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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270211T160000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270218T160000
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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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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270415T160000
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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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