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    • Humanities Decanted: Elizabeth Digeser

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

    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 ...

    Heroic Roses painting by Paul Klee

    Bodies Politic Talk: Art, Culture, Ethics, and Disabilty

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

    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 ...

    • Humanities Decanted: Hangping Xu

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

    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 ...

    • 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 ...