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    Laura Nenzi, Researching the Margins: Challenges and Consequences of Embarking on a Microhistory Project

    McCune Conference Room (HSSB 6020) Humanities and Social Sciences Bldg, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Speaker: Laura Nenzi  (Ph.D. History, UC Santa Barbara, 2004) Associate Professor, University of Tennessee, Knoxville   Event Description: Laura Nenzi, one of our very own (2004 PhD) is returning to UCSB to give a lecture about her recent (2015) second book The Chaos and Cosmos of Kurosawa Tokiko. The talk will focus on the process […]

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    Talk by Prof Rui Kohiyama on American Women Missionaries and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan

    HSSB 4080 4080 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Please join us in welcoming Professor Rui Kohiyama (American and Gender Studies, Tokyo Woman’s Christian University) to UCSB. Professor Kohiyama will give a talk on “American Woman Missionaries, Christian Homes, and Romantic Love in Meiji Japan.” American women missionaries are well known for their educational and reformatory intervention in various mission fields in Asia. Although […]

  • Flyer for online conference for Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts on 10/1-3/20

    Conference: Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts

    University of California Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    Realisms in East Asian Performing Arts proposes new considerations of realism on stage. Since its association with 19th-century innovations in European and American drama, theatrical realism has largely remained limited to Euro-American definitions. We explore conventions of realism in culturally-specific locations and times across East Asia, articulating alternative histories of realism that extend from the […]

  • Women in Chinese Silent Cinema

    SSMS 2135 Social Sciences and Media Studies Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    In this lecture, Paul Pickowicz will screen compelling clips from Chinese silent-era films of the 1920s and 1930s.  Pickowicz will emphasize the diverse roles played by women and ask questions about why the women seen on screen, including such iconic figures as Ruan Lingyu, Li Lili, and Wang Renmei, were far more important than men […]