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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Conference: Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference
DESCRIPTION:Over the past decade\, Sinophone studies has emerged as a dynamic\, interdisciplinary field\, offering a flexible framework to explore the interconnections among Sinitic-speaking communities. \nThe Interdisciplinary Sinophone Conference aims to foster intellectually inclusive\, creative\, and rigorous conversations about the Sinophone world. It aims to enhance interdisciplinary perspectives in Sinophone studies\, with a primary focus on literary studies\, Indigenous studies\, ethnomusicology\, and gender and sexuality studies in Sinophone communities and beyond. \nBiographies of the Panel Speakers:\nKyle Shernuk is a scholar of modern and contemporary Chinese and Sinophone literatures\, film\, and cultures. His research takes a particular interest in disempowered and minoritized populations\, with recent publications focusing on issues of ethnicity\, Indigeneity\, queerness\, and language in global Chinese communities. His current book project\, Sinoscapes: Chinese Studies for the New Millennium\, advances a new model for imagining the potential of Chinese studies through an investigation of ethnicity and Indigeneity in Sinitic-language texts. He is also an active Chinese-English translator\, and his translation of Syaman Rapongan’s Eyes of the Sky is forthcoming with Columbia University Press. \nHo Chak Law is an assistant professor in race and musicology at The New School. His research focuses on the cultural politics of performance and representation in the Sinophone. Most recently\, his article “Naamyam\, Creative Music\, and Immigrant Act: Meditations on Jon Jang’s Musical Setting of Genny Lim’s ‘Burial Mound’” was published in Music Theory Spectrum. He is currently working on a monograph tentatively titled Cosmopolitan Decadence: Popular Music and the Politics of the Sinophone in the Twentieth Century. \nDian Dian is a researcher and community organizer working at the intersections of gender\, sexuality\, migration\, and labor. They received a Ph.D. in Women’s\, Gender\, and Sexuality Studies from Emory University\, with a dissertation on queer feminist organizing across Sinophone communities. Dian has been involved in LGBTQ+ and feminist movements since 2009\, including serving as editor-in-chief of Queer Lala Times and as communications manager of Chinese Lala Alliance. Now based in Seattle\, they lead research and campaign organizing at the Massage Parlor Organizing Project (MPOP) and support community building among overseas Chinese queer women through Upwomxn. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
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LOCATION:2252 HSSB\, HSSB\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Outside the Box: Cardboard in Contemporary Children’s Culture
DESCRIPTION:The cardboard box has long been regarded as the imaginative plaything par excellence. In 2005\, the box was inducted into the Toy Association’s Toy Industry Hall of Fame at the Strong National Museum of Play in Rochester\, NY—institutionalizing a decades-old association between cardboard and children’s creative play. On the page and onscreen\, in museum galleries\, schools\, toy aisles\, and at home\, today cardboard occupies a privileged position within children’s material culture where the promises of environmental and STEAM education coalesce. Its accessibility makes it an equitable choice; its recyclability makes it a sustainable one. This talk will examine cardboard’s recent ascendence in children’s sustainability and STEAM cultures. Through a series of case studies\, including documentary film\, fiction\, curricular materials and kids’ material cultures\, it will identify the optimistic futures projected by proponents of cardboard play and interrogate their underpinning logics. Cardboard sits at the intersection between the local and the global in children’s everyday lives—at once emblematic of transnational flows of labor and capital and the material stuff of hyper-specific embodied engagements. As such\, this talk will trace cardboard’s function as a material\, discursive\, and aesthetic phenomenon deployed to address—though not necessarily resolve—a range of concerns related to children’s economic\, environmental\, and educational futures. \nMeredith A. Bak is an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden. She is the author of Playful Visions: Optical Toys and the Emergence of Children’s Media Culture (MIT Press\, 2020). Her work has appeared in journals including Ninth Letter\, The Journal for Cinema and Media Studies\, Early Popular Visual Culture\, The Velvet Light Trap\, and Film History\, and in several edited collections. She is at work on a project about the role of cardboard in children’s STEAM and environmental pedagogies. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Department of Film and Media Studies\, the Carsey-Wolf Center\, Graduate Center for Literary Research\, and Comparative Literature Program\, and the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-outside-the-box-cardboard-in-contemporary-childrens-culture/
LOCATION:3145 SSMS\, 3145 SSMS\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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