BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20240310T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20241103T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20250309T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20251102T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240510T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240512T160000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240422T202140Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240423T180209Z
UID:10000700-1715355000-1715529600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Symposium: 11th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective Symposium: Indigenous Health and Well-being
DESCRIPTION:The 11th Annual American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium\, Indigenous Health and Well-being\, brings together individual papers\, performances\, and panels from across disciplines (humanities\, fine arts\, social sciences\, ITEK\, and STEM) within and outside of the academy\, including practitioners and community members. This annual gathering will address the prevalent issues facing Indian Country and beyond in terms of health disparities and how Native communities come together to heal and work toward Indigenous well-being\, resilience\, persistence\, and futurity in the face of these disparities and structural inequities. Participants will address physical\, mental\, and spiritual facets of health. Interdisciplinary presentations will draw attention to how the arts are essential to the health\, well-being\, and healing of Indigenous people; consider scientific and social scientific approaches\, including environmental and ecological health; and focus on Indigenous health teaching and activism. \nKeynote Speakers:\nFriday\, May 10th | Sage LaPena\nSage LaPena is a Clinical Herbalist\, ethnobotanist\, lecturer\, teacher\, and gardener specializing in both Native American and Western herbal traditions. From the age of seven\, Sage has been working with local medicine people from her tribe\, the Northern Wintu (California)\, and other neighboring tribes. Sage maintains a strong connection with her tribe through continued participation in ceremonial and cultural activities. She has been teaching “Ethnobotany of California native plants” for over twenty years and leads plant walks throughout the state. Sage was a Community Health Representative (CHR ) for two years after her clinical internship with Sonoma County Indian Health. As a CHR\, Sage assisted clients with diabetes care\, nutritional counseling\, and doctor patient translation. Sage is actively involved in watershed management projects and is currently the Water Resource Coordinator for the Hopland Band of Pomo Indians. \nSaturday\, May 11th | Gerald Clarke\nGerald Clarke is an enrolled citizen of the Cahuilla Band of Indians and lives in the home his grandfather built on the Cahuilla Indian Reservation\, where he oversees the Clarke family cattle ranch. He is currently a Professor of Ethnic Studies at the University of California Riverside\, where he teaches classes in Native American art\, history\, and culture. \nGerald has exhibited his work extensively\, which can be seen in numerous exhibitions as well as major museum collections. In 2007\, Gerald was awarded an Eiteljorg Museum Fellowship and served as an Artist-in-Residence at the Institute of American Indian Arts in Santa Fe\, New Mexico in 2015. In 2020\, the Palm Springs Art Museum hosted Gerald Clarke: Falling Rock\, the first major retrospective of the artist’s work. Clarke is a frequent lecturer\, speaking about Native art\, culture\, and social issues. He holds a B.A. in Art from the University of Central Arkansas and M.A./M.F.A. degrees in Painting/Sculpture from Stephen F. Austin State University\, located in Nacogdoches\, Texas. \nSunday\, May 12th | Annette Cordero\nAnnette Cordero was born and raised in Santa Barbara\, where she attended local schools\, including SBCC and UCSB. She is an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation. Prior to retiring in 2020\, Annette was a faculty member at SBCC for almost 30 years. She also taught at Allan Hancock College\, where she served as the first Native American/Latina president of the Academic Senate. Over the past 42 years\, Annette has been a community activist and member of numerous organizations\, commissions and boards\, including Just Communities Central Coast\, Latinos for Better Government\, the original Santa Barbara Tenants’ Union\, Democratic Women of Santa Barbara County\, PUEBLO\, the SB County Affirmative Action Commission\, the SB County Human Relations Commission\, and various others\, consistently working on behalf of equity\, access\, and inclusion for disenfranchised populations. \nRegister here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Graduate Collaborative Award and American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group\, History of Art and Architecture\, Asian American Studies\, Chicana and Chicano  Studies\, English\, Environmental Studies\, Feminist Studies\, Linguistics\, History\, Global Studies\, Religious Studies\, Latin American and Iberian Studies\, Classics\, Transnational Italian Studies Program\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative\, Literature and the Environment Center\, American Cultures and Global Contexts Center (ACGCC)\, Hull Chair in Women and Social Justice\, Graduate Division Office of Diversity Programs\, Office of Equal Opportunity Services (OEOS)\, Bren School\, Blum Center\, Walter Capps Center\, Santa Barbara American Indian Health and Services (AIHS)\, American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC)\, Graduate Division\, Health Humanities Initiative\, and Feminist Futures
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/11th-annual-american-indian-and-indigenous-collective-symposium-indigenous-health-and-well-being/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Support,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AIIC-symposium_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="American Indian and Indigenous Collective":MAILTO:klovely@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T103000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240430T204500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T170654Z
UID:10000704-1715677200-1715682600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Racialized Sound in Mainstream Cinema: Spike Jonze’s Her
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Samantha\, the operating system from Spike Jonze’s Her (2013)\, analyzing how the film’s portrayal of Samantha both differs from and uncannily evokes both fictional and real-world Black women domestic servants. Exploring how the film deliberately and repeatedly marks Samantha as female\, how her vocal pitch\, tone\, and timbre code her as white\, and how the film uses this ascribed white femaleness to grant her a form of subjecthood\, Owens contends that the film uses Samantha to reinforce hegemonic notions of race\, gender\, labor\, class\, and beauty—and does so primarily through the sound of her voice. \nGolden M. Owens is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Washington. She explores and teaches about representations of race and gender\, artificial intelligence\, haunting\, popular culture\, and racialized sounds and voices. Her current book project examines intelligent virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa\, Apple’s Siri\, and Microsoft’s Cortana\, contending that these aides evoke and are haunted by Black women slaves\, servants\, and houseworkers in the United States. The project demonstrates this haunting through analyzing popular 20th and 21st-century media depictions of Black female domestic workers\, robotic and/or artificially intelligent servants/helpers\, labor-saving products and devices\, and contemporary virtual aides. \nDr. Owens’ work appears in Sounding Out! and has been accepted by the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation (via the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering and Medicine)\, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (f.k.a. the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Mellon Foundation\, Northwestern University’s Office of Fellowships\, and Northwestern University’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. \nZoom link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/racialized-sound-in-mainstream-cinema-spike-jonzes-her/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Racialized-Sound_Event.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T110000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240423T200001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T182358Z
UID:10000701-1716282000-1716289200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Thinking with the Sound of Catastrophe
DESCRIPTION:When death is ubiquitous and violence structural and gratuitous\, catastrophe has a sound. How do our racialized lives allow for or shield us from familiarity to this sound? The conditions of colonial violence\, imperialism\, and global capitalism construct African Black bodies into a kind of listening bodies. But what kind of listening bodies are these? In this talk\, Brenda Umutoniwase will explore the listening body from Rwanda to South Africa as a site of conflations: as subject to the mechanics of colonial violence but also the very site from which it counters this violence. \nBrenda Umutoniwase is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on formulations of racialized Blackness beyond the Middle passage epistemologies\, particularly looking at temporal/geographic spaces in Africa. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-talk-thinking-with-the-sound-of-catastrophe/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/Thinking-with-the-Sound-of-Catastrophe_Event.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:schewelew@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240430T202302Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T171951Z
UID:10000703-1716391800-1716399000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Symposium: Intergenerational Dynamics: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Intergenerational Dynamics is the second annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Research Focus Group on Global Childhood Ecologies. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Daian Martinez and research on Education by Lakshmi Garcia in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Intergenerational Dynamics will focus on dynamics between children and adults\, as shown in Anglophone and Chinese picturebooks researched by Daian Martinez and rhetoric in mathematics education for linguistically diverse language classrooms researched by Lakshmi Garcia. \nIntergenerational Dynamics: Undergraduate Research Showcase \nChair: Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic and Slavic Studies\, UCSB) \nPanel Participants: \n“Little Adults: The Adult Presence in Chinese and Anglophone Children’s Picturebooks”\nDaian Michely Martinez ’24 (Comparative Literature\, UCSB) \n“Little Adults” focuses on picturebooks from both Anglophone and Chinese traditions to investigate the adult presence and underlying cultural values shown in text and image. Daian Martinez conducts a cross-cultural comparison to uncover nuances related to gender roles\, social responsibility\, authority figures\, and child-parent relationships. Employing the theoretical frameworks of aetonormativity\, cultural studies\, and narratology\, Martinez analyzes the dynamics of the adult presence within children’s literature. \n“The rhetoric of MLR’s (Mathematical Language Routines) for linguistically diverse California elementary schools”\nLakshmi Garcia ’25 (College of Creative Studies Writing and Literature\, UCSB) \nLakshmi Garcia’s research under Professor Sarah Roberts focuses on understanding the routinization of mathematics language routines (MLRs) in local Elementary schools. A “mathematical language routine” refers to a structured but adaptable teaching style with exercises designed to amplify\, assess\, and develop students’ language. MLRs are utilized as tools given to teachers to ensure their assigned curriculums are language accessible to students. Districts with large communities of multilingual learners most benefit from using MLRs\, which have been shown to integrate language and vocabulary development successfully through mathematical reasoning. This project conducts qualitative research through careful analysis of classroom observations to prepare educators for work in linguistically diverse schools. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/intergenerational-dynamics-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/04/symposium_Event.png
ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240522T180000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240528T202146Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T044942Z
UID:10000711-1716393600-1716400800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Seeking Mirabai: The Making of a Saint and Cultural Heroine
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Nancy Martin will trace the making of the sixteenth-century royal rajput devotee Mirabai into a saint and cultural heroine through the varied portrayals of her across the centuries found in hagiography\, rajput historiography\, nationalist rhetoric\, and oral epic song traditions. She will also examine the early twentieth-century mobilization of Mirabai as a cultural heroine by Gandhi\, Tagore\, and others\, culminating in Subbulakshmi’s film portrayal of the poet-saint on the cusp of Indian Independence. The talk will challenge the persistent nineteenth-century “historical” domestication of Mirabai’s character and will present a far more dynamic portrayal of the saint that is the wellspring of her continuing power to inspire as well as of the ambivalence that still attends her into the twenty-first century. \nNancy M. Martin is Professor and Chair of Religious Studies at Chapman University and Life Member of Clare Hall\, Cambridge University. Her research focuses on Hindu devotional traditions\, gender and religion\, and comparative religious ethics. Her recently published book Mirabai: The Making of a Saint (Oxford University Press 2023) is the culmination of three decades of research on the sixteenth-century saint Mirabai and is the first of three volumes. The second volume focuses on Mirabai’s poetry and the third volume on postcolonial and global incarnations and invocations of the saint. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/seeking-mirabai-the-making-of-a-saint-and-cultural-heroine/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Seeking-Mirabai_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3041 HSSB UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8503034,34.4139682
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T103000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240507T205219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T193417Z
UID:10000706-1716973200-1716978600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: "Guano in Their Destiny": A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe
DESCRIPTION:Join the Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories RFG for a conversation with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe about her work\, “‘Guano in Their Destiny’: Race\, Geology\, and a Philosophy of Indenture\,” and beyond. \nDr. Tao Leigh Goffe is an associate professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology. She joined the Department of Africana\, Puerto Rican\, and Latino Studies at Hunter College\, City University of New York after over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. This work builds on her long-standing research interest in the intersection of climate\, race\, and digital technologies. It is the basis of the Dark Laboratory\, which she founded and leads as the Executive Director. Established for the study of Black and Indigenous ecologies\, Dark Lab is housed at Hunter College and has been supported by the New Museum’s incubator for art and technology. Dr. Goffe graduated with an undergraduate degree in English literature at Princeton University before earning a Ph.D. at Yale University where she continued studies on racial formation and global colonial desire. \nProfessor Goffe’s research has appeared or is forthcoming in several academic and popular publications including South Atlantic Quarterly\, New York Magazine\, Small Axe\, Women and Performance\, Boston Review\, and Social Text. She is the Global Black History and Theory co-editor at Public Books\, where she is accepting pitches. Her commentary and analyses have been quoted in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Vice Munchies. Dr. Goffe is currently completing two books under contract. The first\, After Eden: On the Racial Origins of Our Climate Crisis [(Doubleday\, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books UK)]\, explores how 1492 was the genesis of the climate crisis. The second\, Black Capital\, Chinese Debt (Duke University Press)\, explores a long Afro-Asian history of affective and financial indebtedness after the abolition of racial slavery from 1806 to the present. \nZoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group\, Asian/American Studies Collective\, and Wireframe \nImage Credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/guano-in-their-destiny-a-conversation-with-tao-leigh-goffe/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Support,IHC Research Focus Groups
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Guano-in-Their-Destiny_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240531T183000
DTSTAMP:20260528T094346
CREATED:20240528T200535Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240529T045213Z
UID:10000710-1717174800-1717180200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Talk: The Buddhist Heritage of Pakistan
DESCRIPTION:Pakistan is today a Muslim country\, and it has been so for nearly a thousand years. But before that\, Buddhism thrived in the area known today as Pakistan\, especially in the regions of Gandhara\, Gilgit\, and Baltistan. In this talk\, José Cabezón will explore the Buddhist heritage of Pakistan through a virtual tour of some of its most important Buddhist sites\, with examples of the exquisite art of Gandhara found in Pakistan’s major museums. \nJosé Ignacio Cabezón is Research Professor and Dalai Lama Professor Emeritus at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His wide-ranging research interests in various aspects of Tibetan religious traditions and religious studies include Madhyamaka philosophy\, gender and sexuality\, classical South Asian political ethics\, and Tibetan rituals. The recipient of many awards and fellowships\, he was elected to the American Academy of Arts and Sciences in 2019 and served as president of the American Academy of Religion in 2020. The author of numerous books and articles\, his most recent publications include Sexuality in Classical South Asian Buddhism (Wisdom Publications\, 2017)\, a landmark study of classical Buddhist theories of sexuality\, and Sera Monastery (Wisdom Publications\, 2019)\, the most comprehensive history of a Tibetan monastery in a Western language. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-buddhist-heritage-of-pakistan/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2024/05/Buddhist-Heritage-of-Pakistan_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=3041 HSSB UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8503034,34.4139682
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR