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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Elemental City: Ecology\, Media and Narratives of Crisis in Postcolonial Calcutta
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how the cultural politics of elemental media influence crisis narratives produced in relation to urban change. Taking Calcutta as a case study\, Doctoral Candidate Somak Mukherjee argues that the crisis of postcolonial cities has a distinct ecological imaginary\, borne of tension between mediated pairings of elements and more typical civic imaginaries such as civility\, citizenship\, community\, development\, or progress. Four examples of elements—earth\, air\, water\, and fire—are used as representative figures to explore how their cultural registers comment on questions of method\, archives\, and media in thinking about urban space. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Surojit Kayal. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by February 18. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSomak Mukherjee is a doctoral candidate in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests lie at the intersection of Environmental Media and Criticism\, Urban History\, and Postcolonial Studies. Somak’s writings have appeared in various print and digital publications in India\, including Huffington Post\, Scroll\, The Citizen\, Humanities Underground\, and Anandabazar Patrika (ABP). \nSurojit Kayal is a Ph.D. student in the Department of English at UCSB. His interests include environmental media\, science and technology studies\, digital culture\, and postcolonial studies. Surojit has written previously on environmental communities\, digital technologies and the COVID-19 pandemic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage: The mouth of the Sealdah bound tunnel as can be seen from the Esplanade station of East West Metro in Kolkata\, November 2020. Image Courtesy: Metro Railways Kolkata
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-elemental-city-ecology-media-and-narratives-of-crisis-in-postcolonial-calcutta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
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SUMMARY:AIIC 2021 8th Annual Symposium: Native Feminisms
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThe Eighth Annual AIIC Symposium\, “Native Feminisms: Centering American Indian and Indigenous Land and People\,” seeks to focus Native feminisms by privileging the knowledge of Native women\, girls\, trans\, non-binary\, and two spirit people. As Mishuana Goeman shows\, drawing attention to embodied experience\, positionality\, and spatiality foregrounds relationships between bodies\, minds\, spirits\, and lands as methods of knowledge creation. Relevant topics to broader discussions of Native feminisms include: embodiment\, futurity\, spatiality\, memory\, trauma\, ecological relationality\, community knowledge\, emergence\, collective power\, ceremony\, decolonization\, education\, reclamation\, and felt theory. \nThe AIIC Symposium seeks to explore how Native feminist cartographies help us remap and reimagine the relationship between people\, kin\, communities\, temporality\, and the land. We hope to raise questions about public space and protest\, environment and ecological knowledge\, storytelling\, violence\, education\, Indigeneity\, decolonial thinking\, gender\, and multiraciality. We embrace non-linear\, relational understandings of time\, and presenters will address historical issues of cartography\, contemporary remappings\, and embodied relationships to history\, knowledge creation\, and the land\, as well as the intersection of such topics. \nKeynote Speakers: Mishuana Goeman and Laura Harjo \nDr. Mishuana Goeman\, Tonawanda Band of Seneca\, is an Associate Professor of Gender Studies\, Chair of American Indian Studies Interdepartmental Program and Associate Director of American Indian Studies Research Center at the University of California\, Los Angeles. She received her doctorate from Stanford University’s Modern Thought and Literature and was a UC Presidential Post-doctoral fellow at Berkeley. Her research involves thinking through colonialism\, geography and literature in ways that generate anti-colonial tools in the struggle for social justice. Her book\, Mark My Words: Native Women Mapping Our Nations (University of Minnesota Press\, 2013) was honored at the American Association for Geographic Perspectives on Women and a finalist for best first book from NAISA. “The Spectacle of Originary Moments: Terrance Malick’s the New World\,” is in progress with the Indigenous Film Series\, University of Nebraska Press. She has published in peer-reviewed journals such as American Quarterly\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, Settler Colonial Studies\, Wicazo Sa\, International Journal of Critical Indigenous Studies\, Frontiers: A Journal of Women’s Studies\, Transmotion\, and American Indian Cultures and Research Journal. She has guest edited journal volumes on Native Feminisms and another on Indigenous Performances. \nDr. Harjo is a Mvskoke scholar teaching Indigenous Planning\, Community Development\, and Indigenous Feminisms. She is an Associate Professor in Native American Studies at the University of Oklahoma. She was raised in Sapulpa by Mvskoke parents that were active in Mvskoke community and Muscogee (Creek) Nation politics; Harjo is a lifelong student of emancipatory community processes. Dr. Harjo earned a Ph.D. in geography from the University of Southern California\, and her research and teaching centers on Indigenous spatialities\, community caretaking\, Indigenous feminist community planning praxis\, Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women and Relatives and anti-violence\, artivism and community engaged knowledge production. She is the author of Spiral to the Stars: Mvskoke Tools of Futurity (University of Arizona Press\, 2019)\, which employs Mvskoke epistemologies\, and Indigenous feminisms to grapple with a community praxis of futurity. \nCosponsored by the American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); UCSB American Indian Graduate Student Alliance (AIGSA); UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Student Association (AIISA); UCSB Associated Students; UCSB Department of English; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association (GSA); UCSB Office of Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aiic-2021-8th-annual-symposium-native-feminisms/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="American Indian & Indigenous Collective RFG":MAILTO:ucsbaiic@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210218T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus
DESCRIPTION:Click here for a 20% publisher’s discount on The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus \n  \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) and Debra Blumenthal (History) about Reynolds’ new book\, The Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus. Audience Q&A will follow. \nThe Musical Heritage of Al-Andalus is a critical account of the history of Andalusian music in Iberia from the Islamic conquest of 711 to the final expulsion of the Moriscos (Spanish Muslims converted to Christianity) in the early 17th century. This volume presents the documentation that has come down to us\, accompanied by critical and detailed analyses of the sources written in Arabic\, Old Catalan\, Castilian\, Hebrew\, and Latin. It is also informed by research the author has conducted on modern Andalusian musical traditions in Morocco\, Algeria\, Tunisia\, Egypt\, Lebanon\, and Syria. \nWhile the cultural achievements of medieval Muslim Spain have been the topic of a large number of scholarly and popular publications in recent decades\, what may arguably be its most enduring contribution – music – has been almost entirely neglected. The overarching purpose of this work is to elucidate as clearly as possible the many different types of musical interactions that took place in medieval Iberia and the complexity of the various borrowings\, adaptations\, hybridizations\, and appropriations involved. \nDwight Reynolds is Professor of Arabic Language & Literature in the Department of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and affiliate faculty member of the Department of Music\, Department of Theater and Dance\, the Program in Latin American and Iberian Studies\, and the Comparative Literature Program. He is the author of Arab Folklore: A Handbook (2007) and Heroic Poets\, Poetic Heroes: The Ethnography of Performance in an Arabic Oral Epic Tradition (1995). He is the editor and co-author of The Cambridge Companion to Modern Arab Culture (2015) and co-editor\, with Scott Marcus and Virginia Danielson\, of The Garland Encyclopedia of World Music: Vol. VI\, the Middle East and Central Asia (2002). He is also section editor for and contributing author to The Cambridge History of Arabic Literature: the Post-Classical Period  (Part IV: Popular Prose; 2006). In 2010 with his team he published the online digital archive housing field recordings\, field notes\, historical background\, Arabic texts\, English translations\, photographs and a special “virtual performance” mode for the Arabic oral epic poem Sirat Bani Hilial. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-musical-heritage-of-al-andalus/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210211T160000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Strongmen: From Mussolini to Trump
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhat do strongman leaders across a century have in common? Why do people continue to follow them\, despite the destruction they cause? Drawing on her new book\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat discusses the playbook of corruption\, virility\, propaganda\, and violence they utilize\, how people have resisted authoritarians over a century\, and what we can do to strengthen democracy in America and around the world. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat is Professor of History and Italian Studies at New York University. She writes frequently for CNN and other news and analysis sites on fascism\, authoritarian leaders\, propaganda\, and threats to democracy around the world and how to counter them. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series\, the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment\, and the UCSB Italian Studies Program \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n\n\n  \n\nHOMBRES FUERTES: DE MUSSOLINI A TRUMP \n¿Qué tienen en común los líderes denominados como hombres fuertes a lo largo del siglo pasado? ¿Por qué la gente continúa siguiéndolos\, a pesar de la destrucción que causan? Basándose en su nuevo libro\, Strongmen: Mussolini to the Present\, Ruth Ben-Ghiat analiza el manual de la corrupción\, la virilidad\, la propaganda\, la violencia que utilizan\, cómo la gente ha resistido a los autoritarios durante un siglo y qué podemos hacer para fortalecer la democracia en Estados Unidos y en todo el mundo. \n\nRuth Ben-Ghiat es profesora de Historia y Estudios Italianos en la Universidad de Nueva York. Escribe con frecuencia para CNN y otros sitios de noticias y análisis sobre fascismo\, líderes autoritarios\, propaganda y amenazas a la democracia en todo el mundo y cómo contrarrestarlas. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Dotación Conmemorativa Harry Girvetz de IHC y Programa de Estudios Italianos de UCSB \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-strongmen-from-mussolini-to-trump/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Harry Girvetz Memorial 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:20210209T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210209T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Social Media and the Shape of "Man"
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888 \nInspired by Cho’s ethnographic work with queer of color users of the platform Tumblr and using the Tumblr presence of Filipinx transfeminine visual and performance artist Mark Aguhar as a recurring touchstone\, this work-in-progress talk’s provocation is that the assumptive ways in which a social media platform “should” be designed—singular identity\, linear text exchanges\, direct messaging\, traversable connections\, and more—in fact instantiate a model of “Man” that can be traced back to the epistemological violences of European colonialism. Relying on Sylvia Wynter’s invocation of the idea of homo oeconomicus as well as Lisa Lowe’s historical analysis of the colonial-era origins of the modern liberal subject\, this talk excavates the assumptions of the specific manner in which “Man” is instantiated online and offers design examples that resist this logic\, inviting us to imagine digital sociality from a standpoint of interdependence instead of the stance of the assumptive liberal individual. \nAlexander Cho is a media scholar\, digital design researcher\, critical theorist\, and pop culture geek. He teaches classes at UCSB on Asian Americans in media as well as on gender and sexuality. His research combines critical race theory\, queer theory\, design thinking\, and ethnography to explore how marginalized populations use social media as a tool for self-expression and social change and explores how social media contain values and power structures built into their design. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/85893482888
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-social-media-and-the-shape-of-man/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Gendered Violence and Financialization of Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective On Debt
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nFEMINISMS FROM BELOW\, AND TOWARDS THE SOUTH \nThis speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nSECOND TALK: Gendered Violence and Financialization of Social Reproduction: A Feminist Perspective On Debt \nThe presentation will focus on the relationship and intersection between sexist violence and economic violence\, specifically the financialization of life and the increase in sexist violence. It will highlight the Latin American feminist movement’s struggles against debt as articulated in the tactic of the March 8 International Women’s Day Strike and in Argentina’s Ni Una Menos (Not One More) movement. \nSee Lucía’s articles “Debt and the Violence of Property” (Verso 2020) and “A feminist perspective on the battle over property” (Feminist Review 2020)\, both co-authored with Veronica Gago. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UCSD Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-gendered-violence-and-financialization-of-social-reproduction-a-feminist-perspective-on-debt/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: An Expansive Rebellion: Feminism and Social Revolt in Chile
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89256077958?pwd=Mlp2MWFNVENGRTNmZXFIb2k0WE5rZz09\nZoom Room Password: chile \nFEMINISMS FROM BELOW\, AND TOWARDS THE SOUTH \nThis speaker series welcomes feminist militants from Latin America to share their perspectives and experiences on building popular power towards a mass feminist movement. Over the past decade\, Latin American feminists have identified manifestations of gender-based oppression under capitalism in everyday women’s conditions in order to successfully mobilize them as part of a political movement. Feminists produce analyses and subsequent strategies around reproductive rights\, resource extractivism\, housing\, debt\, and more. This mass feminism has grown to be arguably the most insurgent political force across the continent. \nFIRST TALK: An Expansive Rebellion: Feminism and Social Revolt in Chile \nIn October 2019\, Chile experienced its largest social revolt since the return to democracy in 1990. The mobilization\, which began as a spontaneous reaction to protest against a 0.30 USD rise in the Santiago transport fare\, soon after became a widespread outburst against the precarious and unjust conditions that affect the majority of the population after almost fifty years of life under a neoliberal regime. Throughout Chile\, high school and university students\, young precarious professionals\, residents of peripheral neighborhoods\, sectors of a fragile and unstable “middle class\,” soccer hooligans (a symbol of popular and stigmatized youth)\, qualified salaried workers and unqualified\, retirees and older adults\, office workers\, and app workers\, among others\, joined together in mass demonstrations. \nAs an immediate antecedent to this revolt in Chile\, there had been a recent emergence of a new wave of the feminist movement that has since caused a general awareness of sexist violence\, sexual abuse\, and the need for an abortion law\, issues that today occupy the center of social debate. One can see the underground work that Chilean feminism has carried out for many years and that has gained symbolic capital – this is key to understanding how it has moved from private malaise to collective revolt today. Feminism has acted in Chile as an expansive rebellion\, starting with women and sexual dissidents and has advanced towards the politicization of broad social sectors\, preparing the conditions for mass revolt. \nFerretti and Dragnic co-published the article “Revolt in Chile: Life Against Capital” in Viewpoint last February 2020. \nPierina Ferretti\, Sociologist and Doctoral Candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Chile\, Researcher with Fundación Nodo XXI \nMia Dragnic García\, Sociologist and Doctoral Candidate in Latin American Studies at the University of Chile\, Professor at the Metropolitan University of Education Science \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSD Latin American Studies Program\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89256077958?pwd=Mlp2MWFNVENGRTNmZXFIb2k0WE5rZz09\nZoom Room Password: chile
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-an-expansive-rebellion-feminism-and-social-revolt-in-chile/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Troy Araiza Kokinis":MAILTO:taraizakokinis@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210201T133000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Shifting Paradigms Around Neurodiversity
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09 \nThis discussion will focus on thinking about new paradigms in autism and neurodiversity. We will read the article titled “Throw Away the Master’s Tools: Liberating Ourselves From the Pathology Paradigm\,” by Nick Walker (from Loud Hands: Autistic People\, Speaking [2012]) and the introduction to Autistic Disturbances (2018) by Julia Miele Rodas. If time permits\, the discussion will also include Mad at School: Rhetorics of Disability and Academic Life (2011) by Margaret Price\, which tackles mental illness/health\, college students/faculty\, psychology\, mentally disabled persons\, personal narratives\, communication\, and stereotypes. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82480745298?pwd=a3RkcUVKaWJoN0dEUkZPQjFQWVN1dz09
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-shifting-paradigms-around-neurodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210129T140000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cybercrime in Digital India: Jamtara's Youth and OTT Production Cultures
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nContinuing a trend set by Bollywood cinema since the mid-2000s\, small towns and villages in India are being mined for their performative excess\, comic potential\, and cultures of violence by platforms like Netflix and Amazon Prime Video. Mukherjee traced this trend to Jamtara: Sabka Number Aayega (Jan 2020–)\, an over-the-top (OTT) crime drama from Netflix/Tipping Point that portrays real-life mobile phone phishing scams conducted by teenagers in the state of Jharkhand. The reliance on concept development based on localized research within an OTT production culture ensured that the innovative story and subject matter of Jamtara intrigued audiences. However\, the later episodes\, instead of focusing on the forensic and infrastructural intricacies of phishing\, depicted gratuitous violence instigated by a local politician figure. The theme of cybercrime provided Jamtara a way to inflect earlier registers of crime with discourses around digitality and social mobility\, but the show succumbed to representing physical violence. \nRahul Mukherjee is Dick Wolf Associate Professor of Television and New Media Studies at University of Pennsylvania. His research on environmental media and mobile phone cultures has been published in his recent monograph Radiant Infrastructures: Media\, Environment\, and Cultures of Uncertainty (Duke University Press\, 2020) and in journals such as Media\, Culture\, and Society and Asiascape: Digital Asia. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cybercrime-in-digital-india-jamtaras-youth-and-ott-production-cultures/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20210126T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210126T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84178208506 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is proud to celebrate the publication of Dr. Diane Fujino’s book\, Nisei Radicals: The Feminist Poetics and Transformative Ministry of Mitsuye Yamada and Michael Yasutake. \nAbout the book\nWhile critiques of the model minority trope abound\, this work has not dislodged the Nisei\, or second-generation Japanese Americans\, from the label of “Quiet Americans.” Working against the announced politics of Nisei assimilationism\, this talk examines the feminist poetics of Mitsuye Yamada and the transformational “jubilee liberation” ministry of her brother\, Rev. Michael Yasutake. Mitsuye Yamada’s sensitive writings are known for revealing tropes of silence in the lives of Japanese American women\, often through critique of the complicated relationship with her own mother. Michael Yasutake moved from military resistance during World War II\, to counseling draft objector during the Vietnam War\, to explicit opposition to US and Japanese imperialism and support for political prisoners. Through biographical study\, the book reveals Nisei resistance in the 1970s to 1990s (an ostensibly dormant period of Asian American struggle)\, understudied intergenerational continuity\, and a radical lineage of Japanese American activism. \nDiane Fujino is professor of Asian American Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her scholarship centers on Asian American and Black liberation struggles and includes books on Yuri Kochiyama\, Richard Aoki\, and the Black Panther Party. She is active with Ethnic Studies Now! Santa Barbara and Cooperation Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/84178208506
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-diane-fujino/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210125T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20210106T191430Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T232103Z
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Research Focus Group Meeting: Art\, Environment\, and Sense-Making
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED \nAt the last meeting of the Sustainability and the New Human RFG\, Professor Suh discussed sustainability and behavior change. This talk will continue our conversation about the interdependence of humans and the environment by offering an ecological approach to how we understand the arts. At this meeting\, PhD candidate Daniel Martini will share his dissertation research on how aesthetic appreciation (‘sense-making’) can emerge from both the rigidity of universal human cognitive structures and the massive influence of environmental variations. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Colin Gardner. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. Please register by January 21. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nDaniel Martini is a PhD Candidate in Comparative Literature with emphases in Cognitive Science and Translation Studies. Daniel specializes in interdisciplinary research and teaching\, including the fields of cognitive affordance\, memory\, and medical humanities. \nColin Gardner is Professor of Critical Theory and Integrative Studies in Art at UCSB. He works at the intersection of film-philosophy\, Deleuze and Guattari studies and interdisciplinary media theory. Dr. Gardner has also expanded his research into Media Geography. His most recent monograph is “Chaoid Cinema: Deleuze and Guattari and the Topological Vector of Silence.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage Credit: A still shot from Maurice Lemaître’s Le film est déjà commencé? (1951)
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-art-environment-and-sense-making/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210122T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201209T193252Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210201T181912Z
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Land Grab U: Land-Grant Universities and Indigenous Peoples
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nIn 1862\, President Abraham Lincoln signed the Morrill Act\, which distributed public domain lands to raise funds for fledgling colleges across the nation. The creation story told around this event is that land-grant universities were given the gift of free land. But the truth is much more complicated: The Morrill Act worked by turning land expropriated from tribal nations into seed money for higher education. In all\, the act redistributed nearly 10.8 million acres from more than 250 tribal nations for the benefit of 52 colleges. Those lands\, when grouped together\, represent an area approximately the size of Denmark. Ahtone and Lee’s presentation will both examine the land specifically used to found the University of California and also discuss the methods employed in this investigation of land expropriation\, in order to reveal the links between violent colonialism and higher education. \nTristan Ahtone is a member of the Kiowa Tribe and is editor-in-chief at the Texas Observer. He has reported for multiple outlets including PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America and High Country News\, where he served as Indigenous Affairs editor.  \nRobert Lee is a lecturer in American History at the University of Cambridge. His research focuses on Indigenous dispossession and U.S. state formation in the nineteenth-century American West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the IHC American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \nImage Credit: Marty Two Bulls Jr. \nLAND GRAB U: UNIVERSIDADES CON CONCESIÓN DE TIERRAS Y PUEBLOS INDÍGENAS \nEn 1862\, el presidente Abraham Lincoln firmó la Ley Morrill\, que distribuía tierras de dominio público para recaudar fondos para universidades incipientes en todo el país. La historia de la creación que se cuenta en torno a este evento es que las universidades recibieron el regalo de tierras gratis. Pero la verdad es mucho más complicada: la Ley Morrill funcionó al convertir la tierra expropiada a las naciones tribales en capital inicial para la educación superior. En total\, la ley redistribuyó casi 10\,8 millones de acres de más de 250 naciones tribales en beneficio de 52 universidades. Esas tierras\, cuando se agrupan\, representan un área aproximadamente del tamaño de Dinamarca. Ahtone y la presentación de Lee examinará la tierra utilizada específicamente para fundar la Universidad de California y también discutirá los métodos empleados en esta investigación de la expropiación de tierras\, a fin de revelar los vínculos entre el colonialismo violento y la educación superior. \nTristan Ahtone es miembro de la tribu Kiowa y es editor en jefe del Texas Observer. Ha informado para varios medios\, incluidos PBS NewsHour\, National Native News\, NPR\, Al Jazeera America y High Country News\, donde se desempeñó como editor de Asuntos Indígenas.  \nRobert Lee es profesor de Historia Estadounidense en la Universidad de Cambridge. Su investigación se centra en el despojo indígena y la formación del estado estadounidense en el oeste americano del siglo XIX. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y el Grupo de Enfoque de Investigación Colectiva Indígena e Indígena Estadounidense de IHC \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito; Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom \nCrédito de imagen: Marty Two Bulls Jr.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-land-grab-u-land-grant-universities-and-indigenous-peoples/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210121T153000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20210119T230006Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210119T230350Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Panel: Sex Work in the Time of Covid
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis panel will bring together the insight and expertise of three sex worker activists working and organizing in North America and Europe; including Sinnamon Love\, BIPOC Adult Industry Collective\, MF Akynos\, Black Sex Workers’ Collective\, and Chiqui\, Berlin Strippers Collective. It will be the first in a multi-part webinar conversation in 2020-2021 focused on sex work and sexual politics in the time of COVIC in a global frame. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s New Sexualities Research Focus Group and the MultiCultural Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-panel-sex-work-in-the-time-of-covid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,New Sexualities
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ORGANIZER;CN="New Sexualities RFG":MAILTO:mmilleryoung@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210112T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201211T225645Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201222T235102Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Asian/American Studies Collective Winter Speakers Series
DESCRIPTION:Zoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82289262845 \nThe Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to announce our winter speakers series\, which features an exciting lineup of scholars from across the UCSB campus. For each talk\, an invited speaker will share their current research during the first hour and the second hour will be explicitly dedicated to creating space to allow graduate students to ask questions related to research and professionalization. \nOur first speaker is Dr. Simi Kang\, a queer\, mixed Sikh American community advocate\, educator\, artist\, and scholar. Kang’s work centers Southeast Asian American collaborative resistance to imagine environmentally and economically just futures in Louisiana. Kang is a Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow in UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies. \nAbstract: Every year\, multiple times a year\, Southeast Louisiana’s coast-dependent communities must make the impossible decision to remain in an environmental sacrifice zone or leave home with no resources. This is particularly true for Vietnamese American and other BIPOC coast-dependent communities\, whose livelihoods are tied to place and whose lives are targeted by environmental extraction. In light of worsening storm seasons and rampant land loss\, my collaborators are called “disaster refugees” or “climate migrants” even before they are forced from home. Although the terms identify ‘natural’ processes as the problem\, the Vietnamese American fisherfolk I work with know better: the oil leases\, the refineries\, the dead zones make the land slide into the ocean and the storms rage\, not the ‘environment.’ This talk considers how the term “climate migrant” functions in environmental policy and politics\, ultimately asking how we can more clearly articulate undesirable movements from home as the result of environmental sacrifice. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Department of Asian American Studies \nZoom Meeting Link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/82289262845
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-winter-speakers-series-simi-kang/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201215T113000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201116T192852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T192852Z
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SUMMARY:Workshop: Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues
DESCRIPTION:CLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nUC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. \nThe session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. \nFollowing the presentation\, we will host breakout rooms with editors based on field interests. This is also an opportunity to connect with faculty and graduate students who share similar intellectual interests. When you sign up\, please select a breakout room. If your area is not represented in the breakout session\, please let us know your specialization. \nPRESENTERS:\n• Raina Polivka\, Editor\, UC Press\n• Kate Marshall\, Editor\, UC Press\n• Archna Patel\, Associate Editor\, UC Press\n• Beth Digeser\, Professor\, History\, UCSB and Chair\, UC Press Editorial Committee \nBREAKOUT SESSIONS:\n• Raina Polivka\, Editor\, UC Press (Music\, Cinema\, Media Studies)\n• Niels Hooper\, Executive Editor\, UC Press (History\, American Studies\, Middle East Studies)\n• Kate Marshall\, Editor\, UC Press (Anthropology\, Food Studies\, Latin American Studies)\n• Archna Patel\, Associate Editor\, UC Press (Art History)\n• Reed Malcolm\, Executive Editor\, UC Press (Asian Studies\, Open Access) \nCLICK HERE TO REGISTER \nSponsored by University of California Press and the UC Collaborative of Humanities Centers and Institutes
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/workshop-demystifying-the-book-publishing-process-connecting-with-uc-colleagues/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201214T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201214T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201029T180146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T195812Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to host two events showcasing graduate student research this quarter. Graduate students will be presenting their research as part of the Collective-sponsored graduate seminar ASAM 200. These workshops will be held on November 9th and December 14th from 11am to 1pm PST. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-graduate-student-research-2/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201203T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201201T232731Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201203T164703Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion with Radhika Govindrajan about Her Book Animal Intimacies
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nThis seminar session will feature a discussion with Radhika Govindrajan about her book Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas (2018)\, which is an ethnographic study of the interspecies relationships between human and nonhuman animals in the mountain villages of the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in India. Following is the University of Chicago Press’s description of the book: \n“What does it mean to live and die in relation to other animals? Animal Intimacies posits this central question alongside the intimate—and intense—moments of care\, kinship\, violence\, politics\, indifference\, and desire that occur between human and non-human animals. Built on extensive ethnographic fieldwork in the mountain villages of India’s Central Himalayas\, Radhika Govindrajan’s book explores the number of ways that humans and animals interact to cultivate relationships as interconnected\, related beings. Whether it is through the study of the affect and ethics of ritual animal sacrifice\, analysis of the right-wing political project of cow-protection\, or examination of villagers’ talk about bears who abduct women and have sex with them\, Govindrajan illustrates that multispecies relatedness relies on both difference and ineffable affinity between animals. Animal Intimacies breaks substantial new ground in animal studies\, and Govindrajan’s detailed portrait of the social\, political\, and religious life of the region will be of interest to cultural anthropologists and scholars of South Asia as well.” \nRadhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Washington. Her research as a cultural anthropologist explores the intersections of multispecies ethnography\, environmental anthropology\, the anthropology of religion\, South Asian Studies\, and political anthropology. Her book Animal Intimacies was awarded the 2017 Edward Cameron Dimock\, Jr.\, Prize in the Indian Humanities by the American Institute of Indian Studies and the 2019 Gregory Bateson Prize by the Society for Cultural Anthropology. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-with-radhika-govindrajan-about-her-book-animal-intimacies/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20201119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201119T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20200630T174732Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210104T170433Z
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Making Abolition Geographies: Stories from California
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nThis talk explores how visions of abolition guide and connect organizing across a range of social justice struggles. Gilmore will highlight examples relating to environmental justice\, public sector labor unions\, farm workers\, undocumented households\, criminalized youth\, and community based approaches to prevent and resolve gender and interpersonal violence. The vivid California stories she will present reveal how abolition is a practical program for urgent change grounded in the needs\, talents\, and dreams of vulnerable people. Audience Q&A will follow. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore is Professor of Earth & Environmental Sciences and Director of the Center for Place\, Culture\, and Politics at the City University of New York Graduate Center. Co-founder of many grassroots organizations including the California Prison Moratorium Project\, Critical Resistance\, and the Central California Environmental Justice Network\, Gilmore is author of the prize-winning Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Recent publications include “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet\, Camp and Heatherton\, eds.\, Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futures of Black Radicalism\, Lubin and Johnson\, eds.\, Verso); a foreword to Bobby M. Wilson’s Birmingham classic America’s Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); and a foreword to Cedric J. Robinson on Racial Capitalism\, Black Internationalism\, and Cultures of Resistance (HLT Quan\, ed.\, Pluto). Forthcoming projects include Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket); and (co-edited with Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nVIVIR LA DEMOCRACIA: HACER GEOGRAFÍAS DE LA ABOLICIÓN: HISTORIAS DE CALIFORNIA \nEsta charla explora cómo las visiones de la abolición guían y conectan la organización a través de una variedad de luchas por la justicia social. Gilmore destacará ejemplos relacionados con la justicia ambiental\, los sindicatos laborales del sector público\, los trabajadores agrícolas\, los hogares indocumentados\, los jóvenes criminalizados y los enfoques comunitarios para prevenir y resolver la violencia de género e interpersonal. Las historias que surgen de California revelan cómo la abolición es un programa práctico para un cambio urgente basado en las necesidades\, talentos y sueños de las personas vulnerables. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nRuth Wilson Gilmore es profesora de Ciencias de la Tierra y del Medio Ambiente y directora del Centro para el lugar\, la cultura y la política del Centro de Graduados de la City University of New York. Cofundadora de muchas organizaciones\, incluido el Proyecto de Moratoria de Prisiones de California\, Resistencia Crítica y la Red de Justicia Ambiental de California Central\, Gilmore es autor del galardonado Golden Gulag: Prisons\, Surplus\, Crisis\, and Opposition in Globalizing California. Las publicaciones recientes incluyen “Beyond Bratton” (Policing the Planet\, Camp y Heatherton\, eds.\, Verso); “Abolition Geography and the Problem of Innocence” (Futuros del radicalismo negro\, Lubin y Johnson\, eds.\, Verso); un prólogo del clásico de Birmingham de Bobby M. Wilson\, America’s Johannesburg (U Georgia Press); y un prólogo a Cedric J. Robinson sobre capitalismo racial\, internacionalismo negro y culturas de resistencia (HLT Quan\, ed.\, Plutón). Los próximos proyectos incluyen Change Everything: Racial Capitalism and the Case for Abolition (Haymarket); y (coeditado con Paul Gilroy) Stuart Hall: Selected Writings on Race and Difference (Duke). \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Fundación Sara Miller McCune y George D. McCune \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito. Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-making-abolition-geographies-stories-from-california/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,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:20201117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201117T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201027T202455Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201028T204248Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, November 17\, 3:00-4:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW\nAND\nWednesday\, November 18\, 12:00-1:00 PM | Zoom | REGISTER NOW \nJoin the IHC online to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.  Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship and fellow-designed community project opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-f20-information-sessions/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T163000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201020T231400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201029T165211Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Cowboys in the Colosseum
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin us to workshop “Cowboys in the Colosseum: Papal Power\, Cattle Rustling\, and Meat Supply in Early Modern Italy\,” a chapter from Brad Bouley’s current book project. \nBrad Bouley (Assistant Professor\, Department of History) specializes in histories of religion and science in the early modern\, especially Italian\, context. He is author of Pious Postmortems: Anatomy\, Sanctity\, and the Catholic Church in Early Modern Europe (UPenn\, 2017). His current project\, The Barberini Butchers: Meat\, Murder\, and Warfare in Early Modern Italy\, investigates papal food policies formed during the Counter Reformation in an effort to promote Rome as an early modern city. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean Research Focus Group \nREGISTER HERE \nImage: Claude Lorraine\, Campo Vaccino\, 1636
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-cowboys-in-the-colosseum/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean":MAILTO:badamo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201113T133000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201020T225548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T231240Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Assistive Technologies and Erotic Adaptation: Queer Disability in the Renaissance
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nSimone Chess will focus on early modern disability\, queerness\, and adaptive technologies. Chess is Associate Professor of English and Director of the Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies Program at Wayne State University in Detroit. She is the author of Male-to-Female Crossdressing in Early Modern English Literature: Gender\, Performance\, and Queer Relations (Routledge\, 2016) and coeditor\, with Colby Gordon and Will Fisher\, of a special issue on “Early Modern Trans Studies” for the Journal for Early Modern Cultural Studies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-assistive-technologies-and-erotic-adaptation-queer-disability-in-the-renaissance/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201112T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201106T164708Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201110T193047Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dismembering Classicism: Contesting Colonial and Classical Legacies in the Southwest
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nClassicization in U.S. heritage narratives often involves the imposition of classical elements\, derived from Greek and Roman civilization\, onto narratives of colonial conquest in Southwestern borderlands and frontier spaces. Ongoing controversies surrounding statues of the conquistador\, Juan de Oñate\, reflect the ways in which the classical legacy remains prominent in public spheres of historical narrative. In providing a visual narrative of conquest linked to classical imagery\, the Spanish history of the settling of the Southwest becomes implicated in broader U.S. historical narratives that valorize conquest as a civilizing force in the settling of the American West. While much of this classical imagery first appeared in Spanish sources\, this paper traces specifically how these classicized narratives of Spanish conquest became appropriated and implicated in Anglo-American/U.S. historical narratives\, as well as counter-narratives of Indigenous resistance. \nKendall Lovely\, a member of the Navajo Nation\, is from Albuquerque\, NM. She holds a double-major B.A. from the University of New Mexico in Comparative Literature & Cultural Studies and Anthropology\, an M.A. in Comparative Humanities from Brandeis University\, and a second M.A. in Museum Studies from UNM. Her recent thesis in Museum Studies explored Classical influence within early anthropology and museum discourses. Her examinations revealed how these models helped to construct colonial representations of gender\, especially in Southwest ethnology. As a Ph.D. student in Public History at the University of California Santa Barbara\, she continues these research inquiries toward decolonizing museum practices and the public interpretation of history in museum settings. \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dismembering-classicism-contesting-colonial-and-classical-legacies-in-the-southwest/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201110T160000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201016T194333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230110T192529Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Embodied Ownership: Sheppard Lee and Proprietary Whiteness in Jacksonian America
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nThis workshop will discuss a PRECIRCULATED chapter from Merav Schocken’s dissertation\, “Functional Fictions: Practices of Self-Deception in 19th-Century America.” (Please click on the “Download Reading” button above to access the precirculated chapter.) \nThe chapter explores the narrative practices of self-deception that underlie the consolidation of proprietary whiteness in Jacksonian America. Schocken focuses on Robert Montgomery Bird’s Sheppard Lee (1836)\, claiming that the novel registers\, and seeks to reconcile\, anxieties among upper-class whites about the inclusion of propertyless white men in the electorate. Looking at the novel’s representation of whiteness as a neutral category as embodied by its propertyless white protagonist\, Schocken argues that Black subjugation constituted a central yet crucially unacknowledged means by which the white subject\, regardless of class\, affirmed his belonging to the white man’s republic. \nMerav Schocken is a PhD candidate in English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity & the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group \nImage: George Catlin\, The Virginia Constitutional Convention\, 1830
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-embodied-ownership-sheppard-lee-and-proprietary-whiteness-in-jacksonian-america/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slavery%2C Captivity%2C and the Meaning of Freedom RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201029T174821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201104T185923Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Graduate Student Research
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective is excited to host two events showcasing graduate student research this quarter. Graduate students will be presenting their research as part of the Collective-sponsored graduate seminar ASAM 200. These workshops will be held on November 9th and December 14th from 11am to 1pm PST. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-graduate-student-research/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T172000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T183000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201102T205524Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201102T205524Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion with Amanda Lucia about Her Book Reflections of Amma
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nThe meeting will be hosted by our South Asia RFG colleague William Elison\, Associate Professor of Religious Studies at UCSB\, as part of his seminar on Religion and Ideology in Modern India: Current Approaches. This seminar session will feature a discussion with Amanda Lucia about her book\, Reflections of Amma: Devotees in a Global Embrace (2014)\, which provides an ethnographic analysis of transnationalism and gender in a global movement centered around Amritanandamayi\, who is celebrated as Amma\, “Mother\,” and the “hugging saint.” Following is the UC Press’s description of the book: \n“Globally known as Amma\, meaning “Mother\,” Mata Amritanandamayi has developed a massive transnational humanitarian organization based in hugs. She is familiar to millions as the “hugging saint\,” a moniker that derives from her elaborate darshan programs wherein nearly every day ten thousand people are embraced by the guru one at a time\, events that routinely last ten to twenty hours without any rest for her. Although she was born in 1953 as a low-caste girl in a South Indian fishing village\, today millions revere her as guru and goddess\, a living embodiment of the divine on earth. Reflections of Amma focuses on communities of Amma’s devotees in the United States\, showing how they endeavor to mirror their guru’s behaviors and transform themselves to emulate the ethos of the movement. This study argues that “inheritors” and “adopters” of Hindu traditions differently interpret Hindu goddesses\, Amma\, and her relation to feminism and women’s empowerment because of their inherited religious\, cultural\, and political dispositions. In this insightful ethnographic analysis\, Amanda J. Lucia discovers how the politics of American multiculturalism reifies these cultural differences in “de facto congregations\,” despite the fact that Amma’s embrace attempts to erase communal boundaries in favor of global unity.” \nAmanda Lucia is Associate Professor of Religious Studies and Co-Director of the Institute for the Study of Immigration and Religion at UC Riverside. Her research explores the global exportation\, appropriation\, and circulation of Hindu traditions\, focusing on religious encounters between South Asians and North Americans since the early nineteenth century. \nATTEND DISCUSSION \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-with-amanda-lucia-about-her-book-reflections-of-amma/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20201105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201105T203000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20191204T194953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201123T205525Z
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talks and Staged Reading: On Collecting and Hoarding
DESCRIPTION:SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: \n4:00 – 5:15 PM\nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff\n \n\n7:00 – 8:00 PM\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough\n \n\nEVENT DETAILS: \nTalks: William Davies King and Rebecca Falkoff \nThe Creative Edge of Collecting \nWilliam Davies King has spent a lifetime collecting nothing in a way he brought to light in his 2008 book Collections of Nothing. His collecting of such things as Cheez-It boxes\, “Place Stamp Here” squares\, hotel door cards\, and the little stickers you find on fruit runs into the tens of thousands of items\, all on the low edge of the valueless and the ephemeral. But he has also spent a lifetime engaged with the arts–drama\, performance art\, collage–and he has explored the ways the activity of the collector\, who thinks through the world\, connects to the work of the artist\, who makes a world through things. In this talk\, King will use exhibits\, imagery\, anecdotes\, and ideas to open up the creative nexus of collecting and its power to re-create the world. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater and Dance at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of Henry Irving’s “Waterloo”: Theatrical Engagements with Late-Victorian Culture and History (1993)\, Writing Wrongs: The Work of Wallace Shawn (1997)\, “A Wind Is Rising”: The Correspondence of Agnes Boulton and Eugene O’Neill (2000)\, Collections of Nothing (2008)\, and Another Part of a Long Story: Literary Traces of Eugene O’Neill and Agnes Boulton (Michigan\, 2010)\, and he is the editor of critical editions of Long Day’s Journey Into Night (2014) and The Iceman Cometh (2020).  \nAn Oikos for Everything: Hoarding against Waste \nThe first decades of the twenty-first century have seen an explosion of interest in hoarding\, and in those whose accumulated possessions overwhelm living spaces\, rendering them unusable and often unsafe. Hoarding is the subject of recent documentary and feature films\, novels\, memoirs\, self-help books\, installation art\, stand-up comedy acts\, and of course\, reality series. In her talk\, Rebecca Falkoff will explore the relationships between hoarding and wasting\, and the narratives through which they are antithetically conjoined. Modern literary and visual texts from Nikolai Gogol’s 1842 Dead Souls to Song Dong’s 2005 Waste Not present hoarding as a way of suspending matter between waste and use in a bounded space of potential. \nRebecca Falkoff is an Assistant Professor of Italian Studies at New York University. She recently completed her first manuscript\, Possessed: A Cultural History of Hoarding\, and is working on a new project about industrial chemistry and literature\, Modernity in the Air. She has published on illegibility\, flea markets\, and the Ferrante phenomenon. Her work on Carlo Emilio Gadda’s scientific and technical writings was awarded the Romance Studies Early Career Researchers Essay Prize.  \nAudience Q&A will follow. \n\nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\n\nStaged Reading: Collections of Nothing Enough is Enough \nWritten by William Davies King (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nDirected by Risa Brainin (UCSB Theater and Dance)\nCast: Irwin Appel (UCSB Theater and Dance) and Anne Torsiglieri (UCSB Theater and Dance)  \nThe play delves into the mixed-up mind of the mega-collector and asks of that massive pile of stuff–thoughts\, feelings\, and jokes–the crucial question facing us all: What next? \nAudience Q&A will follow. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series\, the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment\, the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance’s LAUNCH PAD series\, and the UCSB Library \n\nRelated Exhibit: The Creative Edge of Collecting: The “Nothing” of William Davies King \nUCSB Library exhibited a selection of William Davies King’s ephemera collection in its first floor Mountain Gallery during winter quarter 2020. In The Creative Edge of Collecting\, King confronts the social and psychological impulses to collect\, and also the eye-opening possibilities of the sort of things that one might assemble. Shortly after the exhibition opened\, COVID-19 struck\, and the campus shut down all physical spaces. While UCSB Library remains closed to visitors\, you can still see the exhibition online. Please click here for a walk-through with William Davies King. For more information about the UCSB Library exhibition\, please visit https://www.library.ucsb.edu/events-exhibitions/creative-edge-collecting.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talks-staged-reading-exhibit-on-collecting-and-hoarding/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T123000
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CREATED:20201020T223016Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201020T231233Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: “Cripistemologies of Pain”
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nDrawing together insights from disability theory\, literary studies\, and interdisciplinary pain studies\, Lau’s lecture contributes to what Alyson Patsavas has called “cripistemologies of pain” that prompt us to think from the position of pained lived experience to imagine radically different models of care that move beyond the reductive binary of either amelioration or annihilation of pain. Can we theorize a standpoint (or what Rosemarie Garland-Thomson has called “sitpoint”) theory of pain that attends to its crip and queer chronicities while also working toward new forms of care and interdependence? \nTravis Chi Wing Lau’s research and teaching focus on eighteenth- and nineteenth-century British literature and culture\, health humanities\, and disability studies. Alongside his scholarship\, Lau frequently writes for venues of public scholarship like Synapsis: A Journal of Health Humanities\, Lapham’s Quarterly\, Public Books\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. His poetry has appeared in Barren Magazine\, Wordgathering\, Glass\, South Carolina Review\, Foglifter\, and The New Engagement\, as well as in two chapbooks\, The Bone Setter (Damaged Goods Press\, 2019) and Paring (Finishing Line Press\, 2020 forthcoming). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Early Modern Center \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cripistemologies-of-pain/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20200630T181355Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20201116T185701Z
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: From the Embers of Crisis: Creating Equitable and Deliberative Democracy
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nAt a moment when American Democracy was characterized by record levels of political division\, inequality\, and institutional distrust\, it was hit by the perfect storm of the COVID-19 health crisis\, an economic crisis of soaring unemployment and economic dislocation\, and a civic crisis of reckoning with deep racism and police abuse. What would it take to create from the embers of these crises a deeper\, more egalitarian and deliberative democracy in America? Many lay their hopes in a change of Presidential administration in the coming election. But long before Donald Trump\, our government had already failed to create a system that shared the fruits of prosperity justly. Our government was unresponsive to the wishes of many Americans\, especially people of color and non-wealthy Americans. A return to the pre-Trump half century encompassing Reagan\, Bush\, Clinton\, Bush\, and perhaps Obama — of relatively narrowly bounded disputes between the center-left and center-right — would not address those deeper failures. Delivering on the promise of American democracy — the promise of inclusion\, equality\, deliberation\, and self-government — requires more fundamental political reorganization: new leaders with relationships of mutual understanding and accountability to the communities that they are meant to represent; powerful new popular groups and organizations; and electoral structures that enable all Americans to participate meaningfully in politics. Audience Q&A will follow. \nArchon Fung is the Winthrop Laflin McCormack Professor of Citizenship and Self-Government at the Harvard Kennedy School. His research explores policies\, practices\, and institutional designs that deepen the quality of democratic governance. He focuses upon public participation\, deliberation\, and transparency. He co-directs the Transparency Policy Project and leads democratic governance programs of the Ash Center for Democratic Governance and Innovation at the Kennedy School. His books include Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparency (Cambridge University Press\, with Mary Graham and David Weil) and Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). He has authored five books\, four edited collections\, and over fifty articles appearing in professional journals. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nVIVIR LA DEMOCRACIA: DESDE LAS CENIZAS DE LA CRISIS: CREAR UNA DEMOCRACIA EQUITATIVA Y DELIBERATIVA \nEn un momento en que la democracia estadounidense vivió niveles récord de división política\, desigualdad y desconfianza institucional\, fue golpeada por la tormenta perfecta de la crisis de salud de COVID-19. Una crisis económica de desempleo\, dislocación económica y una crisis cívica que\, expusieron el racismo profundo y el abuso policial. ¿Qué se necesita para crear a partir de las brasas de estas crisis una democracia más significativa\, igualitaria y deliberativa en Estados Unidos? Muchos depositan sus esperanzas en un cambio de administración presidencial en las próximas elecciones. Pero mucho antes de Donald Trump\, nuestro gobierno no logró crear un sistema que compartiera la prosperidad de manera justa. Nuestro gobierno no respondió a los deseos de muchos estadounidenses\, especialmente a los de las personas de color y estadounidenses sin poder económico. Incluso si regresamos a la mitad del siglo pasado\, que incluye a Reagan\, Bush\, Clinton\, Bush y quizás Obama y Trump\, de disputas relativamente limitadas entre la centroizquierda y el centroderecha\, no abordaría esos fracasos profundos. Cumplir con la promesa de la democracia estadounidense – la promesa de inclusión\, igualdad\, deliberación y autogobierno – requiere una reorganización política más fundamental: nuevos líderes con relaciones de entendimiento mutuo y responsabilidad ante las comunidades que se supone que representan; grupos poderosos\, nuevos y organizaciones populares. Al igual que estructuras electorales que permitan a todos los estadounidenses participar de manera significativa en la política. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nArchon Fung es el profesor Winthrop Laflin McCormack de ciudadanía y autogobierno en la Harvard Kennedy School. Su investigación explora políticas\, prácticas y diseños institucionales que profundizan la calidad de la gobernabilidad democrática. Se centra en la participación pública\, la deliberación y la transparencia. Codirige el Proyecto de Política de Transparencia y dirige los programas de gobernabilidad democrática del Centro Ash para la Gobernanza Democrática e Innovación en la Escuela Kennedy. Sus libros incluyen Full Disclosure: The Perils and Promise of Transparencia (Cambridge University Press\, con Mary Graham y David Weil) y Empowered Participation: Reinventing Urban Democracy (Princeton University Press). Es autor de cinco libros\, cuatro colecciones editadas y más de cincuenta artículos publicados en revistas profesionales. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y la Fundación Sara Miller McCune y George D. McCune \nHabrá interpretación en ASL y español. Para acceder a interpretación de señas favor de utilizar una computadora de escritorio. \nEvento gratuito. Favor de registrarse de antemano para recibir el enlace a la conferencia de Zoom.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-from-the-embers-of-crisis-creating-equitable-and-deliberative-democracy/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T164500
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Helen Morales (Classics) and Vilna Bashi-Treitler (Black Studies) about Morales’ new book\, Antigone Rising: The Subversive Power of the Ancient Myths. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\nA witty\, inspiring reckoning with the ancient Greco-Roman myths and their legacy\, from what they can illuminate about #MeToo to the radical imagery of Beyoncé. The picture of classical antiquity most of us learned in school is framed in certain ways — glossing over misogyny while omitting the seeds of feminist resistance. Even today\, myths are still informing harmful practices like diet culture and school dress codes. But in Antigone Rising\, classicist Helen Morales reminds us that the myths have subversive power because they can be told — and read — in different ways. Through these stories\, whether it’s Antigone’s courageous stand against tyranny or Procne and Philomela punishing a powerful man\, Morales uncovers hidden truths about solidarity\, empowerment\, and catharsis. Antigone Rising offers a fresh understanding of the stories we take for granted\, showing how we can reclaim them to challenge the status quo\, spark resistance\, and rail against unjust regimes. \nHelen Morales is a classicist and cultural critic with interests that include the ancient novel\, Greek imperial poetry\, mythology\, literary criticism\, sexual ethics\, diversity\, and pilgrimage. These interests are always connected to major contemporary concerns—leadership\, class\, race\, sexual politics\, aesthetics\, law—a better understanding of which\, in her view\, comes through appreciating their investment in Classics. She is the author of Pilgrimage to Dollywood (2014)\, Classical Mythology: A Very Short Introduction (2007 and 2010)\, and Vision and Narrative in Achilles Tatius’ “Leucippe and Clitophon” (2004). She is also editor of the journal Ramus. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-antigone-rising-the-subversive-power-of-the-ancient-myths/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T005350
CREATED:20201009T192629Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210106T182936Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: The Future of Humanity from a Sustainability Point of View
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nIn this meeting\, Professor Sangwon Suh (Bren School) will present research in progress about possible futures of human nature as it relates to selfishness and sustainability. This will be followed by discussion\, moderated by Aili Pettersson Peeker. \nThe meeting is open to all but we do ask you to register to attend so that we can spend our time in the meeting as productively as possible. After you’ve registered\, you will receive a Zoom invitation as well as a 1\,000-word document introducing the research that we ask that you read before the meeting. Please see the information sheet “Sustainability and the New Human IHC Research Focus Group Meetings” available on our IHC webpage for more information about this and the structure of the meeting. \nSangwon Suh is a professor at the Bren School of Environmental Science and Management at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on the sustainability of the human-nature complexity through the understanding of materials and energy exchanges between them. His work contributed to the theoretical foundations and practical applications of quantitative sustainability assessment in the areas of life cycle assessment (LCA) and industrial ecology. \nAili Pettersson Peeker is a PhD student in the English Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research concerns cognitive literary studies and how reading literature can allow for selfless experiences. \nREGISTER HERE \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group \nImage Credit: Geoff Jones\, “Sustainable innovation”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-the-future-of-humanity-from-a-sustainability-point-of-view/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Sustainability and the New Human,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sustainability and the New Human RFG":MAILTO:apetterssonpeeker@ucsb.edu
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