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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Writing Our Californias
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, America has imagined California novels as placed in locations like Hollywood or San Francisco. But\, as Susan Straight will discuss in her presentation\, other geographies are as beautiful\, tragic\, and full of narratives set in remote canyons\, inland citrus groves\, ancient ranchos\, and hidden deserts. Straight’s characters\, who might be seventh generation Californian or people just arrived\, live in the places she’s known forever\, hidden kingdoms of love and redemption amid the sycamore trees. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nStraight is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she has taught since 1988. Her most recent novel Mecca (2022) was a finalist for The Kirkus Prize and named a best novel of the year by The Washington Post and NPR\, as well as a Top Ten California Book by the New York Times\, and it was the winner of the Southwest Book of the Year for Fiction. \nHer memoir In the Country of Women (2020) was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\, was a Finalist for the Clara Johnson Prize for Women’s Literature\, and named a best book of 2019 by NPR\, Code Switch\, Real Simple\, and others. \nShe is also the author of the novels Aquaboogie (1990)\, I Been In Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots (1992)\, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (1994)\, The Gettin Place (1996)\, and Highwire Moon (2001)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Commonwealth of California Gold Medal for Fiction. A Million Nightingales (2006) was a Finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Take One Candle Light a Room (2010) was named a best novel of 2010 by The Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, and Kirkus. Her novel Between Heaven and Here (2012) was named a Best Book of 2012 by the Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast. She has also published numerous essays\, articles\, and stories in magazines and journals. Her short story “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award\, and her short story “El Ojo De Agua” won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. \nIn 2021\, Straight was named Woman of the Year for the 61st Assembly District by Assemblyman Jose Medina\, for her thirty years of writing stories of African-American\, Mexican-American\, Asian-American\, and immigrant life in southern California\, and bringing little-known histories\, especially of women\, into American books\, museums\, magazines\, and libraries. In 2014\, Straight received the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2011\, she received the Gina Berriault Award for Fiction from San Francisco State University. Straight received the Lannan Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in 1998. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/writing-our-californias/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series,Raab Writer-in-Residence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240207T160000
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The annual Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature will be given to Gustavo Arellano of the Los Angeles Times. Mr. Arellano is a prize-winning columnist for the LA Times. He is one of the major Latino journalists in the United States. His columns focus on Latinos in Los Angeles and California. He has also written several books\, such as Taco USA: How Mexican Food Conquered America and A People’s Guide to Orange County. The Leal Award is in its nineteenth year of brining outstanding Chicano/Latino writers to UCSB. It is named after Professor Luis Leal who was an early champion of Chicano/Latino literature. He taught in the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies for a number of years. \nSponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group; Interdisciplinary Humanities Center; Office of the Chancellor; Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor; Chicano Studies Institute; Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies; Luis Leal Endowed Chair; Office of Equal Opportunity & Discrimination Prevention; Educational Opportunity Program; Department of Spanish and Portuguese; Latin American and Iberian Studies; Department of Communications; and Office of the Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2024/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T160000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Event: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and Dr. Charles Lester\, Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast. Xia will draw from her new book\, California Against the Sea\, in which deeply reported stories braid together science\, policy\, and the state’s social history. The conversation will explore how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into disaster\, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting\, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, the Marine Science Institute\, and the Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/california-against-the-sea/
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:20240212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240212T173000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Mystery Children: The Stasova International Children’s Home During Stalin’s Purge
DESCRIPTION:Drawing on her current book project\, Communist Neverland\, Elizabeth McGuire tells the story of the Stasova International Children’s Home\, an elite orphanage and boarding school for the children of Communist Party leaders from all parts of the globe. Professor McGuire will focus in this talk on “Jimmy Ruegg\,” one of the Stasova home’s many “mystery children.” Jimmy spent his earliest years in the International Settlement in Shanghai\, believed he was German\, and thought he had two families: one enmeshed in German-Chinese trade and the other in prison. As major underground operatives\, his parents were eventually able to arrange for him to be raised at the Stasova home. There\, he encountered many equally confused and traumatized children. Even the Stasova home’s administrators did not know the real identities of many children’s parents\, which caused major difficulties during Stalin’s purge. Were children free of responsibility for the sins of their parents\, as Stalin preached\, or were they dangerous potential enemies of the people\, as he often practiced? \nVoices of history’s children matter today more than ever\, when children from Gaza to Eastern Ukraine serve as high-profile symbols\, pawns\, and victims in the violent geopolitics of the world around them. Dozens of first-person interviews have allowed Professor McGuire to investigate how the equally fierce struggle for world communism looked through the eyes of children\, and what the long-term consequences for them were. \n \nProfessor Elizabeth McGuire is a historian of global communism\, focusing on cross-cultural human experiences and networks that arose in connection with the Soviet-backed transnational communist movement. She received her Ph.D. from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and is now Associate Professor of History at California State University\, East Bay\, where she also created and runs a B.A. program to prepare future high school history teachers. Her first book\, Red at Heart: How Chinese Communists Fell in Love with the Russian Revolution\, published by Oxford University Press in 2017\, is about personal relationships between Russian and Chinese revolutionaries against the dramatic backdrop of shifting geopolitics. It won an honorable mention for the W. Bruce Lincoln prize for a first published monograph of “exceptional merit and lasting significance for the understanding of Russia’s past.” It was also a Choice Outstanding Academic Title and a London Times Higher Education Book of the Year. Professor McGuire is now writing a second book\, Communist Neverland: History of an International Children’s Home\, 1933–2013. \nSponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/mystery-children-the-stasova-international-childrens-home-during-stalins-purge/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Cold War Studies and International History":MAILTO:syaqub@history.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T193000
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SUMMARY:2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is Housing a Human Right?
DESCRIPTION:The dramatic housing shortage in California affects millions of residents and leads thousands to homelessness. The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate will address this issue by asking\, “Is Housing a Human Right?” If so\, our state faces a massive undertaking. Experts with diverse specialties and experiences will wrestle with some of our biggest challenges. How\, for example\, can we build low and moderate income housing when construction costs are high and community opposition is often present? How can people experiencing homelessness be moved to shelter and housing? The event will include an audience Q&A. \n\nParticipants: \nAndy Bales\nFormer President and CEO\, Union Rescue Mission\nDavid Garcia\nPolicy Director\, Terner Center for Housing Innovation\, University of California\, Berkeley\nRasheedah Phillips\nDirector of Housing\, PolicyLink\nEric Tars\nSenior Policy Director\, National Homelessness Law Center\nModerator: Larry Mantle\nHost of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR member station LAist 89.3\n \nTuesday\, February 13\, 2024 | 7:30 PM\nUCSB Campbell Hall\nDoors open at 7 PM\nThe event is free and open to the public\nPaid parking is available on site\n \n\nThe Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series is presented by the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science and co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Arts & Lectures
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2024-arthur-n-rupe-great-debate-is-housing-a-human-right/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall\, Building 538\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Mesa Rd\,\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Janet Afary
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Janet Afary (Religious Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Afary’s new book\, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster\, 1906-1911. Refreshments will be served. \nIn the early twentieth century\, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Mollā Nasreddin. They used folklore\, visual art\, and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world\, impacting the thinking of a generation. \nThis highly-illustrated book explores the milieu in which Mollā Nasreddin was born\, the way the periodical recreated the trickster trope\, and the influence of European graphic artists\, especially Francisco Goya\, on the journal. It focuses on the most creative period\, 1906-11\, when the journal reflected the social and political concerns of three major upheavals: the 1905 Russian Revolution\, the 1906–1911 Iranian Constitutional Revolution\, and the 1908 Young Turk Movement. Afary received the 2023 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association\, awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on the history of journalism. The book also received the 2023 British-Kuwait Friendship Award\, given to the best scholarly work on the Middle East published in the U.K. \nJanet Afary is Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and the author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism\, and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-janet-afary/
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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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Encyclopédie Noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry's Intellectual World
DESCRIPTION:Sara Johnson is professor of literature of the Americas at the University of California\, San Diego. Her book\, Encyclopédie noire: The Making of Moreau de Saint-Méry’s Intellectual World (Omohundro Institute/UNC Press\, 2023)\, documents the work of Moreau de Saint-Méry\, a late eighteenth-century Caribbean intellectual. The book combines traditional academic chapters and experimental forms in its use of archival fragments and visual culture to tell the stories of the free people of color and enslaved women and men who enabled Moreau’s work. \nPlease read the provided chapters in advance of the event. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity and the Meaning of Freedom RFG\, Department of Black Studies\, and Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/encyclopedie-noire-the-making-of-moreau-de-saint-merys-intellectual-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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