Oil + Water: IHC theme for 2009-20010
This year, the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center will present a series of programs on the theme Oil + Water.  Oil + Water commemorates the 40th anniversary of the Santa Barbara oil spill, and provides an opportunity to examine the impact of these two resources on the history, economy, and culture of California and the world.  Topics will range from dams to surfing to plastics to car culture; the program will examine oil and water in a global as well as local context.

Interested parties should contact our program and events coordinator, Emily Zinn (ezinn@ihc.ucsb.edu), for more information. 

Upcoming events:

Fall term:

TALK: Sustainable Seas – The Vision, The Reality
Sylvia Earle
Monday, October 19 / 8:00 PM
Campbell Hall UCSB
Admission $10 general / $8 student

 

SCREENING: Crude
(Joe Berlinger, 2009, 104 min.)
Tuesday, October 20 / 7:30 PM
Campbell Hall
Admission $6 general / students $5

 

SCREENING: Flow – For Love of Water
(Irena Salina, 2008, 93 min.)
Tuesday, October 20 / 9:30 PM
Campbell Hall
Admission $6 general / students $5

 

TALK: The Year Before the Flood
Ned Sublette
Tuesday, October 27 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

 

SCREENING: The Cove(dir. Louie Psihoyos, 2009)
Tuesday, November 3 / 4:00 PM
IV Theater I
PANEL DISCUSSION: The Cove: Filming and Thinking though the Dolphin-Human Interaction
Simon Hutchins (Expedition Director on The Cove)
Toni Frohoff (marine mammal biologist)
Moderator: Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies, UCSB)
Wednesday, November 4 / 5:00 PM
IV Theater II

 

STUDY DAY: Imagining Design After Oil
Friday, November 6 / 9:00 AM – 5:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

 

PANEL DISCUSSION:  Southern  California's Oil: Past and Futures
Thursday, November 12/ 4:00 PM
SCREENING: There Will be Blood
Thursday, November 12 / 7:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

KEYNOTE LECTURE : Why Oil and Water?
Catherine Gautier (Geography, UCSB)
Tuesday, November 17 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

CALL FOR PAPERS : "Oil + Water: The Case of Southern California"
Friday/Saturday April 9-10
Application Deadline: January 15, 2010