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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award For Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:Rubén Martínez will receive this year’s Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature. Martínez is Professor of English and the Fletcher Jones Chair in Literature & Writing at Loyola Marymount University. His books include The Other Side: Notes from the New L.A.\, Mexico City & Beyond (1993)\, Flesh Life: Sex in Mexico (with Joseph Rodriguez\, 2006)\, The New Americans (2004)\, Crossing Over: A Mexican Family over the Migrant Trail (2001)\, and East Side Stories (with Joseph Rodriguez\, 1998). \nSponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention Office\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Education Opportunity Program\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and Latin American and Iberian Studies \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82878543945?pwd=dXE5REdWdEhVaXlPL3ZvTEVGUkdpQT09 \nFor more information\, please contact Professor Mario T. García at garcia@history.ucsb.edu
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20220203T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220203T170000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Maintaining Life\, Repairing the World: Ethics\, Philosophy\, and Literature
DESCRIPTION:The COVID pandemic appeared as a threat to human life\, both in the vital sense (a risk to biological life) and in the social sense (a risk to social life: disruption from the suspension of activities\, lack of public transport\, closure of schools\, etc.). It has revealed radical vulnerabilities: of institutions\, the species\, and the planet; of fragile populations\, workers “on the front line\,” and each individual. The importance of caring for others and for those who care for “us” has become obvious\, while the broader ignorance of society as to what sustains it has finally become evident. The very grammar of care has imposed itself upon all of us\, because our vulnerabilities are never so visible as when the “normal” form of life has been disrupted. The pandemic\, in its destruction of the space of ordinary life and of “weak links” – places where the daily and anonymous interactions occurred – has also undermined the democratic public space. This talk considers how public life and human interactions can recover. Alexandre Gefen and Sandra Laugier will explore how arts and literature contribute to the expectation of reparation and social transformation\, the (re)creation of relationships\, the formation of social resilience and other narratives\, and the development of an ethic of care. \nAlexandre Gefen is a Research Professor (Directeur de recherche) at the National Center for Scientific Research (CNRS – Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique)\, and Deputy Scientific Director of the Institute of Human and Social Sciences of the CNRS. His research focuses on literary theory and contemporary French literature and culture. As founder of the website Fabula.org\, he has developed parallel research interests in the development of Digital Humanities. His recent books include: Vies imaginaires de la littérature française (2014); Réparer le monde: La littérature française face au XXIe siècle (2017)\, which will appear in English in 2022; and L’idée de littérature. De l’art pour l’art aux écritures d’intervention (2021). \nSandra Laugier is Professor of Philosophy at Université Paris 1 Panthéon Sorbonne (Paris\, France)\, a Senior Fellow of the Institut Universitaire de France\, and the Principal Investigator of the European Research Council (ERC) project DEMOSERIES. She has published extensively on ordinary language philosophy (Wittgenstein\, Austin\, Cavell)\, moral and political philosophy\, gender studies and the ethics of care\, and popular culture (film and TV series). She has translated most of Stanley Cavell’s work and is among the editors of his Nachlass. Her recent publications include: Why We Need Ordinary Language Philosophy (2013); Politics of the Ordinary. Care\, Ethics\, and Forms of Life (2020); and\, edited with Greg Chase and Juliet Floyd\, Cavell’s Must We Mean What We Say? at Fifty (2022). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Center for Humanities and Social Change\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-alexandre-gefen-and-sandra-laugier/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC)\, a research focus group supported by the IHC\, will be hosting a graduate student research roundtable via Zoom. During this roundtable\, two advanced graduated students will be presenting their works-in-progress for feedback and comments from attendees. We welcome parties interested in Asian American Studies work! For questions\, please email: aasc.ucsb@gmail.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/graduate-student-roundtable-feb-8-22/
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:20220208T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260416T073258
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability\, Blackness\, and Race in US Literature
DESCRIPTION:In celebration of Black History Month\, the Disability Studies Initiative invites you to discuss two essays that shed light on the material intersections of disability and race: Josh Lukin’s short article\, “Disability and Blackness” (2006)\, which calls for the consideration of Black experiences in the history of disability and its artistic representations\, and Michelle Jarman’s “Race and Disability in US Literature” (2018)\, which takes its framework from Black feminist theories and calls for relational approaches to disability. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here and write to disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu to receive copies of both papers. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-blackness-and-race-in-us-literature/
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:20220210T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220210T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The First Black Archaeologist
DESCRIPTION:Proof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. \nJoin us for a dialogue between John W. I. Lee (History) and Krzysztof Janowicz (Geography) about Lee’s new book\, The First Black Archaeologist: A Life of John Wesley Gilbert. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe First Black Archaeologist reveals the untold story of a pioneering African American classical scholar\, teacher\, community leader\, and missionary. Born into slavery in rural Georgia\, John Wesley Gilbert (1863-1923) gained national prominence in the early 1900s\, but his accomplishments are little known today. Using evidence from archives across the U.S. and Europe\, from contemporary publications\, and from newly discovered documents\, this book chronicles\, for the first time\, Gilbert’s remarkable journey. As we follow Gilbert from the segregated public schools of Augusta\, Georgia\, to the lecture halls of Brown University\, to his hiring as the first black faculty member of Augusta’s Paine Institute\, and through his travels in Greece\, western Europe\, and the Belgian Congo\, we learn about the development of African American intellectual and religious culture\, and about the enormous achievements of an entire generation of black students and educators. \nJohn W. I. Lee is Associate Professor of History at UC Santa Barbara. His previous publications include A Greek Army on the March (Cambridge University Press) and The Persian Empire (The Great Courses/The Teaching Company). He studies the history of ancient West Asia\, especially war\, society\, and culture in the Greek and Achaemenid world from ca. 650-330 BC\, as well as receptions\, interpretations\, and representations of antiquity in the United States\, especially amongst African American classical scholars during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n\nProof of full vaccination required for all attendees. READ MORE TO VIEW ACCEPTABLE FORMS OF VACCINATION DOCUMENTATION. All visitors must wear a well-fitting mask that covers their nose and mouth at all times. Bandanas\, gaiters\, face shields alone\, and masks with external valves are not permitted. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.) \nWhen planning your arrival\, please allow extra time for vaccine verification. Doors will open at 3:30 PM. \n\n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-first-black-archaeologist/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220211T163000
DTSTAMP:20260416T073258
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SUMMARY:Talk: A Queer\, Queer Race: Orientations for Early Japanese American Literature
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis online talk will feature discussions and close readings from a chapter in Professor Andrew Way Leong’s forthcoming book\, “A Queer\, Queer Race: Orientations for Japanese/American Literature.” This book examines Japanese and English language texts written by Shōson\, Sadakichi Hartmann\, Arishima Takeo\, and Yoné Noguchi—authors who resided in the United States between the opening of mass Japanese emigration in 1885 and the ban on Japanese immigration imposed by the Immigration Act of 1924. \nAndrew Way Leong is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research focuses on the literature of Japanese diasporas in the Americas as well as queer and critical theoretical approaches to the study of literary genre\, gendered embodiment\, and generational time. A comparativist\, Leong approaches the study of Asian American literature (and literatures of Asia and the Americas) with special attention to the generative frictions within and among multiple languages and literary traditions. He is the translator of Lament in the Night (Kaya Press 2012)\, a collection of two novels by Shōson Nagahara\, an author who wrote for a Japanese reading public in Los Angeles during the 1920s. \nCosponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and the UCSB American Cultures & Global Contexts Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-a-queer-queer-race-orientations-for-early-japanese-american-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220217T130000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Infrastructures of Collective Life: A Formalist’s Guide to the Climate Crisis
DESCRIPTION:  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a talk by Caroline Levine. Audience Q&A will follow. \nWhat do scholars of literature and the arts have to offer in response to the climate crisis? The aesthetic humanities have long traditions of insisting on open-endedness\, negation\, and inaction. Levine argues that in this moment of rapid and destabilizing change\, this tradition has reached its political limit. She makes a case for the particular value of formalist methods in rebuilding and remaking our social world. Form has never been an exclusively aesthetic term. A vast range of objects\, from sounds to neighborhoods to coral reefs\, can be analyzed for their structures and patterns\, and in this respect\, formalism belongs to all fields\, or to none. But for this reason\, formalism also has the potential to be a useful meta-disciplinary method\, capable of moving between politics and art\, between sonnets and public transportation systems. This talk will analyze sustainability in formal terms and focus specifically on the forms of sustainable infrastructure in contemporary cities\, including Houston\, Barcelona\, and the Brazilian cities of Belo Horizonte and Curitiba. \nCaroline Levine is the David and Kathleen Ryan Professor of Humanities at Cornell University. She has spent her career asking how and why the humanities and the arts matter\, especially in democratic societies. She argues for the understanding of forms and structures as crucial to understanding links between art and society. She is the author of three books\, The Serious Pleasures of Suspense: Victorian Realism and Narrative Doubt (2003\, winner of the Perkins Prize for the best book in narrative studies)\, Provoking Democracy: Why We Need the Arts (2007)\, and Forms: Whole\, Rhythm\, Hierarchy\, Network (2015\, winner of the James Russell Lowell Prize from the MLA\, and the Dorothy Lee Award for Outstanding Scholarship in the Ecology of Culture\, and named one of Flavorwire’s “10 Must-Read Academic Books of 2015”). She is currently the nineteenth-century editor for the Norton Anthology of World Literature and has written on topics ranging from formalist theory to Victorian poetry and from television serials to academic freedom. \nThis talk is a keynote of the Association for Literary Urban Studies’ 2022 Conference\,  “Cities Under Stress: Urban Discourses of Crisis\, Resilience\, Resistance\, and Renewal.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series \nLive closed-captioning will be provided.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-infrastructures-of-collective-life-a-formalists-guide-to-the-climate-crisis/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220222T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Sameer Pandya
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Sameer Pandya will lead a discussion with graduate students to discuss his latest novel\, Members Only\, as well as his broader thoughts on South Asian American Studies. \nSameer Pandya is an Associate Professor in the Department of Asian American Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, a fiction writer\, and an interdisciplinary literary and cultural studies scholar. In both his fiction and scholarship\, Pandya is primarily interested in the question of cultural dislocation and racial identity among South Asian Americans. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81531128236?pwd=dGdmbTJXcXMydFF6UkRFTlcwVjFGUT09 \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-sameer-pandya/
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:20220224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220224T170000
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | VIEW IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS\nAND\nFriday\, February 25 | 12:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC in person on 2/24 or online on 2/25 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Erin Nerstad.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-feb24-2022/
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:20220225T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220225T130000
DTSTAMP:20260416T073258
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, February 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020 | VIEW IN-PERSON ATTENDANCE REQUIREMENTS\nAND\nFriday\, February 25 | 12:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC in person on 2/24 or online on 2/25 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Erin Nerstad.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-feb25-2022/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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