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SUMMARY:Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts
DESCRIPTION:Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama\, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia\, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the premodern into the present. Through our individual inquiries\, we aim to broaden the term’s analytic power and shed collective light on the diversity and versatility of this important representational mode. \nThe conference will end with a reading of the early twentieth-century play The Son\, by pioneer of modern Japanese theatre Osanai Kaoru. Translated into English by David Jortner\, performed by LAUNCH PAD of UCSB’s Department of Theater and Dance. \nConference Participants: Jyana Browne (University of Maryland)\, Xing Fan (University of Toronto)\, Man He (Williams College)\, David Jortner (Baylor University)\, Jieun Lee (Wake Forest University)\, Siyuan Liu (University of British Columbia)\, Jessica Nakamura (UCSB)\, Cody Poulton (University of Victoria)\, Katherine Saltzman-Li (UCSB)\, Catherine Swatek (University of British Columbia)\, Guojun Wang (Vanderbilt University)\, Miseong Woo (Yonsei University)\, Min-Hyung Yoo (Korea University)\, Soo Ryon Yoon (Lingnan University)\, Ji Hyon (Kayla) Yuh (Montclair State University)\, with Risa Brainin (UCSB) and William Davies King (UCSB) \nThe conference is open to the public\, but registration is required. For registration\, schedule\, and conference information\, please visit our website: http://www.realismseastasia.com. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB Departments of Theater and Dance\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, History\, Comparative Literature\, Art and Architecture\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, East Asia Center\, College of Letters and Science\, and Abdulhamit Arvas
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-realisms-in-east-asian-performing-arts/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201008T170000
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Living Democracy in Capitalism’s Shadow: Creative Labor\, Black Abolitionists\, and the Struggle to End Slavery
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nIn the two decades before the Civil War\, a new type of capitalism developed in the northern United States that stressed mass education\, widespread innovation\, and new markets for art and design. For Black abolitionists\, the changing northern economy presented new opportunities to highlight the evils of slavery. While continuing to attack slavery’s physical cruelty\, Black abolitionists in the 1840s and 1850s increasingly highlighted the “mental darkness” of slavery\, focusing on the systematic denial of literacy\, learning\, and creativity. Through their own creative labor\, Black abolitionists made a compelling case for racial equality. The fate of Black creative labor after the Civil War\, though\, demonstrated the limits of using creativity as a way of obtaining citizenship\, and raises important questions about how we in the 21st century “live democracy” in a society that valorizes creativity amidst growing inequality and systemic racism. Audience Q&A will follow. \nJohn Majewski is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts and Professor in the Department of History. His areas of specialization include American economic\, social\, and legal history; Southern history; and the U.S. Civil War. He is the author of A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2000)\, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press\, 2009)\, and numerous articles\, reviews\, and book chapters. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nCONFERENCIA INAUGURAL: VIVIR LA DEMOCRACIA A LA SOMBRA DEL CAPITALISMO: TRABAJO CREATIVO\, ABOLICIONISTAS NEGROS Y LA LUCHA PARA TERMINAR CON LA ESCLAVITUD \nEn las dos décadas anteriores a la Guerra Civil\, se desarrolló un nuevo tipo de capitalismo en el norte de los Estados Unidos que enfatizaba la educación masiva\, la innovación generalizada y nuevos mercados para el arte y el diseño. Para los abolicionistas negros\, la cambiante economía del norte presentó nuevas oportunidades para resaltar los males de la esclavitud. Mientras continuaban las torturas y castigos físicos a los esclavos\, los abolicionistas negros en las décadas de 1840 y 1850 destacaron cada vez más la “oscuridad mental” de la esclavitud\, enfocándose en la negación sistemática de la alfabetización\, el aprendizaje y la creatividad. A través de su trabajo creativo\, los abolicionistas defendieron de manera convincente la igualdad racial. Sin embargo\, el trabajo laborar y creativo hecho por los abolicionistas después de la Guerra Civil\, demostró los límites de la utilización de la creatividad como una forma de obtener la ciudadanía\, y plantea preguntas importantes sobre la forma en que en la sociedad que valora la creatividad en medio de crecimiento desigualdad y el racismo sistémico\, vive e interactúa con la democracia en el siglo 21. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nJohn Majewski es el Decano de Humanidades y Bellas Artes de Michael Douglas y profesor en el Departamento de Historia. Sus áreas de especialización incluyen la historia económica\, social y legal de Estados Unidos; Historia del Sur y la Guerra Civil de Estados Unidos. Es el autor de A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia Before the Civil War (Cambridge University Press\, 2000)\, Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Imagination of the Confederate Nation (UNC Press\, 2009) y numerosos artículos\, reseñas y capítulos de libros. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy – Vivir la democracia 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.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-lecture-living-democracy-in-capitalisms-shadow-creative-labor-black-abolitionists-and-the-struggle-to-end-slavery/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,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:20201013T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nJoin us online for a dialogue between Jessica Nakamura (Theater and Dance) and Catherine Nesci (French and Italian\, Comparative Literature) about Nakamura’s new book\, Transgenerational Remembrance: Performance and the Asia-Pacific War in Contemporary Japan. Audience Q&A will follow. \nIn Transgenerational Remembrance\, Jessica Nakamura investigates the role of artistic production in the commemoration and memorialization of the Asia-Pacific War (1931–1945) in Japan since 1989. During this time\, survivors of Japanese aggression and imperialism\, previously silent about their experiences\, have sparked contentious public debates about the form and content of war memories. Working from theoretical frameworks of haunting and ethics\, Nakamura develops an analytical lens based on the Noh theater ghost. Noh emphasizes the agency of the ghost and the dialogue between the dead and the living. Integrating her Noh-inflected analysis into ethical and transnational feminist queries\, Nakamura shows that performances move remembrance beyond current evidentiary and historiographical debates. \nJessica Nakamura’s research focuses on theater and performance in the Asia-Pacific. Her essays have appeared in the journals Modern Drama\, Performance Research\, and Trans Asia Photography Review and in the edited volumes Performance in a Militarized Culture and Performing the Secular. Nakamura has trained in Japanese Dance\, Chinese Beijing Opera\, and Balinese Dance. Her directing work includes productions of Federico Garcia Lorca’s Yerma and Gao Xingjian’s Wild Man; she most recently translated and directed Family Portrait by contemporary Japanese playwright Shu Matsui. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-transgenerational-remembrance-performance-and-the-asia-pacific-war-in-contemporary-japan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201014T123000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: India "Right": Making and Unmaking Indian Citizenship
DESCRIPTION:The Citizenship Amendment Act (CAA) was passed by the Indian Parliament on December 11\, 2019. It amends the Citizenship Act of 1955 and creates an easier path for acquiring Indian citizenship for persecuted religious minorities—Hindu\, Sikh\, Jain\, Buddhist\, Christian\, and Parsi—from Pakistan\, Bangladesh\, and Afghanistan who entered India before or on December 13\, 2014. The Act does not encompass other (non-Islamic) neighboring countries\, nor does it consider other persecuted minorities—for example\, the Rohingya Muslims of Myanmar\, the Ahmadiya and Shia of Pakistan\, or the Tamils of Sri Lanka. While the ruling Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP) was able to pass the Citizenship Amendment Bill (CAB) through Parliament without a hitch\, it was unprepared for the massive protests against the Act that soon followed in a number of places in India. The protests were spearheaded by students from across universities in India. The women of Shaheen Bagh\, a Muslim neighborhood in Delhi\, were also at the forefront of the protests. Protests were brought to a halt as riots erupted in Delhi that left 53 people dead and many more injured. Anti-Muslim rhetoric of the ruling BJP leaders preceded the riots as the party geared up for elections to the Delhi Assembly (which it lost) in early February 2020. However\, in the post-riot reckoning it was the protesters who were blamed by the police for the riots and various participants in the protests are facing prosecution\, while the BJP leaders who made inflammatory speeches have gone scot-free. \nAmong more recent events\, the COVID-19 pandemic and a draconian lockdown after mid-March saw many laboring people from metropoles like Delhi walk back to their homes hundreds of miles away\, and the Indian government was unable to do anything for a long time to ease their situation. The government has also used the lockdown—as have other high-handed regimes globally—to reimpose its authority. Other major moves of the government in the last 12 months include making inoperative Article 370 of the Indian constitution that gave special status to the northern state of Jammu and Kashmir\, and laying the foundation for the building of a massive Ram Temple where a Muslim mosque once stood before it was demolished by BJP activists in 1992. \nThe UCSB faculty participants in this symposium will discuss the varied ways in which this chain of events has unfolded in India and what these events mean with respect to Indian democracy and its institutions\, the rhetoric of nationalism\, the onslaught on the idea of secularism\, and the economy and the livelihoods of the Indian people. Anshu Malhotra\, Professor of Global Studies and Kundun Kaur Kapany Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, will discuss Shaheen Bagh and Muslim women in India. Utathya Chattopadhyaya\, Assistant Professor of History\, will reflect on the reconfiguration of nationalism in India. Aashish Mehta\, Associate Professor of Global Studies\, will discuss populism\, policy\, and the real economy in India before and during the COVID-19 pandemic. Satyajit Singh\, Professor of Global Studies and Political Science\, will reflect on the student protests in perspective. Amit Ahuja\, Associate Professor of Political Science\, will discuss electoral politics and what the recent protests mean for the Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Global Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-symposium-india-right-making-and-unmaking-indian-citizenship/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T181500
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SUMMARY:The 2020 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence: Jesmyn Ward
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a conversation between Jesmyn Ward\, 2020 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence\, and IHC Director Susan Derwin. Audience Q&A will follow. \n\nMacArthur Genius and two-time National Book Award winner Jesmyn Ward has been called “the new Toni Morrison” (American Booksellers Association). In 2017\, she became the first woman and first person of color to win the National Book Award twice—joining the ranks of William Faulkner\, Saul Bellow\, John Cheever\, Philip Roth\, and John Updike. Her writing\, which encompasses fiction\, nonfiction\, and memoir\, is “raw\, beautiful\, and dangerous” (The New York Times Book Review). Ward’s novels\, primarily set on Mississippi’s Gulf Coast\, are deeply informed by the trauma of Hurricane Katrina. Salvage the Bones\, winner of the 2011 National Book Award\, is a troubling but ultimately empowering tale of familial bonds set amid the chaos of the hurricane. Ward’s memoir\, Men We Reaped\, deals with the loss of five young men in her life—to drugs\, accidents\, suicide\, and the bad luck that follows people who live in poverty. In 2016\, Ward edited the critically acclaimed anthology The Fire This Time: A New Generation Speaks About Race\, a New York Times bestseller. Her newest novel\, the critically acclaimed Sing\, Unburied\, Sing\, won the 2017 National Book Award. Sing has been called “a searing\, urgent read for anyone who thinks the shadows of slavery and Jim Crow have passed” (Celeste Ng). Sing was named one of the best books of 2017 by The New York Times\, Time\, The Washington Post\, and Publisher’s Weekly. Sing was also nominated for the PEN/Faulkner Award\, the National Book Critics Circle Award\, and the Aspen Words Literary Prize. An associate professor of creative writing at Tulane University\, Ward received the 2016 Strauss Living Award and a 2017 MacArthur Genius Grant\, and was named one of Time’s 100 most influential people of 2018. Scribner recently reissued her debut novel\, Where the Line Bleeds. \nSponsored by the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program\, created to bring distinguished practitioners of the craft of writing to the UCSB community. Co-presented by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Writing Program. \nClick here to learn more about the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-2020-diana-and-simon-raab-writer-in-residence-jesmyn-ward/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series,Raab Writer-in-Residence,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201020T200000
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn honor of National Disability Employment Awareness Month and the thirtieth anniversary of the passage of the Americans with Disabilities Act\, the Disability Studies Initiative is joining the Carsey-Wolf Center and the UCSB Library to host a virtual discussion with the directors of Crip Camp: A Disability Revolution (2020). \nIn the early 1970s\, teenagers with disabilities faced a future shaped by isolation\, discrimination\, and institutionalization. Located in the Catskills\, New York\, ramshackle Camp Jened exploded those confines. Jened was the teens’ freewheeling utopia\, a place where summertime sports\, smoking\, and make-out sessions awaited everyone; campers experienced liberation and full inclusion as human beings. Their bonds endured as many migrated west to Berkeley\, California\, a hotbed of activism where friends from Camp Jened realized that disruption\, civil disobedience\, and political participation could change the future for millions. \nCo-directors and producers Jim LeBrecht and Nicole Newnham will join Hannah Garibaldi (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) for a virtual discussion of this fascinating documentary. ASL interpretation will be provided during the event. The film may be viewed in advance on Netflix. \nREGISTER NOW \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, the UCSB Library\, the Disabled Students Program\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Gender and Sexual Diversity (RCGSD)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-crip-camp-a-disability-revolution/
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:20201022T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201022T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Struggling to Save America’s Cities in the Suburban Age: Urban Renewal Revisited
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nUrban Renewal of the 1950s through 1970s has acquired a very poor reputation\, much of it deserved. But reducing it to an unchanging story of urban destruction misses some important legacies and genuinely progressive goals. Those include efforts to create more socially mixed communities\, to involve suburbs—not just cities—in solving metropolitan inequality\, and most importantly\, to hold the federal government responsible for funding more affordable housing and other urban investments\, rather than turn to the private sector. Cohen will revisit this history by following the long career of Edward J. Logue\, who worked to revitalize New Haven in the 1950s\, became the architect of the “New Boston” in the 1960s\, and later led innovative organizations in New York at the state level and in the South Bronx. She will analyze the evolution in Logue’s thinking and actions\, when and how he met resistance and accommodation by communities\, and what he and many others who cared about cities learned in facing the challenges of urban revitalization during the suburban boom of the second half of the 20th century. Amid substantial challenges today in the realms of racial injustice\, public health\, economic viability\, and urban resilience\, it is more important than ever that we reexamine the history of efforts—successful and failed—to keep American cities vital. Audience Q&A will follow. \nLizabeth Cohen is the Howard Mumford Jones Professor of American Studies and a Harvard University Distinguished Service Professor in the Department of History at Harvard. Her most recent book is Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (October 2019)\, winner of the Bancroft Prize. It examines the benefits and costs of the shifting strategies for rebuilding American cities after World War II by following the career of urban redeveloper Edward J. Logue\, who oversaw major renewal projects in New Haven\, Boston\, and New York State from the 1950s through the 1980s. Cohen has been a fellow of the Guggenheim Foundation\, the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the American Council of Learned Societies\, and the Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She is also a former president of the Urban History Association. \nTo learn more about or purchase a copy of Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age\, please visit Chaucer’s Books online. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series; the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment; the UCSB Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy; and the UCSB Department of History \nImage courtesy of Boston City Archives \nASL and Spanish interpretation will be provided. To view ASL interpretation\, please attend the webinar on a desktop computer. \n  \nVIVIR LA DEMOCRACIA: LUCHA PARA SALVAR LAS CIUDADES DE AMÉRICA EN LA ERA SUBURBANA: REVISIÓN DE LA RENOVACIÓN URBANA  \nLa Renovación Urbana de las décadas de 1950 a 1970 ha adquirido una muy mala reputación\, en gran parte merecida. Sin embargo\, reducirlo a una historia inmutable de destrucción urbana pierde algunos legados importantes y metas genuinamente progresistas. Estos incluyen esfuerzos para crear comunidades más socialmente mixtas\, para involucrar a los suburbios\, no solo a las ciudades\, en la solución de la desigualdad metropolitana y\, lo que es más importante\, para responsabilizar al gobierno federal de financiar viviendas más asequibles y otras inversiones urbanas\, en lugar de recurrir al sector privado. Cohen revisará esta historia siguiendo la larga carrera de Edward J. Logue\, quien trabajó para revitalizar New Haven en la década de 1950\, se convirtió en el arquitecto de “New Boston” o “el Nuevo Boston” en la década de 1960 y luego dirigió organizaciones innovadoras en el estado de Nueva York y en el sur del Bronx. La profesora analizará la evolución en el pensamiento y las acciones de Logue\, cuándo y cómo encontró resistencia y adaptación por parte de las comunidades\, y lo que él y muchos otros que se preocuparon por las ciudades aprendieron al enfrentar los desafíos de la revitalización urbana durante el auge suburbano de la segunda mitad del siglo XX. En medio de desafíos sustanciales de hoy en día en los ámbitos de la injusticia racial\, la salud pública\, la viabilidad económica y la resiliencia urbana\, es de suma importancia que reexaminemos la historia de los esfuerzos\, exitosos y fallidos\, para mantener las ciudades estadounidenses con vida y relevantes. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nLizabeth Cohen es profesora de Estudios Estadounidenses Howard Mumford Jones y profesora de servicios distinguidos de la Universidad de Harvard en el Departamento de Historia de Harvard. Su libro más reciente es Saving America’s Cities: Ed Logue and the Struggle to Renew Urban America in the Suburban Age (octubre de 2019). Examina los beneficios y costos de las estrategias cambiantes para la reconstrucción de ciudades estadounidenses después de la Segunda Guerra Mundial siguiendo la carrera del reurbanizador urbano Edward J. Logue\, quien supervisó importantes proyectos de renovación en New Haven\, Boston y el estado de Nueva York desde la década de 1950 hasta la década de 1950. Década de 1980. Cohen ha sido miembro de la Fundación Guggenheim\, el National Endowment for the Humanities\, el American Council of Learned Societies y el Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. También es ex presidenta de la Asociación de Historia Urbana. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC ; el UCSB Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy; el Departamento de Historia de UCSB; y la Dotación Conmemorativa Harry Girvetz de IHC \nImagen cortesía de Boston City Archives \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://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-struggling-to-save-americas-cities-in-the-suburban-age-urban-renewal-revisited/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201023T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Let's Talk Mediterranean: A Conversation with Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nOn October 23\, Sharon Kinoshita and Brian Catlos will join us for a conversation on the state of premodern Mediterranean studies. Together\, Kinoshita and Catlos run the Mediterranean Seminar\, an interdisciplinary research group that focuses on Mediterranean cultures and societies\, and also the role of the Mediterranean in historical narratives of “the West.” The seminar\, which hosts a range of events (symposia\, colloquia\, workshops)\, has played a vital role in promoting Mediterranean studies in the United States. In recent years\, they have co-edited the groundbreaking volume\, Can We Talk Mediterranean?: Conversations on an Emerging Field in Medieval and Early Modern Studies (Palgrave\, 2017). \nSharon Kinoshita (Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz) is a specialist in Old French literature\, medieval Mediterranean studies\, medieval globalism\, and postcolonial theories. She is the author of Medieval Boundaries: Rethinking Difference in Old French Literature (UPenn\, 2006)\, co-editor with Peregrine Horden of A Companion to Mediterranean History (Wiley-Blackwell\, 2014)\, and translator of Marco Polo’s Description of the World (Hackett Press\, 2016). \nBrian Catlos (Professor of Religious Studies at the University of Colorado Boulder) is a specialist in medieval Spanish history and author of Kingdoms of Faith: A New History of Islamic Spain (Basic Books\, 2018)\, Infidel Kings and Unholy Warriors: Faith\, Power\, and Violence in the Age of Crusade and Jihad (Farar\, Straus & Girour\, 2014)\, and Muslims of Medieval Latin Christendom\, ca. 1050-1614 (Cambridge UP\, 2015). \nREGISTER NOW \nSponsored by the IHC’s Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean Research Focus Group \nImage: Petrus de Ebolo (d. 1220) Liber ad honorem Augusti\, sive de rebus Siculis\, scene showing Tancred of Lecce claiming the crown of Sicily
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-lets-talk-mediterranean-a-conversation-with-sharon-kinoshita-and-brian-catlos/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Connectivity in the Premodern Mediterranean,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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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://www.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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201027T164500
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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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://www.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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201029T170000
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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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://www.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:20201030T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201030T123000
DTSTAMP:20260427T075637
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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://www.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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