{"id":2,"date":"2012-08-01T21:10:01","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T04:10:01","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/live-hemsouths-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2025-04-29T14:45:09","modified_gmt":"2025-04-29T21:45:09","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/","title":{"rendered":"About"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<div class=\"is-layout-flow wp-block-group alignwide\"><div class=\"wp-block-group__inner-container\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-cover alignwide is-light is-position-center-center\" style=\"min-height:250px\"><span aria-hidden=\"true\" class=\"wp-block-cover__background has-background-dim-20 has-background-dim\"><\/span><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"2534\" height=\"708\" class=\"wp-block-cover__image-background wp-image-974\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/live-hemsouths-english-ucsb-edu-v01.pantheonsite.io\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner.png\" style=\"object-position:40% 26%\" data-object-fit=\"cover\" data-object-position=\"40% 26%\" srcset=\"https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner.png 2534w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-300x84.png 300w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-1024x286.png 1024w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-768x215.png 768w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-1536x429.png 1536w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-2048x572.png 2048w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-100x28.png 100w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-700x196.png 700w, https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/01\/Banner-1600x447.png 1600w\" sizes=\"(max-width: 2534px) 100vw, 2534px\" \/><div class=\"wp-block-cover__inner-container\">\n<p class=\"has-text-align-center has-text-color\" style=\"color:#fffffa;font-size:74px;line-height:1.1\">Hemispheric South\/s<\/p>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"has-text-align-right\" style=\"font-size:10px\">Photo: Billie Zangewa. <em>Heart of the Home<\/em>. 2020.<\/h2>\n<\/div><\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2>Upcoming Event: <\/h2>\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__list is-grid columns-3 wp-block-latest-posts\"><li><a class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-title\" href=\"https:\/\/hemsouths.english.ucsb.edu\/?p=1163\">Theatrical Jazz Creation Lab<\/a><div class=\"wp-block-latest-posts__post-excerpt\">Blue, Gold, &amp; Butterflies May 9th &#8211; 10th 2025 The Theatrical Jazz Creation Lab: Blue Gold &amp; Butterflies, a live convening in the Spring of&#8230;<\/div><\/li>\n<\/ul>\n\n<p>The Hemispheric South\/s Research Initiative housed at the University of California, Santa Barbara supports an interdisciplinary intellectual community of scholars and students invested in thinking critically about race, ethnicity, nation, culture, and power. Hemispheric methodologies and research demonstrate a particular interest in comparison, interaction, overlap and movement between people, locales, and ideas.<\/p>\n<p>The initiative is especially attentive to the following themes: 1) translocal and transnational affiliations and networks; 2) transnational conflict and cooperation; 3) contested spatial dynamics and registers; 4) alternative histories, futures, and notions of time; 5) bio-politics and race as a crucial feature of southernness; and 6) socio-economic policies and actions intended to alter, extend, or supplant aspects of southernness.<\/p>\n\n\n<ul class=\"is-layout-flex wp-block-social-links has-normal-icon-size items-justified-center\"><li class=\"wp-social-link wp-social-link-mail wp-block-social-link\"><a href=\"mailto:hemsouths@gmail.com\"  class=\"wp-block-social-link-anchor\"><svg width=\"24\" height=\"24\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.1\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" aria-hidden=\"true\" 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