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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T131500
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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
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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:20260511T045405
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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:20260511T045405
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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:20260511T045405
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:20260511T045405
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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:20260511T045405
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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:20260511T045405
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T180627Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Is Barbie Feminist? It's Complicated
DESCRIPTION:In 1994\, when M.G. Lord interviewed the California-based creators of the Barbie doll\, she had no doubt Barbie would be as provocative in 2023 as she was in 1959. But Lord did not anticipate that this plastic object\, once tarred as anti-feminist\, would evolve into a touchstone for understanding feminism—as well as the star of a blockbuster attack on patriarchy. This talk will explore the Greta Gerwig effect and the 64 years of changes in Barbie’s jobs\, ethos\, and even body. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nM.G. Lord is the co-host of the podcast L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes\, which tells the story of the doll’s creation in the voices of its original creators. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. Her 2005 family memoir\, Astro Turf\, is a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as the basis for L.A. Made: Blood\, Sweat and Rockets\, a 12-part podcast that she hosts. It tells the story of the early days of rocketry in Southern California\, and the unusual figures—a practitioner of “Sex Magick” and an accused Communist—who founded JPL. Lord is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/is-barbie-feminist-its-complicated/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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LAST-MODIFIED:20240605T154032Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: How Are You?  Sentiment\, Surveillance\, and Anti-Asian Racism
DESCRIPTION:Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users’ posts and actions to determine how they feel. This talk outlines the importance of early- and mid-20th-century studies of women workers and Japanese and Japanese-American internees in U.S. WWII internment camps to the rise of sentiment analysis. A reception will follow. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and leads the Digital Democracies Institute\, which was launched in 2019. The Institute aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms\, and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. Chun is also the author of Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition (2021); Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016); Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011); and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes\, including the Guggenheim Foundation\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was formerly Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-how-are-you-sentiment-surveillance-and-anti-asian-racism/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Daughter of the Dragon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Yunte Huang (English) and Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies) about Huang’s new book\, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History. Refreshments will be served. \nDaughter of the Dragon is a trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star\, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry\, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress\, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—“Orientally yours.” Now\, more than a century after her birth\, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story\, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood\, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent\, prewar Shanghai\, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows\, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters\, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady\,” “Madame Butterfly\,” or “China Doll\,” Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia\, unabashed sexism\, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth. \nYunte Huang is Distinguished Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and is the author of Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics (2022)\, Transpacific Imaginations: History\, Literature\, Counterpoetics (2008)\, CRIBS (2005)\, Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography\, Translation\, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002)\, and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997)\, and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos. His book\, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (Norton\, 2010)\, won the Edgar Award and was the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Village Voice\, Amazon\, and Kirkus Reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2014-15\, he has also published articles in the New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Daily Beast\, and others. His most recent book is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-daughter-of-the-dragon/
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:20231026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T100000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between and Beyond Images and Words: A Multimodal Stylistic Study of Children’s Picturebooks
DESCRIPTION:A multimodal approach to children’s picturebooks focuses on how images and words (and their interactions) collaboratively make meaning. Narrative theory enriches picturebook studies by demonstrating how paratextual elements (book cover\, author’s note\, afterword\, etc.) complement the body text. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s (1997) distinction of “peritext” and “epitext” and Nina Nørgaard’s (2018) multimodal stylistics of the novel\, this talk treats another multimodal dimension of “quasi-textual” elements or features (such as typography\, layout\, page-turn\, gutter\, blank space\, paper quality\, etc.) that undergird the picturebook and enhance the reader’s engagement with the story. It concludes that a full understanding of picturebooks needs to take these quasi-textual aspects into account. \nZheng Ren is a Visiting Graduate Student at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University. Her research interests are multimodal stylistics and cognitive poetics of children’s picturebooks. She is a co-convener of 2023-2024 IHC Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and a member on the organizing team of the 26th International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress 2023. \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/between-and-beyond-images-and-words-a-multimodal-stylistic-study-of-childrens-picturebooks/
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:20231102T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231102T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231004T153512Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231010T205740Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
DESCRIPTION:Jisha Menon will discuss her recent book\, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. Brutal Beauty conveys the affective life of the city through multiple aesthetic projects that express a range of urban feelings\, including aspiration\, panic\, and obsolescence. As developers and policymakers remodel the city through tumultuous construction projects\, urban beautification\, privatization\, and other templated features of “world‑class cities\,” urban citizens are also changing. Sketching out scenes of urban aspiration and its dark underbelly\, the book delineates the creative and destructive potential of India’s lurch into contemporary capitalism\, exploring art’s capacity to absorb and critique liberalization’s discontents. Menon argues that neoliberalism isn’t just an economic\, social\, and political phenomenon\, it is also an aesthetic project. \nJisha Menon is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies\, and (by courtesy) of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India (Northwestern UP\, 2021) and The Performance of Nationalism: India\, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP\, 2013) and coeditor of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (with Patrick Anderson) (Palgrave-Macmillan Press\, 2009) and Performing the Secular: Religion\, Representation\, and Politics (with Milija Gluhovic) (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017.) \nSponsored by the IHC’s Performing Race\, Performing Space Research Focus Group and the Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/brutal-beauty-aesthetics-and-aspiration-in-urban-india/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Race, Performing Space,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Performing Race%2C Performing Space RFG":MAILTO:jnakamura@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231107T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20230905T185613Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230912T203714Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Secret Clocks: The U.S. Military\, Einstein's Relativity\, and the Global Positioning System
DESCRIPTION:For nearly a decade\, beginning in the mid-1970s\, a debate unfolded among physicists and engineers over how best to include effects from Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the new military technology now known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Although some exchanges were published in the open scientific literature\, much of the debate played out behind the scenes\, in memos\, reports\, and special review sessions arranged by the U.S. military. Theoretical physicists who had no relationship with the project criticized early efforts to incorporate relativistic effects within GPS designs\, complaining that significant information was not shared by military contractors. Other experts in relativity\, who consulted more closely with the U.S. Air Force while GPS was under development\, responded that the outside critics had little relevant experience with real-world engineering applications\, and that their criticisms amounted to mathematical irrelevancies. Throughout the debate\, few doubted that relativity — with its counterintuitive notions of space and time — needed to be taken seriously in the design and operation of GPS. Rather\, they disagreed over how best to incorporate deep lessons from relativity in an engineering-relevant way\, at a time when the stakes for the new military technology loomed large. \nDavid Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several award-winning books about modern physics. His latest book\, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020)\, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and also honored as among the best books of the year by Physics Today and Physics World magazines. A Fellow of the American Physical Society\, Kaiser has received MIT’s highest awards for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in Science\, Nature\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker magazine. His physics group’s recent efforts to conduct a “Cosmic Bell” test of quantum entanglement\, in collaboration with Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger\, were featured in the documentary film Einstein’s Quantum Riddle. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group and the Department of History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/secret-clocks-the-u-s-military-einsteins-relativity-and-the-global-positioning-system/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Machines, People, and Politics,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Machines%2C People%2C and Politics RFG":MAILTO:pmccray@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T000000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T235900
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231012T210244Z
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SUMMARY:UCSB Library Exhibition: Fossil Free UC
DESCRIPTION:This UCSB Library exhibition (November 13\, 2023 – June 28\, 2024) celebrates the achievement of the student-led campaign as a testament to the power of collective action to transform our university and our world. \nBetween 2012-2019\, student activists led a UC-wide coalition– the Fossil Free UC campaign– to pressure the University to divest faculty and staff retirement funds from oil company shares. UCSB students were at the forefront of the movement\, working closely with their peers at other campuses. Their grassroots campaign exposed the disjuncture between public perception of Santa Barbara as a haven for environmentalism and the University’s investments in the fossil fuel industry. Through a strategic combination of demonstrations\, letter-writing\, and face-to-face conversations\, students and supporting faculty made it clear that the UC was complicit and profiting from environmental destruction caused by oil companies. \nThis exhibition was co-curated by Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) and Andrea Serna (History\, UCSB). \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Re-Centering Energy Justice Research Focus Group\, Department of Environmental Studies\, and Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/fossil-free-uc/
LOCATION:Ocean Gallery\, UCSB Library\, Santa Barbara\, 93106
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20230901T180027Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231204T193757Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: The Dreamt Land: How the Invention of California Became Miracle and Ruin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, journalist Mark Arax will discuss how California’s capture of land and water is the story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders and devastation it has wrought. It’s a tale of magic and madness in the arid West\, of genocide and endless extraction\, of redirected rivers and ever higher dams and deeper wells\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth made to give more even as it keeps sinking. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMark Arax has been called a “21st-Century John Steinbeck” for his books that pry open the soul of California. A writer of essays\, history\, biography\, and journalism\, he is a two-time winner of the California Book Award and a recipient of Stanford University’s William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent work\, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California\, a national bestseller\, has been hailed by critics as one of the most important books ever written about the West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-dreamt-land-how-the-invention-of-california-became-miracle-and-ruin/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231127T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231113T182818Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231117T185841Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Roman-Persian Relations: The Emperor Jovian and the Syriac "Julian Romance"
DESCRIPTION:The Roman emperor Jovian (363-364) only ruled for eight months and has not received much attention in scholarship. However\, he is more than a footnote in history. After the reign of Julian\, he returned to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. His peace agreement with the Sassanid king Shapur II also had great impact for Roman-Persian relations. \nThe first part of this presentation evaluates the peace agreement\, the responses to it\, and its long-term influence on the relationship between the Roman and Persian empire. Jovian had an unexpected afterlife in the so-called “Julian Romance\,” a rarely studied text of Christian historical fiction. This Christian narrative presents Jovian as an ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. It offers also surprising perspectives on Roman-Persian relations\, which will be discussed in the second part of the presentation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, California Consortium for Late Antiquity\, and Department of History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/roman-persian-relations-the-emperor-jovian-and-the-syriac-julian-romance/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
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:20231128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231018T224539Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231103T211259Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Alice in Wonderland as a Fairytale and a Resource Book in China
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on some semiotic aspects of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its unrivaled reception in China with special reference to the first Chinese translation by Y. R. Chao in 1922. In view of the complex addresser-addressee relationships in “children’s literature\,” which denotes literature of\, for\, and in some cases\, by children\, this study distinguishes Charles Dodgson the man who wrote as a child for the Liddell Sisters and Charles Dodgson the mathematician and logician who wrote as an adult for his colleagues as well as children readers\, and Lewis Carroll the verbal artist and storyteller who wrote as both for readers of all ages and all times. It also distinguishes Chao the mathematician and musical artist who recreated the fairytale that inspired Chinese children’s literature\, Chao the linguist and verbal artist who made poetic innovations and stylistic experiments with vernacular Chinese in its formative stage\, and Chao the philosopher and semiotician who outlined principles and meta-principles of literary translation in his paratexts (i.e. Preface and Translator’s Notes)\, which metatextually foreshadowed\, and offered insights into\, a number of present-day academic disciplines. In view of the double nature of the “text” of both Carroll’s and Chao’s\, this study highlights the discursive role of the translator as rewriter and makes distinctions of “texts” of the same work and their different types of “reader.” By analyzing the (un)translatability of Carroll’s verbal nonsense\, logical absurdities\, and metalinguistic propositions that blatantly defy literary translation\, this study highlights Chao’s extraordinary feats and explains why Chao’s Alice has eclipsed more than 360 subsequent Chinese translations since 1922. The talk will conclude that the Chinese Alice is characterized with the following features: as representation of a fairytale and recreation of a piece of children’s literature\, it has fascinated the child and the child that survives in the adult\, considering many adults read children’s literature and re-read their own childhood readings; as an exemplary work of translation and translation studies\, it has appealed to the literary translator and translation critic; and as an unmatched multidisciplinary resource book\, it has offered deep insights to practitioners of semiotics\, linguistics\, pragmatics\, stylistics\, and literary studies in the Chinese context. \nZongxin Feng is a Professor of Linguistics and English Language/Literature at Tsinghua University\, Beijing. He got his Ph.D. at Peking University (1998) and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1998-2000). He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2003-2004) and the University of Cambridge (2007)\, and a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley (2009-2010). His research interests are linguistics\, pragmatics\, stylistics\, narratology\, and translatology\, with articles on pragmastylistics of dramatic texts\, fictional narrative as history\, lexicon as narrative practice\, cognitive studies of fictional narrative\, and the translator’s role in literary discourse\, etc. published in Semiotica\, Neohelicon\, Narrative\, Language and Literature\, and Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. His publications on Alice studies include “Translation and Reconstruction of a Wonderland: Alice’s Adventures in China” (2009)\, “Reflections on the Reversed ‘Jabberwocky’ in TTLG” (one of the “Eight Retakes”) (2021)\, writings in each of the three volumes of Alice in a World of Wonderlands (Oak Knoll\, 2015)\, and book chapters “The Style(s) of a Classic in the Translation and Back-translation” (2016) and “A Mathematician’s Fairy Tale: Alice in Wonderland” (2019) in English in China. His translations (into Chinese) include Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (1959/1988) and The Second SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1961/1987) by Martin Gardner\, author of The Annotated Alice (1960). \nZoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature\, East Asia Center\, and Translation Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-alice-in-wonderland-as-a-fairytale-and-a-resource-book-in-china/
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:20240123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240123T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20240109T180005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T170116Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 23 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | RSVP\nLunch will be provided.\nAND\nWednesday\, January 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | RSVP\nRefreshments will be provided. \nJoin the IHC on 1/23 or 1/24 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Assistant Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-23-2024/
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
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240124T170000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20240109T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240110T170047Z
UID:10000685-1706112000-1706115600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 23 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | RSVP\nLunch will be provided.\nAND\nWednesday\, January 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | RSVP\nRefreshments will be provided. \nJoin the IHC on 1/23 or 1/24 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Assistant Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-24-2024/
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:20240125T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240125T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231206T180810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240307T194514Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Liz Carlisle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Liz Carlisle (Environmental Studies) and Peter Alagona (Environmental Studies) about Carlisle’s new book\, Healing Grounds: Climate\, Justice\, and the Deep Roots of Regenerative Farming. Refreshments will be served. \nA powerful movement is happening in farming today—farmers are reconnecting with their roots to fight climate change. For one woman\, that has meant learning her tribe’s history to help bring back the buffalo. For another\, it has meant preserving forest purchased by her great-great-uncle\, among the first wave of African Americans to buy land. Others are rejecting monoculture to grow corn\, beans\, and squash the way farmers in Mexico have done for centuries. Still others are rotating crops for the native cuisines of those who fled the “American wars” in Southeast Asia. In Healing Grounds\, Liz Carlisle tells the stories of Indigenous\, Black\, Latinx\, and Asian American farmers who are reviving their ancestors’ methods of growing food—techniques long suppressed by the industrial food system. These farmers are restoring native prairies\, nurturing beneficial fungi\, and enriching soil health. While feeding their communities and revitalizing cultural ties to land\, they are steadily stitching ecosystems back together and repairing the natural carbon cycle. This\, Carlisle shows\, is the true regenerative agriculture – not merely a set of technical tricks for storing CO2 in the ground\, but a holistic approach that values diversity in both plants and people. \nLiz Carlisle is an Associate Professor in the Environmental Studies Program at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where her work focuses on fostering a more just and sustainable food system. She holds a Ph.D. in Geography from UC Berkeley and a B.A. in Folklore and Mythology from Harvard University\, and she formerly served as Legislative Correspondent for Agriculture and Natural Resources in the Office of U.S. Senator Jon Tester. Recognized for her academic publishing with the Elsevier Atlas Award\, which honors research with social impact\, Liz has also written numerous pieces for general audience readers\, in the New York Times\, Los Angeles Times\, Business Insider\, and Stanford Social Innovation Review. She is the author of two books about transition to sustainable farming: Lentil Underground (winner of the 2016 Montana Book Award) and Grain by Grain\, coauthored with farmer Bob Quinn. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-liz-carlisle/
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:20240201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Writing Our Californias
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, America has imagined California novels as placed in locations like Hollywood or San Francisco. But\, as Susan Straight will discuss in her presentation\, other geographies are as beautiful\, tragic\, and full of narratives set in remote canyons\, inland citrus groves\, ancient ranchos\, and hidden deserts. Straight’s characters\, who might be seventh generation Californian or people just arrived\, live in the places she’s known forever\, hidden kingdoms of love and redemption amid the sycamore trees. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nStraight is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she has taught since 1988. Her most recent novel Mecca (2022) was a finalist for The Kirkus Prize and named a best novel of the year by The Washington Post and NPR\, as well as a Top Ten California Book by the New York Times\, and it was the winner of the Southwest Book of the Year for Fiction. \nHer memoir In the Country of Women (2020) was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\, was a Finalist for the Clara Johnson Prize for Women’s Literature\, and named a best book of 2019 by NPR\, Code Switch\, Real Simple\, and others. \nShe is also the author of the novels Aquaboogie (1990)\, I Been In Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots (1992)\, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (1994)\, The Gettin Place (1996)\, and Highwire Moon (2001)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Commonwealth of California Gold Medal for Fiction. A Million Nightingales (2006) was a Finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Take One Candle Light a Room (2010) was named a best novel of 2010 by The Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, and Kirkus. Her novel Between Heaven and Here (2012) was named a Best Book of 2012 by the Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast. She has also published numerous essays\, articles\, and stories in magazines and journals. Her short story “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award\, and her short story “El Ojo De Agua” won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. \nIn 2021\, Straight was named Woman of the Year for the 61st Assembly District by Assemblyman Jose Medina\, for her thirty years of writing stories of African-American\, Mexican-American\, Asian-American\, and immigrant life in southern California\, and bringing little-known histories\, especially of women\, into American books\, museums\, magazines\, and libraries. In 2014\, Straight received the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2011\, she received the Gina Berriault Award for Fiction from San Francisco State University. Straight received the Lannan Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in 1998. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/writing-our-californias/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series,Raab Writer-in-Residence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be given to Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Arellano is a prize-winning columnist for the LA Times. He is one of the major Latino journalists in the United States. His columns focus on Latinos in Los Angeles and California. He has also written several books\, such as Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and A People’s Guide to Orange County. The Leal Award is in its nineteenth year of brining outstanding Chicano/Latino writers to UCSB. It is named after Professor Luis Leal who was an early champion of Chicano/Latino literature. He taught in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies for a number of years. \nSponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; Chicano Studies Institute; Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Luis Leal Endowed Chair; Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; Educational Opportunity Program; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Latin American and Iberian Studies; Department of Communications; and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2024/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20230911T184006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240402T191122Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Event: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and Dr. Charles Lester\, Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast. Xia will draw from her new book\, California Against the Sea\, in which deeply reported stories braid together science\, policy\, and the state’s social history. The conversation will explore how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into disaster\, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting\, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, the Marine Science Institute\, and the Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/california-against-the-sea/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20240118T195219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240129T232758Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her current book project\, Communist Neverland\, Elizabeth McGuire tells the story of the Stasova International Children’s Home\, an elite orphanage and boarding school for the children of Communist Party leaders from all parts of the globe. Professor McGuire will focus in this talk on “Jimmy Ruegg\,” one of the Stasova home’s many “mystery children.” Jimmy spent his earliest years in the International Settlement in Shanghai\, believed he was German\, and thought he had two families: one enmeshed in German-Chinese trade and the other in prison. As major underground operatives\, his parents were eventually able to arrange for him to be raised at the Stasova home. There\, he encountered many equally confused and traumatized children. Even the Stasova home’s administrators did not know the real identities of many children’s parents\, which caused major difficulties during Stalin’s purge. Were children free of responsibility for the sins of their parents\, as Stalin preached\, or were they dangerous potential enemies of the people\, as he often practiced? \nVoices of history’s children matter today more than ever\, when children from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine serve as high-profile symbols\, pawns\, and victims in the violent geopolitics of the world around them. Dozens of first-person interviews have allowed Professor McGuire to investigate how the equally fierce struggle for world communism looked through the eyes of children\, and what the long-term consequences for them were. \n \nProfessor Elizabeth McGuire is a historian of global communism\, focusing on cross-cultural human experiences and networks that arose in connection with the Soviet-backed transnational communist movement. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is now Associate Professor of History at California State University\, East Bay\, where she also created and runs a B.A. program to prepare future high school history teachers. Her first book\, Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution\, published by Oxford University Press in 2017\, is about personal relationships between Russian and Chinese revolutionaries against the dramatic backdrop of shifting geopolitics. It won an honorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln prize for a first published monograph of “exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past.” It was also a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and a London Times Higher Education Book of the Year. Professor McGuire is now writing a second book\, Communist Neverland: History of an International Children’s Home\, 1933–2013. \nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/mystery-children-the-stasova-international-childrens-home-during-stalins-purge/
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:20240213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20231214T224721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240510T194737Z
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SUMMARY:2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is Housing a Human Right?
DESCRIPTION:The dramatic housing shortage in California affects millions of residents and leads thousands to homelessness. The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate will address this issue by asking\, “Is Housing a Human Right?” If so\, our state faces a massive undertaking. Experts with diverse specialties and experiences will wrestle with some of our biggest challenges. How\, for example\, can we build low and moderate income housing when construction costs are high and community opposition is often present? How can people experiencing homelessness be moved to shelter and housing? The event will include an audience Q&A. \n\nParticipants: \nAndy Bales\nFormer President and CEO\, Union Rescue Mission\nDavid Garcia\nPolicy Director\, Terner Center for Housing Innovation\, University of California\, Berkeley\nRasheedah Phillips\nDirector of Housing\, PolicyLink\nEric Tars\nSenior Policy Director\, National Homelessness Law Center\nModerator: Larry Mantle\nHost of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR member station LAist 89.3\n \nTuesday\, February 13\, 2024 | 7:30 PM\nUCSB Campbell Hall\nDoors open at 7 PM\nThe event is free and open to the public\nPaid parking is available on site\n \n\nThe Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series is presented by the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science and co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Arts & Lectures
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2024-arthur-n-rupe-great-debate-is-housing-a-human-right/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall\, Building 538\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Mesa Rd\,\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES: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:20240223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T130000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
CREATED:20230919T173345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T210039Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Janet Afary
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Janet Afary (Religious Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Afary’s new book\, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster\, 1906-1911. Refreshments will be served. \nIn the early twentieth century\, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Mollā Nasreddin. They used folklore\, visual art\, and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world\, impacting the thinking of a generation. \nThis highly-illustrated book explores the milieu in which Mollā Nasreddin was born\, the way the periodical recreated the trickster trope\, and the influence of European graphic artists\, especially Francisco Goya\, on the journal. It focuses on the most creative period\, 1906-11\, when the journal reflected the social and political concerns of three major upheavals: the 1905 Russian Revolution\, the 1906–1911 Iranian Constitutional Revolution\, and the 1908 Young Turk Movement. Afary received the 2023 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association\, awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on the history of journalism. The book also received the 2023 British-Kuwait Friendship Award\, given to the best scholarly work on the Middle East published in the U.K. \nJanet Afary is Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and the author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism\, and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-janet-afary/
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:20240228T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240228T180000
DTSTAMP:20260511T045405
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
DESCRIPTION:Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California\, San Diego. Her book\, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press\, 2023)\, documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry\, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of archival fragments and visual culture to tell the stories of the free people of color and enslaved women and men who enabled Moreau’s work. \nPlease read the provided chapters in advance of the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity and the Meaning of Freedom RFG\, Department of Black Studies\, and Department of History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/encyclopedie-noire-the-making-of-moreau-de-saint-merys-intellectual-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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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