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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Undergraduate Research and Creative Showcase
DESCRIPTION:This undergraduate showcase will feature a research presentation by Fiona Boborci\, titled “Translating Childhood: Untranslatability\, Linguistic Hospitality\, and Reader Perception in The Little Prince.” In her talk\, Fiona explores the linguistic\, philosophical\, and cultural dimensions of translation in children’s literature\, examining how different English translations of Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince produce distinct understandings of childhood\, imagination\, and moral responsibility. Drawing on both French and English traditions\, the presentation highlights translation as an active and transformative process that shapes reader perception. \nFiona Boborci is a senior French and Comparative Literature double major at UCSB. She has studied French since early childhood and brings this linguistic background to her work in modern francophone literature. She will continue her studies after graduation in a teacher credentialing and master’s program\, with a focus on the intersections of linguistics\, literature\, and bilingual education. \nFollowing the talk\, the event will continue with a curated showcase of undergraduate creative projects\, including adaptations of literary works into visual media aimed at young adult audiences. Together\, the research and creative components highlight diverse approaches to engaging with literature across languages\, media\, and audiences. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-undergraduate-research-and-creative-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase
DESCRIPTION:Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood\, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella Williams and research on Writing and Literature by Tia Trinh in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Historical Memory in Narrative will focus on the cultural shaping of children’s stories over generations\, as shown in “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children\,” researched by Isabella Williams\, and children’s literature as an act of reclaiming and rewriting historical narratives\, as shown in “Rewriting Silence: Preserving Cultural Memory and Reclaiming Narrative in Children’s Literature on Japanese Internment\,” researched by Tia Trinh. \nIsabella Williams’ research focuses on the proliferation of one variation of Cinderella in relation to the negotiation between traditional fairy tale structures and evolving notions of childhood innocence\, morality\, and cultural appropriateness in adaptations for children. “The Other Cinderella Story: A Social Examination of Cinderella’s Adaptability for Children” demonstrates how authors sanitize and reimagine narratives for child audiences; how they permit violence but censor sexuality; how they reinforce gender roles through the demonization of female figures and the sanctification of male heroes; and how Christian and Protestant ethics shape the ideal of the passive\, industrious heroine. By tracing the history of fairy tale adaptations\, Williams examines how Cinderella’s image is constrained and recoded into a rigid ideological instrument\, replacing a once fluid\, complex story of autonomy and survival with a static myth of virtue\, labor\, and grace. Isabella Williams is a fourth-year Comparative Literature major with a minor in Portuguese. Her academic focus revolves around children’s literature and fairy tale media. In her research\, she examines how authors shape children’s stories based on cultural ideas of childhood\, morality\, and respectability. \nIn “Rewriting Silence\,” Tia Trinh analyzes George Takei’s My Lost Freedom and Maggie Tokuda-Hall’s Love in the Library as acts of reclaiming history and rewriting narratives about a deeply violent and often overlooked part of Asian American history. The paper compares each author’s positionality to critically analyze different perspectives and methods of retelling the narrative of Japanese-American internment. Understood primarily through the lens of an Asian American studies and close-reading comparison of both children’s books\, this paper strives to understand how both stories work to share stories of family ancestry\, preserve cultural memory\, and push back against an increasingly whitewashed education. Tia Trinh is a fourth-year Writing & Literature major in the College of Creative Studies (CCS) with a double minor in Asian American Studies and Professional Writing – Journalism. She is a storyteller exploring the complexities of Asian American coming-of-age and understanding one’s identity today\, told through themes of ancestry\, travel\, grief\, food\, and much more. Her research explores how Asian American authors retell and reclaim a deeply violent history through childrens’ literature. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/historical-memory-in-narrative-undergraduate-research-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Coralations: A Talk with Prof. Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:On behalf of the Interdisciplinary Brown Bag Lunch series\, the Graduate Center for Literary Research invites you to join us for a discussion with Prof. Melody Jue centered on her latest book\, Coralations: “a philosophical exploration of the media that come into focus when we shift our attention from the highly recognizable coral of the tropics.” \nMelody Jue is Associate Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, under contract). Professor Jue has published articles in journals including Grey Room\, Configurations\, Women’s Studies Quarterly\, Resilience\, and Media+Environment. Her new work explores the mediations of seaweeds in trans-Pacific contexts. \nZoom attendance link here \n Cosponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research\, Comparative Literature program\, Department of French and Italian\, and Department of German and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/coralations-a-talk-with-prof-melody-jue/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Key Readings on Adaptation for Children
DESCRIPTION:This talk by Martina Mattei will explore key concepts from The Routledge Companion to Children’s Literature and Culture\, focusing on Chapter 27 (“Translation”) and Chapter 29 (“Adaptation”). It will address how children’s literature is translated and adapted across different cultures and media\, examining the balance between staying true to original texts and making them accessible for young readers. The chapter on translation covers the complexities of translating children’s literature\, emphasizing the need to preserve cultural and linguistic integrity while ensuring that young audiences can understand and relate to the material. It highlights the role of translation in shaping children’s understanding of different cultures and ideas. The adaptation chapter examines how children’s stories are reshaped across various media\, such as film and television. It discusses how these adaptations make stories accessible to different age groups while considering cultural and generational influences. The process of adaptation is viewed as a critical way to introduce children to stories in engaging and relevant forms. The talk will emphasize how both translation and adaptation play crucial roles in broadening children’s literary and cultural horizons. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-key-readings-on-adaptation-for-children/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Martina Mattei":MAILTO:martinamattei@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230320T150000
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SUMMARY:Talk: Art\, Art History\, and Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Computation and the Humanities is a series of events at the GCLR investigating the impact of computation on literary and visual research. Guests include researchers\, artists\, and practitioners working within and beyond the digital humanities. On March 20th\, we welcome Dr. Leonardo Impett\, who is a University Assistant Professor in Digital Humanities and convenor of the MPhil in Digital Humanities at Cambridge University. \nIn this talk\, Impett will introduce his current project\, a new history of machine visuality. The stakes are multiple. In the spirit of histories of visuality\, computer vision might tell us something about the dominant modes of thinking about vision over the last century. We might also want to learn something about the scopic regimes of machine vision systems because of their use in surveillance\, automation\, scientific research and so on. More broadly\, Impett will argue that discourses and practices of visuality (and thus a set of only partially explicit theories about seeing) have been central to the invention and development of neural networks\, and thus to contemporary AI more broadly\, from chat-bots to audio systems. \nZoom attendance link here \nPlease visit the GCLR website for full information. \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research (GCLR)
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-art-art-history-and-artificial-intelligence/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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