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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
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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: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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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/
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