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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMA\, Meta/Physical Therapy. \nThis 2024 exhibition premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance\, video\, and sculpture\, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego\, Cynthia\, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment\, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery\, medical technology\, popular culture\, and references to high art and dollar-store kitsch. An extension of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series\, which began in 2002\, the project continued the artist’s incisive examination of the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness and explores the maladies of middle age. Presented as a multi-chapter narrative\, the installation was accompanied by a series of performances created in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett\, bringing Cynthia’s inner world to life. \nShana Moulton is a California-born and -based artist who works in video\, performance\, and installation. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Art and Anthropology and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Moulton has exhibited her work as a solo artist and in groups at major international museums\, galleries and institutes. She has performed at sites including The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Andy Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, San Francisco\, The Getty\, Los Angeles\, and The Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles. Moulton’s work has been featured in Artforum\, The New York Times\, ArtReview\, Art in America\, Flash Art\, Artpress\, Metropolis M\, BOMB Magazine\, and Frieze. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-shana-moulton/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T160000
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T160000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Event: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and Dr. Charles Lester\, Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast. Xia will draw from her new book\, California Against the Sea\, in which deeply reported stories braid together science\, policy\, and the state’s social history. The conversation will explore how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into disaster\, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting\, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, the Marine Science Institute\, and the Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/california-against-the-sea/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T160000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Is Barbie Feminist? It's Complicated
DESCRIPTION:In 1994\, when M.G. Lord interviewed the California-based creators of the Barbie doll\, she had no doubt Barbie would be as provocative in 2023 as she was in 1959. But Lord did not anticipate that this plastic object\, once tarred as anti-feminist\, would evolve into a touchstone for understanding feminism—as well as the star of a blockbuster attack on patriarchy. This talk will explore the Greta Gerwig effect and the 64 years of changes in Barbie’s jobs\, ethos\, and even body. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nM.G. Lord is the co-host of the podcast L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes\, which tells the story of the doll’s creation in the voices of its original creators. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. Her 2005 family memoir\, Astro Turf\, is a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as the basis for L.A. Made: Blood\, Sweat and Rockets\, a 12-part podcast that she hosts. It tells the story of the early days of rocketry in Southern California\, and the unusual figures—a practitioner of “Sex Magick” and an accused Communist—who founded JPL. Lord is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/is-barbie-feminist-its-complicated/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T131500
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Creating\, Weaponizing\, and Detecting Deep Fakes
DESCRIPTION:Although varied in their form and creation\, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image\, audio\, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality\, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios. In this talk\, Farid will provide an overview of how deep fakes are created\, how they are being used and misused\, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHany Farid is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-hany-farid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230216T171500
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: The Climate Infowhelm
DESCRIPTION:Climate infowhelm is the experience of feeling overwhelmed by too much information about the environmental crisis. Heather Houser will discuss how infowhelm feels\, sounds\, and looks in various media and how contemporary art manages environmental knowledge and provides new ways of understanding environmental change. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHeather Houser is the Mody C. Boatright Regents Professor in American and English Literature at the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of Ecosickness in Contemporary U.S. Fiction: Environment and Affect (2014)\, Infowhelm: Environmental Art and Literature in an Age of Data (2020)\, as well as numerous academic and public articles. Learn more at heatherhouser.com. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \nImage: Crop from cover of Infowhelm
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-heather-houser/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T190000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Elizabeth Kolbert
DESCRIPTION:It is said that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by climate change and other disastrous human impacts on the planet. In her new book\, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Should we be seeking technological solutions to the damage humans have caused to the environment\, or will such “solutions” only make the problems worse? \nElizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, an examination of mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field\, was a New York Times 2014 Top Ten Best Book of the Year and is number one on the Guardian‘s list of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of all time. The Sixth Extinction also won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker\, her first book\, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man\, Nature\, and Climate Change\, was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by The New York Times Book Review. \nKolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered numerous awards\, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award\, the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category\, and a National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category. Kolbert has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship\, the prestigious Heinz Award\, the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award\, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union\, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2021 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nCopies of Kolbert’s books will be available for purchase and signing\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. This will event will be held in person; there will not be live or recorded online viewing options. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-elizabeth-kolbert/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220127T170000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Artist Talk: Harmonia Rosales
DESCRIPTION:Afro-Cuban American artist Harmonia Rosales will discuss her new and dynamic body of work presented in the exhibition\, Entwined. Rosales’ interweaving of representations from ancient Greek and Yoruba mythologies invites viewers to challenge their ideas about identity and empowerment. Women and people of color\, the protagonists of her canvases\, assume roles of power and beauty in exquisite imaginings of ancient myths and Renaissance paintings. \nTo learn more about the exhibition Entwined\, which is on display at UCSB’s Art\, Design & Architecture Museum from January 19 to May 1\, 2022\, visit museum.ucsb.edu. \nHarmonia Rosales is a Los Angeles-based artist whose work challenges ideological hegemony in contemporary society. Learn more about the artist and her work at harmoniarosales.com. \nImage © Harmonia Rosales. Courtesy of Harmonia Rosales \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the Argyropoulos Chair in Hellenic Studies\, the Department of Classics\, and the Art\, Design & Architecture Museum \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-artist-talk-harmonia-rosales/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Clint Smith
DESCRIPTION:Join us online for a conversation between Clint Smith and IHC Director Susan Derwin. Audience Q&A will follow. \nClint Smith is a staff writer at The Atlantic. He is the author of How the Word Is Passed: A Reckoning with the History of Slavery Across America\, which was a #1 New York Times Bestseller\, and the poetry collection Counting Descent\, which won the 2017 Literary Award for Best Poetry Book from the Black Caucus of the American Library Association and was a finalist for an NAACP Image Award. \nHe has received fellowships from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation\, New America\, the Emerson Collective\, the Art For Justice Fund\, Cave Canem\, and the National Science Foundation. His essays\, poems\, and scholarly writing have been published in The New Yorker\, The New York Times Magazine\, The New Republic\, Poetry Magazine\, The Paris Review\, Harvard Educational Review\, and elsewhere. \nClint is a 2014 National Poetry Slam champion and a 2017 recipient of the Jerome J. Shestack Prize from the American Poetry Review. His two TED Talks\, The Danger of Silence and How to Raise a Black Son in America\, collectively have been viewed more than 9 million times. \nPreviously\, Clint taught high school English in Prince George’s County\, Maryland\, where\, in 2013\, he was named the Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year by the Maryland Humanities Council. He currently teaches writing and literature in the D.C. Central Detention Facility. He is also the host of the YouTube series Crash Course Black American History. \nClint received his B.A. in English from Davidson College and his Ph.D. in Education from Harvard University. Born and raised in New Orleans\, he currently lives in Maryland with his wife and their two children. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Idee Levitan Endowment \nLive closed-captioning will be provided.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/clint-smith/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200220T160000
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SUMMARY:Critical Mass Talk: Art as Compass and Catalyst for Change
DESCRIPTION:Amplifier.org is “a nonprofit design lab that builds art and media experiments to amplify the most important movements of our times.” In this lecture the Founder of Amplifier will speak on the power of art at threshold moments\, recounting visual campaigns like We The People\, which flooded the streets for the Women’s March and 2017 Presidential Inauguration protests. \nAmplifier believes that in times of uncertainty—in times like these\, when fear and misinformation attempt to divide us—that art is more than beauty or decoration: It is a weapon and a shield. Art has the power to wake people up and serve as a catalyst for real change. It is a megaphone for important but unheard voices that need amplifying. It is a bridge that can unite movements with shared values in ways other mediums cannot. Art gives us symbols to gather around\, builds community\, and helps us feel like we are not alone. But for all the tools art can be in this fight\, for Amplifier it is a compass. It points to the future we want to live in\, and that we want our children to live in. A reception will follow \nAaron Huey is a National Geographic photographer\, a Stanford Media Designer\, and Creative Director of Amplifier. He has photographed over 30 stories for the National Geographic magazines and is a Contributing Artist at Harper’s Magazine. Huey is also widely known for his 3\,349-mile solo walk across America (with his dog Cosmo) and his TED talk on Native American P.O.W. Camps. Huey is a Stanford Knight Fellow and the first Global Ambassador for Stanford’s d.School\, focusing on media experiments using the human centered design process in both the analog and digital world. \nFree Amplifier art stickers will be given to the first 20 attendees. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Critical Mass series and the Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/critical-mass-talk-art-as-compass/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Critical Mass,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T043352
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SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Shaping Community Futures Through Policy + Architecture
DESCRIPTION:LA-Más is a Los Angeles urban design non-profit focused on empowering lower-income and working class families who struggle to find affordable homes to rent or for whom walking is a primary mode of transportation. This talk will explore the architectural projects of LA-Más that provide accessible affordable housing and support the pedestrian right of way\, and that\, in doing so\, create built environments that address the city’s social instability. \nElizabeth Timme is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of LA-Más\, a non-profit urban design organization based in Los Angeles that helps lower-income and underserved communities shape their future through policy and architecture. Timme teaches at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture and serves on the Zoning Advisory Committee of Re:Code LA\, a city-led effort to transform the city’s outdated zoning code. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series\, the Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-shaping-community-futures-through-policy-and-architecture/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Idee Levitan 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:20181115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T043352
CREATED:20180910T230534Z
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SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Money is No Object:  Aesthetics\, Abstraction\, and the Politics of Care
DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Scott Ferguson will rethink the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to broaden the politics of care using the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Mobilizing MMT\, Ferguson critiques exhausted dialectical oppositions between money and art and contends that monetary abstraction\, rather than representing a private\, finite\, and alienating technology\, is instead a public and fundamentally unlimited medium that harbors still unrealized powers for inclusion and cultivation. A reception will follow. \nScott Ferguson is Associate Professor of Film and New Media Studies in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Dependence: Money\, Aesthetics & the Politics of Care (2018) and Co-Director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division\, co-host of the Money on the Left podcast\, and Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-money-is-no-object-aesthetics-abstraction-and-the-politics-of-care/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Idee Levitan 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:20180208T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T043352
CREATED:20171002T213755Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180409T203556Z
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SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talks: Sayak Valencia and Lorena Wolffer
DESCRIPTION:Talk: From Queer to Cuir: Geopolitical Ostranenie from the Global South \nSayak Valencia’s talk will explore the politics of survival and the alliances of the trans/border/messtizx/sissy/lesbian/dressed/slut-fag/cripple. The word “cuir” represents a defamiliarization—or ostranenie—of “queer\,” which challenges automatic reading and registers\, through its unfamiliarity\, a geopolitical inflection southward and from the peripheries. Countering colonial epistemology and Anglo-American historiography\, cuir invokes a space of decolonialized enunciation\, at once playful and critical. \nSayak Valencia (Cultural Studies\, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte) is the author of Capitalismo Gore. \nTalk: Citizen Affects/Afectxs ciudadanxs \nLorena Wolffer will discuss her experiences producing Citizen Affects/Afectxs ciudadanxs at UC Santa Barbara and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 2017. This participatory cultural interventions project is focused on the affects that cross\, regulate\, and define women\, queer\, and non-normative individuals in our interaction with others and with the power structures that surround and legislate us. \nLorena Wolffer (1971) is an artist and cultural activist based in Mexico City. \nA reception will follow.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-sayak-valencia-and-lorena-wolffer/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T043352
CREATED:20171002T213433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T212109Z
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SUMMARY:Crossings+Boundaries TALK: Dreamland: America's Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here
DESCRIPTION:Click here to read an article about Quinones’ talk. \nQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing\, changes in our heroin market\, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. \nSam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. He has reported on immigration\, gangs\, drug trafficking\, and the border as a reporter for the L.A. Times (2004–2014) and as a freelance writer in Mexico (1994–2004). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-dreamland-americas-opiate-epidemic-got/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171026T180000
DTSTAMP:20260510T043352
CREATED:20170914T220816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20171127T233211Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Interstellar Crossings: The Image of Exoplanets and the Imagination of Other Worlds
DESCRIPTION:When seven rocky planets were discovered around the star TRAPPIST-1\, claims of potentially habitable worlds animated the scientific discourse and press coverage. Beautiful animations of the surfaces of these planets and imaginative tales of planet hopping suggested that this discovery was not just about discovering more planets\, but that it was also about discovering worlds. In this talk\, Messeri will recount ethnographic findings from her work with exoplanet astronomers. She will explore how planets become worlds and what resources scientists draw on to execute this conceptual crossing and imaginatively leave the boundary of our world to extend human presence beyond the solar system. \nBefore joining the Anthropology department at Yale earlier this year\, Lisa Messeri taught at the University of Virginia and the University of Pennsylvania. Her published work includes Placing Outer Space: An Earthly Ethnography of Other Worlds (2016)\, which traces how the place-making practices of planetary scientists transform the void of space into a cosmos filled with worlds that can be known and explored.\n \nSponsored by the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment and the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series.\nImage Courtesy: NASA/JPL-Caltech
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/interstellar-crossings-image-exoplanets-imagination-worlds/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series
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