August 2018

IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows Program 2017-18 The 2017-18 IHC Public Humanities Graduate Teaching Fellows program seeks graduate students to work as instructors in a correspondence program on “Foundations in the Humanities” for prisoners in North Kern State Prison and Kern Valley State Prison.

NEH Summer Stipends for 2018 The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is now accepting applications from UCSB faculty members for the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) 2017 Summer Stipend program. To be considered for a Summer Stipend, faculty members must submit all application materials by Wednesday, August 16, 2017.

This year the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s public events series will explore the forces that shape boundaries, the energies that collect around them, and the urgencies that spur their crossing. Under certain conditions, movement across boundaries can liberate, empower, and stimulate creativity, while under different conditions, it can cause trauma,...