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SUMMARY:Taubman Symposium Talk: Between Catastrophe and Creativity: Shmuel Yosef Agnon’s Nobel Prize and the Jewish Response to Trauma
DESCRIPTION:In December 1966\, Austro-Hungarian born Israeli author Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1887–1970) received the Nobel Prize in literature—the only author writing in Hebrew to receive that distinguished honor. Rabbi Jeffrey Saks will trace how Agnon’s remarkable acceptance speech vividly expresses the intertwining of personal destiny\, Jewish history\, and the art of storytelling. Standing before the crowned heads of Europe\, Agnon recounted his life\, not merely as a biographical sketch but as a narrative shaped by the catastrophe of Jerusalem’s destruction and centuries of exile. Agnon portrayed his literary calling as divine compensation for the lost sacred songs of the Temple. He cast himself as a Levite tasked to write in place of singing—to render music in prose that consoles pain and channels longing. His works\, suffused with layers of biblical\, rabbinic\, and folk textures\, grow from that center: the artist as healer of ancient wounds. Saks explores how that theme animates Agnon’s writing and surveys the intertwined biographical stations leading to the platform at the Nobel Prize ceremony. \nRabbi Jeffrey Saks is a prominent Modern Orthodox educator\, writer\, and editor based in Jerusalem. He holds a BA\, MA\, and rabbinic ordination from Yeshiva University. Rabbi Saks is best known as the founding director of The Academy for Torah Initiatives and Directions in Jewish Education and its online learning platform\, WebYeshiva.org. Since January 2019\, he has served as the Editor-in-Chief of Tradition\, a leading journal of Orthodox Jewish thought\, and currently serves as the Director of Research at the Agnon House in Jerusalem. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies and Department of Religious Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/taubman-symposium-talk-between-catastrophe-and-creativity-shmuel-yosef-agnons-nobel-prize-and-the-jewish-response-to-trauma/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Herman P. and Sophia Taubman Foundation Endowed Symposia in Jewish Studies,All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260417T200000
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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://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:Childhood and Youth Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260421T173000
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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://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:20260501T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260501T143000
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism
DESCRIPTION:Please join us on Friday\, May 1 at 1:30PM PST for a virtual lecture by Eric Harvey on “Gilgamesh and the Many Faces of Mesopotamian Heroism.” Harvey will introduce the Epic of Gilgamesh alongside other Mesopotamian narratives of kings\, warriors\, and sages\, illustrating the strikingly varied vision of heroism produced in the ancient Near East. \nEric Harvey holds a PhD from Brandeis University in Near Eastern and Judaic Studies\, with a specialization in Bible and the Ancient Near East. He studies the history\, literature\, and religions of ancient Israel\, Syria\, Iraq\, and the surrounding areas. He is the author of Reading Creation Myths Economically in Ancient Mesopotamia and Israel. Harvey also writes The Blind Scholar\, a popular blog where he documents creative new ways to engage in scholarship\, family\, and the world as a blind person. \nZoom registration link here \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Low-Resource Research Ethics Research Focus Group\, UCSB Office of Teaching and Learning\, Department of Classics\, and LOREL Lab
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-gilgamesh-and-the-many-faces-of-mesopotamian-heroism/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Low-Resource Research Ethics,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Low-Resource Research Ethics RFG":MAILTO:aklamar@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260507T180000
DTSTAMP:20260601T194812Z
CREATED:20260109T005712Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering
DESCRIPTION:Ahilan Arulanantham will describe the role race discrimination has played in immigration and refugee policy and how that history continues to play out in the current struggle over the Temporary Protected Status program\, which allows individuals to remain in the United States because of unsafe conditions in their home countries. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAhilan T. Arulanantham is Professor from Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) at the UCLA School of Law. He teaches in the law school\, maintains an active litigation practice\, and has argued before the US Supreme Court multiple times. Prior to joining UCLA\, Ahilan was Senior Counsel at the ACLU in Los Angeles\, where he worked for nearly twenty years. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment \nImage credit: Lorie Shaull
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-talk-mass-deportation-as-racial-engineering/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260511T170000
DTSTAMP:20260505T204356Z
CREATED:20260501T210920Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260505T204356Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: “Children are an Extraordinary Plastic Material”: Juvenile Homelessness and Delinquency in the Early Soviet Union
DESCRIPTION:The symbol of the 1917 Bolshevik revolution in public memory in Russia and abroad has been the tragedy of the Romanovs’ family in which five children of Nicholas II and Alexandra had been executed by the Bolsheviks\, along with their parents. What is less salient in public commemoration is the fact that thousands of ordinary children died in the years after the Revolution from hunger\, diseases\, and overall neglect as direct causes of the turbulent revolutionary time. Children became immediate victims of the collapse of the Russian empire and the Bolsheviks’ fierce fight for power. A combination of manmade disasters – First World War\, 1917 Revolution and the Civil War\, the policies of war communism\, and the resulting famine of 1921–22 – led to hundreds of thousands of abandoned children. Children lost their parents\, relatives\, homes\, and lives to the Bolshevik cause. \nThis talk explores the politics of the nascent Soviet state towards childhood. In the 1920s–30s\, children were seen as an “extraordinary plastic material” by both scientific and political actors who proposed that institutionalization and “productive” labor would create the environment that would nurture anti-criminal habits and proletarian identities for young Soviet citizens in the making. To address the problem of children’s homelessness and crime\, special homes and labor communes for orphans and young offenders were opened under the auspices of both the Ministry of Enlightenment and OGPU (political police) and were run by educators pioneering methods of rehabilitating troubled adolescents through collective labor. Noi will analyze several representative children’s homes and juvenile colonies of the 1920s–30s designed as places of experiments with ideas of human transformation. She will discuss how in the early Soviet Union the criminality of juvenile delinquents was considered reversible through the change in their environment – through institutionalization in communes/colonies and collective work in agriculture and industry. \nAlexandra Noi is a Ph.D. candidate in the History Department at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. She received her B.A. and M.A. in China Studies before completing a Ph.D. in Modern Chinese Literature from St. Petersburg State University. At UCSB\, she is pursuing her second Ph.D. in Soviet and Chinese history. She is interested in exploring the historical connections between modern science and incarceration. Her research problematizes the analysis of authoritarianism and state violence by uncovering entanglements between their political ideologies and contemporary scientific ideas and practices. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-children-are-an-extraordinary-plastic-material-juvenile-homelessness-and-delinquency-in-the-early-soviet-union/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps Hall
CATEGORIES:Childhood and Youth Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260514T180000
DTSTAMP:20260407T165343Z
CREATED:20251029T193215Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260407T165343Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism
DESCRIPTION:Last year’s wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan\, the state’s insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk\, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and the climate crisis of the present. Connecting the long hot summers of the 1960s to today’s wildfires was a wave of insurance arson that coursed through the Bronx\, L.A.\, and scores of American cities during the 1970s. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBench Ansfield is an assistant professor of history at Temple University. Their book\, Born in Flames: The Business of Arson and the Remaking of the American City\, was published by W. W. Norton in August 2025 and named one of the best books of the year by the New York Times and Kirkus Reviews. Ansfield holds a PhD in American studies from Yale University and won the Allan Nevins Prize for the best dissertation in American history from the Society of American Historians. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/the-fires-last-time/
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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260519T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260519T180000
DTSTAMP:20260424T194145Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2025-26 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2025-26 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. \nAlicia Boswell\, History of Art and Architecture\n“Ancient Moche Metals from Loma Negra\, Peru: Performance in the Past and Present” \nHeather Blurton\, English\n“Piety and Prejudice: The Ritual Crucifixion Accusation in Late Medieval England” \nHoward Chiang\, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies\n“The Confucian Freud: Race\, Psychoanalysis\, and the Politics of Transcultural Science in the Sinophone Pacific” \nDavid Stein\, History\n“Fearing Inflation\, Inflating Fears: The Civil Rights Struggle for Full Employment and the Rise of the Carceral State\, 1929-1986”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2025-26-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T153000
DTSTAMP:20260424T210313Z
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260424T210313Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: The Funny Thing About Noise: Film Sound Aesthetics in the Cold War Cinema of Taiwan and South Korea
DESCRIPTION:Taiwanese and South Korean film comedies of the 1960s and 70s were swarming with funny noises\, from cymbal crashes to dog barks and glissandos of all timbres. Why all the ruckus? Was this simply a relic of the bygone era\, an early sound film aesthetic arrived late in a developing nation? Examining the ways in which these sounds emanate from the bodies of comedians to make them larger\, unrulier\, or simply noisier than life\, Shih argue that these “comedy parasites” interrupt the dominant image-sound perceptual chain with powerful consequences. In reorganizing the audiovisual contract\, funny noises oriented filmgoers away from the authoritarian state and towards new political positions. They animated nonconformist\, transgressive\, and queer cinematic figures who were undeterred by the political and material realities of the Cold War. This remarkable feat was achieved despite—or perhaps thanks to—the perceived backwardness of film sound technology in these two post-colonial nations at the time. Unable to produce clear\, naturalistic\, and direct sound\, Taiwanese and Korean sound designers ingeniously embraced “noise” in the post-synchronization process\, specifically for the purposes of comedy. They contravened regimes of precision and technological developmentalism in their improvisatory recording practices. This talk examines through comparison how Taiwanese and South Korean cinema stretched the limits of audio-vision and invented a new rhetoric of film sound\, thereby developing a sensual means through which to communicate the absurdity of authoritarian state ideology. \nEvelyn Shih is Korea Foundation Assistant Professor at the Department of Asian and Middle Eastern Studies with a joint appointment in Cultural Studies and Comparative Literature at the University of Minnesota. She teaches courses on film and media\, as well as Korean culture and literature within a comparative and transnational framework. She studies colonial\, Cold War\, and contemporary East Asia. Her work has been published in the Journal of Chinese Cinemas\, the Journal of Korean Studies\, MCLC\, and Film Quarterly. Her first book manuscript\, Cold War Laugh Lines: Comic Communication in Authoritarian Taiwan and South Korea\, explores the comic forms that flourish under heavy censorship and ideological control. She dives into the archives of the anti-Communist sphere in Cold War East Asia to argue for the transnational circulation of a regional style of comic expression. Her work interweaves methodologies from affect and phenomenology\, media historiography\, environmental humanities\, aesthetics and critical theory. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Sounding Transpacific Asia Research Focus Group\, Center for Taiwan Studies\, East Asia Center\, and Department of East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-the-funny-thing-about-noise-film-sound-aesthetics-in-the-cold-war-cinema-of-taiwan-and-south-korea/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Sounding Transpacific Asia,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260520T190000
DTSTAMP:20260501T165512Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Undergraduate Research and Creative Showcase
DESCRIPTION:This undergraduate showcase will feature a research presentation by Fiona Boborci\, titled “Translating Childhood: Untranslatability\, Linguistic Hospitality\, and Reader Perception in The Little Prince.” In her talk\, Fiona explores the linguistic\, philosophical\, and cultural dimensions of translation in children’s literature\, examining how different English translations of Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince produce distinct understandings of childhood\, imagination\, and moral responsibility. Drawing on both French and English traditions\, the presentation highlights translation as an active and transformative process that shapes reader perception. \nFiona Boborci is a senior French and Comparative Literature double major at UCSB. She has studied French since early childhood and brings this linguistic background to her work in modern francophone literature. She will continue her studies after graduation in a teacher credentialing and master’s program\, with a focus on the intersections of linguistics\, literature\, and bilingual education. \nFollowing the talk\, the event will continue with a curated showcase of undergraduate creative projects\, including adaptations of literary works into visual media aimed at young adult audiences. Together\, the research and creative components highlight diverse approaches to engaging with literature across languages\, media\, and audiences. \nZoom attendance link here \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Global Childhood Media Research Focus Group
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-undergraduate-research-and-creative-showcase/
LOCATION:6206C Phelps and Zoom\, UC Santa Barbara\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Childhood and Youth Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Global Childhood Media":MAILTO:saraweld@ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260521T173000
DTSTAMP:20260512T182634Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguín
DESCRIPTION:WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ\nJoin us for a dialogue with Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English)\, who will be speaking with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval (Chicana and Chicano Studies) about their new co-edited volume\, The Life\, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run. Luis Rodríguez is a prominent Latinx poet\, memoirist and activist renowned for his candid visceral accounts of urban working-class life that includes youth gang violence\, incarceration and drug abuse\, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and political empowerment\, which have resonated across multiple communities in the United States and abroad. Accordingly\, whilst Rodríguez has been the focus of some critical scholarship\, huge segments of his life\, work and legacy remain unexamined. This anthology has commissioned new and unique critical essays and reflections on Rodríguez’s life and works\, putting forward new ideas about bringing the voices of ‘barrio organic intellectuals’ to the fore. The anthology deliberately includes traditional academics as well as more public intellectuals and creative writers from across Europe and the Americas to reflect Rodriguez’s own diverse outputs as a prisoner author and activist. \nJosephine Metcalf is a Senior Lecturer in American Studies at the University of Hull\, UK. She is the co-founder and co-director of the Cultures of Incarceration Centre and Programme Director for the MA in Incarceration Studies. \nBen Valdez Olguín is the Robert and Liisa Erickson Presidential Chair in English and Director of The Global Latinidades Center at the University of California at Santa Barbara. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-josephine-metcalf/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260522T163000
DTSTAMP:20260424T210205Z
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SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Talk: Re-negotiating the Algorithmic Contract: The Need for a Politics of Potentiality
DESCRIPTION:Jose Marichal is a professor of political science at California Lutheran University specializing in studying the role that algorithms and AI play in restructuring social and political institutions. His book entitled You Must Become an Algorithmic Problem was published in 2025 with Bristol University Press (UK). The book explores the unwritten social contract we have with the algorithms that shape what we see\, hear and think. His next project (expected 2026) is entitled Machine Liberalism: Reconceptualizing Rights in the Age of AI and looks at how algorithms and AI are changing our expectations of liberal democracy. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Low-Resource Research Ethics Research Focus Group\, Department of Classics\, and LOREL Lab
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-re-negotiating-the-algorithmic-contract-the-need-for-a-politics-of-potentiality/
LOCATION:3605 South Hall\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106-7100\, United States
CATEGORIES:Low-Resource Research Ethics,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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ORGANIZER;CN="Low-Resource Research Ethics RFG":MAILTO:aklamar@ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260528T173000
DTSTAMP:20260423T175747Z
CREATED:20260422T200727Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260423T175747Z
UID:10000807-1779984000-1779989400@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program Capstone Presentations
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate our 2026 program graduates! \nKatherina Gontaryuk (Philosophy)\nOlivia Henderson (English)\nMartina Mattei (Comparative Literature)\nClaudia Mendoza Chavez (Anthropology)\nRussell Nylen (Anthropology)\nEdward Reyes (Chicana/o Studies)\nEunwoo Yoo (Theater and Dance) \nEach Fellow will present on their training\, work\, and identity as a public humanist. Hear about their projects and learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program! Audience Q&A and a reception will follow.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-capstone-presentations/
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:20261001T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261001T180000
DTSTAMP:20261006T170258Z
CREATED:20260813T164849Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261006T170258Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 1\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Bodies Politic\, our 2026–27 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://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,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:20261021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261021T180000
DTSTAMP:20261015T152950Z
CREATED:20261006T234606Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T152950Z
UID:10000824-1792598400-1792605600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Research Focus Group Event: Childhood and Youth Studies Open House
DESCRIPTION:The Childhood and Youth Studies (CYS) Research Focus Group welcomes undergraduate and graduate students\, faculty\, and staff from any department with an interest in childhood and youth studies to attend our Open House! \nLearn about the new CYS minor\, our proposed PhD emphasis\, and connect with our growing CYS community! \nJoin us for more information on upcoming courses\, graduate and undergraduate research opportunities\, talks\, mentoring\, internship opportunities\, and film screenings. Refreshments provided. \nThis event is sponsored by the IHC’s Childhood and Youth Studies Research Focus Group. \nContact Nicole Smirnoff at nicolebsmirnoff@ucsb.edu with questions. \nWebsite: https://www.complit.ucsb.edu/undergraduate/minor-childhood-and-youth-studies
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-event-childhood-and-youth-studies-open-house/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB*\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Childhood and Youth Studies,All Events,IHC Research Focus Groups
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T180000
DTSTAMP:20260917T203045Z
CREATED:20260917T200419Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260917T203045Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Food and The Body:  The Politics of What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:What we eat may feel like a matter of personal choice\, but our choices are shaped by powerful forces: food companies and their marketing teams\, government policy\, agricultural subsidies\, public health priorities\, and an industry whose profits depend on selling us more. \nIn this conversation with Good Food host Evan Kleiman\, pioneering food-policy scholar Dr. Marion Nestle will explore how corporate and political power shape the American diet — and\, ultimately\, our bodies. Drawing on decades of work investigating the intersection of food\, nutrition\, business\, and politics\, as well as her new book\, Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food\, written with Lisa Sutherland\, Dr. Nestle will examine who gets to decide what constitutes a healthy diet\, why meaningful food-policy reform is so difficult\, and what it takes for individuals and communities to push back against a food system designed around corporate interests. \nDr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health\, Emerita\, at New York University and the author of numerous books\, including Food Politics\, Soda Politics\, Unsavory Truth\, and What to Eat. She writes regularly about the intersection of food\, nutrition\, and politics at FoodPolitics.com. \nEvan Kleiman has been called the “fairy godmother of the L.A food scene.” Former chef-restaurateur\, cookbook author\, and host of KCRW’s Good Food radio show and podcast for nearly 30 years\, Evan is known for her conversational interview style focusing on how food informs human life and life choices. She has interviewed thousands of guests ranging from artists\, cookbook authors\, and chefs to farmers and scientists\, which has enabled her to explore every aspect of food culture and how it intersects with our lives. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-food-and-the-body-the-politics-of-what-we-eat/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,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:20261105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T181823Z
CREATED:20260914T220528Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T181823Z
UID:10000819-1793894400-1793901600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A-Maizing Nahua Healers: Colonial Attacks on Indigenous Healers in Early Modern Central Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco will discuss how Nahua healers used maize to heal the human body in central Mexican communities in the 16th century. Titiçih (Nahua healing specialists) provided maize to patients topically and orally and relied on it for answers about illnesses. Dr. Polanco will also explore how Spanish Catholic authorities viewed these healers and their practices as a threat to settler colonial society and attempted to extirpate them. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Edward Anthony Polanco is a Kuskatanchanej scholar of Mesoamerica. His parents fled their homeland due to political violence and instability. Although he was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, his ancestors are from Kuskatan of the Nahua territories\, in what is now western and central El Salvador. He is an associate professor\, associate chair\, and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History\, and the director of Indigenous Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, VA. Dr. Polanco’s research presents Native ideas with Indigenous concepts and focuses on 15th-\, 16th-\, and 17th-century Nahua communities in Mexico and El Salvador. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-maizing-nahua-healers-colonial-attacks-on-indigenous-healers-in-early-modern-central-mexico/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,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:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T173000
DTSTAMP:20260916T225017Z
CREATED:20260828T233653Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260916T225017Z
UID:10000817-1794499200-1794504600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Jeffrey Hoelle
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Jeffrey Hoelle (Anthropology) and David Pellow (Environmental Studies) about Hoelle’s new book\, Cultivated: Plants\, Hair\, and the Aesthetic of Control. In this book\, Hoelle traces the imprint of cultivation across the naturally growing covers of the land and body—plants and hair. The book builds from research in the agricultural fields and cattle pastures at the edge of the Amazon rainforest to domestic landscapes and hair salons and shops in the frontier cities of Brazil and beyond. In spaces where the tangled forest once stood\, clean pastures and ordered rows of crops now sit on properties with geometric edges. From rural spaces to immaculate lawns and cemeteries in the city\, the imprint leads to the body\, where hair\, like plant growth\, is cut\, trimmed\, and otherwise managed. Seemingly separate domains of agriculture\, landscaping\, and personal grooming are governed by a similar aesthetic of control. This unique pairing of land and body expands our understanding of cultivation as a practice and as an ideology that operates in frontier Amazonia—but also closer to home\, influencing how we conceptualize and interpret the covers that grow on and around us\, and our imagined relations with nature in the future. Hoelle argues that we must understand this system of thought and the overlooked role it plays in environmental destruction and social inequality. \nJeffrey Hoelle is a professor of anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Rainforest Cowboys: The Rise of Ranching and Cattle Culture in Western Amazonia. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-jeffrey-hoelle/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T225448Z
CREATED:20260810T232258Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T225448Z
UID:10000813-1795104000-1795111200@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability\, Blackface\, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her national best-selling book Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment\, Rhae Lynn Barnes will explore the complex intersections of disability\, presidential power\, and racial masquerade. She will examine how minstrelsy and the dark cast of blackface performance functioned both as cultural entertainment and a political prosthetic during the Roosevelt era\, masking the physical vulnerability of white children with polio while reinforcing racial hierarchies. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. A fourth-generation Southern Californian\, she earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Barnes is also the founder of the digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, providing historical multimedia curriculum resources to public schools. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-dark-cast-disability-blackface-and-fdr/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270119T173000
DTSTAMP:20260929T225017Z
CREATED:20260828T232742Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260929T225017Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Eric Prieto
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue with Eric Prieto (French and Italian) about his new book\, Urban Informality and Narrative Form.  \nUrban Informality and Narrative Form brings together literary analysis and spatial planning theory in an interdisciplinary study of urban informality. The book explores the forces that have led to the prevalence of urban informality and critically considers common misconceptions about this phenomenon. It highlights the great diversity of subjective experiences hidden behind the euphemistic “informal settlement” (or the more pejorative “slum”) and identifies promising pathways forward for the urban poor. At a time when more than half of all city dwellers in the Global South live in an informal settlement of some type\, the urgency of this topic could not be clearer. \nEric Prieto is Professor of French and Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of Literature\, Geography\, and the Postmodern Poetics of Place (2012) and co-editor of Urban Discourses of Crisis\, Resilience\, and Resistance (with Liam Lanigan and Anni Lappela; 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-eric-prieto/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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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:20270128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T225538Z
CREATED:20260914T225621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T225538Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: American Sexual Exceptionalism: Sex\, Labor\, and U.S. Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Between the 1870s and 1930s\, American social reformers\, working closely with the U.S. government\, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking\, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. American reformers successfully pushed for international anti-trafficking agreements that mirrored U.S. laws\, calling for states to criminalize commercial sex and restrict migration\, and harming the very women they claimed to protect. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEva Payne is associate professor of United States history at the University of Mississippi. She is a historian of gender\, sexuality\, labor\, and U.S. empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press\, 2024) received the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. The book has been featured in such publications as the New Yorker and BBC History. Her writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy\, the Journal of Women’s History\, Radical History Review\, and the European Review of Books. She serves as the Co-Director of the Queer Mississippi Histories Project at the University of Mississippi. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-american-sexual-exceptionalism-sex-labor-and-us-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,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:20270211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270211T173000
DTSTAMP:20260922T225608Z
CREATED:20260901T234600Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260922T225608Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elizabeth Digeser
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Elizabeth Digeser (History) and Christine Thomas (Religious Studies) about Digeser’s new book\, Constantine\, the Once and Future King: Constructing Apocalyptic Autocracy in Late Antique Gaul. Though the rule of Constantine I from 306 to 337 CE represented a sea change in the ancient world\, the emperor’s path to consolidating power and securing his legacy was hardly a straightforward one. In this book\, Digeser uses material culture and textual evidence to tell the story of Constantine’s rise to power and how his image and ideology developed into the foundation of Christian autocracy in late antiquity. Drawing on panegyrics\, inscriptions\, and archaeological evidence from cities such as Trier\, Vienne\, and Autun\, each chapter reconstructs events through the perspectives of those who shaped and interpreted them—officials\, propagandists\, and clergy—to reveal how belief in Constantine’s divine favor emerged. Digeser tells a multifaceted\, bottom-up story of everyday life in the late ancient Roman Empire\, combining narrative reconstruction and close material and textual analysis to show how imperial image-making in Gaul forged an enduring synthesis of Christian autocracy with Roman imperial rule. \nElizabeth DePalma Digeser is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, founding editor of the journal Studies in Late Antiquity\, and author of The Making of a Christian Empire: Lactantius and Rome and A Threat to Public Piety: Christians\, Platonists\, and the Great Persecution. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elizabeth-digeser/
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:20270218T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270218T180000
DTSTAMP:20261015T153129Z
CREATED:20260924T200630Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20261015T153129Z
UID:10000823-1802966400-1802973600@ihc.ucsb.edu
SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Art\, Culture\, Ethics\, and Disabilty
DESCRIPTION:Disability is a concept\, social identity\, community\, and shared human experience represented in history\, literature\, visual art\, music\, dance\, architecture\, design\, and popular culture. Images show and shape the way we think about disability and people with disabilities and how we understand variation in human bodies. New ways of seeing and representing disability have appeared in U.S. public culture because of the civil and human rights movement\, its laws\, attitudes\, and social changes. This talk explores these issues by bringing forward the history\, culture\, politics\, aesthetics\, and ethics of disability and people living with disabilities. \nRosemarie Garland-Thomson is a professor emerita of English and bioethics at Emory University. She works in disability culture\, bioethics\, and health humanities. She is a Hastings Center Senior Advisor and member of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. She is the co-editor of About Us: Essays from the New York Times about Disability by People with Disabilities and author of Staring: How We Look and several other books. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Idee Levitan Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-art-culture-ethics-and-disabilty/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270304T173000
DTSTAMP:20260928T222817Z
CREATED:20260914T234652Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260928T222817Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Hangping Xu
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Hangping Xu (East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies) and Catherine Nesci (French and Italian) about Xu’s new book\, Crip China: Ablenationalism and Disability Aesthetics. In Crip China\, Hangping Xu offers a compelling account of Chinese modernism and modernity through the lens of disability\, or what he calls “a cripistemology of modern China.” Central to the book is a critique of “ablenationalism” as a recurring ideology in modern China: a national fantasy that imagines ideal citizens as productive\, disciplined\, often masculine\, and physically or mentally able. Within this cultural logic\, Xu argues\, disability repeatedly emerges as a thematic and aesthetic device that shores up normative subjectivities always already on the verge of collapse. Through close readings of literature\, film\, and digital media\, he shows how disability at once sustains and disrupts this national fantasy. Refusing to reduce disability to stock narratives of pathology\, pity\, and pathos\, Xu explores it as an intersectional political identity and embodied experience—one that enables new forms of collectivity and articulates an ethic of care for a more hospitable world beyond ablenationalism. By placing modern Chinese literary studies in conversation with critical disability studies\, Crip China both rereads the modern Chinese canon and reorients disability studies beyond its Euro-American genealogy. Comparative in scope and method\, the book also brings crip Chinese literature into broader debates in comparative literature and world literature. \nHangping Xu is Assistant Professor of Chinese Cultural Studies and\, by affiliation\, Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He previously taught at Middlebury College. He holds a Ph.D. in Chinese Literature from Stanford University\, with a Ph.D. minor in Gender and Sexuality Studies and extensive coursework in Digital Humanities. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-hangping-xu/
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:20270415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T194408Z
CREATED:20260818T235219Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20260901T194408Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends
DESCRIPTION:Esmé E. Deprez is an investigative reporter whose father was an aid-in-dying patient. In her forthcoming book\, she explores assisted death through both a clinical and a personal perspective. She considers assisted death as a social phenomenon\, a legal and political movement\, and an area of medical practice that has transformed end-of-life health care. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDeprez is the author of the forthcoming book Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends (Simon & Schuster\, 2027). Deprez spent 14 years as a reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. Her work has been recognized by National Magazine Awards\, Livingston Awards\, the National Press Foundation\, among many others. She is a contributor to The New York Times. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-inviting-death-in-how-i-helped-my-dad-die-and-the-fight-to-control-how-life-ends/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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