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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture
DESCRIPTION:The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005\, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester\, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s creative play. On the page and onscreen\, in museum galleries\, schools\, toy aisles\, and at home\, today cardboard occupies a privileged position within children’s material culture where the promises of environmental and STEAM education coalesce. Its accessibility makes it an equitable choice; its recyclability makes it a sustainable one. This talk will examine cardboard’s recent ascendence in children’s sustainability and STEAM cultures. Through a series of case studies\, including documentary film\, fiction\, curricular materials and kids’ material cultures\, it will identify the optimistic futures projected by proponents of cardboard play and interrogate their underpinning logics. Cardboard sits at the intersection between the local and the global in children’s everyday lives—at once emblematic of transnational flows of labor and capital and the material stuff of hyper-specific embodied engagements. As such\, this talk will trace cardboard’s function as a material\, discursive\, and aesthetic phenomenon deployed to address—though not necessarily resolve—a range of concerns related to children’s economic\, environmental\, and educational futures. \nMeredith A. Bak is an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter\, The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies\, Early Popular Visual Culture\, The Velvet Light Trap\, and Film History\, and in several edited collections. She is at work on a project about the role of cardboard in children’s STEAM and environmental pedagogies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Comparative Literature Program\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-outside-the-box-cardboard-in-contemporary-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:3145 SSMS\, 3145 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T173000
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature\, now in its twentieth year\, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. The recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona\, Muñoz is the author of three books of short stories and one novel\, all of which have been highly acclaimed and received awards. Mr. Muñoz will engage in a conversation with Prof. Mario T. Garcia of the Department of Chicano Studies and the founder and director of the Leal Award. There will be an opportunity for audience discussion with Mr. Muñoz. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Educational Opportunity Program\, La Maestra Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Department of English
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T163103
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T164500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible and the Sino-Soundscape in North America
DESCRIPTION:The defining tunes of the Sinophone community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were those of the Cantonese opera performed in Chinese theaters. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of materials about Sinophone community in archives. The sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in English newspapers and travelogues. Drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer to piece together the history of vibrant Chinese theaters\, this talk offers readings against the grain to consider how archives structure our understanding of the past and frame how we enter into the present and future. \nNancy Yunhwa Rao is Distinguished Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone and Inter-Asia studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she is the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. For The Cambridge Companion to Serialism\, she contributed a chapter on East Asia. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition recently appeared in Music Theory Spectrum. Rao currently serves as editor of the journal American Music. Her new book\, Inside Chinese theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond\, will be published in March 2025. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Music\, and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-inside-chinese-theater-archive-of-the-invisible-and-sino-soundscape-in-north-america/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T160000
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Black History's Warning to the World
DESCRIPTION:Resisting the tide of repression that threatens the teaching of Black history\, we should look to that past to understand the ongoing processes that have shaped our world. Our current predicament\, marked by extreme inequalities\, everyday violence\, militarism\, and political strife derives in part from the history of colonial conquest\, slavery\, and imperial warfare. Our struggles for freedom and dignity emerge from that history\, too. By understanding it\, we might discern the scope\, force\, direction\, and likelihood of the changes ahead—and be guided by the example and the wisdom of our ancestors. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nVincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published two prize-winning books about the history of slavery: The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008) and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020). The author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is also Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-winning television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)\, broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens\, he was the executive producer and host for The Bigger Picture (2022)\, co-produced with WNET for PBS Digital Studios\, and he was executive producer\, writer\, and host for How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? (2024). He is co-founder of Timestamp Media\, which explores the history that connects people and places across the world. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/black-historys-warning-to-the-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T200000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Critical Writing Initiative (housed in the English Department) welcomes Dr. Nalo Hopkinson for an upcoming talk\, “Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson.” Nalo Hopkinson is an author\, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia\, and the 2021 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy. Born in Jamaica\, Dr. Hopkinson has taught\, lived\, and created across the Caribbean\, the United States\, and Canada\, producing works that engage with disability\, neurodiversity\, queer Black feminist and womanist thought\, Caribbean literature\, folklore\, & ecology\, Afrofuturism\, textile and doll-making praxis\, and teaching. Dr. Hopkinson is known best for her works in speculative fiction—novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring\, Midnight Robber\, and Sister Mine represent only a fraction of Dr. Hopkinson’s contributions to Afrofuturist thought and art practice. \nJoin us this Winter quarter to welcome Dr. Hopkinson to UCSB. The event will include a moderated conversation\, an audience Q&A\, followed by a book-signing. Select titles will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there! \nCosponsored by the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative\, Las Maestras Center for Xican[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art and Social Practice\, Center for Feminist Futures\, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center\, English\, Film and Media Studies\, Comparative Literature\, Black Studies\, Feminist Studies\, the Transcriptions Center\, the Writing Program\, and the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-conversing-with-the-afrofuture-an-evening-with-nalo-hopkinson/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni House\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
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SUMMARY:Sal Castro Memorial Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Sal Castro Memorial Lecture aims to present recent books published in Chicano/Latino history. Named after Chicano Movement icon Sal Castro\, who struggled for educational justice for Chicans\, this will be the inaugural lecture. Our first speaker is Prof. Oliver Rosales\, who will discuss his recent book\, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press: 2024). Prof. Rosales received his Ph.D. in History from UCSB. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Department of History\, Chicano Studies Institute\, and Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sal-castro-memorial-lecture-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20250227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Lisa Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Lisa Jacobson (History) and Erika Rappaport (History) about Jacobson’s new book\, Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition. \nIn popular memory\, the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals\, alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts and tastemakers to transform wine\, beer\, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists\, trade associations\, restaurateurs\, home economists\, cookbook authors\, and New Deal planners—powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book\, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol’s cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens. \nLisa Jacobson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-lisa-jacobson/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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