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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932
DESCRIPTION:REGISTER NOW \nIn this RFG talk\, Joshua Fogel will present on “Lingvo Internacia: The Esperanto Movement in China and Japan\, 1905-1932.” \nJoshua Fogel is Professor of History and Canada Research Chair at York University\, Toronto. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group \nREGISTER NOW
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-lingvo-internacia-the-esperanto-movement-in-china-and-japan-1905-1932/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Transregional East Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group":MAILTO:wfleming@eastasian.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210416T120000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED | Living Democracy Talk: Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass
DESCRIPTION:THIS EVENT HAS BEEN CANCELLED \n\nArtist and filmmaker\, Isaac Julien\, and writer and curator\, Mark Nash\, will screen excerpts from Julien’s film “Lessons of the Hour—Frederick Douglass” in a presentation that will explore the importance of looking to history and biography to articulate contemporary cultural movements. Isaac Julien’s moving image practice draws from and comments on a range of artistic disciplines including film\, theatre\, photography and performance.  \nJulien is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Nash is a Professor of Arts at UC Santa Cruz where they run the Isaac Julien Lab\, a platform for the innovation of visual and sonic languages for production and the critical reception of moving image\, video art\, and installation work by examining historical and contemporary art practice. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Living Democracy series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n\nImage: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Courtesy of the Artist\, Metro Pictures New York\, and Victoria Miro London/Venice \n  \nLECCIONES DE LA HORA—FREDERICK DOUGLASS \nEl artista y cineasta Isaac Julien y el escritor y curador Mark Nash proyectarán extractos de la película de Julien “Lecciones de la hora—Frederick Douglass” en una presentación que explorará la importancia de mirar la historia y la biografía para articular los movimientos culturales contemporáneos. La práctica de la imagen en movimiento de Isaac Julien se basa en y comenta sobre una variedad de disciplinas artísticas que incluyen cine\, teatro\, fotografía y actuación. \nJulien es Profesor Distinguido de Artes y Nash es Profesor de Artes en la UC Santa Cruz donde dirigen el Isaac Julien Lab\, una plataforma para la innovación de lenguajes visuales y sonoros para la producción y la recepción crítica de imagen en movimiento\, videoarte\, y trabajos de instalación examinando la práctica del arte histórico y contemporáneo. \nPatrocinado por la serie Living Democracy de IHC y Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment  \nImagen: Isaac Julien\, The North Star (Lessons of the Hour)\, 2019. Cortesía del artista\, Metro Pictures New York y Victoria Miro London / Venice
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/living-democracy-talk-lessons-of-the-hour/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Living Democracy,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210419T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Meeting: Embracing Ecological Uncertainty through Narrative
DESCRIPTION:Uncertainty is a central psychological dimension of the ecological crisis. The science of climate change brings into view widely divergent scenarios; the discrepancy between these more or less catastrophic visions of the future undermines our ontological security (in Anthony Giddens’s terminology). Dr. Caracciolo argues that literary narrative has an important role to play in cultivating readers’ ability to live with uncertainty. He describes this process as a shift from a primarily negative understanding of uncertainty (as something to be avoided at all costs) to a more complex\, nuanced appreciation. The presentation will be followed by a discussion moderated by Professor Sowon Park. \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 April 15. 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. \nMarco Caracciolo is Associate Professor of English and Literary Theory at Ghent University in Belgium. He is the author of five books\, including most recently Narrating the Mesh: Form and Story in the Anthropocene (University of Virginia Press\, 2021). \nSowon Park is Assistant Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Together with Professor Sangwon Suh\, she is one of the conveners of the Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Sustainability and the New Human Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-meeting-embracing-ecological-uncertainty-through-narrative/
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:20210422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210422T164500
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Ben Olguín (English\, UCSB) and María Josefina Saldaña-Portillo (Social and Cultural Analysis\, NYU) about Olguín’s new book\, Violentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature. Audience Q&A will follow. \nViolentologies: Violence\, Identity\, and Ideology in Latina/o Literature\, explores how various forms of violence undergird a wide range of Latina/o subjectivities\, or Latinidades\, from 1835 to the present. Drawing upon the Colombian interdisciplinary field of violence studies known as violentología\, which examines the transformation of Colombian society during a century of political and interpersonal violence\, this book adapts the neologism “violentology” as a heuristic device and epistemic category to map the salience of violence in Latina/o history\, life\, and culture in the U.S. and globally. Based on one hundred primary texts and archival documents from an expansive range of Latina/o communities – and featuring multiple generations of Latinx combatants\, wartime non-combatants\, and “peacetime” civilians – Violentologies articulates a contrapuntal assessment of the inchoate\, contradictory\, and complex range of violence-based Latina/o ontologies and epistemologies\, and corresponding negotiations of power\, or ideologies\, pursuant to an expansive and meta-critical Pan-Latina/o methodology and\, ultimately\, an anti-identitarian Post-Latina/o paradigm. \nBen Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English\, and Director of the Global Latinidades Project\, at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He received his Ph.D. from Stanford University\, and is a Ford Postdoctoral Fellow\, and National Endowment for the Humanities Faculty Research Fellow. In addition to articles published in Cultural Critique\, American Literary History\, Aztlán\, Frontiers\, Biography\, MELUS\, and Nepantla\, Olguín is the author of La Pinta: Chicana/o History\, Culture\, and Politics (University of Texas Press\, 2010). \nMaría Josefina Saldaña-Portillo is a Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis in the College of Arts and Science at New York University. She is the author of Indian Given: Racial Geographies across Mexico and the United States (Duke University Press\, 2016); Des/posesión: Género\, territorio y luchas por la autodeterminación (PUEG-UNAM\, 2014); Aunt Lute’s Anthology of U.S. Women’s Writing\, Volume II (Aunt Lute Press\, 2008); The Revolutionary Imagination in the Americas and the Age of Development (Duke University Press\, 2003). Saldaña-Portillo is the recipient of numerous accolades\, including Casa de Las Americas Literary Prize for the Best Book in Studies of Latinos in the United States; John Hope Franklin Prize for Best Book in American Studies from the American Studies Association; Best Book Award from the National Association for Chicano and Chicana Studies. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-violentologies-violence-identity-and-ideology-in-latina-o-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210429T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream
DESCRIPTION:Free to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nJoin us online for a dialogue between Swati Rana (English) and Stephanie L. Batiste (English) about Rana’s new book\, Race Characters: Ethnic Literature and the Figure of the American Dream. Audience Q&A will follow. \nA vexed figure inhabits U.S. literature and culture: the visibly racialized immigrant who disavows minority identity and embraces the American dream. Such figures are potent and controversial\, for they promise to expiate racial violence and perpetuate an exceptionalist ideal of America. Swati Rana grapples with these figures\, building on studies of literary character and racial form. Rana offers a new way to view characterization through racialization that creates a fuller social reading of race. Situated in a nascent period of ethnic identification from 1900 to 1960\, this book focuses on immigrant writers who do not fit neatly into a resistance-based model of ethnic literature. Writings by Paule Marshall\, Ameen Rihani\, Dalip Singh Saund\, José Garcia Villa\, and José Antonio Villarreal symbolize different aspects of the American dream\, from individualism to imperialism\, assimilation to upward mobility. The dynamics of characterization are also those of contestation\, Rana argues. Analyzing the interrelation of persona and personhood\, Race Characters presents an original method of comparison\, revealing how the protagonist of the American dream is socially constrained and structurally driven. \nSwati Rana is Assistant Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in twentieth-century U.S. literature\, comparative ethnic literature\, and transnational American studies. Her research has appeared in American Literary History\, American Literature\, and Journal of Asian American Studies\, and her creative writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, Granta\, Crazyhorse\, The Asian American Literary Review\, Wasafiri\, and elsewhere.  \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-race-characters-ethnic-literature-and-the-figure-of-the-american-dream/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T160000
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SUMMARY:Conference: Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION \nThe interdisciplinary virtual conference “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster” will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm\, with an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines who will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) \nAn associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place at 4pm on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. \nFILM DISCUSSION REGISTRATION \nSponsored by the College of Letters and Science and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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