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SUMMARY:Dr. V. Chitra - Drawn to Life: Environments\, Managerial Logics\, and the Limits of Care
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how urban planning\, animal governance\, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. Through this\, it considers what drawing\, as an analytic\, might offer anthropology for understanding how more-than-human worlds become governed. Focusing on the “Singapore Special” — a term for local mongrel dogs — it traces how housing policy\, behavioral training regimes\, and administrative classification shape the conditions under which dogs can find belonging in the island-city. \nRecent shifts from culling toward sterilization and rehoming appear to signal a more humane approach to animal care. Yet these interventions install a more demanding managerial logic: dogs must demonstrate governability — proper conduct\, emotional regulation\, adaptability — to qualify for care. Belonging is produced through the same administrative machinery that has long mediated human access to housing\, mobility\, and security in Singapore\, where racialized ideals of civility and order underpin the city-state’s developmental project. \nDrawing on ethnographic research with animal welfare volunteers\, the talk delves into how managerial logics naturalize the conditions they impose\, and sits with the limits of companionship that cannot accommodate refusal\, flight\, and ferality. \nV. Chitra is an anthropologist and visual artist based at The Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies\, science and technology studies\, and the visual arts. Her first book\, Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai (Cornell University Press\, 2024) looks at how science\, management\, and planning remake coastal worlds in urban India. Chitra has a background in visual design and works with comics as an ethnographic medium. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-v-chitra-drawn-to-life-environments-managerial-logics-and-the-limits-of-care/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Documentación Lingüística en México
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation on “Children’s role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico“. \nCuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística\, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación\, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan muchos elementos clave para el proceso de registro de la lengua y la cultura que se está documentando. En esta charla platicaremos sobre algunas experiencias con niñas y niños que colaboraron en diferentes etapas del trabajo de campo que se realizó para la documentación de la lengua otomí de Santa Ana Hueytlalpan\, en el municipio de Tulancingo de Bravo\, en México. \nMaría de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez Doctora en Estudios Mesoamericanos por la UNAM\, Maestra en Lingüística con Línea Terminal en Lingüística Teórica-Descriptiva y Licenciada en Lenguas Modernas en Inglés\, ambas por la UAQ. Es profesora de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras y de la Facultad de Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Es investigadora asociada del Laboratorio de Educación y Mediación Intercultural (LEMI) y es responsable del programa de Prácticas Profesionales “Prácticas Universitarias de Traducción”\, que se ofrece en el LEMI. Da clases a nivel licenciatura y posgrado en ambas facultades. Se dedica particularmente a la enseñanza de la historia de la lengua inglesa y sus líneas de investigación son: la documentación y descripción de lenguas originarias mexicanas en peligro de extinción (particularmente el otomí del estado de Hidalgo\, México)\, procesos de traducción de documentos en inglés antiguo y medieval y procesos de traducción en/de lenguas originarias mexicanas. Ha sido becaria del Programa Santander Universities en la Universidad de Surrey y del Programa “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP) en la Universidad de Londres\, ambos en el Reino Unido. \nThis talk will be in Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentacion-linguistica-en-mexico/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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