This year the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s public events series will explore the forces that shape boundaries, the energies that collect around them, and the urgencies that spur their crossing. Under certain conditions, movement across boundaries can liberate, empower, and stimulate creativity, while under different conditions, it can cause trauma,...
Thursday, May 18, 2017 / 7:30 PM UCSB Campbell Hall The question of whether ISIS (the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria) poses an existential threat to the United States and to countries in the Middle East remains a security issue of national and international consequence. Monica...
The Interdisciplinary Humanities Center seeks a graduate student to work with humanities center faculty and staff leadership to design and implement a communications project that consists of creating a database of faculty on campus who are involved in publicly-engaged teaching and research. The project will...
Talks by previous speakers for the IHC's public events series are now available on Vimeo....
Read the article about this reading by UCSB student veterans at the IHC....
Read the article about this year's series....
Mary Karr (The Liars’ Club, The Art of Memoir) Wednesday, February 10 7:00 PM UCSB Corwin Pavilion FREE...
You may watch the video here. More information on the conference is available here....
Missed an event? You can listen to it here....
The full call for proposals is available here. Read more about the call from UCLA Digital Humanities. ...
Jacqueline Rose (Birkbeck Institute for the Humanities, University of London) Monday, October 19, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The killing of Reeva Steenkamp and the trial of Oscar Pistorius in South Africa touch on some of the most difficult questions of sexual...
Click here to watch the 2015-16 IHC Inaugural Lecture: Ecstasy: Linking the Humanities and the Brain by Ann Taves....
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Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
Instructors: Barbara L.E. Walker, Ph.D (Office of Research) Brian Donnelly, Ph.D (Dept. of English, Interdisciplinary Humanities Center) Mondays, 10:00 AM-12:00 PM HSSB 5056 Course Description: A graduate-level course covering the fundamentals of funding searches, research design, and proposal writing for students, in the humanities, arts, and...
The full press release can be read here....
The Anthropocene: Views from the Humanities...
Congratulations to Andrew Kalaidjian (English) and Jacqueline Viskup (Theater & Dance). For more information and a list of previous UCSB UC Graduate Fellows in the Humanities click here. ...
For more information, please visit: https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/funding-opportunities/...
Click here to read about upcoming IHC Winter events in the Santa Barbara Noozhawk....
Tuesday, October 22 / 4:00 PM Lotte Lehmann Concert Hall, UCSB Music Building (please note venue change) more...
Stephanie Batiste (English and Black Studies) and Veronica Castillo-Munoz (History) have received 2013-14 fellowships from the UC Humanities Network. Details here. ...
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Deadline to apply is July 15, 2013. For more information please visit https://www.ihc.ucsb.edu/graduate-affiliates-program/...
Thursday-Friday, April 25-26, 2013 Click here for a schedule and registration information....
Click here to read "Women in Combat: Listening to Those Who Have Been There"....
Wednesday, May 15 / 8:00 PM Campbell Hall – FREE Click here for more information....
Click here to read about Martha Bragin's talk for the IHC's Fallout: In the Aftermath of War series, "Knowing Terrible Things: Thinking the Unthinkable in Time of War", in The Bottom Line. ...
Click here to read the official UCSB press release for the IHC series Fallout: In the Aftermath of War....
Click here for information about John E. Talbott's "War in History and Memory" and to listen to the talk. ...
Wafaa Bilal's Artist Talk (originally scheduled for Thursday, February 7 at 4:00 PM in the McCune Conference Room) has been canceled. We apologize for any inconvenience....
Click here to view an album of photos of students working with IHC Artist in Residence, Dominic Fredianelli. ...
Click here for a brief summary of the talk and a link to the video....
The recipients of this year's UC Graduate Fellows in Humanities awards are: Pavneet Aulakh, English, "Beyond Words: The Visual Turn in Jacobean England" Anastasia Yumeko Hill, Film and Media Studies, "Psychonautic Media"...
Dexter Filkins visit to UCSB has been rescheduled for Wednesday, January 16, 2013. For more details, click here....
Audio Now Available...
Click here for "The Story of Stuff" author Annie Leonard's comments on the importance of the humanities, recorded during her UCSB Regents' Lectureship....
Please join us Tuesday, May 22 at 3:00 PM in 6020 HSSB for a report on "The Uses of the University in 2050" faculty charrette, which took place February 23-26 at UCSB. Click here for more information. ...