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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 1 at 1:30PM PST for a virtual lecture by Eric Harvey on “Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism.” Harvey will introduce the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside other Mesopotamian narratives of kings\, warriors\, and sages\, illustrating the strikingly varied vision of heroism produced in the ancient Near East. \nEric Harvey holds a PhD from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies\, with a specialization in Bible and the Ancient Near East. He studies the history\, literature\, and religions of ancient Israel\, Syria\, Iraq\, and the surrounding areas. He is the author of Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel. Harvey also writes The Blind Scholar\, a popular blog where he documents creative new ways to engage in scholarship\, family\, and the world as a blind person. \nZoom registration link here \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Low-Resource Research Ethics Research Focus Group\, UCSB Office of Teaching and Learning\, Department of Classics\, and LOREL Lab
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-gilgamesh-and-the-many-faces-of-mesopotamian-heroism/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Low-Resource Research Ethics,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: All the Frost Melts: A Trilingual Reading in Dolgan\, Russian\, and English
DESCRIPTION:This trilingual reading of writings by Indigenous writer Kseniia Bolshakova will include portions from her autobiographical novel All the Frost Melts\, which was recently translated into English after being published in Dolgan and Russian in 2024. It will feature writer Kseniia Bolshakova reading in Dolgan\, linguist Karina Sheifer (UC Santa Barbara) reading in Russian\, and translator Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego) reading in English. The reading also will include imagery from life in the Russian Arctic. This event is being held in conjunction with INT 94LE: Literature and Experience and the longstanding California Graduate Slavic Colloquium\, being held at UCSB for the first time ever on April 18\, 2026. \nKseniia Bolshakova is an Indigenous decolonial writer and a member of the Dolgan Tribal community Yjdyŋa. She was born and raised in the tundra and the village of Popigai in the Russian Arctic. As one of the youngest keepers of the Dolgan language—spoken by only 1000 people—she is deeply committed to preserving her native tongue and traditional knowledge\, as well as advocating for Indigenous rights and social justice. Her debut novel\, Buluus da irer / All The Frost Melts\, was first published in a bilingual Dolgan-Russian edition and presented at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York in 2024. \nKarina Sheifer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at UCSB. Her fieldwork focuses on language contact and change as well as documentation and digitalization of Indigenous languages of Siberia and the Far East\, namely Northern Tungusic (Evenki and Even)\, Siberian Turkic (Dolgan and Yakut)\, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Itelmen and Chukchi). Although her main research interest is in linguistics\, an integral part of her work is an interaction with minority national communities in terms of education and promotion of Indigenous languages\, literatures\, and cultures. \nAinsley Morse teaches in the Department of Literature at UC-San Diego and translates from Russian\, Ukrainian and the languages of former Yugoslavia. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the post-war Soviet period\, particularly unofficial or “underground” poetry\, as well as the avant-garde\, children’s literature and contemporary poetry. With Anastasiya Osipova\, she co-runs Cicada Press\, a small press that publishes Eastern European and Russian poetry in translation; she also translates and edits for Tamizdat Project Press. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Arnhold Arts and Humanities Commons\, and Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-all-the-frost-melts-a-trilingual-reading-in-dolgan-russian-and-english/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260311T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Accumulation by Dispossession: The Timber Salvage Project on Ghana’s Volta Lake
DESCRIPTION:This talk draws on the timber salvage project on Ghana’s Volta Lake to theorize how accumulation by dispossession is reproduced through contemporary environmental governance. It situates salvage within the lake’s longer history of state-led development and displacement following the Akosombo Dam. Framed around sustainability\, safety\, and economic opportunity\, timber extraction reworks a shared lake space into a site of value capture. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork and document analysis\, the talk shows how state and corporate actors consolidate profit through restricted access and uneven benefit sharing. It traces global connections and foregrounds the inequalities and injustice enacted\, advancing debates on green grabbing and environmental justice. \nEric Tamatey Lawer is a human geographer whose research and teaching lie at the intersection of human geography and development studies. His work is grounded in the political ecology of natural resources\, examining how power\, policy\, and spatial transformations shape livelihoods and environments in Africa and beyond. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Ghana Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of History\, Environmental Studies Program\, and Africa Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-accumulation-by-dispossession-the-timber-salvage-project-on-ghanas-volta-lake/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Ghana Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Childhood and the Role of Adults in the Identity Formation of Children in Ghanaian Children’s Literature
DESCRIPTION:The perception of childhood seems to vary across cultures and literature is a key conveyor of cultural heritage. heritage. In this talk\, Clara Asare-Nyarko will explore childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children in Ghanaian children’s literature. \nAlthough the development of children’s literature in Ghana began in the 1950s and a significant volume has been produced for young readers\, research on children’s literature in Ghana remains largely a neglected area (Yitah & Komasi\, 2009). The use of story as agent of socialisation is a conscious and deliberate process and people usually develop understanding of who they are in close relationship with the society they belong to (Stephens\, 1992; Stryker & Burke\, 2000). Using four books for young readers by Ghanaian authors and social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner\, 1979)\, this study explores childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children. Childhood is often defined more by behaviour\, responsibility and societal norms rather than just age in Ghana (Kyei-Gyamfi\, 2025) and adults play prominent roles in this crucial formative period children learn to coexist and interact in a more interconnected world. \nClara Asare-Nyarko is a final-year doctoral student in the Department of English\, University of Cape Coast\, Ghana and University of Hildesheim\, Germany. She holds a Master of Arts in Translation Studies from Pan African University and ASTI in University of Buea\, Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group and Ghana Studies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-childhood-and-the-role-of-adults-in-the-identity-formation-of-children-in-ghanaian-childrens-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,Ghana Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Childhood Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in:\n– children’s media\, literature\, and culture\n– historical childhoods\n– children’s rights\n– education\n– child pyschology\n– sociology of childhood \nThe Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes graduate and undergraduate students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Free food and drinks provided. \nLearn about our on-campus Childhood Studies community (courses\, affiliated faculty\, and graduate students)\, research and conference opportunities offered by the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, and proposals for a new Childhood and Youth Studies Minor and Ph.D. Emphasis in Childhood Studies. Join us for more information on programming\, research opportunities\, mentorship\, participation in an annual Undergraduate Research Showcase\, talks and reading groups\, and a like-minded community on campus. \nWe extend a special invitation to the Winter 2026 undergraduate students of Children’s Literature\, Young Humans\, Media and Children\, The Modern Girl\, Family Communication\, Educating the Native\, Fairytale Cinema\, and Fantasy and the Fantastic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-childhood-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260206T170000
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260116T171503Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber
DESCRIPTION:The Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour\, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly\, about Tatour’s recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin)\, Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2025). The book maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race\, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism\, settler colonialism\, capitalism\, and heteropatriarchy. The roundtable participants will discuss the longstanding tradition of theorizing race in Palestine studies\, race and international law\, the politics of racialization\, anti-Palestinian racism\, antiracism and solidarity\, and Israel’s current genocidal war on Gaza. \nLana Tatour is a Lecturer in Development at the School of Social Sciences\, UNSW Sydney. She works on settler colonialism\, indigeneity\, race\, citizenship\, human rights\, and the Middle East with a focus on Palestine and Israel. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together Research Focus Group\, the Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, UCSB’s Center for Middle-East Studies\, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-race-and-the-question-of-palestine-lana-tatour-in-conversation-with-bishnupriya-ghosh-and-elisabeth-weber/
LOCATION:1930 Buchanan\, Buchanan Hall\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Catastrophes: Thinking Shoah and Nakba Together,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Catastrophes RFG":MAILTO:weber@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T111500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing\, Generation Z\, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave
DESCRIPTION:The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk\, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book\, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society\, which examines a new wave of Egyptian picturebooks published in Egypt since the early 2000s\, she will trace the historical development of Egyptian children’s literature until the neoliberal context\, marked by changing cultural aspirations. Her talk will focus in particular on a cluster of picturebooks that socialize children into emerging neoliberal spaces\, showing how these texts normalize new forms of childhood\, domestic life\, and mobility\, and how they translate broader political-economic shifts into everyday narratives addressed to young readers. \nYasmine Motawy is a scholar\, critic\, translator\, editor\, and consultant specializing in children’s literature. She has served on major regional and international award juries\, including the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award\, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award\, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature\, and chaired the 2025 Sawiris Cultural Award. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (2018). In 2022\, she received AUC’s Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award. Her latest book is Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (2025). She currently serves on the board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2025–2027). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-domesticating-the-future-egyptian-childrens-publishing-generation-z-and-the-neoliberal-ideology-of-the-new-wave/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno\, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks\, illustrated editions\, and comics\, this moral framework is often softened\, secularized\, or inverted. Through examples from Italy\, the United States\, and Japan\, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction\, irony\, or spectacle\, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or emotional experience. These adaptations reveal how cultures negotiate what kinds of violence (and what kinds of justice) can be shown to children\, turning Dante’s Hell into a mirror of modern moral and pedagogical anxieties. \nMartina Mattei is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on adaptation theory\, children’s literature\, and the transnational reception of canonical texts. Her dissertation examines contemporary adaptations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for children across English-\, Italian-\, and Japanese-language traditions. Through a comparative analysis of picturebooks\, comics\, videogames\, and animation\, she explores how these texts negotiate the poem’s theological\, moral\, and philosophical complexity for young audiences\, revealing local pedagogical and cultural investments. Martina’s work engages broader questions about how canonical texts are transformed when reframed for new readerships\, particularly in visual and age-specific media. She is especially interested in the way themes such as violence\, race\, and spirituality are omitted\, softened\, or reimagined in global childhood adaptations of Dante\, and how these editorial choices reflect shifting notions of literary value\, ethical storytelling\, and cultural authority. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-between-justice-and-horror-the-theological-violence-of-dantes-inferno-recast/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist\, Hindu\, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini\, Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini\, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife\, especially the regal Sarus Cranes\, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. \nArjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini\, an environmental NGO in Nepal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/preserving-biodiversity/
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:20250603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T110000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella Williams and research on Writing and Literature by Tia Trinh in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Historical Memory in Narrative will focus on the cultural shaping of children’s stories over generations\, as shown in “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children\,” researched by Isabella Williams\, and children’s literature as an act of reclaiming and rewriting historical narratives\, as shown in “Rewriting Silence: Preserving Cultural Memory and Reclaiming Narrative in Children’s Literature on Japanese Internment\,” researched by Tia Trinh. \nIsabella Williams’ research focuses on the proliferation of one variation of Cinderella in relation to the negotiation between traditional fairy tale structures and evolving notions of childhood innocence\, morality\, and cultural appropriateness in adaptations for children. “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children” demonstrates how authors sanitize and reimagine narratives for child audiences; how they permit violence but censor sexuality; how they reinforce gender roles through the demonization of female figures and the sanctification of male heroes; and how Christian and Protestant ethics shape the ideal of the passive\, industrious heroine. By tracing the history of fairy tale adaptations\, Williams examines how Cinderella’s image is constrained and recoded into a rigid ideological instrument\, replacing a once fluid\, complex story of autonomy and survival with a static myth of virtue\, labor\, and grace. Isabella Williams is a fourth-year Comparative Literature major with a minor in Portuguese. Her academic focus revolves around children’s literature and fairy tale media. In her research\, she examines how authors shape children’s stories based on cultural ideas of childhood\, morality\, and respectability. \nIn “Rewriting Silence\,” Tia Trinh analyzes George Takei’s My Lost Freedom and Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Love in the Library as acts of reclaiming history and rewriting narratives about a deeply violent and often overlooked part of Asian American history. The paper compares each author’s positionality to critically analyze different perspectives and methods of retelling the narrative of Japanese-American internment. Understood primarily through the lens of an Asian American studies and close-reading comparison of both children’s books\, this paper strives to understand how both stories work to share stories of family ancestry\, preserve cultural memory\, and push back against an increasingly whitewashed education. Tia Trinh is a fourth-year Writing & Literature major in the College of Creative Studies (CCS) with a double minor in Asian American Studies and Professional Writing – Journalism. She is a storyteller exploring the complexities of Asian American coming-of-age and understanding one’s identity today\, told through themes of ancestry\, travel\, grief\, food\, and much more. Her research explores how Asian American authors retell and reclaim a deeply violent history through childrens’ literature. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/historical-memory-in-narrative-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom
DESCRIPTION:Literature\, and children’s literature specifically\, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis\, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases\, such as sickle cell\, HIV/AIDS\, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases\, sickle cell anemia\, this study argues that\, even with great innovations in medical science\, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms a part of human life\, literature has responded\, including in the case of sickle cell. Children with such diseases have been stigmatized by society\, while even some parents see them as burdens and curse them\, forgetting that they themselves are the cause of it. Through its power to instill value in life\, literature offers a reminder of how to handle people with such diseases. Idada is a point of focus in this study. Through the child protagonists\, Eghe and Osaik\, Idada talks of unquestionable love towards the child\, community collaboration\, government involvement\, scientific research\, media involvement\, and African consciousness on technological innovations. Deconstructionist critical theory challenges the traditional notions of language\, meaning and truth by exposing the contradictions and inconsistencies held within ideologies and beliefs about children living with such diseases in the world. This study will show that healing for complex diseases like sickle cell is not only clinical but that other forms of healing are also important. \nDr. Nfor Noela Mankfu-Ngwa hails from the North West Region of Cameroon. She has a Ph.D. in Postcolonial Literature (specifically\, Children’s Literature) from the University of Bamenda. She is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Bamenda and a Secondary School English Language and Literature in English teacher. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Literatures in English from the University of Buea. She holds a DIPES II from HTTC\, Bambili. Her publications include “Identity Construction in Black Children’s Narratives: A Reading of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give.” She is also part of the socio-linguistic profiling of Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-disease-and-inclusive-healing-in-jude-idadas-boom-boom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sonic Spatiality in Sacred Spaces: An Analysis of Resonance in South Indian Temples
DESCRIPTION:Sound has long played a central role in Hindu worship\, with Vedic chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs shaping the spiritual soundscape. Unlike the time-domain focus typical in Western religious acoustics\, Hindu rituals emphasize frequency-rich sounds\, forming what we term a “frequency domain soundscape of worship.” In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will present the results of his acoustic analysis of six UNESCO heritage South Indian temples: four rock-cut cave temples in Badami and Aihole and two freestanding temples\, the Virupaksha temple in Pattadakal and Vijaya Vittala temple in Hampi. Using impulse response measurements\, standard acoustic parameters\, such as reverberation time (T30) and clarity index (C80)\, and nonstandard parameters\, such as resonance quality and resonance width\, are computed to provide an insight into their acoustic properties. His findings highlight how temple architecture supports ritual acoustics\, with implications for both heritage preservation and the virtual re-creation of ancient sonic environments. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and researcher from Bengaluru\, India\, who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio Technology at American University. He received his PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sonic-spatiality-in-sacred-spaces-an-analysis-of-resonance-in-south-indian-temples/
LOCATION:3041 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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SUMMARY:LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction and Social Organization
DESCRIPTION:The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language\, interaction\, and culture. \nThe conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\, Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia\, Okanagan)\, and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California\, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on May 23rd and 24th\, and will be followed on May 25th by a symposium on “Representing Language and Its Users.” \nThis year\, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism\, language and resistance\, language and social justice\, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language\, interaction\, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate. \nRegister to attend here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization Research Focus Group\, Graduate Student Association\, Graduate Division\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Geoff Raymond\, and Elena Skapoulli-Raymond
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-27th-annual-conference-on-language-interaction-and-social-organization/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization),IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="LISO (Language%2C Interaction%2C and Social Organization)":MAILTO:lisoconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T171500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250505T213214Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T202100Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic\, interdisciplinary field\, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. \nThe Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive\, creative\, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies\, with a primary focus on literary studies\, Indigenous studies\, ethnomusicology\, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. \nBiographies of the Panel Speakers:\nKyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures\, film\, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations\, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity\, Indigeneity\, queerness\, and language in global Chinese communities. His current book project\, Sinoscapes: Chinese Studies for the New Millennium\, advances a new model for imagining the potential of Chinese studies through an investigation of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinitic-language texts. He is also an active Chinese-English translator\, and his translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. \nHo Chak Law is an assistant professor in race and musicology at The New School. His research focuses on the cultural politics of performance and representation in the Sinophone. Most recently\, his article “Naamyam\, Creative Music\, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s ‘Burial Mound’” was published in Music Theory Spectrum. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Cosmopolitan Decadence: Popular Music and the Politics of the Sinophone in the Twentieth Century. \nDian Dian is a researcher and community organizer working at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, migration\, and labor. They received a Ph.D. in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University\, with a dissertation on queer feminist organizing across Sinophone communities. Dian has been involved in LGBTQ+ and feminist movements since 2009\, including serving as editor-in-chief of Queer Lala Times and as communications manager of Chinese Lala Alliance. Now based in Seattle\, they lead research and campaign organizing at the Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) and support community building among overseas Chinese queer women through Upwomxn. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/interdisciplinary-sinophone-conference/
LOCATION:2252 HSSB\, HSSB\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T113000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250415T190231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204357Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve
DESCRIPTION:This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism\, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word\, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of an image on a surface—as an a priori apperception. That is\, Rosales consumes\, regurgitates\, and pro-jects (Ent-werfen) the presupposed disegno within the two interrelated genres of devotional images (The Fall and Last Judgement). When considered alongside images from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries—like Hans Memling’s Adam and Eve (1485-90)\, Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (c. 1504 and c.1507)\, Michael Coxie’s The Fall of Man (c.1550)\, and Jacob Jordaen’s Last Judgement (c.1653)—the formal and optical disruptions of Rosales’ work become even more pronounced. Ultimately\, the paper proposes that neo-Aristotelian explorations of body and space within both humanism and scholasticism are essential for understanding how Rosales figures blackness as temporally and spatially plural. Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve are pro-jections (Entwurf) which reinterpret how observers see blackness as a temporally discrete apperception of unified categories; as such\, the formal medium and the forms induced within the medium disrupt a definite extension and local definition of black bodies within space. \nDontay M. Givens II is a medieval and early modern studies and Black studies PhD student in the English Department at New York University. His research interests include the aesthetic constructions of blackness with the premodern global context from 1300 to 1700; the global movements of blackness as an aesthetic concept within the Spanish Low Countries and the Dutch and French Empires; and the history of capitalism\, black feminisms\, the conception of the human\, critiques of black representations\, and medieval romance literature. \nPlease contact vagt@ucsb.edu to receive the pre-circulated readings for this talk. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-fall-and-the-fallen-the-lateness-of-harmonia-rosales-adam-and-eve/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:vagt@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250502T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250603T231748Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250605T161720Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: American Jadoo: Fakers\, Fakirs\, and Asian American Performing Artists
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Shreeyash Palshikar will analyze images of Indian magic in American popular culture. He will highlight the little-known stories and images of the first Indian magicians to perform in the United States and consider the American performers—black and white—who also donned Indian costumes\, created Indian personae\, and performed as Indian magicians from the golden age of magic in the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The talk will begin with an introduction to magic in India\, explore how Indian magicians came to the United States via the UK\, and conclude with an analysis of Indian magic in the US. In his talk\, Dr. Palshikar will draw on methods from cultural history\, anthropology\, political science\, and religious studies. \nShreeyash Palshikar holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and has taught at Oxford\, Yale\, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London\, as well as Albright College and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the first person to win a prestigious Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to study traditional Indian magicians\, and he is developing a book\, web series\, and live show based on his experiences. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/american-jadoo-fakers-fakirs-and-asian-american-performing-artists/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20250429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250414T225953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204120Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child
DESCRIPTION:How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies of children. In doing so\, it illustrates the ongoing necessity of Indigenous political savviness in defending communities and nations from the haunted whistlings of Christian religious institutions for Indigenous children and Lands. \nDr. Elisha Chi is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary work engages Indigenous studies\, ethics\, religious studies\, and political theology. Elisha’s work clarifies the necessities and possibilities of institutional decolonization\, specifically Indigenous land return\, as they apply to Catholic histories\, practices\, and land holdings. Her current projects center on Landback and Catholic political theologies\, and her next project will examine the Alaska boarding schools her family attended in order to explore Inupiat and other Alaska Native norms of refusal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/berry-people-a-study-of-catholic-political-theologies-of-the-child/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T123000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250210T234431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T172405Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable and Workshop: Celebrating Restorative Relations: Connections between climate resilience\, Indigenous rights\, and land & water rematriation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion and workshop with guest speakers— featuring conversations between Indigenous and allied movement builders\, practitioners\, and organizers— exploring connections between climate resilience\, Indigenous rights\, and land & water rematriation. This will be an opportunity to gather and address relationships between Land Back movements and politics\, processes of reciprocity\, and resilient ecosystems\, as well as the importance of decommissioning and dam removal within energy transitions\, among other responses to global climate change. We invite everyone to join in celebrating ongoing acts of resistance and restoration— collective actions of reviving relationships of care and connectedness between peoples\, lands\, waters\, and multispecies kin. \nOur guest speakers: \nSarah Barger is the Development Director of Kīpuka Kuleana\, a Native Hawaiian women-led land trust that works to protect cultural landscapes and family lands on the island of Kauaʻi\, HI.\nSibyl Diver is co-director for the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group\, doing community-engaged research on Indigenous water governance within Pacific Northwest salmon watersheds.\nMariaElena Lopez is is a member and Tribal Representative of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and Founding Director of Su’nan Protection\, Art & Cultural Education (The SPACE).\nMargaret McMurtrey is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Academic Coordinator of the UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.\nTeresa Romero is an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of Chumash and president of the collaborative Native Coast Action Network supporting cultural and traditional ecological initiatives. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Climate Justice Working Group Research Focus Group\, CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work\, LiKEN\, the Indigenous Speakers Series\, and UCSB’s American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-and-workshop-celebrating-restorative-relations-connections-between-climate-resilience-indigenous-rights-and-land-water-rematriation/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Climate Justice Working Group":MAILTO:tristan.partridge@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T180000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250221T200000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250127T232122Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250130T215950Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson
DESCRIPTION:The Creative Critical Writing Initiative (housed in the English Department) welcomes Dr. Nalo Hopkinson for an upcoming talk\, “Conversing with the Afrofuture: An Evening with Nalo Hopkinson.” Nalo Hopkinson is an author\, Professor of Creative Writing at The University of British Columbia\, and the 2021 Damon Knight Memorial Grand Master for lifetime achievement in science fiction and fantasy. Born in Jamaica\, Dr. Hopkinson has taught\, lived\, and created across the Caribbean\, the United States\, and Canada\, producing works that engage with disability\, neurodiversity\, queer Black feminist and womanist thought\, Caribbean literature\, folklore\, & ecology\, Afrofuturism\, textile and doll-making praxis\, and teaching. Dr. Hopkinson is known best for her works in speculative fiction—novels such as Brown Girl in the Ring\, Midnight Robber\, and Sister Mine represent only a fraction of Dr. Hopkinson’s contributions to Afrofuturist thought and art practice. \nJoin us this Winter quarter to welcome Dr. Hopkinson to UCSB. The event will include a moderated conversation\, an audience Q&A\, followed by a book-signing. Select titles will be available for purchase. We hope to see you there! \nCosponsored by the Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative\, Las Maestras Center for Xican[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art and Social Practice\, Center for Feminist Futures\, the American Cultures and Global Contexts Center\, English\, Film and Media Studies\, Comparative Literature\, Black Studies\, Feminist Studies\, the Transcriptions Center\, the Writing Program\, and the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-conversing-with-the-afrofuture-an-evening-with-nalo-hopkinson/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni Hall\, Mosher Alumni House\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Caribbean Studies RFG":MAILTO:cathythomas@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4174006;-119.8454735
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T164500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T175655Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible and the Sino-Soundscape in North America
DESCRIPTION:The defining tunes of the Sinophone community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were those of the Cantonese opera performed in Chinese theaters. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of materials about Sinophone community in archives. The sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in English newspapers and travelogues. Drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer to piece together the history of vibrant Chinese theaters\, this talk offers readings against the grain to consider how archives structure our understanding of the past and frame how we enter into the present and future. \nNancy Yunhwa Rao is Distinguished Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone and Inter-Asia studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she is the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. For The Cambridge Companion to Serialism\, she contributed a chapter on East Asia. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition recently appeared in Music Theory Spectrum. Rao currently serves as editor of the journal American Music. Her new book\, Inside Chinese theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond\, will be published in March 2025. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Music\, and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-inside-chinese-theater-archive-of-the-invisible-and-sino-soundscape-in-north-america/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20250128T174041Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture
DESCRIPTION:The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005\, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester\, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s creative play. On the page and onscreen\, in museum galleries\, schools\, toy aisles\, and at home\, today cardboard occupies a privileged position within children’s material culture where the promises of environmental and STEAM education coalesce. Its accessibility makes it an equitable choice; its recyclability makes it a sustainable one. This talk will examine cardboard’s recent ascendence in children’s sustainability and STEAM cultures. Through a series of case studies\, including documentary film\, fiction\, curricular materials and kids’ material cultures\, it will identify the optimistic futures projected by proponents of cardboard play and interrogate their underpinning logics. Cardboard sits at the intersection between the local and the global in children’s everyday lives—at once emblematic of transnational flows of labor and capital and the material stuff of hyper-specific embodied engagements. As such\, this talk will trace cardboard’s function as a material\, discursive\, and aesthetic phenomenon deployed to address—though not necessarily resolve—a range of concerns related to children’s economic\, environmental\, and educational futures. \nMeredith A. Bak is an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter\, The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies\, Early Popular Visual Culture\, The Velvet Light Trap\, and Film History\, and in several edited collections. She is at work on a project about the role of cardboard in children’s STEAM and environmental pedagogies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Comparative Literature Program\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-outside-the-box-cardboard-in-contemporary-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:3145 SSMS\, 3145 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
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LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T215728Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\, the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Prof. Nicola Daly entitled “Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness.” \nIn this talk\, Prof. Nicola Daly will traverse a range of research studies exploring the contribution of dual language picturebooks to language revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on her new book\, Language\, Identity and Diversity in Picturebooks: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective (Routledge\, 2025)\, she will present findings showing how dual language picturebooks in Aotearoa can both reflect and disrupt language hierarchies\, and how they can be used in educational settings from preschool to university to support critical language awareness and language learning of the Indigenous language te reo Māori. \nNicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education\, University of Waikato\, where she teaches children’s literature and leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also co-directs the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit. Her research focus is multilingual picturebooks and their role in perpetuating and challenging language attitudes. She was a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar at the University of Arizona\, USA in 2019-2020. She is an Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization Lecture Series\, and the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dual-language-picturebooks-in-aotearoa-contributions-to-language-revitalisation-and-critical-language-awareness/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T171500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241218T191100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T174208Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Child Labor Issue as Depicted in the TV Cartoon Meena Ki Kahani
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Jawa Jha focuses on child labor\, particularly the issues faced by the girl child as depicted in the TV cartoon series Meena Ki Kahani (Stories of Meena)\, broadcast in India. This presentation is divided broadly into three main sections. The first section provides a brief overview of India’s children literature\, tracing its transition from oral storytelling traditions to visual media like cartoon-based TV shows. The second section examines child labor issues depicted in Meena Ki Kahani. This TV cartoon series\, produced with the support of UNICEF\, aims to raise awareness about various social inequalities prevalent in South Asian countries. Re-telecast in India on the Doordarshan channel for e-learning during the pandemic lockdown\, Meena Ki Kahani aims at reducing child labor along with other social issues. The last section of the presentation attempts to comprehend the problems of child labor faced by a girl child in India’s socio-cultural context. This presentation seeks to amplify awareness in order to stop the vicious cycle of child labor in India. \nDr. Jawa Jha is the first Indian to complete a Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Seoul National University\, South Korea. She has taught as Guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bangalore City University\, India. She co-authored a book on Elementary Hindi for Korean learners\, published in 2020 by Busan University of Foreign Studies. She was awarded various research grants and scholarships\, including the Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellowship\, Silk-Road Scholarship\, and Korea Foundation’s Korean language learning scholarship. Recently\, she was invited as a speaker at the 2024 World Bang Jung Hwan Conference on Children’s Literature held in Suwon\, Korea. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-child-labor-issue-as-depicted-in-the-tv-cartoon-meena-ki-kahani/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250115T173000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241114T224210Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250204T215746Z
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SUMMARY:The Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Series: The Human Factor: Work as Science in Twentieth-Century China
DESCRIPTION:In 1935\, the Commercial Press in Shanghai published a modest-sized volume on a subject most of its readers likely never heard of. Titled An Overview of Industrial Psychology (工業心理學概觀)\, this text was written by a young psychologist who was trained in and recently returned from Britain. It was the first in Chinese on the titular subject\, which promised to (amid other things) “restore the rightful place of human beings in processes of production.” What was industrial psychology\, and why did those who promoted or practiced it across multiple political and productive regimes choose to do so? In this talk\, Victor Seow will trace the history of industrial psychology in China from the 1930s to the 1990s\, focusing on how this science of work reflected shifts in the meaning and value of labor over those decades. \nVictor Seow is John L. Loeb Associate Professor of the Social Sciences at Harvard University. He is a historian of technology\, science\, and industry\, specializing in China and Japan in their global contexts and in histories of energy and work. \nCosponsored by the Lawrence Badash Memorial Lecture Fund\, the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group\, and the Department of History’s History of Science field 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-lawrence-badash-memorial-lecture-series-the-human-factor-work-as-science-in-twentieth-century-china/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Machines, People, and Politics,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Machines%2C People%2C and Politics RFG":MAILTO:pmccray@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241209T181500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241120T192816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241205T182713Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, “Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\,” the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Indigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova (Dolgan) entitled “Matchstick for Survival: Indigenous Writing in the Russian Arctic.” \nIndigenous author Kseniia Bolshakova will give a talk on her decolonial book The Frost Also Melts. The novel explores the fate of Arctic Indigenous nomads through the personal story of a child raised in a traditional reindeer-herding family in the tundra. The Frost Also Melts is about the forever that is becoming finite: permafrost\, tundra\, reindeer herding\, and native language. Both the child and adult voices of the author reflect in the novel on the far-reaching effects of ongoing colonization and assimilation. The original book is written in the Dolgan Indigenous language. The talk’s title refers to the fact that Kseniia Bolshakova’s book and all her work are like a matchstick\, trying to keep the dwindling flame of her people alive. \nKseniia Bolshakova is an Indigenous activist and writer. She is a member of the Dolgan Tribal community Iydyna\, born and raised in the Dolgan settlement and tundra of Popigai in the Russian Arctic. Kseniia serves as the Indigenous youth focal point for Eastern Europe\, the Russian Federation\, Central Asia\, and Transcaucasia at the United Nations. \nInterpretation for the discussion will be provided by Karina Sheifer\, a graduate student in the Department of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara who works on endangered languages. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, the Comparative Literature Program\, the Department of Linguistics\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-matchstick-for-survival-indigenous-writing-in-the-russian-arctic/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241125T134500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241022T165643Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T194306Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: One China\, Many Taiwans: The Geopolitics of Cross-Strait Tourism
DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Ian Rowen will highlight how Chinese tourism split Taiwan into “Two Taiwans”—one portrayed as part of China for Chinese tour groups\, and the other experienced as the everyday reality of local residents and independent travelers. He will also examine how this dynamic intensified conflicts between business\, civil society\, and government entities with differing stakes in maintaining a PRC-focused tourism industry\, ultimately contributing to a more diverse civic nationalism in Taiwan. Rowen’s book One China\, Many Taiwans explores how tourism\, used by the PRC as a political tool to influence Taiwan\, heightened tensions between the two governments\, deepened divisions within Taiwanese society\, and increased public support for national self-determination. \nRowen is Associate Professor in the Department of Taiwan Culture\, Languages\, and Literature at National Taiwan Normal University. He previously served as Assistant Professor of Sociology\, Geography and Urban Planning at Nanyang Technological University\, Singapore. He has been a Visiting Scholar at Fudan University (China) and Eberhard Karls University of Tübingen (Germany)\, a postdoctoral fellow at Academia Sinica (Taiwan)\, and a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council on Agile Governance. His research has been supported with a Fulbright Fellowship and multiple US National Science Foundation grants. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-one-china-many-taiwans-the-geopolitics-of-cross-strait-tourism/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241118T134500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241022T173237Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T173916Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Beyond the "New Cold War": Intimating Movements across Taiwan and Asian/Pacific/America
DESCRIPTION:Taiwan has long held a pivotal—if “strategically ambiguous”—position in inter-imperial tensions over global influence and has in recent decades been frequently used to refurbish debates over a “new Cold War.” Situated at the nexus of inter-imperial entanglements\, settler-colonial formations\, and migrant labor networks\, Taiwan’s perpetually unresolved status is\, Wong argues\, pivotal not only for the geopolitics of empire but more importantly for its place in trans-geographical alliance building for those who have long survived\, navigated\, and challenged these imperial binds—e.g.\, Indigenous coalitions\, informal economy workers\, militaristically displaced refugees. In this talk\, Wong discusses the ongoing work of grassroot organizations that have built transpacific networks—through conferences\, community-driven research\, and cultural productions—across Taiwan\, the Philippines\, North America\, and the Pacific. Examining these convergences complicates narrow definitions of both “anti-Asian hate” and “new Cold War” discourses simultaneously\, as such narratives often obscure the many coalitional openings—”the linked\, if uneven intimacies\,” citing Lisa Lowe—that have always already been in formation. \nLily Wong is an Associate Professor of Literature and Critical Race Gender & Culture Studies at American University. She also serves as an Associate Director of AU’s Antiracist Research and Policy Center. Her research focuses on the politics of affective labor\, racial capitalism\, and transpacific coalitional movements. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-beyond-the-new-cold-war-intimating-movements-across-taiwan-and-asian-pacific-america/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241114T180000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241112T223838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241113T221440Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Reason/Rationality Versus Wisdom/Mysticism in Jainism and Indian Thought
DESCRIPTION:On November 14\, as part of the inaugural celebration of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions at UC Santa Barbara\, we will welcome our new colleague\, Anil Mundra\, as the inaugural holder of the Endowed Chair. The celebration will feature a lecture by distinguished Visiting Professor Jayendra Soni at 4:00 pm and will be followed by a reception. \nJayandra Soni retired in May 2012 from the Department of Indology and Tibetology at the University of Marburg in Germany\, where he taught Indian languages (Sanskrit\, Hindi\, and Gujarati) and Indian philosophy from 1991 to 2012. He received his PhD from Banaras Hindu University in India and his second PhD from McMaster University in Canada. He now lives in Innsbruck\, Austria\, where he teaches at the University of Innsbruck. \nAnil Mundra serves as the inaugural holder of the Bhagvan Vimalnath Chair in Jain Studies and South Asian Religions and Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He obtained his PhD in the Philosophy of Religions from the University of Chicago Divinity School. His research focuses on how South Asian philosophers navigate religious diversity\, especially in Sanskrit texts on the classical Jain theory of non-one-sidedness (anekānta-vāda). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reason-rationality-versus-wisdom-mysticism-in-jainism-and-indian-thought/
LOCATION:The Club\, Betty Elings Wells Pavilion
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:20241114T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241115T163000
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241022T173048Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T173048Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Queering Taiwan Studies International Conference
DESCRIPTION:Ku’er\, the Mandarin transliteration of the English word “queer\,” has a distinctly Taiwanese genealogy\, as implied in the homophonic meaning of being “cool.” This conference examines the interrelationships between queer studies and Taiwan studies\, from placing Taiwanese history and culture on the map of queer inquiry to the queering of Taiwan studies. Does queer Taiwan studies mean a focus on queer content\, or is “queering” a method that can be used in studying any content in Taiwan studies? In light of the emergence of queer indigenous studies and queer of color critique in North America\, how might we consider the question of indigeneity\, race\, and ethnicity in queering Taiwan studies? Ultimately\, what can a focus on Taiwan do to exceed the existing limits of queer theory\, and how might the method of queering advance the transgressive potential of Taiwan studies? \nLocations will vary for the conference sessions. Please refer to the schedule below for location information. \n11/14 9:00am – 3:35pm HSSB 4020\n11/14 4:00pm – 5:30pm SSMS 4315\n11/15 9:00am – 4:30pm McCune Conference Room \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCLA’s Asia Pacific Center \nImage: Jess\, Ex. 5 – Mind’s I: Translation #12\, 1965; The National Gallery of Art
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-conference-queering-taiwan-studies-international-conference/
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241113T134500
DTSTAMP:20260508T132734
CREATED:20241022T171354Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T171932Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Feeling Asian American: Racial Flexibility between Assimilation and Oppression
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Wen Liu will argue that Asian Americans are not a coherent racial population\, but they are made so through the psychological technologies of “racecraft.” These technologies aim to demonstrate the racial elasticity of the Asian American mind\, including cultural essentialism\, democratic governmentality\, white ascendancy\, and unconscious microaggression. They help construct a flexible racial identity that can demonstrate the wide range of cognitive styles\, cultural practices\, and\, most importantly\, race elasticity for the postwar USA as it strives to become a multicultural democracy. \nWen Liu is an Associate Research Fellow at the Institute of Ethnology\, Academia Sinica. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies\, and UCSB’s Department of Asian American Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/feeling-asian-american-racial-flexibility-between-assimilation-and-oppression/
LOCATION:4202 HSSB
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rose Kuo":MAILTO:rose_kuo@ucsb.edu
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