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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: American Jadoo: Fakers\, Fakirs\, and Asian American Performing Artists
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Shreeyash Palshikar will analyze images of Indian magic in American popular culture. He will highlight the little-known stories and images of the first Indian magicians to perform in the United States and consider the American performers—black and white—who also donned Indian costumes\, created Indian personae\, and performed as Indian magicians from the golden age of magic in the nineteenth century to the mid-twentieth century. The talk will begin with an introduction to magic in India\, explore how Indian magicians came to the United States via the UK\, and conclude with an analysis of Indian magic in the US. In his talk\, Dr. Palshikar will draw on methods from cultural history\, anthropology\, political science\, and religious studies. \nShreeyash Palshikar holds a PhD in South Asian Studies from the University of Chicago and has taught at Oxford\, Yale\, and the School of Oriental and African Studies in London\, as well as Albright College and the University of Pittsburgh. He is the first person to win a prestigious Fulbright Nehru Senior Research Fellowship to study traditional Indian magicians\, and he is developing a book\, web series\, and live show based on his experiences. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/american-jadoo-fakers-fakirs-and-asian-american-performing-artists/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T110000
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SUMMARY:Talk: The Vietnam War and Its Legacy After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:April/May 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the Vietnam War—one of the major conflicts of the 20th century—and reflects on its legacy. \nFredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eleven books\, including recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917-1956 (Random House\, 2020)\, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House\, 2012) won the Pulitzer Prize for History\, the Parkman Prize\, the Arthur Ross Book Award\, and the American Library in Paris Book Award. \nCosponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and UCSB’s Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-the-vietnam-war-and-its-legacy-after-50-years/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Cold War Studies and International History":MAILTO:syaqub@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:GCLR Seminar: Urban Experiential Learning: Concepts and Pedagogical Methods
DESCRIPTION:This seminar will focus on the concepts\, pedagogical designs\, and possible experiential outcomes for urban studies courses. We will draw on a summer course titled “Interdisciplinary Introduction to African Urban Studies\,” which Prof. Quayson has taught in Accra for Stanford students for the past three years. The central principle underpinning the course is the ways in which any given city might be used to generate a toolkit of concepts and methods for understanding other cities\, with Accra providing the experiential laboratory in this case. Cities to be referred to will include New York\, London\, San Francisco\, Singapore\, Hong Kong\, and Johannesburg\, among various others. We will also explore various literary and film texts that allow us to ground spatial principles. \nRegister to attend here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-seminar-urban-experiential-learning-concepts-and-pedagogical-methods/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings\, from Glas to his last texts\, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war in Gaza and its ongoing consequences. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\, Emerson and the Climates of History\, Paper Graveyards\, and\, with Sara Nadal-Melsió\, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?\, Cities Without Citizens\, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He has also translated with Liana Theodoratou Nadar’s memoirs\, Quand j’étais photographe\, which appeared under the title When I Was a Photographer. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Fazal Sheikh\, Remains of the demolished home of ʽAwad Abu Ḥbak\, in the vicinity of the village of Bīr Haddāj\, 31°1′11″N / 34°43′50″E\, 2011 (detail)\, from Desert Bloom (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/no-occupation-derrida-on-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve
DESCRIPTION:This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism\, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word\, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of an image on a surface—as an a priori apperception. That is\, Rosales consumes\, regurgitates\, and pro-jects (Ent-werfen) the presupposed disegno within the two interrelated genres of devotional images (The Fall and Last Judgement). When considered alongside images from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries—like Hans Memling’s Adam and Eve (1485-90)\, Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (c. 1504 and c.1507)\, Michael Coxie’s The Fall of Man (c.1550)\, and Jacob Jordaen’s Last Judgement (c.1653)—the formal and optical disruptions of Rosales’ work become even more pronounced. Ultimately\, the paper proposes that neo-Aristotelian explorations of body and space within both humanism and scholasticism are essential for understanding how Rosales figures blackness as temporally and spatially plural. Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve are pro-jections (Entwurf) which reinterpret how observers see blackness as a temporally discrete apperception of unified categories; as such\, the formal medium and the forms induced within the medium disrupt a definite extension and local definition of black bodies within space. \nDontay M. Givens II is a medieval and early modern studies and Black studies PhD student in the English Department at New York University. His research interests include the aesthetic constructions of blackness with the premodern global context from 1300 to 1700; the global movements of blackness as an aesthetic concept within the Spanish Low Countries and the Dutch and French Empires; and the history of capitalism\, black feminisms\, the conception of the human\, critiques of black representations\, and medieval romance literature. \nPlease contact vagt@ucsb.edu to receive the pre-circulated readings for this talk. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-fall-and-the-fallen-the-lateness-of-harmonia-rosales-adam-and-eve/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:vagt@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T192939Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Discussion: Ilya Kliger in Conversation with Sven Spieker
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger’s new book\, “Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism” \nThe nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies\, institutions\, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions\, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is\, as in the case of Russian realism\, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism’s distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s\, including major works by Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, Gogol\, Pushkin\, Lermontov\, Goncharov\, and Turgenev\, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period\, including Alexander Druzhinin’s Polinka Saks (1847)\, Aleksei Pisemsky’s One Thousand Souls (1858)\, and Vasily Sleptsov’s Hard Times (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction\, Sovereign Fictions offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-discussion-ilya-kliger-in-conversation-with-sven-spieker/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T193027Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Talk: Interdisciplinarity and Interpretation: A Comparative Method
DESCRIPTION:Different institutional arrangements have historically been devised to house and support what is described as interdisciplinary work\, including in the form of entire universities\, specific schools and departments\, standalone institutes and centers\, and survey courses firmly lodged within disciplinary curricula\, to name just a few. At the core of the efforts at interdisciplinarity are two central principles: first\, that of integrative epistemologies that might be applicable to all fields of learning\, including the sciences\, the social sciences\, the humanities\, and the arts. The second principle is that of unified or collaborative modes of knowledge that might be deployed for addressing real-world problems\, such as environmental degradation\, increasingly complex cities\, water shortage and its management\, public health crises\, migration and refugees\, international security\, and the vagaries of globalization\, to name just a few that have captured headlines since the Covid pandemic. While discussing these first ideas of interdisciplinarity\, Prof. Quayson will be introducing a third aspect\, namely\, the protocols of proposition making that emerge from different disciplines and ground them as disciplines as such. Understanding the different protocols of proposition making that apply in different disciplines is fundamental to what we understand as comparative studies of different kinds\, ranging from the literary\, to the social\, to the urban\, etc. He will then spend some time elaborating a supple comparative method from this understanding. \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-talk-interdisciplinarity-and-interpretation-a-comparative-method/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T171500
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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LAST-MODIFIED:20250509T202100Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic\, interdisciplinary field\, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. \nThe Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive\, creative\, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies\, with a primary focus on literary studies\, Indigenous studies\, ethnomusicology\, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. \nBiographies of the Panel Speakers:\nKyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures\, film\, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations\, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity\, Indigeneity\, queerness\, and language in global Chinese communities. His current book project\, Sinoscapes: Chinese Studies for the New Millennium\, advances a new model for imagining the potential of Chinese studies through an investigation of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinitic-language texts. He is also an active Chinese-English translator\, and his translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. \nHo Chak Law is an assistant professor in race and musicology at The New School. His research focuses on the cultural politics of performance and representation in the Sinophone. Most recently\, his article “Naamyam\, Creative Music\, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s ‘Burial Mound’” was published in Music Theory Spectrum. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Cosmopolitan Decadence: Popular Music and the Politics of the Sinophone in the Twentieth Century. \nDian Dian is a researcher and community organizer working at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, migration\, and labor. They received a Ph.D. in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University\, with a dissertation on queer feminist organizing across Sinophone communities. Dian has been involved in LGBTQ+ and feminist movements since 2009\, including serving as editor-in-chief of Queer Lala Times and as communications manager of Chinese Lala Alliance. Now based in Seattle\, they lead research and campaign organizing at the Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) and support community building among overseas Chinese queer women through Upwomxn. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/interdisciplinary-sinophone-conference/
LOCATION:2252 HSSB\, HSSB\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T163000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Webinar: It Takes Two to Torah
DESCRIPTION:In genuine Jewish tradition\, everywhere there is machlokes\, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah\, in which they “Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Santa Barbara
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-webinar-it-takes-two-to-torah/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20241211T214855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T212157Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 Faculty Fellows\, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. \nStephanie Malia Hom\, French and Italian\n“On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” \nSusan Hwang\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\n“Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” \nDavid Novak\, Music\n“Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2024-25-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250522T160914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T210817Z
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate our 2025 Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program graduates\, Tannishtha Bhattacharjee (History) and Cypris Roalsvig (Classics)\, as they deliver presentations about their training\, work\, and identity as public humanists. \nAudience Q&A and reception will follow. \nLearn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-capstone-presentations-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250428T175541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T172022Z
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SUMMARY:LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction and Social Organization
DESCRIPTION:The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language\, interaction\, and culture. \nThe conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\, Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia\, Okanagan)\, and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California\, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on May 23rd and 24th\, and will be followed on May 25th by a symposium on “Representing Language and Its Users.” \nThis year\, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism\, language and resistance\, language and social justice\, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language\, interaction\, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate. \nRegister to attend here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization Research Focus Group\, Graduate Student Association\, Graduate Division\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Geoff Raymond\, and Elena Skapoulli-Raymond
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-27th-annual-conference-on-language-interaction-and-social-organization/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization),IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="LISO (Language%2C Interaction%2C and Social Organization)":MAILTO:lisoconference@gmail.com
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T140000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250418T212838Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T193128Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson
DESCRIPTION:The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism\, gender\, and anti-colonialism. \nIn his late writings\, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia\, India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Latin America\, and ancient Rome. These texts\, some of them only now being published\, provide evidence for a change of perspective\, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-book-presentation-the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism-with-kevin-b-anderson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250528T190000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Sonic Spatiality in Sacred Spaces: An Analysis of Resonance in South Indian Temples
DESCRIPTION:Sound has long played a central role in Hindu worship\, with Vedic chants\, bells\, conch-shells\, and gongs shaping the spiritual soundscape. Unlike the time-domain focus typical in Western religious acoustics\, Hindu rituals emphasize frequency-rich sounds\, forming what we term a “frequency domain soundscape of worship.” In this talk\, Shashank Aswathanarayana will present the results of his acoustic analysis of six UNESCO heritage South Indian temples: four rock-cut cave temples in Badami and Aihole and two freestanding temples\, the Virupaksha temple in Pattadakal and Vijaya Vittala temple in Hampi. Using impulse response measurements\, standard acoustic parameters\, such as reverberation time (T30) and clarity index (C80)\, and nonstandard parameters\, such as resonance quality and resonance width\, are computed to provide an insight into their acoustic properties. His findings highlight how temple architecture supports ritual acoustics\, with implications for both heritage preservation and the virtual re-creation of ancient sonic environments. \nShashank Aswathanarayana is a music technologist\, percussionist\, and researcher from Bengaluru\, India\, who is currently a Postdoctoral Fellow in Audio Technology at American University. He received his PhD in Media Arts and Technology from the University of California\, Santa Barbara. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sonic-spatiality-in-sacred-spaces-an-analysis-of-resonance-in-south-indian-temples/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom
DESCRIPTION:Literature\, and children’s literature specifically\, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis\, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases\, such as sickle cell\, HIV/AIDS\, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases\, sickle cell anemia\, this study argues that\, even with great innovations in medical science\, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms a part of human life\, literature has responded\, including in the case of sickle cell. Children with such diseases have been stigmatized by society\, while even some parents see them as burdens and curse them\, forgetting that they themselves are the cause of it. Through its power to instill value in life\, literature offers a reminder of how to handle people with such diseases. Idada is a point of focus in this study. Through the child protagonists\, Eghe and Osaik\, Idada talks of unquestionable love towards the child\, community collaboration\, government involvement\, scientific research\, media involvement\, and African consciousness on technological innovations. Deconstructionist critical theory challenges the traditional notions of language\, meaning and truth by exposing the contradictions and inconsistencies held within ideologies and beliefs about children living with such diseases in the world. This study will show that healing for complex diseases like sickle cell is not only clinical but that other forms of healing are also important. \nDr. Nfor Noela Mankfu-Ngwa hails from the North West Region of Cameroon. She has a Ph.D. in Postcolonial Literature (specifically\, Children’s Literature) from the University of Bamenda. She is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Bamenda and a Secondary School English Language and Literature in English teacher. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Literatures in English from the University of Buea. She holds a DIPES II from HTTC\, Bambili. Her publications include “Identity Construction in Black Children’s Narratives: A Reading of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give.” She is also part of the socio-linguistic profiling of Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-disease-and-inclusive-healing-in-jude-idadas-boom-boom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250531T150000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250418T213422Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250423T193243Z
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SUMMARY:GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World
DESCRIPTION:The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year’s title\, “Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World” reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing global socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders\, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see our website for more information and the call for papers! \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-conference-blue-humanities-and-liquid-media-a-watery-view-of-the-world/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250603T110000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250527T175908Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250529T154511Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella Williams and research on Writing and Literature by Tia Trinh in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Historical Memory in Narrative will focus on the cultural shaping of children’s stories over generations\, as shown in “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children\,” researched by Isabella Williams\, and children’s literature as an act of reclaiming and rewriting historical narratives\, as shown in “Rewriting Silence: Preserving Cultural Memory and Reclaiming Narrative in Children’s Literature on Japanese Internment\,” researched by Tia Trinh. \nIsabella Williams’ research focuses on the proliferation of one variation of Cinderella in relation to the negotiation between traditional fairy tale structures and evolving notions of childhood innocence\, morality\, and cultural appropriateness in adaptations for children. “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children” demonstrates how authors sanitize and reimagine narratives for child audiences; how they permit violence but censor sexuality; how they reinforce gender roles through the demonization of female figures and the sanctification of male heroes; and how Christian and Protestant ethics shape the ideal of the passive\, industrious heroine. By tracing the history of fairy tale adaptations\, Williams examines how Cinderella’s image is constrained and recoded into a rigid ideological instrument\, replacing a once fluid\, complex story of autonomy and survival with a static myth of virtue\, labor\, and grace. Isabella Williams is a fourth-year Comparative Literature major with a minor in Portuguese. Her academic focus revolves around children’s literature and fairy tale media. In her research\, she examines how authors shape children’s stories based on cultural ideas of childhood\, morality\, and respectability. \nIn “Rewriting Silence\,” Tia Trinh analyzes George Takei’s My Lost Freedom and Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Love in the Library as acts of reclaiming history and rewriting narratives about a deeply violent and often overlooked part of Asian American history. The paper compares each author’s positionality to critically analyze different perspectives and methods of retelling the narrative of Japanese-American internment. Understood primarily through the lens of an Asian American studies and close-reading comparison of both children’s books\, this paper strives to understand how both stories work to share stories of family ancestry\, preserve cultural memory\, and push back against an increasingly whitewashed education. Tia Trinh is a fourth-year Writing & Literature major in the College of Creative Studies (CCS) with a double minor in Asian American Studies and Professional Writing – Journalism. She is a storyteller exploring the complexities of Asian American coming-of-age and understanding one’s identity today\, told through themes of ancestry\, travel\, grief\, food\, and much more. Her research explores how Asian American authors retell and reclaim a deeply violent history through childrens’ literature. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/historical-memory-in-narrative-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Tuesday\, September 30\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about On Fire\, our 2025–26 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, music\, 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-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series,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:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250723T184323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T202449Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Inaugural Talk: When It All Burns: The Creation of California's Wildfire Crisis
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an on-the-ground perspective from a record-breaking fire season on a California hotshot crew\, tracing the sociological\, historical\, and economic forces that fuel today’s megafires. For wildland firefighters\, navigating the escalating impacts of climate change is a matter of life and death. These fires are not natural disasters\, but the result of political choices. Understanding where they come from—and how firefighters survive on their edges—is essential to imagining a more just and equitable climate future in California. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJordan Thomas is the author of When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\, which was recently nominated for a National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Drift\, among others. He is a cultural anthropology doctoral candidate at UCSB and former wildland firefighter. \nSponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-inaugural-talk-when-it-all-burns-the-creation-of-californias-wildfire-crisis/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,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:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250709T234338Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251105T223028Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Melody Jue’s (English) recent co-edited volume\, Informatics of Domination. Jue will be joined by co-editors Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee and contributor Rita Raley (English). Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies) will moderate. Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist\, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought\, inviting fifty scholars\, artists\, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms\, such as essays on artificial intelligence\, disability and protest\, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together\, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems\, networks\, and computation today. \nMelody Jue is a Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University Press\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-melody-jue/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T190000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist\, Hindu\, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini\, Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini\, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife\, especially the regal Sarus Cranes\, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. \nArjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini\, an environmental NGO in Nepal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/preserving-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
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:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20251010T185208Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251028T221816Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno\, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks\, illustrated editions\, and comics\, this moral framework is often softened\, secularized\, or inverted. Through examples from Italy\, the United States\, and Japan\, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction\, irony\, or spectacle\, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or emotional experience. These adaptations reveal how cultures negotiate what kinds of violence (and what kinds of justice) can be shown to children\, turning Dante’s Hell into a mirror of modern moral and pedagogical anxieties. \nMartina Mattei is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on adaptation theory\, children’s literature\, and the transnational reception of canonical texts. Her dissertation examines contemporary adaptations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for children across English-\, Italian-\, and Japanese-language traditions. Through a comparative analysis of picturebooks\, comics\, videogames\, and animation\, she explores how these texts negotiate the poem’s theological\, moral\, and philosophical complexity for young audiences\, revealing local pedagogical and cultural investments. Martina’s work engages broader questions about how canonical texts are transformed when reframed for new readerships\, particularly in visual and age-specific media. She is especially interested in the way themes such as violence\, race\, and spirituality are omitted\, softened\, or reimagined in global childhood adaptations of Dante\, and how these editorial choices reflect shifting notions of literary value\, ethical storytelling\, and cultural authority. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-between-justice-and-horror-the-theological-violence-of-dantes-inferno-recast/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Spheres of Injustice: Minority Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:How can we revitalize minority politics while making the fight against discrimination beneficial for all? Bruno Perreau proposes thinking about minority experiences relationally. How one person is governed has a direct impact on how another is. Legal provisions that protect gender can be used to protect race; those that protect disability can protect age\, sexual orientation\, or class\, and so on. This is what Perreau calls intrasectionality\, a new concept and an innovative legal strategy to tackle today’s political challenges. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University. He is the founding chair of MIT’s Center of Excellence in French Studies. Perreau is also the author of thirteen books on French and US institutions\, bioethics\, family policies\, queer cultures\, minority politics\, and contemporary theories of justice\, among them The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press\, 2014)\, Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, Les Défis de la République (with Joan W. Scott\, Presses de Sciences Po\, 2017)\, and Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence (MIT Press\, 2025). \nCoponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/spheres-of-injustice-minority-politics-today/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,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:20251207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T113000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251112T172952Z
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad
DESCRIPTION:Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem\, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion\, culture and mental health\, the sanctification of space in Israel\, and Maghrebi Jewish culture. His perspective is consistently two-fold\, as he seeks to highlight the interface between\, on one hand\, social actors as individuals\, and on the other\, the collective level of social norms\, cultural symbols and political ideologies. Professor Bilu’s Taubman Symposium\, “Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad\,” emanates from his 2020 book\, With Us More than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad\, which won the 2015 Goldberg Prize for the best academic book-length manuscript in Hebrew. Taking into account the cultural toolkit used by the Hasidim to make their absent Rabbi (and designated messiah) present\, Bilu explores the messianic fervor that seized the Hasidic movement of Chabad-Lubavitch on the 1994 passing of the widely revered Lubavitcher Rebbe. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-messianism-in-post-schneerson-chabad/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260111T163000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: James A. Diamond
DESCRIPTION:Within the walls of the well-known Warsaw Ghetto uprising\, another kind of resistance was mounted\, not by combatants\, but rather by a group of poets\, artists\, and historians known as the Oyneg Shabbes collective. Far less known than the Ghetto\, that literary and artistic circle composed and ultimately buried thousands of documents attesting to the suffering under Nazi oppression. Among those documents\, recovered after the war\, was a manuscript of weekly sermons delivered during three years in the Ghetto (1939–42) by Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943)\, Grand Rabbi of Piaseczno (Poland). As a Hasidic leader\, Shapira desperately tried to preserve his and his community’s faith confronted by unimaginable hardship\, pain\, and loss. He persisted in the face of mass deportations and continued to meticulously edit his sermons even after he had ceased delivering them and there was no longer a community to comfort and inspire. It is a rare testament to one human being’s struggle with the incomprehensible evil of the Holocaust and with his own herculean resistance to it. \nDiamond has occupied the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies at Waterloo University for the past twenty-five years. He holds law degrees from Osgoode Hall Law School\, Toronto University (LLB\, 1978) and New York University School of Law (LLM\, 1979). In 1990s he received an MA (1992) and PhD (1999) in Religious Studies from the University of Toronto.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-james-a-diamond/
LOCATION:Jewish Federation of Greater Santa Barbara\, 524 Chapala St.\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93101\, United States
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20250825T193923Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T212926Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Keepers of the Flame: Learning to Be in Relation with Fire
DESCRIPTION:Keepers of the Flame is an initiative rooted in relationships—between cultural fire practitioners and students/faculty\, and between people\, plants\, and fire. In a context of settler colonial environmental policy and increasing risk of catastrophic fire\, Keepers centers respect for Indigenous fire practitioners\, recognition of fire as part of the landscape\, and personal\, place-based understandings with fire. With attention to the environmental injustices of land theft and fire suppression and the inequitable impacts of catastrophic fire\, through Keepers\, we begin to cultivate a respectful relation with fire. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBeth Rose Middleton is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011\, UA Press) and Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River (2018\, UA Press). A collaborative social scientist\, Beth Rose strives to develop and sustain partnerships with Tribes and Native/Indigenous non-profit organizations on environmental health\, sustainable rural economic development\, the historical and political context of river restoration\, the reintroduction of low-intensity fire for land/water/community health\, and Indigenous-led stewardship and climate adaptation. Beth Rose received her B.A. in Nature and Culture from UC Davis and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from UC Berkeley. Beth Rose mentors undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs in Native American Studies\, Ecology\, Public Health Sciences\, Geography\, and Community Development. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/keepers-of-the-flame/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,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:20260127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T150000
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-27-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251104T202133Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T111500
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20260120T193109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260129T230000Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing\, Generation Z\, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave
DESCRIPTION:The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk\, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book\, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society\, which examines a new wave of Egyptian picturebooks published in Egypt since the early 2000s\, she will trace the historical development of Egyptian children’s literature until the neoliberal context\, marked by changing cultural aspirations. Her talk will focus in particular on a cluster of picturebooks that socialize children into emerging neoliberal spaces\, showing how these texts normalize new forms of childhood\, domestic life\, and mobility\, and how they translate broader political-economic shifts into everyday narratives addressed to young readers. \nYasmine Motawy is a scholar\, critic\, translator\, editor\, and consultant specializing in children’s literature. She has served on major regional and international award juries\, including the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award\, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award\, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature\, and chaired the 2025 Sawiris Cultural Award. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (2018). In 2022\, she received AUC’s Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award. Her latest book is Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (2025). She currently serves on the board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2025–2027). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-domesticating-the-future-egyptian-childrens-publishing-generation-z-and-the-neoliberal-ideology-of-the-new-wave/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260601T173903
CREATED:20251010T163618Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Elana Resnick (Anthropology) and Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences) about Resnick’s new book\, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide\, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism’s excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally different account of sustainability and waste itself by uncovering the intersections of international environmental reforms and racialized labor. In Bulgaria\, Roma comprise the bulk of the country’s waste workers\, while anti-Roma racism casts them as socially disposable. Without their labor\, however\, the country cannot meet the sustainability targets required by the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork that spans twenty years\, including eleven months working alongside Romani women street sweepers and years embedded in waste organizations\, political campaigns\, Roma NGOs\, and activist groups\, Resnick examines the power hierarchies that shape both waste management and European geopolitics. \nElana Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she directs the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group. Her research examines waste\, racialization\, labor\, nuclear energy\, and friendship through multi-modal methods. She has published in journals including American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Public Culture. She is the recipient of the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elana-resnick/
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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