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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Narrating Nemo: Winsor McCay’s Little Nemo in Slumberland and the Evolution of the Comic Strip
DESCRIPTION:As one of the pioneers of the animation medium as well as the comics medium\, Winsor McCay’s cultural significance is rivaled by few. However\, the scholarly scrutiny of his works has yet to match his historical prominence. His most well-known creation\, Little Nemo in Slumberland\, which ran from 1905 to 1927\, was the first comic strip with an ongoing\, open-ended serialized narrative. Yet\, it only started off as a regular Sunday strip and over its first year of publication reached the said position\, redefining the comics medium for the years to come. In this talk\, Nima Bahrami will explore this notion\, the narratological evolution of the first year of publication of Little Nemo\, by considering the text and the image separately in order to offer an analytical explanation for the dynamics behind this process. \nNima Bahrami is a Ph.D. student in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. With a double major in Architecture and Literature from the University of Tehran and a Research Masters in Literary Studies from the University of Amsterdam\, his research involves theories of space and place\, the comics medium\, posthuman studies and the syntax-semantics interface. \nZoom attendance link here. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/narrating-nemo-winsor-mccays-little-nemo-in-slumberland-and-the-evolution-of-the-comic-strip/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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SUMMARY:RFG Symposium: Intergenerational Dynamics: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Intergenerational Dynamics is the second annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Research Focus Group on Global Childhood Ecologies. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Daian Martinez and research on Education by Lakshmi Garcia in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Intergenerational Dynamics will focus on dynamics between children and adults\, as shown in Anglophone and Chinese picturebooks researched by Daian Martinez and rhetoric in mathematics education for linguistically diverse language classrooms researched by Lakshmi Garcia. \nIntergenerational Dynamics: Undergraduate Research Showcase \nChair: Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic and Slavic Studies\, UCSB) \nPanel Participants: \n“Little Adults: The Adult Presence in Chinese and Anglophone Children’s Picturebooks”\nDaian Michely Martinez ’24 (Comparative Literature\, UCSB) \n“Little Adults” focuses on picturebooks from both Anglophone and Chinese traditions to investigate the adult presence and underlying cultural values shown in text and image. Daian Martinez conducts a cross-cultural comparison to uncover nuances related to gender roles\, social responsibility\, authority figures\, and child-parent relationships. Employing the theoretical frameworks of aetonormativity\, cultural studies\, and narratology\, Martinez analyzes the dynamics of the adult presence within children’s literature. \n“The rhetoric of MLR’s (Mathematical Language Routines) for linguistically diverse California elementary schools”\nLakshmi Garcia ’25 (College of Creative Studies Writing and Literature\, UCSB) \nLakshmi Garcia’s research under Professor Sarah Roberts focuses on understanding the routinization of mathematics language routines (MLRs) in local Elementary schools. A “mathematical language routine” refers to a structured but adaptable teaching style with exercises designed to amplify\, assess\, and develop students’ language. MLRs are utilized as tools given to teachers to ensure their assigned curriculums are language accessible to students. Districts with large communities of multilingual learners most benefit from using MLRs\, which have been shown to integrate language and vocabulary development successfully through mathematical reasoning. This project conducts qualitative research through careful analysis of classroom observations to prepare educators for work in linguistically diverse schools. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/intergenerational-dynamics-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T100000
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Images of War for Children in Ukrainian Picturebooks: Aesthetic\, Political\, and Emotional Strategies
DESCRIPTION:Parents and authors across the world are dealing with the question of how to talk to children about war. Ukrainian writers and illustrators in particular have to find narrative and visual techniques to address children who are growing up under circumstances of war and displacement. In this talk\, Svetlana Efimova will analyze Ukrainian picturebooks created during two stages of war: since 2014 and especially since 2022. First\, she will focus on the relationship between representation and abstraction\, between references to real events and symbolic images of war as such. Second\, she will discuss the interplay between visuality and emotions\, looking at the intended therapeutic effect of children’s books in wartime\, emphasized by several Ukrainian authors. \nDr. Svetlana Efimova is an Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley. In 2024\, she was elected to the Young Academy at the Bavarian Academy of Sciences and Humanities with her current research project “Aesthetics and Politics of Picturebooks in Contemporary Eastern European Children’s Literature.” \nZoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies \nImage: a visual fragment from the book Vijna\, shcho zminyla Rondo (2015) by Romana Romanyshyn and Andrij Lesiv
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/images-of-war-for-children-in-ukrainian-picturebooks/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T100000
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Fractured Fairy Tales and Subversion: Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos by Patricia Marcantonio
DESCRIPTION:Inside a cardboard box\, Mama packed a tin of chicken soup\, heavy on cilantro\, along with a jar of peppermint tea\, peppers from our garden\, and a hunk of white goat cheese that smelled like Uncle Jose’s feet.\nThat meant one thing.\n“Roja\, your abuelita is not feeling well\,” Mama told me. “I want you to take this food to her.”\n“But Mama\, me and Lupe Maldonado are going to the movies\,” I replied\, but felt guilty as soon as I’d said it. \nThese are the lines that open Patricia Santos Marcantonio’s fractured version of the fairy tale Little Red Riding Hood. In her retelling of this and other ten fairy tales published in the volume Red Ridin’ in the Hood and Other Cuentos (Farrar Straus Giroux\, 2005)\, the Mexican American author makes use of a series of elements to provide a Latinx version of these fairy tales to counterbalance the lack of representation of Latinx children in the books she read growing up in the United States. In this presentation\, Marina Bernardo Flórez will explore the elements Marcantonio modifies in order to subvert these fairy tales with a Latinx flavour. \nDr. Marina Bernardo Flórez received her Ph.D. in Representation and Construction of Cultural Identities at the University of Barcelona. She researches Chicanx children’s literature and carried out postdoctoral research as a visiting scholar at the University of California\, Santa Barbara (2023) within the Fulbright Program. She is a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) and the Children’s Literature Association (ChLA). She is currently an Associate Professor in the Faculty of Education at the University of Barcelona. \nZoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/fractured-fairy-tales-and-subversion-red-ridin-in-the-hood-and-other-cuentos-by-patricia-marcantonio/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T153000
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SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children
DESCRIPTION:Drawing Deportation: Art and Resistance among Immigrant Children (NYU Press\, 2023) argues that immigrant children are not passive in the face of the challenges presented by U.S. anti-immigrant policies. Based on ten years of work with immigrant children in two different border states—Arizona and California—Drawing Deportation gives readers a glimpse into the lives of immigrant children and their families. Through an analysis of 300 children’s drawings\, theater performances\, and family interviews\, this book\, at once devastating and revelatory\, provides a roadmap for how art can provide a necessary space for vulnerable populations to assert their humanity in a world that would rather divest them of it. \nSilvia Rodriguez Vega is a community engaged writer\, artist\, and educational practitioner. She is an Assistant Professor at University of California\, Santa Barbara in the Department of Chicana/o Studies. Her research explores the ways anti-immigration policy impacts the lives of immigrant children through methodological tools centering participatory art and creative expression. Before joining UCSB\, Rodriguez Vega was a UC Chancellor’s Postdoctoral Fellow and a Provost’s Postdoctoral Fellow at New York University in the Department of Applied Psychology. She received her Ph.D. from UCLA’s Department of Chicana/o and Central American Studies. \nZoom attendance link \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/drawing-deportation-art-and-resistance-among-immigrant-children/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T090000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T120000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Are the Chornobyl Books Nature-Oriented?: Ukrainian Children’s Literature in Memory Dimensions
DESCRIPTION:The war in Ukraine raises the issue of a new nuclear threat\, as five nuclear power plants are located there. Although the Chornobyl Nuclear Power Plant in the north of Ukraine is non-functional\, the level of radiation is still very high. Moreover\, the largest nuclear plant in Europe\, the Zaporizhzhia Nuclear Power Plant in the south of Ukraine\, is threatened with a new nuclear catastrophe and radiation pollution since the Russian military invasion (Joint Statement 2022). Ukrainians know what “nuclear pollution”\, “ecological genocide”\, and “eco-memory” mean because of the Chornobyl accident\, the great catastrophe which occurred in 1986 near Kyiv\, the Ukrainian capital. In honor of this infamous event\, Ukraine annually celebrates The Chornobyl Disaster Remembrance Day on April 26. This cultural memory is embodied in Ukrainian children’s literature as well as in a cartoon and computer game S.T.A.L.K.E.R. Ukrainian children’s literature on the Chornobyl issue covers different genres\, such as short novels\, novels\, eco-comics\, and picturebooks. This talk assumes that literature recalls human and nonhuman interactions through cultural memory and eco-memory. Analyzing the Ukrainian children’s literature on Chornobyl issues\, it aims to show that this literature is nature-oriented within memory studies. To test this hypothesis\, Maryna Vardanian will discuss the following questions: How do nature-oriented writings interact with memory studies? What is the presence of the nonhuman environment in the human environment\, in particular in Yevhen Hutsalo’s Children of Chornobyl (1995) and Sasha Kochubei’s Mistress of the Forest (2016)? How does the changed Chornobyl nonhuman environment interact with the human one (in the case of Anatolii Andrzhevskyi’s Chornobyl Dog Axel (2019) and Bohdan Krasavtsev’s Chornobyl Oasis (2021))? What is the ethical orientation towards the environment of picturebooks such as Kateryna Mikhalitsyna’s The Flowers beside the Fourth Reactor (2020)\, Kateryna Mikhalitsyna & Stanislav Dvornytskyi’s Reactors Do not Explode. A Brief History of the Chornobyl Disaster (2020)\, and Kirill Stepanets’ et al. Interesting Chornobyl. 100 Symbols (2022)? \nDr. Maryna Vardanian is a Visiting Scholar at the Institute for Translating and Interpreting\, Heidelberg University (Germany). She teaches Children’s Literature\, Translation Studies\, and Comparative Literature courses as a Professor of the Department of Translation and Slavic Studies at the Kryvyi Rih State Pedagogical University (Ukraine). Her major research interests are Ukrainian diasporic and contemporary children and YA literature\, cultural memory\, and ecocriticism. Her current research project examines cultural and ideological approaches in the translation of children’s literature. She is a member of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature and a member of the editorial board of journals and program committees’ member. \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/are-the-chornobyl-books-nature-oriented-ukrainian-childrens-literature-in-memory-dimensions/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230512T093000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Through Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION: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 on children’s and young people’s agency and activism; construction and liberation; and active role as audience in order to offer a multidisciplinary examination of the co-creation of childhood and youth even in the face of opposing forces\, as shown by examples from history\, literature\, and culture. The event will take place in Phelps 6320\, while attendance via Zoom also will be possible for those who cannot attend in person. \nThrough Young Eyes: Undergraduate Research Showcase \nChair: Sara Pankenier Weld (Germanic and Slavic Studies\, UCSB) \nPanel Participants: \n“The Fate of the Motherland’s Children: Youth Action\, Trauma\, and Experiences”\nVictoria Korotchenko ‘23 (Russian and East European Studies\, UCSB) \nVictoria Korotchenko’s research is focused on children during the Russian Revolution (1917-1923)\, specifically the diversity of their experiences and participation within the tumult. Within her thesis\, she discusses their role as target\, activist\, victim\, and chronicler\, while simultaneously writing about the child as the protagonist within these stories\, rather than purely individuals who had the revolution thrust upon them. \nReframing the Flaneur: the Child and the City through Thresholds\, Windows\, and Paintings\nNicole Smirnoff ‘23 (Comparative Literature\, UCSB) \nLiterature of the flaneur is preoccupied with the representation of the city in its complexities and realities\, oftentimes applying its perspective toward the child. Nicole Smirnoff’s thesis follows the motif of the framed spaces to these child characters; exploring how the image of the child is constrained and set free\, constructed and construed\, and reflected and reimagined through the vignette of the frame. \nInto the Osemanverse: The Dynamics of Young Adult Literature\nZoie Orth ‘23 (English\, UCSB) \nWith her thesis\, Zoie Orth hopes to understand the current state of Young Adult Fiction and its readers\, framing YA literature as not just a genre\, but as a culture that is driven by—if not entirely dependent on—its audience’s unique relationships with the works that define it. The goal of her research has been to go beyond traditional scholarly approaches to literary analysis\, which tend to treat works as if they exist in a vacuum\, often ignoring the many other forces that affect its production and consumption. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, and Comparative Literature Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/through-young-eyes-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6320 Phelps and Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230208T131500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Trials and Tribulations of Bambi and the Inscrutable Felix Salten\, Lover of Animals
DESCRIPTION:This talk follows Jack Zipes’ recent publication of his new translation of Felix Salten’s Bambi (1923). Zipes’ research for this book demonstrates that Bambi was essentially a Jew\, as were all the animals in the forest\, and that he and they had to spend their lives avoiding pogroms in the forest and learning to deal with loneliness. Salten wrote other books\, such as Fifteen Rabbits (1928) and Bambi’s Children: The Story of a Forest Family (1939)\, which reflect upon the conditions Jews faced in Europe when anti-Semitism was commonplace. In addition\, Zipes shall also discuss Hugo Bettauer’s Vienna without Jews (1923) and Artur Landberger’s Berlin without Jews (1924) in light of the fact that such constant pogroms were preparing the way for the Holocaust. There is a connection\, Zipes believes\, between the joyful killing of animals in the forest and the ways that Jews were murdered during the first half of the twentieth century. \nJack Zipes is Professor Emeritus of German and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. In addition to his scholarly work\, he is an active storyteller in public schools and has worked with children’s theaters in Europe and the United States. Much of his early work has been devoted to the Brothers Grimm and German-Jewish culture. In 2019\, he founded his own publishing house called Little Mole and Honey Bear and has published Deirdre and William Conselman’s Keedle the Great\, or All You Want to Know about Fascism (2020)\, Tistou\, The Boy with the Green Thumbs of Peace (2022)\, and Rolf Brandt\, Hilarious and Haunting Fairy Tales (2022). More recently\, Zipes has published a new translation of Felix Salten’s The Original Bambi: The Story of a Life in the Forest (2022) with illustrations by Alenka Sottler and Buried Treasures: The Political Power of Fairy Tales (2023)\, a collection of essays on significant writers and illustrators who have been neglected. He is currently working on an anthology of European Jewish literature and has reissued his book\, The Operated Jew and The Operated Goy. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and the Department of German and Slavic Studies \nImage: HUNT / cycle Bambi Vienna\, sketch by Alenka Sottler with photo from Österreichische Nationalbibliothek Kartensammlung
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-trials-and-tribulations-of-bambi-and-the-inscrutable-felix-salten-lover-of-animals/
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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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Leah Goldberg's Psychogeographical Mapping of Hebrew Children's Culture
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the comparative representations of the Mizrahi immigrant and the Holocaust refugee through the motif of the child immigrant to Israel in the mid-20th century through the work of Leah Goldberg (1911-1970). A prolific modernist poet\, author\, playwright\, literary translator\, and comparative literary critic who chaired the Department of Comparative Literature at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem\, Goldberg’s focus upon dislocation and language in her work for both adults and children is informed by the forced migrations that she experienced both as a child during World War I and as an adult during World War II. In this talk\, Feldman reevaluates Goldberg’s contributions to Hebrew modernism and children’s literature with special focus upon how her fiction collapses the border between the literary landscapes and geographical ones\, defamiliarizing and democratizing the haunting landscapes of her childhood as well as new spaces of Israeli toponymy\, in particular the liminal spaces that connect Jerusalem and Tel Aviv to migrant camps and children’s communities on the Kibbutzim. Feldman interprets Goldberg’s handling of these topics through the lens of psychogeographical mapping\, or charting the “specific effects of the geographical environment\, consciously organized or not\, on the emotions and behavior of individuals” (Debord 1955) – arguing that Goldberg’s impulse to explore the effects of geographical space upon her child subjects signals a particularly modernist resistance to nationalist-Zionist narratives. \nRachel Feldman is a doctoral candidate in Comparative Literature at UC Santa Barbara\, where she is finalizing her dissertation\, “The Mother Tongues and Multilingual Specters of Modern Hebrew Children’s Literature\,” which explores how a new constellation of authors – linguists\, translators\, poets\, and artists – turned to multimodal children’s literature and children’s systems in order to reconcile major sociolinguistic ideological concerns\, particularly in negotiating modern Hebrew as a their new “mother tongue” in light of its persistent role as a “heritage language.” The dissertation argues that these authors’ development of a discrete yet radically polyphonic modern Hebraist writing aimed at an intergenerational and multilingual audience employed children’s genres to discretely promote counter-hegemonic ideas about Hebrew heritage language learners. Feldman is a UC President’s Dissertation Year Fellow and Max Kade Fellow 2022-2023\, a co-convener of the IHC Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group and a graduate organizer of the upcoming 26th International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) Congress 2023\, “Ecologies of Childhood\,” to be hosted August 12–17 by UC Santa Barbara\, in collaboration with Stanford University. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Ecologies Research Focus Group \nPhoto Credit: Anna Riwkin-Brick\, 1950
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/leah-goldbergs-psychogeographical-mapping-of-hebrew-childrens-culture/
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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