BEGIN:VCALENDAR
VERSION:2.0
PRODID:-//Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB - ECPv6.15.1.1//NONSGML v1.0//EN
CALSCALE:GREGORIAN
METHOD:PUBLISH
X-WR-CALNAME:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu
X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB
REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H
X-Robots-Tag:noindex
X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H
BEGIN:VTIMEZONE
TZID:America/Los_Angeles
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20210314T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20211107T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20220313T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20221106T090000
END:STANDARD
BEGIN:DAYLIGHT
TZOFFSETFROM:-0800
TZOFFSETTO:-0700
TZNAME:PDT
DTSTART:20230312T100000
END:DAYLIGHT
BEGIN:STANDARD
TZOFFSETFROM:-0700
TZOFFSETTO:-0800
TZNAME:PST
DTSTART:20231105T090000
END:STANDARD
END:VTIMEZONE
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;VALUE=DATE:20230812
DTEND;VALUE=DATE:20230818
DTSTAMP:20260506T104836
CREATED:20220228T193007Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20221114T192937Z
UID:10000590-1691798400-1692316799@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:2023 IRSCL Congress: Ecologies of Childhood
DESCRIPTION:The 26th biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL) will be hosted at the University of California\, Santa Barbara on August 12-17\, 2023 and will be devoted to the theme “Ecologies of Childhood.” This is the first time the IRSCL Congress will be held in the United States. The interdisciplinary 2023 IRSCL Congress is co-organized by Sara Pankenier Weld of the University of California\, Santa Barbara and Dafna Zur of Stanford University. For more details\, see the conference website: https://irscl2023.org. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Carsey-Wolf Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR) at UC Santa Barbara and the Center for East Asian Studies at Stanford University \nImage Credit: Logo by Maya Gonzalez\, 2021
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-ecologies-of-childhood/
LOCATION:University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Ecologies-of-Childhood_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230425T180000
DTSTAMP:20260506T104836
CREATED:20230321T171920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230321T175722Z
UID:10000641-1682442000-1682445600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Talk: Beyond the Wall: Teichoscopy and the Limits of Tragedy
DESCRIPTION:Teichoscopy is a theatrical means of communicating occurrences that happen offstage. A figure\, commonly subaltern and anonymous\, climbs to an elevated position to report what it sees from this vantage point while the leading figure remains below to hear. In thus visibly inverting the positions of power on stage\, teichoscopy can not only call into question social and political hierarchies\, it also serves to comment on the central tragic notion of the ‘fall of kings’ itself. This is why the strategy is employed frequently when European tragedy seeks to address the limitations imposed by the need for dramatic personae. In the late eighteenth century\, teichoscopy takes on a radically anti-dramatic function as it shows how revolution undermines the “dispositive of representation” (Louis Marin) that links both courtly and bourgeois drama to Early Modern sovereignty. This talk will address the specific media poetics allowing for such a liminal experience of political drama reaching beyond itself. \nMichael Auer is Professor of German Literature at the University of Vienna in Austria visiting UCSB as a Max Kade Professor this Spring quarter. His research interests include the politics of poetic form\, the history of European drama\, and “lyrical soundscapes” from psalms to songs. He is currently writing a book on teichoscopy from Aeschylus and Shakespeare to Sarah Kane and Elfriede Jelinek. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Theater and Dance
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/beyond-the-wall-teichoscopy-and-the-limits-of-tragedy/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2023/03/Auer_Teichoscopy_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4161308;-119.8446426
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6206C Phelps Phelps Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8446426,34.4161308
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20220303T170000
DTSTAMP:20260506T104836
CREATED:20220218T202820Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20220301T193833Z
UID:10000582-1646323200-1646326800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:From Alphabetical to Digital Literacy? Some Reflections on Orality\, Writing\, Cultural Techniques\, and Digitality
DESCRIPTION:Are we witnessing the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy? But what does “literacy” mean? Going back to the discovery of the difference between orality and literacy in the 1960s and 1970s\, we find a real discovery – the difference between oral and written language – combined with a problematic narrative: The supremacy of literal to oral cultures. To avoid this ideology we should consider orality and literacy as the two ends of a continuum. Whatever historically exists is in between. With this in mind\, we turn to the question about the transition from alphabetic to digital literacy and problematize its clear demarcation between the alphanumeric and the digital. But what does “digital” mean? It is our hypothesis that there is an “embryonic digitality” already within alphabetical literacy. Digitality can be detached from computer technology. But electronic networking and Big Data are at the same time producing phenomena that are unprecedentedly new: The idea of the world interpreted as readable text changes into the “machine operability of the data universe.” Is contemporary digitality thus the “new alphabet”? \nCurrently Max Kade Visiting Professor for Winter 2022 in the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, Sybille Krämer was Full Professor for Philosophy at the Free University in Berlin. Since her retirement\, she has been a guest professor at the Institute for Cultures and Aesthetics of Digital Media\, Leuphana University Lüneburg. Previously\, she has been a member of the German Scientific Council (2000-2006)\, of the European Research Council (2007-2014))\, member of the “Senat” of the German Research Foundation (2009-2015)\, and Permanent Fellow at the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin/ Institute for Advanced Study (2005-2008). She has held several International Visiting Professorships and Fellowships and has a 2016 Honorary Doctorate from Linköping University/Sweden. Her research areas include: Mathematics and philosophy in 17th century; Social Epistemology; Philosophy of Language and Writing; Performative Studies\, Media and Cultural Techniques; Digitality and History of Computation; Testimony and Witnessing. Her publications in English include: Media\, Messenger\, Transmission. An Approach to Media Philosophy\, Amsterdam: University Press 2015. With Ch. Ljungberg (eds): Thinking with Diagrams – The Semiotic Basis of Human Cognition\, Boston/ Berlin 2016. With Sigrid Weigel: Testimony/Bearing Witness. Epistemology\, Ethics\, History\, Culture\, London 2017. See also: http://www.sybillekraemer.de/en/ \nCosponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Transcriptions\, Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)\, and Comparative Literature Program. Sybille Krämer’s Max Kade Visiting Professorship in Winter 2022 has been generously supported by the Max Kade Foundation and Humanities and Fine Arts at UC Santa Barbara. \nThis is an in person event. Virtual participation via Zoom is also possible: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/81135889947
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/from-alphabetical-to-digital-literacy-some-reflections-on-orality-writing-cultural-techniques-and-digitality/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps\, Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Kramer_From-Alphabetical-to-Digital-Literacy__Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
GEO:34.4161308;-119.8446426
X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=6206C Phelps Phelps Hall UC Santa Barbara Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Phelps Hall\, UC Santa Barbara:geo:-119.8446426,34.4161308
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20211116T173000
DTSTAMP:20260506T104836
CREATED:20211102T163250Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20211103T173759Z
UID:10000566-1637078400-1637083800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Talk: Shards of Places\, Shards of Time: Katja Petrowskaja’s Modernist Poetics of History
DESCRIPTION:Zoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89607162040 \nA family story\, a memoir\, a travelogue\, an intimate history of Jewish migration and persecution in the twentieth century—fitting into neither of these categories neatly\, and yet resonating with all of them\, Katja Petrowskaja’s Maybe Esther (2019; Vielleicht Esther\, 2014) relates the narrator’s journey from Berlin to piece together her family’s history across Poland\, the Ukraine\, and Russia. This presentation considers fragmentation as the text’s key aesthetic quiddity to ask how Petrowskaja’s modernist mode engenders a poetics of transnational history—after 1989. While in memory studies the fragment is often taken to signify loss and trauma\, the talk revisits this form to argue that Maybe Esther recuperates the fragmentary\, the additive\, the incomplete as differently valorized poetic possibilities in the face of twentieth-century atrocities. Reading Petrowskaja’s text as modernist is to also inquire into the configurations of time and temporality that fragmentation affords in our contemporary moment. \nLilla Balint is Assistant Professor of German at the University of California\, Berkeley. She specializes in twentieth- and twenty-first-century German literature\, culture\, and intellectual history in its transnational European contexts. She is currently at work on a monograph—tentatively entitled After 1989—that examines the aesthetics and modalities of historical representation after the fall of the Berlin Wall. Before joining UC Berkeley’s Department of German\, she held positions at Vanderbilt University and Hamilton College. Her work appeared in Gegenwartsliteratur\, The German Quarterly\, Telos\, Studies in 20th & 21st Century Literature\, and Die Wiederholung. \nCosponsored by the University of California Office of the President Multi-campus Research Programs and Initiative Funding\, the UC Humanities Research Institute\, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, and the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies \nZoom attendance link: https://ucsb.zoom.us/j/89607162040
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-shards-of-places-shards-of-time-katja-petrowskajas-modernist-poetics-of-history/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2021/11/LBImage-2.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20210430T160000
DTSTAMP:20260506T104836
CREATED:20200211T180047Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20210322T202115Z
UID:10000494-1619773200-1619798400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Conference: Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster
DESCRIPTION:CONFERENCE REGISTRATION \nThe interdisciplinary virtual conference “Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster” will take place on Friday\, April 30\, 2021 at 9:00am-4:00pm\, with an international slate of speakers representing a variety of disciplines who will share their insights on the 35th anniversary of the Chernobyl disaster. \nThirty-five years after the 1986 nuclear accident at Chernobyl\, the interdisciplinary virtual conference Fallout: Chernobyl and the Ecology of Disaster considers its afterlife and reverberations in various disciplines\, including culture and the arts. Situated at a watershed moment during the Cold War\, Chernobyl has spawned an unprecedented quantity of global responses from scientists\, writers\, filmmakers\, and artists\, and it has become a key moment for the global environmental movement. This conference views the accident and its aftermath in the context of broader global ecologies of disaster and considers how catastrophe is coded and understood — or fails to be understood — through the prism of science\, art\, literature\, and film. How do all these disciplines and discourses confront the disaster\, and where do they converge to produce the fiction\, or the truth\, of what we call “Chernobyl”? The conference brings together scholars and experts in Comparative Literature\, History\, Anthropology\, Environmental Studies\, Nuclear Engineering\, Medicine\, Art\, Film\, and Germanic and Slavic Studies. (Rescheduled from April 2020 when it was postponed due to COVID-19.) \nAn associated Carsey-Wolf Center virtual discussion of the award-winning documentary “The Babushkas of Chernobyl\,” with Director Holly Morris\, will take place at 4pm on Thursday\, April 29\, 2021\, before which registered participants can pre-screen the film. \nFILM DISCUSSION REGISTRATION \nSponsored by the College of Letters and Science and the T. A. Barron Environmental Fund. Event partners include the Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Carsey-Wolf Center. Other sponsors include the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Department of Global Studies\, Comparative Literature Program\, Environmental Studies\, Cold War Studies\, College of Creative Studies\, and History Department.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/conference-fallout-chernobyl-and-the-ecology-of-disaster/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2020/02/Chernobyl_Conference_Event.jpg
ORGANIZER;CN="Sara Pankenier Weld":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
END:VEVENT
END:VCALENDAR