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Research Focus Group Talk: Disease and Inclusive Healing in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom

Zoom

Literature, and children’s literature specifically, helps instill value and humanity in times of crisis, as portrayed in Jude Idada’s Boom Boom. Both adults and children find it challenging to handle chronic diseases, such as sickle cell, HIV/AIDS, and viral hepatitis B. Focusing on one of these lethal diseases, sickle cell anemia, this study argues that, even with great innovations in medical science, society is the main killer and not the disease itself. Since disease forms ...

GCLR Conference: Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World

Wallis Annenberg Conference Room 4315 SSMS, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The GCLR is very proud to announce the upcoming arrival of our annual graduate student conference! This year's title, "Blue Humanities and Liquid Media: A Watery View of the World" reflects our collective desire to interrogate the depths of our current historical conjuncture— marked by the pressing global socioecological crisis— and to find ways to flow between borders, disciplinary and otherwise. Our keynote speaker for the event will be the esteemed Prof. Elizabeth DeLoughrey (UCLA). Please see ...

Research Focus Group Symposium: Historical Memory in Narrative: Undergraduate Research Showcase

6206C Phelps and Zoom UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Historical Memory in Narrative is the third annual undergraduate research showcase sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group. It features multidisciplinary presentations of undergraduate research related to childhood, including senior honors thesis research in Comparative Literature by senior major Isabella Williams and research on Writing and Literature by Tia Trinh in the College of Creative Studies. The panel of presentations and subsequent discussion on the theme Historical Memory in Narrative ...

IHC Open House

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Tuesday, September 30, from 4 to 6 pm. Meet 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, and conversation. Sponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center