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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Thomas Mazanec
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Thomas Mazanec (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) and Xiaorong Li (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) about Mazanec’s new book\, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Medieval China. \nPoet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts\, Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks\, who first appeared in the latter half of the Tang dynasty\, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition\, incantation\, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world\, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them\, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition\, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation. \nThomas Mazanec is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He researches premodern Chinese literature and religion as well as their encounters with other cultures. He is also interested in world literature\, poetics\, digital humanities\, and translation studies. His publications cover a broad range of topics\, from the evolution of a Sanskrit literary term in medieval China; to systems of monetary\, religious\, and literary debts; to the potential contributions of network analysis to literary history. He is especially fond of the art of literary translation\, maintaining a collection of bizarre and obscure translations of classical Chinese poetry into English and co-editing an online bibliography of Chinese poetry in translation. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-thomas-mazanec/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Swati Chattopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) about Chattopadhyay’s new book\, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire. Chattopadhyay recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. Her book takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces\, objects\, and landscapes of the British empire in India and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants\, women\, children\, subalterns\, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing\, it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. \nSwati Chattopadhyay is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in modern architecture and urbanism and the cultural landscape of the British empire. She is a Founding Editor of PLATFORM and has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop\, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group\, and as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). Her other works include Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012) and Representing Calcutta: Modernity\, Nationalism\, and the Colonial Uncanny (2005). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-swati-chattopadhyay/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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