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  • Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference

    2252 HSSB HSSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +1 more

    Over the past decade, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic, interdisciplinary field, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. The Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive, creative, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies, with a primary focus on literary studies, Indigenous studies, ethnomusicology, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. Biographies of the Panel Speakers: ...

  • Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture

    3145 SSMS 3145 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    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 ...