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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Between Catastrophe and Creativity: Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s Nobel Prize and the Jewish Response to Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In December 1966\, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970) received the Nobel Prize in literature—the only author writing in Hebrew to receive that distinguished honor. Rabbi Jeffrey Saks will trace how Agnon’s remarkable acceptance speech vividly expresses the intertwining of personal destiny\, Jewish history\, and the art of storytelling. Standing before the crowned heads of Europe\, Agnon recounted his life\, not merely as a biographical sketch but as a narrative shaped by the catastrophe of Jerusalem’s destruction and centuries of exile. Agnon portrayed his literary calling as divine compensation for the lost sacred songs of the Temple. He cast himself as a Levite tasked to write in place of singing—to render music in prose that consoles pain and channels longing. His works\, suffused with layers of biblical\, rabbinic\, and folk textures\, grow from that center: the artist as healer of ancient wounds. Saks explores how that theme animates Agnon’s writing and surveys the intertwined biographical stations leading to the platform at the Nobel Prize ceremony. \nRabbi Jeffrey Saks is a prominent Modern Orthodox educator\, writer\, and editor based in Jerusalem. He holds a BA\, MA\, and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Saks is best known as the founding director of The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education and its online learning platform\, WebYeshiva.org. Since January 2019\, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Tradition\, a leading journal of Orthodox Jewish thought\, and currently serves as the Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-between-catastrophe-and-creativity-shmuel-yosef-agnons-nobel-prize-and-the-jewish-response-to-trauma/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260303T100000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Childhood and the Role of Adults in the Identity Formation of Children in Ghanaian Children’s Literature
DESCRIPTION:The perception of childhood seems to vary across cultures and literature is a key conveyor of cultural heritage. heritage. In this talk\, Clara Asare-Nyarko will explore childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children in Ghanaian children’s literature. \nAlthough the development of children’s literature in Ghana began in the 1950s and a significant volume has been produced for young readers\, research on children’s literature in Ghana remains largely a neglected area (Yitah & Komasi\, 2009). The use of story as agent of socialisation is a conscious and deliberate process and people usually develop understanding of who they are in close relationship with the society they belong to (Stephens\, 1992; Stryker & Burke\, 2000). Using four books for young readers by Ghanaian authors and social identity theory (Tajfel & Turner\, 1979)\, this study explores childhood and the roles adults play in the identity formation of children. Childhood is often defined more by behaviour\, responsibility and societal norms rather than just age in Ghana (Kyei-Gyamfi\, 2025) and adults play prominent roles in this crucial formative period children learn to coexist and interact in a more interconnected world. \nClara Asare-Nyarko is a final-year doctoral student in the Department of English\, University of Cape Coast\, Ghana and University of Hildesheim\, Germany. She holds a Master of Arts in Translation Studies from Pan African University and ASTI in University of Buea\, Cameroon. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group and Ghana Studies Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-childhood-and-the-role-of-adults-in-the-identity-formation-of-children-in-ghanaian-childrens-literature/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,Ghana Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260222T120000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: The Central Issues of the Priestly Struggle in the Dead Sea Scrolls
DESCRIPTION:Professor Rachel Elior’s writings have stimulated lively discussions among scholars in her areas of research. These include\, among others\, early Jewish mysticism\, the Dead Sea Scrolls\, Messianism\, Hasidism\, and the role of women in Jewish culture. In her talk for the Taubman Symposia\, presented as an online webinar\, she will speak about the significance of the Dead Sea Scrolls as a way of understanding the deep oppositional diversity of Jewish culture in Late Antiquity. Her talk addresses the dispute between\, on one hand\, the priestly writers (priests from the house of Zadok) who left the magnificent library of sacred writings discovered at Qumran\, and on the other\, the oral teachers known as the sages (Pharisees). The latter defined the Qumran library as “s’farim chitzonim\,” books to remain outside of the emerging canon. As Elior explains\, those matters involve everywhere the central themes of canon and censorship\, and the shifting authority among sacred texts and their interpreters – exemplified by the adoption of the lunar over the solar calendar\, a fundamental change in the source of authority. Join the webinar on February 22 to hear Professor Elior’s talk on this fascinating but little-known chapter in Jewish history. \nElior studied at the Hebrew University/Jerusalem (PhD summa cum laude\, 1976). She has taught at that institution since 1978 and serves there as the John and Golda Cohen Professor of Jewish Philosophy in the Department of Jewish Thought. Elior has published nine books on Jewish mysticism\, six of which have been translated into English\, Spanish\, and Polish. Additionally\, she has edited ten books\, edited and annotated three further books\, and authored 120 articles on mysticism. Her work has garnered numerous distinguished awards. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-the-central-issues-of-the-priestly-struggle-in-the-dead-sea-scrolls/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260203T111500
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Domesticating the Future: Egyptian Children’s Publishing\, Generation Z\, and the Neoliberal Ideology of the New Wave
DESCRIPTION:The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Dr. Yasmine Motawy. In this talk\, Motawy will examine the Egyptian child reader as a historically produced subject shaped by two decades of neoliberal transformation. Drawing on her new book\, Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society\, which examines a new wave of Egyptian picturebooks published in Egypt since the early 2000s\, she will trace the historical development of Egyptian children’s literature until the neoliberal context\, marked by changing cultural aspirations. Her talk will focus in particular on a cluster of picturebooks that socialize children into emerging neoliberal spaces\, showing how these texts normalize new forms of childhood\, domestic life\, and mobility\, and how they translate broader political-economic shifts into everyday narratives addressed to young readers. \nYasmine Motawy is a scholar\, critic\, translator\, editor\, and consultant specializing in children’s literature. She has served on major regional and international award juries\, including the 2021 Bologna Ragazzi Award\, the 2016 and 2018 Hans Christian Andersen Award\, the 2017 Etisalat Award for Arabic Children’s Literature\, and chaired the 2025 Sawiris Cultural Award. She co-edited The Routledge Companion to International Children’s Literature (2018). In 2022\, she received AUC’s Excellence in Research and Creative Endeavors Award. Her latest book is Children’s Picture Books and Contemporary Egyptian Society (2025). She currently serves on the board of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (2025–2027). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Comparative Literature Program\, and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-domesticating-the-future-egyptian-childrens-publishing-generation-z-and-the-neoliberal-ideology-of-the-new-wave/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251207T113000
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad
DESCRIPTION:Professor Emeritus of Anthropology and Psychology at Hebrew University/Jerusalem\, Yoram Bilu is a psychological anthropologist who focuses on Israeli society and Jewish traditional culture. His research interests include the anthropology of religion\, culture and mental health\, the sanctification of space in Israel\, and Maghrebi Jewish culture. His perspective is consistently two-fold\, as he seeks to highlight the interface between\, on one hand\, social actors as individuals\, and on the other\, the collective level of social norms\, cultural symbols and political ideologies. Professor Bilu’s Taubman Symposium\, “Messianism in Post-Schneerson Chabad\,” emanates from his 2020 book\, With Us More than Ever: Making the Absent Rebbe Present in Messianic Chabad\, which won the 2015 Goldberg Prize for the best academic book-length manuscript in Hebrew. Taking into account the cultural toolkit used by the Hasidim to make their absent Rabbi (and designated messiah) present\, Bilu explores the messianic fervor that seized the Hasidic movement of Chabad-Lubavitch on the 1994 passing of the widely revered Lubavitcher Rebbe. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-messianism-in-post-schneerson-chabad/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251028T180000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Between Justice and Horror: The Theological Violence of Dante’s Inferno Recast
DESCRIPTION:This talk explores how modern adaptations of Dante’s Divine Comedy for young readers reshape the poem’s theology of violence. In Inferno\, punishment reflects divine justice and the consequences of disordered love; in contemporary picturebooks\, illustrated editions\, and comics\, this moral framework is often softened\, secularized\, or inverted. Through examples from Italy\, the United States\, and Japan\, the talk shows how artists translate Dante’s violence into abstraction\, irony\, or spectacle\, transforming divine retribution into aesthetic or emotional experience. These adaptations reveal how cultures negotiate what kinds of violence (and what kinds of justice) can be shown to children\, turning Dante’s Hell into a mirror of modern moral and pedagogical anxieties. \nMartina Mattei is a Ph.D. candidate in Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her research focuses on adaptation theory\, children’s literature\, and the transnational reception of canonical texts. Her dissertation examines contemporary adaptations of Dante Alighieri’s Divine Comedy for children across English-\, Italian-\, and Japanese-language traditions. Through a comparative analysis of picturebooks\, comics\, videogames\, and animation\, she explores how these texts negotiate the poem’s theological\, moral\, and philosophical complexity for young audiences\, revealing local pedagogical and cultural investments. Martina’s work engages broader questions about how canonical texts are transformed when reframed for new readerships\, particularly in visual and age-specific media. She is especially interested in the way themes such as violence\, race\, and spirituality are omitted\, softened\, or reimagined in global childhood adaptations of Dante\, and how these editorial choices reflect shifting notions of literary value\, ethical storytelling\, and cultural authority. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-between-justice-and-horror-the-theological-violence-of-dantes-inferno-recast/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251022T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Preserving Biodiversity: Buddhist\, Hindu\, and Jain Religious Cultures in Lumbini\, Nepal
DESCRIPTION:Arjun Kurmi will discuss how environmental activists in Lumbini\, Nepal appeal to local religious cultures and spiritual values to promote the protection of wildlife\, especially the regal Sarus Cranes\, and motivate tree-planting and other environmental protection measures. \nArjun Kurmi is an environmental activist and founder of Green Youth of Lumbini\, an environmental NGO in Nepal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s South Asian Religions and Cultures Research Focus Group\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the Bhagvan Vimalnath Endowed Chair in Jain Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/preserving-biodiversity/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,South Asian Religions and Cultures
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ORGANIZER;CN="South Asian Religions and Cultures RFG":MAILTO:holdrege@religion.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250529T110000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom
DESCRIPTION:Literature\, and children’s literature specifically\, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis\, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases\, such as sickle cell\, HIV/AIDS\, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases\, sickle cell anemia\, this study argues that\, even with great innovations in medical science\, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms a part of human life\, literature has responded\, including in the case of sickle cell. Children with such diseases have been stigmatized by society\, while even some parents see them as burdens and curse them\, forgetting that they themselves are the cause of it. Through its power to instill value in life\, literature offers a reminder of how to handle people with such diseases. Idada is a point of focus in this study. Through the child protagonists\, Eghe and Osaik\, Idada talks of unquestionable love towards the child\, community collaboration\, government involvement\, scientific research\, media involvement\, and African consciousness on technological innovations. Deconstructionist critical theory challenges the traditional notions of language\, meaning and truth by exposing the contradictions and inconsistencies held within ideologies and beliefs about children living with such diseases in the world. This study will show that healing for complex diseases like sickle cell is not only clinical but that other forms of healing are also important. \nDr. Nfor Noela Mankfu-Ngwa hails from the North West Region of Cameroon. She has a Ph.D. in Postcolonial Literature (specifically\, Children’s Literature) from the University of Bamenda. She is a part-time Lecturer at the University of Bamenda and a Secondary School English Language and Literature in English teacher. She obtained her B.A. and M.A. degrees in Literatures in English from the University of Buea. She holds a DIPES II from HTTC\, Bambili. Her publications include “Identity Construction in Black Children’s Narratives: A Reading of Angie Thomas’s The Hate U Give.” She is also part of the socio-linguistic profiling of Cameroon. \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-talk-disease-and-inclusive-healing-in-jude-idadas-boom-boom/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T140000
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SUMMARY:GCLR Book Presentation: The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads: Colonialism\, Gender\, and Indigenous Communism with Kevin B. Anderson
DESCRIPTION:The author of the acclaimed Marx at the Margins analyses the late Marx on Indigenous communism\, gender\, and anti-colonialism. \nIn his late writings\, Marx went beyond the boundaries of capital and class in the Western European and North American contexts. Kevin Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia\, India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Latin America\, and ancient Rome. These texts\, some of them only now being published\, provide evidence for a change of perspective\, away from Eurocentric worldviews or unilinear theories of development. As Anderson shows\, the late Marx elaborated a truly global\, multilinear theory of modern society and its revolutionary possibilities. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-book-presentation-the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-colonialism-gender-and-indigenous-communism-with-kevin-b-anderson/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="Graduate Center for Literary Research":MAILTO:complit-glcr@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250519T163000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Webinar: It Takes Two to Torah
DESCRIPTION:In genuine Jewish tradition\, everywhere there is machlokes\, reasoned disputes aimed at spiritual growth. Reform-oriented author and journalist Abigail Pogrebin and Orthodox-minded Yeshiva Headmaster Rabbi Dov Linzer are thus in good company with their new book It Takes Two To Torah\, in which they “Discuss and Debate Their Way Through the Five Books of Moses.” \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Congregation B’nai B’rith\, Santa Barbara
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-webinar-it-takes-two-to-torah/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T140000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
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SUMMARY:GCLR Discussion: Ilya Kliger in Conversation with Sven Spieker
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation between professors Ilya Kliger (NYU) and Sven Spieker (UCSB) on Kliger’s new book\, “Sovereign Fictions: Poetics and Politics in the Age of Russian Realism” \nThe nineteenth-century novel is generally assumed to owe its basic social imaginaries to the ideologies\, institutions\, and practices of modern civil society. In Sovereign Fictions\, Ilya Kliger asks what happens to the novel when its fundamental sociohistorical orientation is\, as in the case of Russian realism\, toward the state. Kliger explores Russian realism’s distinctive construals of sociality through a broad range of texts from the 1830s to the 1870s\, including major works by Tolstoy\, Dostoevsky\, Gogol\, Pushkin\, Lermontov\, Goncharov\, and Turgenev\, and several lesser-known but influential books of the period\, including Alexander Druzhinin’s Polinka Saks (1847)\, Aleksei Pisemsky’s One Thousand Souls (1858)\, and Vasily Sleptsov’s Hard Times (1865). Challenging much current scholarly consensus about the social dynamics of nineteenth-century realist fiction\, Sovereign Fictions offers an important intervention in socially inflected theories of the novel and in current thinking on representations of power and historical poetics. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the Graduate Center for Literary Research
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/gclr-discussion-ilya-kliger-in-conversation-with-sven-spieker/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T093000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250516T113000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Fall and the Fallen: The Lateness of Harmonia Rosales’ Adam and Eve
DESCRIPTION:This talk seeks to complicate the linguistic operations of conceptualism\, an aesthetic movement which often privileges the word\, by exploring the relationship between form (forma and schema) and perception (opticus and perspectiva) within Harmonia Rosales’ Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros (2022) and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve (2022). Rosales uses the medium of oil and canvas/wood as a way to reorient the Renaissance concept of disegno—understood as a form that precedes the actuality of an image on a surface—as an a priori apperception. That is\, Rosales consumes\, regurgitates\, and pro-jects (Ent-werfen) the presupposed disegno within the two interrelated genres of devotional images (The Fall and Last Judgement). When considered alongside images from the sixteenth- and seventeenth-centuries—like Hans Memling’s Adam and Eve (1485-90)\, Albrecht Dürer’s Adam and Eve (c. 1504 and c.1507)\, Michael Coxie’s The Fall of Man (c.1550)\, and Jacob Jordaen’s Last Judgement (c.1653)—the formal and optical disruptions of Rosales’ work become even more pronounced. Ultimately\, the paper proposes that neo-Aristotelian explorations of body and space within both humanism and scholasticism are essential for understanding how Rosales figures blackness as temporally and spatially plural. Dinis Dias: Land of the Negros and Strangler Fig: Adam and Eve are pro-jections (Entwurf) which reinterpret how observers see blackness as a temporally discrete apperception of unified categories; as such\, the formal medium and the forms induced within the medium disrupt a definite extension and local definition of black bodies within space. \nDontay M. Givens II is a medieval and early modern studies and Black studies PhD student in the English Department at New York University. His research interests include the aesthetic constructions of blackness with the premodern global context from 1300 to 1700; the global movements of blackness as an aesthetic concept within the Spanish Low Countries and the Dutch and French Empires; and the history of capitalism\, black feminisms\, the conception of the human\, critiques of black representations\, and medieval romance literature. \nPlease contact vagt@ucsb.edu to receive the pre-circulated readings for this talk. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-fall-and-the-fallen-the-lateness-of-harmonia-rosales-adam-and-eve/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:vagt@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20250414T225953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250417T204120Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Berry People: A Study of Catholic Political Theologies of the Child
DESCRIPTION:How might Indigenous scholars theorize with stories from our childhoods while enacting the Indigenous critical theory and praxis of refusal? This talk engages the Inupiaq haunting story of the Berry People along with North American histories of Indigenous family separation to examine Catholic political theologies of children. In doing so\, it illustrates the ongoing necessity of Indigenous political savviness in defending communities and nations from the haunted whistlings of Christian religious institutions for Indigenous children and Lands. \nDr. Elisha Chi is a President’s and Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of Religious Studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. Her interdisciplinary work engages Indigenous studies\, ethics\, religious studies\, and political theology. Elisha’s work clarifies the necessities and possibilities of institutional decolonization\, specifically Indigenous land return\, as they apply to Catholic histories\, practices\, and land holdings. Her current projects center on Landback and Catholic political theologies\, and her next project will examine the Alaska boarding schools her family attended in order to explore Inupiat and other Alaska Native norms of refusal. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/berry-people-a-study-of-catholic-political-theologies-of-the-child/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250122T173000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20241211T230357Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241216T215728Z
UID:10000747-1737561600-1737567000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness
DESCRIPTION:As part of a new lecture series\, Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization\, the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group invites you to a talk by Prof. Nicola Daly entitled “Dual Language Picturebooks in Aotearoa: Contributions to Language Revitalisation and Critical Language Awareness.” \nIn this talk\, Prof. Nicola Daly will traverse a range of research studies exploring the contribution of dual language picturebooks to language revitalisation in Aotearoa New Zealand. Drawing on her new book\, Language\, Identity and Diversity in Picturebooks: An Aotearoa New Zealand Perspective (Routledge\, 2025)\, she will present findings showing how dual language picturebooks in Aotearoa can both reflect and disrupt language hierarchies\, and how they can be used in educational settings from preschool to university to support critical language awareness and language learning of the Indigenous language te reo Māori. \nNicola Daly is a sociolinguist and Associate Professor in the Division of Education\, University of Waikato\, where she teaches children’s literature and leads the Postgraduate Certificate in Children’s and Young Adult Literature. She also co-directs the Waikato Picturebook Research Unit. Her research focus is multilingual picturebooks and their role in perpetuating and challenging language attitudes. She was a Fulbright New Zealand Scholar at the University of Arizona\, USA in 2019-2020. She is an Executive Board Member and Treasurer of the International Research Society for Children’s Literature (IRSCL). \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, the Children’s Literature\, Cultural Preservation\, and Language Revitalization Lecture Series\, and the Department of Linguistics
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-dual-language-picturebooks-in-aotearoa-contributions-to-language-revitalisation-and-critical-language-awareness/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250117T171500
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20241218T191100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241230T174208Z
UID:10000748-1737129600-1737134100@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Child Labor Issue as Depicted in the TV Cartoon Meena Ki Kahani
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Jawa Jha focuses on child labor\, particularly the issues faced by the girl child as depicted in the TV cartoon series Meena Ki Kahani (Stories of Meena)\, broadcast in India. This presentation is divided broadly into three main sections. The first section provides a brief overview of India’s children literature\, tracing its transition from oral storytelling traditions to visual media like cartoon-based TV shows. The second section examines child labor issues depicted in Meena Ki Kahani. This TV cartoon series\, produced with the support of UNICEF\, aims to raise awareness about various social inequalities prevalent in South Asian countries. Re-telecast in India on the Doordarshan channel for e-learning during the pandemic lockdown\, Meena Ki Kahani aims at reducing child labor along with other social issues. The last section of the presentation attempts to comprehend the problems of child labor faced by a girl child in India’s socio-cultural context. This presentation seeks to amplify awareness in order to stop the vicious cycle of child labor in India. \nDr. Jawa Jha is the first Indian to complete a Ph.D. in Korean Literature from Seoul National University\, South Korea. She has taught as Guest faculty at Jawaharlal Nehru University and Bangalore City University\, India. She co-authored a book on Elementary Hindi for Korean learners\, published in 2020 by Busan University of Foreign Studies. She was awarded various research grants and scholarships\, including the Academy of Korean Studies Research Fellowship\, Silk-Road Scholarship\, and Korea Foundation’s Korean language learning scholarship. Recently\, she was invited as a speaker at the 2024 World Bang Jung Hwan Conference on Children’s Literature held in Suwon\, Korea. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-child-labor-issue-as-depicted-in-the-tv-cartoon-meena-ki-kahani/
LOCATION:Zoom
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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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241108T113000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20241022T170321Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241022T205805Z
UID:10000736-1731060000-1731065400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Ransoming Genoa: Captives\, Consuls\, Missionaries in the Early Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:The seminar aims to explore the phenomenon of Mediterranean captivity between the 16th and 19th centuries as analyzed in Andrea Zappia’s monograph\, Mercanti di uomini. Reti e intermediari per la liberazione dei captivi nel Mediterraneo (Città del Silenzio 2018)\, with a particular focus on the singular case of the Republic of Genoa and the redemption of its subjects. The first part of the seminar will provide a historical contextualization\, examining the daily lives of prisoners and the European institutions dedicated to their liberation. The second part will focus on the role of European consuls in the Maghreb\, highlighting their functions in the negotiations for ransoms. Finally\, the important mediation provided by missionaries and apostolic prefects in Tunis\, Tripoli\, and Algiers will be discussed. Through this analysis\, the seminar also intends to reflect on contemporary issues such as human trafficking and exploitation\, which remain relevant in the context of the contemporary Mediterranean. \nDr. Andrea Zappia is a faculty member in the Department of History\, Anthropology\, Religions\, Art History\, Media\, and Performing Arts at the Sapienza Università di Roma. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Slavery\, Captivity\, and the Meaning of Freedom Research Focus Group and UCSB’s Program in Transnational Italian Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-ransoming-genoa-captives-consuls-missionaries-in-the-early-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups,Slavery, Captivity, and the Meaning of Freedom
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241025T170000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20241023T161627Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241106T173733Z
UID:10000738-1729872000-1729875600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Children’s Literature from the Himalayas: Gesar Stories\, Cultural Authenticity\, and Folkloresque
DESCRIPTION:Gesar is a warrior-like king in the realm of Ling and the protagonist of a voluminous folkloric poem that many Tibetan bards have performed for centuries. With Gesar’s increasing fame in modern times\, the orature has become a quintessential representation of Tibetan culture. By comparing two children’s books that draw on the Gesar tradition\, Tibetan Heroic Epic: Gesar Children’s Literature Collection and Gesar Epic: Hor-Ling Battle\, Zhuoga will discuss the meaning and relevance of cultural authenticity in children’s books. With Gesar’s adaptation in children’s literature as an example\, Zhuoga argues that cultural authenticity is not an imagined reservoir of immutability. Instead\, authenticity is generated from changes made by people who know and own that particular culture. \nQimei Zhuoga\, pronounced as Chemi Droka in the Tibetan language\, completed her Ph.D. at the University of Canterbury (New Zealand) and her M.A. in English Literature at the University of Leeds (UK). Qimei Zhuoga is a lecturer at the School of Foreign Languages and Cultures\, Tibet University. \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-childrens-literature-from-the-himalayas-gesar-stories-cultural-authenticity-and-folkloresque/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Nicole Smirnoff":MAILTO:nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240606T160000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240515T225311Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240531T194641Z
UID:10000709-1717686000-1717689600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240529T103000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240507T205219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20241126T193417Z
UID:10000706-1716973200-1716978600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T110000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240423T200001Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240507T182358Z
UID:10000701-1716282000-1716289200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:RFG Talk: Thinking with the Sound of Catastrophe
DESCRIPTION:When death is ubiquitous and violence structural and gratuitous\, catastrophe has a sound. How do our racialized lives allow for or shield us from familiarity to this sound? The conditions of colonial violence\, imperialism\, and global capitalism construct African Black bodies into a kind of listening bodies. But what kind of listening bodies are these? In this talk\, Brenda Umutoniwase will explore the listening body from Rwanda to South Africa as a site of conflations: as subject to the mechanics of colonial violence but also the very site from which it counters this violence. \nBrenda Umutoniwase is a doctoral student in the Department of African American Studies at Emory University. Her research focuses on formulations of racialized Blackness beyond the Middle passage epistemologies\, particularly looking at temporal/geographic spaces in Africa. \nZoom attendance link here \nSponsored by the IHC’s Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-talk-thinking-with-the-sound-of-catastrophe/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:schewelew@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T103000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240430T204500Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240509T170654Z
UID:10000704-1715677200-1715682600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories":MAILTO:tinghaozhou@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240429T110000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240319T173553Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240319T212151Z
UID:10000696-1714384800-1714388400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240318T110000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240226T215152Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T233309Z
UID:10000690-1710756000-1710759600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240306T163000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20240226T182527Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240301T233836Z
UID:10000689-1709739000-1709742600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu
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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T130000
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
CREATED:20230919T173345Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240403T210039Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231128T170000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T090000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231026T100000
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230810T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230811T100000
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SUMMARY:RFG Conference: Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures
DESCRIPTION:“Emotions in History: Boundary-Crossing Adventures” is a truly interdisciplinary collaboration between History and Psychology. The symposium features two keynote speakers\, Professor Leda Cosmides (UCSB) representing Psychology\, and Professor Anna Shields (Princeton) representing the Humanities. The roundtable discussion will occur between three members of Team Psychology and three members of Team Humanities. Each speaker will deliver a short presentation on a “boundary-crossing adventure” that has happened in their own research. Psychologists will discuss how a specific scholar/publication in humanistic work has shed light on their work\, and humanists will discuss how a specific method/concept in psychology has inspired their consideration of emotions. Following the short presentations we will open the floor for a discussion with everyone in the Zoom room. We hope to have a highly interactive discussion where we can seek more common ground\, ask generative questions\, and promote direct dialogues. \nWatch recordings of this event:\nDay 1 Keynotes\nDay 2 Roundtable \nSponsored by the IHC’s Emotions in History Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/rfg-conference-emotions-in-history-boundary-crossing-adventures/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Emotions in History,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Emotions in History RFG":MAILTO:yzuo@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230607T131500
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Ecologies":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T131500
DTSTAMP:20260415T013556
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Creating\, Weaponizing\, and Detecting Deep Fakes
DESCRIPTION:Although varied in their form and creation\, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image\, audio\, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality\, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios. In this talk\, Farid will provide an overview of how deep fakes are created\, how they are being used and misused\, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHany Farid is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-hany-farid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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