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Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child

Zoom

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 ...

Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve

Zoom

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 ...

Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference

2252 HSSB HSSB, UCSB, Santa Barbara, CA, United States +1 more

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. The 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. Biographies of the Panel Speakers: ...

LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction and Social Organization

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States +1 more

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. The 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 ...