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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Shana Moulton
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion with Shana Moulton (Art) about her recent exhibition at MoMA\, Meta/Physical Therapy. \nThis 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 dollar-store kitsch. An extension of Moulton’s Whispering Pines series\, which began in 2002\, the project continued the artist’s incisive examination of the aesthetics of pain and healing and the mass marketing of wellness and explores the maladies of middle age. Presented as a multi-chapter narrative\, the installation was accompanied by a series of performances created in collaboration with composer Nick Hallett\, bringing Cynthia’s inner world to life. \nShana Moulton is a California-born and -based artist who works in video\, performance\, and installation. She holds a BA from UC Berkeley in Art and Anthropology and an MFA from Carnegie Mellon University. Moulton has exhibited her work as a solo artist and in groups at major international museums\, galleries and institutes. She has performed at sites including The Museum of Modern Art\, New York\, The Andy Warhol Museum\, Pittsburgh\, The San Francisco Museum of Modern Art\, San Francisco\, The Getty\, Los Angeles\, and The Hammer Museum\, Los Angeles. Moulton’s work has been featured in Artforum\, The New York Times\, ArtReview\, Art in America\, Flash Art\, Artpress\, Metropolis M\, BOMB Magazine\, and Frieze. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-shana-moulton/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: All the Frost Melts: A Trilingual Reading in Dolgan\, Russian\, and English
DESCRIPTION:This trilingual reading of writings by Indigenous writer Kseniia Bolshakova will include portions from her autobiographical novel All the Frost Melts\, which was recently translated into English after being published in Dolgan and Russian in 2024. It will feature writer Kseniia Bolshakova reading in Dolgan\, linguist Karina Sheifer (UC Santa Barbara) reading in Russian\, and translator Ainsley Morse (UC San Diego) reading in English. The reading also will include imagery from life in the Russian Arctic. This event is being held in conjunction with INT 94LE: Literature and Experience and the longstanding California Graduate Slavic Colloquium\, being held at UCSB for the first time ever on April 18\, 2026. \nKseniia Bolshakova is an Indigenous decolonial writer and a member of the Dolgan Tribal community Yjdyŋa. She was born and raised in the tundra and the village of Popigai in the Russian Arctic. As one of the youngest keepers of the Dolgan language—spoken by only 1000 people—she is deeply committed to preserving her native tongue and traditional knowledge\, as well as advocating for Indigenous rights and social justice. Her debut novel\, Buluus da irer / All The Frost Melts\, was first published in a bilingual Dolgan-Russian edition and presented at the United Nations Permanent Forum on Indigenous Issues in New York in 2024. \nKarina Sheifer is a Ph.D. student in the Department of Linguistics at UCSB. Her fieldwork focuses on language contact and change as well as documentation and digitalization of Indigenous languages of Siberia and the Far East\, namely Northern Tungusic (Evenki and Even)\, Siberian Turkic (Dolgan and Yakut)\, and Chukotko-Kamchatkan (Itelmen and Chukchi). Although her main research interest is in linguistics\, an integral part of her work is an interaction with minority national communities in terms of education and promotion of Indigenous languages\, literatures\, and cultures. \nAinsley Morse teaches in the Department of Literature at UC-San Diego and translates from Russian\, Ukrainian and the languages of former Yugoslavia. Her research focuses on the literature and culture of the post-war Soviet period\, particularly unofficial or “underground” poetry\, as well as the avant-garde\, children’s literature and contemporary poetry. With Anastasiya Osipova\, she co-runs Cicada Press\, a small press that publishes Eastern European and Russian poetry in translation; she also translates and edits for Tamizdat Project Press. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, Arnhold Arts and Humanities Commons\, and Department of Germanic and Slavic Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-all-the-frost-melts-a-trilingual-reading-in-dolgan-russian-and-english/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260224T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Melinda Gandara (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\, provides a captivating autobiographical narrative of the life and times of an American artist. This testimonio places Rupert García’s art in historical perspective\, spanning his beginnings in Stockton\, California and his time in the Air Force\, including participating in the U.S. war in Vietnam\, to his experience at San Francisco State during the historic San Francisco State student strike in 1968–69. Influenced by history and politics\, Rupert García’s art speaks to a changing America through the eyes of an artist\, speaking to issues of race\, class\, imperialism\, war\, and the role of the artist in society. \nMario T. García is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has published over 20 books over the course of his career\, including Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice and The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-mario-t-garcia/
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:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T180000
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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:20260218T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260218T190000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Childhood Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:Are you interested in:\n– children’s media\, literature\, and culture\n– historical childhoods\n– children’s rights\n– education\n– child pyschology\n– sociology of childhood \nThe Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group welcomes graduate and undergraduate students from any department with an interest in Childhood Studies to attend our Open House! Free food and drinks provided. \nLearn about our on-campus Childhood Studies community (courses\, affiliated faculty\, and graduate students)\, research and conference opportunities offered by the Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group\, and proposals for a new Childhood and Youth Studies Minor and Ph.D. Emphasis in Childhood Studies. Join us for more information on programming\, research opportunities\, mentorship\, participation in an annual Undergraduate Research Showcase\, talks and reading groups\, and a like-minded community on campus. \nWe extend a special invitation to the Winter 2026 undergraduate students of Children’s Literature\, Young Humans\, Media and Children\, The Modern Girl\, Family Communication\, Educating the Native\, Fairytale Cinema\, and Fantasy and the Fantastic. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-childhood-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Global Childhood Media,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Unfaithful was recently listed by Words Without Borders as a 2025 best book in the field of translation. \nSuzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation\, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s\, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010)\, her most recent translation\, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories\, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-suzanne-jill-levine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
DESCRIPTION:Join 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 bulk of the country’s waste workers\, while anti-Roma racism casts them as socially disposable. Without their labor\, however\, the country cannot meet the sustainability targets required by the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork that spans twenty years\, including eleven months working alongside Romani women street sweepers and years embedded in waste organizations\, political campaigns\, Roma NGOs\, and activist groups\, Resnick examines the power hierarchies that shape both waste management and European geopolitics. \nElana Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she directs the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group. Her research examines waste\, racialization\, labor\, nuclear energy\, and friendship through multi-modal methods. She has published in journals including American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Public Culture. She is the recipient of the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elana-resnick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-27-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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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
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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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:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Melody Jue’s (English) recent co-edited volume\, Informatics of Domination. Jue will be joined by co-editors Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee and contributor Rita Raley (English). Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies) will moderate. Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist\, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought\, inviting fifty scholars\, artists\, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms\, such as essays on artificial intelligence\, disability and protest\, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together\, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems\, networks\, and computation today. \nMelody Jue is a Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University Press\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-melody-jue/
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:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250723T184323Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251016T202449Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250530T195659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T223144Z
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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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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250523T080000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250525T170000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250428T175541Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250502T172022Z
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SUMMARY:LISO Conference: The 27th Annual Conference on Language\, Interaction and Social Organization
DESCRIPTION:The LISO conference promotes interdisciplinary research and discussion in the analysis of naturally occurring human interaction. Papers will be presented by national and international scholars on a variety of topics in the study of language\, interaction\, and culture. \nThe conference will feature plenary presentations by Dr. Lynnette Arnold (University of Massachusetts\, Amherst)\, Dr. Shannon Ward (University of British Columbia\, Okanagan)\, and Dr. Kevin Whitehead (University of California\, Santa Barbara). The conference will take place on May 23rd and 24th\, and will be followed on May 25th by a symposium on “Representing Language and Its Users.” \nThis year\, the conference theme is “Research and (Re)action.” This theme invites research that is engaged with the sociopolitical implications of language including: language and activism\, language and resistance\, language and social justice\, and community-engaged approaches to research. We have put this theme forward in the hopes of fostering conversations about the role of language\, interaction\, and culture in the contemporary global sociopolitical climate. \nRegister to attend here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Language\, Interaction\, and Social Organization Research Focus Group\, Graduate Student Association\, Graduate Division\, Department of Linguistics\, Department of Anthropology\, Geoff Raymond\, and Elena Skapoulli-Raymond
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-27th-annual-conference-on-language-interaction-and-social-organization/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,LISO (Language, Interaction, and Social Organization),IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="LISO (Language%2C Interaction%2C and Social Organization)":MAILTO:lisoconference@gmail.com
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250522T160914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T210817Z
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate our 2025 Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program graduates\, Tannishtha Bhattacharjee (History) and Cypris Roalsvig (Classics)\, as they deliver presentations about their training\, work\, and identity as public humanists. \nAudience Q&A and reception will follow. \nLearn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-capstone-presentations-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241211T214855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T212157Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 Faculty Fellows\, whose works-in-progress are supported this year by IHC release-time awards. Fellows will give a short presentation of their work. A reception will follow. \nStephanie Malia Hom\, French and Italian\n“On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” \nSusan Hwang\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\n“Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” \nDavid Novak\, Music\n“Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2024-25-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250210T230407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T190212Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings\, from Glas to his last texts\, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war in Gaza and its ongoing consequences. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\, Emerson and the Climates of History\, Paper Graveyards\, and\, with Sara Nadal-Melsió\, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?\, Cities Without Citizens\, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He has also translated with Liana Theodoratou Nadar’s memoirs\, Quand j’étais photographe\, which appeared under the title When I Was a Photographer. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Fazal Sheikh\, Remains of the demolished home of ʽAwad Abu Ḥbak\, in the vicinity of the village of Bīr Haddāj\, 31°1′11″N / 34°43′50″E\, 2011 (detail)\, from Desert Bloom (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/no-occupation-derrida-on-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250512T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250506T235213Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T172816Z
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SUMMARY:Talk: The Vietnam War and Its Legacy After 50 Years
DESCRIPTION:April/May 2025 marks the 50th anniversary of the fall of Saigon. Pulitzer Prize-winning historian Fredrik Logevall discusses the Vietnam War—one of the major conflicts of the 20th century—and reflects on its legacy. \nFredrik Logevall is the Laurence D. Belfer Professor of History and International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the author or editor of eleven books\, including recently JFK: Coming of Age in the American Century\, 1917-1956 (Random House\, 2020)\, which won the Elizabeth Longford Prize and was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. His book Embers of War: The Fall of an Empire and the Making of America’s Vietnam (Random House\, 2012) won the Pulitzer Prize for History\, the Parkman Prize\, the Arthur Ross Book Award\, and the American Library in Paris Book Award. \nCosponsored by the Center for Cold War Studies and International History and UCSB’s Department of History
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/talk-the-vietnam-war-and-its-legacy-after-50-years/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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ORGANIZER;CN="The Center for Cold War Studies and International History":MAILTO:syaqub@history.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250422T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241010T183658Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T211846Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Juan Cobo Betancourt
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Juan Cobo Betancourt (History) and Antonio Cortijo (Spanish and Portuguese) about Cobo’s new book\, The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca\, Catholic Reform\, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada. The Coming of the Kingdom explores the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada (Colombia) during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Focusing on colonialism\, religious reform\, law\, language\, and historical writing\, Cobo examines the introduction and development of Christianity among the Muisca\, who\, from the 1530s\, found themselves at the center of the invaders’ efforts to transform them into tribute-paying Catholic subjects of the Spanish crown. The book illustrates how successive generations of missionaries and administrators approached the task of drawing the Muisca peoples to Catholicism at a time when it was undergoing profound changes\, and how successive generations of the Muisca interacted with the practices and ideas that the invaders attempted to impose\, variously rejecting or adopting them\, transforming and translating them\, and ultimately making them their own. \nJuan Cobo Betancourt is Assistant Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. His research focuses on questions of religion\, colonialism\, law\, and language in colonial Latin America\, with a focus on the New Kingdom of Granada (modern-day Colombia). Alongside this work\, he co-founded Neogranadina\, a Colombian non-profit foundation devoted to safeguarding the holdings of endangered archives and libraries through digitization\, and to developing digital tools and resources to make them available to broad audiences. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-juan-cobo-betancourt/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250417T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241001T225634Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T205847Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Translating Ovid’s Metamorphoses
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Stephanie McCarter will discuss her recent translation of Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin\, 2022). She will first address her tactics for transforming Ovid’s poetic and metrical effects into English verse. She will then outline her strategies for interpreting and rendering Ovid’s themes of sexual violence\, gender\, sexuality\, and the body. She will consider throughout how she carefully negotiated Ovid’s playful style and disturbing subject matter to produce a poetic\, accurate\, and ethical translation. \nStephanie McCarter is a professor of Classics at the University of the South in Sewanee\, TN. Her works of translation include Horace’s Epodes\, Odes\, and Carmen Saeculare (University of Oklahoma Press\, 2020) and Ovid’s Metamorphoses (Penguin Classics\, 2022)\, which won the 2023 Harold Morton Landon Translation Award from the Academy of American Poets. She also recently edited and contributed translations to Women in Power (Penguin Classics\, 2024)\, an anthology of classical myths and stories about ancient female rulers. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/translating-ovids-metamorphoses/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250408T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241205T184136Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250530T200058Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: The Making of Ghost Village: Across the Borders of Life and Death\, Scholarship and Opera
DESCRIPTION:This talk will take you into the process of creating a new\, experimental opera based on a historical ghost story from Pu Songling’s seventeenth-century Chinese masterpiece\, Liaozhao’s Strange Tales (Liaozhai zhiyi). Entitled Ghost Village\, the opera is a creative collaboration between Judith Zeitlin\, as scholar and English language librettist\, and the composer Yao Chen\, a China-based\, Chicago-trained professor of composition at the Central Conservatory of Music in Beijing. \nBuilding on the European operatic tradition\, Ghost Village also evokes Chinese aesthetic and theatrical sensibilities. The eerily beautiful wedding scene\, for example\, draws inspiration from the rich Chinese tradition of spirit marriage and female ghosts. Though set in the past\, this opera speaks to many pressing issues in today’s world\, particularly war\, terrorism\, the refugee crisis\, and the general suffering of innocent individuals through political violence. At the same time\, Ghost Village builds on the long operatic tradition centered on love that crosses the boundaries of life and death\, exemplified by such foundational early works such as Tang Xianzu’s Peony Pavilion (1598)\, and Monteverdi’s Orfeo (1607). \nJudith T. Zeitlin is the William R. Kenan\, Jr. Professor in the Department of East Asian Languages and Civilizations at the University of Chicago. A scholar of early modern Chinese literature\, her innovative work combines literary history with other disciplines\, including visual and material culture\, theater\, music\, medicine\, gender studies\, and film. Her many publications include The Phantom Heroine: Ghosts and Gender in Seventeenth-Century Chinese Literature (2007)\, Historian of the Strange: Pu Songling and the Chinese Classical Tale (1993)\, and co-edited works such as Writing and Materiality in China (2000)\, Thinking in Cases: Specialist Knowledge in Chinese Cultural History (2007)\, Chinese Opera Film (2010)\, and The Voice as Something More: Essays toward Materiality (2019). \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \nImage courtesy of Judith Zeitlin
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-making-of-ghost-village/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250306T123000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250210T234431Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250224T172405Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Roundtable and Workshop: Celebrating Restorative Relations: Connections between climate resilience\, Indigenous rights\, and land & water rematriation
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a roundtable discussion and workshop with guest speakers— featuring conversations between Indigenous and allied movement builders\, practitioners\, and organizers— exploring connections between climate resilience\, Indigenous rights\, and land & water rematriation. This will be an opportunity to gather and address relationships between Land Back movements and politics\, processes of reciprocity\, and resilient ecosystems\, as well as the importance of decommissioning and dam removal within energy transitions\, among other responses to global climate change. We invite everyone to join in celebrating ongoing acts of resistance and restoration— collective actions of reviving relationships of care and connectedness between peoples\, lands\, waters\, and multispecies kin. \nOur guest speakers: \nSarah Barger is the Development Director of Kīpuka Kuleana\, a Native Hawaiian women-led land trust that works to protect cultural landscapes and family lands on the island of Kauaʻi\, HI.\nSibyl Diver is co-director for the Stanford Environmental Justice Working Group\, doing community-engaged research on Indigenous water governance within Pacific Northwest salmon watersheds.\nMariaElena Lopez is is a member and Tribal Representative of the Coastal Band of the Chumash Nation and Founding Director of Su’nan Protection\, Art & Cultural Education (The SPACE).\nMargaret McMurtrey is a citizen of the Choctaw Nation of Oklahoma and Academic Coordinator of the UCSB American Indian and Indigenous Studies Program.\nTeresa Romero is an enrolled member of the Coastal Band of Chumash and president of the collaborative Native Coast Action Network supporting cultural and traditional ecological initiatives. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Climate Justice Working Group Research Focus Group\, CREW Center for Restorative Environmental Work\, LiKEN\, the Indigenous Speakers Series\, and UCSB’s American Indian & Indigenous Studies Program
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-roundtable-and-workshop-celebrating-restorative-relations-connections-between-climate-resilience-indigenous-rights-and-land-water-rematriation/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Climate Justice Working Group,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Climate Justice Working Group":MAILTO:tristan.partridge@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241016T180509Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250507T220908Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Lisa Jacobson
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Lisa Jacobson (History) and Erika Rappaport (History) about Jacobson’s new book\, Intoxicating Pleasures: The Reinvention of Wine\, Beer\, and Whiskey after Prohibition. \nIn popular memory\, the repeal of US Prohibition in 1933 signaled alcohol’s decisive triumph in a decades-long culture war. But as Lisa Jacobson reveals\, alcohol’s respectability and mass market success were neither sudden nor assured. It took a world war and a battalion of public relations experts and tastemakers to transform wine\, beer\, and whiskey into emblems of the American good life. Alcohol producers and their allies—a group that included scientists\, trade associations\, restaurateurs\, home economists\, cookbook authors\, and New Deal planners—powered a publicity machine that linked alcohol to wartime food crusades and new ideas about the place of pleasure in modern American life. In this deeply researched and engagingly written book\, Jacobson shows how the yearnings of ordinary consumers and military personnel shaped alcohol’s cultural reinvention and put intoxicating pleasures at the center of broader debates about the rights and obligations of citizens. \nLisa Jacobson is Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, and author of Raising Consumers: Children and the American Mass Market in the Early Twentieth Century. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-lisa-jacobson/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T173000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250115T234632Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250122T185853Z
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SUMMARY:Sal Castro Memorial Lecture 2025
DESCRIPTION:The Sal Castro Memorial Lecture aims to present recent books published in Chicano/Latino history. Named after Chicano Movement icon Sal Castro\, who struggled for educational justice for Chicans\, this will be the inaugural lecture. Our first speaker is Prof. Oliver Rosales\, who will discuss his recent book\, Civil Rights in Bakersfield: Segregation and Multiracial Activism in the Central Valley (University of Texas Press: 2024). Prof. Rosales received his Ph.D. in History from UCSB. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Department of History\, Chicano Studies Institute\, and Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/sal-castro-memorial-lecture-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
ORGANIZER;CN="Chicano/Latino Research Group":MAILTO:garcia@history.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20241010T171916Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250409T211501Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Black History's Warning to the World
DESCRIPTION:Resisting the tide of repression that threatens the teaching of Black history\, we should look to that past to understand the ongoing processes that have shaped our world. Our current predicament\, marked by extreme inequalities\, everyday violence\, militarism\, and political strife derives in part from the history of colonial conquest\, slavery\, and imperial warfare. Our struggles for freedom and dignity emerge from that history\, too. By understanding it\, we might discern the scope\, force\, direction\, and likelihood of the changes ahead—and be guided by the example and the wisdom of our ancestors. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nVincent Brown is the Charles Warren Professor of American History and Professor of African and African American Studies at Harvard University. He has published two prize-winning books about the history of slavery: The Reaper’s Garden: Death and Power in the World of Atlantic Slavery (2008) and Tacky’s Revolt: The Story of an Atlantic Slave War (2020). The author of numerous articles and reviews in scholarly journals\, he is also Principal Investigator and Curator for the animated thematic map Slave Revolt in Jamaica\, 1760-1761: A Cartographic Narrative (2013)\, he was Producer and Director of Research for the award-winning television documentary Herskovits at the Heart of Blackness (2009)\, broadcast nationally on the PBS series Independent Lens\, he was the executive producer and host for The Bigger Picture (2022)\, co-produced with WNET for PBS Digital Studios\, and he was executive producer\, writer\, and host for How Do You Remember the Days of Slavery? (2024). He is co-founder of Timestamp Media\, which explores the history that connects people and places across the world. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/black-historys-warning-to-the-world/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250212T164500
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
CREATED:20250116T185322Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250128T175655Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Inside Chinese Theater: Archive of the Invisible and the Sino-Soundscape in North America
DESCRIPTION:The defining tunes of the Sinophone community in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries were those of the Cantonese opera performed in Chinese theaters. This history has been invisible due to the scarcity of materials about Sinophone community in archives. The sonic imageries were also imprisoned by the mounting derision in English newspapers and travelogues. Drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer to piece together the history of vibrant Chinese theaters\, this talk offers readings against the grain to consider how archives structure our understanding of the past and frame how we enter into the present and future. \nNancy Yunhwa Rao is Distinguished Professor of Music at Rutgers University. Her work bridges musicology\, music theory\, and Sinophone and Inter-Asia studies. A member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences\, she is the author of Chinatown Opera Theater in North America. For The Cambridge Companion to Serialism\, she contributed a chapter on East Asia. Her analysis of materiality in the sonic imagery of East-Asian composition recently appeared in Music Theory Spectrum. Rao currently serves as editor of the journal American Music. Her new book\, Inside Chinese theater: Community and Artistry in Nineteenth-Century California and Beyond\, will be published in March 2025. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies Research Focus Group\, Department of Music\, and UCSB’s Center for Taiwan Studies
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-inside-chinese-theater-archive-of-the-invisible-and-sino-soundscape-in-north-america/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Interdisciplinary Sinophone Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250206T180000
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Antidotes to Ageism in the Anthropocene: Generational Time and Multispecies Literary Ethnography
DESCRIPTION:Models of the passage from midlife to old age—from Freud\, Proust\, and Simone de Beauvoir to contemporary conversations about how old is too old to be an American president—disclose the ageism\, including internalized ageism\, rampant in our culture\, with aging figured overwhelmingly as decline. Today\, old age is imagined in terms of splitting: the good third age of incremental diminishment and the bad fourth age of unremitting medical catastrophe. What antidotes can alleviate the toxin that is ageism in the Anthropocene\, with older populations decidedly at risk? Stretching our capacity to comprehend and embrace generational time beyond three (human) generations is one way. Another is seeking kinship with other species that model longer life. Memoirs of ordinary realism\, another. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nKathleen Woodward is Lockwood Professor of the Humanities and Professor of English at the University of Washington\, where she directs the Simpson Center for the Humanities. She is the author of Statistical Panic: Cultural Politics and Poetics of Emotions (2009) and Aging and Its Discontents: Freud and Other Fictions (1991) and the editor of Figuring Age: Women\, Bodies\, Generations (1999). Her essays in the cross-disciplinary domains of the emotions\, women and aging\, and technology and culture have been published in American Literary History\, Discourse\, differences\, and Indiana Law Journal\, among others. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/antidotes-to-ageism-in-the-anthropocene/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250205T173000
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SUMMARY:Award: Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature
DESCRIPTION:The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature\, now in its twentieth year\, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. The recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona\, Muñoz is the author of three books of short stories and one novel\, all of which have been highly acclaimed and received awards. Mr. Muñoz will engage in a conversation with Prof. Mario T. Garcia of the Department of Chicano Studies and the founder and director of the Leal Award. There will be an opportunity for audience discussion with Mr. Muñoz. \nCosponsored by the Chicano/Latino Research Group\, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center\, Office of the Chancellor\, Office of the Executive Vice Chancellor\, Chicano Studies Institute\, Department of Chicana and Chicano Studies\, Luis Leal Endowed Chair\, Educational Opportunity Program\, La Maestra Center\, Department of Spanish and Portuguese\, and the Department of English
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/award-luis-leal-award-for-distinction-in-chicano-latino-literature-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Sub-Units
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250130T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T114116
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: Subject or Objects? Key Passageways between Things and Humans
DESCRIPTION:Based on three research projects on aesthetic environments\, this talk will discuss how and when humans and things become objects or subjects. Focusing on the figures of the opera fan\, the shoe fit model\, and the museum custodian\, the lecture will delve into the passivity of the fan as agency\, the fit model as subject and object at the same time\, and the custodian and their reduction to an object\, and how this\, paradoxically\, allows them to occupy their subject position. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nClaudio E. Benzecry is Professor of Communication Studies and Sociology at Northwestern University. He is the author of The Opera Fanatic: Ethnography of an Obsession and The Perfect Fit: Creative Work in the Global Shoe Industry\, as well as editor of Social Theory Now (with M. Krause and I. Reed)\, all published by University of Chicago Press. He’s currently Co-editor in Chief of Qualitative Sociology. His work has received multiple awards from the American Sociological Association\, including the Lewis Coser\, and the Mary Douglas prizes. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/event/subject-or-objects/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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