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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Chalk Talk Revisited
DESCRIPTION:After the success of our first Chalk Talk this past fall\, the What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media RFG is hosting “Chalk Talk Revisited.” Even if you weren’t able to make our first event\, we welcome everyone to join us from any discipline as we continue our discussions about cultivating socio-culturally aware pedagogy and global media in the classroom. Whether you are a veteran Shakespearean or a first-timer to teaching the Bard\, we encourage you to join us! \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link. Links to optional pre-event resources will be provided a few days before the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-chalk-talk-revisited/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T024634
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Critical Access Studies
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act\, much of the built environment remains inaccessible to disabled people. Accordingly\, the vast majority of research and writing on accessibility seeks to convince the unconvinced of the value of inclusion. This field\, which Professor Aimi Hamraie terms “Access Studies\,” would benefit from greater engagement with the concepts\, practices\, and political commitments of critical disability studies. In this talk\, Hamraie will discuss the emerging field of “Critical Access Studies\,” which engages with the methodologies\, epistemologies\, and political commitments of accessibility from the perspectives of Disability Justice and disability culture. Using historical and contemporary examples\, they will show how critical and intersectional perspectives on disability can enable a deeper engagement with the politics of knowing\, making\, and belonging in the twentieth-century United States. \nAimi Hamraie (they/them) is Associate Professor of Medicine\, Health\, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability\, design justice\, and the lifeworld. They identify as disabled\, SWANA\, and diasporic Iranian. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies\, science and technology studies\, critical design and urbanism\, critical race theory\, and the environmental humanities. They were just appointed to the US Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, The History of Science Colloquium\, The Comparative Literature Program\, The Graduate Center for Literary Research \nImage description: An olive-skinned Iranian person with short\, dark curly hair and rectangular glasses smiles at the camera. They wear a blue shirt and blue/green checkered blazer. Behind them is a blurred green background.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-critical-access-studies/
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:20220302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T024634
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SUMMARY:Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:UCSB faculty members will discuss the invasion of Ukraine\, including its historical background\, regional and global ramifications\, and international responses. \nPanelists:\nBenjamin J. Cohen\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, Political Science\nAdrienne Edgar\, Professor\, History\nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\nTsuyoshi Hasegawa\, Professor Emeritus\, History\nAdrian Ivakhiv\, Visiting Scholar\, Carsey-Wolf Center\nCynthia Kaplan\, Professor\, Political Science \nModerator:\nSara Pankenier Weld\, Professor\, Germanic & Slavic Studies \nLive closed-captioning will be provided. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-a-roundtable-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,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:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T120000
DTSTAMP:20260415T024634
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Many Journeys of Robert Glenn: Memory\, Slavery\, and the Transition to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Professor John Majewski will speak about the 1937 WPA interview of Robert Glenn\, who recounted how he was sold as a child as part of the slave trade. After emancipation\, he was eventually able to find his parents. Glenn’s interview is remarkably rich and detailed\, and because he includes many specific names and places\, Professor Majewski has been able to begin reconstructing his life using census records and other documents. The discussion will explore the possibility of using Glenn’s narrative as the basis for teaching books centered on issues of memory\, the slave trade\, various forms of slave resistance\, and the transition to freedom after emancipation. \nJohn Majewski is a Professor in the Department of History\, where he teaches and writes about 19th-century U.S. history\, with an emphasis on political economy. His publications include Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation and A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled\, “Inventing the Creative Citizen: Creativity and the U.S. Civil War.” \nZoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86362866754 \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group. \nImage Credit: Eyre Crowe
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-many-journeys-of-robert-glenn-memory-slavery-and-the-transition-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slavery%2C Captivity%2C and the Meaning of Freedom RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T170000
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SUMMARY:From Alphabetical to Digital Literacy? Some Reflections on Orality\, Writing\, Cultural Techniques\, and Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Are we witnessing the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy? But what does “literacy” mean? Going back to the discovery of the difference between orality and literacy in the 1960s and 1970s\, we find a real discovery – the difference between oral and written language – combined with a problematic narrative: The supremacy of literal to oral cultures. To avoid this ideology we should consider orality and literacy as the two ends of a continuum. Whatever historically exists is in between. With this in mind\, we turn to the question about the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy and problematize its clear demarcation between the alphanumeric and the digital. But what does “digital” mean? It is our hypothesis that there is an “embryonic digitality” already within alphabetical literacy. Digitality can be detached from computer technology. But electronic networking and Big Data are at the same time producing phenomena that are unprecedentedly new: The idea of the world interpreted as readable text changes into the “machine operability of the data universe.” Is contemporary digitality thus the “new alphabet”? \nCurrently Max Kade Visiting Professor for Winter 2022 in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, Sybille Krämer was Full Professor for Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Since her retirement\, she has been a guest professor at the Institute for Cultures and Aesthetics of Digital Media\, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Previously\, she has been a member of the German Scientific Council (2000-2006)\, of the European Research Council (2007-2014))\, member of the “Senat” of the German Research Foundation (2009-2015)\, and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study (2005-2008). She has held several International Visiting Professorships and Fellowships and has a 2016 Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University/Sweden. Her research areas include: Mathematics and philosophy in 17th century; Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Writing; Performative Studies\, Media and Cultural Techniques; Digitality and History of Computation; Testimony and Witnessing. Her publications in English include: Media\, Messenger\, Transmission. An Approach to Media Philosophy\, Amsterdam: University Press 2015. With Ch. Ljungberg (eds): Thinking with Diagrams – The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition\, Boston/ Berlin 2016. With Sigrid Weigel: Testimony/Bearing Witness. Epistemology\, Ethics\, History\, Culture\, London 2017. See also: http://www.sybillekraemer.de/en/ \nCosponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Transcriptions\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)\, and Comparative Literature Program. Sybille Krämer’s Max Kade Visiting Professorship in Winter 2022 has been generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation and Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. \nThis is an in person event. Virtual participation via Zoom is also possible: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81135889947
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/from-alphabetical-to-digital-literacy-some-reflections-on-orality-writing-cultural-techniques-and-digitality/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Self-Formation and Selflessness in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition proposes a unique model of grace that decenters the paradigm of atonement and forgiveness and instead centers on forgetting and remembrance. In this Kṛṣṇa bhakti tradition\, jīvas\, embodied beings\, occupy a unique intermediary position that identifies them both in relationship to Kṛṣṇa\, the supreme Godhead\, and to the material world of prakṛti. Jīvas can therefore choose to either turn toward or away from Kṛṣṇa. A person turns away from or forgets Kṛṣṇa by committing aparādhas\, “offenses\,” such as criticizing one’s guru. However\, aparādhas should not be conceptualized as “sins” that require atonement and forgiveness. Instead\, aparādhas reflect an orientation of forgetfulness\, which can best be remedied through remembrance. Remembering Kṛṣṇa occurs primarily through sādhana-bhakti practices such as chanting and meditation and culminates in a devotee’s recognition of their eternal identity in relationship to Kṛṣṇa. Such perfected devotional selves embody the principle of sevā\, selfless service\, in which the devotee’s realm of concern has shifted entirely away from the ego-bound self towards Kṛṣṇa. It is therefore through the process of becoming perfectly selfless that perfected devotional selves are formed. \nEileen Goddard is a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include South Asian religious traditions\, comparative philosophy\, bhakti traditions\, and gender and sexuality. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-self-formation-and-selflessness-in-the-gau%e1%b8%8diya-vai%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87ava-tradition/
LOCATION:3041 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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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk:  Hungry Ghosts and the Karma of Meanness
DESCRIPTION:The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence\, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. But hungry ghosts know the error of their ways\, and they sometimes appear among humans\, like the ghosts that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge\, as augurs of what may await. Hungry ghosts are like modern felons who participate in “scared straight” programs. In the past they broke the law (dharma)\, and now they suffer the terrible consequences because of justice (karma). And since they don’t want others to make the same mistakes\, they speak passionately and honestly\, hoping to scare humanity straight. The cause of all this misery\, according to some of our earliest sources\, is the cultivation of meanness (mātsarya)\, which makes people miserly\, spiteful\, cruel\, immoral\, and oblivious to their own self-righteousness. How do we avoid such a fate? \nAndy Rotman is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor and Chair of Religion\, Buddhist Studies\, and South Asian Studies at Smith College. He has been engaged in textual and ethnographic work on religious and social life in South Asia for more than twenty-five years. His publications include Hungry Ghosts (2021)\, Divine Stories: Divyāvadāna\, Part 1 and Part 2 (2008 and 2017)\, Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism (2009)\, and a co-authored volume\, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood\, Brotherhood\, and the Nation (2015). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Buddhist Studies Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-hungry-ghosts-and-the-karma-of-meanness/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Shifting Economic Power in Autun: The Donation of Constantine
DESCRIPTION:Autun’s textual and material record illustrates how and why ancient patterns of life in northeast Gaul began to give way during Late Antiquity. Adopting a methodology developed in feminist historiography\, this paper explores the effect on Autun’s political economy of resources funneled to Autun’s bishop by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century. Because Constantine did not restrict his patronage just to Autun\, the city serves as a case study demonstrating how the introduction of imperial patronage to local bishops could push cities toward a more “medieval” political economy. \nElizabeth Digeser is a Professor in the Department of History\, where she studies the intersection of religion and philosophy with Roman political power\, as well as the processes of transformation (political\, religious\, economic) in Late Antiquity. Her publications include A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists and the Great Persecution; The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium\, Europe and the Early Islamic World\, edited with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes; and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group \nImage credit: Rheinisches Landesmuseum\, Trier \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-shifting-economic-power-in-autun-the-donation-of-constantine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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