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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When Life Is a Shipwreck: Key Passages in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck\, a violent birth onto unknown shores that separates orphaned twins on a journey to nowhere. The turbulent sea visualizes an environment of passages–into adulthood\, towards sexual identity\, and in search of new attachments and communities of belonging. Twelfth Night is a play about transitions and transitioning\, about passages and passing. What skills\, virtues\, and capacities do the twins need to find their way along the shoreline of life\, and back to each other? In this lecture\, scholar and dramaturg Julia Reinhard Lupton examines key passages in Twelfth Night that illuminate the navigation of life changes and social bodies at the heart of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and sonorous romantic comedy.  Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine and Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. She also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center and serves as Dramaturg for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare\, including Shakespeare Dwelling and Thinking with Shakespeare. Her edited collections address topics such as Shakespeare and virtue\, Shakespeare and hospitality\, and Shakespeare and wisdom literature. A former Guggenheim fellow\, she is a frequent teacher in the community. She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and virtue. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment     \nImage: Twelfth Night\, New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, University of California\, Irvine\, 2024
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-life-is-a-shipwreck/
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:20241108T100000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Ransoming Genoa: Captives\, Consuls\, Missionaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The seminar aims to explore the phenomenon of Mediterranean captivity between the 16th and 19th centuries as analyzed in Andrea Zappia’s monograph\, Mercanti di uomini. Reti e intermediari per la liberazione dei captivi nel Mediterraneo (Città del Silenzio 2018)\, with a particular focus on the singular case of the Republic of Genoa and the redemption of its subjects. The first part of the seminar will provide a historical contextualization\, examining the daily lives of prisoners and the European institutions dedicated to their liberation. The second part will focus on the role of European consuls in the Maghreb\, highlighting their functions in the negotiations for ransoms. Finally\, the important mediation provided by missionaries and apostolic prefects in Tunis\, Tripoli\, and Algiers will be discussed. Through this analysis\, the seminar also intends to reflect on contemporary issues such as human trafficking and exploitation\, which remain relevant in the context of the contemporary Mediterranean. \nDr. Andrea Zappia is a faculty member in the Department of History\, Anthropology\, Religions\, Art History\, Media\, and Performing Arts at the Sapienza Università di Roma. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Program in Transnational Italian Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-ransoming-genoa-captives-consuls-missionaries-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241112T143000
DTSTAMP:20260418T151514
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Key Readings on Adaptation for Children
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Martina Mattei will explore key concepts from The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture\, focusing on Chapter 27 (“Translation”) and Chapter 29 (“Adaptation”). It will address how children’s literature is translated and adapted across different cultures and media\, examining the balance between staying true to original texts and making them accessible for young readers. The chapter on translation covers the complexities of translating children’s literature\, emphasizing the need to preserve cultural and linguistic integrity while ensuring that young audiences can understand and relate to the material. It highlights the role of translation in shaping children’s understanding of different cultures and ideas. The adaptation chapter examines how children’s stories are reshaped across various media\, such as film and television. It discusses how these adaptations make stories accessible to different age groups while considering cultural and generational influences. The process of adaptation is viewed as a critical way to introduce children to stories in engaging and relevant forms. The talk will emphasize how both translation and adaptation play crucial roles in broadening children’s literary and cultural horizons. \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-key-readings-on-adaptation-for-children/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Martina Mattei":MAILTO:martinamattei@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T134500
DTSTAMP:20260418T151514
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Wen Liu will argue that Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population\, but they are made so through the psychological technologies of “racecraft.” These technologies aim to demonstrate the racial elasticity of the Asian American mind\, including cultural essentialism\, democratic governmentality\, white ascendancy\, and unconscious microaggression. They help construct a flexible racial identity that can demonstrate the wide range of cognitive styles\, cultural practices\, and\, most importantly\, race elasticity for the postwar USA as it strives to become a multicultural democracy. \nWen Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology\, Academia Sinica. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/feeling-asian-american-racial-flexibility-between-assimilation-and-oppression/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T163000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Queering Taiwan Studies International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ku’er\, the Mandarin transliteration of the English word “queer\,” has a distinctly Taiwanese genealogy\, as implied in the homophonic meaning of being “cool.” This conference examines the interrelationships between queer studies and Taiwan studies\, from placing Taiwanese history and culture on the map of queer inquiry to the queering of Taiwan studies. Does queer Taiwan studies mean a focus on queer content\, or is “queering” a method that can be used in studying any content in Taiwan studies? In light of the emergence of queer indigenous studies and queer of color critique in North America\, how might we consider the question of indigeneity\, race\, and ethnicity in queering Taiwan studies? Ultimately\, what can a focus on Taiwan do to exceed the existing limits of queer theory\, and how might the method of queering advance the transgressive potential of Taiwan studies? \nLocations will vary for the conference sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for location information. \n11/14 9:00am – 3:35pm HSSB 4020\n11/14 4:00pm – 5:30pm SSMS 4315\n11/15 9:00am – 4:30pm McCune Conference Room \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCLA’s Asia Pacific Center \nImage: Jess\, Ex. 5 – Mind’s I: Translation #12\, 1965; The National Gallery of Art
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-conference-queering-taiwan-studies-international-conference/
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reason/Rationality Versus Wisdom/Mysticism in Jainism and Indian Thought
DESCRIPTION:On November 14\, as part of the inaugural celebration of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions at UC Santa Barbara\, we will welcome our new colleague\, Anil Mundra\, as the inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair. The celebration will feature a lecture by distinguished Visiting Professor Jayendra Soni at 4:00 pm and will be followed by a reception. \nJayandra Soni retired in May 2012 from the Department of Indology and Tibetology at the University of Marburg in Germany\, where he taught Indian languages (Sanskrit\, Hindi\, and Gujarati) and Indian philosophy from 1991 to 2012. He received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University in India and his second PhD from McMaster University in Canada. He now lives in Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he teaches at the University of Innsbruck. \nAnil Mundra serves as the inaugural holder of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on how South Asian philosophers navigate religious diversity\, especially in Sanskrit texts on the classical Jain theory of non-one-sidedness (anekānta-vāda). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reason-rationality-versus-wisdom-mysticism-in-jainism-and-indian-thought/
LOCATION:The Club\, Betty Elings Wells Pavilion
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:20241118T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T134500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Beyond the "New Cold War": Intimating Movements across Taiwan and Asian/Pacific/America
DESCRIPTION:Taiwan has long held a pivotal—if “strategically ambiguous”—position in inter-imperial tensions over global influence and has in recent decades been frequently used to refurbish debates over a “new Cold War.” Situated at the nexus of inter-imperial entanglements\, settler-colonial formations\, and migrant labor networks\, Taiwan’s perpetually unresolved status is\, Wong argues\, pivotal not only for the geopolitics of empire but more importantly for its place in trans-geographical alliance building for those who have long survived\, navigated\, and challenged these imperial binds—e.g.\, Indigenous coalitions\, informal economy workers\, militaristically displaced refugees. In this talk\, Wong discusses the ongoing work of grassroot organizations that have built transpacific networks—through conferences\, community-driven research\, and cultural productions—across Taiwan\, the Philippines\, North America\, and the Pacific. Examining these convergences complicates narrow definitions of both “anti-Asian hate” and “new Cold War” discourses simultaneously\, as such narratives often obscure the many coalitional openings—”the linked\, if uneven intimacies\,” citing Lisa Lowe—that have always already been in formation. \nLily Wong is an Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor\, racial capitalism\, and transpacific coalitional movements. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-beyond-the-new-cold-war-intimating-movements-across-taiwan-and-asian-pacific-america/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260418T151514
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When the Uyghur Language Confronts Atrocity
DESCRIPTION:Over the last decade\, the persecution of Uyghurs in China has attracted global attention. When Uyghur was officially banned from education by the Chinese government in September 2016\, Uyghur editors were arrested and heavily sentenced\, and books were collected and burned. Private bookstores were shut down and Uyghur publishers and bookstore owners were sentenced. Today\, Uyghur linguists\, writers\, and journalists remain persecuted. In January 2017\, Uyghurs started to organize mother language schools\, publish textbooks\, and write story books for kids. There are now four Uyghur publishing houses\, two bookstores\, three online libraries among the Uyghur diaspora\, and more than 70 Uyghur mother language classes\, both online and in-person\, teaching Uyghur around the world.  \nIn this talk\, Abduweli Ayup will discuss his 2013 arrest for teaching the Uyghur language to kindergarteners\, his activism\, and his advocacy for Uyghur language education in China and the diaspora. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAbduweli Ayup is a writer\, activist\, and linguist\, specializing in Uyghur-language education. He has lived in Bergen\, Norway since 2019 as a writer-in-residence through the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) program. Abduweli founded Uyghur Hjelp in 2016\, which investigates and documents the Uyghur plight\, publishes books\, and supports Uyghur bookstores\, kindergartens and schools\, and engages in advocacy. He has published six books in Uyghur\, his essays and jail memoirs in Turkish\, and his first English-language book will be published in September 2025 by Silkie Publishing House.  \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-the-uyghur-language-confronts-atrocity/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,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:20241121T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241121T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: William Davies King
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between William Davies King (Theater and Dance) and Jessica Nakamura (Theater and Dance) about King’s new book\, Finding the Way to ‘Long Day’s Journey Into Night’: Eugene O’Neill and Carlotta Monterey O’Neill at Tao House. \nIn this book\, King offers a new way to approach Eugene O’Neill’s most famous play by reading this intensely autobiographical masterpiece in terms of the Taoism-inspired California house where it was written on the verge of World War II and the fractious marriage to Carlotta Monterey O’Neill to whom the play is dedicated. As an unusually explicit autobiographical drama\, Long Day’s Journey Into Night returns to 1912\, the outset of O’Neill’s writing career\, when he confronted tragedy in his family story and found a way to dramatize his mother\, father\, brother\, and himself in a way that has resonated with audiences since its publication and production in 1956. But King argues that the play originates as much in the moment of its creation\, 1939–1941—in the family relationships\, the historical circumstances\, and the fact that this work would represent a moment of closure of his great career. Key to this heroic story of creation is the intervention of his wife\, Carlotta\, whose diaries enable a day-to-day observation of how the play was written. This book develops a close reading of their house and marriage and also uses many of O’Neill’s previous plays to illuminate the breakthrough of Long Day’s Journey. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and a veteran scholar of Eugene O’Neill\, his life and works\, and his wives. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-william-davies-king/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T134500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: One China\, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Ian Rowen will highlight how Chinese tourism split Taiwan into “Two Taiwans”—one portrayed as part of China for Chinese tour groups\, and the other experienced as the everyday reality of local residents and independent travelers. He will also examine how this dynamic intensified conflicts between business\, civil society\, and government entities with differing stakes in maintaining a PRC-focused tourism industry\, ultimately contributing to a more diverse civic nationalism in Taiwan. Rowen’s book One China\, Many Taiwans explores how tourism\, used by the PRC as a political tool to influence Taiwan\, heightened tensions between the two governments\, deepened divisions within Taiwanese society\, and increased public support for national self-determination. \nRowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture\, Languages\, and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Geography and Urban Planning at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University (China) and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany)\, a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)\, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance. His research has been supported with a Fulbright Fellowship and multiple US National Science Foundation grants. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-one-china-many-taiwans-the-geopolitics-of-cross-strait-tourism/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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