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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 1\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Bodies Politic\, our 2026–27 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-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Food and The Body:  The Politics of What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:What we eat may feel like a matter of personal choice\, but our choices are shaped by powerful forces: food companies and their marketing teams\, government policy\, agricultural subsidies\, public health priorities\, and an industry whose profits depend on selling us more. \nIn this conversation with Good Food host Evan Kleiman\, pioneering food-policy scholar Dr. Marion Nestle will explore how corporate and political power shape the American diet — and\, ultimately\, our bodies. Drawing on decades of work investigating the intersection of food\, nutrition\, business\, and politics\, as well as her new book\, Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food\, written with Lisa Sutherland\, Dr. Nestle will examine who gets to decide what constitutes a healthy diet\, why meaningful food-policy reform is so difficult\, and what it takes for individuals and communities to push back against a food system designed around corporate interests. \nDr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health\, Emerita\, at New York University and the author of numerous books\, including Food Politics\, Soda Politics\, Unsavory Truth\, and What to Eat. She writes regularly about the intersection of food\, nutrition\, and politics at FoodPolitics.com. \nEvan Kleiman has been called the “fairy godmother of the L.A food scene.” Former chef-restaurateur\, cookbook author\, and host of KCRW’s Good Food radio show and podcast for nearly 30 years\, Evan is known for her conversational interview style focusing on how food informs human life and life choices. She has interviewed thousands of guests ranging from artists\, cookbook authors\, and chefs to farmers and scientists\, which has enabled her to explore every aspect of food culture and how it intersects with our lives. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n 
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-food-and-the-body-the-politics-of-what-we-eat/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T160000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Jeffrey Hoelle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology) and David Pellow (Environmental Studies) about Hoelle’s new book\, Cultivated: Plants\, Hair\, and the Aesthetic of Control. In this book\, Hoelle traces the imprint of cultivation across the naturally growing covers of the land and body—plants and hair. The book builds from research in the agricultural fields and cattle pastures at the edge of the Amazon rainforest to domestic landscapes and hair salons and shops in the frontier cities of Brazil and beyond. In spaces where the tangled forest once stood\, clean pastures and ordered rows of crops now sit on properties with geometric edges. From rural spaces to immaculate lawns and cemeteries in the city\, the imprint leads to the body\, where hair\, like plant growth\, is cut\, trimmed\, and otherwise managed. Seemingly separate domains of agriculture\, landscaping\, and personal grooming are governed by a similar aesthetic of control. This unique pairing of land and body expands our understanding of cultivation as a practice and as an ideology that operates in frontier Amazonia—but also closer to home\, influencing how we conceptualize and interpret the covers that grow on and around us\, and our imagined relations with nature in the future. Hoelle argues that we must understand this system of thought and the overlooked role it plays in environmental destruction and social inequality. \nJeffrey Hoelle is a professor of anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-jeffrey-hoelle/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability\, Blackface\, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her national best-selling book Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment\, Rhae Lynn Barnes will explore the complex intersections of disability\, presidential power\, and racial masquerade. She will examine how minstrelsy and the dark cast of blackface performance functioned both as cultural entertainment and a political prosthetic during the Roosevelt era\, masking the physical vulnerability of white children with polio while reinforcing racial hierarchies. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. A fourth-generation Southern Californian\, she earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Barnes is also the founder of the digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, providing historical multimedia curriculum resources to public schools. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-dark-cast-disability-blackface-and-fdr/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends
DESCRIPTION:Esmé E. Deprez is an investigative reporter whose father was an aid-in-dying patient. In her forthcoming book\, she explores assisted death through both a clinical and a personal perspective. She considers assisted death as a social phenomenon\, a legal and political movement\, and an area of medical practice that has transformed end-of-life health care. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDeprez is the author of the forthcoming book Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends (Simon & Schuster\, 2027). Deprez spent 14 years as a reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. Her work has been recognized by National Magazine Awards\, Livingston Awards\, the National Press Foundation\, among many others. She is a contributor to The New York Times. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-inviting-death-in-how-i-helped-my-dad-die-and-the-fight-to-control-how-life-ends/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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