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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\, the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Prof. Nicola Daly entitled “Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness.” \nIn this talk\, Prof. Nicola Daly will traverse a range of research studies exploring the contribution of dual language picturebooks to language revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on her new book\, Language\, Identity and Diversity in Picturebooks: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective (Routledge\, 2025)\, she will present findings showing how dual language picturebooks in Aotearoa can both reflect and disrupt language hierarchies\, and how they can be used in educational settings from preschool to university to support critical language awareness and language learning of the Indigenous language te reo Māori. \nNicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education\, University of Waikato\, where she teaches children’s literature and leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also co-directs the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit. Her research focus is multilingual picturebooks and their role in perpetuating and challenging language attitudes. She was a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar at the University of Arizona\, USA in 2019-2020. She is an Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization Lecture Series\, and the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dual-language-picturebooks-in-aotearoa-contributions-to-language-revitalisation-and-critical-language-awareness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs
DESCRIPTION:UCSB Professor Emeritus of History Tsuyoshi Hasegawa engages in a colloquy with Michigan State Professor Emeritus of History Lewis Siegelbaum on Professor Hasegawa’s new book\, The Last Tsar: The Abdication of Nicholas II and the Fall of the Romanovs. When Tsar Nicholas II fell from power in 1917\, Imperial Russia faced a series of overlapping crises\, from war to social unrest. Although Nicholas’s life is often described as tragic\, it was not fate that doomed the Romanovs; it was poor leadership and a blinkered faith in autocracy. Based on a trove of new archival discoveries\, The Last Tsar narrates how Nicholas’s resistance to reform doomed the monarchy. Encompassing the captivating personalities of the era\, it untangles the struggles between the increasingly isolated Nicholas and Alexandra and the factions of scheming nobles\, ruthless legislators\, and pragmatic generals who sought to stabilize the restive Russian empire either with the Tsar or without him. By rejecting compromise\, Nicholas undermined his supporters at crucial moments. His blunders cleared the way for all-out civil war and the eventual rise of the Soviet Union. Definitive and engrossing\, The Last Tsar uncovers how Nicholas II stumbled into revolution\, taking his family\, the Romanov dynasty\, and the whole Russian Empire down with him. \nTsuyoshi Hasegawa is professor emeritus at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books\, including The February Revolution\, Petrograd 1917: The End of the Tsarist Regime and the Birth of Dual Power (2017)\, Crime and Punishment in the Russian Revolution: Mob Justice and the Police in Petrograd (2017); Racing the Enemy: Stalin\, Truman and the Surrender of Japan (2006)\, The Northern Territories Dispute and Russo‑Japanese Relations (1998)\, and The February Revolution: Petrograd\, 1917 (1981). He lives in Santa Barbara\, California. \nCosponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Political Science\, Department of History\, and History Associates
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-last-tsar-the-abdication-of-nicholas-ii-and-the-fall-of-the-romanovs/
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:20250128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 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. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-28-2025/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 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. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20241010T190842Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Subject or Objects? Key Passageways between Things and Humans
DESCRIPTION:Based on three research projects on aesthetic environments\, this talk will discuss how and when humans and things become objects or subjects. Focusing on the figures of the opera fan\, the shoe fit model\, and the museum custodian\, the lecture will delve into the passivity of the fan as agency\, the fit model as subject and object at the same time\, and the custodian and their reduction to an object\, and how this\, paradoxically\, allows them to occupy their subject position. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nClaudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession and The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry\, as well as editor of Social Theory Now (with M. Krause and I. Reed)\, all published by University of Chicago Press. He’s currently Co-editor in Chief of Qualitative Sociology. His work has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Lewis Coser\, and the Mary Douglas prizes. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/subject-or-objects/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250128T174041Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture
DESCRIPTION:The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005\, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester\, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s creative play. On the page and onscreen\, in museum galleries\, schools\, toy aisles\, and at home\, today cardboard occupies a privileged position within children’s material culture where the promises of environmental and STEAM education coalesce. Its accessibility makes it an equitable choice; its recyclability makes it a sustainable one. This talk will examine cardboard’s recent ascendence in children’s sustainability and STEAM cultures. Through a series of case studies\, including documentary film\, fiction\, curricular materials and kids’ material cultures\, it will identify the optimistic futures projected by proponents of cardboard play and interrogate their underpinning logics. Cardboard sits at the intersection between the local and the global in children’s everyday lives—at once emblematic of transnational flows of labor and capital and the material stuff of hyper-specific embodied engagements. As such\, this talk will trace cardboard’s function as a material\, discursive\, and aesthetic phenomenon deployed to address—though not necessarily resolve—a range of concerns related to children’s economic\, environmental\, and educational futures. \nMeredith A. Bak is an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter\, The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies\, Early Popular Visual Culture\, The Velvet Light Trap\, and Film History\, and in several edited collections. She is at work on a project about the role of cardboard in children’s STEAM and environmental pedagogies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Comparative Literature Program\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-outside-the-box-cardboard-in-contemporary-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:3145 SSMS\, 3145 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature\, now in its twentieth year\, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. The recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona\, Muñoz is the author of three books of short stories and one novel\, all of which have been highly acclaimed and received awards. Mr. Muñoz will engage in a conversation with Prof. Mario T. Garcia of the Department of Chicano Studies and the founder and director of the Leal Award. There will be an opportunity for audience discussion with Mr. Muñoz. \nCosponsored 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\, Educational Opportunity Program\, La Maestra Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Department of English
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2025/
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:20250206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T164500
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T175655Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible and the Sino-Soundscape in North America
DESCRIPTION:The defining tunes of the Sinophone community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were those of the Cantonese opera performed in Chinese theaters. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of materials about Sinophone community in archives. The sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in English newspapers and travelogues. Drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer to piece together the history of vibrant Chinese theaters\, this talk offers readings against the grain to consider how archives structure our understanding of the past and frame how we enter into the present and future. \nNancy Yunhwa Rao is Distinguished Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone and Inter-Asia studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she is the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. For The Cambridge Companion to Serialism\, she contributed a chapter on East Asia. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition recently appeared in Music Theory Spectrum. Rao currently serves as editor of the journal American Music. Her new book\, Inside Chinese theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond\, will be published in March 2025. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Music\, and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-inside-chinese-theater-archive-of-the-invisible-and-sino-soundscape-in-north-america/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20241010T171916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T211501Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Black History's Warning to the World
DESCRIPTION: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\, and likelihood of the changes ahead—and be guided by the example and the wisdom of our ancestors. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nVincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published two prize-winning books about the history of slavery: The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008) and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020). The author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is also Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-winning television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)\, broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens\, he was the executive producer and host for The Bigger Picture (2022)\, co-produced with WNET for PBS Digital Studios\, and he was executive producer\, writer\, and host for How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? (2024). He is co-founder of Timestamp Media\, which explores the history that connects people and places across the world. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/black-historys-warning-to-the-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T215950Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson
DESCRIPTION: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 Canada\, producing works that engage with disability\, neurodiversity\, queer Black feminist and womanist thought\, Caribbean literature\, folklore\, & ecology\, Afrofuturism\, textile and doll-making praxis\, and teaching. Dr. Hopkinson is known best for her works in speculative fiction—novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring\, Midnight Robber\, and Sister Mine represent only a fraction of Dr. Hopkinson’s contributions to Afrofuturist thought and art practice. \nJoin us this Winter quarter to welcome Dr. Hopkinson to UCSB. The event will include a moderated conversation\, an audience Q&A\, followed by a book-signing. Select titles will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there! \nCosponsored by the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative\, Las Maestras Center for Xican[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art and Social Practice\, Center for Feminist Futures\, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center\, English\, Film and Media Studies\, Comparative Literature\, Black Studies\, Feminist Studies\, the Transcriptions Center\, the Writing Program\, and the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-conversing-with-the-afrofuture-an-evening-with-nalo-hopkinson/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni House\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T173000
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SUMMARY:Sal Castro Memorial Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Department of History\, Chicano Studies Institute\, and Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sal-castro-memorial-lecture-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Lisa Jacobson
DESCRIPTION: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. \nIn 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 and tastemakers to transform wine\, beer\, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists\, trade associations\, restaurateurs\, home economists\, cookbook authors\, and New Deal planners—powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book\, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol’s cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens. \nLisa Jacobson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-lisa-jacobson/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T123000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250210T234431Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable and Workshop: Celebrating Restorative Relations: Connections between climate resilience\, Indigenous rights\, and land & water rematriation
DESCRIPTION: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 change. We invite everyone to join in celebrating ongoing acts of resistance and restoration— collective actions of reviving relationships of care and connectedness between peoples\, lands\, waters\, and multispecies kin. \nOur guest speakers: \nSarah Barger is the Development Director of Kīpuka Kuleana\, a Native Hawaiian women-led land trust that works to protect cultural landscapes and family lands on the island of Kauaʻi\, HI.\nSibyl Diver is co-director for the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group\, doing community-engaged research on Indigenous water governance within Pacific Northwest salmon watersheds.\nMariaElena Lopez is is a member and Tribal Representative of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and Founding Director of Su’nan Protection\, Art & Cultural Education (The SPACE).\nMargaret McMurtrey is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Academic Coordinator of the UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.\nTeresa Romero is an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of Chumash and president of the collaborative Native Coast Action Network supporting cultural and traditional ecological initiatives. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Climate Justice Working Group Research Focus Group\, CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work\, LiKEN\, the Indigenous Speakers Series\, and UCSB’s American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-and-workshop-celebrating-restorative-relations-connections-between-climate-resilience-indigenous-rights-and-land-water-rematriation/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Climate Justice Working Group":MAILTO:tristan.partridge@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250308T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250308T160000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Meditation as an Embodied Archive
DESCRIPTION: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 unique approach to archival research. \nThis in-person workshop is organized by the Collective for Archival Research of Embodiment (CARE)\, a UC-wide\, multi-campus graduate student working group sponsored by UCHRI. We invite students\, faculty\, and employees from all UC campuses to join us for this Buddhist practice-learning event. Due to a limit of 15 spots\, the workshop will be first come\, first served. Please register for the event here. \nCosponsored by an IHC Graduate Collaborative Award\, University of California Humanities Research Institute\, and Department of Religious Studies.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/meditation-as-an-embodied-archive/
LOCATION:Odiyana Institute Buddhist Center\, 1524 Anacapa St\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Uudam Baoagudamu":MAILTO:uudam@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250406T163000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250312T220057Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250313T223406Z
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Memory and Inheritance: Bearing Witness to My Grandmother’s Story
DESCRIPTION: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. \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-memory-and-inheritance-bearing-witness-to-my-grandmothers-story/
LOCATION:Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, 524 Chapala St.\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20241205T184136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T200058Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the Borders of Life and Death\, Scholarship and Opera
DESCRIPTION: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. \nBuilding on the European operatic tradition\, Ghost Village also evokes Chinese aesthetic and theatrical sensibilities. The eerily beautiful wedding scene\, for example\, draws inspiration from the rich Chinese tradition of spirit marriage and female ghosts. Though set in the past\, this opera speaks to many pressing issues in today’s world\, particularly war\, terrorism\, the refugee crisis\, and the general suffering of innocent individuals through political violence. At the same time\, Ghost Village builds on the long operatic tradition centered on love that crosses the boundaries of life and death\, exemplified by such foundational early works such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (1598)\, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). \nJudith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature\, her innovative work combines literary history with other disciplines\, including visual and material culture\, theater\, music\, medicine\, gender studies\, and film. Her many publications include The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (2007)\, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (1993)\, and co-edited works such as Writing and Materiality in China (2000)\, Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007)\, Chinese Opera Film (2010)\, and The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (2019). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nImage courtesy of Judith Zeitlin
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-making-of-ghost-village/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250411T133000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250319T191416Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250325T181809Z
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SUMMARY:Coralations: A Talk with Prof. Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nMelody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, under contract). Professor Jue has published articles in journals including Grey Room\, Configurations\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Resilience\, and Media+Environment. Her new work explores the mediations of seaweeds in trans-Pacific contexts. \nZoom attendance link here \n Cosponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Comparative Literature program\, Department of French and Italian\, and Department of German and Slavic Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/coralations-a-talk-with-prof-melody-jue/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
DESCRIPTION: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. \nStephanie McCarter is a professor of Classics at the University of the South in Sewanee\, TN. Her works of translation include Horace’s Epodes\, Odes\, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2020) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics\, 2022)\, which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recently edited and contributed translations to Women in Power (Penguin Classics\, 2024)\, an anthology of classical myths and stories about ancient female rulers. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/translating-ovids-metamorphoses/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Juan Cobo Betancourt
DESCRIPTION: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 writing\, Cobo examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca\, who\, from the 1530s\, found themselves at the center of the invaders’ efforts to transform them into tribute-paying Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown. The book illustrates how successive generations of missionaries and administrators approached the task of drawing the Muisca peoples to Catholicism at a time when it was undergoing profound changes\, and how successive generations of the Muisca interacted with the practices and ideas that the invaders attempted to impose\, variously rejecting or adopting them\, transforming and translating them\, and ultimately making them their own. \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on questions of religion\, colonialism\, law\, and language in colonial Latin America\, with a focus on the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia). Alongside this work\, he co-founded Neogranadina\, a Colombian non-profit foundation devoted to safeguarding the holdings of endangered archives and libraries through digitization\, and to developing digital tools and resources to make them available to broad audiences. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-juan-cobo-betancourt/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250414T225953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204120Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child
DESCRIPTION:How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies of children. In doing so\, it illustrates the ongoing necessity of Indigenous political savviness in defending communities and nations from the haunted whistlings of Christian religious institutions for Indigenous children and Lands. \nDr. Elisha Chi is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary work engages Indigenous studies\, ethics\, religious studies\, and political theology. Elisha’s work clarifies the necessities and possibilities of institutional decolonization\, specifically Indigenous land return\, as they apply to Catholic histories\, practices\, and land holdings. Her current projects center on Landback and Catholic political theologies\, and her next project will examine the Alaska boarding schools her family attended in order to explore Inupiat and other Alaska Native norms of refusal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/berry-people-a-study-of-catholic-political-theologies-of-the-child/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250603T231748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250605T161720Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: American Jadoo: Fakers\, Fakirs\, and Asian American Performing Artists
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Shreeyash Palshikar will analyze images of Indian magic in American popular culture. He will highlight the little-known stories and images of the first Indian magicians to perform in the United States and consider the American performers—black and white—who also donned Indian costumes\, created Indian personae\, and performed as Indian magicians from the golden age of magic in the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The talk will begin with an introduction to magic in India\, explore how Indian magicians came to the United States via the UK\, and conclude with an analysis of Indian magic in the US. In his talk\, Dr. Palshikar will draw on methods from cultural history\, anthropology\, political science\, and religious studies. \nShreeyash Palshikar holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and has taught at Oxford\, Yale\, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London\, as well as Albright College and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the first person to win a prestigious Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to study traditional Indian magicians\, and he is developing a book\, web series\, and live show based on his experiences. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/american-jadoo-fakers-fakirs-and-asian-american-performing-artists/
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:20250512T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T123000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250506T235213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T172816Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: The Vietnam War and Its Legacy After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:April/May 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the Vietnam War—one of the major conflicts of the 20th century—and reflects on its legacy. \nFredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eleven books\, including recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917-1956 (Random House\, 2020)\, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House\, 2012) won the Pulitzer Prize for History\, the Parkman Prize\, the Arthur Ross Book Award\, and the American Library in Paris Book Award. \nCosponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and UCSB’s Department of History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-the-vietnam-war-and-its-legacy-after-50-years/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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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:20250515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250418T194502Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250513T173809Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will focus on the concepts\, pedagogical designs\, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies\,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities\, with Accra providing the experiential laboratory in this case. Cities to be referred to will include New York\, London\, San Francisco\, Singapore\, Hong Kong\, and Johannesburg\, among various others. We will also explore various literary and film texts that allow us to ground spatial principles. \nRegister to attend here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-seminar-urban-experiential-learning-concepts-and-pedagogical-methods/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250210T230407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T190212Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
DESCRIPTION: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 in Gaza and its ongoing consequences. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\, Emerson and the Climates of History\, Paper Graveyards\, and\, with Sara Nadal-Melsió\, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?\, Cities Without Citizens\, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He has also translated with Liana Theodoratou Nadar’s memoirs\, Quand j’étais photographe\, which appeared under the title When I Was a Photographer. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Fazal Sheikh\, Remains of the demolished home of ʽAwad Abu Ḥbak\, in the vicinity of the village of Bīr Haddāj\, 31°1′11″N / 34°43′50″E\, 2011 (detail)\, from Desert Bloom (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/no-occupation-derrida-on-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,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:20250516T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T113000
DTSTAMP:20260601T015252
CREATED:20250415T190231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204357Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve
DESCRIPTION:This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism\, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word\, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of an image on a surface—as an a priori apperception. That is\, Rosales consumes\, regurgitates\, and pro-jects (Ent-werfen) the presupposed disegno within the two interrelated genres of devotional images (The Fall and Last Judgement). When considered alongside images from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries—like Hans Memling’s Adam and Eve (1485-90)\, Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (c. 1504 and c.1507)\, Michael Coxie’s The Fall of Man (c.1550)\, and Jacob Jordaen’s Last Judgement (c.1653)—the formal and optical disruptions of Rosales’ work become even more pronounced. Ultimately\, the paper proposes that neo-Aristotelian explorations of body and space within both humanism and scholasticism are essential for understanding how Rosales figures blackness as temporally and spatially plural. Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve are pro-jections (Entwurf) which reinterpret how observers see blackness as a temporally discrete apperception of unified categories; as such\, the formal medium and the forms induced within the medium disrupt a definite extension and local definition of black bodies within space. \nDontay M. Givens II is a medieval and early modern studies and Black studies PhD student in the English Department at New York University. His research interests include the aesthetic constructions of blackness with the premodern global context from 1300 to 1700; the global movements of blackness as an aesthetic concept within the Spanish Low Countries and the Dutch and French Empires; and the history of capitalism\, black feminisms\, the conception of the human\, critiques of black representations\, and medieval romance literature. \nPlease contact vagt@ucsb.edu to receive the pre-circulated readings for this talk. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-fall-and-the-fallen-the-lateness-of-harmonia-rosales-adam-and-eve/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:vagt@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T140000
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SUMMARY:GCLR Discussion: Ilya Kliger in Conversation with Sven Spieker
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger’s new book\, “Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism” \nThe nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies\, institutions\, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions\, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is\, as in the case of Russian realism\, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism’s distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s\, including major works by Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, Gogol\, Pushkin\, Lermontov\, Goncharov\, and Turgenev\, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period\, including Alexander Druzhinin’s Polinka Saks (1847)\, Aleksei Pisemsky’s One Thousand Souls (1858)\, and Vasily Sleptsov’s Hard Times (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction\, Sovereign Fictions offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-discussion-ilya-kliger-in-conversation-with-sven-spieker/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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SUMMARY:GCLR Talk: Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method
DESCRIPTION:Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work\, including in the form of entire universities\, specific schools and departments\, standalone institutes and centers\, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula\, to name just a few. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: first\, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning\, including the sciences\, the social sciences\, the humanities\, and the arts. The second principle is that of unified or collaborative modes of knowledge that might be deployed for addressing real-world problems\, such as environmental degradation\, increasingly complex cities\, water shortage and its management\, public health crises\, migration and refugees\, international security\, and the vagaries of globalization\, to name just a few that have captured headlines since the Covid pandemic. While discussing these first ideas of interdisciplinarity\, Prof. Quayson will be introducing a third aspect\, namely\, the protocols of proposition making that emerge from different disciplines and ground them as disciplines as such. Understanding the different protocols of proposition making that apply in different disciplines is fundamental to what we understand as comparative studies of different kinds\, ranging from the literary\, to the social\, to the urban\, etc. He will then spend some time elaborating a supple comparative method from this understanding. \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-talk-interdisciplinarity-and-interpretation-a-comparative-method/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic\, interdisciplinary field\, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. \nThe Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive\, creative\, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies\, with a primary focus on literary studies\, Indigenous studies\, ethnomusicology\, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. \nBiographies of the Panel Speakers:\nKyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures\, film\, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations\, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity\, Indigeneity\, queerness\, and language in global Chinese communities. His current book project\, Sinoscapes: Chinese Studies for the New Millennium\, advances a new model for imagining the potential of Chinese studies through an investigation of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinitic-language texts. He is also an active Chinese-English translator\, and his translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. \nHo Chak Law is an assistant professor in race and musicology at The New School. His research focuses on the cultural politics of performance and representation in the Sinophone. Most recently\, his article “Naamyam\, Creative Music\, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s ‘Burial Mound’” was published in Music Theory Spectrum. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Cosmopolitan Decadence: Popular Music and the Politics of the Sinophone in the Twentieth Century. \nDian Dian is a researcher and community organizer working at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, migration\, and labor. They received a Ph.D. in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University\, with a dissertation on queer feminist organizing across Sinophone communities. Dian has been involved in LGBTQ+ and feminist movements since 2009\, including serving as editor-in-chief of Queer Lala Times and as communications manager of Chinese Lala Alliance. Now based in Seattle\, they lead research and campaign organizing at the Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) and support community building among overseas Chinese queer women through Upwomxn. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/interdisciplinary-sinophone-conference/
LOCATION:2252 HSSB\, HSSB\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T163000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Webinar: It Takes Two to Torah
DESCRIPTION:In genuine Jewish tradition\, everywhere there is machlokes\, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah\, in which they “Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Santa Barbara
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-webinar-it-takes-two-to-torah/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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