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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Virus Touch
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies) and Elena Aronova (History) about Ghosh’s new book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Refreshments will be served. \nIn The Virus Touch\, Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses\, humans\, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics\, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images\, numbers\, and movements through the processes of reading test results and tracking infection and mortality rates. Scientific\, artistic\, and activist epidemic media that make multispecies relations sensible and manageable eschew anthropocentric survival strategies and instead recast global public health crises as biological\, social\, and ecological catastrophes\, pushing us toward a multispecies politics of health. Ghosh trains her analytic gaze on these mediations as expressed in the collection and analysis of blood samples as a form of viral media; the geospatialization of data that track viral hosts like wild primates; and the use of multisensory images to trace fluctuations in viral mutations. Studying how epidemic media inscribe\, store\, and transmit multispecies relations attunes us to the anthropogenic drivers of pathogenicity like deforestation or illegal wildlife trading and the vulnerabilities of diseases that arise from socioeconomic inequities and biopolitical neglect. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of English and Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, author of Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular\, and coeditor of The Routledge Companion to Media and Risk. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-virus-touch/
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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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Giuliana Perrone
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Giuliana Perrone (History) and Jeannine DeLombard (English) about Perrone’s new book\, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Refreshments will be served. \nNothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press\, 2023)\nNothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until the end of Reconstruction in 1877\, supreme courts in former slave states decided approximately 700 lawsuits associated with the struggle for Black freedom and equal citizenship. This litigation – the majority through private law – triggered questions about American liberty and reassessed the nation’s legal and political order following the Civil War. Judicial decisions set the terms of debates about racial identity\, civil rights\, and national belonging\, and established that slavery\, as a legal institution and social practice\, remained actionable in American law well after its ostensible demise. The verdicts determined how unresolved facets of slavery would undercut ongoing efforts for abolition and the realization of equality. Insightful and compelling\, this work makes an important intervention in the history of post-Civil War law. \nGiuliana Perrone is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on the history of slavery\, abolition\, and race in North America\, American socio-legal history\, the history of the Civil War and Reconstruction\, and the development of American political institutions. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-giuliana-perrone/
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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