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Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Wednesday, February 22 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Lunch will be provided. AND Thursday, February 23 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Refreshments will be provided. Join the IHC on 2/22 or 2/23 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. If you would like ...

Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Wednesday, February 22 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Lunch will be provided. AND Thursday, February 23 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Refreshments will be provided. Join the IHC on 2/22 or 2/23 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. If you would like ...

Listening to Cumbia - Event

Conference: Listening to Cumbia

Pollock Theater; McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Listening to Cumbia brings together scholars, filmmakers, artists, and archivists for a symposium, screening, and DJ event on the contemporary cultural and political history of cumbia music in Mexico and the United States. Cumbia – as transnational record circulation and as local sound system dance scenes – is a living culture that provides insight into the cross-border effects of this popular music as force of social identity and mode of communication among Latinx communities. APRIL ...

2022-23 Faculty Fellows - Event

New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2022-23 Faculty Fellows

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in celebrating our 2022-23 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. Heidi Amin-Hong, English “A Contaminated Transpacific: Ecological Afterlives of the Vietnam War” Charmaine Chua, Global Studies “Logistics Leviathan: Counterrevolutionary empire and just-in-time distribution in the Indo-Pacific” Raquel Pacheco, Anthropology “Re-making the Peasant Countryside: Intimate mestizaje in Neoliberal Mexico” Elana Resnick, Anthropology “Refusing Sustainability: ...

Josephine Metcalf - Event

“It Calls You Back and Draws You In”: The Personal Papers of Luis J. Rodríguez

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Luis J. Rodríguez is an award-winning author and activist whose memoir about life in a gang, Always Running, is as popular as ever in 2023, its 30th anniversary. The UCSB Library Special Research Collections recently acquired Rodríguez’s personal papers, giving scholars and students an opportunity to see the personal and social context behind Always Running and Rodríguez’s other prose, poetry, and non-fiction, as well as his involvement in gubernatorial races, revolutionary organizations, and the prisoners’ ...

2023 IRSCL Congress logo

2023 IRSCL Congress: Ecologies of Childhood

University of California, Santa Barbara Santa Barbara, CA

The 26th biennial Congress of the International Research Society for Children's Literature (IRSCL) will be hosted at the University of California, Santa Barbara on August 12-17, 2023 and will be devoted to the theme "Ecologies of Childhood." This is the first time the IRSCL Congress will be held in the United States. The interdisciplinary 2023 IRSCL Congress is co-organized by Sara Pankenier Weld of the University of California, Santa Barbara and Dafna Zur of Stanford ...

Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Tuesday, January 23 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Lunch will be provided. AND Wednesday, January 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Refreshments will be provided. Join the IHC on 1/23 or 1/24 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. If you would like ...

Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Tuesday, January 23 | 12:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Lunch will be provided. AND Wednesday, January 24 | 4:00 PM | McCune Conference Room, HSSB 6020 | RSVP Refreshments will be provided. Join the IHC on 1/23 or 1/24 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. If you would like ...

Edible Insects Art Exhibition

Symposium: Edible Insect Art Exhibition

Glass Box Gallery UCSB Art Department, Building 534 (Space 1328), Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The Edible Insect Art Exhibition event is a community celebration of insect cuisine and a critical exploration of food futures. The event will take place April 4th, 2024 from 5:00–7:30 PM at UCSB's GlassBox Gallery and will feature student artwork, organization tabling, delicious food, insect-inspired tastings, and panel conversations with community members and edible insect experts, including Monica Martinez, founder of Don Bugito, Aly Moore, founder of Bugible, and MacKenzie Wade, Ph.D. Candidate, Department of ...

Symposium: 11th Annual American Indian and Indigenous Collective Symposium: Indigenous Health and Well-being

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

The 11th Annual American Indian & Indigenous Collective (AIIC) Symposium, Indigenous Health and Well-being, brings together individual papers, performances, and panels from across disciplines (humanities, fine arts, social sciences, ITEK, and STEM) within and outside of the academy, including practitioners and community members. This annual gathering will address the prevalent issues facing Indian Country and beyond in terms of health disparities and how Native communities come together to heal and work toward Indigenous well-being, resilience, ...

Faculty Fellows Presentations

New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2023-24 Faculty Fellows

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

Please join us in celebrating our 2023-24 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. Utathya Chattopadhyaya, History “Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India” Mona Damluji, Film and Media Studies “Pipeline Cinema” Rachael King, English “Improving Literature: Media, Environments, and the Eighteenth-Century Improvement Debate”

Conference: The Future of the Lumpenproletariat

The Future of the Lumpenproletariat: A Conference in Memory of Glyn Salton-Cox

McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Santa Barbara, CA, United States

This conference will explore the Marxist concept of the lumpenproletariat, which was initially translated into English as “social scum.” Speakers include: Maurizia Boscagli (UC Santa Barbara) Katherine Connelly (New York University London) Colleen Lye (UC Berkeley) Ben V. Olguín (UC Santa Barbara) Robert Weide (California State University, Los Angeles) Keynote: Cedric Johnson (University of Illinois, Chicago) Visit the conference website for more information. Cosponsored by the IHC’s Graduate Collaborative Award; Ben V. Olguín, Robert and ...

Guano in Their Destiny

RFG Talk: “Guano in Their Destiny”: A Conversation with Tao Leigh Goffe

Zoom

Join the Environmental and Postcolonial Media Theories RFG for a conversation with Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe about her work, "'Guano in Their Destiny': Race, Geology, and a Philosophy of Indenture," and beyond. Dr. Tao Leigh Goffe is an associate professor of literary theory and cultural history with a focus on the environmental humanities and geology. She joined the Department of Africana, Puerto Rican, and Latino Studies at Hunter College, City University of New York after ...