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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Social Media and the Shape of "Man"
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888 \nInspired by Cho’s ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this work-in-progress talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed—singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more—in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the epistemological violences of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates the assumptions of the specific manner in which “Man” is instantiated online and offers design examples that resist this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \nAlexander Cho is a media scholar\, digital design researcher\, critical theorist\, and pop culture geek. He teaches classes at UCSB on Asian Americans in media as well as on gender and sexuality. His research combines critical race theory\, queer theory\, design thinking\, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-social-media-and-the-shape-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhat do strongman leaders across a century have in common? Why do people continue to follow them\, despite the destruction they cause? Drawing on her new book\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the playbook of corruption\, virility\, propaganda\, and violence they utilize\, how people have resisted authoritarians over a century\, and what we can do to strengthen democracy in America and around the world. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes frequently for CNN and other news and analysis sites on fascism\, authoritarian leaders\, propaganda\, and threats to democracy around the world and how to counter them. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series\, the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment\, and the UCSB Italian Studies Program \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n\n\n  \n\nHOMBRES FUERTES: DE MUSSOLINI A TRUMP \n¿Qué tienen en común los líderes denominados como hombres fuertes a lo largo del siglo pasado? ¿Por qué la gente continúa siguiéndolos\, a pesar de la destrucción que causan? Basándose en su nuevo libro\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat analiza el manual de la corrupción\, la virilidad\, la propaganda\, la violencia que utilizan\, cómo la gente ha resistido a los autoritarios durante un siglo y qué podemos hacer para fortalecer la democracia en Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo. \n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat es profesora de Historia y Estudios Italianos en la Universidad de Nueva York. Escribe con frecuencia para CNN y otros sitios de noticias y análisis sobre fascismo\, líderes autoritarios\, propaganda y amenazas a la democracia en todo el mundo y cómo contrarrestarlas. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Dotación Conmemorativa Harry Girvetz de IHC y Programa de Estudios Italianos de UCSB \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-strongmen-from-mussolini-to-trump/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
DESCRIPTION:Click here for a 20% publisher’s discount on The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus \n  \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) and Debra Blumenthal (History) about Reynolds’ new book\, The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us\, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic\, Old Catalan\, Castilian\, Hebrew\, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco\, Algeria\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Lebanon\, and Syria. \nWhile the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades\, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings\, adaptations\, hybridizations\, and appropriations involved. \nDwight Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language & Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and affiliate faculty member of the Department of Music\, Department of Theater and Dance\, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and the Comparative Literature Program. He is the author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007) and Heroic Poets\, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995). He is the editor and co-author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (2015) and co-editor\, with Scott Marcus and Virginia Danielson\, of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Vol. VI\, the Middle East and Central Asia (2002). He is also section editor for and contributing author to The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period  (Part IV: Popular Prose; 2006). In 2010 with his team he published the online digital archive housing field recordings\, field notes\, historical background\, Arabic texts\, English translations\, photographs and a special “virtual performance” mode for the Arabic oral epic poem Sirat Bani Hilial. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-musical-heritage-of-al-andalus/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T100000
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SUMMARY:AIIC 2021 8th Annual Symposium: Native Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThe Eighth Annual AIIC Symposium\, “Native Feminisms: Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People\,” seeks to focus Native feminisms by privileging the knowledge of Native women\, girls\, trans\, non-binary\, and two spirit people. As Mishuana Goeman shows\, drawing attention to embodied experience\, positionality\, and spatiality foregrounds relationships between bodies\, minds\, spirits\, and lands as methods of knowledge creation. Relevant topics to broader discussions of Native feminisms include: embodiment\, futurity\, spatiality\, memory\, trauma\, ecological relationality\, community knowledge\, emergence\, collective power\, ceremony\, decolonization\, education\, reclamation\, and felt theory. \nThe AIIC Symposium seeks to explore how Native feminist cartographies help us remap and reimagine the relationship between people\, kin\, communities\, temporality\, and the land. We hope to raise questions about public space and protest\, environment and ecological knowledge\, storytelling\, violence\, education\, Indigeneity\, decolonial thinking\, gender\, and multiraciality. We embrace non-linear\, relational understandings of time\, and presenters will address historical issues of cartography\, contemporary remappings\, and embodied relationships to history\, knowledge creation\, and the land\, as well as the intersection of such topics. \nKeynote Speakers: Mishuana Goeman and Laura Harjo \nDr. Mishuana Goeman\, Tonawanda Band of Seneca\, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies\, Chair of American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from Stanford University’s Modern Thought and Literature and was a UC Presidential Post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley. Her research involves thinking through colonialism\, geography and literature in ways that generate anti-colonial tools in the struggle for social justice. Her book\, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013) was honored at the American Association for Geographic Perspectives on Women and a finalist for best first book from NAISA. “The Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrance Malick’s the New World\,” is in progress with the Indigenous Film Series\, University of Nebraska Press. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Quarterly\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, Settler Colonial Studies\, Wicazo Sa\, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Transmotion\, and American Indian Cultures and Research Journal. She has guest edited journal volumes on Native Feminisms and another on Indigenous Performances. \nDr. Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar teaching Indigenous Planning\, Community Development\, and Indigenous Feminisms. She is an Associate Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She was raised in Sapulpa by Mvskoke parents that were active in Mvskoke community and Muscogee (Creek) Nation politics; Harjo is a lifelong student of emancipatory community processes. Dr. Harjo earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Southern California\, and her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities\, community caretaking\, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis\, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence\, artivism and community engaged knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press\, 2019)\, which employs Mvskoke epistemologies\, and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. \nCosponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); UCSB American Indian Graduate Student Alliance (AIGSA); UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Student Association (AIISA); UCSB Associated Students; UCSB Department of English; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association (GSA); UCSB Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aiic-2021-8th-annual-symposium-native-feminisms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Elemental City: Ecology\, Media and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how the cultural politics of elemental media influence crisis narratives produced in relation to urban change. Taking Calcutta as a case study\, Doctoral Candidate Somak Mukherjee argues that the crisis of postcolonial cities has a distinct ecological imaginary\, borne of tension between mediated pairings of elements and more typical civic imaginaries such as civility\, citizenship\, community\, development\, or progress. Four examples of elements—earth\, air\, water\, and fire—are used as representative figures to explore how their cultural registers comment on questions of method\, archives\, and media in thinking about urban space. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Surojit Kayal. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by February 18. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSomak Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Media and Criticism\, Urban History\, and Postcolonial Studies. Somak’s writings have appeared in various print and digital publications in India\, including Huffington Post\, Scroll\, The Citizen\, Humanities Underground\, and Anandabazar Patrika (ABP). \nSurojit Kayal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests include environmental media\, science and technology studies\, digital culture\, and postcolonial studies. Surojit has written previously on environmental communities\, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage: The mouth of the Sealdah bound tunnel as can be seen from the Esplanade station of East West Metro in Kolkata\, November 2020. Image Courtesy: Metro Railways Kolkata
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-elemental-city-ecology-media-and-narratives-of-crisis-in-postcolonial-calcutta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T170000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhile more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world\, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600\,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole\, 12 million who are processed through a county jail\, 19 million U.S. adults estimated to have a felony conviction\, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. But the size of the U.S. carceral state is second in consequence to its reach. Incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48\,000 laws\, policies and administrative sanctions upon release that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets\, in the culture and civic life of the city\, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to\, and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They live in a “supervised society\,” a hidden social world we’ve produced through our laws\, policies and everyday practices\, and in fact\, occupy an alternate form of political membership—what Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” \nJoin Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration\, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago\, Detroit\, and New York—we will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow. \nReuben Jonathan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). His research examines life at the intersections of race\, poverty\, crime control\, and social welfare policy. He is the author of Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (February 2021)\, based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men\, women\, their families\, partners\, and friends. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nA MEDIO CAMINO: RAZA\, CASTIGO Y LA VIDA POSTERIOR AL ENCARCELAMIENTO MASIVO \nSi bien hay más personas encarceladas en los Estados Unidos que en cualquier otra nación en la historia del mundo occidental\, la prisión es solo una (comparativamente) pequeña parte de un vasto paisaje carcelario. Las 600\,000 personas liberadas cada año se unen a casi 5 millones de personas que ya están en libertad condicional\, 12 millones que son procesados ​​a través de una cárcel del condado\, 19 millones de adultos estadounidenses que se estima tienen una condena por delito grave\, y los 79 millones de estadounidenses con antecedentes penales. Sin embargo\, el tamaño del estado carcelario de EE. UU. es solo el segundo problema. El primero es: las personas encarceladas son recibidas por más de 48.000 leyes\, políticas y sanciones administrativas tras su liberación que limitan su participación en los mercados laborales y de vivienda\, en la cultura y la vida cívica de la ciudad e incluso dentro de sus familias. Estos individuos están sujetos a reglas a las que otras personas no lo están\, y no se espera que asuman responsabilidades como el resto de la población. Viven en una “sociedad supervisada”\, un mundo social oculto que hemos producido a través de nuestras leyes\, políticas y prácticas cotidianas y\, de hecho\, ocupan una forma alternativa de membresía política\, lo que el profesor Reuben Jonathan Miller llama “ciudadanía carcelaria”. \nÚnase al profesor Miller mientras examina el más allá del encarcelamiento masivo\, atendiendo a cómo la política de justicia penal de EE. UU. ha cambiado la vida social de la ciudad y ha alterado los contornos de la democracia estadounidense\, una familia (la mayoría de las veces afroamericana pobre) a la vez. Basándonos en datos etnográficos recopilados en tres ciudades estadounidenses emblemáticas\, Chicago\, Detroit y Nueva York\, exploraremos lo que significa vivir en una sociedad supervisada y cómo encontrar la salida. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nReuben Jonathan Miller es profesor asistente en la Escuela de Administración de Servicios Sociales (SSA) de la Universidad de Chicago. Su investigación examina la vida en las intersecciones de raza\, pobreza\, control del crimen y políticas de bienestar social. Es el autor de Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (febrero de 2021)\, basado en 15 años de investigación y práctica con hombres\, mujeres\, sus familias\, parejas y amigos que se encuentran actual y anteriormente en la cárcel. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC  \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Talk: We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence In Our Body-Territory
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nCharrúa women have gone through dispossession\, exclusion\, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century Uruguay\, but continues today and manifests itself every time that institutions or civil society denies their existence as an indigenous people. For fifteen years\, together with Charrúa sisters from Argentina\, Charrúa women from Uruguay have been working to demolish hegemonic narratives of the market and state. As subjects of legal right\, they are reconfiguring their existence and re-existence in their great ancestral-territory-body. This collective search has led Mónica Michelena to academic spaces. \nIn 2011\, Michelena began an investigation with rural Charrúa women in Uruguay’s interior to question the nation-state’s devices of invisibility and to expose counter-memories as part of an attempt to disarm the social and symbolic representation of their extinction. Through a methodological approach based on collaborative ethnography\, Michelena’s research aims to rearm the great quillapí of memory. The metaphor of quillapí – a leather cape made from patchwork – implies that each woman is the bearer of a small piece of memory and\, among all\, they are sewing together its scraps. Down this path\, Charrúa women began to slowly gain recognition from the Uruguayan feminist movement\, in a slow process of internal decolonization. \nMónica Michelena is Secretary of the Charrúa Nation Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series and is cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-we-are-charrua-women-from-negation-to-re-existence-in-our-body-territory/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Disability Justice Conversation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin Gary White\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Eric Kruger\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Afiya Browne\, UCSB’s Multicultural Center\, Sam del Castillo\, Graduate Division and graduate student\, and Shanna Killeen\, Disability Studies Initiative RFG\, for a conversation about accessibility and intersectional justice. This conversation will discuss information\, tools\, and resources for creating intentional and accessible spaces and community engagement. This conversation also aims to help us think through what this moment of remote work means for our communities. How do graduate students navigate access in an already inaccessible world? Our hope is to have an impactful conversation about resources and accessibility as a foundation and not an add on\, and to help us imagine how creating accessible spaces benefits us all. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Muticultural Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-disability-justice-conversation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sam del Castillo":MAILTO:diversitypeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210225T185348Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210225T211202Z
UID:10000535-1614960000-1614967200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Kings and Cripples in the Arthurian World
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09 \nWhile the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one\, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture\, its imagery and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world\, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure\, the Rich Fisher King. This talk looks at such linkage through Arthurian texts and illustrated manuscripts\, especially the vast Lancelot Prose Cycle. \nChristopher Baswell is the Acting Chair of the Department of English and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College. He is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB English Department Early Modern Center \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-kings-and-cripples-in-the-arthurian-world/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210216T211233Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210224T202855Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cannabis and South Asia
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09 \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cannabis-and-south-asia/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210303T200531Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210304T225118Z
UID:10000536-1615478400-1615483800@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Talk: A Wave of Difference: Language Expression in the Argentine Feminist Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn the context of a disproportionate increase in sexual violence against cis\, trans\, and transvestite women since 2015\, Argentine feminisms have prefigured the untimely irruption of public space in both process and form. The movements’ interventions not only impact the social conditions and the epistemic tools for popular intelligibility of language expression ​​of gender violence\, through an innovative use of communication technologies and social networks\, but also articulate\, from the multidimensionality in which inequality operates by gender and more broadly\, a transversal resistance to the oppressive characteristics that would accompany the neoliberal turn produced by public policy under President Mauricio Macri’s corporate governance mandate (2015-2019). This new state of public attention and mass representation allowed a reorganization of desires to spread and multiply across territories\, professional careers\, bodies\, and communities throughout the country\, which would forever transform the contours of a traditionally instituted political subject\, expanding its affective capacity to rework new forms of connection between the personal and the political\, extending the singular opportunity of its criticism to all spheres of social organization. In this way\, local feminisms constructed networks of theoretical exchange and practical solidarity between cis and trans women\, which to this day connect\, in a complex way and not without tension\, a concert of experiences that link and incorporate radical differences and specific demands of the sectors of working women\, ecologists\, diverse functional\, queer\, unionists\, anti-racists\, piqueteras\, educators\, prostitutes and racialized\, among many others\, in a structural critique of the functioning capitalist economic order. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series\, which welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-a-wave-of-difference-language-expression-in-the-argentine-feminist-imaginary/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210312T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210309T193005Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210309T193144Z
UID:10000538-1615550400-1615557600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Blood Files: Epidemic\, Medium\, Milieu
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nEpidemics make us keenly aware of our multispecies distributions: of changes to our microbial makeup\, of the mediums (body fluids to the elements) that enable transmission. While our body makes us aware of fevers and aches\, we need technical mediation beyond the everyday thermometer to track and understand changing microbial-human relations. Epidemic media—a range of technologies\, microscopes to PCR machines—are the subject of Bishnupriya Ghosh’s book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Drawing on two research sites thousands of miles apart yet embedded in the global biomedical complex—a retrovirus laboratory at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, and a modest clinical point of care at the Humsafar offices in Mumbai—Ghosh considers how the ordinary technology of the “blood file” (samples\, data\, and pictures) makes the medium intelligible as a milieu. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of Global Studies and English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her first two books\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers University Press\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke University Press\, 2011)\, addressed cultures of globalization. Her recent work includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge\, 2020) and a new monograph on viral emergence\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-blood-files-epidemic-medium-milieu/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T134500
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210310T182837Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210310T183000Z
UID:10000539-1615811400-1615815900@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Designing Disability
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nWe will be discussing Professor Elizabeth Guffey’s introduction and chapter 1 to her latest book\, Designing Disability (Bloomsbury\, 2018). A Professor of Art & Design History\, and Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art\, Criticism and Theory at State University of New York at Purchase\, Professor Guffey co-edited Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture (Routledge). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-designing-disability/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210208T194505Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210318T165215Z
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Annual Colloquium: Global/Premodern/Race
DESCRIPTION:Register by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021 \nThis symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian\, Middle Eastern\, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in the premodern world and how it has structured medieval and early modern studies as academic fields. \nParticipants include:\nPAMELA PATTON (Art History\, Princeton University)\nM. LINDSAY KAPLAN (English\, Georgetown University)\nHANNAH BARKER (History\, Arizona State University)\nMOHAMAD BALLAN (History\, SUNY Stonybrook)\nAMBEREEN DADABHOY (Literature\, Harvey Mudd College)\nJOSH COHEN (Committee on the Study of Religion\, Harvard University)\nABDULHAMIT ARVAS (English\, University of Pennsylvania)\nTERENCE KEEL (African American Studies & Institute for Society and Genetics\, UCLA)\nKATHY LAVEZZO (English\, University of Iowa) \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Medieval Studies; Early Modern Center\, English Department; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; College of Letters & Science; History Department; and Latin American and Iberian Studies \nRegister by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/medieval-studies-annual-colloquium-global-premodern-race/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="global.premodern.race@gmail.com":MAILTO:global.premodern.race@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210408T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210316T182204Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210319T161823Z
UID:10000541-1617897600-1617903000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn this RFG talk\, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932.” \nJoshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University\, Toronto. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-lingvo-internacia-the-esperanto-movement-in-china-and-japan-1905-1932/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Transregional East Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group":MAILTO:wfleming@eastasian.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T130000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210120T220015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T003045Z
UID:10000522-1618574400-1618578000@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Living Democracy Talk: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED \n\nArtist and filmmaker\, Isaac Julien\, and writer and curator\, Mark Nash\, will screen excerpts from Julien’s film “Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass” in a presentation that will explore the importance of looking to history and biography to articulate contemporary cultural movements. Isaac Julien’s moving image practice draws from and comments on a range of artistic disciplines including film\, theatre\, photography and performance.  \nJulien is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Nash is a Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz where they run the Isaac Julien Lab\, a platform for the innovation of visual and sonic languages for production and the critical reception of moving image\, video art\, and installation work by examining historical and contemporary art practice. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n\nImage: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Courtesy of the Artist\, Metro Pictures New York\, and Victoria Miro London/Venice \n  \nLECCIONES DE LA HORA—FREDERICK DOUGLASS \nEl artista y cineasta Isaac Julien y el escritor y curador Mark Nash proyectarán extractos de la película de Julien “Lecciones de la hora—Frederick Douglass” en una presentación que explorará la importancia de mirar la historia y la biografía para articular los movimientos culturales contemporáneos. La práctica de la imagen en movimiento de Isaac Julien se basa en y comenta sobre una variedad de disciplinas artísticas que incluyen cine\, teatro\, fotografía y actuación. \nJulien es Profesor Distinguido de Artes y Nash es Profesor de Artes en la UC Santa Cruz donde dirigen el Isaac Julien Lab\, una plataforma para la innovación de lenguajes visuales y sonoros para la producción y la recepción crítica de imagen en movimiento\, videoarte\, y trabajos de instalación examinando la práctica del arte histórico y contemporáneo. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nImagen: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Cortesía del artista\, Metro Pictures New York y Victoria Miro London / Venice
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-lessons-of-the-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210310T220806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210427T204735Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: Embracing Ecological Uncertainty through Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Uncertainty is a central psychological dimension of the ecological crisis. The science of climate change brings into view widely divergent scenarios; the discrepancy between these more or less catastrophic visions of the future undermines our ontological security (in Anthony Giddens’s terminology). Dr. Caracciolo argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty. He describes this process as a shift from a primarily negative understanding of uncertainty (as something to be avoided at all costs) to a more complex\, nuanced appreciation. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Sowon Park. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by April 15. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nMarco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of five books\, including most recently Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). \nSowon Park is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Together with Professor Sangwon Suh\, she is one of the conveners of the Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-embracing-ecological-uncertainty-through-narrative/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210309T175642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210505T183436Z
UID:10000537-1619107200-1619109900@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Ben Olguín (English\, UCSB) and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Social and Cultural Analysis\, NYU) about Olguín’s new book\, Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature. Audience Q&A will follow. \nViolentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature\, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities\, or Latinidades\, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentología\, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence\, this book adapts the neologism “violentology” as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history\, life\, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities – and featuring multiple generations of Latinx combatants\, wartime non-combatants\, and “peacetime” civilians – Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate\, contradictory\, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies\, and corresponding negotiations of power\, or ideologies\, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and\, ultimately\, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm. \nBen Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English\, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University\, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow\, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. In addition to articles published in Cultural Critique\, American Literary History\, Aztlán\, Frontiers\, Biography\, MELUS\, and Nepantla\, Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History\, Culture\, and Politics (University of Texas Press\, 2010). \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the College of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press\, 2016); Des/posesión: Género\, territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación (PUEG-UNAM\, 2014); Aunt Lute’s Anthology of U.S. Women’s Writing\, Volume II (Aunt Lute Press\, 2008); The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press\, 2003). Saldaña-Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades\, including Casa de Las Americas Literary Prize for the Best Book in Studies of Latinos in the United States; John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association; Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-violentologies-violence-identity-and-ideology-in-latina-o-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210429T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210127T211030Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210521T162408Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Swati Rana (English) and Stephanie L. Batiste (English) about Rana’s new book\, Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. Audience Q&A will follow. \nA vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial\, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures\, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960\, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall\, Ameen Rihani\, Dalip Singh Saund\, José Garcia Villa\, and José Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream\, from individualism to imperialism\, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation\, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood\, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison\, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven. \nSwati Rana is Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in twentieth-century U.S. literature\, comparative ethnic literature\, and transnational American studies. Her research has appeared in American Literary History\, American Literature\, and Journal of Asian American Studies\, and her creative writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Crazyhorse\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Wasafiri\, and elsewhere.  \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-race-characters-ethnic-literature-and-the-figure-of-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20200211T180047Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION \nThe interdisciplinary virtual conference “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster” will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm\, with an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines who will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) \nAn associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place at 4pm on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. \nFILM DISCUSSION REGISTRATION \nSponsored by the College of Letters and Science and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20201218T215645Z
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: What We Can Do For Each Other
DESCRIPTION:One of the greatest threats against democracy and justice is indolence–defined as a form of militant indifference based on the lack of empathy for the suffering of others. Cristina Rivera Garza will explore how taking part in and contributing to transnational emotional communities in Mexico and the U.S.\, many based on shared experiences of social suffering and the grieving that comes with it\, may help us leap out of ourselves and into the heart of the bond we share with human and non-human beings alike. Audience Q&A will follow. \nCristina Rivera Garza is Distinguished Professor of Hispanic Studies and Creative Writing and Director of the PhD in Creative Writing in Spanish Program at the University of Houston. She is an award-winning author\, translator\, and critic. Her recent publications include The Taiga Syndrome\, translated by Suzanne Jill Levine and Aviva Kana (Dorothy Project\, 2018); The Iliac Crest\, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press\, 2017); Autobiografía del algodón (Random House\, 2020); Grieving: Dispatches from a Wounded Country\, translated by Sarah Booker (The Feminist Press\, 2020); The Restless Dead: Necrowriting and Disappropriation\, translated by Robin Myers (Vanderbilt University Press\, 2020); and La Castañeda Insane Asylum: Narratives of Pain from Modern Mexico\, translated by Laura Kanost (Ohio University Press\, 2020). She is also a 2020 MacArthur Foundation Genius Grant recipient. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nLO QUE PODEMOS HACER EL UNO POR EL OTRO \nUna de las mayores amenazas contra la democracia y la justicia es la indolencia\, definida como una forma de indiferencia militante basada en la falta de empatía por el sufrimiento de los demás. Cristina Rivera Garza explorará cómo participar y contribuir a las comunidades emocionales transnacionales en México y en los Estados Unidos\, muchas de ellas basadas en experiencias compartidas de sufrimiento social y el duelo que lo acompaña\, puede ayudarnos a salir de nosotros mismos y al corazón del vínculo que compartimos. con seres humanos y no humanos por igual. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nCristina Rivera Garza es Profesora Distinguida de Estudios Hispanos y Escritura Creativa y Directora del Programa de Doctorado en Escritura Creativa en Español de la Universidad de Houston. Es una autora\, traductora y crítica premiada. Sus publicaciones recientes incluyen El mal de la taiga (2012); La cresta de Ilión (2002); Autobiografía del algodón (2020); Dolerse: textos desde un país herido (2011); Los muertos indóciles: Necroescrituras y desapropiación (2013); y La Castañeda: narrativas dolientes desde el Manicomio General\, México\, 1910-1930 (2010). Además\, recibió la Beca Genius de la Fundación MacArthur 2020. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-cristina-rivera-garza/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T104500
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
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SUMMARY:Information Session: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course offerings\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you cannot attend the info session but would like to learn more about the program\, please email Erin Nerstad at nerstad@ihc.ucsb.edu. \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-s21-information-session/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210507T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210422T200405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210426T200240Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Popular Feminist Communication: Tools for Organization in Times of Destruction
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nRevista Amazonas (Amazonas Magazine) is a collective made up of women from Colombia\, Brazil\, Nicaragua\, Ecuador\, Argentina\, Mexico and Spain. It was born out of a commitment to publishing texts and images made by women from anywhere in the world\, covering all literary themes and genres\, but always from a perspective that is trans-feminist\, anti-capitalist\, anti-racist\, anti-colonial and in defense of all forms of life. The magazine emphasizes that focusing on what women have to say – those who live and work on the margins\, those who defend their territories – is not only a matter of justice\, but also the only way to understand how a global system functions\, and how to use that knowledge to think together strategies for emancipation. \nAny woman can submit text\, illustration or photographs to info@revistaamazonas.com for publication in www.revistaamazonas.com \nParticipating Speakers: \nHelena Silvestre (Brazil)\, writer\, Afro-indigenous activist in housing movements (Luta Popular)\, popular educator (Escola Feminista Abya Yala)\, and co-editor of Revista Amazonas. \nAmanda Martínez (Nicaragua/Brazil)\, Nicaraguan woman\, Central American migrant in South America\, feminist\, artivist and researcher who supports anti-racist\, anti-patriarchal and anti-colonial struggles in the Central American isthmus and the rest of the region. Interested in the exchange of knowledge and dissemination of the other histories of America that lie in the oral tradition\, in feelings\, art and everyday life of communities. \nAna María Morales Troya (Ecuador)\, co-editor of Revista Amazonas\, Ecuadorian feminist and anthropologist. She is a researcher and member of CLACSO’s WGs on popular economies and emancipatory feminist economics. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series\, which welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-popular-feminist-communication-tools-for-organization-in-times-of-destruction/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210510T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210414T210405Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210423T165141Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: A Disability Studies Perspective on Universal Design for Learning
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nProfessor Rachel Lambert (Education\, UC Santa Barbara) will offer a workshop on Universal Design for Learning (UDL). She will shed light on its development\, including roots in Universal Design. She will describe the radical possibilities in UDL\, as well as critiques. She will present some of her own work\, which seeks to integrate design thinking as a process for educators to use UDL to (re)design curriculum\, spaces and systems. \nPrior to the workshop\, participants are encouraged to read chapter 4\, “Universal Design\,” from Jay Timothy Dolmage’s Academic Ableism: Disability and Higher Education (2017)\, available here. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB Disabled Students Program \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-a-disability-studies-perspective-on-universal-design-for-learning/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210512T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210513T171610Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sri Sabhapati Swami and the "Translocalization" of Sivarajayoga
DESCRIPTION:Keith Cantú’s talk will center on the life and yogic literature of the Tamil yogi Sri Sabhapati Swami (Capāpati Cuvāmikaḷ\, 1828–1923/4). The first part of the talk will consist of an overview of Sabhapati’s life and historical context\, including his interactions and falling out with the founders of the Theosophical Society\, his literature and visual diagrams in numerous prestige and Indian vernacular languages\, his Śaiva yogic cosmology and perspectives on Hindu traditions and other religions\, and his network of “admirers” and students across South Asia. Cantú will then shift to a more open-ended discussion about the theoretical framework of global “translocalization\,” including evidence for pan-Indian “mesolocalization\,” and will argue that in Sabhapati’s case this kind of framework is useful when analyzing the ways in which religious ideas travel and change when circulating between local\, mesolocal\, and translocal audiences in the modern period. \nKeith Edward Cantú will receive his doctoral degree in Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, this spring (2021). A specialist in South Asian religions\, he is the co-editor of City of Mirrors: Songs of Lālan Sā̃i\, a volume of nineteenth-century Bengali songs translated by Carol Salomon. He is also the author of several peer-reviewed articles and book chapters\, including “Islamic Esotericism in the Bengali Bāul Songs of Lālan Fakir\,” a translation of the “Eighth Instruction” of a Sanskrit alchemical text called the Rasāyanakhaṇḍa about the alchemical wonders of Śrīśailam\, and “Sri Sabhapati Swami: The Forgotten Yogi of Western Esotericism.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-sri-sabhapati-swami-and-the-translocalization-of-sivarajayoga/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210514T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210506T215546Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210520T155317Z
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SUMMARY:Keynote Address: Indigenous Knowledge and Climate Justice in a Pandemic-Prone World
DESCRIPTION:Five hundred years of the colonial remaking of landscapes of most of the world’s continents have ravaged the planet in monumental ways. Empire-building has clearly benefitted people of Europe’s imperial projects while bringing catastrophic change to indigenous populations. The fallout of imperialism and all its attendant technologies has brought humankind to an existential crisis\, with climate change and now pandemics as interlinked threats. This talk will bring together these issues\, highlighting the wisdom contained in Indigenous knowledge systems as a way to imagine a sustainable human future. \nDina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes) is a lecturer of American Indian Studies at California State University San Marcos\, and an independent educator in American Indian environmental policy and other issues. At CSUSM she teaches courses on environmentalism and American Indians\, traditional ecological knowledge\, religion and philosophy\, Native women’s activism\, American Indians and sports\, and decolonization. \nShe also works within the field of critical sports studies\, examining the intersections of indigeneity and the sport of surfing. As a public intellectual\, Dina brings her scholarship into focus as an award-winning journalist as well\, contributing to numerous online outlets including Indian Country Today\, Los Angeles Times\, High Country News and many more. \nDina is the author of two books; the most recent award-winning As Long As Grass Grows: The Indigenous Fight for Environmental Justice from Colonization to Standing Rock. She is currently under contract with Beacon Press for a new book under the working title Illegitimate Nation: Privilege\, Race\, and Accountability in the U.S. Settler State. \nThis event is the keynote address to the webinar series\, A Wakeup Call for Climate Justice? Indigenous Knowledges Respond to the Coronavirus Pandemic. \nCo-sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, CAPPS Center\, Department of Global Studies\nOrfalea Center\, and the Departments of Asian American Studies\, Religious Studies\, Chican@ Studies\, Anthropology\, Geography\, and Black Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/keynote-address-indigenous-knowledge-and-climate-justice-in-a-pandemic-prone-world/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sylvia Cifuentes":MAILTO:sylviacifuentes@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210518T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
CREATED:20210401T224430Z
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SUMMARY:2021 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Taming Titans: How Should We Regulate Big Tech?
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nParticipants:\nSonia Katyal\, The University of California\, Berkeley\, School of Law\nKate Klonick\, St. John’s University\, School of Law\nRandal C. Picker\, The University of Chicago\, The Law School\nModerator: Michael J. Burstein\, Yeshiva University\, Benjamin N. Cardozo School of Law \n\nExperts on law and technology will debate how Amazon\, Apple\, Facebook\, Google\, and Microsoft should be regulated. Are they 21st-century trusts? Guardians of free speech? Threats to our privacy? Do they impede or fuel innovation? Join us for a lively discussion of the role big tech companies play in our lives and the role they should play in the coming decade. \nSonia Katyal\, Distinguished Haas Chair at UC Berkeley School of Law and Co-Director of the Berkeley Center for Law & Technology\, has published widely on the intersection of technology\, intellectual property\, and civil rights (including antidiscrimination\, privacy\, and freedom of speech) as well as on law\, gender\, and sexuality. \n\nKate Klonick\, Assistant Professor of Law at St. John’s University School of Law and Affiliate Fellow at the Information Society Project at Yale Law School\, has published on Facebook’s new Oversight Board\, the Internet’s effect on freedom of expression and private platform governance\, and issues related to online shaming\, artificial intelligence\, content moderation\, algorithms\, privacy\, and intellectual property.  \nRandal C. Picker\, James Parker Hall Distinguished Service Professor of Law at the University of Chicago Law School\, is co-author of Game Theory and the Law and Security Interests in Personal Property: Cases\, Problems and Materials. \nThe debate will be moderated by Michael J. Burstein\, Vice Dean and Professor of Law at Cardozo School of Law. \nCo-presented with the UCSB College of Letters and Science and made possible by an endowment from the Arthur N. Rupe Foundation \nLive closed-captioning and Spanish interpretation will be provided. \n  \nEL GRAN DEBATE ARTHUR N. RUPE DEL 2021: “DOMAR A LOS TITANES: ¿CÓMO DEBERÍAMOS REGULAR LAS GRANDES COMPAÑÍAS TECNOLÓGICAS?” \nAsista gratuitamente; se requiere su matriculación para recibir el enlace de Zoom que le permite asistir al webinar \nPonentes:\nSonia Katyal\, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de California en Berkeley\nKate Klonick\, Facultad de Derecho de la St. John’s University (New York)\nRandal C. Picker\, Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago\nModerador: Michael J. Burstein\, Facultad de Derecho “Benjamin N. Cardozo” (Yeshiva University\, New York) \nLos participantes\, expertos en derecho y tecnología\, discutirán y debatirán sobre cómo deberían regularse empresas como Amazon\, Apple\, Facebook\, Google y Microsoft. ¿Son éstas los monopolios del siglo XXI? ¿Los guardianes de la libertad de expresión? ¿O bien tan sólo amenazas a la privacidad? ¿Son estos gigantes fuentes o impedimentos para la innovación? Únase a nosotros para una animada discusión sobre el papel que juegan estas empresas en nuestras vidas y el papel que deberían desempeñar en la próxima década. \nSonia Katyal es la titular de la Cátedra Haas en la Facultad de Derecho de UC Berkeley y codirectora del Berkeley Center for Law & Technology. Es la distinguida autora de numerosas publicaciones sobre la intersección entre tecnología\, propiedad intelectual y derechos civiles (entre ellos la privacidad\, la libertad de expresión y la lucha contra la discriminación)\, así como entre derecho\, género y sexualidad. \nKate Klonick es profesora adjunta de derecho en la Facultad de Derecho de la St. John’s University en Nueva York y miembro afiliado del Information Society Project (Proyecto sobre la Sociedad de la Información) en la Facultad de Derecho de Yale. Es autora de varias publicaciones sobre la nueva Junta de Supervisión en Facebook\, el efecto del Internet sobre la libertad de expresión y la gestión privada de plataformas digitales\, y cuestiones relacionadas con el fenómeno del shaming (humillación en línea)\, la inteligencia artificial\, la moderación de contenido\, los algoritmos\, la privacidad y la propiedad intelectual. \nRandal C. Picker\, es el titular de la Cátedra James Parker Hall en la Facultad de Derecho de la Universidad de Chicago. Es el author distinguido de various libros\, cuales: Game Theory and the Law (‘La teoría de juegos en el derecho’) y Security Interests in Personal Property: Cases\, Problems and Materials (‘Los bienes muebles como garantía: casos\, problemas y materiales’). \nMichael J. Burstein\, catedrático de derecho y vicedecano de la Facultad de Derecho “Benjamin N. Cardozo” de Yeshiva University en Nueva York moderará el debate. \nOrganizado conjuntamente con las Facultades de Letras y Ciencias de UCSB y patrocinado por un legado de la Fundación Arthur N. Rupe \nSe proveerá el subtitulado para personas sordas en tiempo real e interpretación al español.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2021-the-arthur-n-rupe-great-debate-taming-titans-how-should-we-regulate-big-tech/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210520T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Tae-Yeoun Keum (Political Science) and Andrew Norris (Political Science) about Keum’s new book\, Plato and the Mythic Tradition in Political Thought. Audience Q&A will follow. \nPlato’s use of myths—the Myth of Metals\, the Myth of Er—sits uneasily with his canonical reputation as the inventor of rational philosophy. Since the Enlightenment\, interpreters like Hegel have sought to resolve this tension by treating Plato’s myths as mere regrettable embellishments\, irrelevant to his main enterprise. Others\, such as Karl Popper\, have railed against the deceptive power of myth\, concluding that a tradition built on Platonic foundations can be neither rational nor desirable. \nTae-Yeoun Keum challenges the premise underlying both of these positions. She argues that myth is neither irrelevant nor inimical to the ideal of rational progress. She tracks the influence of Plato’s dialogues through the early modern period and on to the twentieth century\, showing how pivotal figures in the history of political thought—More\, Bacon\, Leibniz\, the German Idealists\, Cassirer\, and others—have been inspired by Plato’s mythmaking. She finds that Plato’s followers perennially raised the possibility that there is a vital role for myth in rational political thinking. \nTae-Yeoun Keum is Assistant Professor of Political Science at UCSB and was previously the Christopher Tower Junior Research Fellow at Christ Church\, Oxford. She is a political theorist broadly interested in ancient political thought and its reception\, 20th century German social thought\, and the intersection of political theory and literature. Her work has appeared in the American Political Science Review and History of Political Thought. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-plato-and-the-mythic-tradition-in-political-thought/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210527T124500
DTSTAMP:20260601T065003
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SUMMARY:Reading: UC Santa Barbara Student Veteran Writers
DESCRIPTION:Read the student veterans’ stories in The Santa Barbara Independent. \nUC Santa Barbara student veterans will read stories about their military experiences\, followed by audience Q&A. \nPresenters: David Guerrero\, Robert Hickman\, Michael Ramirez\, and Nick Tash \nDavid Guerrero served in the United States Marine Corps as an Infantry rifleman from 2003 to 2007. He earned his AS in Criminology and Liberal Arts from Santa Barbara City College. David transferred to UCSB in the Fall of 2020 and is currently studying sociology and minoring in applied psychology and education studies. David plans to become a Licensed Clinical Social Worker (LCSW) and help veterans improve and maintain their mental wellness. \nRobert Hickman served as an Infantryman in the U.S. Army for three years. He earned his AA in biology at Reedley College and is currently studying biology at UC Santa Barbara\, where he will be graduating in Spring 2021. He plans to become a physician. \nMichael Ramirez is an Air Force veteran who served from 2008 to 2014. After his initial military enlistment\, Michael became a private military contractor for a foreign country. After working overseas\, Michael decided to quit and return back to the U.S to finish his degree. Currently\, Michael is finishing his degree in Statistics and Data Science at UC Santa Barbara. \nNick Tash served in the Marines from 2010–14. He graduated from UCSB in June 2020 with a BA in philosophy\, and he is now a paralegal in the Army Reserve. He is planning to attend the University of Nevada\, Las Vegas Boyd School of Law and become an attorney in the U.S. Judge Advocate General’s (JAG) Corps. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series\, the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment\, and the UC Santa Barbara Veterans Writing Workshop
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2021-reading-uc-santa-barbara-student-veteran-writers/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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