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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Elizabeth Kolbert
DESCRIPTION:It is said that we live in a new geological epoch characterized by climate change and other disastrous human impacts on the planet. In her new book\, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future\, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Elizabeth Kolbert takes a hard look at the new world we are creating. Should we be seeking technological solutions to the damage humans have caused to the environment\, or will such “solutions” only make the problems worse? \nElizabeth Kolbert is a staff writer for The New Yorker. Her book The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History\, an examination of mass extinctions that weaves intellectual and natural history with reporting in the field\, was a New York Times 2014 Top Ten Best Book of the Year and is number one on the Guardian‘s list of the 100 Best Nonfiction Books of all time. The Sixth Extinction also won the 2015 Pulitzer Prize in the General Nonfiction category and was a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle awards for the best books of 2014. Growing out of a groundbreaking three-part series in The New Yorker\, her first book\, Field Notes from a Catastrophe: Man\, Nature\, and Climate Change\, was chosen as one of the 100 Notable Books of the Year (2006) by The New York Times Book Review. \nKolbert has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1999. Her journalism has garnered numerous awards\, including the American Association for the Advancement of Science’s magazine award\, the National Academy of Sciences Communication Award in the newspaper/magazine category\, and a National Magazine Award in the Reviews and Criticism category. Kolbert has also been awarded a Lannan Writing Fellowship\, the prestigious Heinz Award\, the Sierra Club’s David R. Brower Award\, the Walter Sullivan Award for Excellence in Science Journalism from the American Geophysical Union\, and the Blake-Dodd Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters. In March 2021 she was voted into the American Academy of Arts and Letters. \nCopies of Kolbert’s books will be available for purchase and signing\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. This will event will be held in person; there will not be live or recorded online viewing options. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-elizabeth-kolbert/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: The Only True Reader Is a Re-reader
DESCRIPTION:“I sometimes think I was born reading. I can’t remember the time when I didn’t have a book in my hands\, my head lost to the world around me.” \nWhat Vivian Gornick did not say when she wrote these sentences was how often the book in her hands was one she had read a number of times before. It became her habit as life went on to re-read the books that had repeatedly seemed important to her\, in order to see whether or how much they had changed—as she had changed. In other words\, for Gornick\, re-reading is one of the great and primary ways in which we capture the meaning of our own accumulated experience. In this talk\, she will take the listener along on her own journey of self-discovery through some of the re-readings that have meant the most to her. \nVivian Gornick is a writer and critic whose works include Fierce Attachments: A Memoir (1987)\, Approaching Eye Level (1996)\, The End of the Novel of Love (1997)\, The Situation and the Story: The Art of Personal Narrative (2001)\, The Men in My Life (2008)\, The Odd Woman and the City (2015)\, Unfinished Business: Notes of a Chronic Re-reader (2020)\, and Taking a Long Look: Essays on Culture\, Literature\, and Feminism in Our Time (2021). The New York Times selected Fierce Attachments as the #1 Best Memoir of the Past 50 Years. \nThe talk will be followed by audience Q&A\, a reception\, and book signing. Copies of Gornick’s books will be available for purchase\, courtesy of Chaucer’s Books. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-vivian-gornick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220412T141500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Racing Time: Chronologies of Black Muslim Belonging in Arabic Epics
DESCRIPTION:How do racialized icons of popular culture index Muslim ideas of history and belonging? Several Arabic epics (siyar sha‘biyya) contain Black protagonists who are assigned unique origin stories and legacies of involvement in Islam’s expansion. This talk will analyze their roles in the racial imaginaries of popular tales that proliferated from the 12th century onward across the Middle East and North Africa through oral and written traditions. \nRachel Schine earned her Ph.D. in Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations from the University of Chicago and is currently a postdoctoral research fellow in the humanities at NYU\, Abu Dhabi. She previously served as a postdoctoral associate and instructor of Arabic literature and culture at the University of Colorado\, Boulder in the Department of Asian Languages and Civilizations. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-racing-time-chronologies-of-black-muslim-belonging-in-arabic-epics/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG":MAILTO:jessicazisa@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220415T173000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Bolstering the Bard: Pedagogy and Performance Beyond UCSB
DESCRIPTION:This pedagogy event centers on an invited panel of knowledgeable actors\, directors\, dramaturgs\, and educators to discuss experiences in conveying Shakespearean material to students and/or audiences with varying degrees of knowledge of the Bard\, how to expand our methodologies as scholars\, teachers\, and/or artists to promote inclusivity\, and how media/technology in various forms (film\, social media\, Zoom\, etc.) can be utilized to help with these goals. The conversation will begin with introductions and a few questions specifically for invited guests\, and then the session will open up to the rest of the group for further queries and discussion. \nRegister to attend \nSponsored by the IHC’s What Is a Shakespeare? Shakespeare and Global Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-bolstering-the-bard-pedagogy-and-performance-beyond-ucsb/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="What Is a Shakespeare?%3A Shakespeare and Global Media RFG":MAILTO:gracekimball@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220421T170000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Ensuring the Future of Historic Textiles: The Case of a Japanese Empress's Court Gown
DESCRIPTION:Objects talk to us over time and space\, transmitting in their colors\, shapes\, textures\, and materials insight into other lives and ways of living. Some we wish to preserve for their sheer beauty\, others for the people\, times\, or places they represent. Of the items that are central to our daily lives\, textiles are among the most perishable: if not used until they are rags\, they still degrade naturally over time\, prey to insects\, mold\, moisture and light. \nDespite the humid climate\, beautiful textiles in Japan from the eighth century have been lovingly preserved\, some retaining brilliant colors. Where vestments have been treated as treasures passed down through centuries of generations\, it came as a surprise that something as “new” as a hundred-and-thirty-year-old garment that was probably only worn once or twice would need extensive conservation work. This\, however\, turned out to be the case for a Western-style court gown made for Japan’s Meiji empress\, Haruko (1850-1914). Using the empress’s gown as an illustration\, Bethe will discuss conservation as a process that involves learning and preserving lost techniques\, combined with cutting-edge scientific solutions. She will introduce basic principles of conservation\, such as ensuring that every process is reversible\, preserving the original but adding nothing new\, and avoiding incurring future deterioration by matching materials and techniques. \nMonica Bethe is Director of the Medieval Japanese Studies Institute in Kyoto\, dedicated in part to the conservation of treasures in Japanese Imperial Convents. Experience in weaving and natural dyeing led her to conduct research on historical textiles and their conservation. Her publications include chapters in Miracles and Mischief: Nō and Kyōgen Theater in Japan (2002)\, Amamonzeki\, A Hidden Heritage: Treasures of the Japanese Imperial Convents (2009)\, Transmitting Robes\, Linking Minds: The World of Buddhist Kasaya (2010)\, Color in Ancient and Medieval East Asia (2015)\, and Cultural Imprints: War and Memory in the Samurai Age (2022); translations of books\, such as Restoration of Japanese Art in European and American Collections (1995) and Textiles in the Shōsō-in (2000\, 2001); and articles\, most recently\, “Guise and Disguise: Nō Costumes in the Context of Cultural Norms” in Mime Journal (2021). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the East Asia Center \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ensuring-the-future-of-historic-textiles-the-case-of-a-japanese-empresss-court-gown/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220422T093000
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SUMMARY:9th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium: "Imagining Indigenous Futurities"
DESCRIPTION:The Ninth Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium\, “Imagining Indigenous Futurities\,” is an interdisciplinary conference\, featuring presentations from across the academy – including from the humanities\, social sciences\, fine arts\, and sciences – and from community members and practitioners beyond academic borders. This year\, in selecting the theme — “Imagining Indigenous Futurities” — the AIIC asks participants: “What is most urgent for our communities now?” In asking this\, the symposium aims to advance conversations about global Indigenous people’s lifeways\, ecologies\, and knowledges; Indigenous Traditional Ecological Knowledges (ITEK); practices and theories for enacting just\, decolonial\, and sustainable futures; Native feminist\, Indigiqueer\, and Two Spirit knowledge creation\, storytelling\, and organizing; Landback movements; and\, Native storytelling as a form of resistance\, survivance\, and theorizing. How are our communities envisioning and enacting lush futures in the now for all our human and more-than-human relations? \nThe AIIC Symposium has the honor of featuring the following keynote speakers whose research addresses issues related to Indigenous Futurities\, ITEK\, and Indigenous environmental justice: Grace L. Dillon (Anishinaabe)\, Dolly Kikon (Lotha Naga)\, and Dina Gilio-Whitaker (Colville Confederated Tribes descendant). \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the symposium website \nSponsored by the American Cultures in a Global Context Center (ACGCC);  Blum Center; Department of Asian American Studies; Department of English; Department of Environmental Studies; Department of Feminist Studies; Department of History of Art and Architecture; Global Latinidades Project; Hemispheric South/s Research Initiative; Hull Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies Program; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC); IHC’s American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); Literature and Environment Research Initiative; Literature and the Mind Research Initiative; UCSB College of Letters & Science; UCSB Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association; UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; UCSB Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/9th-annual-american-indian-and-indigenous-collective-aiic-symposium-imagining-indigenous-futurities/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220424T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T190000
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SUMMARY:Beethoven: The Complete Sonatas for Piano and Violin
DESCRIPTION:Join violinist Alexandra Birch and pianists Alvise Pascucci\, Chika Nobumori\, Pete Paesaroch\, Pinshu Yu\, Lucía Álvarez Núñez\, Marc Lombardino\, and Jui-Ling Hsu for three performances of the complete sonatas for piano and violin by Beethoven. All performances will be at Congregation B’nai B’rith: Sonatas 1\, 2\, 3\, 4 at 2 PM on April 24th; Sonatas 5\, 6\, 7\, 8 at 7 PM on April 25th; and Sonatas 9 and 10 at 7 PM on April 26th. There will also be supplementary events in the community including a coffee chat about Beethoven and the Enlightenment and a virtual lecture recital of the sublime Kreutzer Sonata (no. 9) with the Goleta Public Library. \nDr. Birch has had an extensive international performance career in the U.S.\, Europe\, and Asia\, including solo recitals at Carnegie Hall and the Bolshoi Theatre. She holds a B.M.\, M.M.\, and DMA from Arizona State University and is currently a Ph.D. student in History at UC Santa Barbara\, where she works with recovered music from the Soviet GULAG. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/beethoven-birch/
LOCATION:Congregation B’nai B’rith\, 1000 San Antonio Creek Road\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Alexandra Birch":MAILTO:birch@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T130000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T141500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Mediterranean Displacements: Morisco Migration in the Sixteenth Century
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a talk with Dr. Mayte Green-Mercado (Professor of History at Rutgers University–Newark) on the displacement of Moriscos —Iberian Muslims forcibly converted to Catholicism in the first two decades of the sixteenth century. In this discussion of an ethno-religious minority group\, we will be exploring the possibilities of undisciplining and redisciplining histories of race and race-making in the premodern Mediterranean. \nMayte Green-Mercado received her B.A. in European History from the University of Puerto Rico\, and her Ph.D. from the Department of Near Eastern Languages and Civilizations at The University of Chicago\, specializing in Islamic Studies. Before coming to Rutgers\, she was Assistant Professor of Mediterranean Studies in the Department of Romance Languages and Literatures at the University of Michigan\, Ann Arbor. She is the director of the Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies Minor in the History Department. She teaches courses on Islamic Civilization\, Islamic history in Spain and North Africa\, and early modern Mediterranean history. Her courses deal with questions of religion\, politics\, identity\, and race and ethnicity in the medieval and early modern periods. She is the author of Visions of Deliverance: Moriscos and the Politics of Prophecy in the Early Modern Mediterranean (Cornell University Press\, December 2019). Her current book project is concerned with histories of displacement\, migration\, and refugees in the early modern Mediterranean. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-mediterranean-displacements-morisco-migration-in-the-sixteenth-century/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220426T210000
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SUMMARY:Regeneration Talk: Afghanistan: The Forever War Ends
DESCRIPTION:After twenty years\, the end of the American war in Afghanistan was ugly and chaotic\, with terrible scenes of friends and allies being left behind and of the Taliban sweeping away everything America built. Did it have to be this way? Dexter Filkins\, who began covering the country before the 9/11 attacks\, will discuss how the Afghan state\, built at such great expense\, crumbled so fast\, why America’s withdrawal turned out so badly\, and how–whether we want it to or not–Afghanistan may figure in our future. The message he’ll deliver contains a measure of hope: that the vast changes set in motion by the United States in that country\, especially those regarding women\, may yet survive. \nDexter Filkins has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 2011. From 2000 to 2010\, he was a reporter for The New York Times\, reporting from Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, and Iraq. He has also worked for the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was chief of the paper’s New Delhi bureau. In 2009\, he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times journalists covering Pakistan and Afghanistan. He has received numerous other prizes\, including two George Polk Awards and three Overseas Press Club Awards. His book\, The Forever War\, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction and was named a best book of the year by The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, Time\, and The Boston Globe. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Regeneration series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nImage\, left side panel: still from video by Mukhtar Wafayee of an American military plane leaving Hamid Karzai International Airport in Kabul on Aug 16\, 2021\nImage\, right side panel: credit Ahmad Sahel Arman\, students stand along a pathway near Kabul University after it was reopened on February 26\, 2022 \n\nPer University guidelines\, masks are recommended for vaccinated persons and required for unvaccinated persons during all indoor events except when actively eating or drinking. Before coming to campus\, UCSB affiliates should complete the Student Health COVID-19 Screening Survey\, and non-affiliates should complete the On-Demand Daily COVID-19 Screening Survey. Any individual who has symptoms suggestive of COVID-19 should avoid campus altogether. (See the university’s interim visitors protocol for additional information.)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/regeneration-talk-dexter-filkins/
LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States
CATEGORIES:Regeneration,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220428T122000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Place of Africa: Erasure\, Elision\, and the Task of Self-Writing
DESCRIPTION:Narratives of “connectivity” typically rely on discourses about Africa as a blank space devoid of social networks that are unique\, vibrant\, and continually being modified. While this takes agency away from Africans\, it rests on the colonial assumption that “connectivity\,” just as “civilization” before it\, is inherently exogenous\, white\, and male. This talk begins with the Rhodesian fantasy of connecting Africa from the Cape to Cairo and traces this logic through the contemporary discourse of digital inequality. It argues that the story of media & tech and African society today is as much rooted in the “hubris of good intentions” espoused by Henry Morton Stanley and Lord Frederick Lugard as it is in Silicon Valley’s missionary bent. In both\, the Global North’s actions are presented as bringing Africans into history and launching them into the future. Of course\, the Africa this discourse embraces is an imaginary Africa rather than a geographic Africa with people in it. This imaginary is vital because\, as Tageldin reminds us\, for the Global North to understand itself\, “Africa must be both ever compared and ever beyond the reach of comparison: beyond the pale of Western humanity” (2014\, 303). When it comes to media & technological advancement\, narratives about Africa and Africans are always\, as Mbembe reminds us\, “pretext for a comment on something else\, some other place\, some other people” (2001\, 3). The anchoring motivation for this talk is an excavation of moments of Africa’s “self-writing” in its pursuit to challenge the continual erasure and elision in connectivity narratives by the Global North. \nj. Siguru Wahutu is an Assistant Professor at NYU’s Department of Media\, Culture\, and Communication and a Faculty Associate at the Berkman Klein Center at Harvard. His primary scholarship examines media constructions of knowledge in Africa\, focusing on genocide and mass atrocities. His research interests include the effects of ethnicity and culture on the media representations of human rights violations\, global and transnational news flows\, postcolonial land claims\, and the political economy of international media\, with a regional emphasis on postcolonial Africa. His primary book project offers an extensive account of media coverage of Darfur between 2003 and 2008 within various African states (including Kenya\, Rwanda\, South Africa\, Nigeria\, and Egypt). When not studying media and genocide\, he works on data privacy issues and media manipulation in African countries. This secondary research stream is the subject of his second book project currently under contract with MIT Press. Wahutu’s research has appeared in African Journalism Studies\, African Affairs\, The International Journal of Press/Politics\, Global Media and Communication\, Media and Communication\, Media\, Culture and Society\, and Sociological Forum. \nSponsored by the IHC’s African Studies Research Focus Group\, Africa Center\, and History Department
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-place-of-africa-erasure-elision-and-the-task-of-self-writing/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:African Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220429T160000
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SUMMARY:GCLR Dissertation Writing Workshop
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this year’s second GCLR Dissertation and Prospectus Writing Workshop for graduate students from any department in the Humanities at UCSB. Our presenter will be Linshan Jiang 蒋林珊\, a doctoral candidate in the UCSB Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\, who is presenting a chapter from her dissertation entitled “Mobilizing Shame: Tension between Nationalism and Feminism in Nieh Hualing’s Far Away\, A River and Zhang Ling’s A Single Swallow.” Linshan’s dissertation examines how female writers craft memories of war experiences in their works about the Second Sino-Japanese War (1937-1945). This workshop will be moderated by Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature and GCLR Student Coordinator\, Rachel Feldman. \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89346205411?pwd=K2YvY09IaGhUY25HYXEycXA4MERNUT09 \nThis event is organized and sponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-dissertation-writing-workshop/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/GCLR-Workshop-Linshan-Jiang_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Rachel Feldman":MAILTO:rachelfeldman@ucsb.edu
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