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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82289262845 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to announce our winter speakers series\, which features an exciting lineup of scholars from across the UCSB campus. For each talk\, an invited speaker will share their current research during the first hour and the second hour will be explicitly dedicated to creating space to allow graduate students to ask questions related to research and professionalization. \nOur first speaker is Dr. Simi Kang\, a queer\, mixed Sikh American community advocate\, educator\, artist\, and scholar. Kang’s work centers Southeast Asian American collaborative resistance to imagine environmentally and economically just futures in Louisiana. Kang is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies. \nAbstract: Every year\, multiple times a year\, Southeast Louisiana’s coast-dependent communities must make the impossible decision to remain in an environmental sacrifice zone or leave home with no resources. This is particularly true for Vietnamese American and other BIPOC coast-dependent communities\, whose livelihoods are tied to place and whose lives are targeted by environmental extraction. In light of worsening storm seasons and rampant land loss\, my collaborators are called “disaster refugees” or “climate migrants” even before they are forced from home. Although the terms identify ‘natural’ processes as the problem\, the Vietnamese American fisherfolk I work with know better: the oil leases\, the refineries\, the dead zones make the land slide into the ocean and the storms rage\, not the ‘environment.’ This talk considers how the term “climate migrant” functions in environmental policy and politics\, ultimately asking how we can more clearly articulate undesirable movements from home as the result of environmental sacrifice. \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/82289262845
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-simi-kang/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T140000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Panel: Sex Work in the Time of Covid
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis panel will bring together the insight and expertise of three sex worker activists working and organizing in North America and Europe; including Sinnamon Love\, BIPOC Adult Industry Collective\, MF Akynos\, Black Sex Workers’ Collective\, and Chiqui\, Berlin Strippers Collective. It will be the first in a multi-part webinar conversation in 2020-2021 focused on sex work and sexual politics in the time of COVIC in a global frame. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s New Sexualities Research Focus Group and the MultiCultural Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-panel-sex-work-in-the-time-of-covid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,New Sexualities
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ORGANIZER;CN="New Sexualities RFG":MAILTO:mmilleryoung@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T130000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Land Grab U: Land-Grant Universities and Indigenous Peoples
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nIn 1862\, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act\, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were given the gift of free land. But the truth is much more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all\, the act redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations for the benefit of 52 colleges. Those lands\, when grouped together\, represent an area approximately the size of Denmark. Ahtone and Lee’s presentation will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation\, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education. \nTristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America and High Country News\, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor.  \nRobert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the IHC American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \nImage Credit: Marty Two Bulls Jr. \nLAND GRAB U: UNIVERSIDADES CON CONCESIÓN DE TIERRAS Y PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS \nEn 1862\, el presidente Abraham Lincoln firmó la Ley Morrill\, que distribuía tierras de dominio público para recaudar fondos para universidades incipientes en todo el país. La historia de la creación que se cuenta en torno a este evento es que las universidades recibieron el regalo de tierras gratis. Pero la verdad es mucho más complicada: la Ley Morrill funcionó al convertir la tierra expropiada a las naciones tribales en capital inicial para la educación superior. En total\, la ley redistribuyó casi 10\,8 millones de acres de más de 250 naciones tribales en beneficio de 52 universidades. Esas tierras\, cuando se agrupan\, representan un área aproximadamente del tamaño de Dinamarca. Ahtone y la presentación de Lee examinará la tierra utilizada específicamente para fundar la Universidad de California y también discutirá los métodos empleados en esta investigación de la expropiación de tierras\, a fin de revelar los vínculos entre el colonialismo violento y la educación superior. \nTristan Ahtone es miembro de la tribu Kiowa y es editor en jefe del Texas Observer. Ha informado para varios medios\, incluidos PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America y High Country News\, donde se desempeñó como editor de Asuntos Indígenas.  \nRobert Lee es profesor de Historia Estadounidense en la Universidad de Cambridge. Su investigación se centra en el despojo indígena y la formación del estado estadounidense en el oeste americano del siglo XIX. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y el Grupo de Enfoque de Investigación Colectiva Indígena e Indígena Estadounidense 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 \nCrédito de imagen: Marty Two Bulls Jr.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-land-grab-u-land-grant-universities-and-indigenous-peoples/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T170000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Research Focus Group Meeting: Art\, Environment\, and Sense-Making
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED \nAt the last meeting of the Sustainability and the New Human RFG\, Professor Suh discussed sustainability and behavior change. This talk will continue our conversation about the interdependence of humans and the environment by offering an ecological approach to how we understand the arts. At this meeting\, PhD candidate Daniel Martini will share his dissertation research on how aesthetic appreciation (‘sense-making’) can emerge from both the rigidity of universal human cognitive structures and the massive influence of environmental variations. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Colin Gardner. \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 January 21. 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. \nDaniel Martini is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature with emphases in Cognitive Science and Translation Studies. Daniel specializes in interdisciplinary research and teaching\, including the fields of cognitive affordance\, memory\, and medical humanities. \nColin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies in Art at UCSB. He works at the intersection of film-philosophy\, Deleuze and Guattari studies and interdisciplinary media theory. Dr. Gardner has also expanded his research into Media Geography. His most recent monograph is “Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze and Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage Credit: A still shot from Maurice Lemaître’s Le film est déjà commencé? (1951)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-art-environment-and-sense-making/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84178208506 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is proud to celebrate the publication of Dr. Diane Fujino’s book\, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. \nAbout the book\nWhile critiques of the model minority trope abound\, this work has not dislodged the Nisei\, or second-generation Japanese Americans\, from the label of “Quiet Americans.” Working against the announced politics of Nisei assimilationism\, this talk examines the feminist poetics of Mitsuye Yamada and the transformational “jubilee liberation” ministry of her brother\, Rev. Michael Yasutake. Mitsuye Yamada’s sensitive writings are known for revealing tropes of silence in the lives of Japanese American women\, often through critique of the complicated relationship with her own mother. Michael Yasutake moved from military resistance during World War II\, to counseling draft objector during the Vietnam War\, to explicit opposition to US and Japanese imperialism and support for political prisoners. Through biographical study\, the book reveals Nisei resistance in the 1970s to 1990s (an ostensibly dormant period of Asian American struggle)\, understudied intergenerational continuity\, and a radical lineage of Japanese American activism. \nDiane Fujino is professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship centers on Asian American and Black liberation struggles and includes books on Yuri Kochiyama\, Richard Aoki\, and the Black Panther Party. She is active with Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara and Cooperation Santa Barbara. \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/84178208506
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-diane-fujino/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cybercrime in Digital India: Jamtara's Youth and OTT Production Cultures
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nContinuing a trend set by Bollywood cinema since the mid-2000s\, small towns and villages in India are being mined for their performative excess\, comic potential\, and cultures of violence by platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Mukherjee traced this trend to Jamtara: Sabka Number Aayega (Jan 2020–)\, an over-the-top (OTT) crime drama from Netflix/Tipping Point that portrays real-life mobile phone phishing scams conducted by teenagers in the state of Jharkhand. The reliance on concept development based on localized research within an OTT production culture ensured that the innovative story and subject matter of Jamtara intrigued audiences. However\, the later episodes\, instead of focusing on the forensic and infrastructural intricacies of phishing\, depicted gratuitous violence instigated by a local politician figure. The theme of cybercrime provided Jamtara a way to inflect earlier registers of crime with discourses around digitality and social mobility\, but the show succumbed to representing physical violence. \nRahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His research on environmental media and mobile phone cultures has been published in his recent monograph Radiant Infrastructures: Media\, Environment\, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke University Press\, 2020) and in journals such as Media\, Culture\, and Society and Asiascape: Digital Asia. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cybercrime-in-digital-india-jamtaras-youth-and-ott-production-cultures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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