Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.
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Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.
Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a dialogue between Elana Resnick (Anthropology) and Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences) about Resnick's new book, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism's excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally different account of sustainability and waste itself by uncovering the intersections of international environmental reforms and racialized labor. In Bulgaria, Roma comprise the ...
Research Focus Group Roundtable: Race and the Question of Palestine: Lana Tatour in Conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber
1930 Buchanan Buchanan Hall, Isla Vista, CA, United StatesThe Catastrophes RFG invites you to a roundtable with Lana Tatour, in conversation with Bishnupriya Ghosh and Elisabeth Weber and moderated by Sherene Seikaly, about Tatour's recent co-edited volume (with Ronit Lentin), Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025). The book maintains that the colonization of Palestine cannot be understood outside the grammar of race, and it stresses the importance of locating Palestine within global histories and present politics of imperialism, settler ...
Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a dialogue between Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese) about Levine's new book, Unfaithful: A Translator's Memoir. In Unfaithful, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors, took her from a modest New ...
On Fire Talk: Looking, After the Fires
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesIn 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. ...
Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Melinda Gardana (Santa Barbara City College) about García’s new book, Rupert García: The Making of an American Artist, a Testimonio. Rupert García is a compelling story of a working-class Mexican American from California’s Central Valley who became a major American artist with national and international recognition. Mario T. García’s oral history of Rupert García, based on extensive interviews over many years, ...
Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMa, Meta/Physical Therapy. This 2024 exhibition premiered a new site-specific installation. Through performance, video, and sculpture, Moulton chronicled the experiences of her semi-autobiographical alter-ego, Cynthia, as she navigated personal choices and physical limitations. Transforming the Kravis Studio into a prismatic environment, this installation employed the artist’s signature blend of spiritual imagery, medical technology, popular culture, and references to high art and ...
On Fire Talk: Working with Fire: Making Black Feminist Liberation in the South
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThis talk opens in the wake of a 2012 arson attack on Women With A Vision (WWAV) and moves with the members of this Black feminist collective as they refused the terror of this attack and rose from the ashes to carry their foremothers’ work forward ever. Their story is a lesson for our times. Our whole world is on fire. And yet, WWAV shows us how the flames meant to destroy us can also ...
On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesAhilan 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. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. Ahilan T. Arulanantham is Professor from Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. Ahilan teaches in the law school and also maintains an active ...
On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThis 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 ...
Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesJoin us for a dialogue between Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English) about their new co-edited volume, The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and ...