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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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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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