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Key Passages Talk: Black History’s Warning to the World

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

Resisting the tide of repression that threatens the teaching of Black history, we should look to that past to understand the ongoing processes that have shaped our world. Our current predicament, marked by extreme inequalities, everyday violence, militarism, and political strife derives in part from the history of colonial conquest, slavery, and imperial warfare. Our struggles for freedom and dignity emerge from that history, too. By understanding it, we might discern the scope, force, direction, ...

Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson

Mosher Alumni Hall Mosher Alumni House, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Creative Critical Writing Initiative (housed in the English Department) welcomes Dr. Nalo Hopkinson for an upcoming talk, “Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson.” Nalo Hopkinson is an author, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia, and the 2021 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy. Born in Jamaica, Dr. Hopkinson has taught, lived, and created across the Caribbean, the United States, and ...

Sal Castro Memorial Lecture 2025

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

The Sal Castro Memorial Lecture aims to present recent books published in Chicano/Latino history. Named after Chicano Movement icon Sal Castro, who struggled for educational justice for Chicans, this will be the inaugural lecture. Our first speaker is Prof. Oliver Rosales, who will discuss his recent book, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press: 2024). Prof. Rosales received his Ph.D. in History from UCSB. Cosponsored by ...

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Humanities Decanted: Lisa Jacobson

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

Join us for a dialogue between Lisa Jacobson (History) and Erika Rappaport (History) about Jacobson's new book, Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine, Beer, and Whiskey after Prohibition. In popular memory, the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals, alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts ...

Research Focus Group Roundtable and Workshop: Celebrating Restorative Relations: Connections between climate resilience, Indigenous rights, and land & water rematriation

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

Join us for a roundtable discussion and workshop with guest speakers— featuring conversations between Indigenous and allied movement builders, practitioners, and organizers— exploring connections between climate resilience, Indigenous rights, and land & water rematriation. This will be an opportunity to gather and address relationships between Land Back movements and politics, processes of reciprocity, and resilient ecosystems, as well as the importance of decommissioning and dam removal within energy transitions, among other responses to global climate ...

Meditation as an Embodied Archive

Odiyana Institute Buddhist Center 1524 Anacapa St, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

In Tibetan Buddhism, Rinpoche means the "precious one" and may refer to reincarnated and respected lamas who are spiritual teachers of past and present. Originally from India and educated in Tibetan Buddhist traditions, our guest speaker, Tulku Orgyen Rinpoche, is an unconventional Buddhist monk and scholar. During the workshop, Rinpoche will introduce and guide participants through Buddhist meditation, demonstrating how embodied practice is integral to the ecology of texts and can be viewed as a ...

Taubman Symposium Talk: Memory and Inheritance: Bearing Witness to My Grandmother’s Story

Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara 524 Chapala St., Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Elana K. Arnold is an award-winning American author known for her diverse and thought-provoking books for children, teens, and young adults. Her work spans a range of genres, from contemporary realism to fantasy, often exploring themes of identity, resilience, and the complexities of growing up. Arnold’s storytelling is characterized by its lyrical prose, emotional depth, and willingness to tackle challenging topics with honesty and sensitivity. Cosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed ...

Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the Borders of Life and Death, Scholarship and Opera

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

This talk will take you into the process of creating a new, experimental opera based on a historical ghost story from Pu Songling’s seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece, Liaozhao’s Strange Tales (Liaozhai zhiyi). Entitled Ghost Village, the opera is a creative collaboration between Judith Zeitlin, as scholar and English language librettist, and the composer Yao Chen, a China-based, Chicago-trained professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. Building on the European operatic tradition, Ghost ...

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Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom

Zoom

Literature, and children’s literature specifically, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases, such as sickle cell, HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases, sickle cell anemia, this study argues that, even with great innovations in medical science, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms ...

Coralations: A Talk with Prof. Melody Jue

6206C Phelps and Zoom UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

On behalf of the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch series, the Graduate Center for Literary Research invites you to join us for a discussion with Prof. Melody Jue centered on her latest book, Coralations: "a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics." Melody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California, Santa Barbara, working across the fields of ...

Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses

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

In this talk, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid's poetic and metrical effects into English verse. She will then outline her strategies for interpreting and rendering Ovid's themes of sexual violence, gender, sexuality, and the body. She will consider throughout how she carefully negotiated Ovid's playful style and disturbing subject matter to produce a poetic, accurate, and ethical translation. Stephanie ...

Humanities Decanted: Juan Cobo Betancourt

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

Join us for a dialogue between Juan Cobo Betancourt (History) and Antonio Cortijo (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cobo's new book, The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada. The Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical ...

Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine

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

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

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

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

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