T234338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T223028Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Melody Jue’s (English) recent co-edited volume\, Informatics of Domination. Jue will be joined by co-editors Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee and contributor Rita Raley (English). Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies) will moderate. Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist\, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought\, inviting fifty scholars\, artists\, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms\, such as essays on artificial intelligence\, disability and protest\, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together\, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems\, networks\, and computation today. \nMelody Jue is a Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University Press\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-melody-jue/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250723T184323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T202449Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Inaugural Talk: When It All Burns: The Creation of California's Wildfire Crisis
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an on-the-ground perspective from a record-breaking fire season on a California hotshot crew\, tracing the sociological\, historical\, and economic forces that fuel today’s megafires. For wildland firefighters\, navigating the escalating impacts of climate change is a matter of life and death. These fires are not natural disasters\, but the result of political choices. Understanding where they come from—and how firefighters survive on their edges—is essential to imagining a more just and equitable climate future in California. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJordan Thomas is the author of When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\, which was recently nominated for a National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Drift\, among others. He is a cultural anthropology doctoral candidate at UCSB and former wildland firefighter. \nSponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-inaugural-talk-when-it-all-burns-the-creation-of-californias-wildfire-crisis/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250530T195659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T223144Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Tuesday\, September 30\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about On Fire\, our 2025–26 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, music\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T110000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250527T175908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250529T154511Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella Williams and research on Writing and Literature by Tia Trinh in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Historical Memory in Narrative will focus on the cultural shaping of children’s stories over generations\, as shown in “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children\,” researched by Isabella Williams\, and children’s literature as an act of reclaiming and rewriting historical narratives\, as shown in “Rewriting Silence: Preserving Cultural Memory and Reclaiming Narrative in Children’s Literature on Japanese Internment\,” researched by Tia Trinh. \nIsabella Williams’ research focuses on the proliferation of one variation of Cinderella in relation to the negotiation between traditional fairy tale structures and evolving notions of childhood innocence\, morality\, and cultural appropriateness in adaptations for children. “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children” demonstrates how authors sanitize and reimagine narratives for child audiences; how they permit violence but censor sexuality; how they reinforce gender roles through the demonization of female figures and the sanctification of male heroes; and how Christian and Protestant ethics shape the ideal of the passive\, industrious heroine. By tracing the history of fairy tale adaptations\, Williams examines how Cinderella’s image is constrained and recoded into a rigid ideological instrument\, replacing a once fluid\, complex story of autonomy and survival with a static myth of virtue\, labor\, and grace. Isabella Williams is a fourth-year Comparative Literature major with a minor in Portuguese. Her academic focus revolves around children’s literature and fairy tale media. In her research\, she examines how authors shape children’s stories based on cultural ideas of childhood\, morality\, and respectability. \nIn “Rewriting Silence\,” Tia Trinh analyzes George Takei’s My Lost Freedom and Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Love in the Library as acts of reclaiming history and rewriting narratives about a deeply violent and often overlooked part of Asian American history. The paper compares each author’s positionality to critically analyze different perspectives and methods of retelling the narrative of Japanese-American internment. Understood primarily through the lens of an Asian American studies and close-reading comparison of both children’s books\, this paper strives to understand how both stories work to share stories of family ancestry\, preserve cultural memory\, and push back against an increasingly whitewashed education. Tia Trinh is a fourth-year Writing & Literature major in the College of Creative Studies (CCS) with a double minor in Asian American Studies and Professional Writing – Journalism. She is a storyteller exploring the complexities of Asian American coming-of-age and understanding one’s identity today\, told through themes of ancestry\, travel\, grief\, food\, and much more. Her research explores how Asian American authors retell and reclaim a deeply violent history through childrens’ literature. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/historical-memory-in-narrative-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250418T213422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T193243Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World
DESCRIPTION: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 our website for more information and the call for papers! \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-conference-blue-humanities-and-liquid-media-a-watery-view-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T110000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250512T212536Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom
DESCRIPTION:Literature\, and children’s literature specifically\, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis\, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases\, such as sickle cell\, HIV/AIDS\, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases\, sickle cell anemia\, this study argues that\, even with great innovations in medical science\, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms a part of human life\, literature has responded\, including in the case of sickle cell. Children with such diseases have been stigmatized by society\, while even some parents see them as burdens and curse them\, forgetting that they themselves are the cause of it. Through its power to instill value in life\, literature offers a reminder of how to handle people with such diseases. Idada is a point of focus in this study. Through the child protagonists\, Eghe and Osaik\, Idada talks of unquestionable love towards the child\, community collaboration\, government involvement\, scientific research\, media involvement\, and African consciousness on technological innovations. Deconstructionist critical theory challenges the traditional notions of language\, meaning and truth by exposing the contradictions and inconsistencies held within ideologies and beliefs about children living with such diseases in the world. This study will show that healing for complex diseases like sickle cell is not only clinical but that other forms of healing are also important. \nDr. Nfor Noela Mankfu-Ngwa hails from the North West Region of Cameroon. She has a Ph.D. in Postcolonial Literature (specifically\, Children’s Literature) from the University of Bamenda. She is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Bamenda and a Secondary School English Language and Literature in English teacher. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Literatures in English from the University of Buea. She holds a DIPES II from HTTC\, Bambili. Her publications include “Identity Construction in Black Children’s Narratives: A Reading of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give.” She is also part of the socio-linguistic profiling of Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-disease-and-inclusive-healing-in-jude-idadas-boom-boom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sonic Spatiality in Sacred Spaces: An Analysis of Resonance in South Indian Temples
DESCRIPTION:Sound has long played a central role in Hindu worship\, with Vedic chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs shaping the spiritual soundscape. Unlike the time-domain focus typical in Western religious acoustics\, Hindu rituals emphasize frequency-rich sounds\, forming what we term a “frequency domain soundscape of worship.” In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will present the results of his acoustic analysis of six UNESCO heritage South Indian temples: four rock-cut cave temples in Badami and Aihole and two freestanding temples\, the Virupaksha temple in Pattadakal and Vijaya Vittala temple in Hampi. Using impulse response measurements\, standard acoustic parameters\, such as reverberation time (T30) and clarity index (C80)\, and nonstandard parameters\, such as resonance quality and resonance width\, are computed to provide an insight into their acoustic properties. His findings highlight how temple architecture supports ritual acoustics\, with implications for both heritage preservation and the virtual re-creation of ancient sonic environments. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and researcher from Bengaluru\, India\, who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio Technology at American University. He received his PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sonic-spatiality-in-sacred-spaces-an-analysis-of-resonance-in-south-indian-temples/
LOCATION:3041 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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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T140000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
CREATED:20250418T212838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T193128Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson
DESCRIPTION:The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism\, gender\, and anti-colonialism. \nIn 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 perspective\, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-book-presentation-the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism-with-kevin-b-anderson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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SUMMARY:LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction and Social Organization
DESCRIPTION:The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language\, interaction\, and culture. \nThe conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\, Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia\, Okanagan)\, and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California\, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on May 23rd and 24th\, and will be followed on May 25th by a symposium on “Representing Language and Its Users.” \nThis year\, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism\, language and resistance\, language and social justice\, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language\, interaction\, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate. \nRegister to attend here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization Research Focus Group\, Graduate Student Association\, Graduate Division\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Geoff Raymond\, and Elena Skapoulli-Raymond
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-27th-annual-conference-on-language-interaction-and-social-organization/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization),IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="LISO (Language%2C Interaction%2C and Social Organization)":MAILTO:lisoconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010948
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate our 2025 Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program graduates\, Tannishtha Bhattacharjee (History) and Cypris Roalsvig (Classics)\, as they deliver presentations about their training\, work\, and identity as public humanists. \nAudience Q&A and reception will follow. \nLearn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-capstone-presentations-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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