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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: "Guano in Their Destiny": A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe
DESCRIPTION:Join the Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories RFG for a conversation with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe about her work\, “‘Guano in Their Destiny’: Race\, Geology\, and a Philosophy of Indenture\,” and beyond. \nDr. Tao Leigh Goffe is an associate professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology. She joined the Department of Africana\, Puerto Rican\, and Latino Studies at Hunter College\, City University of New York after over a decade of research and teaching on Black feminist engagements with Indigeneity and Asian diasporic racial formations. This work builds on her long-standing research interest in the intersection of climate\, race\, and digital technologies. It is the basis of the Dark Laboratory\, which she founded and leads as the Executive Director. Established for the study of Black and Indigenous ecologies\, Dark Lab is housed at Hunter College and has been supported by the New Museum’s incubator for art and technology. Dr. Goffe graduated with an undergraduate degree in English literature at Princeton University before earning a Ph.D. at Yale University where she continued studies on racial formation and global colonial desire. \nProfessor Goffe’s research has appeared or is forthcoming in several academic and popular publications including South Atlantic Quarterly\, New York Magazine\, Small Axe\, Women and Performance\, Boston Review\, and Social Text. She is the Global Black History and Theory co-editor at Public Books\, where she is accepting pitches. Her commentary and analyses have been quoted in the New York Times\, Washington Post\, and Vice Munchies. Dr. Goffe is currently completing two books under contract. The first\, After Eden: On the Racial Origins of Our Climate Crisis [(Doubleday\, Hamish Hamilton (Penguin Books UK)]\, explores how 1492 was the genesis of the climate crisis. The second\, Black Capital\, Chinese Debt (Duke University Press)\, explores a long Afro-Asian history of affective and financial indebtedness after the abolition of racial slavery from 1806 to the present. \nZoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group\, Asian/American Studies Collective\, and Wireframe \nImage Credit: New York Public Library Digital Collections
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/guano-in-their-destiny-a-conversation-with-tao-leigh-goffe/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Support,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Racialized Sound in Mainstream Cinema: Spike Jonze’s Her
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines Samantha\, the operating system from Spike Jonze’s Her (2013)\, analyzing how the film’s portrayal of Samantha both differs from and uncannily evokes both fictional and real-world Black women domestic servants. Exploring how the film deliberately and repeatedly marks Samantha as female\, how her vocal pitch\, tone\, and timbre code her as white\, and how the film uses this ascribed white femaleness to grant her a form of subjecthood\, Owens contends that the film uses Samantha to reinforce hegemonic notions of race\, gender\, labor\, class\, and beauty—and does so primarily through the sound of her voice. \nGolden M. Owens is Assistant Professor of Cinema and Media Studies at University of Washington. She explores and teaches about representations of race and gender\, artificial intelligence\, haunting\, popular culture\, and racialized sounds and voices. Her current book project examines intelligent virtual assistants such as Amazon’s Alexa\, Apple’s Siri\, and Microsoft’s Cortana\, contending that these aides evoke and are haunted by Black women slaves\, servants\, and houseworkers in the United States. The project demonstrates this haunting through analyzing popular 20th and 21st-century media depictions of Black female domestic workers\, robotic and/or artificially intelligent servants/helpers\, labor-saving products and devices\, and contemporary virtual aides. \nDr. Owens’ work appears in Sounding Out! and has been accepted by the Journal for Cinema and Media Studies. Her research has been funded by the Ford Foundation (via the National Academies of Sciences\, Engineering and Medicine)\, the Institute for Citizens and Scholars (f.k.a. the Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship Foundation)\, the Social Science Research Council\, the Mellon Foundation\, Northwestern University’s Office of Fellowships\, and Northwestern University’s Alice Kaplan Institute for the Humanities. \nZoom link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/racialized-sound-in-mainstream-cinema-spike-jonzes-her/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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