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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: ...

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Taubman Symposium Webinar: It Takes Two to Torah

Zoom

In genuine Jewish tradition, everywhere there is machlokes, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah, in which they “Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” Zoom attendance link here Cosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Congregation B'nai ...

New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 Faculty Fellows, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. Stephanie Malia Hom, French and Italian “On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” Susan Hwang, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies “Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” David Novak, Music “Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”

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LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States +1 more

The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language, interaction, and culture. The conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts, Amherst), Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia, Okanagan), and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on ...

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GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism, Gender, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson

Zoom

The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism, gender, and anti-colonialism. In his late writings, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia, India, Ireland, Algeria, Latin America, and ancient Rome. These texts, some of them only now being published, provide evidence for a change of ...

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Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom

Zoom

Literature, and children’s literature specifically, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases, such as sickle cell, HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases, sickle cell anemia, this study argues that, even with great innovations in medical science, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms ...

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GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World

Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year's title, "Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World" reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing global socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see ...