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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://www.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: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://www.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:20210208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210208T173000
DTSTAMP:20260425T070031
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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://www.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: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://www.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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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://www.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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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://www.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:20210219T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210221T150000
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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://www.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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210222T180000
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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://www.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:20210225T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210225T170000
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SUMMARY:Living Democracy Talk: Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment\, and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n\nWhile more people are incarcerated in the United States than in any other nation in the history of the western world\, the prison is but one (comparatively) small part of a vast carceral landscape. The 600\,000 people released each year join nearly 5 million people already on probation or parole\, 12 million who are processed through a county jail\, 19 million U.S. adults estimated to have a felony conviction\, and the staggering 79 million Americans with a criminal record. But the size of the U.S. carceral state is second in consequence to its reach. Incarcerated people are greeted by more than 48\,000 laws\, policies and administrative sanctions upon release that limit their participation in the labor and housing markets\, in the culture and civic life of the city\, and even within their families. They are subject to rules other people are not subject to\, and shoulder responsibilities other people are not expected to shoulder. They live in a “supervised society\,” a hidden social world we’ve produced through our laws\, policies and everyday practices\, and in fact\, occupy an alternate form of political membership—what Professor Reuben Jonathan Miller calls “carceral citizenship.” \nJoin Professor Miller as he examines the afterlife of mass incarceration\, attending to how U.S. criminal justice policy has changed the social life of the city and altered the contours of American Democracy one (most often poor black American) family at a time. Drawing on ethnographic data collected across three iconic American cities—Chicago\, Detroit\, and New York—we will explore what it means to live in a supervised society and how we might find our way out. Audience Q&A will follow. \nReuben Jonathan Miller is an Assistant Professor in the University of Chicago School of Social Service Administration (SSA). His research examines life at the intersections of race\, poverty\, crime control\, and social welfare policy. He is the author of Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (February 2021)\, based on 15 years of research and practice with currently and formerly incarcerated men\, women\, their families\, partners\, and friends. \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  \nA MEDIO CAMINO: RAZA\, CASTIGO Y LA VIDA POSTERIOR AL ENCARCELAMIENTO MASIVO \nSi bien hay más personas encarceladas en los Estados Unidos que en cualquier otra nación en la historia del mundo occidental\, la prisión es solo una (comparativamente) pequeña parte de un vasto paisaje carcelario. Las 600\,000 personas liberadas cada año se unen a casi 5 millones de personas que ya están en libertad condicional\, 12 millones que son procesados ​​a través de una cárcel del condado\, 19 millones de adultos estadounidenses que se estima tienen una condena por delito grave\, y los 79 millones de estadounidenses con antecedentes penales. Sin embargo\, el tamaño del estado carcelario de EE. UU. es solo el segundo problema. El primero es: las personas encarceladas son recibidas por más de 48.000 leyes\, políticas y sanciones administrativas tras su liberación que limitan su participación en los mercados laborales y de vivienda\, en la cultura y la vida cívica de la ciudad e incluso dentro de sus familias. Estos individuos están sujetos a reglas a las que otras personas no lo están\, y no se espera que asuman responsabilidades como el resto de la población. Viven en una “sociedad supervisada”\, un mundo social oculto que hemos producido a través de nuestras leyes\, políticas y prácticas cotidianas y\, de hecho\, ocupan una forma alternativa de membresía política\, lo que el profesor Reuben Jonathan Miller llama “ciudadanía carcelaria”. \nÚnase al profesor Miller mientras examina el más allá del encarcelamiento masivo\, atendiendo a cómo la política de justicia penal de EE. UU. ha cambiado la vida social de la ciudad y ha alterado los contornos de la democracia estadounidense\, una familia (la mayoría de las veces afroamericana pobre) a la vez. Basándonos en datos etnográficos recopilados en tres ciudades estadounidenses emblemáticas\, Chicago\, Detroit y Nueva York\, exploraremos lo que significa vivir en una sociedad supervisada y cómo encontrar la salida. Seguirán las preguntas y respuestas de la audiencia. \nReuben Jonathan Miller es profesor asistente en la Escuela de Administración de Servicios Sociales (SSA) de la Universidad de Chicago. Su investigación examina la vida en las intersecciones de raza\, pobreza\, control del crimen y políticas de bienestar social. Es el autor de Halfway Home: Race\, Punishment and the Afterlife of Mass Incarceration (febrero de 2021)\, basado en 15 años de investigación y práctica con hombres\, mujeres\, sus familias\, parejas y amigos que se encuentran actual y anteriormente en la cárcel. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy 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/living-democracy-talk-halfway-home-race-punishment-and-the-afterlife-of-mass-incarceration/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210226T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: We Are Charrúa Women: From Negation to Re-Existence In Our Body-Territory
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nCharrúa women have gone through dispossession\, exclusion\, and negation that left marks on their collective memory and body-territory. This genocidal process did not end in 19th-century Uruguay\, but continues today and manifests itself every time that institutions or civil society denies their existence as an indigenous people. For fifteen years\, together with Charrúa sisters from Argentina\, Charrúa women from Uruguay have been working to demolish hegemonic narratives of the market and state. As subjects of legal right\, they are reconfiguring their existence and re-existence in their great ancestral-territory-body. This collective search has led Mónica Michelena to academic spaces. \nIn 2011\, Michelena began an investigation with rural Charrúa women in Uruguay’s interior to question the nation-state’s devices of invisibility and to expose counter-memories as part of an attempt to disarm the social and symbolic representation of their extinction. Through a methodological approach based on collaborative ethnography\, Michelena’s research aims to rearm the great quillapí of memory. The metaphor of quillapí – a leather cape made from patchwork – implies that each woman is the bearer of a small piece of memory and\, among all\, they are sewing together its scraps. Down this path\, Charrúa women began to slowly gain recognition from the Uruguayan feminist movement\, in a slow process of internal decolonization. \nMónica Michelena is Secretary of the Charrúa Nation Council and former Advisor on Indigenous Affairs for Uruguay’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series and is cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB History Department\, UCSB Feminist Studies Department\, UCSB Latin American and Iberian Studies\, UC San Diego Latin American Studies Program\, UCSD Critical Gender Studies\, and UCSD Institute for Arts and Humanities \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-we-are-charrua-women-from-negation-to-re-existence-in-our-body-territory/
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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