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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Elizabeth Kolbert
DESCRIPTION:It is said that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by climate change and other disastrous human impacts on the planet. In her new book\, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Should we be seeking technological solutions to the damage humans have caused to the environment\, or will such “solutions” only make the problems worse? \nElizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, an examination of mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field\, was a New York Times 2014 Top Ten Best Book of the Year and is number one on the Guardian‘s list of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of all time. The Sixth Extinction also won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker\, her first book\, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man\, Nature\, and Climate Change\, was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by The New York Times Book Review. \nKolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered numerous awards\, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award\, the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category\, and a National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category. Kolbert has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship\, the prestigious Heinz Award\, the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award\, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union\, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2021 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nCopies of Kolbert’s books will be available for purchase and signing\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. This will event will be held in person; there will not be live or recorded online viewing options. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-elizabeth-kolbert/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: The Only True Reader Is a Re-reader
DESCRIPTION:“I sometimes think I was born reading. I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands\, my head lost to the world around me.” \nWhat Vivian Gornick did not say when she wrote these sentences was how often the book in her hands was one she had read a number of times before. It became her habit as life went on to re-read the books that had repeatedly seemed important to her\, in order to see whether or how much they had changed—as she had changed. In other words\, for Gornick\, re-reading is one of the great and primary ways in which we capture the meaning of our own accumulated experience. In this talk\, she will take the listener along on her own journey of self-discovery through some of the re-readings that have meant the most to her. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose works include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987)\, Approaching Eye Level (1996)\, The End of the Novel of Love (1997)\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)\, The Men in My Life (2008)\, The Odd Woman and the City (2015)\, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (2020)\, and Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature\, and Feminism in Our Time (2021). The New York Times selected Fierce Attachments as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. \nThe talk will be followed by audience Q&A\, a reception\, and book signing. Copies of Gornick’s books will be available for purchase\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Ensuring the Future of Historic Textiles: The Case of a Japanese Empress's Court Gown
DESCRIPTION:Objects talk to us over time and space\, transmitting in their colors\, shapes\, textures\, and materials insight into other lives and ways of living. Some we wish to preserve for their sheer beauty\, others for the people\, times\, or places they represent. Of the items that are central to our daily lives\, textiles are among the most perishable: if not used until they are rags\, they still degrade naturally over time\, prey to insects\, mold\, moisture and light. \nDespite the humid climate\, beautiful textiles in Japan from the eighth century have been lovingly preserved\, some retaining brilliant colors. Where vestments have been treated as treasures passed down through centuries of generations\, it came as a surprise that something as “new” as a hundred-and-thirty-year-old garment that was probably only worn once or twice would need extensive conservation work. This\, however\, turned out to be the case for a Western-style court gown made for Japan’s Meiji empress\, Haruko (1850-1914). Using the empress’s gown as an illustration\, Bethe will discuss conservation as a process that involves learning and preserving lost techniques\, combined with cutting-edge scientific solutions. She will introduce basic principles of conservation\, such as ensuring that every process is reversible\, preserving the original but adding nothing new\, and avoiding incurring future deterioration by matching materials and techniques. \nMonica Bethe is Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto\, dedicated in part to the conservation of treasures in Japanese Imperial Convents. Experience in weaving and natural dyeing led her to conduct research on historical textiles and their conservation. Her publications include chapters in Miracles and Mischief: Nō and Kyōgen Theater in Japan (2002)\, Amamonzeki\, A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents (2009)\, Transmitting Robes\, Linking Minds: The World of Buddhist Kasaya (2010)\, Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia (2015)\, and Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (2022); translations of books\, such as Restoration of Japanese Art in European and American Collections (1995) and Textiles in the Shōsō-in (2000\, 2001); and articles\, most recently\, “Guise and Disguise: Nō Costumes in the Context of Cultural Norms” in Mime Journal (2021). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the East Asia Center \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ensuring-the-future-of-historic-textiles-the-case-of-a-japanese-empresss-court-gown/
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CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Afghanistan: The Forever War Ends
DESCRIPTION:After twenty years\, the end of the American war in Afghanistan was ugly and chaotic\, with terrible scenes of friends and allies being left behind and of the Taliban sweeping away everything America built. Did it have to be this way? Dexter Filkins\, who began covering the country before the 9/11 attacks\, will discuss how the Afghan state\, built at such great expense\, crumbled so fast\, why America’s withdrawal turned out so badly\, and how–whether we want it to or not–Afghanistan may figure in our future. The message he’ll deliver contains a measure of hope: that the vast changes set in motion by the United States in that country\, especially those regarding women\, may yet survive. \nDexter Filkins has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 2011. From 2000 to 2010\, he was a reporter for The New York Times\, reporting from Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, and Iraq. He has also worked for the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was chief of the paper’s New Delhi bureau. In 2009\, he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times journalists covering Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has received numerous other prizes\, including two George Polk Awards and three Overseas Press Club Awards. His book\, The Forever War\, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was named a best book of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Time\, and The Boston Globe. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nImage\, left side panel: still from video by Mukhtar Wafayee of an American military plane leaving Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug 16\, 2021\nImage\, right side panel: credit Ahmad Sahel Arman\, students stand along a pathway near Kabul University after it was reopened on February 26\, 2022 \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-dexter-filkins/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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