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Fall Quarter 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\u201cTake Control of Your Publications with eScholarship\u201d<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Thursday, October 22, 2009 4:30 p.m. South Hall 1415 Media Room<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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With Elise Proulx, CDL Publishing Group, University of California<\/p>\n

Introduction by Kathryn Dolan, ACGC Fall RA<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Journals<\/strong><\/td>\nConferences<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Books<\/strong><\/td>\nWorking Papers<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Postprints<\/strong><\/td>\nSeminar\/Paper Series<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

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RESCHEDULED TO OCTOBER 26<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Film Screening
\n<\/span><\/span>Frozen River (2008)<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Monday, October 26, 2009 6:00 p.m. South Hall 2635<\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Part of the ACGCC “Hemispheric American Studies” Film Series<\/p>\n

Stephanie LeMenager will introduce Frozen River. It is the story of Ray Eddy, an upstate New York trailer mom who is lured into the world of illegal immigrant smuggling when she meets a Mohawk girl who lives on a reservation that straddles the US-Canadian border. Broke after her husband takes off with the down payment for their new doublewide, Ray reluctantly teams up with Lila, a smuggler, and the two begin making runs across the frozen St. Lawrence River carrying illegal Chinese and Pakistani immigrants in the trunk of Ray’s Dodge Spirit. \u2013 Frozen River Presskit<\/em><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Ned Sublette: “The Year Before the Flood”<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Part of the IHC\u2019s \u201cOil and Water\u201d series, co-sponsored by ACGC
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Tuesday, October 27, 2009 at 4 p.m. in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Writer, scholar, and musician Ned Sublette is one of the most provocative cultural historians working today.\u00a0 His recent books on New Orleans\u2014The World that Made New Orleans: From Spanish Silver to Congo Square (2008) and the just-published The Year Before the Flood:
\nA Story of New Orleans\u2014have garnered praise as important perspectives on a city still reeling from natural-and-politically caused devastation.\u00a0 Sublette has lectured widely on New Orleans, popular music, and Cuban music (the subject of his 2004 volume Cuba and Its
\nMusic: From the First Drums to the Mambo).\u00a0 He is a recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship (2005) among other honors.\u00a0 In addition to his work as a writer and lecturer, Sublette is also an active guitarist, songwriter, and radio-documentary producer.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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REMINDER<\/p>\n

Save the Date: JTAS<\/a>\/ACGC Reception at ASA (11\/7; 7:45PM)<\/strong><\/p>\n

Dear friends:
\nYou are cordially invited to the Journal of Transnational American Studies\/ American Cultures and Global Contexts reception at the
\nupcoming ASA Annual Meeting in Washington, D.C.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Date: Saturday, November 7th
\nTime: 7:45 p.m\u00a0 (after the John Hope Franklin event).
\nPlace: The Courtyard by Marriott Washington Convention Center at
\n900 F Street NW, Washington, DC 20004
\n(ask for\u00a0 Shelley Fisher Fishkin\/Shirley Geok-lin Lim\/Nina Morgan suite).<\/strong><\/p>\n

The Courtyard is a few blocks from the Marriott Renaissance (the convention hotel). Go South on 9th St. NW toward I St. NW (EYE St. NW).\u00a0 The hotel is on your right at the corner of 9th St. and F St., just after you pass the National Museum of American Art.<\/p>\n

Food and drink will be provided, and editors, contributors, and friends of JTAS\/ACGC will be present. Please RSVP to slim@english.ucsb.edu<\/a><\/span><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Poetic Visions in the Wake of Katrina<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Co-sponsored by the ACGC<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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American Studies Association, Washington, D.C.
\nThursday, November 5, 2-3:45 p.m.
\nThe Renaissance Hotel\/Auditorium
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The panel is organized around a historic dialogue between New Orleans writers, poets, and\u00a0 activists. Shana\u00a0 Grifin, Brenda Marie Osbey, Sunni Patterson, and Kalamu Ya Salaam will discuss the tragedies and triumphs of post-Katrina New\u00a0 Orleans. In addition to reading from their works they will discuss the central role of artists in community building and in imagining a new city. The panel is being organized by Associate Professor Clyde Woods, Department of Black Studies, and Jordan T. Camp, PhD candidate in the Department of Sociology.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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“Southern\u00a0 California’s Oil: Past and Futures”<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Part of the IHC\u2019s \u201cOil and Water\u201d series, co-sponsored by ACGC
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Moderated by Stephanie LeMenager, ACGC Director<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
November 12, 2009 from 4-5:30 p.m. in the McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CCS LIT SYMPOSSIUM<\/strong> Presents<\/em><\/strong> Poet, Mitsuye Yamada<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

Co-sponsored by the ACGC<\/strong><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
Wednesday, November 18, 2009, 4 p.m. in the Old Little Theater
\nIntroduction by Sharon Tang-Quan
\nReception to follow at 5:30 p.m. in the ACGC Center, South Hall 2710<\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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\"\"Join us in welcoming Mitsuye Yamada as she reads from her poetry and prose and shares her early experience of internment during World War II and her life- long contributions to education, the defense of human rights, and the cultivation of the arts.<\/p>\n

MITSUYE YAMADA\u2019s writings focus on her Japanese American heritage, women\u2019s and human rights issues. She is the author ofCAMP NOTES AND OTHER WRITINGS<\/em> published by Rutgers University Press. She is now retired from UC Irvine where she was Adjunct Associate Professor in Asian American Studies, and was a former member of the Board of Directors of Amnesty International USA. She is a member of Interfaith Prisoners of Conscience (IPOC) and founder and director of Multicultural Women Writers.\u00a0 She recently initiated a Peace and Justice Ministry at St. Andrews Episcopal Church in Irvine. She is presently writing a biography of her father, one of the early Japanese pioneers in the U.S.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Spring Quarter 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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CONFERENCE: “Building Community Across Borders”
\n<\/span>California American Studies Association (CASA) Annual Conference<\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Friday April 10 – Sunday April 12, 2009 McCune Conference Room HSSB<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"For more information contact Professor Ann Plane at plane@history.ucsb.edu<\/a><\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Film Screening
\n<\/span><\/span>The Birth of a Nation<\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Monday, April 13, 2009 6:00 p.m. South Hall 2635<\/span><\/p>\n

\"\"Professor Stephanie Batiste will introduce this classic, yet controversial film by D.W. Griffith. Adapted from Thomas Dixon’s novel “The Clansman,” director D.W. Griffith’s historical saga recounts the genesis of the U.S. Civil War, the destruction it wrought upon the populace, and the social ills spawned by Reconstruction, including the ascent of the Ku Klux Klan. The story plays out in the intertwining fates of two fictional families — the Northern Stonemans and the Southern Camerons. Though the film’s legacy is stained by its racist content, it remains a landmark in filmmaking technique (Netflix.com).<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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ACGCC Working Papers Series<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Tuesday, April 21, 2009, 5:00 p.m. South Hall 2714<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

\"WPS\"The Working Papers Series (WPS) offers graduate students the opportunity to workshop their papers in a supportive environment; we have two official commentators on each paper, one faculty member and one graduate student–and, of course, all who attend the meeting are invited to respond. You needn\u2019t be directly affiliated with the ACGCC to join us. The WPS grew out of the need voiced by graduate students for concrete and helpful feedback from presentations. Thus, the work being reviewed is available in hard copy in the ACGC Center, and the graduate student does not read it at the WPS event. The idea is that the time should be spent discussing the work and responding to it. Therefore, both the faculty and graduate student respondents offer written and verbal responses (the written should be no more than a page), with suggestions and critiques. The meeting will be held in South Hall 2714 and hard copies of the papers will be available in the ACGCC Tuesday April 14. If you want more information or have questions come by the ACGCC or contact Yanoula Athanassakis: at yanoula@umail.ucsb.edu<\/a><\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Global Ecologies Colloquium <\/span>Film Screening
\nMondovino<\/em>
\n<\/span><\/span>Regretfully Cancelled<\/span><\/p>\n

Kathy Richman, Professor of French and Wine Connoisseur introduces Jonathan Nossiter’s documentary that caused a buzz among French movie circles and French wine circles. Set in seven countries across three continents, Mondovino<\/em> weaves together the family succession saga of napa Valley power brokers with the bitter rivalry of two aristocratic Florentine dynasties, and the intergenerational struglle of a Burgundarian family trying to preserve its few acres of vineyard. It also connects these stories–and several others–to the exploits of a gleeful “flying winemaker” from Bordeaux who preaches the gospel of modernity and globalization from the hills of Tuscany to the pampas of Argentina (mondovinofilm.com). This even it co-sponsored by Arnhold Postdoctoral Fellow Allison Carruth and Professor Stephanie LeMenager.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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CONFERENCE: “Beyond Environmentalism: Culture, Justice and Global
\nEcologies” Featuring Ursula Heise and Elaine Scarry
\n<\/span><\/span>Friday May 22 – Saturday May 23, 2009 UCSB IHC, McCune Conference Room HSSB<\/span><\/p>\n

In the global context, right action on the part of humans toward each other and the biotic community, what Aldo Leopold called the land ethic, is difficult to represent in political speech, in policy, and even in the imaginative realm of the arts. Like the troubled concept of the global, the concept of justice, as Elaine Scarry has argued, founders in the problem of imagining other people, distant people, strangers. As our species faces anthropogenic climate change, world water shortages and world famine, the twin projects of giving expression to a truly global<\/em> ecology and to global environmental justice have never been more urgent. This conference aims to bring together individuals whose life\u2019s work has been the study or practice of writing<\/em>\u2014literary historians and theorists, journalists and cultural critics, social scientists and environmental policy makers who have made the written word central to their understanding of how social changes are achieved. All will be asked to pursue a knotty question: are we up to the task of writing a global environment, a global sensorium that impinges upon us so intimately that we are forced to recognize its crises as our own? Can the culture of letters bring the biosphere into our embodied sense of the everyday? What we are interested in is the task of creating a social aesthetic, if we use the term in Ramon Sald\u00edvar\u2019s sense to mean \u201cthose complex emotions, reflections, and sensations which give rise to a peculiarly poetic organization, responsive to the demands of history.” See the Conference Web Site<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Winter Quarter 2009<\/span><\/strong><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n
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Global Ecologies Colloquium Film Series
\n<\/span><\/span>Up the Yangtze <\/em><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Friday, January 16, 2009, 6-8:00 p.m. American Cultures and Global Contexts Center<\/span><\/p>\n

Professor Teresa Shewry will introduce this award winning documentary. A luxury cruise boat motors up the Yangtze – navigating the mythic waterway known in China simply as “The River.” The Yangtze is about to be transformed by the biggest hydroelectric dam in history. At the river’s edge – a young woman says goodbye to her family as the floodwaters rise towards their small homestead. The Three Gorges Dam – contested symbol of the Chinese economic miracle – provides the epic backdrop for Up the Yangtze, a dramatic feature documentary on life inside modern China. Chinese-Canadian filmmaker Yung Chang’s beautifully photographed documentary of China’s peasant life and cultural upheaval had its U.S. premiere at the 2008 Sundance Film Festival.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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CONFERENCE: “Food Sustainability and Food Security”
\n<\/span>Invitational Conference <\/span><\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Thursday February 5 – Saturday February 7, 2009 McCune Conference Room<\/span><\/p>\n

The UC Santa Barbara Department of English is organizing an invitational conference on the topic of food sustainability and food security, which will dovetail with a year-long series of food-themed events at the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. The conference aims to bring scholars and food workers together to investigate the historical and contemporary dynamics of the global food system and to consider the future of food studies as an interdisciplinary field. The conference will open with an evening keynote address on February 5th, followed by a full day of panels on February 6th and a closing roundtable with community food leaders on the morning of February 7th. The Deadline for Submission is October 15, 2008. See the officialwebsite<\/a> for more information.<\/span><\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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ACGCC Working Papers Series<\/span>
\n<\/span><\/span>Wednesday, February 18, 2009, 6:00 p.m. Isla Vista<\/span><\/span><\/p>\n

The Working Papers Series (WPS) offers graduate students the opportunity to workshop their papers in a supportive environment; we have two official commentators on each paper, one faculty member and one graduate student–and, of course, all who attend the meeting are invited to respond. You needn\u2019t be directly affiliated with the ACGCC to join us. The WPS grew out of the need voiced by graduate students for concrete and helpful feedback from presentations. Thus, the work being reviewed is available in hard copy in the ACGC Center, and the graduate student does not read it at the WPS event. The idea is that the time should be spent discussing the work and responding to it. Therefore, both the faculty and graduate student respondents offer written and verbal responses (the written should be no more than a page), with suggestions and critiques. The meeting will be held at a home in Isla Vista and hard copies of the papers will be available in the ACGCC Wednesday February 11. If you want more information or have questions come by the ACGCC or contact Yanoula Athanassakis: atyanoula@umail.ucsb.edu<\/a><\/span>.<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n

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Global Ecologies Colloquium <\/span>Panel Discussion
\n“The Psychological Dimensions of Climate Change”
\n<\/span><\/span>Friday, March 13, 2009, 10-11:30 a.m. South Hall 2635<\/span><\/p>\n

Professors Catherine Gautier and Dan Montello from the Department of Geography at UCSB will lead the panel discussion. Professor Gautier is the former Director and Principal Investigator at the Institute for Computational Earth Systems Science and head of the Earth Space Research Group. Professor Montello’s research interests include: spatial, environmental and geographic perception, cognition, affect and behavior; behavioral and cognitive geography; environmental psychology and cognitive cartography.<\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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