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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190204T193000
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SUMMARY:Women and Comics: A UCSB Reads Event
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with UCSB Reads 2019 and its companion exhibition In Her Own Image\, Professor Brian Donnelly is opening up his undergraduate English class to campus and the community for a discussion of comics by and about women. Please join us for a preview of the upcoming Library exhibition that will explore and celebrate female comic book creators and their works. The preview will be followed by a discussion about comics by women and about women in comics. Donnelly’s class is reading the UCSB Reads 2019 book\, the graphic novel The Best We Could Do by the author Thi Bui and will have prepared some questions in advance. The audience will also have an opportunity to ask questions. \nWith Addie Jensen\, graduate student in History\, Chizu Morihara\, Art & Architecture Librarian\, Rachel Rys\, graduate student in Feminist Studies\, and Maite Urcaregui\, graduate student in English. Moderated by Swati Rana\, Assistant Professor of English. \nThis event is free and open to the public. \nSponsored by Arts & Lectures\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, College of Creative Studies\, College of Engineering\, College of Letters & Science\, English Department\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Graduate Division\, Graduate Student Association\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, KCSB-FM 91.9\, MultiCultural Center\, Office of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Sociology Department\, UCSB Bookstore\, Women\, Gender & Sexual Equity Department\, and the Writing Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/women-and-comics-a-ucsb-reads-event/
LOCATION:1920 Buchanan\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alex Regan":MAILTO:aregan@library.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T170000
DTSTAMP:20260504T080522
CREATED:20190125T025444Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 11:45-1:00 PM | 6020 HSSB\nTuesday\, February 5\, 4:00-5:00 PM | 6020 HSSB \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the new Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.  Explore the course requirements\, hear about the paid internships and fellow-designed community projects\, and find out more about the capstone project. \nThe January 30 session will include lunch from South Coast Deli and the February 5 session will have light refreshments.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-2/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190214T084500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260504T080522
CREATED:20190201T184954Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190212T182501Z
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SUMMARY:Democratic Affections: Film\, Philosophy\, and Religion in the Thought of Stanley Cavell
DESCRIPTION:The death this year of Stanley Cavell brought to an end a unique and exceptionally rich life in philosophy\, one that continues to inspire readers and colleagues throughout the humanities and the humanistic social sciences. In this two-day interdisciplinary symposium commemorating Cavell’s career\, UCSB faculty from across the campus invite Cavell scholars from Europe and America to join in a discussion of his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of the affective dimensions of democratic life\, particularly as these play out in film\, religion\, and what Cavell terms Emersonian Perfectionism. \nThe first day (Thursday February 14)\, which will focus on Cavell and Film\, will conclude with a screening at UCSB’s Carsey-Wolf Center of the Hollywood classic The Lady Eve and an accompanying Q&A. The second day (Friday February 15) will focus on Cavell and Religion and Philosophy. \nFor conference schedule and details please visit https://hscif.org/democratic-affections/ \nFor the screening event please visit https://www.carseywolf.ucsb.edu/pollock-events/ladyeve/ \nThe Cavell Symposium is co-sponsored by The Center for Humanities & Social Change\, the College of Letters and Science\, the Graduate Center for Literary Research\, the Department of Philosophy\, the Carsey Wolf Center\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, the Literature and the Mind Program\, the Departments of Religious Studies\, of Political Science\, Film and Media Studies\, French and Italian\, and the Comparative Literature Program.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/democratic-affections-film-philosophy-and-religion-in-the-thought-of-stanley-cavell/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Center for Humanities & Social Change":MAILTO:tcarlson@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190215T220000
DTSTAMP:20260504T080522
CREATED:20190122T201003Z
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SUMMARY:Timely Intersections: Black Histories on the Page and Stage
DESCRIPTION:How are Black histories re-purposed and re-imagined as they move across mediums? \nConsidering that both literature and theatre have advanced causes of Black liberation across historical eras and genres\, our aim is to think through creative adaptations of Black histories as both a conduit for social change and a mode of education. \nOur symposium commemorates the Theater and Dance department’s LAUNCH PAD production of Cheryl West’s adaptation of The Watsons Go to Birmingham – 1963\, a Civil Rights-inspired novel by Newbery-Award winning children’s author Christopher Paul Curtis. \n  \n1 PM: Welcome/Coffee\n  \n1:15: Roundtable: Pedagogy & Practice: Bringing Black Histories into Classrooms\n  \n\nStephanie Batiste – English/Black Studies\nChristina McMahon – Theater and Dance\nFelice Blake – English\nNadege Clitandre – Global Studies\n\n  \n2:15 Panel: Translating Black Stories for Young Readers & Local Communities\n  \nDr. Melinda Wilson Ramey (Sacramento State University)\, “Building and Breaking ‘The Black Play’” \nAbout the Speaker: Melinda Wilson Ramey\, Ph.D. is the Associate Dean of Students and Personnel in the College of Arts & Letters at Sacramento State. She holds an Interdisciplinary Ph.D. in Theatre and Drama from Northwestern University\, a M.A. in Theatre also from Northwestern\, and a B.A. in African American Studies from Vanderbilt University. As a university administrator\, she focuses on student success initiatives\, faculty/staff development and creative collaborations between the college and Sacramento community. She is the former chair of the Department of Theatre and Dance where she taught courses in theatre history\, script analysis\, directing\, and African American and multicultural theatre. Her creative scholarship explores ways of using the stage as a place “to play” and question theatrical representations of Black identity. Her notable university and community theatre directing credits include Les Blancs; Twilight: Los Angeles\, 1992; Bourbon at the Border; for colored girls who have considered suicide/ when the rainbow is enuf; The Wiz; In the Blood; Having Our Say: The Delany Sisters’ First Hundred Years; and Joe Turner’s Come and Gone. \n  \nSharon Langley (children’s author)\, “Exploring and Sharing Family Stories” \nAbout the Speaker: Sharon Langley is a Baltimore native who became known around the country as the first African American child to enjoy Gwynn Oak Amusement Park when it opened to the public without segregation in 1963.  A RIDE TO REMEMBER\, co-authored with Amy Nathan and illustrated by award-winning artist Floyd Cooper\, is her debut picture book. She is also a poet\, writing with the Camera Obscura Poets in Santa Monica.  She is a graduate of Clark Atlanta University and holds a master’s degree in educational leadership from Mount Saint Mary’s University.  She lives in Los Angeles\, California. \n  \n  \n  \nAndrea Loney (children’s author)\, “Portraying Personal Narratives within the Larger Black Experience: Writing the James Van Der Zee Story” \nAbout the Speaker: Andrea J. Loney received the 2014 Lee & Low New Voices Award for her picture book biography TAKE A PICTURE OF ME\, JAMES VAN DERZEE!\, a Junior Library Guild Fall 2017 selection with a starred Publishers Weekly review and an NAACP Image Award Nomination\, published in July 2017. Her picture book BUNNYBEAR\, published by Albert Whitman in January of 2017\, was chosen for the 2018 ALA Rainbow List\, and DOUBLE BASS BLUES will be published by Random House Knopf in 2019. Andrea is a proud member of The Brown Bookshelf\, SCBWI\, and 12×12\, as well as a board member of the Children’s Literature Council of Southern California. She volunteers as a story time reader\, a second grade coordinator\, and a curriculum development specialist at Reading to Kids. A graduate of New York University with a BFA and an MFA in Dramatic Writing\, she’s currently a computer science professor at a local community college. Andrea lives in Inglewood\, California with her towering stacks of picture books\, her devoted family\, and their incredibly spoiled pets. \n  \n4:00 Keynote: Black Time Studies: Histories\, Futures\, and the Possibilities of the Present\n  \nDr. Julius Fleming (University of Maryland)\nAbout the Speaker: Julius B. Fleming\, Jr. is an Assistant Professor of English at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Specializing in African Diasporic literatures and cultures\, he has particular interests in performance studies\, decolonial theory\, visual culture\, diaspora\, and medicine—especially where they intersect with race\, gender\, and sexuality. Julius is currently completing his first book manuscript\, tentatively entitled “Black Patience: Performance and the Civil Rights Movement.” His work appears or is forthcoming in American Literature\, Callaloo\, American Literary History\, Text and Performance Quarterly\, The James Baldwin Review\, and The Southern Quarterly. He is beginning work on a second book project that examines black art\, the human\, and contemporary geographies of settler colonialism. \n  \n\n\n5:15  Interview: Novelist Christopher Paul Curtis\, playwright Cheryl West\, and Professor Risa Brainin\n  \n \nAbout the Speaker: Christopher Paul Curtis was born and reared in Flint\, Michigan. After high school graduation\, he worked on the assembly line of the Fisher Body Plant/Flint Plant No. 1 and graduated from the Flint branch of the University of Michigan. His first book\, The Watsons Go to Birmingham — 1963\, received a Newbery Honor and Coretta Scott King Honor book citation in 1996\, and Bud\, Not Buddy received the Newbery Medal and Coretta Scott King Award in 2000. His 2007 book Elijah of Buxton won a Newbery Honor\, the Coretta Scott King Author Award\, and the Scott O’Dell Award for Historical Fiction in 2008. “This novel came to me in a way that was far different than any other\,” states Curtis. “From the word ‘go’ Elijah and I became close friends. When I’d go to the library to write\, it was as if he were anxiously waiting for me\, waiting to tell about his life\, his worries\, his adventures.” Christopher Paul Curtis lives with his wife and three children in Windsor\, Ontario\, Canada. \n  \nAbout the Speaker: Cheryl L. West’s plays have been seen in England\, off-Broadway\, on Broadway and in numerous regional theaters around the country. She has written TV and film projects at Disney\, Paramount\, MTV Films\, Showtime\, TNT\, HBO\, and CBS.   Ms. West is currently working on commissions for Oregon Shakespeare Festival\, The Goodman\, Seattle Rep\, Seattle Children’s Theater and UC Santa Barbara. \n  \n \nAbout the Speaker: Professor Risa Brainin is an award-winning director and the Founder/Artistic Director of the groundbreaking new play development program LAUNCH PAD at UC Santa Barbara. She served as Artistic Director of Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, Associate Artistic Director at Kansas City Repertory Theatre and Indiana Repertory Theatre\, and Resident Director at the Guthrie Theater.  Directorial credits include plays at Syracuse Stage\, Denver Center Theatre\, Alabama Shakespeare Festival\, Actors’ Theatre of Louisville\, Milwaukee Repertory Theatre\, Great Lakes Theater\, Portland Stage Company\, American Players Theatre\, Repertory Theatre of St. Louis and more. A professor of acting and directing at UCSB\, Brainin is a graduate of the Carnegie-Mellon Drama Program. \n  \n  \n6:15 Dinner\nScenes showcases from UCSB students \n  \n8:00 Attend The Watsons Go to Birmingham\, 1963 (Performing Arts Theater)\n  \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, College of Letters & Sciences\, Theater and Dance Department\, Hemispheric South(s) – English Department\, MCC\, UCSB Consortium for Black Studies in CA\, Division of Social Sciences\, Division of HFA\, Education Department\, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, Center for Black Studies Research\, History Department\, LAUNCH PAD program\, Black Studies Department\, College of Creative Studies\, and the Comparative Literature Department
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/timely-intersections-black-histories-on-the-page-and-stage/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Christina McMahon":MAILTO:mcmahon@theaterdance.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190221T150000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Is Culture a Human Right?
DESCRIPTION:A commemoration of the International Mother Language Day with the aim of raising awareness on campus towards preserving endangered languages and fostering tolerance towards cultural and linguistic diversity. \nThis year’s commemoration will feature a lecture Dr. Juan Uriagereka (University of Maryland). \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, Barandiaran Chair of Basque Studies\, and the Etxepare Basque Institute
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-is-culture-a-human-right/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Department of Spanish and Portuguese":MAILTO:osiris_gomez@hotmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190222T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T180000
DTSTAMP:20260504T080522
CREATED:20190118T210920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190215T175003Z
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SUMMARY:50th Anniversary Conference El Plan de Santa Barbara
DESCRIPTION:The 50th Anniversary Conference El Plan de Santa Barbara will commemorate one of the seminal proclamations of the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s.  The Chicano Movement was the largest and most widespread civil rights and empowerment movement by Mexican Americans.  El Plan was drafted at a conference held at UCSB in April of 1969.  It laid the foundation for the establishment of Chicano Studies at UCSB and elsewhere.  It also unified the Chicano student movement under one name: MEChA.  Panels and speakers will address the history of El Plan but also its relevance today. \nFeb. 22 the conference will be in 6020 HSSB\, McCune Conference Room and Feb. 23 at the MultiCultural Center (MCC) \nSponsored by Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies | Chicano Studies Institute | Office of the Chancellor | College of Letters & Science Council of Deans | Dean of Social Sciences | Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion | Las Maestras Center | Mosher Alumni House | UCSB Office of Development | Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention Office | UC Santa Barbara Library | Chicano/Latino Research Group (IHC)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/50th-anniversary-conference-el-plan-de-santa-barbara/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units,Other Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Mario Garcia":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190223T213000
DTSTAMP:20260504T080522
CREATED:20190221T222745Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190222T022612Z
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SUMMARY:Performance: Intersections: An Evening of Chamber Music and Dance
DESCRIPTION:A concert of original choreography and contemporary music performed by dancers and musicians from the Departments of Music and Theater/Dance. Choreography by Christina McCarthy\, Brandon Whited\, Elicia Kraus\, Rachel Harris\, and Shen Wei with music by David Lang\, Gaspar Cassadó\, Andy Akiho\, and Alysia Michelle James (UCSB Alumnus). \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, UCSB Department of Music\, and the UCSB Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/performance-intersections-an-evening-of-chamber-music-and-dance/
LOCATION:Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall\, Music Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Adriane Hill":MAILTO:adrianehill@ucsb.edu
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