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    • New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2025-26 Faculty Fellows

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

    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. Alicia Boswell, History of Art and Architecture “Ancient Moche Metals from Loma Negra, Peru: Performance in the Past and Present” Heather Blurton, English “Piety and Prejudice: The Ritual Crucifixion Accusation in Late Medieval England” Howard Chiang, East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies “The ...

    Research Focus Group Talk: The Funny Thing About Noise: Film Sound Aesthetics in the Cold War Cinema of Taiwan and South Korea

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

    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 ...

    Research Focus Group Event: Undergraduate Research and Creative Showcase

    6206C Phelps and Zoom UC Santa Barbara, Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    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 ...

    Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguín

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

    WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ Join 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, ...

    Research Focus Group Talk: Re-negotiating the Algorithmic Contract: The Need for a Politics of Potentiality

    3605 South Hall Santa Barbara, CA, United States

    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: ...

    Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program Capstone Presentations

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

    Join us to celebrate our 2026 program graduates! Katherina Gontaryuk (Philosophy) Olivia Henderson (English) Martina Mattei (Comparative Literature) Claudia Mendoza Chavez (Anthropology) Russell Nylen (Anthropology) Edward Reyes (Chicana/o Studies) Eunwoo Yoo (Theater and Dance) Each 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.

    • open house 2026

    IHC Open House

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

    You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday, October 1, from 4 to 6 pm. Meet 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. Cosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts

    • Humanities Decanted: Jeffrey Hoelle

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

    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 ...

    Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability, Blackface, and Franklin D. Roosevelt

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

    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. Dr. ...

    • Bodies Politic Talk: Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends

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

    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. Deprez is the author of the forthcoming book Inviting Death In: How I Helped ...