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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Last year’s wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan\, the state’s insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk\, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and the climate crisis of the present. Connecting the long hot summers of the 1960s to today’s wildfires was a wave of insurance arson that coursed through the Bronx\, L.A.\, and scores of American cities during the 1970s. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBench Ansfield is an assistant professor of history at Temple University. Their book\, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City\, was published by W. W. Norton in August 2025 and named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews. Ansfield holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and won the Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American history from the Society of American Historians. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-fires-last-time/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T160000
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Ahilan Arulanantham will describe the role race discrimination has played in immigration and refugee policy and how that history continues to play out in the current struggle over the Temporary Protected Status program\, which allows individuals to remain in the United States because of unsafe conditions in their home countries. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAhilan T. Arulanantham is Professor from Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches in the law school\, maintains an active litigation practice\, and has argued before the US Supreme Court multiple times. Prior to joining UCLA\, Ahilan was Senior Counsel at the ACLU in Los Angeles\, where he worked for nearly twenty years. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nImage credit: Lorie Shaull
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-talk-mass-deportation-as-racial-engineering/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Looking\, After the Fires
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, unprecedented wildfires ravaged multiple continents. The fires grow ever larger\, more destructive\, and more ubiquitous as our changing climate plunges us further into the Pyrocene. Despite the scale of the devastation\, small moments of optimism can be found in elemental ecological reflexes. Fires have motivated similar bursts of creative response from human cultural networks as well\, inspiring – perhaps necessitating – new ways to conceive of ourselves in relation to our landscapes. Drawing across disciplines\, this talk explores collected depictions of post-fire landscapes in Italy\, Japan\, and California and searches for new ways to consider human relationships to the landscape and built environment. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMegumi Aihara is a Landscape Architect. She has played a significant role in the design and construction of landscapes of all scales across the United States and beyond. Her work at SAW and her past teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts focuses on blurring distinctions between landscape and architecture. She holds an MLA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Landscape Architect in California and Hawaii. \nDan Spiegel is an Architect. He is a Continuing Lecturer in Architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design\, where he coordinates advanced graduate studios. Dan’s work spans scales and timelines\, intertwining the conceptual with the practical\, using a background in Public Policy to deploy design as a tool for community engagement and development. He holds an M.Arch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Architect in California and Hawaii. \nTogether\, Megumi and Dan founded the hybrid practice SAW (pronounced “Saw”) in San Francisco\, CA in 2014. Their work spans scales\, timelines\, disciplines\, and continents. SAW was the recipient of the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York in 2018\, Design Vanguard from Architectural Record in 2019\, New Talent from Metropolis Magazine\, Next Progressives from Architect Magazine\, Emerging Talent from the Monterey Design Conference\, as well as several regional and national awards from the American Institute of Architects. Their work has been published and exhibited widely\, including the solo show “Other Objectives” at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and the recent installation “Looking\, After the Fires” at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/looking-after-the-fires/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Keepers of the Flame: Learning to Be in Relation with Fire
DESCRIPTION:Keepers of the Flame is an initiative rooted in relationships—between cultural fire practitioners and students/faculty\, and between people\, plants\, and fire. In a context of settler colonial environmental policy and increasing risk of catastrophic fire\, Keepers centers respect for Indigenous fire practitioners\, recognition of fire as part of the landscape\, and personal\, place-based understandings with fire. With attention to the environmental injustices of land theft and fire suppression and the inequitable impacts of catastrophic fire\, through Keepers\, we begin to cultivate a respectful relation with fire. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBeth Rose Middleton is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011\, UA Press) and Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River (2018\, UA Press). A collaborative social scientist\, Beth Rose strives to develop and sustain partnerships with Tribes and Native/Indigenous non-profit organizations on environmental health\, sustainable rural economic development\, the historical and political context of river restoration\, the reintroduction of low-intensity fire for land/water/community health\, and Indigenous-led stewardship and climate adaptation. Beth Rose received her B.A. in Nature and Culture from UC Davis and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from UC Berkeley. Beth Rose mentors undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs in Native American Studies\, Ecology\, Public Health Sciences\, Geography\, and Community Development. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/keepers-of-the-flame/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20250723T200151Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251208T215559Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Spheres of Injustice: Minority Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:How can we revitalize minority politics while making the fight against discrimination beneficial for all? Bruno Perreau proposes thinking about minority experiences relationally. How one person is governed has a direct impact on how another is. Legal provisions that protect gender can be used to protect race; those that protect disability can protect age\, sexual orientation\, or class\, and so on. This is what Perreau calls intrasectionality\, a new concept and an innovative legal strategy to tackle today’s political challenges. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University. He is the founding chair of MIT’s Center of Excellence in French Studies. Perreau is also the author of thirteen books on French and US institutions\, bioethics\, family policies\, queer cultures\, minority politics\, and contemporary theories of justice\, among them The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press\, 2014)\, Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, Les Défis de la République (with Joan W. Scott\, Presses de Sciences Po\, 2017)\, and Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence (MIT Press\, 2025). \nCoponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/spheres-of-injustice-minority-politics-today/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20250723T184323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T202449Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Inaugural Talk: When It All Burns: The Creation of California's Wildfire Crisis
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an on-the-ground perspective from a record-breaking fire season on a California hotshot crew\, tracing the sociological\, historical\, and economic forces that fuel today’s megafires. For wildland firefighters\, navigating the escalating impacts of climate change is a matter of life and death. These fires are not natural disasters\, but the result of political choices. Understanding where they come from—and how firefighters survive on their edges—is essential to imagining a more just and equitable climate future in California. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJordan Thomas is the author of When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\, which was recently nominated for a National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Drift\, among others. He is a cultural anthropology doctoral candidate at UCSB and former wildland firefighter. \nSponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-inaugural-talk-when-it-all-burns-the-creation-of-californias-wildfire-crisis/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Tuesday\, September 30\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about On Fire\, our 2025–26 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, music\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20250210T230407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T190212Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings\, from Glas to his last texts\, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war in Gaza and its ongoing consequences. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\, Emerson and the Climates of History\, Paper Graveyards\, and\, with Sara Nadal-Melsió\, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?\, Cities Without Citizens\, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He has also translated with Liana Theodoratou Nadar’s memoirs\, Quand j’étais photographe\, which appeared under the title When I Was a Photographer. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Fazal Sheikh\, Remains of the demolished home of ʽAwad Abu Ḥbak\, in the vicinity of the village of Bīr Haddāj\, 31°1′11″N / 34°43′50″E\, 2011 (detail)\, from Desert Bloom (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/no-occupation-derrida-on-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin\, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid’s poetic and metrical effects into English verse. She will then outline her strategies for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence\, gender\, sexuality\, and the body. She will consider throughout how she carefully negotiated Ovid’s playful style and disturbing subject matter to produce a poetic\, accurate\, and ethical translation. \nStephanie McCarter is a professor of Classics at the University of the South in Sewanee\, TN. Her works of translation include Horace’s Epodes\, Odes\, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2020) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics\, 2022)\, which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recently edited and contributed translations to Women in Power (Penguin Classics\, 2024)\, an anthology of classical myths and stories about ancient female rulers. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/translating-ovids-metamorphoses/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20241205T184136Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the Borders of Life and Death\, Scholarship and Opera
DESCRIPTION:This talk will take you into the process of creating a new\, experimental opera based on a historical ghost story from Pu Songling’s seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece\, Liaozhao’s Strange Tales (Liaozhai zhiyi). Entitled Ghost Village\, the opera is a creative collaboration between Judith Zeitlin\, as scholar and English language librettist\, and the composer Yao Chen\, a China-based\, Chicago-trained professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. \nBuilding on the European operatic tradition\, Ghost Village also evokes Chinese aesthetic and theatrical sensibilities. The eerily beautiful wedding scene\, for example\, draws inspiration from the rich Chinese tradition of spirit marriage and female ghosts. Though set in the past\, this opera speaks to many pressing issues in today’s world\, particularly war\, terrorism\, the refugee crisis\, and the general suffering of innocent individuals through political violence. At the same time\, Ghost Village builds on the long operatic tradition centered on love that crosses the boundaries of life and death\, exemplified by such foundational early works such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (1598)\, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). \nJudith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature\, her innovative work combines literary history with other disciplines\, including visual and material culture\, theater\, music\, medicine\, gender studies\, and film. Her many publications include The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (2007)\, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (1993)\, and co-edited works such as Writing and Materiality in China (2000)\, Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007)\, Chinese Opera Film (2010)\, and The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (2019). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nImage courtesy of Judith Zeitlin
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-making-of-ghost-village/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20241010T171916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T211501Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Black History's Warning to the World
DESCRIPTION:Resisting the tide of repression that threatens the teaching of Black history\, we should look to that past to understand the ongoing processes that have shaped our world. Our current predicament\, marked by extreme inequalities\, everyday violence\, militarism\, and political strife derives in part from the history of colonial conquest\, slavery\, and imperial warfare. Our struggles for freedom and dignity emerge from that history\, too. By understanding it\, we might discern the scope\, force\, direction\, and likelihood of the changes ahead—and be guided by the example and the wisdom of our ancestors. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nVincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published two prize-winning books about the history of slavery: The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008) and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020). The author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is also Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-winning television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)\, broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens\, he was the executive producer and host for The Bigger Picture (2022)\, co-produced with WNET for PBS Digital Studios\, and he was executive producer\, writer\, and host for How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? (2024). He is co-founder of Timestamp Media\, which explores the history that connects people and places across the world. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/black-historys-warning-to-the-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20241010T190842Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250501T172318Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Subject or Objects? Key Passageways between Things and Humans
DESCRIPTION:Based on three research projects on aesthetic environments\, this talk will discuss how and when humans and things become objects or subjects. Focusing on the figures of the opera fan\, the shoe fit model\, and the museum custodian\, the lecture will delve into the passivity of the fan as agency\, the fit model as subject and object at the same time\, and the custodian and their reduction to an object\, and how this\, paradoxically\, allows them to occupy their subject position. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nClaudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession and The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry\, as well as editor of Social Theory Now (with M. Krause and I. Reed)\, all published by University of Chicago Press. He’s currently Co-editor in Chief of Qualitative Sociology. His work has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Lewis Coser\, and the Mary Douglas prizes. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/subject-or-objects/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When the Uyghur Language Confronts Atrocity
DESCRIPTION:Over the last decade\, the persecution of Uyghurs in China has attracted global attention. When Uyghur was officially banned from education by the Chinese government in September 2016\, Uyghur editors were arrested and heavily sentenced\, and books were collected and burned. Private bookstores were shut down and Uyghur publishers and bookstore owners were sentenced. Today\, Uyghur linguists\, writers\, and journalists remain persecuted. In January 2017\, Uyghurs started to organize mother language schools\, publish textbooks\, and write story books for kids. There are now four Uyghur publishing houses\, two bookstores\, three online libraries among the Uyghur diaspora\, and more than 70 Uyghur mother language classes\, both online and in-person\, teaching Uyghur around the world.  \nIn this talk\, Abduweli Ayup will discuss his 2013 arrest for teaching the Uyghur language to kindergarteners\, his activism\, and his advocacy for Uyghur language education in China and the diaspora. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAbduweli Ayup is a writer\, activist\, and linguist\, specializing in Uyghur-language education. He has lived in Bergen\, Norway since 2019 as a writer-in-residence through the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) program. Abduweli founded Uyghur Hjelp in 2016\, which investigates and documents the Uyghur plight\, publishes books\, and supports Uyghur bookstores\, kindergartens and schools\, and engages in advocacy. He has published six books in Uyghur\, his essays and jail memoirs in Turkish\, and his first English-language book will be published in September 2025 by Silkie Publishing House.  \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-the-uyghur-language-confronts-atrocity/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When Life Is a Shipwreck: Key Passages in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck\, a violent birth onto unknown shores that separates orphaned twins on a journey to nowhere. The turbulent sea visualizes an environment of passages–into adulthood\, towards sexual identity\, and in search of new attachments and communities of belonging. Twelfth Night is a play about transitions and transitioning\, about passages and passing. What skills\, virtues\, and capacities do the twins need to find their way along the shoreline of life\, and back to each other? In this lecture\, scholar and dramaturg Julia Reinhard Lupton examines key passages in Twelfth Night that illuminate the navigation of life changes and social bodies at the heart of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and sonorous romantic comedy.  Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine and Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. She also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center and serves as Dramaturg for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare\, including Shakespeare Dwelling and Thinking with Shakespeare. Her edited collections address topics such as Shakespeare and virtue\, Shakespeare and hospitality\, and Shakespeare and wisdom literature. A former Guggenheim fellow\, she is a frequent teacher in the community. She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and virtue. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment     \nImage: Twelfth Night\, New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, University of California\, Irvine\, 2024
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-life-is-a-shipwreck/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20240909T234157Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Inaugural Talk: AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity?
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2023 marked the beginning of a new era: Chat GPT-4 was released\, fundamentally changing the way humans relate to language. In this talk\, Professor Park will explore the implications of this pivotal moment. She will consider AI’s impact on the production of works of fiction and on creativity more broadly. Questions to be explored include: Does AI-informed writing have the potential to supplant traditional novel writing? In what ways can AI innovate creativity? How will the proliferation of generative AI impact our understanding of the role of human agency in the creative process? Professor Park will draw from her experience as head judge of a spring 2024 AI-inclusive short story competition sponsored by UCSB’s Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Sowon Park is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in Cognitive Literary Criticism and is Director of the Center for Literature and Mind. Her current research projects include a five-year investigation on “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy” (2021- 2026) and the ongoing neuro-literary research forum on “Unconscious Memory” (https://unconsciousmemory.english.ucsb.edu/). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Adobe Firefly AI generator
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-ai/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20240702T191124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T163543Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 3\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Key Passages\, our 2024-25 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2024/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Panel Discussion: Reparations in California
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on reparations in California with panelists Daina Ramey Berry (UCSB)\, Tiffany Caesar (San Francisco State University)\, and Jovan Scott Lewis (UC Berkeley)\, moderated by Giuliana Perrone (UCSB). Panelists will consider the history of reparations in the United States\, explain why they are being considered in California\, and assess the current status of plans for reparations in San Francisco as well as the state as a whole. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDaina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB. She is an internationally recognized scholar of the enslaved and a specialist on gender and slavery and Black women’s history in the United States. She is the award-winning author and editor of six books and numerous scholarly articles. Her most recent book\, A Black Women’s History of the United States\, won the 2021 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Book in Feminist Studies\, was a 2021 NAACP Finalist for Literary Non-Fiction\, and received honorable mention for the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award sponsored by the Organization of American Historians. \nTiffany Caesar is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the preservation of transnational black women leaders and engagement with public history. She has participated in cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States and South Africa focusing on gender issues\, cross-cultural youth dialogue\, and social justice issues\, and she is a cultural heritage ambassador for the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha\, South Africa. Among her recent publications is a co-authored piece entitled “Mothering Dead Bodies: Black Maternal Necropolitics” in the journal Meridians: Feminism\, Race\, Transnationalism. Dr. Caesar is the current commemoration chair of the SFSU 1968 Black Student Union/Third World Liberation Front Student Strike and journal chair of the 50th Anniversary of the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival. With the Iberia African American Historical Society\, she led the recent initiatives to create a historic marker for Queen Mother Moore – a founder of the modern-day reparations movement – in New Iberia\, Louisiana. Dr. Caesar has also organized several public dialogues on reparations in the Bay Area. \nJovan Scott Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. His research is concerned with the questions of racial capitalism\, underdevelopment\, and radical terms of repair in the Caribbean and United States. He is the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica and Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa. In 2021\, he was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve on the state’s Reparations Taskforce. \nGiuliana Perrone is Associate Professor of History at UCSB and the author of Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reparations-in-california/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Discussion: Ending Poverty in California: A Movement\, A Plan\, A More Equitable Future
DESCRIPTION:What would a California without poverty look like? How would ending economic hardship advance freedom and well-being for all? This is a prospect that has captured the imaginations of activists\, reformers\, and everyday people for decades\, ever since Upton Sinclair made it the centerpiece of his near successful gubernatorial campaign in 1934. Today\, it animates the work of a new generation of community-based leaders who have come together in End Poverty in California (EPIC)\, an organization devoted to elevating the voices of people experiencing economic hardship\, creating and implementing policies rooted in their needs\, and advancing a state agenda focused on equal opportunity for all. Since 2022\, EPIC has been building grassroots support through its statewide listening tour and coalition-building activities\, captured in the acclaimed documentary film Poverty and Power. Featuring excerpts from the film and a conversation with EPIC President Devon Gray\, Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative Greg Kaufmann\, and Director of Organizing and Community Engagement Jasmine Dellafosse\, this discussion\, moderated by Professor Alice O’Connor\, will focus on a movement that aims to change the narrative about poverty—and California’s economic future. \nDevon Gray is President of End Poverty in California. He aligns EPIC’s organization’s priorities across issue areas to make a lasting impact for Californians. Prior to joining EPIC\, he was a director with Evergreen Strategy Group\, where he advised gun violence prevention organizations on policy and strategy. Gray previously served in the Newsom Administration as Special Advisor to the Governor’s Chief of Staff and is an alumnus of national and statewide political campaigns. \nGreg Kaufmann is EPIC Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative. He leads EPIC’s storytelling and narrative strategy\, creating platforms for people in poverty to share their experiences\, ideas\, and insights so that we change the story about poverty in California. Prior to joining EPIC\, Kaufmann was poverty correspondent at The Nation where his column was syndicated by Bill Moyers and Melissa Harris-Perry called him “one of the most consistent voices on poverty in America.” \nJasmine Dellafosse is Director of Organizing and Community Engagement at EPIC. She leads EPIC’s organizing and community engagement work to help build a movement that creates equal opportunity and ends poverty in California\, affirming the dignity of all people. Dellafosse has confronted systemic racism for almost a decade—first as a youth organizer in her hometown of Stockton\, CA\, where she helped urban development projects such as bringing food desert areas access to fresh produce. \nAlice O’Connor is Professor of History and Director of the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy at UCSB. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Imagining California series\, the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy\, and the Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ending-poverty-in-california-a-movement-a-plan-a-more-equitable-future/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T130000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T193000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T213000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is Housing a Human Right?
DESCRIPTION:The dramatic housing shortage in California affects millions of residents and leads thousands to homelessness. The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate will address this issue by asking\, “Is Housing a Human Right?” If so\, our state faces a massive undertaking. Experts with diverse specialties and experiences will wrestle with some of our biggest challenges. How\, for example\, can we build low and moderate income housing when construction costs are high and community opposition is often present? How can people experiencing homelessness be moved to shelter and housing? The event will include an audience Q&A. \n\nParticipants: \nAndy Bales\nFormer President and CEO\, Union Rescue Mission\nDavid Garcia\nPolicy Director\, Terner Center for Housing Innovation\, University of California\, Berkeley\nRasheedah Phillips\nDirector of Housing\, PolicyLink\nEric Tars\nSenior Policy Director\, National Homelessness Law Center\nModerator: Larry Mantle\nHost of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR member station LAist 89.3\n \nTuesday\, February 13\, 2024 | 7:30 PM\nUCSB Campbell Hall\nDoors open at 7 PM\nThe event is free and open to the public\nPaid parking is available on site\n \n\nThe Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series is presented by the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science and co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Arts & Lectures
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2024-arthur-n-rupe-great-debate-is-housing-a-human-right/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall\, Building 538\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Mesa Rd\,\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240208T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Event: California Against the Sea: Visions for Our Vanishing Coastline
DESCRIPTION:Join us as Los Angeles Times reporter Rosanna Xia and Dr. Charles Lester\, Director of UC Santa Barbara’s Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, discuss sea level rise and the challenges looming over the California coast. Xia will draw from her new book\, California Against the Sea\, in which deeply reported stories braid together science\, policy\, and the state’s social history. The conversation will explore how the decisions we make today will determine where we go tomorrow: headlong into disaster\, or toward an equitable refashioning of coastal stewardship. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nRosanna Xia is an environmental reporter for the Los Angeles Times\, where she specializes in stories about the coast and ocean. She was a Pulitzer Prize finalist in 2020 for explanatory reporting\, and her work has been anthologized in The Best American Science and Nature Writing series. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, the UCSB Ocean and Coastal Policy Center\, the Marine Science Institute\, and the Environmental Studies Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/california-against-the-sea/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240201T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Writing Our Californias
DESCRIPTION:For decades\, America has imagined California novels as placed in locations like Hollywood or San Francisco. But\, as Susan Straight will discuss in her presentation\, other geographies are as beautiful\, tragic\, and full of narratives set in remote canyons\, inland citrus groves\, ancient ranchos\, and hidden deserts. Straight’s characters\, who might be seventh generation Californian or people just arrived\, live in the places she’s known forever\, hidden kingdoms of love and redemption amid the sycamore trees. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nStraight is Distinguished Professor of Creative Writing at the University of California\, Riverside\, where she has taught since 1988. Her most recent novel Mecca (2022) was a finalist for The Kirkus Prize and named a best novel of the year by The Washington Post and NPR\, as well as a Top Ten California Book by the New York Times\, and it was the winner of the Southwest Book of the Year for Fiction. \nHer memoir In the Country of Women (2020) was longlisted for the Carnegie Medal for Excellence\, was a Finalist for the Clara Johnson Prize for Women’s Literature\, and named a best book of 2019 by NPR\, Code Switch\, Real Simple\, and others. \nShe is also the author of the novels Aquaboogie (1990)\, I Been In Sorrow’s Kitchen and Licked Out All The Pots (1992)\, Blacker Than a Thousand Midnights (1994)\, The Gettin Place (1996)\, and Highwire Moon (2001)\, which was a finalist for the National Book Award and won the Commonwealth of California Gold Medal for Fiction. A Million Nightingales (2006) was a Finalist for the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Prize. Take One Candle Light a Room (2010) was named a best novel of 2010 by The Washington Post\, Los Angeles Times\, and Kirkus. Her novel Between Heaven and Here (2012) was named a Best Book of 2012 by the Los Angeles Times and The Daily Beast. She has also published numerous essays\, articles\, and stories in magazines and journals. Her short story “The Golden Gopher” won the 2008 Edgar Award\, and her short story “El Ojo De Agua” won a 2007 O. Henry Prize. \nIn 2021\, Straight was named Woman of the Year for the 61st Assembly District by Assemblyman Jose Medina\, for her thirty years of writing stories of African-American\, Mexican-American\, Asian-American\, and immigrant life in southern California\, and bringing little-known histories\, especially of women\, into American books\, museums\, magazines\, and libraries. In 2014\, Straight received the Kirsch Award for Lifetime Achievement from the Los Angeles Times Book Prize. In 2011\, she received the Gina Berriault Award for Fiction from San Francisco State University. Straight received the Lannan Prize for Fiction in 2007 and a Guggenheim Fellowship for Fiction in 1998. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Diana and Simon Raab Writer-in-Residence Program 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/writing-our-californias/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series,Raab Writer-in-Residence
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231116T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: The Dreamt Land: How the Invention of California Became Miracle and Ruin
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, journalist Mark Arax will discuss how California’s capture of land and water is the story of a people’s defiance of nature and the wonders and devastation it has wrought. It’s a tale of magic and madness in the arid West\, of genocide and endless extraction\, of redirected rivers and ever higher dams and deeper wells\, of imported workers left behind in the sun and the fatigued earth made to give more even as it keeps sinking. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMark Arax has been called a “21st-Century John Steinbeck” for his books that pry open the soul of California. A writer of essays\, history\, biography\, and journalism\, he is a two-time winner of the California Book Award and a recipient of Stanford University’s William Saroyan International Prize for Writing. His most recent work\, The Dreamt Land: Chasing Water and Dust Across California\, a national bestseller\, has been hailed by critics as one of the most important books ever written about the West. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-dreamt-land-how-the-invention-of-california-became-miracle-and-ruin/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231023T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20221109T233234Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: How Are You?  Sentiment\, Surveillance\, and Anti-Asian Racism
DESCRIPTION:Sentiment analysis entails the widespread surveillance of users’ posts and actions to determine how they feel. This talk outlines the importance of early- and mid-20th-century studies of women workers and Japanese and Japanese-American internees in U.S. WWII internment camps to the rise of sentiment analysis. A reception will follow. \nWendy Hui Kyong Chun is the Canada 150 Research Chair in New Media at Simon Fraser University and leads the Digital Democracies Institute\, which was launched in 2019. The Institute aims to integrate research in the humanities and data sciences to address questions of equality and social justice in order to combat the proliferation of online “echo chambers\,” abusive language\, discriminatory algorithms\, and mis/disinformation by fostering critical and creative user practices and alternative paradigms for connection. Chun is also the author of Discriminating Data: Correlation\, Neighborhoods\, and the New Politics of Recognition (2021); Updating to Remain the Same: Habitual New Media (2016); Programmed Visions: Software and Memory (2011); and Control and Freedom: Power and Paranoia in the Age of Fiber Optics (2006)\, as well as numerous articles and edited collections. She has received fellowships from various foundations and institutes\, including the Guggenheim Foundation\, ACLS\, American Academy of Berlin\, and Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study at Harvard. She was formerly Professor and Chair of Modern Culture and Media at Brown University\, where she worked for almost two decades. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-how-are-you-sentiment-surveillance-and-anti-asian-racism/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231019T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20230925T180806Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231025T180627Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Is Barbie Feminist? It's Complicated
DESCRIPTION:In 1994\, when M.G. Lord interviewed the California-based creators of the Barbie doll\, she had no doubt Barbie would be as provocative in 2023 as she was in 1959. But Lord did not anticipate that this plastic object\, once tarred as anti-feminist\, would evolve into a touchstone for understanding feminism—as well as the star of a blockbuster attack on patriarchy. This talk will explore the Greta Gerwig effect and the 64 years of changes in Barbie’s jobs\, ethos\, and even body. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nM.G. Lord is the co-host of the podcast L.A. Made: The Barbie Tapes\, which tells the story of the doll’s creation in the voices of its original creators. She is also the author of Forever Barbie: The Unauthorized Biography of a Real Doll and The Accidental Feminist: How Elizabeth Taylor Raised Our Consciousness and We Were Too Distracted by Her Beauty to Notice. Her 2005 family memoir\, Astro Turf\, is a cultural history of NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) as well as the basis for L.A. Made: Blood\, Sweat and Rockets\, a 12-part podcast that she hosts. It tells the story of the early days of rocketry in Southern California\, and the unusual figures—a practitioner of “Sex Magick” and an accused Communist—who founded JPL. Lord is Associate Professor of the Practice of English at the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/is-barbie-feminist-its-complicated/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231012T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20230809T174257Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20231016T210946Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Inaugural Talk: Imagine This: The (Re)generation of Place
DESCRIPTION:Seeded by sorrow\, the evolving work that Cherríe Moraga will present journeys through her home-country of California\, marking her footsteps alongside Native ecologies and Chicanx genealogies. In part\, it is reflective of a queer embodied half-century inquiry—writing of place and out of place\, perhaps unknowingly inspired by a once paradisal Califas of women of color warriors. \nHere\, nature and the implicate order of its elements (fire\, air\, water\, and earth) become illuminated signposts along the road toward an interrelational “State” of being and the formation of a living politic of radical optimism in the face of global despair. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nCherríe Moraga is a Distinguished Professor in the Department of English at UCSB and also serves as the Co-Director of Las Maestras Center for Xicana[x] Indigenous Thought\, Art\, & Social Praxis. She is an internationally recognized poet\, essayist\, and playwright and the co-editor of the avant-garde 1981 feminist anthology\, This Bridge Called My Back: Writings by Radical Women of Color. She is the author of several collections of her own writings\, including A Xicana Codex of Changing Consciousness. Three earlier works\, Loving in the War Years\, The Last Generation\, and Waiting in the Wings: Portrait of a Queer Motherhood were published in new editions by Haymarket Books in 2022 and 2023. In 2019\, Native Country of the Heart—A Memoir was published to great acclaim by Farrar\, Straus\, and Giroux. She is the recipient of numerous awards including the United States Artists Rockefeller Fellowship for Literature\, the Barnard Medal of Distinction\, and the American Studies Association Lifetime Achievement Award. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-imagine-this-the-regeneration-of-place/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231005T180000
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20230608T190032Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230727T181350Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 5\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Imagining California\, our 2023-24 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2023/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230428T131500
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20220902T182100Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230503T182212Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: Creating\, Weaponizing\, and Detecting Deep Fakes
DESCRIPTION:Although varied in their form and creation\, deep fakes refer to AI-synthesized image\, audio\, or video. Deep fakes add to a long line of techniques for manipulating reality\, but their introduction poses new risks because of the democratized access to what would have historically been the purview of Hollywood-style studios. In this talk\, Farid will provide an overview of how deep fakes are created\, how they are being used and misused\, and if and how they can be perceptually and forensically distinguished from reality. Audience Q&A will follow. \nHany Farid is a Professor at the University of California\, Berkeley with a joint appointment in the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Sciences and the School of Information. His research focuses on digital forensics\, forensic science\, misinformation\, image analysis\, and human perception. He is the recipient of an Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship and a John Simon Guggenheim Fellowship and is a Fellow of the National Academy of Inventors. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment  \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-hany-farid/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230420T171500
DTSTAMP:20260530T221809
CREATED:20220920T180716Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20230421T002333Z
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SUMMARY:TMI Talk: GPS for the Brain: Networks\, Urbanisms\, Algorithms
DESCRIPTION:Laura Kurgan will talk about her recent work involving network science and urban theory. She will present work from the Center for Spatial Research on the Urban History of Algorithms: Homophily and Weak Ties\, a history which not surprisingly lies dormant in its use in network science. She will also present new work on navigation theory in neuroscience\, which revisits and asks questions about the canonical urban theory of Kevin Lynch (1970) and Fred Jameson’s Postmodernism and the Logic of Late Capitalism (1990). Audience Q&A will follow. \nLaura Kurgan is a Professor at the Graduate School of Architecture Planning and Preservation at Columbia University\, where she directs the Masters of Science in Computational Design Practices and the Center for Spatial Research (CSR). She is the author of Close Up at a Distance: Mapping\, Technology\, and Politics (2013) and co-editor of Ways of Knowing Cities (2019). \nKurgan’s work explores the ethics and politics of digital mapping and its technologies; the art\, science\, and visualization of big and small data; and design environments for public engagement with maps and data. Her work has been exhibited internationally\, most recently Chicago Architecture Biennial (2019)\, at the Biennale Architettura di Venezia 2018\, and at the Palais De Tokyo in Paris (2016). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Too Much Information series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nFree to attend; registration required to receive Zoom webinar attendance link \nImage courtesy of the Center for Spatial Research\, from Homophily\, the Urban History of an Algorithm
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/tmi-talk-laura-kurgan/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Too Much Information,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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