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Name: Research Focus Group Talk: Diving Into the Lake: On the Necessity, Joy, and Anxiety of (Re)Translating Tulsidas’s Rāmcaritmānas
Start: 2023-06-02T15:00:00-07:00
End: 2023-06-02T17:00:00-07:00
Location: 4080 HSSB

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	0 events 1 0 events, 1	1 event 2 1 event, 2 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Humanities Decanted: The Virus Touch May 2, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Humanities Decanted: The Virus Touch Join us for a dialogue between Bishnupriya Ghosh (English and Global Studies) and Elena Aronova (History) about Ghosh’s new book, The Virus Touch: Theorizing Epidemic Media. Refreshments will be served. In The Virus Touch, Ghosh argues that media are central to understanding emergent relations between viruses, humans, and nonhuman life. Writing in the shadow of the HIV/AIDS and COVID-19 global pandemics, Ghosh theorizes “epidemic media” to show how epidemics are mediated in images, numbers, and ...	1 event 3 1 event, 3 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Talk: Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945 May 3, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Talk: Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945 Professor Salim Yaqub will discuss his new book, Winds of Hope, Storms of Discord: The United States since 1945, which traverses the broad sweep of postwar U.S. history. It explores how Americans of all walks of life—political leaders, businesspeople, public intellectuals, workers, students, activists, migrants, and others—struggled to define the nation’s political, economic, geopolitical, demographic, and social character. The book chronicles the nation’s ceaseless ferment, from the rocky conversion to peacetime in the early aftermath ...	0 events 4 0 events, 4	0 events 5 0 events, 5	0 events 6 0 events, 6
0 events 7 0 events, 7	0 events 8 0 events, 8	0 events 9 0 events, 9	2 events 10 2 events, 10 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Color: Additions, Subtractions, Signals May 10, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Color: Additions, Subtractions, Signals In this presentation, Ricardo Cedeño Montaña will describe some of the particular principles, mechanisms, and techniques by which color film functioned in its formative years and the coding schemes for (re)producing, storing, and transmitting color information in electronic and digital media. Using a media archaeological approach to technical media, Cedeño Montaña will show that color in technical media is anything but stable and such instability implies different contexts of sensory data processing and storage. This ..., 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Tape Letters: Migration on Tape May 10, 2023 @ 3:30 pm - 5:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Tape Letters: Migration on Tape The Tape Letters project shines light on the practice of recording and sending messages on cassette tape as a mode of communication by Pakistanis who migrated and settled in the UK between 1960 and 1980. Drawing directly both from first-hand interviews and from the informal and intimate conversations on the cassettes themselves, the project seeks to unearth, archive, and represent a portrait of this method of communication, as practiced mainly by Pothwari-speaking members of the ...	0 events 11 0 events, 11	2 events 12 2 events, 12 9:30 am - 11:00 am Research Focus Group Symposium: Through Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase May 12, 2023 @ 9:30 am - 11:00 am Research Focus Group Symposium: Through Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase Through Young Eyes is an undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Focus Group on Global Childhood Ecologies, as well as the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies and Comparative Literature Program. It features multidisciplinary presentations of thesis research related to childhood by senior majors Victoria Korotchenko in Russian and East European Studies, Nicole Smirnoff in Comparative Literature, and Zoie Orth in English. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion will focus ..., 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Research Focus Group Workshop: Rehearsals for Reparations May 12, 2023 @ 12:00 pm - 2:00 pm Research Focus Group Workshop: Rehearsals for Reparations In this workshop, the Legal Humanities RFG will discuss Giuliana Perrone's new paper, "Rehearsals for Reparations." This pre-circulated paper considers a set of lawsuits in which emancipated people sued to have their enslavers’ bequests to them honored. It contends that we should see these suits as contests over reparations. By exploring this unappreciated history of reparations, this article argues that enslavers themselves believed reparations were due and were willing to pay them, there was a ...	0 events 13 0 events, 13
0 events 14 0 events, 14	0 events 15 0 events, 15	1 event 16 1 event, 16 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Humanities Decanted: Giuliana Perrone May 16, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 5:30 pm Humanities Decanted: Giuliana Perrone Join us for a dialogue between Giuliana Perrone (History) and Jeannine DeLombard (English) about Perrone's new book, Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. Refreshments will be served. Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law (Cambridge University Press, 2023) Nothing More than Freedom explores the long and complex legal history of Black freedom in the United States. From the ratification of the Thirteenth Amendment in 1865 until ...	0 events 17 0 events, 17	0 events 18 0 events, 18	1 event 19 1 event, 19 2023-05-19 “Continuing and Restarting”: The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) “Continuing and Restarting”: The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) May 19, 2023 @ 8:00 am - May 20, 2023 @ 6:00 pm “Continuing and Restarting”: The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) The Language, Interaction, and Social Organization GSO is pleased to host the 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization on May 19–20, 2023, at UCSB. 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. Register to attend here For more information, visit the conference ...	2 events 20 2 events, 20 2023-05-19 “Continuing and Restarting”: The 26th Annual Conference on Language, Interaction, and Social Organization (LISO) 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Asian/American Studies Collective Graduate Symposium May 20, 2023 @ 9:00 am - 7:00 pm Asian/American Studies Collective Graduate Symposium The Asian/American Studies Collective will be holding their second annual Graduate Student Symposium on May 20, 2023, at the West Conference Center (7050 Seaway Drive, Isla Vista). The Symposium offers a space for emerging scholars in Asian American and Asian diasporic studies to share research and foster community across the field, and this year highlights the cutting-edge work of scholars working in Critical Refugee Studies. The 2023 Graduate Student Symposium will feature a keynote event ...
0 events 21 0 events, 21	0 events 22 0 events, 22	1 event 23 1 event, 23 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2022-23 Faculty Fellows May 23, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2022-23 Faculty Fellows Please join us in celebrating our 2022-23 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. Heidi Amin-Hong, English “A Contaminated Transpacific: Ecological Afterlives of the Vietnam War” Charmaine Chua, Global Studies “Logistics Leviathan: Counterrevolutionary empire and just-in-time distribution in the Indo-Pacific” Raquel Pacheco, Anthropology “Re-making the Peasant Countryside: Intimate mestizaje in Neoliberal Mexico” Elana Resnick, Anthropology “Refusing Sustainability: ...	1 event 24 1 event, 24 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Worship Space Acoustics: Exploring Its Application in Hindu Temples May 24, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm Research Focus Group Talk: Worship Space Acoustics: Exploring Its Application in Hindu Temples Acoustically important aspects of Hindu worship include chants, bells, conch-shells, and gongs. Every Hindu temple is fitted with bells that worshipers ring. Conch-shells and gongs are used at various times during pūjā rituals, during which texts from the Vedas and other Sanskrit scriptures are chanted. These Vedic chants have phonetic characteristics such as pitch, duration, emphasis, uniformity, and juxtaposition. In this talk, Shashank Aswathanarayana will discuss his postdoctoral research on the acoustics of Hindu temples ...	1 event 25 1 event, 25 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Research Focus Group Discussion: Energy and Environmental Justice May 25, 2023 @ 2:00 pm - 4:00 pm Research Focus Group Discussion: Energy and Environmental Justice Join the Re-centering Energy Justice Research Focus Group for a roundtable discussion. Special guests Sourayan Mookerjea and J. Mijin Cha will be discussants for this event celebrating a new book by UCSB researcher Tristan Partridge. Sourayan Mookerjea is Director of the Intermedia Research Studio and Associate Professor in Sociology at the University of Alberta. His work addresses Commons Theory, Decolonizing Critical Theory, Intermedia Research Creation, and Development Dispossession. Mijin Cha’s research focuses on labor/climate coalitions and ...	0 events 26 0 events, 26	0 events 27 0 events, 27
0 events 28 0 events, 28	0 events 29 0 events, 29	1 event 30 1 event, 30 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “It Calls You Back and Draws You In”: The Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez May 30, 2023 @ 4:00 pm - 6:00 pm “It Calls You Back and Draws You In”: The Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez Luis J. Rodríguez is an award-winning author and activist whose memoir about life in a gang, Always Running, is as popular as ever in 2023, its 30th anniversary. The UCSB Library Special Research Collections recently acquired Rodríguez’s personal papers, giving scholars and students an opportunity to see the personal and social context behind Always Running and Rodríguez’s other prose, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as his involvement in gubernatorial races, revolutionary organizations, and the prisoners’ ...	0 events 31 0 events, 31