BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB - ECPv6.15.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20230312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20231105T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230411T190000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230208T181924Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230322T191255Z UID:10000630-1681239600-1681239600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Conference: Listening to Cumbia DESCRIPTION:Listening to Cumbia brings together scholars\, filmmakers\, artists\, and archivists for a symposium\, screening\, and DJ event on the contemporary cultural and political history of cumbia music in Mexico and the United States. Cumbia – as transnational record circulation and as local sound system dance scenes – is a living culture that provides insight into the cross-border effects of this popular music as force of social identity and mode of communication among Latinx communities. \nAPRIL 11\, POLLOCK THEATER \n7:00 – 10:00 PM | Screening: Yo No Soy Guapo (Joyce Garcia\, 2018) and Sonidero Metropolis (Alvaro Parra\, 2023) \nAPRIL 12\, 6020 HSSB \n10:30 AM – 12:00 PM | Archiving Cumbia: Jorge Balleza\, Carlos Icaza\, Gary Garay\, and Alexandra Lippman Moderator: David Novak \n12:00 – 1:30 PM | Lunch \n1:30 – 3:00 PM | Visualizing Cumbia: Joyce García\, Alvaro Parra\, Roberto Rodriguez\, Mirjam Wirz Moderator: Raquel Pacheco \n3:30 – 5:00 PM | Listening Through Time: Myths of Past Futurities in Cumbia Rebajada: Juan David Rubio Restrepo \n8:00 – 10:00 PM | Baile/Performance (Storke Plaza): Sabotaje Media\, Space Primo\, Ganas\, Tropicaza\, Xandão\, and Penny Lane \nFor complete information and the up-to-date schedule\, visit the symposium’s page at The Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music here. \nOrganized by the Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Music. Cosponsored by the IHC’s Faculty Collaborative Research Grant\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, Humanities and Fine Arts\, KCSB-FM\, Anthropology\, Chicana/o Studies\, Film and Media Studies\, and Ethnomusicology Forum \nImage credit: Dave Novak URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/listening-to-cumbia/ LOCATION:Pollock Theater; McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/02/Cumbia_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="David Novak":MAILTO:dnovak09@ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T171500 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20220920T180716Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T002333Z UID:10000607-1682006400-1682010900@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:TMI Talk: GPS for the Brain: Networks\, Urbanisms\, Algorithms DESCRIPTION:Laura Kurgan will talk about her recent work involving network science and urban theory. She will present work from the Center for Spatial Research on the Urban History of Algorithms: Homophily and Weak Ties\, a history which not surprisingly lies dormant in its use in network science. She will also present new work on navigation theory in neuroscience\, which revisits and asks questions about the canonical urban theory of Kevin Lynch (1970) and Fred Jameson’s Postmodernism and the Logic of Late Capitalism (1990). Audience Q&A will follow. \nLaura Kurgan is a Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University\, where she directs the Masters of Science in Computational Design Practices and the Center for Spatial Research (CSR). She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping\, Technology\, and Politics (2013) and co-editor of Ways of Knowing Cities (2019). \nKurgan’s work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art\, science\, and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. Her work has been exhibited internationally\, most recently Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)\, at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2018\, and at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris (2016). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nImage courtesy of the Center for Spatial Research\, from Homophily\, the Urban History of an Algorithm URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-laura-kurgan/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Kurgan_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230421T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230423T160000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230314T175111Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230315T160356Z UID:10000635-1682092800-1682265600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:10th Annual AIIC Symposium: Land Back/Language Back DESCRIPTION:In pondering the lush promise of living languages\, worlds\, waterways and lands\, this symposium will share conversations on Indigenous praxis on the survival and continuance of living worlds linked to living words through relationships to the land. With this theme\, participants can locate these conversations in language (re)vitalization work\, but these discussions are also open to many approaches in focusing on the Land Back imperative. \nKeynote Speakers:\nApril 21 | Sweeney “Hawk” Windchief\nDr. Sweeney Windchief (Fort Peck Assiniboine) is an Associate Professor in Department of Education at Montana State University who specializes in Indigenous Methodologies and Critical Race Theory in Education. Dr. Windcheif’s research is on the critical examination of race in higher education\, leadership development in tribal colleges and universities (TCU’s)\, Indigenous peoples and higher education. Dr. Wichief’s teaching areas are Higher Education Leadership\, Law and Policy and Higher Education\, Theoretical Foundations of College Students\, Critical Race Theory\, Indigenous Methodologies. \nApril 22 | Shelbi Nahwilet Meissner\nShelbi Nahwilet Meissner (she/hers) is Payómkawichum (Luiseño) and Kuupangaxwichem (Cupeño) and a first-generation descendant of the La Jolla Band of Luiseno Indians. Meissner is an assistant professor of philosophy at Georgetown University who specializes in Indigenous philosophy\, feminist and non-western epistemology\, and philosophy of language. Meissner researches\, consults\, publishes\, and teaches on Indigenous research methodologies\, language reclamation\, epistemic and linguistic sovereignty\, climate justice\, Indigenous feminisms\, and critical Indigenous interventions in social work. \nApril 23 | Beth Rose Middleton Manning\nBeth Rose Middleton Manning (Afro-Caribbean\, Eastern European) is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis. Beth Rose’s research centers on Native environmental policy and Native activism for site protection using conservation tools. Her broader research interests include intergenerational trauma and healing\, Native land stewardship\, rural environmental justice\, Indigenous analysis of climate change\, Afro-indigeneity\, and qualitative GIS. 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. Her first book\, Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (University of Arizona Press 2011)\, focuses on Native applications of conservation easements\, with an emphasis on conservation partnerships led by California Native Nations. \nKeynote Panel:\nApril 23 | Arkotong Longkumer\, Liudmila Nikanorova\, Bjørn Ola Tafjord\, and Greg Johnson\nArkotong Longkumer is a Senior Lecturer in Modern Asia at the University of Edinburgh.\nLiudmila Nikanorova\, Open University UK\, is a post-doctoral fellow at the University of Bergen\, Norway.\nBjørn Ola Tafjord is a Professor\, the Study of Religions in Department of Archaeology\, History\, Cultural Studies and Religion\, University of Bergen\, Norway.\nGreg Johnson is a Professor of Religious Studies and Director\, Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life at UC Santa Barbara. \nFor more information and to register\, please visit the symposium website \nSponsored by the IHC’s American Indian and Indigenous Collective Research Focus Group (AIIC RFG); College of Letters & Science: Bren School of Environmental Science & Management; Walter Capps Center; Environmental Studies Program; Department of English; Gevirtz Graduate School of Education; Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion; Department of Feminist Studies; Department of History of Art and Architecture; Global Latinidades Project; Hull Professor and Chair of Women’s Studies Program; Literature and Environment Research Initiative; Graduate Division; UCSB Graduate Student Association; UCSB Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; Department of Religious Studies; Department of Linguistics; and Department of History. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/10th-annual-aiic-symposium-land-back-language-back/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB; Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,American Indian and Indigenous Collective,IHC Research Focus Groups ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/AIIC-symposium_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="American Indian & Indigenous Collective RFG":MAILTO:ucsbaiic@gmail.com END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T180000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230321T171920Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T175722Z UID:10000641-1682442000-1682445600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Talk: Beyond the Wall: Teichoscopy and the Limits of Tragedy DESCRIPTION:Teichoscopy is a theatrical means of communicating occurrences that happen offstage. A figure\, commonly subaltern and anonymous\, climbs to an elevated position to report what it sees from this vantage point while the leading figure remains below to hear. In thus visibly inverting the positions of power on stage\, teichoscopy can not only call into question social and political hierarchies\, it also serves to comment on the central tragic notion of the ‘fall of kings’ itself. This is why the strategy is employed frequently when European tragedy seeks to address the limitations imposed by the need for dramatic personae. In the late eighteenth century\, teichoscopy takes on a radically anti-dramatic function as it shows how revolution undermines the “dispositive of representation” (Louis Marin) that links both courtly and bourgeois drama to Early Modern sovereignty. This talk will address the specific media poetics allowing for such a liminal experience of political drama reaching beyond itself. \nMichael Auer is Professor of German Literature at the University of Vienna in Austria visiting UCSB as a Max Kade Professor this Spring quarter. His research interests include the politics of poetic form\, the history of European drama\, and “lyrical soundscapes” from psalms to songs. He is currently writing a book on teichoscopy from Aeschylus and Shakespeare to Sarah Kane and Elfriede Jelinek. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Theater and Dance URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/beyond-the-wall-teichoscopy-and-the-limits-of-tragedy/ LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Auer_Teichoscopy_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu GEO:34.4161308;-119.8446426 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6206C Phelps Phelps Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8446426,34.4161308 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T210000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230316T175852Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230404T161159Z UID:10000637-1682449200-1682456400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Film Screening: Does Your House Have Lions DESCRIPTION:“An archive of friendship – near\, far and displaced.” Filmed over six years\, following Delhi-based poet\, teacher and activist vqueeram and a group of friends living together in New Delhi\, Does Your House Have Lions (48 min.\, 2021) invites us into a world of queer kinship\, love and joy\, experienced amidst—and in resistance to—the inequalities of caste\, patriarchy\, religion and fascism. \nVishal Jugdeo is an interdisciplinary artist who works with video\, installation\, performance\, and sculpture to construct experimental approaches to narrative. He has exhibited widely including solo exhibitions at the ICA Philadelphia\, LAXART\, Los Angeles\, Western Front\, Vancouver\, and 18th Street Arts Center\, Santa Monica. Commissioned works have been featured in Performa\, New York\, and Made in LA at the Hammer Museum. Jugdeo is a 2015 Guggenheim Foundation Fellow and has received major project funding from the Canada Council for the Arts. Jugdeo is Assistant Professor in New Genres in the UCLA Department of Art. \nvqueeram is a writer\, researcher\, and teacher. They are interested in sex\, feeling\, and living/dying in their relations with forms of sociality\, law\, and politics. At the Center for Law and Policy Research\, Bengaluru\, vqueeram teaches a course on intersectionality for various law schools in the country\, and participates in research and policy work on the rights and concerns of the trans community in India. In their writing\, vqueeram pays attention to the practices of imagination and freedom of queer/trans persons; whether building a life in a cemetary in Delhi\, or in life writing—cinematic\, authorial\, and political. vqueeram’s writing has been featured in The Shortline Review\, The White Review\, Frieze\, Huffington Post India\, Akademi Magazine\, and The Wire among other publications and contexts. \nThere will be a post-screening discussion on Zoom with filmmakers Vishal Jugdeo and vqueeram moderated by Cathy Thomas\, Asst. Professor in English & Creative Writing at UCSB. \nAdmission is free. To register to attend the in-person screening or the virtual post-screening discussion\, please visit the Carsey-Wolf Center event page. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Caribbean Studies Research Focus Group and the Carsey-Wolf Center URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/does-your-house-have-lions/ LOCATION:Pollock Theater\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Caribbean Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups ORGANIZER;CN="Caribbean Studies RFG":MAILTO:cathythomas@ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230427T153803Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230522T215701Z UID:10000651-1682523000-1682530200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Colloquium: Agents of Ishq and the Radical Possibilities of Love DESCRIPTION:This colloquium will explore with Paramita Vohra the experience of co-creating a digital space about sex\, love\, and desire in India. \nParomita Vohra is an Indian media artist and writer who works with a range of forms\, including film\, comic books\, digital media\, installation art\, and writing\, to explore themes of feminism\, desire\, urban life\, and popular culture. Her filmography as director includes the documentary Partners in Crime\, which will be screened on April 27 at 7:00 pm at the Pollock Theater\, as well as the documentaries Unlimited Girls\, Q2P\, and Morality TV and the Loving Jehad. She has written the feature film Khamosh Pani; the documentaries Skin Deep\, Stuntmen of Bollywood\, and If You Pause; the play Ishquiya: Dharavi Ishtyle; and the comic book Priya’s Mirror. In addition\, she has published essays on film\, popular culture\, love\, and desire\, as well as several short stories. She also writes a weekly newspaper column “Paro-normal Activity” for Sunday Mid-Day. In 2015\, Vohra founded the Agents of Ishq\, an award-winning digital platform for conversations on sex\, love\, and desire in India\, and she is currently serving as its creative director. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, and Department of Feminist Studies URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/agents-of-ishq-and-the-radical-possibilities-of-love/ LOCATION:2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies\, SSMS UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/10/SouthAsian_RFG_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu GEO:34.4139629;-119.848947 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies SSMS UCSB Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=SSMS UCSB:geo:-119.848947,34.4139629 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T131500 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20220902T182100Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T182212Z UID:10000602-1682683200-1682687700@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Creating\, Weaponizing\, and Detecting Deep Fakes DESCRIPTION:Although varied in their form and creation\, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image\, audio\, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality\, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios. In this talk\, Farid will provide an overview of how deep fakes are created\, how they are being used and misused\, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHany Farid is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n  URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-hany-farid/ LOCATION:Zoom CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/09/Farid_Deep_Fakes_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T140000 DTSTAMP:20260404T103102 CREATED:20230419T230003Z LAST-MODIFIED:20230922T173718Z UID:10000647-1682683200-1682690400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Workshop: The Power of Positionality: Self-Identification in Empirical Legal Writing DESCRIPTION:What is the impact on and influence of the researcher in law and society? Drawing in part from the author’s empirical research and professional experience\, this workshop will discuss a paper that investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial\, gender\, class\, or other self-identifications\, experiences\, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of positionality in a research paper can enhance the validity of its empirical data as well as its theoretical contribution. But such self-disclosure also risks exposing a scholar to vulnerability\, especially because those most likely to reveal how their positionality shapes their research are scholars who identify as women\, ethnic minorities\, or both. At this stage of the field’s methodological development\, the burdens of positionality are being carried unevenly by a tiny minority of researchers. The author concludes by inviting all socio-legal scholars to redress this imbalance by embracing positionality. \nMark Fathi Massoud is Professor of Politics and Director of Legal Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is also Visiting Professor of Law at the University of Oxford. He is the author of two books\, Shari’a\, Inshallah and Law’s Fragile State\, and he is co-editor of the Cambridge Studies in Law and Society book series. Most recently\, he received a Guggenheim Fellowship. Find out more at markmassoud.com. \nRead the paper here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Legal Humanities Research Focus Group URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-power-of-positionality-self-identification-in-empirical-legal-writing/ LOCATION:4429 SSMS\, Anneberg Conference Room\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Legal Humanities,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/04/LegalHumanitiesPlaceholder_Event.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Legal Humanities RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR