The IHC was founded in December of 1987 to implement the Humanities Initiative begun by the President of the University of California. Out of the conviction that research and teaching in the Humanities are becoming perilously specialized, the IHC regards its principal mission as encouraging interdisciplinary scholarship and instruction. It does this by supporting research projects, team-taught courses, lectures, seminars, and conferences. By hosting a wide array of interdisciplinary programs and activities -- an increasing number of which take place in Santa Barbara -- the IHC also serves as a vital link between the campus and the community. In addition, the IHC seeks to broaden the traditional definition of humanistic endeavors by sponsoring activities in the performing and visual arts.

All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.
  • TALK: Social Action and Prosody of Syntactic Reduplication in Estonian
    Friday, May 9 / 1:30 PM     . link
  • TALK: The Form of History: Nineteenth-Century Experimental Photography and A Tale of Two Cities
    Friday, May 9 / 2:00 PM     . link
  • TALK: Mingei and the Emergence of Japanese Folk-Modernism, 1925-1955
    Friday, May 9 / 4:00 PM. link
  • TALK: Re-claiming the Ruins of “Japan’s” Imperial Antiquity: Colonial Archaeological Surveys and Heritage Tourism in the Korean Peninsula (1900-1943)
    Monday, May 12 / 5:00 PM. link
  • TALK, PERFORMANCE & WORKSHOP:
    Moments of Meeting: Choreographic “Moments” in Response to the Holocaust
    Tuesday, May 13 / 5:00 PM    . link
  • improvability. link
  • VISITING ARTIST:
    Clemens von Wedemeyer. link
  • VISITING ARTIST:
    Eiko & Koma    . link
  • 1st UCIRA publication proceedings from the 1st annual State of the Arts Conference. link

  • IHC-supported publication: Violence in Late Antiquity: Perceptions and Practices, edited by H.A. Drake , History Department

  • First book published by RFG activity, Africa After Gender?, edited by Catherine Cole, Takyiwaa Manuh, and Stephan Miescher link

  • IHC CONFERENCE GUIDE
  • IHC Awards and Deadlines
  • VA AWARDS 2007-2008

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