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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Disability Justice Conversation
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER HERE \nJoin Gary White\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Eric Kruger\, UCSB’s Disabled Students Program\, Afiya Browne\, UCSB’s Multicultural Center\, Sam del Castillo\, Graduate Division and graduate student\, and Shanna Killeen\, Disability Studies Initiative RFG\, for a conversation about accessibility and intersectional justice. This conversation will discuss information\, tools\, and resources for creating intentional and accessible spaces and community engagement. This conversation also aims to help us think through what this moment of remote work means for our communities. How do graduate students navigate access in an already inaccessible world? Our hope is to have an impactful conversation about resources and accessibility as a foundation and not an add on\, and to help us imagine how creating accessible spaces benefits us all. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Muticultural Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Graduate Division\, and the Resource Center for Sexual and Gender Diversity \nREGISTER HERE
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-disability-justice-conversation/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sam del Castillo":MAILTO:diversitypeer@graddiv.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210304T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Patrick McCray (History) and Alan Liu (English) about McCray’s new book\, Making Art Work: How Cold War Engineers and Artists Forged a New Creative Culture. Audience Q&A will follow. \nDespite C. P. Snow’s warning\, in 1959\, of an unbridgeable chasm between the humanities and the sciences\, engineers and scientists of that era enthusiastically collaborated with artists to create visually and sonically interesting multimedia works. This new artwork emerged from corporate laboratories\, artists’ studios\, publishing houses\, art galleries\, and university campuses and it involved some of the biggest stars of the art world. Less famous and often overlooked were the engineers and scientists who contributed time\, technical expertise\, and aesthetic input to these projects. These figures included the rocket engineer-turned-artist Frank J. Malina\, MIT’s Gyorgy Kepes\, and Billy Klüver\, a Swedish-born engineer at Bell Labs who helped establish the New York–based group Experiments in Art and Technology. This book restores the role of technologists to the foreground\, explores the era’s hybrid creative culture\, and recounts the many ways that artists\, engineers\, and curators have collaborated over the past fifty years. Making Art Work shows that the borders of art and technology over the past half century are anything but fixed. Just as striking is that the original ideals and ambitions that animated the 1960s-era art-and-technology movement have not faded. Today\, creativity\, collaborations\, and interdisciplinary research are promoted by academic and corporate leaders alike. What emerges is a long history of artists and technologists who have repeatedly built new creative communities in which they can exercise imagination\, invention\, and expertise. \nW. Patrick McCray is a professor in the Department of History at UC Santa Barbara where his research\, writing\, and teaching focus on the histories of technology and science. Originally trained as a scientist\, he is the author or editor of six books. McCray’s 2013 book\, The Visioneers: How an Elite Group of Scientists Pursued Space Colonies\, Nanotechnologies\, and a Limitless Future\, won the Watson Davis Prize in 2014 from the History of Science Society as the “best book written for a general audience.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-making-art-work-how-cold-war-engineers-and-artists-forged-a-new-creative-culture/
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:20210305T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210305T180000
DTSTAMP:20260425T051326
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Kings and Cripples in the Arthurian World
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09 \nWhile the lived reality of disability in the Middle Ages was surely a wretched one\, at the same time we encounter persistent associations between disabled and royal or aristocratic bodies in medieval culture\, its imagery and narratives. Nowhere is this truer than in the Arthurian world\, at whose core there lies a powerful but immobile figure\, the Rich Fisher King. This talk looks at such linkage through Arthurian texts and illustrated manuscripts\, especially the vast Lancelot Prose Cycle. \nChristopher Baswell is the Acting Chair of the Department of English and the Ann Whitney Olin Professor of English at Barnard College. He is also Professor of English and Comparative Literature at Columbia University. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group and the UCSB English Department Early Modern Center \nZoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/87492220092?pwd=RExPbnl0N3d0ZVR2ZGpEdkJ1cHdPQT09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-kings-and-cripples-in-the-arthurian-world/
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:20210309T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210309T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Cannabis and South Asia
DESCRIPTION:Zoom meeting link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09 \nHistorical scholarship now conceives empire as a webbed uneven field of power relations and a multispecies enterprise. In other words\, the anxious and breathless struggle of European imperialism to sustain itself subjected human\, plant\, animal\, and insect bodies to its ambition to govern through logics of colonial difference. This paper argues that the cannabis plant in South Asia\, in the nineteenth century\, while being a subject of British revenue systems transformed into a race-d and gendered mode of explaining anticolonial insurgency by South Asian rebels. The intoxicating substance of the plant\, in the discursive logic of empire\, was seen to vitiate Asian bodies against European power. Cannabis also animated other imperial operations like the delegitimization of Indian sovereignty. Using the expansive reach of imperial periodical culture in the nineteenth century\, this paper highlights the Asian and global contexts within which cannabis became an alibi for rebellion or violence against empire. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya is Assistant Professor of History at the UC Santa Barbara. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Illinois and studies the history of modern South Asia\, British imperialism\, and agrarian commodities. His work has appeared in the South African Historical Journal\, Historical Reflections\, and Animalia: An Anti-Imperial Bestiary for our Times. He is currently writing a monograph on cannabis and empire in British India. \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/81976204749?pwd=ekZ2UUtFd0U0Znh6bFpIcXFXWUs5QT09
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-cannabis-and-south-asia/
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:20210311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210311T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: A Wave of Difference: Language Expression in the Argentine Feminist Imaginary
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn the context of a disproportionate increase in sexual violence against cis\, trans\, and transvestite women since 2015\, Argentine feminisms have prefigured the untimely irruption of public space in both process and form. The movements’ interventions not only impact the social conditions and the epistemic tools for popular intelligibility of language expression ​​of gender violence\, through an innovative use of communication technologies and social networks\, but also articulate\, from the multidimensionality in which inequality operates by gender and more broadly\, a transversal resistance to the oppressive characteristics that would accompany the neoliberal turn produced by public policy under President Mauricio Macri’s corporate governance mandate (2015-2019). This new state of public attention and mass representation allowed a reorganization of desires to spread and multiply across territories\, professional careers\, bodies\, and communities throughout the country\, which would forever transform the contours of a traditionally instituted political subject\, expanding its affective capacity to rework new forms of connection between the personal and the political\, extending the singular opportunity of its criticism to all spheres of social organization. In this way\, local feminisms constructed networks of theoretical exchange and practical solidarity between cis and trans women\, which to this day connect\, in a complex way and not without tension\, a concert of experiences that link and incorporate radical differences and specific demands of the sectors of working women\, ecologists\, diverse functional\, queer\, unionists\, anti-racists\, piqueteras\, educators\, prostitutes and racialized\, among many others\, in a structural critique of the functioning capitalist economic order. \nThis event is part of the Feminismos desde abajo\, y hacia el sur/ Feminisms from Below\, and Toward the South series\, which 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. \nCosponsored 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-a-wave-of-difference-language-expression-in-the-argentine-feminist-imaginary/
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:20210312T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Blood Files: Epidemic\, Medium\, Milieu
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nEpidemics make us keenly aware of our multispecies distributions: of changes to our microbial makeup\, of the mediums (body fluids to the elements) that enable transmission. While our body makes us aware of fevers and aches\, we need technical mediation beyond the everyday thermometer to track and understand changing microbial-human relations. Epidemic media—a range of technologies\, microscopes to PCR machines—are the subject of Bishnupriya Ghosh’s book\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Drawing on two research sites thousands of miles apart yet embedded in the global biomedical complex—a retrovirus laboratory at the University of Washington\, Seattle\, and a modest clinical point of care at the Humsafar offices in Mumbai—Ghosh considers how the ordinary technology of the “blood file” (samples\, data\, and pictures) makes the medium intelligible as a milieu. \nBishnupriya Ghosh is Professor of Global Studies and English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her first two books\, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers University Press\, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke University Press\, 2011)\, addressed cultures of globalization. Her recent work includes the co-edited Routledge Companion to Media and Risk (Routledge\, 2020) and a new monograph on viral emergence\, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-blood-files-epidemic-medium-milieu/
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:20210315T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210315T134500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Designing Disability
DESCRIPTION:ATTEND DISCUSSION \nWe will be discussing Professor Elizabeth Guffey’s introduction and chapter 1 to her latest book\, Designing Disability (Bloomsbury\, 2018). A Professor of Art & Design History\, and Director of the MA in Modern and Contemporary Art\, Criticism and Theory at State University of New York at Purchase\, Professor Guffey co-edited Making Disability Modern (Bloomsbury\, 2020) and is the founding editor of the peer-reviewed journal Design and Culture (Routledge). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Department of English\, and the Department of Comparative Literature \nATTEND DISCUSSION
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-designing-disability/
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:20210321T091500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210321T150000
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SUMMARY:Medieval Studies Annual Colloquium: Global/Premodern/Race
DESCRIPTION:Register by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021 \nThis symposium brings together scholars working in Iberian\, Middle Eastern\, and Medieval Studies to engage in a critical discussion concerning race—reevaluating both its utility as a category of analysis in the premodern world and how it has structured medieval and early modern studies as academic fields. \nParticipants include:\nPAMELA PATTON (Art History\, Princeton University)\nM. LINDSAY KAPLAN (English\, Georgetown University)\nHANNAH BARKER (History\, Arizona State University)\nMOHAMAD BALLAN (History\, SUNY Stonybrook)\nAMBEREEN DADABHOY (Literature\, Harvey Mudd College)\nJOSH COHEN (Committee on the Study of Religion\, Harvard University)\nABDULHAMIT ARVAS (English\, University of Pennsylvania)\nTERENCE KEEL (African American Studies & Institute for Society and Genetics\, UCLA)\nKATHY LAVEZZO (English\, University of Iowa) \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Medieval Studies; Early Modern Center\, English Department; Center for Middle Eastern Studies; College of Letters & Science; History Department; and Latin American and Iberian Studies \nRegister by emailing global.premodern.race@gmail.com by March 19\, 2021
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/medieval-studies-annual-colloquium-global-premodern-race/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="global.premodern.race@gmail.com":MAILTO:global.premodern.race@gmail.com
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