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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India
DESCRIPTION:Jisha Menon will discuss her recent book\, Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India. Brutal Beauty conveys the affective life of the city through multiple aesthetic projects that express a range of urban feelings\, including aspiration\, panic\, and obsolescence. As developers and policymakers remodel the city through tumultuous construction projects\, urban beautification\, privatization\, and other templated features of “world‑class cities\,” urban citizens are also changing. Sketching out scenes of urban aspiration and its dark underbelly\, the book delineates the creative and destructive potential of India’s lurch into contemporary capitalism\, exploring art’s capacity to absorb and critique liberalization’s discontents. Menon argues that neoliberalism isn’t just an economic\, social\, and political phenomenon\, it is also an aesthetic project. \nJisha Menon is Professor of Theater and Performance Studies\, and (by courtesy) of Comparative Literature at Stanford University. She is the author of Brutal Beauty: Aesthetics and Aspiration in Urban India (Northwestern UP\, 2021) and The Performance of Nationalism: India\, Pakistan and the Memory of Partition (Cambridge UP\, 2013) and coeditor of Violence Performed: Local Roots and Global Routes of Conflict (with Patrick Anderson) (Palgrave-Macmillan Press\, 2009) and Performing the Secular: Religion\, Representation\, and Politics (with Milija Gluhovic) (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2017.) \nSponsored by the IHC’s Performing Race\, Performing Space Research Focus Group and the Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/brutal-beauty-aesthetics-and-aspiration-in-urban-india/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:Performing Race, Performing Space,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Secret Clocks: The U.S. Military\, Einstein's Relativity\, and the Global Positioning System
DESCRIPTION:For nearly a decade\, beginning in the mid-1970s\, a debate unfolded among physicists and engineers over how best to include effects from Einstein’s general theory of relativity in the new military technology now known as the Global Positioning System (GPS). Although some exchanges were published in the open scientific literature\, much of the debate played out behind the scenes\, in memos\, reports\, and special review sessions arranged by the U.S. military. Theoretical physicists who had no relationship with the project criticized early efforts to incorporate relativistic effects within GPS designs\, complaining that significant information was not shared by military contractors. Other experts in relativity\, who consulted more closely with the U.S. Air Force while GPS was under development\, responded that the outside critics had little relevant experience with real-world engineering applications\, and that their criticisms amounted to mathematical irrelevancies. Throughout the debate\, few doubted that relativity — with its counterintuitive notions of space and time — needed to be taken seriously in the design and operation of GPS. Rather\, they disagreed over how best to incorporate deep lessons from relativity in an engineering-relevant way\, at a time when the stakes for the new military technology loomed large. \nDavid Kaiser is Germeshausen Professor of the History of Science and Professor of Physics at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. He is the author of several award-winning books about modern physics. His latest book\, Quantum Legacies: Dispatches from an Uncertain World (2020)\, was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and also honored as among the best books of the year by Physics Today and Physics World magazines. A Fellow of the American Physical Society\, Kaiser has received MIT’s highest awards for excellence in teaching. His work has been featured in Science\, Nature\, the New York Times\, and the New Yorker magazine. His physics group’s recent efforts to conduct a “Cosmic Bell” test of quantum entanglement\, in collaboration with Nobel laureate Anton Zeilinger\, were featured in the documentary film Einstein’s Quantum Riddle. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Machines\, People\, and Politics Research Focus Group and the Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/secret-clocks-the-u-s-military-einsteins-relativity-and-the-global-positioning-system/
LOCATION:4080 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Machines, People, and Politics,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231113T000000
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SUMMARY:UCSB Library Exhibition: Fossil Free UC
DESCRIPTION:This UCSB Library exhibition (November 13\, 2023 – June 28\, 2024) celebrates the achievement of the student-led campaign as a testament to the power of collective action to transform our university and our world. \nBetween 2012-2019\, student activists led a UC-wide coalition– the Fossil Free UC campaign– to pressure the University to divest faculty and staff retirement funds from oil company shares. UCSB students were at the forefront of the movement\, working closely with their peers at other campuses. Their grassroots campaign exposed the disjuncture between public perception of Santa Barbara as a haven for environmentalism and the University’s investments in the fossil fuel industry. Through a strategic combination of demonstrations\, letter-writing\, and face-to-face conversations\, students and supporting faculty made it clear that the UC was complicit and profiting from environmental destruction caused by oil companies. \nThis exhibition was co-curated by Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies\, UCSB) and Andrea Serna (History\, UCSB). \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Re-Centering Energy Justice Research Focus Group\, Department of Environmental Studies\, and Mellon Sawyer Seminar on Energy Justice in Global Perspective
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/fossil-free-uc/
LOCATION:Ocean Gallery\, UCSB Library\, Santa Barbara\, 93106
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: The Dreamt Land: How the Invention of California Became Miracle and Ruin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, journalist Mark Arax will discuss how California’s capture of land and water is the story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders and devastation it has wrought. It’s a tale of magic and madness in the arid West\, of genocide and endless extraction\, of redirected rivers and ever higher dams and deeper wells\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth made to give more even as it keeps sinking. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMark Arax has been called a “21st-Century John Steinbeck” for his books that pry open the soul of California. A writer of essays\, history\, biography\, and journalism\, he is a two-time winner of the California Book Award and a recipient of Stanford University’s William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent work\, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California\, a national bestseller\, has been hailed by critics as one of the most important books ever written about the West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-dreamt-land-how-the-invention-of-california-became-miracle-and-ruin/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Roman-Persian Relations: The Emperor Jovian and the Syriac "Julian Romance"
DESCRIPTION:The Roman emperor Jovian (363-364) only ruled for eight months and has not received much attention in scholarship. However\, he is more than a footnote in history. After the reign of Julian\, he returned to the policies of Constantius II and Constantine the Great. His peace agreement with the Sassanid king Shapur II also had great impact for Roman-Persian relations. \nThe first part of this presentation evaluates the peace agreement\, the responses to it\, and its long-term influence on the relationship between the Roman and Persian empire. Jovian had an unexpected afterlife in the so-called “Julian Romance\,” a rarely studied text of Christian historical fiction. This Christian narrative presents Jovian as an ideal Christian emperor and a new Constantine. It offers also surprising perspectives on Roman-Persian relations\, which will be discussed in the second part of the presentation. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Ancient Borderlands Research Focus Group\, California Consortium for Late Antiquity\, and Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/roman-persian-relations-the-emperor-jovian-and-the-syriac-julian-romance/
LOCATION:6056 HSSB\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Crossing Borderlands
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T160000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Alice in Wonderland as a Fairytale and a Resource Book in China
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on some semiotic aspects of Lewis Carroll’s Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland (1865) and its unrivaled reception in China with special reference to the first Chinese translation by Y. R. Chao in 1922. In view of the complex addresser-addressee relationships in “children’s literature\,” which denotes literature of\, for\, and in some cases\, by children\, this study distinguishes Charles Dodgson the man who wrote as a child for the Liddell Sisters and Charles Dodgson the mathematician and logician who wrote as an adult for his colleagues as well as children readers\, and Lewis Carroll the verbal artist and storyteller who wrote as both for readers of all ages and all times. It also distinguishes Chao the mathematician and musical artist who recreated the fairytale that inspired Chinese children’s literature\, Chao the linguist and verbal artist who made poetic innovations and stylistic experiments with vernacular Chinese in its formative stage\, and Chao the philosopher and semiotician who outlined principles and meta-principles of literary translation in his paratexts (i.e. Preface and Translator’s Notes)\, which metatextually foreshadowed\, and offered insights into\, a number of present-day academic disciplines. In view of the double nature of the “text” of both Carroll’s and Chao’s\, this study highlights the discursive role of the translator as rewriter and makes distinctions of “texts” of the same work and their different types of “reader.” By analyzing the (un)translatability of Carroll’s verbal nonsense\, logical absurdities\, and metalinguistic propositions that blatantly defy literary translation\, this study highlights Chao’s extraordinary feats and explains why Chao’s Alice has eclipsed more than 360 subsequent Chinese translations since 1922. The talk will conclude that the Chinese Alice is characterized with the following features: as representation of a fairytale and recreation of a piece of children’s literature\, it has fascinated the child and the child that survives in the adult\, considering many adults read children’s literature and re-read their own childhood readings; as an exemplary work of translation and translation studies\, it has appealed to the literary translator and translation critic; and as an unmatched multidisciplinary resource book\, it has offered deep insights to practitioners of semiotics\, linguistics\, pragmatics\, stylistics\, and literary studies in the Chinese context. \nZongxin Feng is a Professor of Linguistics and English Language/Literature at Tsinghua University\, Beijing. He got his Ph.D. at Peking University (1998) and worked as a Postdoctoral Fellow at Beijing Foreign Studies University (1998-2000). He was a Visiting Scholar at Harvard University (2003-2004) and the University of Cambridge (2007)\, and a Fulbright Research Scholar at the University of California\, Berkeley (2009-2010). His research interests are linguistics\, pragmatics\, stylistics\, narratology\, and translatology\, with articles on pragmastylistics of dramatic texts\, fictional narrative as history\, lexicon as narrative practice\, cognitive studies of fictional narrative\, and the translator’s role in literary discourse\, etc. published in Semiotica\, Neohelicon\, Narrative\, Language and Literature\, and Perspectives: Studies in Translatology. His publications on Alice studies include “Translation and Reconstruction of a Wonderland: Alice’s Adventures in China” (2009)\, “Reflections on the Reversed ‘Jabberwocky’ in TTLG” (one of the “Eight Retakes”) (2021)\, writings in each of the three volumes of Alice in a World of Wonderlands (Oak Knoll\, 2015)\, and book chapters “The Style(s) of a Classic in the Translation and Back-translation” (2016) and “A Mathematician’s Fairy Tale: Alice in Wonderland” (2019) in English in China. His translations (into Chinese) include Hexaflexagons and Other Mathematical Diversions: The First SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Games (1959/1988) and The Second SCIENTIFIC AMERICAN Book of Mathematical Puzzles and Diversions (1961/1987) by Martin Gardner\, author of The Annotated Alice (1960). \nZoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature\, East Asia Center\, and Translation Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-alice-in-wonderland-as-a-fairytale-and-a-resource-book-in-china/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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