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SUMMARY:Inaugural Lecture: Too Much or Too Little?
DESCRIPTION:For a long time\, information was scarce. Messages and letters were transmitted at the speed of human or equine legs. The materials upon which information was inscribed were either too heavy or too perishable to circulate. But by the end of the eighteenth century\, as machines took over\, not only the means of transmitting information but what counted as information had changed. Knowledge and experience now yielded to the objectivity of information\, grounded\, for example\, in the laws of probability. Strictly speaking\, there was no such thing as “too much information.” Today\, everything is a potential source of information: the living beings carrying genetic information\, the starlight carrying information about the distant origin of the universe\, the earth and skies stocked with sensors\, the complete libraries existing online. If we have a question for an expert on the other side of the world\, we receive an answer so promptly in real time that we do not even notice its delay. In his talk\, Kittler will consider the history of our relationship to information and how the abundance of information available today is both too little and too much. A reception will follow. \nWolf D. Kittler is Professor in the Germanic & Slavic Studies Department at UC Santa Barbara. His research interests include Western literature from Greek antiquity to the present\, philosophy\, art history\, history of science\, media technology\, and critical theory. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series \nThe talk and audience Q&A will also be live-streamed on Zoom from 4-5:30 PM. \nImage\, left side panel: Muse\, perhaps Clio\, reading a scroll (Attic red-figure lekythos\, Boeotia\, c. 430 BC)\, commons.wikimedia.org\nImage\, right side panel: Banksy\, Mobile Lovers\, 2014\, crop from photo by Daz Smith\, creativecommons.org
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-lecture-too-much-or-too-little/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221010T150000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Meet and Greet Open House
DESCRIPTION:The co-conveners of the Disability Studies Initiative invite you to come and join us for tea or coffee. We will discuss as a group potential activities for the year and come up with an agenda of exciting events and initiatives. Let’s meet face to face if you can. Participants may also register and join us online so we can exchange ideas and brainstorm about current research in Critical Disability Studies. Let’s continue our work on disability and literary studies; on discourses of intersectionality and disabled bodies; on art and design history research and accessibility; on universal design for learning\, and develop the study of gender\, care\, and disability. \nRegister for the Zoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, Department of Comparative Literature\, and Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-meet-and-greet-open-house/
LOCATION:Early Modern Center\, 2510 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Disability Studies Initiative":MAILTO:rlambert@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260404T122010
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LAST-MODIFIED:20221010T183442Z
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SUMMARY:Conference: Satyajit Ray and the Sense of Wonder
DESCRIPTION:This three-day conference and accompanying film series have been organized to celebrate the birth centenary of the renowned Indian filmmaker Satyajit Ray (1921-1992). Most critical evaluations of Ray\, which tend to focus on his films while overlooking his considerable literary and design output\, have consecrated him as a modernist master or a postcolonial auteur. Such discussions are often couched in terms of modernity and tradition\, Orientalism and nativism\, objectivity and irrationality\, skepticism and enchantment\, art cinema and popular cinema. Instead\, we focus on wonder\, an affect that cuts transversally across these polarities\, as an analytical category that enables fresh perspectives from which to assess Ray’s contributions to Bengali culture\, Indian modernity\, and global cinema. We address his stature as the bestselling author of Bengali-language young adult fiction as well as one of the most revered graphic artists of modern India. While Ray has been widely hailed as an artist upholding a universal brand of humanism\, the conference seeks to flesh out his singularity in terms of a vernacular modernism and a critical humanist orientation. \nThe conference is organized by Bhaskar Sarkar\, Professor Film and Media Studies\, and Bishnupriya Ghosh\, Professor of English and Global Studies\, on behalf of the Global-Popular Workshop\, with generous support from the UC Humanities Research Institute; Center for South Asian Studies\, UC Santa Cruz; and the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Orfalea Center for Global and International Studies\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, and College of Letters and Science\, UC Santa Barbara. \nImage: Satyajit Ray’s poster for the film Devi\, 1960
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/satyajit-ray-and-the-sense-of-wonder/
LOCATION:Wallis Annenberg Conference Room\, 4315 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221013T180000
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Make a Poem Cry: Creative Writing from California’s Lancaster Prison
DESCRIPTION:Make a Poem Cry is an anthology from one of California’s high-security prisons brought to us through the creative writing classes of Luis J. Rodríguez. Rodríguez and formerly incarcerated writer Kenneth E. Hartman have selected work penned from 2016 to 2018. These are poems\, essays\, stories\, and more mined from the depths of familial\, racial\, and economic violence. They are imaginings for how to address trouble and crime without punishment\, dehumanization\, and violence in return. Here’s restorative/transformative justice in action. Here’s redemption in the flesh. Here are voices and viewpoints needed for a just and equitable world for all. In this TMI series event\, Hartman and Rodríguez will discuss how the project makes visible the experience of incarceration–about which there is too little information–as well as read selected works from the anthology. A reception will follow. \nKenneth E. Hartman was convicted of murder at nineteen and sentenced to life without the possibility of parole. After he had served thirty-eight years\, former California governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. commuted his sentence\, and Hartman was paroled in 2017. He’s presently a freelance writer who is also working as a development coordinator and prison programs specialist for a Los Angeles-area nonprofit. His 2009 memoir\, Mother California: A Story of Redemption Behind Bars\, won the 2010 Eric Hoffer Award. Hartman edited Too Cruel\, Not Unusual Enough\, a collection of prisoner writings about life sentences without the possibility of parole\, which won a 2014 Independent Publisher Book Award. His work has appeared in the New York Times and Harper’s. \nLuis J. Rodríguez was the poet laureate of Los Angeles from 2014 to 2016. Across forty years\, he taught creative writing as well as conducted poetry readings\, lectures\, and healing circles in prisons\, juvenile lockups\, and jails throughout the United States\, Mexico\, Central America\, South America\, and Europe. He is the founding editor of Tia Chucha Press and cofounder of Tia Chucha’s Centro Cultural & Bookstore in the San Fernando Valley section of Los Angeles. Rodríguez is the author of sixteen books of poetry\, children’s literature\, fiction\, and nonfiction\, including the best-selling memoir Always Running: La Vida Loca: Gang Days in L.A. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-make-a-poem-cry-creative-writing-from-californias-lancaster-prison/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221017T130000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Discussion: Reading David Sterling Brown's "'Hood feminism': Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era"
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Monday\, October 17th\, at 1 PM for a reading group discussion of David Sterling Brown’s recent article\, “‘Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era\,” and “Teaching guide for: ‘Hood feminism’: Whiteness and segregated (premodern) scholarly discourse in the post-postracial era.” Both works appeared in the 2021 special issue of Literature Compass\, “Race Before Race: Premodern Critical Race Studies\,” edited by Dorothy Kim. As the first Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender RFG event of the new academic year\, we will begin by continuing last year’s conversations on un-disciplining and re-disciplining premodern studies with with Brown’s phenomenal work. Please email jessicazisa@ucsb.edu or reemtaha@ucsb.edu for access to the reading or to be added to the Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group email list for future event information. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-discussion-reading-david-sterling-browns-hood-feminism-whiteness-and-segregated-premodern-scholarly-discourse-in-the-post-postracial-era/
LOCATION:2635 South Hall\, South Hall\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Un-disciplining Premodern Histories of Race and Gender,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221025T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: The Bones of Contention
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese\, Theater and Dance) and Juan Pablo Lupi (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cabranes-Grant’s new play\, The Bones of Contention. Refreshments will be served. \nThe Bones of Contention describes the efforts of Yitipaka (an imaginary California town) to regain its economic and social stability after the COVID pandemic. Constructed as two collective latinx murals (one dedicated to the older generation\, one dedicated to younger people)\, the play confronts frictions produced within that community by conflicted financial\, environmental\, political\, and emotional demands. The play also combines different aesthetic styles (with elements that are both Brechtian and magic-realist) in order to envision a space in which nature and cultural differences meet and confront each other. With this play\, Cabranes-Grant has tried to create a pluricultural work\, one that encompasses the extraordinary diversity of California while offering actors and directors an opportunity to support more inclusive forms of story-telling. \nLeo Cabranes-Grant is Professor of Literature\, Performance\, and Intercultural Poetics in the Departments of Spanish and Portuguese and Theater and Dance at UCSB. His scholarly work has received the Association for Theater in Higher Education Best Essay Award (ATHE\, 2011). His most recent book\, From Scenarios to Networks. Performing the Intercultural in Colonial Mexico\, was published by Northwestern University Press (2016). Professor Cabranes has also published four books of poetry and a collection of his plays. His plays have received awards in Puerto Rico (Best Play\, Institute of Puerto Rican Culture\, 2006) and in New York (Asunción Award\, Pregones\, 2011; Hispanic Federation Fuerza Fest Award\, 2022). Professor Cabranes was Editor of the prestigious journal Theatre Survey\, published for the American Society for Theatre Research (ASTR) by Cambridge University Press. At the moment\, Professor Cabranes is working on two scholarly projects: a book on Søren Kierkegaard’s theories of performance\, and a book on the connections among performance\, racial identities\, and painting in eighteenth-century Mexico. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \nWatch a video of the performance of The Bones of Contention.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-the-bones-of-contention/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20221027T093000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Intellectual Disability\, the English Law\, and the Fools of Shakespeare and His Contemporaries
DESCRIPTION:This talk will examine how fools in early modern drama and literature were considered intellectually disabled\, if viewed in the light of early modern criteria for intellectual disability. The English law was the discipline that most of all strove to conceptualize such a disability: calling it idiocy\, it defined it as someone’s incapacity to manage property. Such thinking influenced the way literary characters were represented on the stage and page. Hence\, they showcased a tendency to be interrogated\, to be on the verge of bankruptcy\, and to be vulnerable victims of ruthless guardians. Insights from contemporary disability studies theory will help historicize literary fools as idiots. \nDr. Alice Equestri is a Lecturer in English literature at the University of Padua as well as a Research Associate at the University of Sussex\, where she held a position as Marie Sklodowska-Curie Fellow between 2017 and 2019. She has published two monographs: Literature and Intellectual Disability in Early Modern England: Folly\, Law\, and Medicine 1500-1640 (Routledge\, 2021) and The Fools of Shakespeare’s Romances (Carocci\, 2016)\, which was awarded the AIA PhD Dissertation Prize 2015. Her essays have appeared or are due to appear in venues including the Oxford Research Encyclopedia of Literature\, Renaissance Studies\, Notes and Queries\, and Disability Studies Quarterly. \nThe event will also be available via Zoom here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Disability Studies Initiative Research Focus Group\, the Early Modern Center of the English Department\, the Comparative Literature Program\, and the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-intellectual-disability-the-english-law-and-the-fools-of-shakespeare-and-his-contemporaries/
LOCATION:2510 South Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Disability Studies Initiative,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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