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Research Focus Group Talk: Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and their Urban Worlds
Research Focus Group Talk: Finding Echigo in Edo: Snow Country Migrants and their Urban Worlds
The Echigo province migrant was a familiar type in nineteenth-century Edo. Every year in the tenth month, snow country peasants would come down the mountains on the Nakasendō Highway and enter the city through Itabashi Station. They wandered down the main street in Hongō, where they were met by labor scouts who had learned to recognize their bewildered expressions and country accents. Many ended up in the city’s notorious boarding houses for laborers, where they ...
Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Exodus: The Largest Movement of People Since the Second World War
Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Exodus: The Largest Movement of People Since the Second World War
The world is witnessing the greatest mass migration since 1945. More than sixty-five million people, about one in every hundred on Earth, have fled their homes. Some are internally displaced; others are refugees who have moved to multiple countries. This talk will discuss the three main causes of this giant human tide: the implosion of the Middle East following the Arab Spring; climate change, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa, where drought and advancing deserts are pushing ...
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Research Focus Group Symposium: Cross-Currents: Navigating Translation
Please join the American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) and keynote speakers Dr. Cutcha Risling-Baldy and Dr. Donald Fixico for three days of panels, presentations and discussions exploring the cross-current of translation writ large for Native and Indigenous peoples. Dr. Cutcha Risling Baldy, Assistant Professor of Native American Studies at Humboldt State University. Her research is focused on Indigenous feminisms, California Indians and decolonization. She has published in the Ecological Processes journal, the Wicazo Sa ...
Conference: Beyond Academia
The Beyond Academia conference at UC Santa Barbara is an annual event aimed at preparing graduate students and postdoctoral researchers in all stages and disciplines to pursue a wide range of career options after graduate school. The conference offers attendees the opportunity to interact with professionals who have established careers outside the professoriate in industry, government, administration, nonprofits, and more. Come learn about potential careers in a variety of sectors and specialties outside of and ...
Talk: Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968
Talk: Burgers in the Age of Black Capitalism: Fast Food and the Remaking of Civil Rights after 1968
Marcia Chatelain (History, Georgetown) is the author of South Side Girls: Growing up in the Great Migration (2015) and co-editor, with Britta Waldschmidt-Nelson, of Staging a Dream: Untold Stories and Transatlantic Legacies of the March on Washington (2015). This event is part of “Food, Finance, and American Politics,” a series of UCSB talks and workshops sponsored by the Center for the Study of Work, Labor, and Democracy; and the Policy History Program.
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Clueless and Mean Girls
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Clueless and Mean Girls
Showings of Clueless at 7:00 and Mean Girls at 10:00 PM.
IV Live Presents Improvability: 90th Annual Academy Awards
IV Live Presents Improvability: 90th Annual Academy Awards
Improvability 90th Annual Academy Awards show
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Research Development Workshop: Intro to the NEH
Research Development Workshop: Intro to the NEH
Learn about grant programs at the National Endowment for the Humanities.
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Breakfast Club
Magic Lantern Films Presents: Fast Times at Ridgemont High and The Breakfast Club
Showings of Fast Times at Ridgemont High at 7:00 and of The Breakfast Club at 10:00 PM.
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Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Murder and Mattering in Harambe’s House
Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Murder and Mattering in Harambe’s House
Date change to Tuesday, March 6th at 4:00PM. This talk approaches the controversy over the killing of the gorilla Harambe in the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 as a unique window onto the making of animalness and blackness in the contemporary U.S. It will explore the notion of a racial-zoological order in which the “human” is constructed simultaneously in relation to both the “black” and the “animal.” Claire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science ...
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The 2018 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence: Helen Macdonald
The 2018 Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence: Helen Macdonald
This year’s Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence is acclaimed naturalist and writer Helen Macdonald. She is the author of three books, including Shaler’s Fish (2001), Falcon (2006), and H Is for Hawk (2014), winner of the Samuel Johnson Prize for non-fiction, the Costa Book Award, and the Prix du Meilleur Livre Étranger. Her work includes poetry, naturalist non-fiction about birds, and memoir. She is a contributing writer for the New York Times Magazine. In addition ...
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Taubman Symposia Talk: Biblical Women and Gender Constructions: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on Women in the Bible
Taubman Symposia Talk: Biblical Women and Gender Constructions: Ancient and Contemporary Perspectives on Women in the Bible
Rabbi Prof. Dr. Tamara Cohn Eskenazi is the Effie Wise Ochs Professor of Biblical Literature and History at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion in Los Angeles. She is the first woman appointed as a professor to the rabbinical faculty since the founding of Hebrew Union College in 1875. At Hebrew Union College, Dr. Eskenazi trains rabbis, educators, and Jewish communal service professionals, as well as graduate students in Judaic Studies. Dr. Eskenazi is an ...
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Conference: Bodies and Boundaries, 1500-1800
Bodies and Boundaries, 1500-1800 The Early Modern Center's Annual Conference: March 9-10, 2018 Featuring Keynotes from: Laurie Shannon (Northwestern University), "Human Boundedness: Shakespeare's Bear, Launce's Crab, and King Lear (with Sheep)" and Michelle Burnham (Santa Clara University), "Bodies at Risk: The Global Pacific in the Eighteenth Century" March 9, Mosher Alumni Hall, 1pm-5pm and March 10, McCune Conference Room, 9:30am-5:30pm
Research Focus Group Talk: LISO’s Annual John J. Gumperz Lecture
Research Focus Group Talk: LISO’s Annual John J. Gumperz Lecture
John B. Haviland will present a lecture on “K’alal Lajyak’bekon Notisia, ‘Bweno Ta Xinupunkutik’, Gloria a Dios, Háganlo Bien (When they told me ‘Well, we’re getting married’—Glory to God! Do it well!): Changing Tzotzil Discourses of Marriage.” Haviland is an anthropological linguist, with interests in the social life of language, including gesture, emerging sign languages, and interaction. His work concentrates on Tzotzil (Mayan) speaking peasant corn farmers from Zinacantán, Chiapas, Mexico, and on speakers of ...
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Shape of Water
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Shape of Water
Showings of The Shape of Water at 7:00 and 10:00 PM.
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Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Shape of Water
Magic Lantern Films Presents: The Shape of Water
Showings of The Shape of Water at 7:00 and 10:00 PM.
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Research Development Workshop: Grant Budgets
Research Development Workshop: Grant Budgets
How to Write a Grant Budget: how to manage grant funds.
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Research Focus Group Workshop: The First Proslavery Novel? An Attribution and Analysis of the 1763 novel The Pregrinations of Jeremiah Grant, Esq. A West Indian, by Anonymous
Research Focus Group Workshop: The First Proslavery Novel? An Attribution and Analysis of the 1763 novel The Pregrinations of Jeremiah Grant, Esq. A West Indian, by Anonymous
Brown-bag lunch workshop featuring work in progress by Alpen Razi, Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies at CalPoly. Sponsored by IHC’s Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom RFG.
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Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies
The Pacific Coast Conference on British Studies features papers representing all fields of British Studies -- broadly defined to include those who study the United Kingdom, its component parts and nationalities, as well as Britain's imperial cultures.. Plenary Speakers are Dr. Susan Amussen, professor of history at UC Merced, is a leading scholar of early modern Britain (1500-1750), gender, race and slavery in the Atlantic World and Dr. Jordanna Bailkin, the Jere L. Bacharach Endowed ...