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SUMMARY:Conference: Listening to Cumbia
DESCRIPTION:Listening to Cumbia brings together scholars\, filmmakers\, artists\, and archivists for a symposium\, screening\, and DJ event on the contemporary cultural and political history of cumbia music in Mexico and the United States. Cumbia – as transnational record circulation and as local sound system dance scenes – is a living culture that provides insight into the cross-border effects of this popular music as force of social identity and mode of communication among Latinx communities. \nAPRIL 11\, POLLOCK THEATER  \n7:00 – 10:00 PM | Screening: Yo No Soy Guapo (Joyce Garcia\, 2018) and Sonidero Metropolis (Alvaro Parra\, 2023) \nAPRIL 12\, 6020 HSSB  \n10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Archiving Cumbia: Jorge Balleza\, Carlos Icaza\, Gary Garay\, and Alexandra Lippman Moderator: David Novak \n12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch \n1:30 – 3:00 PM | Visualizing Cumbia: Joyce García\, Alvaro Parra\, Roberto Rodriguez\, Mirjam Wirz Moderator: Raquel Pacheco \n3:30 – 5:00 PM | Listening Through Time: Myths of Past Futurities in Cumbia Rebajada: Juan David Rubio Restrepo \n8:00 – 10:00 PM | Baile/Performance (Storke Plaza): Sabotaje Media\, Space Primo\, Ganas\, Tropicaza\, Xandão\, and Penny Lane \nFor complete information and the up-to-date schedule\, visit the symposium’s page at The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music here. \nOrganized by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music. Cosponsored by the IHC’s Faculty Collaborative Research Grant\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, Humanities and Fine Arts\, KCSB-FM\, Anthropology\, Chicana/o Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, and Ethnomusicology Forum \nImage credit: Dave Novak
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/listening-to-cumbia/
LOCATION:Pollock Theater; McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="David Novak":MAILTO:dnovak09@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T171500
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: GPS for the Brain: Networks\, Urbanisms\, Algorithms
DESCRIPTION:Laura Kurgan will talk about her recent work involving network science and urban theory. She will present work from the Center for Spatial Research on the Urban History of Algorithms: Homophily and Weak Ties\, a history which not surprisingly lies dormant in its use in network science. She will also present new work on navigation theory in neuroscience\, which revisits and asks questions about the canonical urban theory of Kevin Lynch (1970) and Fred Jameson’s Postmodernism and the Logic of Late Capitalism (1990). Audience Q&A will follow. \nLaura Kurgan is a Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University\, where she directs the Masters of Science in Computational Design Practices and the Center for Spatial Research (CSR). She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping\, Technology\, and Politics (2013) and co-editor of Ways of Knowing Cities (2019). \nKurgan’s work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art\, science\, and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. Her work has been exhibited internationally\, most recently Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)\, at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2018\, and at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris (2016). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nImage courtesy of the Center for Spatial Research\, from Homophily\, the Urban History of an Algorithm
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-laura-kurgan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune 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:20230421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230423T160000
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SUMMARY:10th Annual AIIC Symposium: Land Back/Language Back
DESCRIPTION:In pondering the lush promise of living languages\, worlds\, waterways and lands\, this symposium will share conversations on Indigenous praxis on the survival and continuance of living worlds linked to living words through relationships to the land. With this theme\, participants can locate these conversations in language (re)vitalization work\, but these discussions are also open to many approaches in focusing on the Land Back imperative. \nKeynote Speakers:\nApril 21 | Sweeney “Hawk” Windchief\nDr. Sweeney Windchief (Fort Peck Assiniboine) is an Associate Professor in Department of Education at Montana State University who specializes in Indigenous Methodologies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Dr. Windcheif’s research is on the critical examination of race in higher education\, leadership development in tribal colleges and universities (TCU’s)\, Indigenous peoples and higher education. Dr. Wichief’s teaching areas are Higher Education Leadership\, Law and Policy and Higher Education\, Theoretical Foundations of College Students\, Critical Race Theory\, Indigenous Methodologies. \nApril 22 | Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner\nShelbi Nahwilet Meissner (she/hers) is Payómkawichum (Luiseño) and Kuupangaxwichem (Cupeño) and a first-generation descendant of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians. Meissner is an assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University who specializes in Indigenous philosophy\, feminist and non-western epistemology\, and philosophy of language. Meissner researches\, consults\, publishes\, and teaches on Indigenous research methodologies\, language reclamation\, epistemic and linguistic sovereignty\, climate justice\, Indigenous feminisms\, and critical Indigenous interventions in social work. \nApril 23 | Beth Rose Middleton Manning\nBeth Rose Middleton Manning (Afro-Caribbean\, Eastern European) is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. Beth Rose’s research centers on Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools. Her broader research interests include intergenerational trauma and healing\, Native land stewardship\, rural environmental justice\, Indigenous analysis of climate change\, Afro-indigeneity\, and qualitative GIS. 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. Her first book\, Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (University of Arizona Press 2011)\, focuses on Native applications of conservation easements\, with an emphasis on conservation partnerships led by California Native Nations. \nKeynote Panel:\nApril 23 | Arkotong Longkumer\, Liudmila Nikanorova\, Bjørn Ola Tafjord\, and Greg Johnson\nArkotong Longkumer is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Asia at the University of Edinburgh.\nLiudmila Nikanorova\, Open University UK\, is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen\, Norway.\nBjørn Ola Tafjord is a Professor\, the Study of Religions in Department of Archaeology\, History\, Cultural Studies and Religion\, University of Bergen\, Norway.\nGreg Johnson is a Professor of Religious Studies and Director\, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara. \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the symposium website \nSponsored by the IHC’s American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); College of Letters & Science: Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; Walter Capps Center; Environmental Studies Program; Department of English; Gevirtz Graduate School of Education; Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Department of Feminist Studies; Department of History of Art and Architecture; Global Latinidades Project; Hull Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies Program; Literature and Environment Research Initiative; Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association; UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; Department of Religious Studies; Department of Linguistics; and Department of History.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/10th-annual-aiic-symposium-land-back-language-back/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB; Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T180000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Beyond the Wall: Teichoscopy and the Limits of Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:Teichoscopy is a theatrical means of communicating occurrences that happen offstage. A figure\, commonly subaltern and anonymous\, climbs to an elevated position to report what it sees from this vantage point while the leading figure remains below to hear. In thus visibly inverting the positions of power on stage\, teichoscopy can not only call into question social and political hierarchies\, it also serves to comment on the central tragic notion of the ‘fall of kings’ itself. This is why the strategy is employed frequently when European tragedy seeks to address the limitations imposed by the need for dramatic personae. In the late eighteenth century\, teichoscopy takes on a radically anti-dramatic function as it shows how revolution undermines the “dispositive of representation” (Louis Marin) that links both courtly and bourgeois drama to Early Modern sovereignty. This talk will address the specific media poetics allowing for such a liminal experience of political drama reaching beyond itself. \nMichael Auer is Professor of German Literature at the University of Vienna in Austria visiting UCSB as a Max Kade Professor this Spring quarter. His research interests include the politics of poetic form\, the history of European drama\, and “lyrical soundscapes” from psalms to songs. He is currently writing a book on teichoscopy from Aeschylus and Shakespeare to Sarah Kane and Elfriede Jelinek. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/beyond-the-wall-teichoscopy-and-the-limits-of-tragedy/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Film Screening: Does Your House Have Lions
DESCRIPTION:“An archive of friendship – near\, far and displaced.” Filmed over six years\, following Delhi-based poet\, teacher and activist vqueeram and a group of friends living together in New Delhi\, Does Your House Have Lions (48 min.\, 2021) invites us into a world of queer kinship\, love and joy\, experienced amidst—and in resistance to—the inequalities of caste\, patriarchy\, religion and fascism. \nVishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video\, installation\, performance\, and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia\, LAXART\, Los Angeles\, Western Front\, Vancouver\, and 18th Street Arts Center\, Santa Monica. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa\, New York\, and Made in LA at the Hammer Museum. Jugdeo is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received major project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Jugdeo is Assistant Professor in New Genres in the UCLA Department of Art. \nvqueeram is a writer\, researcher\, and teacher. They are interested in sex\, feeling\, and living/dying in their relations with forms of sociality\, law\, and politics. At the Center for Law and Policy Research\, Bengaluru\, vqueeram teaches a course on intersectionality for various law schools in the country\, and participates in research and policy work on the rights and concerns of the trans community in India. In their writing\, vqueeram pays attention to the practices of imagination and freedom of queer/trans persons; whether building a life in a cemetary in Delhi\, or in life writing—cinematic\, authorial\, and political. vqueeram’s writing has been featured in The Shortline Review\, The White Review\, Frieze\, Huffington Post India\, Akademi Magazine\, and The Wire among other publications and contexts. \nThere will be a post-screening discussion on Zoom with filmmakers Vishal Jugdeo and vqueeram moderated by Cathy Thomas\, Asst. Professor in English & Creative Writing at UCSB. \nAdmission is free. To register to attend the in-person screening or the virtual post-screening discussion\, please visit the Carsey-Wolf Center event page. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group and the Carsey-Wolf Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/does-your-house-have-lions/
LOCATION:Pollock Theater\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ORGANIZER;CN="Caribbean Studies RFG":MAILTO:cathythomas@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230427T153803Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T215701Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Colloquium: Agents of Ishq and the Radical Possibilities of Love
DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will explore with Paramita Vohra the experience of co-creating a digital space about sex\, love\, and desire in India. \nParomita Vohra is an Indian media artist and writer who works with a range of forms\, including film\, comic books\, digital media\, installation art\, and writing\, to explore themes of feminism\, desire\, urban life\, and popular culture. Her filmography as director includes the documentary Partners in Crime\, which will be screened on April 27 at 7:00 pm at the Pollock Theater\, as well as the documentaries Unlimited Girls\, Q2P\, and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad. She has written the feature film Khamosh Pani; the documentaries Skin Deep\, Stuntmen of Bollywood\, and If You Pause; the play Ishquiya: Dharavi Ishtyle; and the comic book Priya’s Mirror. In addition\, she has published essays on film\, popular culture\, love\, and desire\, as well as several short stories. She also writes a weekly newspaper column “Paro-normal Activity” for Sunday Mid-Day. In 2015\, Vohra founded the Agents of Ishq\, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex\, love\, and desire in India\, and she is currently serving as its creative director. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, and Department of Feminist Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/agents-of-ishq-and-the-radical-possibilities-of-love/
LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, 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:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T131500
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CREATED:20220902T182100Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Creating\, Weaponizing\, and Detecting Deep Fakes
DESCRIPTION:Although varied in their form and creation\, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image\, audio\, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality\, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios. In this talk\, Farid will provide an overview of how deep fakes are created\, how they are being used and misused\, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHany Farid is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-hany-farid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,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:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T140000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: The Power of Positionality: Self-Identification in Empirical Legal Writing
DESCRIPTION:What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in law and society? Drawing in part from the author’s empirical research and professional experience\, this workshop will discuss a paper that investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial\, gender\, class\, or other self-identifications\, experiences\, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of positionality in a research paper can enhance the validity of its empirical data as well as its theoretical contribution. But such self-disclosure also risks exposing a scholar to vulnerability\, especially because those most likely to reveal how their positionality shapes their research are scholars who identify as women\, ethnic minorities\, or both. At this stage of the field’s methodological development\, the burdens of positionality are being carried unevenly by a tiny minority of researchers. The author concludes by inviting all socio-legal scholars to redress this imbalance by embracing positionality. \nMark Fathi Massoud is Professor of Politics and Director of Legal Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is also Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. He is the author of two books\, Shari’a\, Inshallah and Law’s Fragile State\, and he is co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society book series. Most recently\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Find out more at markmassoud.com. \nRead the paper here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Legal Humanities Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-power-of-positionality-self-identification-in-empirical-legal-writing/
LOCATION:4429 SSMS\, Anneberg Conference Room\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Legal Humanities,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Legal Humanities RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230502T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Virus Touch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies) and Elena Aronova (History) about Ghosh’s new book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Refreshments will be served. \nIn The Virus Touch\, Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses\, humans\, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics\, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images\, numbers\, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific\, artistic\, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological\, social\, and ecological catastrophes\, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe\, store\, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities of diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, author of Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular\, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-virus-touch/
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:20230503T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230503T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945
DESCRIPTION:Professor Salim Yaqub will discuss his new book\, Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945\, which traverses the broad sweep of postwar U.S. history. It explores how Americans of all walks of life—political leaders\, businesspeople\, public intellectuals\, workers\, students\, activists\, migrants\, and others—struggled to define the nation’s political\, economic\, geopolitical\, demographic\, and social character. The book chronicles the nation’s ceaseless ferment\, from the rocky conversion to peacetime in the early aftermath of World War II; to the frightening emergence of the Cold War and repeated U.S. military adventures abroad; to the struggles of African Americans and other minorities to claim a share of the American Dream; to the striking transformations in social attitudes catalyzed by the women’s movement and struggles for gay and lesbian liberation; to the dynamic force of political\, economic\, and social conservatism. Carrying the story to the spring of 2022\, Winds of Hope also shows how dizzying technological changes at times threatened to upend the nation’s civic and political life. \n\nSalim Yaqub received his Ph.D. in U.S. history from Yale University in 1999. He is now Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and Director of UCSB’s Center for Cold War Studies and International History. He is the author of three books: Containing Arab Nationalism: The Eisenhower Doctrine and the Middle East (University of North Carolina Press\, 2004)\, Imperfect Strangers: Americans\, Arabs\, and U.S.–Middle East Relations in the 1970s (Cornell University Press\, 2016)\, and Winds of Hope\, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945 (Cambridge University Press\, 2023). Professor Yaqub has also written several articles and book chapters on the history of U.S. foreign relations\, the international politics of the Middle East\, and Arab American political activism. \nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-winds-of-hope-storms-of-discord-the-united-states-since-1945/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Cold War Studies and International History":MAILTO:syaqub@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Color: Additions\, Subtractions\, Signals
DESCRIPTION:In this presentation\, Ricardo Cedeño Montaña will describe some of the particular principles\, mechanisms\, and techniques by which color film functioned in its formative years and the coding schemes for (re)producing\, storing\, and transmitting color information in electronic and digital media. Using a media archaeological approach to technical media\, Cedeño Montaña will show that color in technical media is anything but stable and such instability implies different contexts of sensory data processing and storage. This presentation is divided into three parts: In the first part\, Cedeño Montaña will briefly discuss some aspects of the history of color science\, and in the following two sections he will concentrate the analysis first on film media formats and second on the (re)production of color in electronic television and on digital screens for mobile devices. \nDr. Ricardo Cedeño Montaña is professor\, media archaeologist of technical images\, and multimedia artist. His artworks have been exhibited in Colombia\, Argentina\, and Germany. His recent research work focuses on the media archaeology of computer graphics and digital color. He is the author of Portable Moving Images (Degruyter 2017). As associate professor at the Faculty of Communications and Philology at the University of Antioquia\, Colombia\, he promotes algorithmic thinking for digital creation and experimental approaches to technical media analysis. He has worked as a professor of archaeology and media history\, industrial design\, and digital art at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia\, Hochschule Bremerhaven\, Universidad de los Andes and Universidad de Caldas. He holds a Ph.D. in History and Theory of Culture (2017\, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin; Germany) and an M.A. in Digital Media (2009\, Hochschule Bremerhaven\, Germany). In Colombia\, he studied Multimedia Creation (2003\, Universidad de los Andes) and Industrial Design (1999\, Universidad Nacional de Colombia). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Theories of Media and Techniques in the Wake of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Film & Media Studies\, Department of Germanic & Slavic Studies\, Carsey Wolf Center\, Transcription Center\, Department of Spanish & Portuguese\, and Comparative Literature Program \nImage credit: Ricardo Cedeño Montaña
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/color-additions-subtractions-signals/
LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Theories of Media and Techniques in the Wake of Postcolonial and Environmental Studies RFG":MAILTO:vagt@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230510T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230509T155848Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T215636Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Tape Letters: Migration on Tape
DESCRIPTION:The Tape Letters project shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as a mode of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. Drawing directly both from first-hand interviews and from the informal and intimate conversations on the cassettes themselves\, the project seeks to unearth\, archive\, and represent a portrait of this method of communication\, as practiced mainly by Pothwari-speaking members of the British-Pakistani community\, commenting on their experiences of migration and identity\, commenting on the unorthodox use of cassette tape technology\, and commenting on the language used in the recordings. \nWajid Yaseen is a Manchester-born\, London-based artist whose work draws on an interdisciplinary approach to develop sound-based works encompassing installations\, live performances\, acousmatic music\, graphic scores\, and sound sculptures. He is the Creative Director of the sound art research cooperative Modus Arts\, the co-founder of the destructivist Scrapclub project\, and director of the Ear Cinema project. Wajid holds an M.A. in Arts and Design with a focus on Sonic Arts\, and his work has been exhibited and performed at the ICA Gallery\, Arnolfini\, Queen Elizabeth Hall\, the Whitechapel Gallery\, Laban\, and Freud Museum. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music\, Ethnomusicology Forum\, and Library Special Collections
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tape-letters-migration-on-tape/
LOCATION:2406 Music\, 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:20230512T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T110000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230421T165008Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230426T224735Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Through Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Through Young Eyes is an undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Focus Group on Global Childhood Ecologies\, as well as the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature Program. It features multidisciplinary presentations of thesis research related to childhood by senior majors Victoria Korotchenko in Russian and East European Studies\, Nicole Smirnoff in Comparative Literature\, and Zoie Orth in English. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion will focus on children’s and young people’s agency and activism; construction and liberation; and active role as audience in order to offer a multidisciplinary examination of the co-creation of childhood and youth even in the face of opposing forces\, as shown by examples from history\, literature\, and culture. The event will take place in Phelps 6320\, while attendance via Zoom also will be possible for those who cannot attend in person. \nThrough Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase \nChair: Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic and Slavic Studies\, UCSB) \nPanel Participants: \n“The Fate of the Motherland’s Children: Youth Action\, Trauma\, and Experiences”\nVictoria Korotchenko ‘23 (Russian and East European Studies\, UCSB) \nVictoria Korotchenko’s research is focused on children during the Russian Revolution (1917-1923)\, specifically the diversity of their experiences and participation within the tumult. Within her thesis\, she discusses their role as target\, activist\, victim\, and chronicler\, while simultaneously writing about the child as the protagonist within these stories\, rather than purely individuals who had the revolution thrust upon them. \nReframing the Flaneur: the Child and the City through Thresholds\, Windows\, and Paintings\nNicole Smirnoff ‘23 (Comparative Literature\, UCSB) \nLiterature of the flaneur is preoccupied with the representation of the city in its complexities and realities\, oftentimes applying its perspective toward the child. Nicole Smirnoff’s thesis follows the motif of the framed spaces to these child characters; exploring how the image of the child is constrained and set free\, constructed and construed\, and reflected and reimagined through the vignette of the frame. \nInto the Osemanverse: The Dynamics of Young Adult Literature\nZoie Orth ‘23 (English\, UCSB) \nWith her thesis\, Zoie Orth hopes to understand the current state of Young Adult Fiction and its readers\, framing YA literature as not just a genre\, but as a culture that is driven by—if not entirely dependent on—its audience’s unique relationships with the works that define it. The goal of her research has been to go beyond traditional scholarly approaches to literary analysis\, which tend to treat works as if they exist in a vacuum\, often ignoring the many other forces that affect its production and consumption. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/through-young-eyes-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T140000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230413T172821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230509T203611Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Rehearsals for Reparations
DESCRIPTION:In this workshop\, the Legal Humanities RFG will discuss Giuliana Perrone’s new paper\, “Rehearsals for Reparations.” This pre-circulated paper considers a set of lawsuits in which emancipated people sued to have their enslavers’ bequests to them honored. It contends that we should see these suits as contests over reparations. By exploring this unappreciated history of reparations\, this article argues that enslavers themselves believed reparations were due and were willing to pay them\, there was a general agreement between enslaved and enslaver about the form reparations should take\, and similar understanding that they should be generational. The article further suggests the promise of further inquiry into historical testamentary records. Such a novel archive would add to contemporary arguments in favor of reparations by identifying how widespread the effort to atone for slavery through restitution truly was. \nGiuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she specializes in the history of North American Slavery and Abolition. Her first book\, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law will be published by Cambridge University Press in May 2023. \nTo receive the pre-circulated paper\, email Giuliana Perrone at gperrone@ucsb.edu. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Legal Humanities and Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Groups \nImage credit: Fibonacci Blue via Flickr
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rehearsals-for-reparations/
LOCATION:4065 HSSB\, HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Legal Humanities,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Legal Humanities RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230516T173000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20221202T221849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230606T164119Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Giuliana Perrone
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Giuliana Perrone (History) and Jeannine DeLombard (English) about Perrone’s new book\, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Refreshments will be served. \nNothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\nNothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877\, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately 700 lawsuits associated with the struggle for Black freedom and equal citizenship. This litigation – the majority through private law – triggered questions about American liberty and reassessed the nation’s legal and political order following the Civil War. Judicial decisions set the terms of debates about racial identity\, civil rights\, and national belonging\, and established that slavery\, as a legal institution and social practice\, remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. The verdicts determined how unresolved facets of slavery would undercut ongoing efforts for abolition and the realization of equality. Insightful and compelling\, this work makes an important intervention in the history of post-Civil War law. \nGiuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of slavery\, abolition\, and race in North America\, American socio-legal history\, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction\, and the development of American political institutions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-giuliana-perrone/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230519T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230417T173057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230419T221842Z
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SUMMARY:"Continuing and Restarting": The 26th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization (LISO)
DESCRIPTION:The Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization GSO is pleased to host the 26th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization on May 19–20\, 2023\, at UCSB. \nThe 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. \nRegister to attend here \nFor more information\, visit the conference website: https://www.liso.ucsb.edu/conferences. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization (LISO) Research Focus Group\, Graduate Division\, Graduate Student Association\, Center for Research on Interaction and Social Problems\, Department of Education\, Department of Linguistics\, and Department of Sociology.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/continuing-and-restarting-the-26th-annual-conference-on-language-interaction-and-social-organization-liso/
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:20230520T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230411T173425Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230517T225528Z
UID:10000643-1684573200-1684609200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Asian/American Studies Collective Graduate Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective will be holding their second annual Graduate Student Symposium on May 20\, 2023\, at the West Conference Center (7050 Seaway Drive\, Isla Vista). The Symposium offers a space for emerging scholars in Asian American and Asian diasporic studies to share research and foster community across the field\, and this year highlights the cutting-edge work of scholars working in Critical Refugee Studies. \nThe 2023 Graduate Student Symposium will feature a keynote event with three of the authors of Departures: An Introduction to Critical Refugee Studies: Lan Duong (USC)\, Yến Lê Espiritu (UCSD)\, and Ma Vang (UCM). The keynote will be followed by a book launch celebration. \nAttendance at the 2023 Graduate Student Symposium is free and open to all members of the UCSB community. \nFor more information\, see the symposium program. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and Graduate Collaborative Award\, Department of Asian American Studies\, Multicultural Center\, and American Cultures and Global Contexts Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-graduate-symposium-2023/
LOCATION:West Conference Center\, 7050 Seaway Drive\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
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:20230523T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230523T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230405T181104Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230615T193040Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2022-23 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2022-23 Faculty Fellows\, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. \nHeidi Amin-Hong\, English\n“A Contaminated Transpacific: Ecological Afterlives of the Vietnam War” \nCharmaine Chua\, Global Studies\n“Logistics Leviathan: Counterrevolutionary empire and just-in-time distribution in the Indo-Pacific” \nRaquel Pacheco\, Anthropology\n“Re-making the Peasant Countryside: Intimate mestizaje in Neoliberal Mexico” \nElana Resnick\, Anthropology\n“Refusing Sustainability: Waste and Race at the Edges of Europe”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2022-23-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20230524T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230524T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230522T174645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T210051Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Worship Space Acoustics: Exploring Its Application in Hindu Temples
DESCRIPTION:Acoustically important aspects of Hindu worship include chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs. Every Hindu temple is fitted with bells that worshipers ring. Conch-shells and gongs are used at various times during pūjā rituals\, during which texts from the Vedas and other Sanskrit scriptures are chanted. These Vedic chants have phonetic characteristics such as pitch\, duration\, emphasis\, uniformity\, and juxtaposition. In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will discuss his postdoctoral research on the acoustics of Hindu temples in which he plans to build a complete acoustic image of five Hindu temples in South India and analyze the characteristics of the sounds within these temples as they relate to the effects on human consciousness. He also plans to develop and define new methods of acoustic characterization that are more appropriate for Hindu worship spaces than the traditional methods of acoustic characterization that have been developed for Christian worship spaces. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and research scholar from Bengaluru\, India\, who received his Ph.D. in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. In fall 2023\, he will embark on his postdoctoral research at American University in Washington\, DC\, as a Postdoctoral Fellow for Academic Diversity. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/worship-space-acoustics-exploring-its-application-in-hindu-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:20230525T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230525T160000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230522T175158Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T213639Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Energy and Environmental Justice
DESCRIPTION:Join the Re-centering Energy Justice Research Focus Group for a roundtable discussion. Special guests Sourayan Mookerjea and J. Mijin Cha will be discussants for this event celebrating a new book by UCSB researcher Tristan Partridge. \nSourayan Mookerjea is Director of the Intermedia Research Studio and Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta. His work addresses Commons Theory\, Decolonizing Critical Theory\, Intermedia Research Creation\, and Development Dispossession. \nMijin Cha’s research focuses on labor/climate coalitions and just transitions. She is also a fellow at the Worker Institute\, Cornell University\, where she works on the Labor Leading on Climate initiative. Professor Cha is faculty in the environmental studies department at UC Santa Cruz. \nTristan Partridge is a Lecturer in Global Studies at UCSB and Co-Founder of the CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work. \nPartridge’s book\, Energy and Environmental Justice\, reconnects energy research with the radical\, reflexive\, and transformative approaches of Environmental Justice. Moving beyond the popular “energy justice” framework both analytically and politically\, this book examines how energy relates to structural issues of exploitation\, racism\, colonialism\, extractivism\, the commodification of work\, and the systemic devaluing of diverse “others.” The result is a new agenda for critical energy research that builds on a growing global movement of environmental justice activism and scholarship. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Re-centering Energy Justice Research Focus Group\, Mellon-Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective\, and CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/energy-and-environmental-justice/
LOCATION:Loma Pelona Center\, Ocean Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230530T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230424T201750Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230614T173114Z
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SUMMARY:“It Calls You Back and Draws You In”: The Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez
DESCRIPTION:Luis J. Rodríguez is an award-winning author and activist whose memoir about life in a gang\, Always Running\, is as popular as ever in 2023\, its 30th anniversary. The UCSB Library Special Research Collections recently acquired Rodríguez’s personal papers\, giving scholars and students an opportunity to see the personal and social context behind Always Running and Rodríguez’s other prose\, poetry\, and non-fiction\, as well as his involvement in gubernatorial races\, revolutionary organizations\, and the prisoners’ rights movement. In this talk\, Jo Metcalf will discuss her use of the archive as she and co-editor Ben Olguín (UCSB) create an anthology of the life and works of Rodríguez. Engaging with this collection of letters\, manuscripts\, contracts\, newspapers\, and photos exposes both the excitement and frustration that archives often hold. Ben Olguín will introduce the talk\, which will be followed by a reception. \nJosephine Metcalf is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull\, UK and an IHC Visiting Scholar. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre and Programme Director for the MA in Incarceration Cultures. Her research focuses on the representation of prisons and street gangs in literature and other pop-culture forms\, and the ways these have been received by audiences. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the UCSB Library Special Research Collections \nImage: Luis J. Rodríguez papers (CEMA 204)\, Special Research Collections\, UCSB Library
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/it-calls-you-back-and-draws-you-in-the-personal-papers-of-luis-j-rodriguez/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20230602T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230602T170000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230530T175846Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230531T232809Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Diving Into the Lake: On the Necessity\, Joy\, and Anxiety of (Re)Translating Tulsidas’s Rāmcaritmānas
DESCRIPTION:The epic retelling of the Rāmāyaṇa\, composed in ca. 1574 CE by the saintly poet Tulsidas\, in the dialect of Hindi known as Avadhi\, has long been considered one of the most sacred and beloved texts of the North Indian Hindu tradition. It has also\, through ten complete English renderings\, become one of the most translated works of premodern Indian vernacular literature. In this talk\, Philip Lutgendorf will first briefly introduce the epic and some of its notable features as a work in the larger “Rāmāyaṇa tradition\,” which has its locus classicus in the Sanskrit epic attributed to the sage Valmiki (ca. 3rd century BCE?). He will then reflect on the difficulties that the text presents for the translator into English\, discuss why he is offering a new translation at this time\, and share some examples of his approach. \nPhilip Lutgendorf is Professor Emeritus of Hindi and Modern Indian Studies at the University of Iowa. His research focuses on written and oral narrative traditions of South Asia and on Indian film. He served as President of the American Institute of Indian Studies (2010–2018) and currently chairs its Board of Trustees. His publications include The Life of a Text Performing the Ramcaritmanas of Tulsidas (1991); Hanuman’s Tale\, The Messages of a Divine Monkey (2007); and The Epic of Ram\, a seven-volume edition and translation of the Rāmcaritmānas for the Murty Classical Library of India (2016–2023). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/diving-into-the-lake-on-the-necessity-joy-and-anxiety-of-retranslating-tulsidass-ramcaritmanas/
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:20230607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T131500
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230508T233436Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T222126Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Are the Chornobyl Books Nature-Oriented?: Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Memory Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:The war in Ukraine raises the issue of a new nuclear threat\, as five nuclear power plants are located there. Although the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the north of Ukraine is non-functional\, the level of radiation is still very high. Moreover\, the largest nuclear plant in Europe\, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the south of Ukraine\, is threatened with a new nuclear catastrophe and radiation pollution since the Russian military invasion (Joint Statement 2022). Ukrainians know what “nuclear pollution”\, “ecological genocide”\, and “eco-memory” mean because of the Chornobyl accident\, the great catastrophe which occurred in 1986 near Kyiv\, the Ukrainian capital. In honor of this infamous event\, Ukraine annually celebrates The Chornobyl Disaster Remembrance Day on April 26. This cultural memory is embodied in Ukrainian children’s literature as well as in a cartoon and computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ukrainian children’s literature on the Chornobyl issue covers different genres\, such as short novels\, novels\, eco-comics\, and picturebooks. This talk assumes that literature recalls human and nonhuman interactions through cultural memory and eco-memory. Analyzing the Ukrainian children’s literature on Chornobyl issues\, it aims to show that this literature is nature-oriented within memory studies. To test this hypothesis\, Maryna Vardanian will discuss the following questions: How do nature-oriented writings interact with memory studies? What is the presence of the nonhuman environment in the human environment\, in particular in Yevhen Hutsalo’s Children of Chornobyl (1995) and Sasha Kochubei’s Mistress of the Forest (2016)? How does the changed Chornobyl nonhuman environment interact with the human one (in the case of Anatolii Andrzhevskyi’s Chornobyl Dog Axel (2019) and Bohdan Krasavtsev’s Chornobyl Oasis (2021))? What is the ethical orientation towards the environment of picturebooks such as Kateryna Mikhalitsyna’s The Flowers beside the Fourth Reactor (2020)\, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna & Stanislav Dvornytskyi’s Reactors Do not Explode. A Brief History of the Chornobyl Disaster (2020)\, and Kirill Stepanets’ et al. Interesting Chornobyl. 100 Symbols (2022)? \nDr. Maryna Vardanian is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Translating and Interpreting\, Heidelberg University (Germany). She teaches Children’s Literature\, Translation Studies\, and Comparative Literature courses as a Professor of the Department of Translation and Slavic Studies at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University (Ukraine). Her major research interests are Ukrainian diasporic and contemporary children and YA literature\, cultural memory\, and ecocriticism. Her current research project examines cultural and ideological approaches in the translation of children’s literature. She is a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and a member of the editorial board of journals and program committees’ member. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/are-the-chornobyl-books-nature-oriented-ukrainian-childrens-literature-in-memory-dimensions/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230609T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230610T210000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230525T164531Z
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SUMMARY:Love and Information
DESCRIPTION:Isla Vista Arts and Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park present “Love and Information\,” a play by Caryl Churchill and directed by Jake Marshall\, Nicole Hearfield\, Logan Null\, Tori Kostic\, Maylin De Leon\, and Benjamin Atticus Scapellati\, in which over a hundred characters try to understand meaning and human connection in a world with too much information. \nShowtimes are on June 9 at 7 PM and June 10 at 2 PM and 7 PM; admission is free.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/love-and-information/
LOCATION:Isla Vista Community Center\, 976 Embarcadero del Mar\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Isla Vista Arts":MAILTO:akjensen@ihc.ucsb.edu@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230811T100000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230727T154027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230821T160515Z
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SUMMARY:RFG Conference: Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures
DESCRIPTION:“Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures” is a truly interdisciplinary collaboration between History and Psychology. The symposium features two keynote speakers\, Professor Leda Cosmides (UCSB) representing Psychology\, and Professor Anna Shields (Princeton) representing the Humanities. The roundtable discussion will occur between three members of Team Psychology and three members of Team Humanities. Each speaker will deliver a short presentation on a “boundary-crossing adventure” that has happened in their own research. Psychologists will discuss how a specific scholar/publication in humanistic work has shed light on their work\, and humanists will discuss how a specific method/concept in psychology has inspired their consideration of emotions. Following the short presentations we will open the floor for a discussion with everyone in the Zoom room. We hope to have a highly interactive discussion where we can seek more common ground\, ask generative questions\, and promote direct dialogues. \nWatch recordings of this event:\nDay 1 Keynotes\nDay 2 Roundtable \nSponsored by the IHC’s Emotions in History Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-conference-emotions-in-history-boundary-crossing-adventures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Emotions in History,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emotions in History RFG":MAILTO:yzuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230818
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20220228T193007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T192937Z
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SUMMARY:2023 IRSCL Congress: Ecologies of Childhood
DESCRIPTION:The 26th biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) will be hosted at the University of California\, Santa Barbara on August 12-17\, 2023 and will be devoted to the theme “Ecologies of Childhood.” This is the first time the IRSCL Congress will be held in the United States. The interdisciplinary 2023 IRSCL Congress is co-organized by Sara Pankenier Weld of the University of California\, Santa Barbara and Dafna Zur of Stanford University. For more details\, see the conference website: https://irscl2023.org. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) at UC Santa Barbara and the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University \nImage Credit: Logo by Maya Gonzalez\, 2021
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-ecologies-of-childhood/
LOCATION:University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230608T190032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T181350Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 5\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Imagining California\, our 2023-24 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, 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-2023/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,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:20231012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230809T174257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T210946Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Inaugural Talk: Imagine This: The (Re)generation of Place
DESCRIPTION:Seeded by sorrow\, the evolving work that Cherríe Moraga will present journeys through her home-country of California\, marking her footsteps alongside Native ecologies and Chicanx genealogies. In part\, it is reflective of a queer embodied half-century inquiry—writing of place and out of place\, perhaps unknowingly inspired by a once paradisal Califas of women of color warriors. \nHere\, nature and the implicate order of its elements (fire\, air\, water\, and earth) become illuminated signposts along the road toward an interrelational “State” of being and the formation of a living politic of radical optimism in the face of global despair. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nCherríe Moraga is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at UCSB and also serves as the Co-Director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art\, & Social Praxis. She is an internationally recognized poet\, essayist\, and playwright and the co-editor of the avant-garde 1981 feminist anthology\, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of several collections of her own writings\, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness. Three earlier works\, Loving in the War Years\, The Last Generation\, and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood were published in new editions by Haymarket Books in 2022 and 2023. In 2019\, Native Country of the Heart—A Memoir was published to great acclaim by Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature\, the Barnard Medal of Distinction\, and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-imagine-this-the-regeneration-of-place/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,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:20231012T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T183000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20231010T200815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231011T233922Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Thanatofuturism: Making Space for the Marginal at a Tomb Shrine in Bangalore
DESCRIPTION:In the middle of Bangalore\, India\, a small dargah (Sufi tomb shrine) is a space of possibility for multiple marginalized groups\, facilitating imagined futures that include Muslims\, subaltern Hindus\, Dalits\, and hijras as full citizens of the Indian polity. At a time when powerful actors seek to limit national belonging to certain Hindu Indians\, Anna Bigelow argues that we have much to learn from such shrines and the people who intersect through them as they ground possible futures in the ethics and etiquette of the saintly dead and their spaces. \nAnna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University\, specializing in Islamic Studies and the religions of South Asia and the Middle East. Her work focuses on Muslim devotional life\, especially sacred spaces and ritual practice. Her current research concerns the circulation of devotional objects at Sufi shrines in India and Turkey. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Walter H. Capps Center\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/thanatofuturism-making-space-for-the-marginal-at-a-tomb-shrine-in-bangalore/
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
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260509T150204
CREATED:20230925T234531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231009T190555Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Writing Human Rights Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Over the last two decades\, the figure of the migrant has become the central imaginary subject of human rights precisely because the universal acknowledgement of migrancy as a human rights issue has been lacking and inconsequential. During the same time\, a global literature of migration has emerged as an important medium that transcends national boundaries and calls for more universal formations of the legal status and acknowledgment of migrants as subject(s) of human rights. Such fictions of migrancy do not only illustrate how subjects on the move are imagined but emphatically link the universality of human rights and the global scale of injustice toward migrants to literature as a universal form of political rhetoric and a medium of social justice. Migrancy fictions\, Schneck and Zander will thus argue\, negotiate the contradictions and conflicts inherent in the legal formation of the migrant\, and reflect on how literary forms and narrative modes may present and suggest alternative visions of migrant subjectivity and agency. \nLaura Zander is a Research Fellow at the “Law and Literature” Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Muenster. Publications include Writing Back / Reading Forward: Reconsidering the Postcolonial Approach (Berlin 2019)\, as well as articles on law and literature\, gender and postcolonial studies\, and South African and Caribbean literature. Most recently\, she edited the volume Europe in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation (DeGruyter 2023). Her current research focuses on human rights\, subjects on the move\, and fictions of migrancy. \nPeter Schneck is Professor and Chair of American Literature and Culture at Osnabrück University and currently the director of the Institute for English and American Studies. His publications include The U.S. and the Questions of Rights (Heidelberg 2020; co-ed) and Rhetoric and Evidence: Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in American Culture (Berlin\, 2011). Since 2019\, he has been leading a research group at Osnabrück University on the formation of literary property within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1385) “Law and Literature\,” hosted by the WWU Münster and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His current research is concerned with human rights and global literatures of migration\, flight\, and dislocation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Legal Humanities Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/writing-human-rights-across-borders/
LOCATION:2623 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Legal Humanities,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Legal Humanities RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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