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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
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220506T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220507T193000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220512T153000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Ancient Borderlands RFG":MAILTO:edepalma@history.ucsb.edu
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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
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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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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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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220604T183000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T120000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220912T234136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220919T191632Z
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SUMMARY:Asian/American Studies Collective Welcome Breakfast
DESCRIPTION:Join the Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) to kick-off our academic programming for the year! This is an informal gathering for any and all graduate students or faculty who work in or are interested in Asian American Studies. It is also the perfect opportunity to meet members of the collective and to learn more about what we have planned for the year! \nFree coffee and pastries provided. No RSVP necessary. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Asian/American Studies Collective Research Focus Group and the Asian Pacific Islander Graduate Student Association
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aasc-welcome-breakfast/
LOCATION:HSSB Courtyard\, Humanities and Social Sciences Building\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:The Asian/American Studies Collective,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Asian/American Studies Collective RFG":MAILTO:aasc.ucsb@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220929T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220624T184544Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220829T195230Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, September 29\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Too Much Information\, our 2022-23 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2022/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221006T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220809T161942Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221014T191813Z
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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Too Much or Too Little?
DESCRIPTION:For a long time\, information was scarce. Messages and letters were transmitted at the speed of human or equine legs. The materials upon which information was inscribed were either too heavy or too perishable to circulate. But by the end of the eighteenth century\, as machines took over\, not only the means of transmitting information but what counted as information had changed. Knowledge and experience now yielded to the objectivity of information\, grounded\, for example\, in the laws of probability. Strictly speaking\, there was no such thing as “too much information.” Today\, everything is a potential source of information: the living beings carrying genetic information\, the starlight carrying information about the distant origin of the universe\, the earth and skies stocked with sensors\, the complete libraries existing online. If we have a question for an expert on the other side of the world\, we receive an answer so promptly in real time that we do not even notice its delay. In his talk\, Kittler will consider the history of our relationship to information and how the abundance of information available today is both too little and too much. A reception will follow. \nWolf D. Kittler is Professor in the Germanic & Slavic Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include Western literature from Greek antiquity to the present\, philosophy\, art history\, history of science\, media technology\, and critical theory. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \nImage\, left side panel: Muse\, perhaps Clio\, reading a scroll (Attic red-figure lekythos\, Boeotia\, c. 430 BC)\, commons.wikimedia.org\nImage\, right side panel: Banksy\, Mobile Lovers\, 2014\, crop from photo by Daz Smith\, creativecommons.org
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-lecture-too-much-or-too-little/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220930T230700Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220930T230854Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Meet and Greet Open House
DESCRIPTION:The co-conveners of the Disability Studies Initiative invite you to come and join us for tea or coffee. We will discuss as a group potential activities for the year and come up with an agenda of exciting events and initiatives. Let’s meet face to face if you can. Participants may also register and join us online so we can exchange ideas and brainstorm about current research in Critical Disability Studies. Let’s continue our work on disability and literary studies; on discourses of intersectionality and disabled bodies; on art and design history research and accessibility; on universal design for learning\, and develop the study of gender\, care\, and disability. \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-event-meet-and-greet-open-house/
LOCATION:Early Modern Center\, 2510 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20221013T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221010T181201Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T183442Z
UID:10000610-1665651600-1665855000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:This three-day conference and accompanying film series have been organized to celebrate the birth centenary of the renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). Most critical evaluations of Ray\, which tend to focus on his films while overlooking his considerable literary and design output\, have consecrated him as a modernist master or a postcolonial auteur. Such discussions are often couched in terms of modernity and tradition\, Orientalism and nativism\, objectivity and irrationality\, skepticism and enchantment\, art cinema and popular cinema. Instead\, we focus on wonder\, an affect that cuts transversally across these polarities\, as an analytical category that enables fresh perspectives from which to assess Ray’s contributions to Bengali culture\, Indian modernity\, and global cinema. We address his stature as the bestselling author of Bengali-language young adult fiction as well as one of the most revered graphic artists of modern India. While Ray has been widely hailed as an artist upholding a universal brand of humanism\, the conference seeks to flesh out his singularity in terms of a vernacular modernism and a critical humanist orientation. \nThe conference is organized by Bhaskar Sarkar\, Professor Film and Media Studies\, and Bishnupriya Ghosh\, Professor of English and Global Studies\, on behalf of the Global-Popular Workshop\, with generous support from the UC Humanities Research Institute; Center for South Asian Studies\, UC Santa Cruz; and the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, and College of Letters and Science\, UC Santa Barbara. \nImage: Satyajit Ray’s poster for the film Devi\, 1960
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/satyajit-ray-and-the-sense-of-wonder/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, 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:20221013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220926T220615Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221024T194347Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Make a Poem Cry: Creative Writing from California’s Lancaster Prison
DESCRIPTION:Make a Poem Cry is an anthology from one of California’s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodríguez. Rodríguez and formerly incarcerated writer Kenneth E. Hartman have selected work penned from 2016 to 2018. These are poems\, essays\, stories\, and more mined from the depths of familial\, racial\, and economic violence. They are imaginings for how to address trouble and crime without punishment\, dehumanization\, and violence in return. Here’s restorative/transformative justice in action. Here’s redemption in the flesh. Here are voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all. In this TMI series event\, Hartman and Rodríguez will discuss how the project makes visible the experience of incarceration–about which there is too little information–as well as read selected works from the anthology. A reception will follow. \nKenneth E. Hartman was convicted of murder at nineteen and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. After he had served thirty-eight years\, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. commuted his sentence\, and Hartman was paroled in 2017. He’s presently a freelance writer who is also working as a development coordinator and prison programs specialist for a Los Angeles-area nonprofit. His 2009 memoir\, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars\, won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. Hartman edited Too Cruel\, Not Unusual Enough\, a collection of prisoner writings about life sentences without the possibility of parole\, which won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Harper’s. \nLuis J. Rodríguez was the poet laureate of Los Angeles from 2014 to 2016. Across forty years\, he taught creative writing as well as conducted poetry readings\, lectures\, and healing circles in prisons\, juvenile lockups\, and jails throughout the United States\, Mexico\, Central America\, South America\, and Europe. He is the founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. Rodríguez is the author of sixteen books of poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including the best-selling memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-make-a-poem-cry-creative-writing-from-californias-lancaster-prison/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Hester and Cedric Crowell 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:20221017T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221017T140000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220919T160612Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220926T214953Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Reading David Sterling Brown's "'Hood feminism': Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, October 17th\, at 1 PM for a reading group discussion of David Sterling Brown’s recent article\, “‘Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era\,” and “Teaching guide for: ‘Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era.” Both works appeared in the 2021 special issue of Literature Compass\, “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies\,” edited by Dorothy Kim. As the first Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG event of the new academic year\, we will begin by continuing last year’s conversations on un-disciplining and re-disciplining premodern studies with with Brown’s phenomenal work. Please email jessicazisa@ucsb.edu or reemtaha@ucsb.edu for access to the reading or to be added to the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group email list for future event information. \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-discussion-reading-david-sterling-browns-hood-feminism-whiteness-and-segregated-premodern-scholarly-discourse-in-the-post-postracial-era/
LOCATION:2635 South Hall\, South Hall\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20221025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220906T203007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221013T172527Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Bones of Contention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater and Dance) and Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cabranes-Grant’s new play\, The Bones of Contention. Refreshments will be served. \nThe Bones of Contention describes the efforts of Yitipaka (an imaginary California town) to regain its economic and social stability after the COVID pandemic. Constructed as two collective latinx murals (one dedicated to the older generation\, one dedicated to younger people)\, the play confronts frictions produced within that community by conflicted financial\, environmental\, political\, and emotional demands. The play also combines different aesthetic styles (with elements that are both Brechtian and magic-realist) in order to envision a space in which nature and cultural differences meet and confront each other. With this play\, Cabranes-Grant has tried to create a pluricultural work\, one that encompasses the extraordinary diversity of California while offering actors and directors an opportunity to support more inclusive forms of story-telling. \nLeo Cabranes-Grant is Professor of Literature\, Performance\, and Intercultural Poetics in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Theater and Dance at UCSB. His scholarly work has received the Association for Theater in Higher Education Best Essay Award (ATHE\, 2011). His most recent book\, From Scenarios to Networks. Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico\, was published by Northwestern University Press (2016). Professor Cabranes has also published four books of poetry and a collection of his plays. His plays have received awards in Puerto Rico (Best Play\, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture\, 2006) and in New York (Asunción Award\, Pregones\, 2011; Hispanic Federation Fuerza Fest Award\, 2022). Professor Cabranes was Editor of the prestigious journal Theatre Survey\, published for the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) by Cambridge University Press. At the moment\, Professor Cabranes is working on two scholarly projects: a book on Søren Kierkegaard’s theories of performance\, and a book on the connections among performance\, racial identities\, and painting in eighteenth-century Mexico. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \nWatch a video of the performance of The Bones of Contention.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-bones-of-contention/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T110000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221013T161135Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T184537Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Intellectual Disability\, the English Law\, and the Fools of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine how fools in early modern drama and literature were considered intellectually disabled\, if viewed in the light of early modern criteria for intellectual disability. The English law was the discipline that most of all strove to conceptualize such a disability: calling it idiocy\, it defined it as someone’s incapacity to manage property. Such thinking influenced the way literary characters were represented on the stage and page. Hence\, they showcased a tendency to be interrogated\, to be on the verge of bankruptcy\, and to be vulnerable victims of ruthless guardians. Insights from contemporary disability studies theory will help historicize literary fools as idiots. \nDr. Alice Equestri is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Padua as well as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex\, where she held a position as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow between 2017 and 2019. She has published two monographs: Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly\, Law\, and Medicine 1500-1640 (Routledge\, 2021) and The Fools of Shakespeare’s Romances (Carocci\, 2016)\, which was awarded the AIA PhD Dissertation Prize 2015. Her essays have appeared or are due to appear in venues including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Renaissance Studies\, Notes and Queries\, and Disability Studies Quarterly. \nThe event will also be available via Zoom here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Early Modern Center of the English Department\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-intellectual-disability-the-english-law-and-the-fools-of-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries/
LOCATION:2510 South Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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:20221103T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221103T181500
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221027T180207Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221027T180502Z
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SUMMARY:Alt-Right Media Literacy Series: Memeing their Way into the Mainstream: A Cultural Approach to Understanding the US Far Right
DESCRIPTION:The election of Donald Trump and the eventual J6th attempted insurrection left many people wondering how we got to this point. The answer to that question is multidimensional\, complex\, and nuanced\, and this talk focuses on several pieces that helped generate the current moment. A broad constellation of far-right extremism highly adept at marketing ideas and emotions and far more sophisticated than often understood played a key role in rebranding white supremacy to ensure wider circulation and resonance. But part of the answer to how we got here today requires stepping back to the 1980s and tracing the evolution of how the far right utilized technology to generate and distribute propaganda; cultivate and strengthen social network ties; and eventually produce links to a wide ranging cultural lifestyle complete with merchandise\, housing options\, and dating forums. The result today is a diverse and dynamic cultural landscape of far right extremism where sitting members of Congress now proudly declare themselves “Christian Nationalists” and openly speak at explicitly white supremacists conferences funded by far right social media platforms. \nPete Simi is a Professor of Sociology at Chapman University and member of the Executive Committee for the National Counterterrorism\, Innovation\, Technology\, and Education (NCITE) Center at the University of Nebraska\, Omaha. For the past 25 years\, he has been studying political violence\, hate\, and extremism. His fieldwork has taken him inside white supremacist groups across the United States\, where he has been embedded with racist skinheads\, Klan members\, neo-Nazis\, and anti-government militias. \nRegister here for Zoom attendance link \nFor more information contact: Chelsea Kai Roesch at chelsearoesch@ucsb.edu or visit altrightmedialiteracy.com. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the University of California Humanities Research Institute
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/alt-right-media-literacy-series-memeing-their-way-into-the-mainstream-a-cultural-approach-to-understanding-the-us-far-right/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chelsea Roesch":MAILTO:chelsearoesch@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221107T163000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221018T193304Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221018T195140Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Disability in Latin American and Latinx Contexts
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a discussion on disability in Latin American and Latinx contexts. While disability studies is a diverse and evolving field\, much of the focus has been on exploring disabled bodyminds in the context of the Global North\, often leaving out questions of neoliberalism\, colonialism\, and racialization. This conversation will begin to explore how scholars interested in disability might begin expanding this conversation by including both Latin American and US Latinx perspectives on the bodymind. The conversation will be centered around two readings: the introduction to Libre Accesso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies and a short story by Ramón García\, entitled “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” \nShanna Killeen will moderate this event. They earned their MA in English from Oregon State University in 2017. They specialize in disability studies and queer studies with a particular focus on neurodivergence\, crip Latinx art and literature\, and aromanticism. Their dissertation\, entitled “Affect Aliens: On Neurodivergent and Aromantic Epistemologies\,” explores affective norms and the ways in which certain kinds of bodyminds come to be pathologized as lacking in affect. Their work turns to the contemporary aesthetic and discursive practices of neurodivergent and aromantic people to ask what this can tell us about affect\, interrelationality\, and care. \nWorks Cited:\nAntebi\, Susan\, and Beth Ellen Jörgensen. “Introduction: A Latin American Context for Disability Studies.” Libre Acceso: Latin American Literature and Film through Disability Studies\, State University of New York Press\, 2016.\nGarcía\, Ramón. “Amor Indio: Juan Diego of San Diego.” Virgins\, Guerrillas & Locas: Gay Latinos Writing on Love\, 1st ed\, Cleis Press\, 1999. \nFor the readings\, please write to: disabilitystudies@english.ucsb.edu \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-disability-in-latin-american-and-latinx-contexts/
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:20221109T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221109T130000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221024T201911Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221028T183125Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Transnational Jewish Tradition and Memory in the Landscapes of Maurice Sendak
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the role of Jewish folk traditions and memory in the picture books of the late Maurice Sendak (1928-2012)\, with special attention to Sendak’s handling of landscape and natural elements. Sendak’s own biography reflects a move in the 1970s from the urban spaces of Brooklyn and Manhattan to the forested landscape of Ridgefield\, Connecticut. His work speaks to the experience of first-generation children of immigrants in early twentieth-century America\, drawing on a Yiddish-inflected upbringing\, a troubled early consciousness of Nazi Europe and the Holocaust\, inherited memories of destroyed worlds\, and other elements that exceed national boundaries. Moskowitz argues that Sendak’s work values the “wildness” of the natural world\, allegorizing it as a stand-in for the emotional interior of the sensitive human child. \nGolan Moskowitz is Assistant Professor of Jewish Studies at Tulane University\, where he teaches courses on Jewish gender and sexuality\, American pop culture\, Holocaust studies\, and comics and graphic novels. He is the author of Wild Visionary: Maurice Sendak in Queer Jewish Context (2020) and of several publications on intergenerational memory in post-Holocaust family narratives. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-transnational-jewish-tradition-and-memory-in-the-landscapes-of-maurice-sendak/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:rachelfeldman@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221112T183000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221107T180434Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221107T180434Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: XXV International Colloquium on Mexican Literature: Ciudad y Mujer / Woman and City
DESCRIPTION:This year’s colloquium will place Santa Barbara in the center: its history (as an original town and a colonial city of Spanish migration in past centuries\, as well as Mexican and Central American migration in more recent times); its current situation; the richness of its archives; the attractiveness of its streets. With that in mind\, we will explore how women intervene in urban space and temporality\, and the ways they construct memory and experience. \nFor our congress\, the two themes are integrated into one: woman and the city in history\, culture\, literature\, and in other arts and disciplines\, suggesting innumerable ways of understanding. Therefore\, the presentations and conferences will also address topics on women founders and foundations\, women in transition and on the borders\, indigenous peoples and gentrification\, (un)safe spaces and times for women. \nOurs is an interdisciplinary and inclusive colloquium of an academic and educational nature. It is an event that is not for profit\, and will be free and open to the public in general\, and to the scholarly community and friends of our university. This many years of continuity are proof of an activity that directly connects with the culture and the modern history of Santa Barbara\, home to our institution. \nThursday\, Nov. 10\, 2022: Mosher Alumni Hall UCSB. Friday\, Nov. 11 & Saturday\, Nov. 12\, 2022: BC Forum SBCC \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (UCSB)\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese (UCSB)\, Santa Barbara City College\, The Global Latinidades Project (UCSB)\, Division of Social Sciences (UCSB)\, Graduate Division (UCSB)\, Office of the Associate Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity and Academic Policy (UCSB)\, Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art and Social Praxis (UCSB)\, Latin American and Iberian Studies (UCSB)\, Chicano Studies Institute (UCSB)\, Comparative Literature (UCSB)\, Feria Internacional de la Lectura Yucatán (FILEY / UADY)\, Universidad del Claustro de Sor Juana\, and UC-Mexicanistas
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-xxv-international-colloquium-on-mexican-literature-ciudad-y-mujer-woman-and-city/
LOCATION:Mosher Alumni Hall\, BC Forum SBCC
CATEGORIES:All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Jakob Romine":MAILTO:jakobromine@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221110T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
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SUMMARY:Talk: Un Llanto Colectivo: a PerformaProtesta
DESCRIPTION:Join via Zoom here \nThis talk will be an examination of the llanto (wail/scream) as political performance praxis through reflecting on the collective work of Cherríe Moraga\, Celia Herrera Rodríguez and approximately twenty-five artists to stage a “PerformaProtesta\,” Un llanto colectivo\, at San Diego immigrant detention centers following the separation of migrant families during the summer of 2018. It discusses this “llanto space” as an alternative to the politics of recognition and representation\, and the different ways via which it instantiates a refusal of these modalities. \nDr. Jade Power-Sotomayor is a Cali-Rican educator\, scholar and performer who works as an Assistant Professor in the Department of Theatre and Dance at UC San Diego. Engaging with discourses of embodiment and embodied practices of remembering and creating community\, her work focuses on the fluid reconstitution of Latinx identity ultimately produced by doing and not simply being. Overall\, she seeks to promote an in-depth engagement with Latinx performance-making as a framework for taking up the most salient issues of our time: colonialism\, anti-Blackness\, xenophobia\, economic disparity\, patriarchy and misogyny\, queer and transphobia\, ableism and mental health access\, climate catastrophe and environmental justice. More than just including historically occulted voices as a form of ethnographic encounter\, she looks to these instances of performance for what they reveal about the structures of power and social dynamics that have shaped the world we collectively share. Her research interests include: Latinx theatre and performance\, dance studies\, nightlife\, eco-dramaturgies\, epistemologies of the body\, feminist of color critique\, bilingualism\, and intercultural performance in the Caribbean diaspora. \nDr. Power-Sotomayor is currently working on a monograph called ¡Habla!:Speaking Bodies in Latinx Dance and Performance in which she theorizes her concept of “embodied code-switching” across distinct “Latinx” social dance spaces. Foregrounding how each of these dancings (bomba\, son jarocho\, perreo and Zumba) mark blackness within Latinidad\, the book focuses on how dancers strategically navigate and move amongst different embodied codes of belonging and peri-linguistic valences of meaning-making\, especially those encountered by Latinxs in relationship to dominant US culture. In 2021\, her essay “Corporeal Sounding: Listening to Bomba Dance\, Listening to puertorriqueñxs”won the Sally Banes Publication Prize from the American Society for Theatre Research and her essay “Moving Borders and Dancing in Place: Son jarocho’s Speaking Bodies at the Fandango Fronterizo” received the Gertrude Lippincott Award from the Dance Studies Association. She also recently co-edited a special issue of CENTRO Journal for Puerto Rican studies called “Puerto Rican Bomba: Syncopating Bodies\, Histories\, Geographies” and collaborates on the Bomba Wiki project\, a crowdsourced online bomba archive. Publications can be found in TDR\, Performance Matters\, Latino Studies Journal\, Latin American Theatre Review and The Oxford Handbook of Theatre and Dance. Dr. Power-Sotomayor also works as a dramaturg\, and co-directs and performs with the San Diego group Bomba Liberté. She is grateful to her many teachers and students for gifting her a lifelong experience of learning. \nJoin via Zoom here \nCosponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Theater and Dance\, and Colloquium in Dance\, Theater\, and Performance Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-un-llanto-colectivo-a-performaprotesta/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Ninotchka D. Bennahum":MAILTO:bennahum@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221115T180000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20220902T203010Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220916T201436Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Hollywood’s Embassies
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies) and Charles Wolfe (Film and Media Studies) about Melnick’s new book\, Hollywood’s Embassies: How Movie Theaters Projected American Power Around the World. Refreshments will be served. \nBeginning in the 1920s\, audiences around the globe were seduced not only by Hollywood films but also by lavish movie theaters that were owned and operated by the major American film companies. These theaters aimed to provide a quintessentially “American” experience. Outfitted with American technology and accoutrements\, they allowed local audiences to watch American films in an American-owned cinema in a distinctly American way. \nIn a history that stretches from Buenos Aires and Tokyo to Johannesburg and Cairo\, Melnick considers these movie houses as cultural embassies. He examines how the exhibition of Hollywood films became a constant flow of political and consumerist messaging\, selling American ideas\, products\, and power\, especially during fractious eras. Melnick demonstrates that while Hollywood’s marketing of luxury and consumption often struck a chord with local audiences\, it was also frequently tone-deaf to new social\, cultural\, racial\, and political movements. He argues that the story of Hollywood’s global cinemas is not a simple narrative of cultural and industrial indoctrination and colonization. Instead\, it is one of negotiation\, booms and busts\, successes and failures\, adoptions and rejections\, and a precursor to later conflicts over the spread of American consumer culture. A truly global account\, Hollywood’s Embassies shows how the entanglement of worldwide movie theaters with American empire offers a new way of understanding film history and the history of U.S. soft power. \nRoss Melnick is Professor of Film and Media Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He is the author of American Showman: Samuel “Roxy” Rothafel and the Birth of the Entertainment Industry\, 1908–1935 (Columbia\, 2012) and coeditor of Rediscovering U.S. Newsfilm: Cinema\, Television\, and the Archive (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-hollywoods-embassies/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221117T170000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221115T191328Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221116T225749Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: Anti-Racist Paradoxes
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Luis Martín Valdiviezo Arista will analyze some current discourses in the political and educational spheres that confront inequalities and injustices derived from racism that despite their best intentions\, are nevertheless still based on racist assumptions. \nDr. Valdiviezo Arista earned his EdD in Social Justice Education and his MEd in International Education at UMass-Amherst. Previously\, he received his License in Philosophy and Bachelor in Humanities at Pontificia Universidad Católica de Peru (PUCP) in Lima city. Based on intercultural\, decolonial and critical education approaches\, his research focuses on ethnicity\, gender\, social class\, and formal education in Perú and Latin American societies. He is in charge of courses in Ethics and Philosophy of Education at PUCP. He is a member of the International Network of Intercultural Studies-PUCP\, which promotes\, together with the Peruvian Network of Universities\, the adoption of intercultural policies and programs in Peruvian universities. Recently\, he was a consultant for the Ministry of Education and the Ministry of Culture\, and trained and advised a group of PUCP graduate students who implemented a literacy course for minors in a detention center in Lima\, Peru. He is as well a member of the Latin American Network of Intercultural Studies and Experiences (recognized by UNESCO) that integrates researchers and activists from Mexico\, Brazil\, Colombia\, Uruguay\, Chile\, Nicaragua\, Argentina and Peru. Likewise\, he is a member of the Latin American and Caribbean Consortium of African Diaspora Teachers Training\, promoted by the Afro-Peruvian NGO Center for Ethnic Development (CEDET) located in Lima\, Peru. Currently\, he is Visiting Scholar in the Center for Latin American & Caribbean Studies at Brown University. He is offering the undergraduate course Andean-Caribbean Dialogues of Negritude and doing research on the representations of women\, indigenous people\, and Afro-descendants in textbooks for primary education in Peru. His most recent book is Educación\, Negritud e Interculturalidad. Ensayos en tiempos de neoliberalismo\, pandemia y bicentenario en el Perú (2021). He has also published articles and book chapters on the educational situation of Afrodescendants and Indigenous Peruvians in academic journals and publishers of Latin America and Europe. In 2020-2021\, he was the Custer Visiting Scholar of the David Rockefeller Center for Latin American Studies (DRCLAS) at Harvard University. He has written three novels and numerous short stories\, some of which have obtained recognition in national and international contests. He comes from a Peruvian family with Afro-descendant\, Amazonian\, Andean\, and Hispanic roots. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Latin American and Iberian Studies Program\, Department of Black Studies\, Department of History\, and Silvia Bermudez.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/anti-racist-paradoxes/
LOCATION:Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, Room 1217\, Gevirtz Graduate School of Education\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
ORGANIZER;CN="Evelyne Laurent-Perrault":MAILTO:evelauper@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221207T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221207T130000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221114T182610Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221118T211355Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Leah Goldberg's Psychogeographical Mapping of Hebrew Children's Culture
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the comparative representations of the Mizrahi immigrant and the Holocaust refugee through the motif of the child immigrant to Israel in the mid-20th century through the work of Leah Goldberg (1911-1970). A prolific modernist poet\, author\, playwright\, literary translator\, and comparative literary critic who chaired the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Goldberg’s focus upon dislocation and language in her work for both adults and children is informed by the forced migrations that she experienced both as a child during World War I and as an adult during World War II. In this talk\, Feldman reevaluates Goldberg’s contributions to Hebrew modernism and children’s literature with special focus upon how her fiction collapses the border between the literary landscapes and geographical ones\, defamiliarizing and democratizing the haunting landscapes of her childhood as well as new spaces of Israeli toponymy\, in particular the liminal spaces that connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to migrant camps and children’s communities on the Kibbutzim. Feldman interprets Goldberg’s handling of these topics through the lens of psychogeographical mapping\, or charting the “specific effects of the geographical environment\, consciously organized or not\, on the emotions and behavior of individuals” (Debord 1955) – arguing that Goldberg’s impulse to explore the effects of geographical space upon her child subjects signals a particularly modernist resistance to nationalist-Zionist narratives. \nRachel Feldman is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara\, where she is finalizing her dissertation\, “The Mother Tongues and Multilingual Specters of Modern Hebrew Children’s Literature\,” which explores how a new constellation of authors – linguists\, translators\, poets\, and artists – turned to multimodal children’s literature and children’s systems in order to reconcile major sociolinguistic ideological concerns\, particularly in negotiating modern Hebrew as a their new “mother tongue” in light of its persistent role as a “heritage language.” The dissertation argues that these authors’ development of a discrete yet radically polyphonic modern Hebraist writing aimed at an intergenerational and multilingual audience employed children’s genres to discretely promote counter-hegemonic ideas about Hebrew heritage language learners. Feldman is a UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellow and Max Kade Fellow 2022-2023\, a co-convener of the IHC Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and a graduate organizer of the upcoming 26th International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress 2023\, “Ecologies of Childhood\,” to be hosted August 12–17 by UC Santa Barbara\, in collaboration with Stanford University. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group \nPhoto Credit: Anna Riwkin-Brick\, 1950
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/leah-goldbergs-psychogeographical-mapping-of-hebrew-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230111T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221205T170813Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221214T182958Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Consensus without Collaboration? The Future of Emotion Research from the Perspective of History
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, multiple disciplines have converged on a biocultural understanding of human emotion\, sensation and experience\, but knowledge production in disciplinary silos remains. This talk is about the discipline of history’s positionality in this budding\, if unwitting\, consensus among social neuroscientists\, social psychologists\, transcultural psychiatrists\, neurophilosophers\, and social scientists. Positioning history as a bridge builder\, it nevertheless outlines the significant obstacles to genuine transdisciplinary collaboration. \nRob Boddice (Ph.D.\, FRHistS) is Senior Research Fellow at the Academy of Finland Centre of Excellence in the History of Experience\, Tampere University\, Finland. He is the author/editor of 13 books\, including Knowing Pain: A History of Sensation\, Emotion and Experience (Polity Press\, 2023)\, Humane Professions: The Defence of Experimental Medicine\, 1876-1914 (Cambridge University Press\, 2021) and A History of Feelings (Reaktion\, 2019). A leading scholar in the history of emotions\, his revised and fully updated second edition of The History of Emotions is forthcoming from Manchester University Press. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Emotions in History Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/consensus-without-collaboration/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Emotions in History,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emotions in History RFG":MAILTO:yzuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230124T173000
DTSTAMP:20260602T225830
CREATED:20221201T002642Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230201T171024Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Jody Enders\, Translating Medieval Farce
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Jody Enders (French and Italian) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater and Dance) about Enders’ two new edited and translated volumes of medieval French comedies. Refreshments will be served. \nTrial by Farce: A Dozen Medieval French Comedies in Modern English (University of Michigan Press\, 2023)\nIn Trial by Farce\, prize-winning theater historian Jody Enders brings twelve of the funniest legal farces to English-speaking audiences in a refreshingly uncensored but philologically faithful vernacular. Newly conceived as much for scholars as for students and theater practitioners\, this repertoire and its familiar stock characters come vividly to life as they struggle to negotiate the limits of power\, politics\, class\, gender\, and\, above all\, justice. Through the distinctive blend of wit\, social critique\, and breathless boisterousness that is farce\, we gain a new understanding of comedy itself as form of political correction. In ways presciently modern and even postmodern\, farce paints a different cultural picture of the notoriously authoritarian Middle Ages with its own vision of liberty and justice for all. Theater eternally offers ways for new generations to raise their voices and act. \nImmaculate Deception and Further Ribaldries: Yet Another Dozen Medieval French Plays in Modern English (University of Pennsylvania Press\, 2022)\nIn the sacrilegious world of Immaculate Deception\, the third volume in a series of stage-friendly translations from the Middle French\, twelve engagingly funny satires target religious hypocrisy in that in-your-face way that only true slapstick can muster. There is literally nothing sacred. Why this repertoire and why now? The current political climate has had dire consequences for the pleasures of satire at a cultural moment when we have never needed it more. It turns out that the proverbial Dark Ages had a lighter side; and France’s over 200 rollicking\, frolicking\, singing\, and dancing comedies—more extant than in any other vernacular—have waited long enough for their moment in the spotlight. They are seriously funny: funny enough to reclaim their place in cultural history\, and serious enough to participate in the larger conversation about what it means to be a social influencer\, then and now. Rather than relegate medieval texts to the dustbin of history\, an unabashedly feminist translation can reframe and reject the sexism of bygone days by doing what theater always invites us to do: interpret\, inflect\, and adapt. \nJody Enders is Distinguished Professor of French at UC Santa Barbara and Director of The Public Speaking Initiative. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-jody-enders/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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