Read about Shannon's internship working on the Filipino Oral History Project with the Santa Barbara Trust for Historic Preservation....
The IHC is pleased to announce its faculty release time and collaborative award winners. Read more about their exciting, interdisciplinary projects...
Read about Lauren's Fellow-Designed Project with Arizona Students Recycling Used Technology (AZ StRUT)....
Read about Kenzie's internship with the Foodbank of Santa Barbara County....
Graduate students from across the UC system gather to share about their work and participate in a communication workshop....
September 8, 2022 | By Megan J. Sheard...
Read about Morgane's fellow-designed community project with the European Middle East Project....
Learn about the 2023 Humanities Without Walls Predoctoral Career Diversity Summer Workshop hosted by the University of Minnesota College of Liberal Arts....
July 26, 2022 | By Olivia Henderson...
Increasing attention to the interconnection between creative writing and critical thinking has produced programs and courses that focus on the craft of writing itself as a mode of analysis and a form of research. Mergers between the creative and the critical stem from multiple impulses,...
Legal humanities views law and culture as mutually constitutive domains. Law, after all, is the site where theory meets practice, where ideals wrestle with norms, and morality and ethics confront politics and regulation. Legal humanities seeks to understand how law makes meaning and produces effects...
The Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group takes an interdisciplinary perspective on childhood in literature, culture, media, and society. We suggest that childhood is best approached methodologically from the vantage point of diverse global traditions, while considering the media and social construction of childhood mediated...
The IHC “Emotions in History” Research Focus Group seeks to create a space where scholars can cross disciplinary lines and together investigate emotions in the human past. Led by a historian and a psychologist, our group aims to bring into dialogue two cutting-edge subfields—the history...
The Caribbean is the vortex of early capitalism, social identity, and cultural anxiety. It is the site of first colonial contact, conquests, institutions, and taxonomies. Therefore, we gather under the urgency of unpacking the spacetime ripple effects of this global capitalist accumulation, what it has...
The IHC was thrilled to host students veterans at the UC Student Veterans Summer Writing Workshop for a week of writing about their military experiences....
Read about George’s fellow-designed community project with BLM Paterson to create a digital map of housing inequality....
Read about the year's highlights in the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program, including new fellows, fellows completing the program, capstone presentations, internships and community projects, and more....
Five UCSB doctoral students win research support for their interdisciplinary dissertation projects....
June 4, 2022 | Location TBD The Asian/American Studies Collective (AASC) at the University of California, Santa Barbara invites submissions for our Graduate Student Symposium on topics concerning Asian American studies, broadly defined. This one-day symposium will offer an informal environment for graduate students to come...
The IHC is pleased to announce the results of its Winter 2022 awards competition. Congratulations to the winners of IHC Graduate Collaborative and Visual, Performing, and Media Arts Awards!...
May 14-15, 2022 | Zoom A Collaboration Between the UCSB Department of Theater, Dance, and Performance Studies and the UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center Research Focus Group “What Is a Shakespeare?: Shakespeare and Global Media” Many scholars have questioned what the rise of globalization, facilitated through new forms...