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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Chalk Talk Revisited
DESCRIPTION:After the success of our first Chalk Talk this past fall\, the What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media RFG is hosting “Chalk Talk Revisited.” Even if you weren’t able to make our first event\, we welcome everyone to join us from any discipline as we continue our discussions about cultivating socio-culturally aware pedagogy and global media in the classroom. Whether you are a veteran Shakespearean or a first-timer to teaching the Bard\, we encourage you to join us! \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link. Links to optional pre-event resources will be provided a few days before the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-chalk-talk-revisited/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220301T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Critical Access Studies
DESCRIPTION:Thirty years after the passage of the Americans With Disabilities Act\, much of the built environment remains inaccessible to disabled people. Accordingly\, the vast majority of research and writing on accessibility seeks to convince the unconvinced of the value of inclusion. This field\, which Professor Aimi Hamraie terms “Access Studies\,” would benefit from greater engagement with the concepts\, practices\, and political commitments of critical disability studies. In this talk\, Hamraie will discuss the emerging field of “Critical Access Studies\,” which engages with the methodologies\, epistemologies\, and political commitments of accessibility from the perspectives of Disability Justice and disability culture. Using historical and contemporary examples\, they will show how critical and intersectional perspectives on disability can enable a deeper engagement with the politics of knowing\, making\, and belonging in the twentieth-century United States. \nAimi Hamraie (they/them) is Associate Professor of Medicine\, Health\, & Society and American Studies at Vanderbilt University and Director of the Critical Design Lab. Hamraie is author of Building Access: Universal Design and the Politics of Disability (University of Minnesota Press\, 2017) and host of the Contra* podcast on disability\, design justice\, and the lifeworld. They identify as disabled\, SWANA\, and diasporic Iranian. Their interdisciplinary research spans critical disability studies\, science and technology studies\, critical design and urbanism\, critical race theory\, and the environmental humanities. They were just appointed to the US Architectural and Transportation Barriers Compliance Board. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of History of Art and Architecture\, The History of Science Colloquium\, The Comparative Literature Program\, The Graduate Center for Literary Research \nImage description: An olive-skinned Iranian person with short\, dark curly hair and rectangular glasses smiles at the camera. They wear a blue shirt and blue/green checkered blazer. Behind them is a blurred green background.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-critical-access-studies/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220302T170000
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SUMMARY:Russia's Invasion of Ukraine: A Roundtable Discussion
DESCRIPTION:UCSB faculty members will discuss the invasion of Ukraine\, including its historical background\, regional and global ramifications\, and international responses. \nPanelists:\nBenjamin J. Cohen\, Distinguished Professor Emeritus\, Political Science\nAdrienne Edgar\, Professor\, History\nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky\, Assistant Professor\, Global Studies\nTsuyoshi Hasegawa\, Professor Emeritus\, History\nAdrian Ivakhiv\, Visiting Scholar\, Carsey-Wolf Center\nCynthia Kaplan\, Professor\, Political Science \nModerator:\nSara Pankenier Weld\, Professor\, Germanic & Slavic Studies \nLive closed-captioning will be provided. \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/russias-invasion-of-ukraine-a-roundtable-discussion/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,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:20220303T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T120000
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CREATED:20220223T164710Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Many Journeys of Robert Glenn: Memory\, Slavery\, and the Transition to Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Professor John Majewski will speak about the 1937 WPA interview of Robert Glenn\, who recounted how he was sold as a child as part of the slave trade. After emancipation\, he was eventually able to find his parents. Glenn’s interview is remarkably rich and detailed\, and because he includes many specific names and places\, Professor Majewski has been able to begin reconstructing his life using census records and other documents. The discussion will explore the possibility of using Glenn’s narrative as the basis for teaching books centered on issues of memory\, the slave trade\, various forms of slave resistance\, and the transition to freedom after emancipation. \nJohn Majewski is a Professor in the Department of History\, where he teaches and writes about 19th-century U.S. history\, with an emphasis on political economy. His publications include Modernizing a Slave Economy: The Economic Vision of the Confederate Nation and A House Dividing: Economic Development in Pennsylvania and Virginia before the Civil War. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled\, “Inventing the Creative Citizen: Creativity and the U.S. Civil War.” \nZoom link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/86362866754 \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group. \nImage Credit: Eyre Crowe
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-many-journeys-of-robert-glenn-memory-slavery-and-the-transition-to-freedom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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ORGANIZER;CN="Slavery%2C Captivity%2C and the Meaning of Freedom RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
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SUMMARY:From Alphabetical to Digital Literacy? Some Reflections on Orality\, Writing\, Cultural Techniques\, and Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Are we witnessing the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy? But what does “literacy” mean? Going back to the discovery of the difference between orality and literacy in the 1960s and 1970s\, we find a real discovery – the difference between oral and written language – combined with a problematic narrative: The supremacy of literal to oral cultures. To avoid this ideology we should consider orality and literacy as the two ends of a continuum. Whatever historically exists is in between. With this in mind\, we turn to the question about the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy and problematize its clear demarcation between the alphanumeric and the digital. But what does “digital” mean? It is our hypothesis that there is an “embryonic digitality” already within alphabetical literacy. Digitality can be detached from computer technology. But electronic networking and Big Data are at the same time producing phenomena that are unprecedentedly new: The idea of the world interpreted as readable text changes into the “machine operability of the data universe.” Is contemporary digitality thus the “new alphabet”? \nCurrently Max Kade Visiting Professor for Winter 2022 in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, Sybille Krämer was Full Professor for Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Since her retirement\, she has been a guest professor at the Institute for Cultures and Aesthetics of Digital Media\, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Previously\, she has been a member of the German Scientific Council (2000-2006)\, of the European Research Council (2007-2014))\, member of the “Senat” of the German Research Foundation (2009-2015)\, and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study (2005-2008). She has held several International Visiting Professorships and Fellowships and has a 2016 Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University/Sweden. Her research areas include: Mathematics and philosophy in 17th century; Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Writing; Performative Studies\, Media and Cultural Techniques; Digitality and History of Computation; Testimony and Witnessing. Her publications in English include: Media\, Messenger\, Transmission. An Approach to Media Philosophy\, Amsterdam: University Press 2015. With Ch. Ljungberg (eds): Thinking with Diagrams – The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition\, Boston/ Berlin 2016. With Sigrid Weigel: Testimony/Bearing Witness. Epistemology\, Ethics\, History\, Culture\, London 2017. See also: http://www.sybillekraemer.de/en/ \nCosponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Transcriptions\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)\, and Comparative Literature Program. Sybille Krämer’s Max Kade Visiting Professorship in Winter 2022 has been generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation and Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. \nThis is an in person event. Virtual participation via Zoom is also possible: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81135889947
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/from-alphabetical-to-digital-literacy-some-reflections-on-orality-writing-cultural-techniques-and-digitality/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220304T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Self-Formation and Selflessness in the Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava Tradition
DESCRIPTION:The sixteenth-century Gauḍīya Vaiṣṇava tradition proposes a unique model of grace that decenters the paradigm of atonement and forgiveness and instead centers on forgetting and remembrance. In this Kṛṣṇa bhakti tradition\, jīvas\, embodied beings\, occupy a unique intermediary position that identifies them both in relationship to Kṛṣṇa\, the supreme Godhead\, and to the material world of prakṛti. Jīvas can therefore choose to either turn toward or away from Kṛṣṇa. A person turns away from or forgets Kṛṣṇa by committing aparādhas\, “offenses\,” such as criticizing one’s guru. However\, aparādhas should not be conceptualized as “sins” that require atonement and forgiveness. Instead\, aparādhas reflect an orientation of forgetfulness\, which can best be remedied through remembrance. Remembering Kṛṣṇa occurs primarily through sādhana-bhakti practices such as chanting and meditation and culminates in a devotee’s recognition of their eternal identity in relationship to Kṛṣṇa. Such perfected devotional selves embody the principle of sevā\, selfless service\, in which the devotee’s realm of concern has shifted entirely away from the ego-bound self towards Kṛṣṇa. It is therefore through the process of becoming perfectly selfless that perfected devotional selves are formed. \nEileen Goddard is a doctoral student in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research interests include South Asian religious traditions\, comparative philosophy\, bhakti traditions\, and gender and sexuality. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-self-formation-and-selflessness-in-the-gau%e1%b8%8diya-vai%e1%b9%a3%e1%b9%87ava-tradition/
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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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220311T180000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk:  Hungry Ghosts and the Karma of Meanness
DESCRIPTION:The realm of hungry ghosts is one of the unfortunate realms of rebirth in the Buddhist cycle of existence\, and those reborn there are said to have led lives consumed by greed and spite. But hungry ghosts know the error of their ways\, and they sometimes appear among humans\, like the ghosts that haunt Ebenezer Scrooge\, as augurs of what may await. Hungry ghosts are like modern felons who participate in “scared straight” programs. In the past they broke the law (dharma)\, and now they suffer the terrible consequences because of justice (karma). And since they don’t want others to make the same mistakes\, they speak passionately and honestly\, hoping to scare humanity straight. The cause of all this misery\, according to some of our earliest sources\, is the cultivation of meanness (mātsarya)\, which makes people miserly\, spiteful\, cruel\, immoral\, and oblivious to their own self-righteousness. How do we avoid such a fate? \nAndy Rotman is the Sydenham Clark Parsons Professor and Chair of Religion\, Buddhist Studies\, and South Asian Studies at Smith College. He has been engaged in textual and ethnographic work on religious and social life in South Asia for more than twenty-five years. His publications include Hungry Ghosts (2021)\, Divine Stories: Divyāvadāna\, Part 1 and Part 2 (2008 and 2017)\, Thus Have I Seen: Visualizing Faith in Early Indian Buddhism (2009)\, and a co-authored volume\, Amar Akbar Anthony: Bollywood\, Brotherhood\, and the Nation (2015). \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and the Buddhist Studies Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-hungry-ghosts-and-the-karma-of-meanness/
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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GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220316T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: Shifting Economic Power in Autun: The Donation of Constantine
DESCRIPTION:Autun’s textual and material record illustrates how and why ancient patterns of life in northeast Gaul began to give way during Late Antiquity. Adopting a methodology developed in feminist historiography\, this paper explores the effect on Autun’s political economy of resources funneled to Autun’s bishop by the emperor Constantine in the early 4th century. Because Constantine did not restrict his patronage just to Autun\, the city serves as a case study demonstrating how the introduction of imperial patronage to local bishops could push cities toward a more “medieval” political economy. \nElizabeth Digeser is a Professor in the Department of History\, where she studies the intersection of religion and philosophy with Roman political power\, as well as the processes of transformation (political\, religious\, economic) in Late Antiquity. Her publications include A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists and the Great Persecution; The Rhetoric of Power in Late Antiquity: Religion and Politics in Byzantium\, Europe and the Early Islamic World\, edited with Justin Stephens and R. M. Frakes; and Religious Identity in Late Antiquity. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group \nImage credit: Rheinisches Landesmuseum\, Trier \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-workshop-shifting-economic-power-in-autun-the-donation-of-constantine/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220404T210000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220411T180000
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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:Research Focus Group Talk: Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics
DESCRIPTION:How do racialized icons of popular culture index Muslim ideas of history and belonging? Several Arabic epics (siyar sha‘biyya) contain Black protagonists who are assigned unique origin stories and legacies of involvement in Islam’s expansion. This talk will analyze their roles in the racial imaginaries of popular tales that proliferated from the 12th century onward across the Middle East and North Africa through oral and written traditions. \nRachel Schine earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the humanities at NYU\, Abu Dhabi. She previously served as a postdoctoral associate and instructor of Arabic literature and culture at the University of Colorado\, Boulder in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-racing-time-chronologies-of-black-muslim-belonging-in-arabic-epics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T173000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220315T175249Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220315T192542Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Bolstering the Bard: Pedagogy and Performance Beyond UCSB
DESCRIPTION:This pedagogy event centers on an invited panel of knowledgeable actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, and educators to discuss experiences in conveying Shakespearean material to students and/or audiences with varying degrees of knowledge of the Bard\, how to expand our methodologies as scholars\, teachers\, and/or artists to promote inclusivity\, and how media/technology in various forms (film\, social media\, Zoom\, etc.) can be utilized to help with these goals. The conversation will begin with introductions and a few questions specifically for invited guests\, and then the session will open up to the rest of the group for further queries and discussion. \nRegister to attend \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare? Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-bolstering-the-bard-pedagogy-and-performance-beyond-ucsb/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20211007T181520Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220428T172351Z
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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/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T163000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220228T191618Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220412T235959Z
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SUMMARY:9th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium: "Imagining Indigenous Futurities"
DESCRIPTION:The Ninth Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium\, “Imagining Indigenous Futurities\,” is an interdisciplinary conference\, featuring presentations from across the academy – including from the humanities\, social sciences\, fine arts\, and sciences – and from community members and practitioners beyond academic borders. This year\, in selecting the theme — “Imagining Indigenous Futurities” — the AIIC asks participants: “What is most urgent for our communities now?” In asking this\, the symposium aims to advance conversations about global Indigenous people’s lifeways\, ecologies\, and knowledges; Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges (ITEK); practices and theories for enacting just\, decolonial\, and sustainable futures; Native feminist\, Indigiqueer\, and Two Spirit knowledge creation\, storytelling\, and organizing; Landback movements; and\, Native storytelling as a form of resistance\, survivance\, and theorizing. How are our communities envisioning and enacting lush futures in the now for all our human and more-than-human relations? \nThe AIIC Symposium has the honor of featuring the following keynote speakers whose research addresses issues related to Indigenous Futurities\, ITEK\, and Indigenous environmental justice: Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe)\, Dolly Kikon (Lotha Naga)\, and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant). \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the symposium website \nSponsored by the American Cultures in a Global Context Center (ACGCC);  Blum Center; Department of Asian American Studies; Department of English; Department of Environmental Studies; Department of Feminist Studies; Department of History of Art and Architecture; Global Latinidades Project; Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative; Hull Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); IHC’s American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Literature and Environment Research Initiative; Literature and the Mind Research Initiative; UCSB College of Letters & Science; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association; UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; UCSB Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/9th-annual-american-indian-and-indigenous-collective-aiic-symposium-imagining-indigenous-futurities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="American Indian & Indigenous Collective RFG":MAILTO:ucsbaiic@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T190000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220316T165236Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220318T152940Z
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SUMMARY:Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin
DESCRIPTION:Join violinist Alexandra Birch and pianists Alvise Pascucci\, Chika Nobumori\, Pete Paesaroch\, Pinshu Yu\, Lucía Álvarez Núñez\, Marc Lombardino\, and Jui-Ling Hsu for three performances of the complete sonatas for piano and violin by Beethoven. All performances will be at Congregation B’nai B’rith: Sonatas 1\, 2\, 3\, 4 at 2 PM on April 24th; Sonatas 5\, 6\, 7\, 8 at 7 PM on April 25th; and Sonatas 9 and 10 at 7 PM on April 26th. There will also be supplementary events in the community including a coffee chat about Beethoven and the Enlightenment and a virtual lecture recital of the sublime Kreutzer Sonata (no. 9) with the Goleta Public Library. \nDr. Birch has had an extensive international performance career in the U.S.\, Europe\, and Asia\, including solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Bolshoi Theatre. She holds a B.M.\, M.M.\, and DMA from Arizona State University and is currently a Ph.D. student in History at UC Santa Barbara\, where she works with recovered music from the Soviet GULAG. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/beethoven-birch/
LOCATION:Congregation B’nai B’rith\, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra Birch":MAILTO:birch@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T141500
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220330T205338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220331T224011Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Sixteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Dr. Mayte Green-Mercado (Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark) on the displacement of Moriscos —Iberian Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism in the first two decades of the sixteenth century. In this discussion of an ethno-religious minority group\, we will be exploring the possibilities of undisciplining and redisciplining histories of race and race-making in the premodern Mediterranean. \nMayte Green-Mercado received her B.A. in European History from the University of Puerto Rico\, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago\, specializing in Islamic Studies. Before coming to Rutgers\, she was Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is the director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Minor in the History Department. She teaches courses on Islamic Civilization\, Islamic history in Spain and North Africa\, and early modern Mediterranean history. Her courses deal with questions of religion\, politics\, identity\, and race and ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods. She is the author of Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell University Press\, December 2019). Her current book project is concerned with histories of displacement\, migration\, and refugees in the early modern Mediterranean. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-mediterranean-displacements-morisco-migration-in-the-sixteenth-century/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220106T233649Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220503T193227Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4112239;-119.8458061
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T122000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220408T230631Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T211243Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Place of Africa: Erasure\, Elision\, and the Task of Self-Writing
DESCRIPTION:Narratives of “connectivity” typically rely on discourses about Africa as a blank space devoid of social networks that are unique\, vibrant\, and continually being modified. While this takes agency away from Africans\, it rests on the colonial assumption that “connectivity\,” just as “civilization” before it\, is inherently exogenous\, white\, and male. This talk begins with the Rhodesian fantasy of connecting Africa from the Cape to Cairo and traces this logic through the contemporary discourse of digital inequality. It argues that the story of media & tech and African society today is as much rooted in the “hubris of good intentions” espoused by Henry Morton Stanley and Lord Frederick Lugard as it is in Silicon Valley’s missionary bent. In both\, the Global North’s actions are presented as bringing Africans into history and launching them into the future. Of course\, the Africa this discourse embraces is an imaginary Africa rather than a geographic Africa with people in it. This imaginary is vital because\, as Tageldin reminds us\, for the Global North to understand itself\, “Africa must be both ever compared and ever beyond the reach of comparison: beyond the pale of Western humanity” (2014\, 303). When it comes to media & technological advancement\, narratives about Africa and Africans are always\, as Mbembe reminds us\, “pretext for a comment on something else\, some other place\, some other people” (2001\, 3). The anchoring motivation for this talk is an excavation of moments of Africa’s “self-writing” in its pursuit to challenge the continual erasure and elision in connectivity narratives by the Global North. \nj. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. His primary scholarship examines media constructions of knowledge in Africa\, focusing on genocide and mass atrocities. His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on the media representations of human rights violations\, global and transnational news flows\, postcolonial land claims\, and the political economy of international media\, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. His primary book project offers an extensive account of media coverage of Darfur between 2003 and 2008 within various African states (including Kenya\, Rwanda\, South Africa\, Nigeria\, and Egypt). When not studying media and genocide\, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project currently under contract with MIT Press. Wahutu’s research has appeared in African Journalism Studies\, African Affairs\, The International Journal of Press/Politics\, Global Media and Communication\, Media and Communication\, Media\, Culture and Society\, and Sociological Forum. \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies Research Focus Group\, Africa Center\, and History Department
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-place-of-africa-erasure-elision-and-the-task-of-self-writing/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="African Studies":MAILTO:Chikowero@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T160000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
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SUMMARY:GCLR Dissertation Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this year’s second GCLR Dissertation and Prospectus Writing Workshop for graduate students from any department in the Humanities at UCSB. Our presenter will be Linshan Jiang 蒋林珊\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, who is presenting a chapter from her dissertation entitled “Mobilizing Shame: Tension between Nationalism and Feminism in Nieh Hualing’s Far Away\, A River and Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow.” Linshan’s dissertation examines how female writers craft memories of war experiences in their works about the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This workshop will be moderated by Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and GCLR Student Coordinator\, Rachel Feldman. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89346205411?pwd=K2YvY09IaGhUY25HYXEycXA4MERNUT09 \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-dissertation-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Rachel Feldman":MAILTO:rachelfeldman@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220502T140000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220418T210315Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220418T210808Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Global Adaptations: Throne of Blood
DESCRIPTION:This discussion will focus on Akira Kurosawa’s 1957 film\, Throne of Blood\, as a key twentieth-century film and as an adaption of Shakespeare’s Macbeth. Discussion will be centered around a number of key critical questions\, such as: What does Kurosawa bring to Shakespeare? How can we understand this as part of a larger history of Shakespeare and adaptation? How has this film been influenced by and subsequently influenced global cinema and global Shakespeare? What are the local traditions that inform this film as a global adaptation? How can we understand and situate this film as scholars and critics? \nPlease note that this is not a film screening\, and you will need to screen the film prior to attending this discussion. Contact shaunnowicki@ucsb.edu if you have any questions about screening the film. \nRSVP to attend \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare? Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-global-adaptations-throne-of-blood/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T170000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
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LAST-MODIFIED:20220504T211929Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Indian Ramayana and Its Regional Performance Traditions
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Paula Richman will provide a brief survey of the major performance traditions in which the Ramayana narrative is enacted in different regions of India\, including Kerala\, Tamilnadu\, Karnataka\, Uttar Pradesh\, West Bengal\, and Assam. She will then provide analyses of two examples of how specific sets of theatrical conventions shape the representation of familiar characters. The 1954 Tamil mythological drama\, “The King of Lanka\,” starring Manohar\, begins and ends as a conventional bhakti narrative\, but depicts Ravana as a father whose worry about his daughter’s welfare leads to his death. The 2019 female Nangyarkuttu solo dance of Kerala\, “Ahalya\,” starring Usha\, departs from the convention that the female solo be based on a Sanskrit Kudiyattam text by drawing its narrative from a Malayalam text. Richman will conclude by exploring the circumstances under which two acclaimed performances may transgress the expectations for the performance and considering the implications for actors\, actresses\, audiences\, and experts in the tradition. \nPaula Richman is the William H. Danforth Professor Emerita of South Asian Religions at Oberlin College. Her publications on the diversity of the Ramayana tradition include four edited volumes\, Many Ramayanas (1991)\, Questioning Ramayanas\, a South Asian Tradition (2000)\, Ramayana Stories in Modern South India (2008)\, and Performing the Ramayana Tradition: Enactments\, Interpretations\, and Arguments (2021)\, co-edited with Rustom Bharucha. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Film and Media Studies\, Global Studies\, and Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-indian-ramayana-and-its-regional-performance-traditions/
LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, 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
GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T173000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220411T161340Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T172016Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Is a Tekagami a Text? Reading the Fragmentary in a Calligraphy Album
DESCRIPTION:Join the Transregional East Asia RFG for a talk by Edward Kamens entitled\, “Is a Tekagami a Text? Reading the Fragmentary in a Calligraphy Album.” \nEdward Kamens is Sumitomo Professor of Japanese Studies\, Yale University\, and Paul I. Terasaki Chair in U.S.-Japan Relations\, UCLA. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group\, East Asia Center\, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-is-a-tekagami-a-text-reading-the-fragmentary-in-a-calligraphy-album/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Transregional East Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Transregional East Asia Research Focus Group":MAILTO:wfleming@eastasian.ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4139682;-119.8503034
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T210000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
CREATED:20220419T165217Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220419T184801Z
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SUMMARY:Silicon Valley Requiem: A Posthuman Electro-Acoustic Concert
DESCRIPTION:Silicon Valley Requiem is a composition based on the requiem mass but replacing the liturgical environment with the public theater of Tech CEOs. A trio of synthesized male voices singing Gregorian chant melodies is paired with two live female performers singing statements regarding their actions on earth to a monolithic adjudicating soprano projected above. The application of contemporary technology on medieval plainchant creates a plethora of complex philosophical questions. What does it mean for non-humans to sing a text fundamental to the human condition\, mortality\, and the afterlife? If a techno-utopia is being sold to us by icons of Silicon Valley here on earth\, are we living a post-human existence? \nAndrew A. Watts is a composer of chamber\, symphonic\, multimedia\, and electro-acoustic works regularly performed throughout North America\, Europe\, and Asia. His compositions have been premiered at world-renowned venues such as Ravinia\, the MFA Boston\, Jordan Hall\, and the Holywell Music Room. Watts has written for many of the top new music groups today including Ensemble Dal Niente\, Ekmeles Vocal Ensemble\, Proton Bern\, Distractfold Ensemble\, RAGE Thormbones\, Splinter Reeds\, Quince Vocal Ensemble\, and Line Upon Line Percussion. Watts completed his DMA in composition at Stanford\, received his master’s with distinction from Oxford\, and his bachelor’s with academic honors from the New England Conservatory. He has been a featured composer at the MATA Festival (USA)\, impuls Academy (Austria)\, Rainy Days Festival (Luxembourg)\, Delian Academy (Greece)\, Young Composers Meeting (Netherlands)\, Cheltenham Music Festival (England)\, Course for New Music at Darmstadt (Germany)\, Composit Festival (Italy)\, Ostrava Days Institute (Czech Republic)\, highSCORE Festival (Italy)\, Wellesley Composers Conference (USA)\, Etchings Festival (France)\, Fresh Inc. Festival (USA)\, New Music on the Point (USA)\, and Atlantic Music Festival (USA). Watts is currently a Lecturer in Music Composition at UCSB’s College of Creative Studies. \nWilliam Davies King is Distinguished Professor of Theater at UC Santa Barbara. His critical edition of The Iceman Cometh recently came out from Yale UP. His multimedia edition of Long Day’s Journey Into Night won the 2017 PROSE Award in Literature. He has written several critical/biographical studies of Eugene O’Neill and is currently finishing a book about O’Neill’s Tao House\, as well as a play intended to be performed in its living room. His first book\, Henry Irving’s “Waterloo”: Theatrical Engagements with Late-Victorian Culture and History\, won the 1993 Callaway Prize. His memoir/essay about collecting\, Collections of Nothing (Chicago UP)\, was named one of Amazon’s best books of 2008\, and LAUNCH PAD gave a staged reading of an adaptation/sequel of the book in 2019. A further adaptation\, Collections of Nothing Enough Is Enough\, was presented on Zoom by the IHC two days after the defeat of Donald Trump in the 2020 presidential election. It can now be viewed on YouTube. To get a glimpse of an exhibit he co-curated of material from his collections\, go to https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eAVjYtz67uo&t=3s. Also see his newly redesigned website\, with many images from his Hyper-Illuminated books and a list of all the brands of blueberries in his collection: http://williamdaviesking.com. \nHigh Voice 1\, Nina Guo \nHailing from Pasadena\, CA\, soprano Nina Guo has been drawn to new music since high school. After completing her Bachelor’s degree at the New England Conservatory of Music\, she was awarded NEC’s John Cage Award for Outstanding Contribution to Contemporary Music Performance (2015). In 2016\, she was awarded one of the Stipendium prizes at the Darmstadt Courses and was invited to return to the courses in 2018. More importantly\, she is eternally grateful for the mentorship of Lisa Saffer and Steve Drury\, and she is constantly inspired by her colleagues’ and friends’ hard work and incredible creativity. Recent performances have included a 5-hour installation-opera at a buffet\, a shadow puppet opera with Maori instruments\, singing a groovy\, Petrushka-esque piece with orchestra\, directing Beckett’s Rough for Radio 1 with multi-lingual vocal ensemble\, and getting caught in noisy\, improvised tape loops with Auguste Vickunaite. Nina recently completed a master’s degree in sound studies and sonic arts at the Universität der Künste in Berlin. She can be found in digital form at www.facesound.org. \nHigh Voice 2\, Micaela Tobin \nAs a performer\, Micaela most recently played the principal role of Coyote in the critically acclaimed opera\, SWEET LAND (dir. Yuval Sharon & Canuppa Luger; Comp. Raven Chacon & Du Yun). She also performed with The Industry in their groundbreaking opera\, Hopscotch\, a mobile opera for 24 cars (dir. Yuval Sharon). Other major roles include the poet Mina Loy in the opera Dada Divas (dir. Jacqueline Bobak)\, which has toured internationally both in Europe and Mexico; as a principal vocalist in the premiere of Ron Athey and Sean Griffith’s automatic opera\, Gifts the Spirit; and as a soprano soloist alongside Annette Bening in the play Medea at UCLALive. Micaela is currently a voice teacher on faculty at the California Institute for the Arts and teaches through her private studio\, HOWL SPACE\, in Los Angeles\, CA. \nProjected Soprano\, Kirsten Ashley Wiest \nKirsten holds a DMA in contemporary music performance in voice from UC San Diego\, an MFA from California Institute of the Arts\, and a B.M. cum laude from Chapman University’s Conservatory of Music. She founded UC San Diego’s annual Undergraduate Opera in 2017\, producing and directing full operas each spring\, and a fall scenes program composed entirely of undergraduate voice majors. Kirsten currently lectures in Music at California State University San Bernardino and San Bernardino Valley College\, and is Instructor of Voice at University of California Riverside. Kirsten can be heard on recordings released by Sony Classical\, Centaur Records\, MicroFest Records\, innova recordings\, and Albany Records\, among many others. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Faculty Collaborative Research Grant\, NSF Development Council\, College of Creative Studies\, and Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/silicon-valley-requiem-a-posthuman-electro-acoustic-concert/
LOCATION:UCSB Studio Theater\, TD East 1101\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: "Backwater Puritans”? Racism\, Egyptological Stereotypes\, and the Intersection of Local and International at Kushite Tombos
DESCRIPTION:Egyptological and more popular perceptions of Nubia and the Kushite Dynasty (c. 747-654 BCE) have framed Kush as a periphery to civilized Egypt\, unsophisticated interlopers in Egypt and the broader Mediterranean world during the first millennium. But to what extent was Nubia a “backwater” to “effete and sophisticated” Egypt\, as John Wilson once asserted? It is clear from recent archaeological work at Tombos and elsewhere that Nubia was not an unsophisticated backwater. Objects with Egyptianizing motifs in the international style asserted a cosmopolitan social status that connected their owners to an international elite culture that spanned Nubia\, Egypt\, and the Mediterranean during the Iron Age. The Kushite civilization that flourished for a thousand years was not an imperfect imitation of ancient Egypt\, as some Egyptologists have asserted\, or even the fount of Egyptian civilization\, as some Afrocentric scholars have argued. Instead\, features taken from Egypt and the Mediterranean world were adapted and thoroughly integrated with local practices and belief systems to create a new and vibrant African tradition. \nStuart Tyson Smith is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Barbara\, specializing in the archaeology of Egypt and Nubia [the Sudan]\, ethnicity\, culture contact and imperialism. \nRegister for Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossing Borderlands Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/backwater-puritans-racism-egyptological-stereotypes-and-the-intersection-of-local-and-international-at-kushite-tombos/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB and Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T180000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: The Tulsa Race Massacre: Causes\, Cover Up\, and the Fight for the Past
DESCRIPTION:The 1921 Tulsa race massacre was the worst single incident of racial violence in American history. But for decades its very existence was denied. Official records went missing\, incriminating articles were torn out of bound volumes of old newspapers\, and researchers even had their lives threatened. Award-winning author and historian Scott Ellsworth\, author of The Ground Breaking: An American City and Its Search for Justice\, unpacks the story of the massacre and the challenges it presents for racial justice today. A reception will follow. \nScott Ellsworth has been researching and writing about the Tulsa race massacre off and on for more than forty-five years. In 1982\, he published Death in a Promised Land\, the first comprehensive history of the massacre\, while in the late 1990s\, he initiated the search for the unmarked graves of massacre victims. Ellsworth teaches in the Department of Afroamerican and African Studies at the University of Michigan. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series; the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment; the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy; the Department of Black Studies; and the Department of History  \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-the-tulsa-race-massacre-causes-cover-up-and-the-fight-for-the-past/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220514T094500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220514T171500
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SUMMARY:Conference: Global Snapshot: Interdisciplinary Approaches to Media\, Performativity\, and Global Communities
DESCRIPTION:Many scholars have questioned what the rise of globalization\, facilitated through new forms of technology\, could mean for our ability to study and reach larger audiences. While some media practitioners and researchers have struggled to keep pace\, changes to global technologies also present the benefits of accessibility and creativity. Due to the impacts of Covid-19\, global media has become an ever more vital avenue for continuing typical social practices in scholarship and artistic endeavors like conferences and performances. This interdisciplinary conference seeks to interrogate the methodologies that have arisen with media development around the world. What is “global media\,” and how have its various implementations influenced research and other endeavors? How can acts of formal or everyday performance combine with or be adapted to reach diverse audiences? What do we gain or lose by using various forms of media rather than being in person\, or through the labor of keeping up with global media’s rapid developments? Where do ideas of permanence and freedom factor into these developments? \nRegister to attend here. For the full schedule and more information\, please visit the conference website. \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Theater and Dance\, Graduate Division\, Department of English\, Graduate Student Association\, and Early Modern Center \nImage: “Visitor taking pictures of cloud bans” by GrandTetonNPS
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-global-snapshot-interdisciplinary-approaches-to-media-performativity-and-global-communities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Saving the Dead: Conceptions of Agency in Tibetan Buddhist Funerary Rituals
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Rory Lindsay will share with us insights from his forthcoming book\, Saving the Dead: Tibetan Funerary Rituals in the Tradition of the Sarvadurgatipariśodhana Tantra (2022). He will discuss the history of one of the first Buddhist funerary traditions to be adopted in Tibet and the intersecting forms of agency—human\, nonhuman\, and material—that are described in this tradition’s ritual manuals. He will also examine polemical exchanges about these practices and Tibetan innovations concerning how the dead are conceptualized and assisted in this ritual framework. \nRory Lindsay is an Assistant Professor in the Department for the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. He is also a research editor at 84000: Translating the Words of the Buddha and a visiting scholar at the Buddhist Texts Translation Initiative at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research interests include Tibetan Buddhist ritual\, dream literature\, biography\, and Buddhist canons. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group and Buddhist Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/saving-the-dead-conceptions-of-agency-in-tibetan-buddhist-funerary-rituals/
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:20220601T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220601T231500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Buddhismcrip - Queered Variabilities
DESCRIPTION:People performing diverse embodiments of sexualities\, gender\, and variable physical and neurological patterns\, among others\, often encounter specific difficulties and sometimes hostility when practicing Buddhism. In this talk\, Professor Bee Scherer will look at these experiences of abjection\, their grounding in social psychology\, and how they relate to positions found in Buddhist philosophy and narratives. How can we negotiate oppressive readings of\, for example\, key Buddhist notions such as karma\, No-Self\, and detachment? How can we address structural marginalization and discrimination of “dis/abilities” (variabilities) and sexual and gender diversity in Socially Engaged Buddhist activism and as communities of practice? \nFrom their experience in academia and as a Tibetan Buddhist teacher\, Professor Scherer will discuss strategies of inclusion and give examples of liberatory practices. \nProf. Bee Scherer (they\, them\, their) has been practicing for decades in the Sakya and Kagyu traditions of Tibetan Buddhism and has been serving as a dharma teacher for more than fifteen years. Formerly the chair of Religious Studies and Gender Studies at Canterbury CCU in the U.K.\, Bee now heads Buddhist Studies at the Vrije Universiteit (VU) Amsterdam and directs the national Dutch Buddhist chaplaincy training program. Trained in the classical Buddhist languages\, Bee has published widely in Buddhist Studies as well as in gender and sexuality theory (Queer and Trans* Studies) and in Critical Disabilities Studies. Both as an academic and as a queer/non-binary/trans* and dis/ability advocate\, Bee brings their unique perspective to Buddhist practice\, embodiment\, and social engagement. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of Comparative Literature\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-buddhismcrip-queered-variabilities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220603T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T183000
DTSTAMP:20260604T021110
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SUMMARY:Hamlet's Big Adventure! (A Prequel)
DESCRIPTION:Before the tragedy\, before the betrayal\, there was a performance! \nIsla Vista Arts and Not Necessarily Shakespeare in the Park present “Hamlet’s Big Adventure (A Prequel)\,” a new play by Reed Martin and Austin Tichenor and directed by Grace Kimball. \nShowtimes are on June 3 and 4 at 4 PM; admission is free. Join us for a night full of laughs!
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/hamlets-big-adventure-a-prequel/
LOCATION:Isla Vista Community Center\, 976 Embarcadero del Mar\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,IHC Sub-Units,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Isla Vista Arts":MAILTO:akjensen@ihc.ucsb.edu@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T170000
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SUMMARY:Asian/American Studies Collective Graduate Symposium
DESCRIPTION:The Asian/American Studies Collective RFG will host a Graduate Symposium featuring discussions on Asian American classroom experiences\, Asian American genres\, performing Asian America\, legacies of violence\, and settler colonialism\, as well as a keynote by Dr. Heidi Amin-Hong (UCSB).
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/asian-american-studies-collective-graduate-symposium/
LOCATION:6020 and 5024 HSSB\, HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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