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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 3\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Key Passages\, our 2024-25 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2024/
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:20241008T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T183000
DTSTAMP:20260406T042834
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SUMMARY:Salt of the Earth: A Conversation between a Palestinian and an Israeli Peace Activist
DESCRIPTION:Join Osama lliwat and Rotem Levin\, Palestinian and Israeli peace activists\, as they share their personal stories of transformation\, lessons of joint peaceful resistance\, and the vastly different realities they face in the same land. The devastating escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine has left many feeling powerless\, angry\, and hopeless. Rotem and Osama believe in the possibility of a different reality grounded in a shared future of security\, equality\, and justice for all people.  \nOsama lliwat was born in Jerusalem\, where his family is originally from\, and was displaced like so many Palestinians around the world after the war of 1967. He grew up in Jericho. He has been in the peace world for more than 15 years and is the co-founder of Visit Palestine. He has dedicated his life to nonviolent resistance\, working with different organizations\, such as the Sulha Peace Project and Interfaith Encounter Association\, appearing in several documentaries\, including Objector and The Other\, and regularly speaking on peacebuilding at organizations and universities around the world. \nRotem Levin was born and raised in Ein Vered. After his military service\, he participated in a transformational intensive dialogue program in Germany\, where he got to know Palestinians on a personal and intimate level. This instigated a change in perspective on the story he was born and raised with. After this experience\, he started organizing similar programs in Aqaba\, Jordan\, where he offered the experience to other post-military Israelis and to Palestinian and Israeli medical workers. He is a committed activist and doctor by profession. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/salt-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260406T042834
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Inaugural Talk: AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity?
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2023 marked the beginning of a new era: Chat GPT-4 was released\, fundamentally changing the way humans relate to language. In this talk\, Professor Park will explore the implications of this pivotal moment. She will consider AI’s impact on the production of works of fiction and on creativity more broadly. Questions to be explored include: Does AI-informed writing have the potential to supplant traditional novel writing? In what ways can AI innovate creativity? How will the proliferation of generative AI impact our understanding of the role of human agency in the creative process? Professor Park will draw from her experience as head judge of a spring 2024 AI-inclusive short story competition sponsored by UCSB’s Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Sowon Park is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in Cognitive Literary Criticism and is Director of the Center for Literature and Mind. Her current research projects include a five-year investigation on “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy” (2021- 2026) and the ongoing neuro-literary research forum on “Unconscious Memory” (https://unconsciousmemory.english.ucsb.edu/). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Adobe Firefly AI generator
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-ai/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T042834
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Hamed-Troyansky’s new book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime\, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries\, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration\, and refugees and immigrants\, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-vladimir-hamed-troyansky/
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:20241016T160000
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SUMMARY:Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers | Disturbing the Bones
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between Jennifer Holt (Film and Media Studies) and co-authors Andrew Davis and Jeff Biggers about their novel\, Disturbing the Bones. \nIn Disturbing the Bones\, a plot to disrupt a global peace summit in Chicago collides with a civil rights case breakthrough at a mysterious archaeological site. Chicago detective Randall Jenkins has not been back home to the historic Civil Rights hotspot of Cairo\, Illinois since the disappearance of his mother\, a well-known journalist\, several decades ago. That all changes the day Dr. Molly Moore\, an ambitious young archaeologist in the national spotlight for her groundbreaking high-tech discoveries\, uncovers a set of strange bones at a huge 12\,000-year-old site at a highway construction project. With retired military general and contractor William Alexander breathing down her neck to cover up the dig\, Molly and Randall soon find themselves in the middle of a wild military conspiracy. The detective and archaeologist’s entwined family mysteries suddenly thrust them into the central position as the only people who can ensure the safety of the ongoing Chicago global peace summit. They must take on the rogue general who views any disarmament agreement as a clear and present danger to the United States. The fate of global peace and the lives of Molly and Randall hang in the balance. A reception will follow. \nAndrew Davis\, raised on the southside of Chicago\, is the acclaimed director and screenwriter of numerous films\, including Holes\, Under Siege\, Code of Silence\, A Perfect Murder\, and The Guardian\, and whose landmark film\, The Fugitive\, chosen in 2020 by Los Angeles Times readers as the ultimate summer film\, was nominated for seven Academy awards including Best Picture. \nJeff Biggers is an American Book Award-winning historian\, journalist\, playwright\, and monologist. He is the author and editor of ten books\, and his work has appeared in American and foreign newspapers\, magazines and numerous anthologies. \nJennifer Holt is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. Her most recent book\, Cloud Policy: A History of Regulating Pipelines\, Platforms\, and Data\, was published in September 2024 by MIT Press. \nHosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/disturbing-the-bones/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: On the Problem of (Re-)Activity: Mobilizing Media with the Sikh Diaspora
DESCRIPTION:A common refrain in political rhetoric is the charge that given instances of agonism are defective because they are in some crucial way reactive. However\, “reactivity” is polysemous and opaque\, despite any seeming transparency implied by the fluency by which it is so often attributed. This talk offers an analytic and ethnographic entrée into the problem of reactivity by considering diasporic investments in mass-mediated address. Sikh media activists scrutinize the reactivity seemingly cultivated by their own community-operated media institutions in their renowned capacity to both assemble and excite. In the wake of brutal state violence\, the mediation of reactivity becomes both a vehicle to address injustice and itself a site to reckon justice that has been withheld. \nRandeep Singh Hothi is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Research Fellow affiliated with the Asian American Studies Center at UCLA. He is a philosophically trained anthropologist concerned with disruptive re-imaginations of the political and economic. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Anthropology
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-the-problem-of-re-activity/
LOCATION:2001A HSSB\, 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:20241025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Children’s Literature from the Himalayas: Gesar Stories\, Cultural Authenticity\, and Folkloresque
DESCRIPTION:Gesar is a warrior-like king in the realm of Ling and the protagonist of a voluminous folkloric poem that many Tibetan bards have performed for centuries. With Gesar’s increasing fame in modern times\, the orature has become a quintessential representation of Tibetan culture. By comparing two children’s books that draw on the Gesar tradition\, Tibetan Heroic Epic: Gesar Children’s Literature Collection and Gesar Epic: Hor-Ling Battle\, Zhuoga will discuss the meaning and relevance of cultural authenticity in children’s books. With Gesar’s adaptation in children’s literature as an example\, Zhuoga argues that cultural authenticity is not an imagined reservoir of immutability. Instead\, authenticity is generated from changes made by people who know and own that particular culture. \nQimei Zhuoga\, pronounced as Chemi Droka in the Tibetan language\, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and her M.A. in English Literature at the University of Leeds (UK). Qimei Zhuoga is a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Tibet University. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-childrens-literature-from-the-himalayas-gesar-stories-cultural-authenticity-and-folkloresque/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Smirnoff":MAILTO:nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241029T173000
DTSTAMP:20260406T042834
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Global Childhood Media: Open House
DESCRIPTION:Join our Research Group!\nOpen to Undergraduates! \nAre you interested in:\n– children’s media\, literature and culture historical childhoods\n– children’s rights\n– education\n– child pyschology\n– sociology of childhood\n– or anything else child-related? \nThe Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Join us for more information on programming\, research opportunities\, mentorship\, participation in an annual Undergraduate Research Showcase\, talks and reading groups\, and a likeminded community on campus. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-global-childhood-media-open-house/
LOCATION:Private: 6309 Phelps
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Smirnoff":MAILTO:nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu
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