BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for Interdisciplinary Humanities Center UCSB REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190205T170000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20190125T025444Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T182259Z UID:10000163-1549382400-1549386000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 11:45-1:00 PM | 6020 HSSB\nTuesday\, February 5\, 4:00-5:00 PM | 6020 HSSB \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the new Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.  Explore the course requirements\, hear about the paid internships and fellow-designed community projects\, and find out more about the capstone project. \nThe January 30 session will include lunch from South Coast Deli and the February 5 session will have light refreshments. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-2/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IHC_PublicHumanities_slogan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190131T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20181011T195941Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T233106Z UID:10000117-1548950400-1548957600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Shaping Community Futures Through Policy + Architecture DESCRIPTION:LA-Más is a Los Angeles urban design non-profit focused on empowering lower-income and working class families who struggle to find affordable homes to rent or for whom walking is a primary mode of transportation. This talk will explore the architectural projects of LA-Más that provide accessible affordable housing and support the pedestrian right of way\, and that\, in doing so\, create built environments that address the city’s social instability. \nElizabeth Timme is Co-Founder and Co-Executive Director of LA-Más\, a non-profit urban design organization based in Los Angeles that helps lower-income and underserved communities shape their future through policy and architecture. Timme teaches at Woodbury University’s School of Architecture and serves on the Zoning Advisory Committee of Re:Code LA\, a city-led effort to transform the city’s outdated zoning code. She holds a master’s degree in architecture from Harvard’s Graduate School of Design and a bachelor’s degree in architecture from the University of Southern California. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series\, the Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the American Institute of Architects Santa Barbara. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-shaping-community-futures-through-policy-and-architecture/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Timme_event_page.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T114500 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T130000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20190125T025304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190125T182054Z UID:10000161-1548848700-1548853200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, January 30\, 11:45-1:00 PM | 6020 HSSB\nTuesday\, February 5\, 4:00-5:00 PM | 6020 HSSB \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the new Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program.  Explore the course requirements\, hear about the paid internships and fellow-designed community projects\, and find out more about the capstone project. \nThe January 30 session will include lunch from South Coast Deli and the February 5 session will have light refreshments. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/IHC_PublicHumanities_slogan.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190124T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180918T212130Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T013321Z UID:10000254-1548345600-1548352800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Why Can’t Feminists Change the Law? The History and Politics of Welfare Reform in the Modern U.S. DESCRIPTION:In her talk\, Kornbluh will reveal how welfare reform is shaped by “intersectional sexism\,” the gendered and racialized dimensions of legal activity that are evident\, persistent\, yet ignored by mainstream policy makers and Washington\, D.C.-based intellectuals. Taking as her example the failed passage of a feminist welfare reauthorization bill in the early 2000s\, Kornbluh will discuss why the Democratic Party resisted embracing this initiative and explore the crucial role feminist scholars and activists have to play in understanding the details of policy and law in the intersectional context of gender\, race\, poverty\, and inequality.  A reception will follow. \nFelicia Kornbluh is Associate Professor of History and Gender\, Sexuality\, and Women’s Studies at the University of Vermont.  She is the author of The Battle for Welfare Rights: Poverty and Politics in Modern America (2007) and\, with Gwendolyn Mink\, Ensuring Poverty: Welfare Reform in Feminist Perspective (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series\, the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment\, and the Blum Center for Global Poverty Alleviation and Sustainable Development\, and the Hull Chair in Feminist Studies URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-felicia-kornbluh/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Kornbluh_event_image.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190117T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20181003T173733Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190109T175307Z UID:10000103-1547740800-1547748000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Embracing Shari'a: Women\, Law\, and Activism in Somalia DESCRIPTION:Gender equality is a key principle of human rights and political security. But how are gender equality and human security ensured in societies struggling with legacies of civil war and political violence? This lecture reveals how\, in a country where many observers presume law and security are absent\, women are turning to Islam’s foundational sources—the Qur’an and the Hadith—to promote women’s rights and human and political security.  A reception will follow. \nMark Fathi Massoud is Associate Professor of Politics and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz and the author of Law’s Fragile State: Colonial\, Authoritarian\, and Humanitarian Legacies in Sudan. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-embracing-sharia-women-law-and-activism-in-somalia/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/10/Somalia_Banner_final.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190114T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20181219T173719Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181219T173719Z UID:10000131-1547485200-1547492400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (2017) DESCRIPTION:Jeffrey Stewart\, Professor of Black Studies at UC Santa Barbara\, was awarded the 2018 National Book Award in the nonfiction category for his beautifully written prose in The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke (Oxford University Press\, 2017).  Dr. Stewart’s award marked the first time since 1984 that a book published by an academic press was bestowed with that honor. \nThis event will celebrate Dr. Stewart’s outstanding accomplishment and will include: \nI. Welcome from the Department of Black Studies\, Chancellor Yang\, Dean Charlie Hale\, and others. \nII. Reflections from Oxford University Press\nNiko Pfund – President and Academic Publisher\, Oxford University Press \nIII. Engaging The New Negro: The Life of Alain Locke \nReflections and an intimate conversation between Jeffrey Stewart\, Cheryl Wall\, and Terrance Wooten. \nCheryl Wall – Board of Governors Zora Neale Hurston Distinguished Professor of English\, Rutgers University\nProfessor Wall is the author of Worrying the Line: Black Women Writers\, Lineage\, and Literary Tradition (2005) and Women of the Harlem Renaissance (1995)\, and the editor of Changing Our Own Words: Criticism\, Theory\, and Writing by Black Women (1989). She has edited two volumes of writing by Zora Neale Hurston for the Library of America – Novels and Short Stories (1995) and Folklore\, Memoirs and Other Writings (1995) – as well as two volumes of criticism on Hurston’s fiction: “Sweat”: Texts and Contexts (1997) and Their Eyes Were Watching God: A Casebook (2000). She is the section editor for “Literature since 1975” in the Norton Anthology of African American Literature (2003). Professor Wall\, a specialist in Black women’s writing\, the Harlem Renaissance\, and Zora Neale Hurston\, serves on the editorial board of American Literature and on the advisory boards of African American Review and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. A former chair of the department\, Professor Wall remains active in university affairs. In 2003\, she was co-principal with Mary Hartman of the Institute for Women’s Leadership on “Reaffirming Action: Designs for Diversity in Higher Education.” This Ford Foundation-funded initiative examined the strategies higher education institutions successfully employ to enhance racial and gender equity. In fact\, one of the program’s site visits was at UC Santa Barbara. Most recently\, Professor Wall was selected by Rutgers University President Richard L. McCormick to serve as Vice Chair of the Steering Committee on Implementation\, a body organized to enact sweeping changes in undergraduate education. She has just become co-chair\, with President McCormick\, of the President’s Council on Institutional Diversity and Equity. She is also the recipient of the Warren I. Susman Award for Excellence in Teaching. \nTerrance Wooten – Postdoctoral Fellow\, Department of Black Studies\, UC Santa Barbara\nDr. Wooten received his Ph.D. in American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. On July 1\, 2019\, he will join the Department of Black Studies at UCSB as Assistant Professor. Dr. Wooten’s research interests include Critical and Gender Studies; Black Feminist Theory; Black Masculinities Studies; Socio-Legal Studies; Queer Theory; Critical Homeless Studies; Carceral Studies; Urban Studies; and Trauma-informed Ethnography. \nIV. Reception\, Book Signing\, and Jazz Quartet URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-new-negro-the-life-of-alain-locke-2017/ LOCATION:MultiCultural Center Lounge\, UCSB\, 494 UCen Road\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu GEO:34.4112239;-119.8458061 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=MultiCultural Center Lounge UCSB 494 UCen Road Isla Vista CA 93117 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=494 UCen Road:geo:-119.8458061,34.4112239 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181129T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180312T233236Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T181434Z UID:10000177-1543507200-1543512600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García\, Father Luis Olivares: A Biography DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies and History) and Verónica Castillo-Muñoz (History) about García’s new biography\, Father Luis Olivares: Faith Politics and the Origins of the Sanctuary Movement in Los Angeles. Refreshments will be served. \nGarcía‘s latest book is the untold story of the Los Angeles sanctuary movement’s champion\, Father Luis Olivares (1934–1993)\, a Catholic priest and a charismatic\, faith-driven leader for social justice. Beginning in 1980 and continuing for most of the decade\, hundreds of thousands of Salvadoran and Guatemalan refugees made the hazardous journey to the United States\, seeking asylum from political repression and violence in their home states. Instead of being welcomed by the “country of immigrants\,” they were rebuffed by the Reagan administration\, which supported the governments from which they fled. To counter this policy\, a powerful sanctuary movement rose up to provide safe havens in churches and synagogues for thousands of Central American refugees. Based on previously unexplored archives and over ninety oral histories\, García‘s biography of Olivares traces the life of a complex and constantly evolving individual. \nMario T. García is Professor of Chicana and Chicano Studies and History and author of The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment and the Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-mario-garcia-father-luis-olivares-biography/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/IHC_UCSB_Garcia.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181115T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180910T230534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T233323Z UID:10000244-1542297600-1542304800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Money is No Object: Aesthetics\, Abstraction\, and the Politics of Care DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Scott Ferguson will rethink the historical relationship between money and aesthetics in an effort to broaden the politics of care using the alternative conception of money articulated by the contemporary heterodox school of Modern Monetary Theory (MMT). Mobilizing MMT\, Ferguson critiques exhausted dialectical oppositions between money and art and contends that monetary abstraction\, rather than representing a private\, finite\, and alienating technology\, is instead a public and fundamentally unlimited medium that harbors still unrealized powers for inclusion and cultivation. A reception will follow. \nScott Ferguson is Associate Professor of Film and New Media Studies in the Department of Humanities and Cultural Studies at the University of South Florida. He is the author of Dependence: Money\, Aesthetics & the Politics of Care (2018) and Co-Director of The Modern Money Network Humanities Division\, co-host of the Money on the Left podcast\, and Research Scholar at the Global Institute for Sustainable Prosperity. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Idee Levitan Endowment URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-money-is-no-object-aesthetics-abstraction-and-the-politics-of-care/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/09/Len_Lye_Exterior-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181113T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20181102T170127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181102T170127Z UID:10000300-1542123000-1542130200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Inaugural Dean's Lecture Series: Social Science Partnerships for the Common Good DESCRIPTION:Social research stands at a crossroads. On the one hand\, new data sources and methods offer scholars unprecedented opportunities to understand and influence the social world.  On the other hand\, fiscal constraints\, security risks\, misinformation campaigns\, and “post-truth culture” threaten both the funding and the credibility of this research. In this context\, the Social Science research Council (SSRC) launched the multidisciplinary\, cross-sector To Secure Knowledge Task Force to consider optimal conditions for social science in this moment\, including the infrastructure of social research\, standards of inquiry\, and the role that rigorous understanding plays in public affairs. In her talk\, SSRC president Alondra Nelson will discuss the Task Force’s conclusions\, including the development of a framework for researchers\, nonprofit organizations\, policymakers\, and businesses to collaborate in an effort to secure knowledge in the 21st century. She will also reflect on the Council’s new work in areas of inequality\, technology and democracy. \nReception generously hosted by Sara Miller McCune & Sage Publishing URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-deans-lecture-series-social-science-partnerships-for-the-common-good/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181023T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180820T223619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181023T185643Z UID:10000092-1540310400-1540315800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Carlos Morton\, Trumpus Caesar DESCRIPTION:Join us for a staged reading of a new play by Carlos Morton (Theater and Dance)\, Trumpus Caesar\, followed by a discussion. Refreshments will be served. \nA bawdy satire in the tradition of Greco-Roman Comedy–Saturday Night Live meets Julius Caesar.  The comic premise is that Trumpus Caesar\, having recently been elected emperor by the plebeians\, is impeached by a Chorus of Republican satyrs who then fight over the crown.  In this “farce for our times\,” Caesar doesn’t die but is subpoenaed by a chorus of Satyrs. \nCarlos Morton’s professional playwriting credits include the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, the New York Shakespeare Festival\, the Denver Center Theatre\, La Compañía Nacional de México\, the Puerto Rican Traveling Theatre\, and the Arizona Theatre Company. \nHe has written for Columbia Pictures Television and Fox Television and is the author of The Many Deaths of Danny Rosales and Other Plays (1983)\, Johnny Tenorio and Other Plays (1992)\, The Fickle Finger of Lady Death (1996)\, Rancho Hollywood y otras obras del teatro chicano (1999)\, Dreaming on a Sunday in the Alameda (2004)\, and Children of the Sun: Scenes for Latino Youth (2008). He is currently Professor of Theater at UC Santa Barbara. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. \nArt work by Ricardo Duffy URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-carlos-morton-trumpus-caesar/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/IHC_morton_mailchimp.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181018T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180820T225009Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181206T204811Z UID:10000238-1539878400-1539885600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Talk: Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women DESCRIPTION:Since 1980\, the population of female prisoners has increased eightfold in this country\, with women of color disproportionately impacted. In her talk\, Ms. Law will examine the structural inequities and injustices behind the rise in the number of incarcerated women and the recurring violation of rights women face inside prison\, including lack of access to reproductive and medical health care and pervasive sexual harassment and abuse. Law will also discuss how incarcerated women are challenging and organizing against prison conditions and suggest ways that people on the outside can support their actions and resistance. \nVictoria Law is a freelance writer and editor. She is the author of Resistance Behind Bars: The Struggles of Incarcerated Women\, which won the 2009 PASS (Prevention for a Safer Society) award. She frequently writes and speaks about the intersections between mass incarceration\, gender and resistance. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-the-struggles-of-incarcerated-women/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Law-Wepage-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181011T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180820T224628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180918T203236Z UID:10000237-1539273600-1539280800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Social Securities Inaugural Lecture: Social Insecurities: Media Policy and the Fight for Digital Liberties DESCRIPTION:In the US\, media policy is designed to protect a host of cultural values\, particularly those promoting the public interest and freedom of expression. This talk will explore how these values and their attendant “social securities” have been actively sabotaged by the regulators charged with preserving them\, threatening everything from our individual privacy to democracy itself. In such a dire landscape\, the humanities offer much needed direction toward reclaiming a brighter future. A reception will follow. \nJennifer Holt is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. She is the author of Empires of Entertainment and co-editor of Distribution Revolution; Connected Viewing; and Media Industries: History\, Theory\, Method. She is a former Director of the Carsey-Wolf Center’s Media Industries Project and a Fellow at the Center for Democracy & Technology in Washington\, D.C.  \nSponsored by the IHC’s Social Securities series\nImage Credit: Joseph Gruber via Flickr\, Protest at the White House for Net Neutrality URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/social-securities-talk-inaugural-lecture/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Holt-Banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181008T113000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180905T172645Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181001T175821Z UID:10000242-1538992800-1538998200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Presentation: UCHRI Funding Opportunities DESCRIPTION:All UCSB faculty members are encouraged to join us for a presentation by David Theo Goldberg\, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute\, about upcoming UCHRI funding opportunities. The presentation will be followed by a roundtable featuring UCSB grant recipients Juan Cobo (History)\, Alenda Chang (Film and Media Studies)\, Diane Fujino (Asian American Studies)\, and Jennifer Tyburczy (Feminist Studies).  The event will conclude with audience Q&A. Come learn about UCHRI funding opportunities and best practices for successful grant application. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-uchri-funding-opportunities-presentation/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2009/11/IHC_UCSB_ResearchSupport.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181004T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180820T224143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180914T174925Z UID:10000094-1538668800-1538676000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:IHC Open House DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 4\, from 4-6 pm. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Social Securities\, our 2018-2019 public events series. Find out about our community-engagement programs and our numerous funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Social Securities,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/08/Open-House-Banner-1.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180529T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180103T215213Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180628T224045Z UID:10000138-1527609600-1527615000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:HUMANITIES DECANTED: Lal Zimman\, Transgender Language Reform: Some Challenges and Strategies for Promoting Trans-Affirming\, Gender-Inclusive Language DESCRIPTION:Join us for a presentation and discussion with Lal Zimman (Linguistics) about his new work\, “Transgender Language Reform.” Refreshments will be served. \nWith a growing societal interest in the experiences of transgender people has come a new kind of awareness about gendered language. Zimman’s recent article\, “Transgender language reform: some challenges and strategies for promoting trans-affirming\, gender-inclusive language\,” takes a linguistic approach to trans-inclusive language by distilling the practices of transgender speakers of English into a series of challenges and potential solutions. A short presentation of his work will be followed by an audience discussion of practical strategies for trans-affirming and gender-inclusive language in the university context. \nLal Zimman is Assistant Professor of Linguistics at UC Santa Barbara. His research takes a broad perspective on trans language\, from voices to narratives to terminological choices. His edited volume\, Queer Excursions: Retheorizing Binaries in Language\, Gender\, and Sexuality\, won the Association for Queer Anthropology’s Ruth Benedict Prize in 2014. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. \n  URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-lal-zimman-transgender-language-reform-some-challenges-and-strategies-for-promoting-trans-affirming-gender-inclusive-language/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Bhaskar-HD-eventpage-ihcucsb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T110000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180519T130000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180404T222531Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210915T003004Z UID:10000218-1526727600-1526734800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Santa Barbara Food Cycle Exploration DESCRIPTION:Where does our food come from? What are issues affecting food access in this community? Join us to explore these questions with farmers\, beekeepers\, scientists\, and activists from the Santa Barbara Foodshed. The Santa Barbara community is invited to attend this free event to learn from local experts about the food cycle from soil and seed\, to seedling and harvest\, to distribution and justice. The event will take place at UC Santa Barbara’s Greenhouse and Garden Project. Participants will engage with local\, seasonal varieties in various stages of reproduction and growth. Together participants will integrate science\, action\, and justice through an exploration of the food cycle from a diversity of perspectives. \nEach local expert will give a short presentation followed by Q&A with the audience. The event will conclude with a roundtable discussion and time for enjoying a local fruit and vegetable spread\, making seed bombs\, and exploring the gardens and local produce. \nPresenters:\nKelly Ann Campbell\, Fairview Gardens Education Director\nDavid Cleveland\, UCSB\nMelissa Cohen\, Isla Vista Food Co-op\nDylan Dougherty\, Dylan’s Honey\nKelsey Dowdy\, UCSB\nKelsey Perry\, Harvest Santa Barbara\n Joshua Schimel\, UCSB\nBritta Schumacher\, UCSB\nMarguerita Smith\, Mud Creek Ranch \nSponsored by the University of California Global Food Initiative’s CLEAR Project (Communication\, Literacy\, & Education for Agricultural Research) and UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center. \nParking is provided free of charge. Registration is encouraged; space is limited. \nThe UC Santa Barbara Greenhouse and Garden Project is located next to lot 38 (behind Harder Stadium). Reserved parking spaces and permits for the event are provided free of charge in lot 38. See the attached flyer for a detailed map and directions. \n  \n  \n\n\n \n \n Santa Barbara Food Cycle Exploration Registration\n \n \n Name*\n \n \n \n First\n \n \n \n \n Last\n \n \n Number in your partyNumber of people in your group including yourself12345678910Email*\n \n How did you hear about this event?\n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n \n\n  \n  URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/santa-barbara-food-cycle-exploration/ LOCATION:UC Santa Barbara Greenhouse and Garden Project\, Lot 38\, UCSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/04/food-cycle2018-banner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu GEO:34.4196052;-119.8546349 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=UC Santa Barbara Greenhouse and Garden Project Lot 38 UCSB Santa Barbara CA 93106 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=Lot 38\, UCSB:geo:-119.8546349,34.4196052 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T190000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180314T213922Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180315T221058Z UID:10000191-1525971600-1525978800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Talk: Winds\, Dreams\, Theater: A Genealogy of Emotion-Realms through the Lens of The Peony Pavilion DESCRIPTION:In his talk\, Lam will give a revisionist history of emotions in Chinese literature and culture centered on the idea of emotion as space – which the Chinese call “emotion-realm” (qingjing) – rather than a state of mind. If The Peony Pavilion (Mudan ting\, 1598) is the romantic play par excellence in early modern China\, it is not because\, as many assume\, it celebrates emotion as the innermost essence of a liberated individual. Rather\, it is because the play eloquently encapsulates the three major historical regimes of the spatiality of emotion: winds\, dreamscapes\, and theatricality. The Peony Pavilion has deployed these various regimes in an anachronistic juxtaposition\, obliterating their timeline and structural differences. Lam will give an archaeological reading of the play that renders visible the subtle transformation of Chinese theater and subject formation—of which the transfiguration of the dream and the rise of the media environment are telling symptoms—as an aspect of the genealogy of emotion-realms. \nLing Hon Lam is an assistant professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultures at the University of California\, Berkeley. His research and teaching interests cover premodern drama and fiction\, women’s writing\, sex and gender\, history of sentiments\, nineteenth- and twentieth-century media culture\, and critical theories. His book\, The Spatiality of Emotion in Early Modern China: From Dreamscapes to Theatricality\, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in Spring 2018. \nSponsored by the UC Humanities Network and co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-winds-dreams-theater-genealogy-emotion-realms-lens-peony-pavilion/ LOCATION:1930 Buchanan\, Buchanan Hall\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/03/lam1200x450.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180510T160000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T214847Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200608T193656Z UID:10000095-1525959000-1525968000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries TALKS: Sinan Antoon and Sara Pursley DESCRIPTION:Talk: The Times of Revolution in Jawad Salim’s Monument to Freedom \nThe Iraqi artist Jawad Salim’s famous Monument to Freedom\, which still stands in Baghdad’s Liberation Square\, is usually read as a linear historical narrative of the Iraqi nationalist movement and the 1958 revolution it produced. Pursley’s talk explores heterogeneous conceptions of time in the work\, including depictions of cyclical forms of temporality that reference Khaldunian historical time\, Shi`i messianic time\, and the time of mourning. She suggests that these forms of time do not work against promises of radical change in the monument\, but\, on the contrary\, give such promises more imaginative purchase than they typically achieve in linear modernization narratives\, with their tendency to open onto a singular and static future. \nSara Pursley is Assistant Professor in Middle Eastern and Islamic Studies at New York University. \nTalk: Pre-occupation\, Epistemic Violence\, and Collateral Damage in Iraq \nThe invasion and occupation of Iraq in 2003 added new layers to an already complex and crowded history of violence with multiple villains and multitudes of victims. Much of the discourse on Iraqi violence tended\, by and large\, to reduce and essentialize it by attributing it either to the supposed resilience of trans-historical\, ethno-sectarian conflicts and identities\, which are taken to be side-effects of an inherently violent and monolithic Islam\, or to the Iraq-as-a-failed-state model\, cobbled together by British colonialism in 1917. Antoon’s talk will reflect on these themes and take stock of the aftermath of war fifteen years later\, in which Iraqis are still paying the heavy price and confronting the destructive effects of an imperial blunder. \nSinan Antoon is an award-winning author and Associate Professor at the Gallatin School at New York University. \nFollowed by a reception. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries Series and by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-sinan-antoon-and-sara-pursley/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/4Antoon-Pursley-ihcucsb-eventbanner.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180503T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180109T195809Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200520T174058Z UID:10000142-1525363200-1525370400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Borderwall as Architecture DESCRIPTION:Ronald Rael’s talk will reexamine what the 650 miles of physical barrier dividing the US and Mexico is and could be\, suggesting that the wall is an opportunity for economic and social development along the border that encourages its conceptual and physical dismantling. Rael will illuminate the transformative effects of the wall on people\, animals\, and the natural and built landscape through the story of people on both sides of the border who transform and creatively challenge the wall’s existence. He will also discuss his architectural studio’s counterproposals that reimagine\, hyperbolize\, or question the wall and its construction\, cost\, performance\, and meaning. Rael proposes that despite the intended use of the wall\, which is to keep people out and away\, the wall is instead an attractor\, engaging both sides in a common dialogue. \nRonald Rael is the Eva Li Memorial Chair in Architecture and Associate Professor in Architecture\, the College of Environmental Design\, and the Department of Art Practice at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is also a partner in the award-winning architectural firm Rael San Fratello and CEO of Emerging Objects\, a 3D Printing MAKE-tank. He is the author of Borderwall as Architecture: A Manifesto for the U.S.-Mexico Boundary (2017)\, Earth Architecture (2008)\, and Printing Architecture: Innovative Recipes for 3D Printing (2018). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment.\nImage by Brittany Hosea-Small. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/crossings-boundaries-talk-borderwall-architecture/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/Rael-ihcucsb-eventpage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T090000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180426T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180112T214700Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181130T232546Z UID:10000149-1524733200-1524763800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Symposium: Humanities in Prison DESCRIPTION:Why study the humanities in prison? Why teach them?  What is the value of prison humanities programs for communities both inside and outside of prisons?  What humanistic texts and skills do we teach? This day-long symposium\, hosted by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center of the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, will explore the building of intellectual communities across systemic divides through the humanities. The symposium will include the voices of educators and formerly incarcerated individuals and will be of interest to those involved in public humanities\, social justice\, transformative pedagogy and civic engagement.\n\n\nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment; the College of Letters & Science Critical Issues in America series\, Changing Faces of U.S. Citizenship; and the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life \n\nSchedule\n9:00–10:45      Introductory Remarks\nJohn Majewski\, Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts (UCSB)\nPanel: Teaching the Classics\nEmilio Capettini (UCSB)\, Michael Morgan (UCSB)\, Nancy Rabinowitz (Hamilton College)\, Jessica Wright (USC)\nModerator: Dorota Dutsch (UCSB) \n11:00–12:00      Panel: Teaching Literature and the Arts\nKevin Bott (Wagner College)\, Susan Derwin (UCSB) \n12:00–12:30     Panel: Teaching “Foundations in the Humanities”\n \n12:30–1:30       Lunch \n1:30–3:00      Panel: Supporting Transition\nSister Mary Sean Hodges (Archdiocese of Los Angeles)\, Alfredo H. Cruz\, Tony Kim\, Gary Thomas (Partnership for Re-Entry Program)\nModerator: Susan Derwin (UCSB) \n3:00–3:15      Coffee break \n3:15–4:30      Keynote: “Transformative Justice and Prison Education”\nKaia Stern\, Cofounder and Director of the Prison Studies Project (Harvard University) \n4:30–5:30      Reception \nAll are welcome\, no reservations needed. Parking in Lots 27 and 22 URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/symposium-humanities-prison/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/HumanitiesinthePrison-eventpage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180412T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T214608Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171127T233214Z UID:10000093-1523548800-1523556000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Reading: Of Great Importance DESCRIPTION:The poems in Of Great Importance discuss taxes and debts\, stocks and flows\, citizenship and labor contracts\, notaries and accountants\, factories and strikes\, freedoms and fundamental rights\, how to make money and how to win elections\, when to declare war and when to found a new state. The collection has been called “a painfully consistent and uncomfortably accurate analysis of power\, economic and social structures and mechanisms which are at the root of the degenerate world in which we wake up each morning.” The poems look at history in order to learn something from it and build upon the best work of thinkers and poets such as Marx\, Keynes\, Heine\, Miłosz\, and especially Kaváfis. \nNachoem M. Wijnberg is a Dutch poet and novelist who has been acclaimed as one of the foremost Dutch authors of the last decennia. His poetry has received many Dutch and Belgian awards\, including the 2009 VSB Prize for the best book of poetry. His poetry has been translated into many languages\, ranging from Chinese to Italian\, and published in a variety of journals\, anthologies\, and books. His books translated into English include the poetry volumes Advance Payment (2013) and Divan of Ghalib (2016) and the novel The Jews (2016). Wijnberg is a professor at the University of Amsterdam Business School. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reading-great-importance/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/11/Wijnberg-ihc-ucsb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180306T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T214238Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200528T202608Z UID:10000091-1520352000-1520359200@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Murder and Mattering in Harambe's House DESCRIPTION:Date change to Tuesday\, March 6th at 4:00PM. \nThis talk approaches the controversy over the killing of the gorilla Harambe in the Cincinnati Zoo in May 2016 as a unique window onto the making of animalness and blackness in the contemporary U.S.  It will explore the notion of a racial-zoological order in which the “human” is constructed simultaneously in relation to both the “black” and the “animal.” \nClaire Jean Kim is Professor of Political Science and Asian American Studies at University of California\, Irvine.  She is the author of Bitter Fruit: The Politics of Black-Korean Conflict in New York City (2000) and Dangerous Crossings: Race\, Species\, and Nature in a Multicultural Age (2015)\, both of which won book awards from the American Political Science Association. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-murder-mattering-harambes-house/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/KimTalk-IHCUCSB-Eventpage.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T190000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180228T210000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T214105Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200513T184601Z UID:10000101-1519844400-1519851600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talk: Exodus: The Largest Movement of People Since the Second World War DESCRIPTION:The world is witnessing the greatest mass migration since 1945. More than sixty-five million people\, about one in every hundred on Earth\, have fled their homes. Some are internally displaced; others are refugees who have moved to multiple countries. This talk will discuss the three main causes of this giant human tide: the implosion of the Middle East following the Arab Spring; climate change\, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa\, where drought and advancing deserts are pushing people to abandon their homes; and famine\, because of which at least twenty million people are currently at risk of starvation\, most of them in Nigeria\, South Sudan\, Yemen\, and Somalia. In his talk\, Filkins will take the audience on a tour of these places and discuss ways to address the complex causes of mass migration. \nFilkins has been a staff writer with The New Yorker since 2011. From 2000 to 2010\, he was a reporter for the New York Times\, reporting from Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, and Iraq. He has also worked for the Miami Herald and the Los Angeles Times\, where he was chief of the paper’s New Delhi bureau. In 2009\, he won a Pulitzer Prize as part of a team of Times journalists covering Pakistan and Afghanistan. His book\, The Forever War\, won the 2008 National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series; the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life; and the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-exodus-largest-movement-people-since-second-world-war/ LOCATION:Corwin Pavilion\, 494 UCEN Rd\, Isla Vista\, CA\, 93117\, United States CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/FILKINS-EVENTPAGE-ihcucsb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu GEO:34.4112239;-119.8458061 X-APPLE-STRUCTURED-LOCATION;VALUE=URI;X-ADDRESS=Corwin Pavilion 494 UCEN Rd Isla Vista CA 93117 United States;X-APPLE-RADIUS=500;X-TITLE=494 UCEN Rd:geo:-119.8458061,34.4112239 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180222T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171020T225215Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180214T230959Z UID:10000124-1519315200-1519320600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:HUMANITIES DECANTED: Bhaskar Sarkar\, "No Man's (Is)land: Ecology of a Border" DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies) and Lisa Sun-Hee Park (Asian American Studies) about Sarkar’s new article\, “No Man’s (Is)land: Ecology of a Border.” Refreshments will be served. \n\n\nFocusing on a stretch of the international border between Bangladesh and India that coincides with the river Ganges\, Sarkar’s new article examines the ambiguous productivities of proliferating borders in the era of globalization. In this overpopulated region of South Asia\, the Farakka barrage has compounded problems of riverbank erosion\, causing the loss of arable lands and homes. When displaced communities move to the silt islands—chars— that emerge in the middle of the river\, they pose a problem for both states: are they citizens or foreigners? Analyzing a documentary film about the char people\, Sarkar explores contemporary documentary’s engagement with border ecologies and migrant communities\, state policies and environmental depredation\, and the politics of representation (both cinematic and electoral). \nBhaskar Sarkar is Associate Professor of Film and Media Studies. His primary research interests include risk and speculative media; post-colonial media theory; political economy of global media; and history and memory. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-bhaskar-sarkar-no-mans-island-ecology-border/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Bhaskar-HD-eventpage-ihcucsb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180212T113000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20180209T192419Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180209T192550Z UID:10000036-1518429600-1518435000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Presentation: Imagining America DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation by Imagining America director Erica Kohl-Arenas about public humanities and arts. The event will take place at 10:00 AM in the McCune Conference Room and will include audience discussion. \nImagining America (IA) is currently based at UC Davis\, its third host campus\, as of July 2017. Comprised of a network of college and university members and community partners\, IA’s annual programming includes convening a national conference and cultural organizing institutes\, and collaborative research and action projects. \nIA contributes resources to an expanding membership; offers opportunities for undergraduate and graduate student leaders\, including the Publicly Active Graduate Education (PAGE) network\, an annual cohort funded by IA that acts as a incubator for scholarly writing\, innovative thinking\, and bold experimentation; and provides significant leadership to the field of engaged scholarship in higher education\, as evidenced in Public: A Journal of Imagining America\, IA’s peer-reviewed\, multimedia e-journal focused on humanities\, arts\, and design in public life. \nErica Kohl-Arenas is the faculty director of Imagining America and serves on the UC Davis faculty as Associate Professor in the Department of American Studies. Kohl-Arenas brings extensive experience as a cultural organizer and public scholar with deep knowledge of the national landscape of community engagement and organizational and social movement studies; she reflects on the current importance of public scholarship and IA’s new chapter in a Q&A with the UC Davis Humanities Institute. Previously\, Kohl-Arenas was a member of the faculty of the Milano School of International Affairs\, Management\, an­d Urban Policy at The New School in New York City. Kohl-Arenas was the inaugural recipient of The New School’s Achievements in Social Justice Teaching Award in 2014\, and also received The New School Distinguished University Teaching Award in 2016. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/presentation-imagining-america/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T213755Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180409T203556Z UID:10000100-1518102000-1518112800@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings + Boundaries Talks: Sayak Valencia and Lorena Wolffer DESCRIPTION:Talk: From Queer to Cuir: Geopolitical Ostranenie from the Global South \nSayak Valencia’s talk will explore the politics of survival and the alliances of the trans/border/messtizx/sissy/lesbian/dressed/slut-fag/cripple. The word “cuir” represents a defamiliarization—or ostranenie—of “queer\,” which challenges automatic reading and registers\, through its unfamiliarity\, a geopolitical inflection southward and from the peripheries. Countering colonial epistemology and Anglo-American historiography\, cuir invokes a space of decolonialized enunciation\, at once playful and critical. \nSayak Valencia (Cultural Studies\, El Colegio de la Frontera Norte) is the author of Capitalismo Gore. \nTalk: Citizen Affects/Afectxs ciudadanxs \nLorena Wolffer will discuss her experiences producing Citizen Affects/Afectxs ciudadanxs at UC Santa Barbara and at the National Autonomous University of Mexico (UNAM) in Mexico City in 2017. This participatory cultural interventions project is focused on the affects that cross\, regulate\, and define women\, queer\, and non-normative individuals in our interaction with others and with the power structures that surround and legislate us. \nLorena Wolffer (1971) is an artist and cultural activist based in Mexico City. \nA reception will follow.\nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series and the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-sayak-valencia-and-lorena-wolffer/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/ValenciaGarcia-eventpage-ihcucsb.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180201T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T213433Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T212109Z UID:10000099-1517500800-1517508000@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings+Boundaries TALK: Dreamland: America's Opiate Epidemic and How We Got Here DESCRIPTION:Click here to read an article about Quinones’ talk. \nQuinones will discuss the origins of our nationwide opioid epidemic: pharmaceutical marketing\, changes in our heroin market\, and new attitudes toward pain among American healthcare consumers. He will also discuss cultural shifts that made this epidemic possible. \nSam Quinones is a Los Angeles-based freelance journalist and author of three books of narrative nonfiction. His book Dreamland: The True Tale of America’s Opiate Epidemic won a National Book Critics Circle award for the Best Nonfiction Book of 2015. He has reported on immigration\, gangs\, drug trafficking\, and the border as a reporter for the L.A. Times (2004–2014) and as a freelance writer in Mexico (1994–2004). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series\, the Walter H. Capps Center for the Study of Ethics\, Religion\, and Public Life\, and the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-dreamland-americas-opiate-epidemic-got/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/Sam_Quinones_IHCUCSB.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180125T173000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171023T230304Z LAST-MODIFIED:20171205T212538Z UID:10000125-1516896000-1516901400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:HUMANITIES DECANTED: Robert Samuels\, Educating Inequality: Beyond the Political Myths of Higher Education and the Job Market DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Robert Samuels (Writing) and Heather Steffen (English and Writing) about Samuels’ new work\, Educating Inequality. Refreshments will be served. \nPoliticians and school officials often argue that higher education is the solution to many of our social and economic problems. Educating Inequality argues that in order to reduce inequality and enhance social mobility\, public policies are needed to revamp the financial aid system and increase the number of good jobs. Exploring topics such as the fairness of the current social system\, the focus on individual competition in an unequal society\, and democracy and capitalism in higher education\, this important book seeks to uncover the major myths that shape how people view higher education and its relation to the economy. Looking to models that generate economic mobility and social equality\, this book advocates a broader vision for public higher education to promote universal equality and global awareness. \nBob Samuels’ research interests include academic writing\, social science writing\, psychoanalysis\, rhetoric\, and media. He holds doctorates in Psychology and English\, and he is the author of numerous books\, including The Politics of Writing Studies: Reinventing Our Universities from Below and Why Public Higher Education Should Be Free. He blogs at Changing Universities. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-robert-samuels-educating-inequality-beyond-political-myths-higher-education-job-market/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IHC_UCSB_Samules.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180111T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171002T213143Z LAST-MODIFIED:20210409T165712Z UID:10000098-1515686400-1515693600@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:Crossings+Boundaries TALK: Opening the Gates of Heaven: Religious and Philosophical Implications of Space Exploration DESCRIPTION:Religion and philosophy have always been present in human space exploration\, in the form of religious rituals practiced during space missions\, placement of sacred objects in space\, and astronauts’ descriptions of transcendental changes in perspective when looking back on Earth. Space exploration also poses ethical\, religious\, and philosophical challenges. How\, for example\, do we protect other celestial bodies from contamination by human space exploration? How do we protect the Earth from contamination by extraterrestrial samples brought back on spaceships? How will human society be represented to extraterrestrial beings? What are the wide-ranging implications of finding life in the universe? \nIn his talk\, Waltemathe will discuss these issues\, exploring questions that seem to belong to the realm of science fiction while focusing on scientifically plausible exploration scenarios. \nMichael Waltemathe is senior lecturer in the Department of Protestant Theology at Ruhr-University Bochum in Germany. He also serves as an officer of the Astrosociology Research Institute\, a non-profit educational organization dedicated to the development of astrosociology as a multidisciplinary academic field. Dr. Waltemathe is also a founding member of IASGAR\, the International Academy for the Study of Gaming and Religion. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Crossings + Boundaries series.\nImage credit: NASA/JPL-Caltech/McGill URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-opening-gates-heaven-religious-philosophical-implications-space-exploration/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:Crossings + Boundaries,All Events,IHC Series ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IHC_UCSB_Waltemathe.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171114T180000 DTSTAMP:20260508T043133 CREATED:20171017T221628Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180329T165433Z UID:10000010-1510675200-1510682400@www.ihc.ucsb.edu SUMMARY:IHC Fellow TALK: Plastic China\, Plastic Chain: An Inconvenient Truth about Recycling DESCRIPTION:Until the Chinese government’s new trade policy on waste importation this year\, the environmental and practical impact of the global waste trade has been largely absent from US scientific and theoretical studies on waste. These new policies\, however\, are predicted to have a catastrophic impact on the American scrap recycling industry and have therefore ignited a conversation. This talk uses the lens of the critically acclaimed yet domestically banned documentary Plastic China (2016) by Jiuliang Wang to investigate both industrial statistics and out-of-sight practices of plastic scrap recycling. It is only when the “foreign” part of the story is told that we can rethink “recycling\,” which is itself a controversial packaging concept of consumer culture. The global fluidity of waste engages and enriches theories about plasticity\, plastic-organism contact\, environmental justice\, political economy\, and documentary intervention\, as well as intimately connects to our everyday lives. \nInez Xingyue Zhou (Ph.D.\, Comparative Literature\, UCSB) is a Recent-PhD Fellow at the IHC who specializes in modern and contemporary poetics and waste aesthetics. \nSponsored by the IHC. URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-plastic-china-plastic-chain-inconvenient-truth-recycling/ LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/10/IHCUCSB_PlasticChina.jpg ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR