Prof. Miura argues that the emergence of deified peasants, commemorated through local “martyr shrines,” represented a widespread religious current in Tokugawa society and a new mode of deification previously unobserved.
Rosie Stockton is the author of Fuel (Nightboat Books 2025) and Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books 2021), which was a finalist for the California Book Awards in Poetry. Recent writing has been published by Lithub, Poetry Society of America, Social Text Journal, Parapraxis Magazine, and Tripwire. They hold an M.A. in Creative Writing from Eastern Michigan University and are a Ph.D. Candidate in the Gender Studies Department at UCLA. Rosie lives and works in Los Angeles.
The screening will be followed by a post-film discussion that discusses the central themes of identity, power, autonomy, and self-worth.
Have thoughts on the film? Offer your perspective and take on the nuanced portrayal of class dynamics, emotional resilience, and societal perceptions of sex work. Anora raises compelling questions about self-perception, healthy and unhealthy relationship dynamics, and power imbalances in relationships that we hope to investigate and analyze together!
Those of us who drink coffee often use it to awaken the senses; to get through the day; or to feed a long-standing habit. But most of us don’t know that our coffee consumption practices come from the Middle East, and are rooted in a worldview that initially treated coffee as a sacred substance. This talk examines some of the earliest Muslim sources on coffee. In examining coffee treatises; material cultures like cups and bean coolers; and coffeehouse architecture, we will see what coffee can tell us about Islam--as well as what it can tell us about ourselves.
The Oxy Nepal Film Festival will feature two evenings of short films and panels by independent Nepali film makers and will be screened in collaboration with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. The topic is Gender:
Nepali Women reclaim Their Bodies (Nirvana Bhandary, 2023)
Sanai (Akanchha Karki, 2023)
Camera Rolling: An Anthology from Young Woman in Nepal (dir. VOW Media & Oxy, 2024)
The Oxy Nepal Film Festival will feature two evenings of short films and panels by independent Nepali film makers and will be screened in collaboration with the Kathmandu International Mountain Film Festival. The first night film topic is Climate. Films to be shown:
Dhye Dreams (Shanta Nepali, 2023)
No Monastery No Village (Tashi Lhazam, 2024)
Adjustments for Kurtosis and Continuity on the Prentice Test
Speaker: Lily Gebhart
Detecting Musical Influence
Speaker: Professor Amanda Beecher
The European Enlightenment bequeathed to us a notion of the human being as a solitary, self-sufficient agent--the only being truly capable of making independent choices. This notion of human being grounds a conception of moral agency: if you're capable of choice, you're responsible for your choices. That capacity to choose also gives you the right to certain moral protection--immunity to being eaten by other moral agents, for instance.
Food is a challenging subject. There is little consensus about how and what we should produce and consume. It is not even clear what food is or whether people have similar experiences of it. On one hand, food is recognized as a basic need, if not a basic right. On the other hand, it is hard to generalize about it given the wide range of practices and cuisines, and the even wider range of tastes.