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SUMMARY:Alt-Right Media Literacy Series: Memeing their Way into the Mainstream: A Cultural Approach to Understanding the US Far Right
DESCRIPTION:The election of Donald Trump and the eventual J6th attempted insurrection left many people wondering how we got to this point. The answer to that question is multidimensional\, complex\, and nuanced\, and this talk focuses on several pieces that helped generate the current moment. A broad constellation of far-right extremism highly adept at marketing ideas and emotions and far more sophisticated than often understood played a key role in rebranding white supremacy to ensure wider circulation and resonance. But part of the answer to how we got here today requires stepping back to the 1980s and tracing the evolution of how the far right utilized technology to generate and distribute propaganda; cultivate and strengthen social network ties; and eventually produce links to a wide ranging cultural lifestyle complete with merchandise\, housing options\, and dating forums. The result today is a diverse and dynamic cultural landscape of far right extremism where sitting members of Congress now proudly declare themselves “Christian Nationalists” and openly speak at explicitly white supremacists conferences funded by far right social media platforms. \nPete Simi is a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and member of the Executive Committee for the National Counterterrorism\, Innovation\, Technology\, and Education (NCITE) Center at the University of Nebraska\, Omaha. For the past 25 years\, he has been studying political violence\, hate\, and extremism. His fieldwork has taken him inside white supremacist groups across the United States\, where he has been embedded with racist skinheads\, Klan members\, neo-Nazis\, and anti-government militias. \nRegister here for Zoom attendance link \nFor more information contact: Chelsea Kai Roesch at chelsearoesch@ucsb.edu or visit altrightmedialiteracy.com. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the University of California Humanities Research Institute
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/alt-right-media-literacy-series-memeing-their-way-into-the-mainstream-a-cultural-approach-to-understanding-the-us-far-right/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chelsea Roesch":MAILTO:chelsearoesch@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T163000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability in Latin American and Latinx Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion on disability in Latin American and Latinx contexts. While disability studies is a diverse and evolving field\, much of the focus has been on exploring disabled bodyminds in the context of the Global North\, often leaving out questions of neoliberalism\, colonialism\, and racialization. This conversation will begin to explore how scholars interested in disability might begin expanding this conversation by including both Latin American and US Latinx perspectives on the bodymind. The conversation will be centered around two readings: the introduction to Libre Accesso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies and a short story by Ramón García\, entitled “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” \nShanna Killeen will moderate this event. They earned their MA in English from Oregon State University in 2017. They specialize in disability studies and queer studies with a particular focus on neurodivergence\, crip Latinx art and literature\, and aromanticism. Their dissertation\, entitled “Affect Aliens: On Neurodivergent and Aromantic Epistemologies\,” explores affective norms and the ways in which certain kinds of bodyminds come to be pathologized as lacking in affect. Their work turns to the contemporary aesthetic and discursive practices of neurodivergent and aromantic people to ask what this can tell us about affect\, interrelationality\, and care. \nWorks Cited:\nAntebi\, Susan\, and Beth Ellen Jörgensen. “Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies.” Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies\, State University of New York Press\, 2016.\nGarcía\, Ramón. “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” Virgins\, Guerrillas & Locas: Gay Latinos Writing on Love\, 1st ed\, Cleis Press\, 1999. \nFor the readings\, please write to: disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-in-latin-american-and-latinx-contexts/
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:20221109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T130000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Transnational Jewish Tradition and Memory in the Landscapes of Maurice Sendak
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the role of Jewish folk traditions and memory in the picture books of the late Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)\, with special attention to Sendak’s handling of landscape and natural elements. Sendak’s own biography reflects a move in the 1970s from the urban spaces of Brooklyn and Manhattan to the forested landscape of Ridgefield\, Connecticut. His work speaks to the experience of first-generation children of immigrants in early twentieth-century America\, drawing on a Yiddish-inflected upbringing\, a troubled early consciousness of Nazi Europe and the Holocaust\, inherited memories of destroyed worlds\, and other elements that exceed national boundaries. Moskowitz argues that Sendak’s work values the “wildness” of the natural world\, allegorizing it as a stand-in for the emotional interior of the sensitive human child. \nGolan Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University\, where he teaches courses on Jewish gender and sexuality\, American pop culture\, Holocaust studies\, and comics and graphic novels. He is the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (2020) and of several publications on intergenerational memory in post-Holocaust family narratives. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-transnational-jewish-tradition-and-memory-in-the-landscapes-of-maurice-sendak/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:rachelfeldman@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221112T183000
DTSTAMP:20260407T145852
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SUMMARY:Conference: XXV International Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Ciudad y Mujer / Woman and City
DESCRIPTION:This year’s colloquium will place Santa Barbara in the center: its history (as an original town and a colonial city of Spanish migration in past centuries\, as well as Mexican and Central American migration in more recent times); its current situation; the richness of its archives; the attractiveness of its streets. With that in mind\, we will explore how women intervene in urban space and temporality\, and the ways they construct memory and experience. \nFor our congress\, the two themes are integrated into one: woman and the city in history\, culture\, literature\, and in other arts and disciplines\, suggesting innumerable ways of understanding. Therefore\, the presentations and conferences will also address topics on women founders and foundations\, women in transition and on the borders\, indigenous peoples and gentrification\, (un)safe spaces and times for women. \nOurs is an interdisciplinary and inclusive colloquium of an academic and educational nature. It is an event that is not for profit\, and will be free and open to the public in general\, and to the scholarly community and friends of our university. This many years of continuity are proof of an activity that directly connects with the culture and the modern history of Santa Barbara\, home to our institution. \nThursday\, Nov. 10\, 2022: Mosher Alumni Hall UCSB. Friday\, Nov. 11 & Saturday\, Nov. 12\, 2022: BC Forum SBCC \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (UCSB)\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCSB)\, Santa Barbara City College\, The Global Latinidades Project (UCSB)\, Division of Social Sciences (UCSB)\, Graduate Division (UCSB)\, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity and Academic Policy (UCSB)\, Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art and Social Praxis (UCSB)\, Latin American and Iberian Studies (UCSB)\, Chicano Studies Institute (UCSB)\, Comparative Literature (UCSB)\, Feria Internacional de la Lectura Yucatán (FILEY / UADY)\, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana\, and UC-Mexicanistas
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-xxv-international-colloquium-on-mexican-literature-ciudad-y-mujer-woman-and-city/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni Hall\, BC Forum SBCC
CATEGORIES:All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jakob Romine":MAILTO:jakobromine@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T170000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Un Llanto Colectivo: a PerformaProtesta
DESCRIPTION:Join via Zoom here \nThis talk will be an examination of the llanto (wail/scream) as political performance praxis through reflecting on the collective work of Cherríe Moraga\, Celia Herrera Rodríguez and approximately twenty-five artists to stage a “PerformaProtesta\,” Un llanto colectivo\, at San Diego immigrant detention centers following the separation of migrant families during the summer of 2018. It discusses this “llanto space” as an alternative to the politics of recognition and representation\, and the different ways via which it instantiates a refusal of these modalities. \nDr. Jade Power-Sotomayor is a Cali-Rican educator\, scholar and performer who works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego. Engaging with discourses of embodiment and embodied practices of remembering and creating community\, her work focuses on the fluid reconstitution of Latinx identity ultimately produced by doing and not simply being. Overall\, she seeks to promote an in-depth engagement with Latinx performance-making as a framework for taking up the most salient issues of our time: colonialism\, anti-Blackness\, xenophobia\, economic disparity\, patriarchy and misogyny\, queer and transphobia\, ableism and mental health access\, climate catastrophe and environmental justice. More than just including historically occulted voices as a form of ethnographic encounter\, she looks to these instances of performance for what they reveal about the structures of power and social dynamics that have shaped the world we collectively share. Her research interests include: Latinx theatre and performance\, dance studies\, nightlife\, eco-dramaturgies\, epistemologies of the body\, feminist of color critique\, bilingualism\, and intercultural performance in the Caribbean diaspora. \nDr. Power-Sotomayor is currently working on a monograph called ¡Habla!:Speaking Bodies in Latinx Dance and Performance in which she theorizes her concept of “embodied code-switching” across distinct “Latinx” social dance spaces. Foregrounding how each of these dancings (bomba\, son jarocho\, perreo and Zumba) mark blackness within Latinidad\, the book focuses on how dancers strategically navigate and move amongst different embodied codes of belonging and peri-linguistic valences of meaning-making\, especially those encountered by Latinxs in relationship to dominant US culture. In 2021\, her essay “Corporeal Sounding: Listening to Bomba Dance\, Listening to puertorriqueñxs”won the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research and her essay “Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son jarocho’s Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo” received the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Dance Studies Association. She also recently co-edited a special issue of CENTRO Journal for Puerto Rican studies called “Puerto Rican Bomba: Syncopating Bodies\, Histories\, Geographies” and collaborates on the Bomba Wiki project\, a crowdsourced online bomba archive. Publications can be found in TDR\, Performance Matters\, Latino Studies Journal\, Latin American Theatre Review and The Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance. Dr. Power-Sotomayor also works as a dramaturg\, and co-directs and performs with the San Diego group Bomba Liberté. She is grateful to her many teachers and students for gifting her a lifelong experience of learning. \nJoin via Zoom here \nCosponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Theater and Dance\, and Colloquium in Dance\, Theater\, and Performance Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-un-llanto-colectivo-a-performaprotesta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ninotchka D. Bennahum":MAILTO:bennahum@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T163000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Hollywood’s Embassies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies) and Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies) about Melnick’s new book\, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. Refreshments will be served. \nBeginning in the 1920s\, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements\, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. \nIn a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo\, Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging\, selling American ideas\, products\, and power\, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences\, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social\, cultural\, racial\, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead\, it is one of negotiation\, booms and busts\, successes and failures\, adoptions and rejections\, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account\, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power. \nRoss Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry\, 1908–1935 (Columbia\, 2012) and coeditor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema\, Television\, and the Archive (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-hollywoods-embassies/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T150000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Anti-Racist Paradoxes
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Luis Martín Valdiviezo Arista will analyze some current discourses in the political and educational spheres that confront inequalities and injustices derived from racism that despite their best intentions\, are nevertheless still based on racist assumptions. \nDr. Valdiviezo Arista earned his EdD in Social Justice Education and his MEd in International Education at UMass-Amherst. Previously\, he received his License in Philosophy and Bachelor in Humanities at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru (PUCP) in Lima city. Based on intercultural\, decolonial and critical education approaches\, his research focuses on ethnicity\, gender\, social class\, and formal education in Perú and Latin American societies. He is in charge of courses in Ethics and Philosophy of Education at PUCP. He is a member of the International Network of Intercultural Studies-PUCP\, which promotes\, together with the Peruvian Network of Universities\, the adoption of intercultural policies and programs in Peruvian universities. Recently\, he was a consultant for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture\, and trained and advised a group of PUCP graduate students who implemented a literacy course for minors in a detention center in Lima\, Peru. He is as well a member of the Latin American Network of Intercultural Studies and Experiences (recognized by UNESCO) that integrates researchers and activists from Mexico\, Brazil\, Colombia\, Uruguay\, Chile\, Nicaragua\, Argentina and Peru. Likewise\, he is a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of African Diaspora Teachers Training\, promoted by the Afro-Peruvian NGO Center for Ethnic Development (CEDET) located in Lima\, Peru. Currently\, he is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Brown University. He is offering the undergraduate course Andean-Caribbean Dialogues of Negritude and doing research on the representations of women\, indigenous people\, and Afro-descendants in textbooks for primary education in Peru. His most recent book is Educación\, Negritud e Interculturalidad. Ensayos en tiempos de neoliberalismo\, pandemia y bicentenario en el Perú (2021). He has also published articles and book chapters on the educational situation of Afrodescendants and Indigenous Peruvians in academic journals and publishers of Latin America and Europe. In 2020-2021\, he was the Custer Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University. He has written three novels and numerous short stories\, some of which have obtained recognition in national and international contests. He comes from a Peruvian family with Afro-descendant\, Amazonian\, Andean\, and Hispanic roots. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program\, Department of Black Studies\, Department of History\, and Silvia Bermudez.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/anti-racist-paradoxes/
LOCATION:Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Room 1217\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Evelyne Laurent-Perrault":MAILTO:evelauper@ucsb.edu
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