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Announcements

Congratulations to GCLR Distinguished Visitor Souleymane Bachir Diagne
  • Souleymane Bachir Diagne

Souleymane Bachir Diagne has been elected to the Académie royale de Belgique and the American Academy of Arts & Sciences.

2019-2020 Student Coordinator: Applications Due May 31
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Apply for the position of next year's GCLR Student Coordinator.

Four UCSB Students Chosen for 2019 Harvard IWL
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Caragh Barry, Dalia Bolotnikov Mazur, Deepti Menon, and Yang Zhao will represent UCSB at the Harvard Institute for World Literature's annual summer program.

6th Annual GCLR Conference: Memory and Movement
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The GCLR is excited to announce the call for papers for its 6th Annual Interdisciplinary Conference, "Memory and Movement," which will take place on Saturday, May 4, 2019.

Events

6th Annual GCLR Conference: Memory and Movement
  • Memory and Movement

The GCLR is excited to announce the schedule for its upcoming graduate conference, "Memory and Movement."

  1. May 4, 2019 - 9:30am to 6:00pm
Steven Ungar - "Black Like Moi: Performing Race with Rouch and Cassavetes"
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Please join us for this Film and Media Studies Colloquium, co-sponsored with the GCLR.

  1. May 22, 2019 - 3:00pm
Scriptworlds Conference
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The Scriptworlds Conference will take place Friday, May 31 - Saturday, June 1.

  1. May 31, 2019 to June 1, 2019
Imaging 'East Asia': Constructing Knowledge through the Visual
  • Imaging ‘East Asia'

This conference will examine how ‘East Asia’ has been imagined and is being reimagined through visual culture, as well as the mechanisms and media through which these imaginings further animate various identities, ideologies, economies, and interpermeations.

  1. January 25, 2019 to January 26, 2019
Democratic Affections: Film, Philosophy, and Religion in the Thought of Stanley Cavell
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In this two-day interdisciplinary symposium commemorating Cavell’s career, UCSB faculty from across the campus invite Cavell scholars from Europe and America to join in a discussion of his extraordinary contributions to our understanding of the affective dimensions of democratic life, particularly as these play out in film, religion, and what Cavell terms Emersonian Perfectionism.

  1. February 14, 2019 to February 15, 2019
Display: Excess and Visibility in Film, Media, and Culture
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The theme of this year's Media Fields Conference, "Display: Excess and Visibility in Film, Media, and Culture," has inspired a diverse group of scholars that will join us to explore a wide range of objects: from migrant detention centers and adult trade shows to electronic control weaponry and theatrical video game performances.

  1. April 3, 2019 to April 5, 2019