The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) and the Center
for Work, Labor and Democracy at UC Santa Barbara are pleased to
host the conference The Traveling Box: Containers
as the Global Icon of Our Era at the UC Santa Barbara campus November 8, 9, and
10th, 2007. This conference is one of three major events hosted
by the University of California to mark the 20th anniversary of
the UC President's Humanities Initiative.
The conference will focus on containers and containerization as a
broad umbrella under which to consider:
• the
social, economic, and cultural impact of the shipping container
• the impact of the container
on urban geography, supply chains, environmental and security
issues
• the shipping container
as material object/raw material to be appropriated, recycled,
and adapted for multiple uses
Additional conference sponsors include: Harry Bridges Institute,
UCLA; The Business, Society and Culture Program, Drew University,
and J Staal Storage Solutions. |
