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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 5\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Imagining California\, our 2023-24 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2023/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T160000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Inaugural Talk: Imagine This: The (Re)generation of Place
DESCRIPTION:Seeded by sorrow\, the evolving work that Cherríe Moraga will present journeys through her home-country of California\, marking her footsteps alongside Native ecologies and Chicanx genealogies. In part\, it is reflective of a queer embodied half-century inquiry—writing of place and out of place\, perhaps unknowingly inspired by a once paradisal Califas of women of color warriors. \nHere\, nature and the implicate order of its elements (fire\, air\, water\, and earth) become illuminated signposts along the road toward an interrelational “State” of being and the formation of a living politic of radical optimism in the face of global despair. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nCherríe Moraga is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at UCSB and also serves as the Co-Director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art\, & Social Praxis. She is an internationally recognized poet\, essayist\, and playwright and the co-editor of the avant-garde 1981 feminist anthology\, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of several collections of her own writings\, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness. Three earlier works\, Loving in the War Years\, The Last Generation\, and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood were published in new editions by Haymarket Books in 2022 and 2023. In 2019\, Native Country of the Heart—A Memoir was published to great acclaim by Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature\, the Barnard Medal of Distinction\, and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-imagine-this-the-regeneration-of-place/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T170000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Thanatofuturism: Making Space for the Marginal at a Tomb Shrine in Bangalore
DESCRIPTION:In the middle of Bangalore\, India\, a small dargah (Sufi tomb shrine) is a space of possibility for multiple marginalized groups\, facilitating imagined futures that include Muslims\, subaltern Hindus\, Dalits\, and hijras as full citizens of the Indian polity. At a time when powerful actors seek to limit national belonging to certain Hindu Indians\, Anna Bigelow argues that we have much to learn from such shrines and the people who intersect through them as they ground possible futures in the ethics and etiquette of the saintly dead and their spaces. \nAnna Bigelow is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Stanford University\, specializing in Islamic Studies and the religions of South Asia and the Middle East. Her work focuses on Muslim devotional life\, especially sacred spaces and ritual practice. Her current research concerns the circulation of devotional objects at Sufi shrines in India and Turkey. \nSponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, Walter H. Capps Center\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/thanatofuturism-making-space-for-the-marginal-at-a-tomb-shrine-in-bangalore/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, 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:20231013T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231013T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T125011
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Writing Human Rights Across Borders
DESCRIPTION:Over the last two decades\, the figure of the migrant has become the central imaginary subject of human rights precisely because the universal acknowledgement of migrancy as a human rights issue has been lacking and inconsequential. During the same time\, a global literature of migration has emerged as an important medium that transcends national boundaries and calls for more universal formations of the legal status and acknowledgment of migrants as subject(s) of human rights. Such fictions of migrancy do not only illustrate how subjects on the move are imagined but emphatically link the universality of human rights and the global scale of injustice toward migrants to literature as a universal form of political rhetoric and a medium of social justice. Migrancy fictions\, Schneck and Zander will thus argue\, negotiate the contradictions and conflicts inherent in the legal formation of the migrant\, and reflect on how literary forms and narrative modes may present and suggest alternative visions of migrant subjectivity and agency. \nLaura Zander is a Research Fellow at the “Law and Literature” Collaborative Research Centre at the University of Muenster. Publications include Writing Back / Reading Forward: Reconsidering the Postcolonial Approach (Berlin 2019)\, as well as articles on law and literature\, gender and postcolonial studies\, and South African and Caribbean literature. Most recently\, she edited the volume Europe in Law and Literature: Transdisciplinary Voices in Conversation (DeGruyter 2023). Her current research focuses on human rights\, subjects on the move\, and fictions of migrancy. \nPeter Schneck is Professor and Chair of American Literature and Culture at Osnabrück University and currently the director of the Institute for English and American Studies. His publications include The U.S. and the Questions of Rights (Heidelberg 2020; co-ed) and Rhetoric and Evidence: Legal Conflict and Literary Representation in American Culture (Berlin\, 2011). Since 2019\, he has been leading a research group at Osnabrück University on the formation of literary property within the Collaborative Research Centre (SFB 1385) “Law and Literature\,” hosted by the WWU Münster and funded by the German Research Foundation (DFG). His current research is concerned with human rights and global literatures of migration\, flight\, and dislocation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Legal Humanities Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/writing-human-rights-across-borders/
LOCATION:2623 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Legal Humanities,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Legal Humanities RFG":MAILTO:jdelombard@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T160000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Is Barbie Feminist? It's Complicated
DESCRIPTION:In 1994\, when M.G. Lord interviewed the California-based creators of the Barbie doll\, she had no doubt Barbie would be as provocative in 2023 as she was in 1959. But Lord did not anticipate that this plastic object\, once tarred as anti-feminist\, would evolve into a touchstone for understanding feminism—as well as the star of a blockbuster attack on patriarchy. This talk will explore the Greta Gerwig effect and the 64 years of changes in Barbie’s jobs\, ethos\, and even body. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nM.G. Lord is the co-host of the podcast L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes\, which tells the story of the doll’s creation in the voices of its original creators. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. Her 2005 family memoir\, Astro Turf\, is a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as the basis for L.A. Made: Blood\, Sweat and Rockets\, a 12-part podcast that she hosts. It tells the story of the early days of rocketry in Southern California\, and the unusual figures—a practitioner of “Sex Magick” and an accused Communist—who founded JPL. Lord is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/is-barbie-feminist-its-complicated/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T180000
DTSTAMP:20260421T125011
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: How Are You?  Sentiment\, Surveillance\, and Anti-Asian Racism
DESCRIPTION:Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users’ posts and actions to determine how they feel. This talk outlines the importance of early- and mid-20th-century studies of women workers and Japanese and Japanese-American internees in U.S. WWII internment camps to the rise of sentiment analysis. A reception will follow. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and leads the Digital Democracies Institute\, which was launched in 2019. The Institute aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms\, and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. Chun is also the author of Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition (2021); Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016); Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011); and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes\, including the Guggenheim Foundation\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was formerly Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-how-are-you-sentiment-surveillance-and-anti-asian-racism/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231024T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Daughter of the Dragon
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Yunte Huang (English) and Constance Penley (Film and Media Studies) about Huang’s new book\, Daughter of the Dragon: Anna May Wong’s Rendezvous with American History. Refreshments will be served. \nDaughter of the Dragon is a trenchant reclamation of the Chinese American movie star\, whose battles against cinematic exploitation and endemic racism are set against the currents of twentieth-century history. Born into the steam and starch of a Chinese laundry\, Anna May Wong (1905–1961) emerged from turn-of-the-century Los Angeles to become Old Hollywood’s most famous Chinese American actress\, a screen siren who captivated global audiences and signed her publicity photos—with a touch of defiance—“Orientally yours.” Now\, more than a century after her birth\, Yunte Huang narrates Wong’s tragic life story\, retracing her journey from Chinatown to silent-era Hollywood\, and from Weimar Berlin to decadent\, prewar Shanghai\, and capturing American television in its infancy. As Huang shows\, Wong’s rendezvous with history features a remarkable parade of characters\, including a smitten Walter Benjamin and (an equally smitten) Marlene Dietrich. Challenging the parodically racist perceptions of Wong as a “Dragon Lady\,” “Madame Butterfly\,” or “China Doll\,” Huang’s biography becomes a truly resonant work of history that reflects the raging anti-Chinese xenophobia\, unabashed sexism\, and ageism toward women that defined both Hollywood and America in Wong’s all-too-brief fifty-six years on earth. \nYunte Huang is Distinguished Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara and is the author of Chinese Whispers: Toward a Transpacific Poetics (2022)\, Transpacific Imaginations: History\, Literature\, Counterpoetics (2008)\, CRIBS (2005)\, Transpacific Displacement: Ethnography\, Translation\, and Intertextual Travel in Twentieth-Century American Literature (2002)\, and Shi: A Radical Reading of Chinese Poetry (1997)\, and the translator into Chinese of Ezra Pound’s The Pisan Cantos. His book\, Charlie Chan: The Untold Story of the Honorable Detective and His Rendezvous with American History (Norton\, 2010)\, won the Edgar Award and was the finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award\, as well as being named a New York Times Notable Book and one of the Best Books of the Year by the San Francisco Chronicle\, Village Voice\, Amazon\, and Kirkus Reviews. A Guggenheim Fellow in 2014-15\, he has also published articles in the New York Times\, Chicago Tribune\, Daily Beast\, and others. His most recent book is Inseparable: The Original Siamese Twins and Their Rendezvous with American History (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-daughter-of-the-dragon/
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:20231026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T100000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between and Beyond Images and Words: A Multimodal Stylistic Study of Children’s Picturebooks
DESCRIPTION:A multimodal approach to children’s picturebooks focuses on how images and words (and their interactions) collaboratively make meaning. Narrative theory enriches picturebook studies by demonstrating how paratextual elements (book cover\, author’s note\, afterword\, etc.) complement the body text. Drawing on Gérard Genette’s (1997) distinction of “peritext” and “epitext” and Nina Nørgaard’s (2018) multimodal stylistics of the novel\, this talk treats another multimodal dimension of “quasi-textual” elements or features (such as typography\, layout\, page-turn\, gutter\, blank space\, paper quality\, etc.) that undergird the picturebook and enhance the reader’s engagement with the story. It concludes that a full understanding of picturebooks needs to take these quasi-textual aspects into account. \nZheng Ren is a Visiting Graduate Student at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and a Ph.D. candidate at Tsinghua University. Her research interests are multimodal stylistics and cognitive poetics of children’s picturebooks. She is a co-convener of 2023-2024 IHC Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and a member on the organizing team of the 26th International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress 2023. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/between-and-beyond-images-and-words-a-multimodal-stylistic-study-of-childrens-picturebooks/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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