Career Development
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Psychological and Brain Sciences and English. While we won't be able to share pizza in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win a $15 Target gift card.
Join us for Lunch & Learn, where you'll have the chance to socialize with other grad students and hear talks by students in Psychological and Brain Sciences and English. Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the UCSB Library.
While we won't be able to share pizza together in person, all attendees will be entered into a raffle to win one of ten $15 Target gift cards.
September 2020 Edition: Comics and Conflict
12-1:15pm
Zoom*
*RSVP here to receive the Zoom link*
Intergroup Interactions: Approaching Success or Avoiding Failure?
Vinnie Wu
Graduate Student in Psychological and Brain Sciences
In our world of increasing ethnic diversity, intergroup interactions are inevitable, often leading to conflict. Psychologists have long investigated this issue of how different people may get along, finding that positive interactions reduce prejudice, whereas negative interactions increase prejudice. But intergroup interactions may be more nuanced than that. Thus, in this talk, I will explore the consequences of how people may differ in their approach or avoidance of these positive or negative intergroup interactions.
Architectures of Surveillance and Practices of Resistance in African American Bildungsroman Graphic Narrative
Maite Urcaregui
Graduate Student in English
This presentation explores the surveillance of communities of color within urban spaces and how the comics page formally represents and critiques this process of racialization. Through a comparative reading of James Baldwin and Yoran Cazac's illustrated children's book Little Man, Little Man and Tony Medina, John Jennings, and Stacey Robinson's young adult graphic novel I Am Alfonso Jones, I argue that the comics page makes visible urban architectures of surveillance. The comics page-in its use of the grid, panel, foreground and background, and visual perspective-is uniquely situated to consider questions of surveillance in urban spaces. Through these formal devices, the graphic narratives I investigate make visible the city infrastructures that make Black communities hypervisible and, thus, disproportionately vulnerable to state-sanctioned brutality and violence. At the same time, these two graphic narratives resist the totalizing effects of the city, drawing out the continuous joy, presence, and resistance within these communities.
This event will be moderated by Kristen LaBonte, Research & Engagement Librarian at the UCSB Library.
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