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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC)\, a research focus group supported by the IHC\, will be hosting a graduate student research roundtable via Zoom. During this roundtable\, two advanced graduated students will be presenting their works-in-progress for feedback and comments from attendees. We welcome parties interested in Asian American Studies work! For questions\, please email: aasc.ucsb@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/graduate-student-roundtable-jan-11-22/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T150000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:RFG Reading Group Discussion: Leah DeVun's "The Hyena's Unclean Sex: Beasts\, Bestiaries\, and Jewish Communities"
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84025262121?pwd=SGVQRFpnbkhlcUlZcTBZRTRRa0VvUT09 \nJoin the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group as we continue reading from Leah DeVun’s pathbreaking history of nonbinary sex\, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance (New York: Columbia University Press\, 2021)\, in preparation for her talk on January 31st. This week we will be reading the third chapter: “The Hyena’s Unclean Sex: Beasts\, Bestiaries\, and Jewish Communities.” \nPlease email reemtaha@ucsb.edu or jessicazisa@ucsb.edu for access to the reading. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group and Medieval Studies \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-reading-group-discussion-leah-devuns-the-hyenas-unclean-sex-beasts-bestiaries-and-jewish-communities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220118T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Dysgenic Stories: Field Worker Reports\, Contradiction\, and Confinement at Sonoma State Home\, 1920-1921
DESCRIPTION:Our discussion will focus on Isidro González’s paper and another piece of scholarship. González’s research focuses on Sonoma State Home for the Feebleminded in Eldridge\, California\, and how eugenics field workers—those involved in observing and notating nonnormative (“dysgenic”) phenotypic\, familial\, and lifestyle attributes of institutionalized people—crafted individualized clinical narratives of “inmates” to not only legitimize their profession\, the state employer\, and the Eugenics Record Office (ERO)\, but also to surveil\, pathologize\, and medicalize “unfit” human beings. In so doing\, they worked to demarcate the line between idealized white\, able-bodied\, middle- and upper-class citizens and poor\, racialized\, disabled\, and dispensable individuals in the United States. The result was the loss of personal freedom\, the inability to engender children\, and the state and medical establishment’s attempt to halt the propagation of those with lower IQ scores\, poor folks\, non-Protestants\, and those who strayed in body and mind from an exalted whiteness. What this study contributes to the histories of institutionalization\, disability\, race\, gender\, and eugenics is that it highlights the on-the-ground data collection practices of a single field worker at Sonoma State Home to see how the logics of racism\, classism\, ableism\, and sexism functioned to explain the supposed dysgenic traits of institutionalized people and their social networks. Central questions framing this research are: which qualities\, attributes\, and markers did field workers seek in “inmates” and families in order to qualify them as inferior humans\, and how did field workers quantify these markers? Also\, what was the human standard\, in body and mind\, and could “inmates” be fixed or engineered to fit the standard (or fit a standard)? \nIsidro González is a doctoral student in the Department of History\, working at the intersection of race\, disability\, mental illness\, and science in U.S. history. \nPlease register for the Zoom attendance link here and contact disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu if you have any questions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-dysgenic-stories-field-worker-reports-contradiction-and-confinement-at-sonoma-state-home-1920-1921/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T120000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Shakespeare and Global Media Works in Progress Event #2
DESCRIPTION:In our second Works-in-Progress workshop\, we will discuss various strategies and resources for conducting archival work\, receiving funding\, and getting involved in larger scholarly activities (such as conferences\, journals\, and symposia) related to Shakespeare and Global Media. We will build on our previous work of cultivating a multimedia bibliography\, as well as developing questions and frameworks that interrogate established modes of scholarly production. We will consider questions like: What does it mean to do “global Shakespeare”? What methods and approaches push the boundaries of scholarship? Where and how do we engage with productions that are considered under the umbrella of “global Shakespeare”? What resources are available to us\, and what is missing? \nThrough this workshop series\, we hope to generate new research and expand upon work already in progress. We invite scholars from all disciplines who are interested in broadening their own research skillset to join our workshop. \nResources and bibliographies from these events will be available after the completion of this event. \nRegister to Attend \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82581382288?pwd=cW43SWZNVk5pdHk5V08vODFUWVErdz09 \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-shakespeare-and-global-media-works-in-progress-event-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220126T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Passing for Perfect Book Launch
DESCRIPTION:In her new book\, Passing for Perfect\, erin Khuê Ninh considers the factors that drove college imposters such as Azia Kim—who pretended to be a Stanford freshman—and Jennifer Pan—who hired a hitman to kill her parents before they found out she had never received her high school diploma—to extreme lengths to appear successful. Why would someone make such an illogical choice? And how do they stage these lies so convincingly\, and for so long? \nThese outlier examples prompt Ninh to address the larger issue of the pressures and difficulties of striving to be a “model minority\,” where failure is too ruinous to admit. Passing for Perfect insists that being a model minority is not a myth but is coded into one’s programming as an identity—a set of convictions and aspirations\, regardless of present socioeconomic status or future attainability—and that the true cost of turning children into high-achieving professionals may be higher than anyone can bear. \nerin Khuê Ninh is an Associate Professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She is the author of Ingratitude: The Debt-Bound Daughter in Asian American Literature\, which won the 2013 Literary Studies Book Award from the Association for Asian American Studies. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84816328894 \nImage: Temple University Press \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Alliance (APIGSA)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-passing-for-perfect-book-launch/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220207T174530Z
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Artist Talk: Harmonia Rosales
DESCRIPTION:Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales will discuss her new and dynamic body of work presented in the exhibition\, Entwined. Rosales’ interweaving of representations from ancient Greek and Yoruba mythologies invites viewers to challenge their ideas about identity and empowerment. Women and people of color\, the protagonists of her canvases\, assume roles of power and beauty in exquisite imaginings of ancient myths and Renaissance paintings. \nTo learn more about the exhibition Entwined\, which is on display at UCSB’s Art\, Design & Architecture Museum from January 19 to May 1\, 2022\, visit museum.ucsb.edu. \nHarmonia Rosales is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work challenges ideological hegemony in contemporary society. Learn more about the artist and her work at harmoniarosales.com. \nImage © Harmonia Rosales. Courtesy of Harmonia Rosales \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies\, the Department of Classics\, and the Art\, Design & Architecture Museum \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-artist-talk-harmonia-rosales/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220131T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220131T141500
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Discussing The Shape of Sex with Leah DeVun
DESCRIPTION:Join the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group for a guest talk and conversation with Professor Leah DeVun on DeVun’s new book\, The Shape of Sex: Nonbinary Gender from Genesis to the Renaissance. We will discuss the rich history DeVun traces in premodern Europe through the intersections of race\, religion\, sex\, and gender. \nLeah DeVun is Associate Professor of History and Vice Chair for Undergraduate Education at Rutgers University\, as well as a multi-media artist and curator. DeVun focuses on the history of gender\, sexuality\, science\, and medicine in pre-modern Europe\, and on contemporary queer and transgender studies. DeVun is also the author of Prophecy\, Alchemy\, and the End of Time\, winner of the 2013 John Nicholas Brown Prize\, and co-editor (with Zeb Tortorici) of Trans*historicities\, a special issue of TSQ: Transgender Studies Quarterly (2018) devoted to transgender history before the advent of current categories and terminologies of gender. DeVun has also written articles for GLQ\, WSQ\, Osiris\, Journal of the History of Ideas\, postmedieval\, and Radical History Review\, among other publications. DeVun is the recipient of fellowships and grants from the National Science Foundation\, Huntington Library\, David Geffen School of Medicine at UCLA\, American Philosophical Society\, and Stanford Humanities Center. \nPlease register for the Zoom attendance link here and contact Jessica Zisa (jessicazisa@ucsb.edu) and Reem Taha (reemtaha@ucsb.edu) if you have any questions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-discussing-the-shape-of-sex-with-leah-devun/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220201T151500
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220120T210838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220129T001344Z
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award For Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:Rubén Martínez will receive this year’s Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Martínez is Professor of English and the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A.\, Mexico City & Beyond (1993)\, Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico (with Joseph Rodriguez\, 2006)\, The New Americans (2004)\, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family over the Migrant Trail (2001)\, and East Side Stories (with Joseph Rodriguez\, 1998). \nSponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention Office\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Education Opportunity Program\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and Latin American and Iberian Studies \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82878543945?pwd=dXE5REdWdEhVaXlPL3ZvTEVGUkdpQT09 \nFor more information\, please contact Professor Mario T. García at garcia@history.ucsb.edu
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20211208T163003Z
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Maintaining Life\, Repairing the World: Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Literature
DESCRIPTION:The COVID pandemic appeared as a threat to human life\, both in the vital sense (a risk to biological life) and in the social sense (a risk to social life: disruption from the suspension of activities\, lack of public transport\, closure of schools\, etc.). It has revealed radical vulnerabilities: of institutions\, the species\, and the planet; of fragile populations\, workers “on the front line\,” and each individual. The importance of caring for others and for those who care for “us” has become obvious\, while the broader ignorance of society as to what sustains it has finally become evident. The very grammar of care has imposed itself upon all of us\, because our vulnerabilities are never so visible as when the “normal” form of life has been disrupted. The pandemic\, in its destruction of the space of ordinary life and of “weak links” – places where the daily and anonymous interactions occurred – has also undermined the democratic public space. This talk considers how public life and human interactions can recover. Alexandre Gefen and Sandra Laugier will explore how arts and literature contribute to the expectation of reparation and social transformation\, the (re)creation of relationships\, the formation of social resilience and other narratives\, and the development of an ethic of care. \nAlexandre Gefen is a Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)\, and Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. His research focuses on literary theory and contemporary French literature and culture. As founder of the website Fabula.org\, he has developed parallel research interests in the development of Digital Humanities. His recent books include: Vies imaginaires de la littérature française (2014); Réparer le monde: La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017)\, which will appear in English in 2022; and L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention (2021). \nSandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris\, France)\, a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France\, and the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project DEMOSERIES. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein\, Austin\, Cavell)\, moral and political philosophy\, gender studies and the ethics of care\, and popular culture (film and TV series). She has translated most of Stanley Cavell’s work and is among the editors of his Nachlass. Her recent publications include: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013); Politics of the Ordinary. Care\, Ethics\, and Forms of Life (2020); and\, edited with Greg Chase and Juliet Floyd\, Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (2022). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Center for Humanities and Social Change\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-alexandre-gefen-and-sandra-laugier/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC)\, a research focus group supported by the IHC\, will be hosting a graduate student research roundtable via Zoom. During this roundtable\, two advanced graduated students will be presenting their works-in-progress for feedback and comments from attendees. We welcome parties interested in Asian American Studies work! For questions\, please email: aasc.ucsb@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/graduate-student-roundtable-feb-8-22/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220120T204136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220121T184742Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability\, Blackness\, and Race in US Literature
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Black History Month\, the Disability Studies Initiative invites you to discuss two essays that shed light on the material intersections of disability and race: Josh Lukin’s short article\, “Disability and Blackness” (2006)\, which calls for the consideration of Black experiences in the history of disability and its artistic representations\, and Michelle Jarman’s “Race and Disability in US Literature” (2018)\, which takes its framework from Black feminist theories and calls for relational approaches to disability. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here and write to disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu to receive copies of both papers. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-blackness-and-race-in-us-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220126T003043Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220201T001322Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The First Black Archaeologist
DESCRIPTION:Proof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. \nJoin us for a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book\, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar\, teacher\, community leader\, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia\, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s\, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe\, from contemporary publications\, and from newly discovered documents\, this book chronicles\, for the first time\, Gilbert’s remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta\, Georgia\, to the lecture halls of Brown University\, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta’s Paine Institute\, and through his travels in Greece\, western Europe\, and the Belgian Congo\, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture\, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. \nJohn W. I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. His previous publications include A Greek Army on the March (Cambridge University Press) and The Persian Empire (The Great Courses/The Teaching Company). He studies the history of ancient West Asia\, especially war\, society\, and culture in the Greek and Achaemenid world from ca. 650-330 BC\, as well as receptions\, interpretations\, and representations of antiquity in the United States\, especially amongst African American classical scholars during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n\nProof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. All visitors must wear a well-fitting mask that covers their nose and mouth at all times. Bandanas\, gaiters\, face shields alone\, and masks with external valves are not permitted. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.) \nWhen planning your arrival\, please allow extra time for vaccine verification. Doors will open at 3:30 PM. \n\n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-first-black-archaeologist/
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:20220211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T163000
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SUMMARY:Talk: A Queer\, Queer Race: Orientations for Early Japanese American Literature
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis online talk will feature discussions and close readings from a chapter in Professor Andrew Way Leong’s forthcoming book\, “A Queer\, Queer Race: Orientations for Japanese/American Literature.” This book examines Japanese and English language texts written by Shōson\, Sadakichi Hartmann\, Arishima Takeo\, and Yoné Noguchi—authors who resided in the United States between the opening of mass Japanese emigration in 1885 and the ban on Japanese immigration imposed by the Immigration Act of 1924. \nAndrew Way Leong is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. A comparativist\, Leong approaches the study of Asian American literature (and literatures of Asia and the Americas) with special attention to the generative frictions within and among multiple languages and literary traditions. He is the translator of Lament in the Night (Kaya Press 2012)\, a collection of two novels by Shōson Nagahara\, an author who wrote for a Japanese reading public in Los Angeles during the 1920s. \nCosponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and the UCSB American Cultures & Global Contexts Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-a-queer-queer-race-orientations-for-early-japanese-american-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T130000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20210922T180249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T175656Z
UID:10000553-1645099200-1645102800@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Infrastructures of Collective Life: A Formalist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a talk by Caroline Levine. Audience Q&A will follow. \nWhat do scholars of literature and the arts have to offer in response to the climate crisis? The aesthetic humanities have long traditions of insisting on open-endedness\, negation\, and inaction. Levine argues that in this moment of rapid and destabilizing change\, this tradition has reached its political limit. She makes a case for the particular value of formalist methods in rebuilding and remaking our social world. Form has never been an exclusively aesthetic term. A vast range of objects\, from sounds to neighborhoods to coral reefs\, can be analyzed for their structures and patterns\, and in this respect\, formalism belongs to all fields\, or to none. But for this reason\, formalism also has the potential to be a useful meta-disciplinary method\, capable of moving between politics and art\, between sonnets and public transportation systems. This talk will analyze sustainability in formal terms and focus specifically on the forms of sustainable infrastructure in contemporary cities\, including Houston\, Barcelona\, and the Brazilian cities of Belo Horizonte and Curitiba. \nCaroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University. She has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter\, especially in democratic societies. She argues for the understanding of forms and structures as crucial to understanding links between art and society. She is the author of three books\, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003\, winner of the Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies)\, Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007)\, and Forms: Whole\, Rhythm\, Hierarchy\, Network (2015\, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA\, and the Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture\, and named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015”). She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and has written on topics ranging from formalist theory to Victorian poetry and from television serials to academic freedom. \nThis talk is a keynote of the Association for Literary Urban Studies’ 2022 Conference\,  “Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis\, Resilience\, Resistance\, and Renewal.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series \nLive closed-captioning will be provided.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-infrastructures-of-collective-life-a-formalists-guide-to-the-climate-crisis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T160000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220120T205116Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220203T234545Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Sameer Pandya
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sameer Pandya will lead a discussion with graduate students to discuss his latest novel\, Members Only\, as well as his broader thoughts on South Asian American Studies. \nSameer Pandya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a fiction writer\, and an interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies scholar. In both his fiction and scholarship\, Pandya is primarily interested in the question of cultural dislocation and racial identity among South Asian Americans. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81531128236?pwd=dGdmbTJXcXMydFF6UkRFTlcwVjFGUT09 \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-sameer-pandya/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220131T211912Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T230509Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | VIEW IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS\nAND\nFriday\, February 25 | 12:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC in person on 2/24 or online on 2/25 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Erin Nerstad.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-feb24-2022/
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:20220225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T130000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220131T212309Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220202T230514Z
UID:10000580-1645790400-1645794000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | VIEW IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS\nAND\nFriday\, February 25 | 12:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC in person on 2/24 or online on 2/25 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Erin Nerstad.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-feb25-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T113000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220121T223807Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T193746Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Chalk Talk Revisited
DESCRIPTION:After the success of our first Chalk Talk this past fall\, the What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media RFG is hosting “Chalk Talk Revisited.” Even if you weren’t able to make our first event\, we welcome everyone to join us from any discipline as we continue our discussions about cultivating socio-culturally aware pedagogy and global media in the classroom. Whether you are a veteran Shakespearean or a first-timer to teaching the Bard\, we encourage you to join us! \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link. Links to optional pre-event resources will be provided a few days before the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-chalk-talk-revisited/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220215T214832Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220223T235847Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Critical Access Studies
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act\, much of the built environment remains inaccessible to disabled people. Accordingly\, the vast majority of research and writing on accessibility seeks to convince the unconvinced of the value of inclusion. This field\, which Professor Aimi Hamraie terms “Access Studies\,” would benefit from greater engagement with the concepts\, practices\, and political commitments of critical disability studies. In this talk\, Hamraie will discuss the emerging field of “Critical Access Studies\,” which engages with the methodologies\, epistemologies\, and political commitments of accessibility from the perspectives of Disability Justice and disability culture. Using historical and contemporary examples\, they will show how critical and intersectional perspectives on disability can enable a deeper engagement with the politics of knowing\, making\, and belonging in the twentieth-century United States. \nAimi Hamraie (they/them) is Associate Professor of Medicine\, Health\, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability\, design justice\, and the lifeworld. They identify as disabled\, SWANA\, and diasporic Iranian. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies\, science and technology studies\, critical design and urbanism\, critical race theory\, and the environmental humanities. They were just appointed to the US Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, The History of Science Colloquium\, The Comparative Literature Program\, The Graduate Center for Literary Research \nImage description: An olive-skinned Iranian person with short\, dark curly hair and rectangular glasses smiles at the camera. They wear a blue shirt and blue/green checkered blazer. Behind them is a blurred green background.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-critical-access-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220225T212023Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220303T014342Z
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SUMMARY:Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:UCSB faculty members will discuss the invasion of Ukraine\, including its historical background\, regional and global ramifications\, and international responses. \nPanelists:\nBenjamin J. Cohen\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, Political Science\nAdrienne Edgar\, Professor\, History\nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\nTsuyoshi Hasegawa\, Professor Emeritus\, History\nAdrian Ivakhiv\, Visiting Scholar\, Carsey-Wolf Center\nCynthia Kaplan\, Professor\, Political Science \nModerator:\nSara Pankenier Weld\, Professor\, Germanic & Slavic Studies \nLive closed-captioning will be provided. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-a-roundtable-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220223T164710Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T192142Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Many Journeys of Robert Glenn: Memory\, Slavery\, and the Transition to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Professor John Majewski will speak about the 1937 WPA interview of Robert Glenn\, who recounted how he was sold as a child as part of the slave trade. After emancipation\, he was eventually able to find his parents. Glenn’s interview is remarkably rich and detailed\, and because he includes many specific names and places\, Professor Majewski has been able to begin reconstructing his life using census records and other documents. The discussion will explore the possibility of using Glenn’s narrative as the basis for teaching books centered on issues of memory\, the slave trade\, various forms of slave resistance\, and the transition to freedom after emancipation. \nJohn Majewski is a Professor in the Department of History\, where he teaches and writes about 19th-century U.S. history\, with an emphasis on political economy. His publications include Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation and A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled\, “Inventing the Creative Citizen: Creativity and the U.S. Civil War.” \nZoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86362866754 \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group. \nImage Credit: Eyre Crowe
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-many-journeys-of-robert-glenn-memory-slavery-and-the-transition-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slavery%2C Captivity%2C and the Meaning of Freedom RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220218T202820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T193833Z
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SUMMARY:From Alphabetical to Digital Literacy? Some Reflections on Orality\, Writing\, Cultural Techniques\, and Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Are we witnessing the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy? But what does “literacy” mean? Going back to the discovery of the difference between orality and literacy in the 1960s and 1970s\, we find a real discovery – the difference between oral and written language – combined with a problematic narrative: The supremacy of literal to oral cultures. To avoid this ideology we should consider orality and literacy as the two ends of a continuum. Whatever historically exists is in between. With this in mind\, we turn to the question about the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy and problematize its clear demarcation between the alphanumeric and the digital. But what does “digital” mean? It is our hypothesis that there is an “embryonic digitality” already within alphabetical literacy. Digitality can be detached from computer technology. But electronic networking and Big Data are at the same time producing phenomena that are unprecedentedly new: The idea of the world interpreted as readable text changes into the “machine operability of the data universe.” Is contemporary digitality thus the “new alphabet”? \nCurrently Max Kade Visiting Professor for Winter 2022 in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, Sybille Krämer was Full Professor for Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Since her retirement\, she has been a guest professor at the Institute for Cultures and Aesthetics of Digital Media\, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Previously\, she has been a member of the German Scientific Council (2000-2006)\, of the European Research Council (2007-2014))\, member of the “Senat” of the German Research Foundation (2009-2015)\, and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study (2005-2008). She has held several International Visiting Professorships and Fellowships and has a 2016 Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University/Sweden. Her research areas include: Mathematics and philosophy in 17th century; Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Writing; Performative Studies\, Media and Cultural Techniques; Digitality and History of Computation; Testimony and Witnessing. Her publications in English include: Media\, Messenger\, Transmission. An Approach to Media Philosophy\, Amsterdam: University Press 2015. With Ch. Ljungberg (eds): Thinking with Diagrams – The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition\, Boston/ Berlin 2016. With Sigrid Weigel: Testimony/Bearing Witness. Epistemology\, Ethics\, History\, Culture\, London 2017. See also: http://www.sybillekraemer.de/en/ \nCosponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Transcriptions\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)\, and Comparative Literature Program. Sybille Krämer’s Max Kade Visiting Professorship in Winter 2022 has been generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation and Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. \nThis is an in person event. Virtual participation via Zoom is also possible: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81135889947
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/from-alphabetical-to-digital-literacy-some-reflections-on-orality-writing-cultural-techniques-and-digitality/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4161308;-119.8446426
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T190000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220225T221649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220316T230338Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Self-Formation and Selflessness in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition proposes a unique model of grace that decenters the paradigm of atonement and forgiveness and instead centers on forgetting and remembrance. In this Kṛṣṇa bhakti tradition\, jīvas\, embodied beings\, occupy a unique intermediary position that identifies them both in relationship to Kṛṣṇa\, the supreme Godhead\, and to the material world of prakṛti. Jīvas can therefore choose to either turn toward or away from Kṛṣṇa. A person turns away from or forgets Kṛṣṇa by committing aparādhas\, “offenses\,” such as criticizing one’s guru. However\, aparādhas should not be conceptualized as “sins” that require atonement and forgiveness. Instead\, aparādhas reflect an orientation of forgetfulness\, which can best be remedied through remembrance. Remembering Kṛṣṇa occurs primarily through sādhana-bhakti practices such as chanting and meditation and culminates in a devotee’s recognition of their eternal identity in relationship to Kṛṣṇa. Such perfected devotional selves embody the principle of sevā\, selfless service\, in which the devotee’s realm of concern has shifted entirely away from the ego-bound self towards Kṛṣṇa. It is therefore through the process of becoming perfectly selfless that perfected devotional selves are formed. \nEileen Goddard is a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include South Asian religious traditions\, comparative philosophy\, bhakti traditions\, and gender and sexuality. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-self-formation-and-selflessness-in-the-gau%e1%b8%8diya-vai%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87ava-tradition/
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
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220301T213246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T215402Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk:  Hungry Ghosts and the Karma of Meanness
DESCRIPTION:The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence\, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. But hungry ghosts know the error of their ways\, and they sometimes appear among humans\, like the ghosts that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge\, as augurs of what may await. Hungry ghosts are like modern felons who participate in “scared straight” programs. In the past they broke the law (dharma)\, and now they suffer the terrible consequences because of justice (karma). And since they don’t want others to make the same mistakes\, they speak passionately and honestly\, hoping to scare humanity straight. The cause of all this misery\, according to some of our earliest sources\, is the cultivation of meanness (mātsarya)\, which makes people miserly\, spiteful\, cruel\, immoral\, and oblivious to their own self-righteousness. How do we avoid such a fate? \nAndy Rotman is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor and Chair of Religion\, Buddhist Studies\, and South Asian Studies at Smith College. He has been engaged in textual and ethnographic work on religious and social life in South Asia for more than twenty-five years. His publications include Hungry Ghosts (2021)\, Divine Stories: Divyāvadāna\, Part 1 and Part 2 (2008 and 2017)\, Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism (2009)\, and a co-authored volume\, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood\, Brotherhood\, and the Nation (2015). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Buddhist Studies Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-hungry-ghosts-and-the-karma-of-meanness/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
CREATED:20220228T192611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T191856Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Shifting Economic Power in Autun: The Donation of Constantine
DESCRIPTION:Autun’s textual and material record illustrates how and why ancient patterns of life in northeast Gaul began to give way during Late Antiquity. Adopting a methodology developed in feminist historiography\, this paper explores the effect on Autun’s political economy of resources funneled to Autun’s bishop by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century. Because Constantine did not restrict his patronage just to Autun\, the city serves as a case study demonstrating how the introduction of imperial patronage to local bishops could push cities toward a more “medieval” political economy. \nElizabeth Digeser is a Professor in the Department of History\, where she studies the intersection of religion and philosophy with Roman political power\, as well as the processes of transformation (political\, religious\, economic) in Late Antiquity. Her publications include A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists and the Great Persecution; The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium\, Europe and the Early Islamic World\, edited with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes; and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group \nImage credit: Rheinisches Landesmuseum\, Trier \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-shifting-economic-power-in-autun-the-donation-of-constantine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T210000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Elizabeth Kolbert
DESCRIPTION:It is said that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by climate change and other disastrous human impacts on the planet. In her new book\, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Should we be seeking technological solutions to the damage humans have caused to the environment\, or will such “solutions” only make the problems worse? \nElizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, an examination of mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field\, was a New York Times 2014 Top Ten Best Book of the Year and is number one on the Guardian‘s list of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of all time. The Sixth Extinction also won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker\, her first book\, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man\, Nature\, and Climate Change\, was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by The New York Times Book Review. \nKolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered numerous awards\, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award\, the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category\, and a National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category. Kolbert has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship\, the prestigious Heinz Award\, the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award\, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union\, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2021 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nCopies of Kolbert’s books will be available for purchase and signing\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. This will event will be held in person; there will not be live or recorded online viewing options. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-elizabeth-kolbert/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T180000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: The Only True Reader Is a Re-reader
DESCRIPTION:“I sometimes think I was born reading. I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands\, my head lost to the world around me.” \nWhat Vivian Gornick did not say when she wrote these sentences was how often the book in her hands was one she had read a number of times before. It became her habit as life went on to re-read the books that had repeatedly seemed important to her\, in order to see whether or how much they had changed—as she had changed. In other words\, for Gornick\, re-reading is one of the great and primary ways in which we capture the meaning of our own accumulated experience. In this talk\, she will take the listener along on her own journey of self-discovery through some of the re-readings that have meant the most to her. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose works include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987)\, Approaching Eye Level (1996)\, The End of the Novel of Love (1997)\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)\, The Men in My Life (2008)\, The Odd Woman and the City (2015)\, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (2020)\, and Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature\, and Feminism in Our Time (2021). The New York Times selected Fierce Attachments as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. \nThe talk will be followed by audience Q&A\, a reception\, and book signing. Copies of Gornick’s books will be available for purchase\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T141500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics
DESCRIPTION:How do racialized icons of popular culture index Muslim ideas of history and belonging? Several Arabic epics (siyar sha‘biyya) contain Black protagonists who are assigned unique origin stories and legacies of involvement in Islam’s expansion. This talk will analyze their roles in the racial imaginaries of popular tales that proliferated from the 12th century onward across the Middle East and North Africa through oral and written traditions. \nRachel Schine earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the humanities at NYU\, Abu Dhabi. She previously served as a postdoctoral associate and instructor of Arabic literature and culture at the University of Colorado\, Boulder in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-racing-time-chronologies-of-black-muslim-belonging-in-arabic-epics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T173000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Bolstering the Bard: Pedagogy and Performance Beyond UCSB
DESCRIPTION:This pedagogy event centers on an invited panel of knowledgeable actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, and educators to discuss experiences in conveying Shakespearean material to students and/or audiences with varying degrees of knowledge of the Bard\, how to expand our methodologies as scholars\, teachers\, and/or artists to promote inclusivity\, and how media/technology in various forms (film\, social media\, Zoom\, etc.) can be utilized to help with these goals. The conversation will begin with introductions and a few questions specifically for invited guests\, and then the session will open up to the rest of the group for further queries and discussion. \nRegister to attend \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare? Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-bolstering-the-bard-pedagogy-and-performance-beyond-ucsb/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T185808
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Ensuring the Future of Historic Textiles: The Case of a Japanese Empress's Court Gown
DESCRIPTION:Objects talk to us over time and space\, transmitting in their colors\, shapes\, textures\, and materials insight into other lives and ways of living. Some we wish to preserve for their sheer beauty\, others for the people\, times\, or places they represent. Of the items that are central to our daily lives\, textiles are among the most perishable: if not used until they are rags\, they still degrade naturally over time\, prey to insects\, mold\, moisture and light. \nDespite the humid climate\, beautiful textiles in Japan from the eighth century have been lovingly preserved\, some retaining brilliant colors. Where vestments have been treated as treasures passed down through centuries of generations\, it came as a surprise that something as “new” as a hundred-and-thirty-year-old garment that was probably only worn once or twice would need extensive conservation work. This\, however\, turned out to be the case for a Western-style court gown made for Japan’s Meiji empress\, Haruko (1850-1914). Using the empress’s gown as an illustration\, Bethe will discuss conservation as a process that involves learning and preserving lost techniques\, combined with cutting-edge scientific solutions. She will introduce basic principles of conservation\, such as ensuring that every process is reversible\, preserving the original but adding nothing new\, and avoiding incurring future deterioration by matching materials and techniques. \nMonica Bethe is Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto\, dedicated in part to the conservation of treasures in Japanese Imperial Convents. Experience in weaving and natural dyeing led her to conduct research on historical textiles and their conservation. Her publications include chapters in Miracles and Mischief: Nō and Kyōgen Theater in Japan (2002)\, Amamonzeki\, A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents (2009)\, Transmitting Robes\, Linking Minds: The World of Buddhist Kasaya (2010)\, Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia (2015)\, and Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (2022); translations of books\, such as Restoration of Japanese Art in European and American Collections (1995) and Textiles in the Shōsō-in (2000\, 2001); and articles\, most recently\, “Guise and Disguise: Nō Costumes in the Context of Cultural Norms” in Mime Journal (2021). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the East Asia Center \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ensuring-the-future-of-historic-textiles-the-case-of-a-japanese-empresss-court-gown/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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