05
Feb
Audio / Visual
03
Feb
Dialogue With Water
Wang Shu (China Academy of Art, winner of the Pritzker Prize) Tuesday, February 3, 2015 / 4:00 PM MultiCultural Center Theater
29
Jan
On Streaming
Allison Adelle Hedge Coke (poet, winner of the American Book Award) Thursday, January 29, 2015 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
04
Dec
High and Dry: On Deserts and ‘Crisis’
Dick Hebdige (Film & Media Studies & Studio Art, UCSB) Thursday, December 4, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
21
Nov
Problems with the Anthropocene: A View from Rural Amazonia
Nicholas C. Kawa (Anthropology, Ball State University) Friday, November 21, 2014 / 1:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
20
Nov
Into the Bowels of the Anthropocene: Excrement and the Current Ecological Crisis
Nicholas C. Kawa (Anthropology, Ball State University) Thursday, November 20, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
18
Nov
Balancing on a Planet: Can Local Food Improve Health, Increase Equity, and Slow Global Warming?
David A. Cleveland (Environmental Studies, UCSB) Tuesday, November 18, 2014 / 4:00 PM Pacific View Room, UCSB Library
13
Nov
Charting a ‘Good’ Path in a Turbulent Age
Andrew Revkin (The New York Times) Thursday, November 13, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB (Please plan to arrive early; seating is limited.)
04
Nov
The Anthropocene: A New Epoch of Thought?
Kathryn Yusoff (Human Geography, Queen Mary University of London) Tuesday, November 4, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
30
Oct
Should We Welcome the Anthropocene?
Ken Hiltner (English and Environmental Studies, UCSB) Thursday, October 30, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
01
May
Nature of Care: The Racial Politics of American Philanthropy
Karen Ferguson (History, Simon Fraser University) Thursday, May 1, 2014 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
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IHC Series / Audio / Visual / The Value of Care / Endowments / Series / Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment / Upcoming Events
17
Apr
Inhabiting the Space of Empathy
Jennifer Luce (architect, Luce et Studio) Thursday, April 17, 2014 / 5:00 PM
04
Mar
Much Ado About Liberal Education: What It is and How to Get One, Clio’s Mischief Notwithstanding
Sheldon Rothblatt (History, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, March 4 / 4:00 PM
18
Feb
To Grow or Not to Grow: Post-Recession Challenges Facing UC
John Aubrey Douglass (Center for Studies in Higher Education, UC Berkeley) Tuesday, February 18, 2014 / 4:00 PM
06
Feb
The Good Funeral: Death, Grief and the Community of Care
Thomas Lynch (poet, author of The Undertaking: Life Studies from the Dismal Trade) Thomas Long (Candler School of Theology, Emory University) Thursday, February 6, 2014 / 5:00 PM
23
Jan
Helplessness
Deborah Nelson (English, University of Chicago) Thursday, January 23, 2014 / 4:00 PM
21
Jan
The Po-ethics of Mediterranean Melancholia
Laura Sarnelli (IHC Visiting Scholar, University of Naples L'Orientale) Tuesday, January 21, 2014 / 4:00 PM
09
Jan
Caring Democracy: The Paradigm Changes
Joan Tronto (Political Science, University of Minnesota) Thursday, January 9, 2014 / 4:00 PM
26
Nov
Robot Caregivers and Robo-therapy in Japan: Treating the “Trauma” of Aging
Jennifer Robertson (Anthropology, Art, University of Michigan) Tuesday, November 26, 2013 / 5:00 PM
14
Nov
Soul Service: The Politics and Ethics of Practicing Michel Foucault’s Care of the Self
Jane Flax (Philosophy and Religion, American University) Thursday, November 14, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
06
Nov
Life as a Terrorist: The FBI and Me
William T. Vollmann (National Book Award recipient) Wednesday, November 6, 2013 / 4:00 PM
05
Nov
Ethics, Animality and Ahuman Theory
Patricia MacCormack (English, Communication, Film and Media, Anglia Ruskin University) Tuesday, November 5, 2013 / 4:00 PM
17
Oct
Inaugural Lecture: Care of the Wild: Sense, Sentience and the ‘Primitive State’
Aranye Fradenburg (English, UCSB) Thursday, October 17, 2013 /4:00 PM
09
May
Remembering War, Looking Forward
John W.I. Lee (History, UCSB) with series closing remarks by IHC director Susan Derwin
12
Feb
Combat Trauma and Moral Injury
Jonathan Shay (author of Achilles in Vietnam: Combat Trauma and the Undoing of Character and Odysseus in America: Combat Trauma and the Trials of Homecoming) Tuesday, February 12, 2013 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
24
May
The Uses of the University in 2050: A Report from the All-UC Faculty Charrette
Audio Now Available...
17
May
Annie Leonard on the Value of the Humanities
Click here for "The Story of Stuff" author Annie Leonard's comments on the importance of the humanities, recorded during her UCSB Regents' Lectureship....
15
May
Defending the Communications Commons: Hackers, Spies, and Internet Freedom in an Era of Twenty-first Century Statecraft
Sascha Meinrath (Director, the New America Foundation's Open Technology Initiative) Tuesday, May 15, 2012 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB
03
May
Digitize, Democratize: Libraries and the Future of Books
Robert Darnton (Carl H. Pforzheimer University Professor and Director of the University Library, Harvard) Thursday, May 3, 2012 / 5:00 PM
24
Apr
The People in Power are Nothing to Fear: Jessica Mitford and the Public Good
Leslie Brody (Creative Writing, University of Redlands) Tuesday, April 24, 2012 / 4:00 PM
08
Mar
Globalization, the Commons, and the Limits of Democracy
Boatema Boateng (Communication, UCSD) Thursday, March 8, 2012 / 5:00 PM
09
Feb
Intellectual Property and Molecular Biology: Biomedicine, Commerce, and the CCR5 Gene
Myles Jackson (Polytechnic Institute, NYU) Thursday, February 9, 2012 / 4:00 PM
18
Jan
Republic Lost: How Money Corrupts Congress–and a Plan to Stop It
Lawrence Lessig (Harvard Law School) Wednesday, January 18, 2012 / 4:00 PM
10
Nov
Maps as a Public Good: Crowdsourcing in Fire Emergencies
Michael F. Goodchild (Geography, UCSB) Thursday, November 10, 2011 / 4:00 PM
03
Nov
Reclaiming Fair Use: The Best Practices Approach
Peter Jaszi (Law, American University) Thursday, November 3, 2011 / 4:00 PM
27
Oct
The Fog of Freedom: Liberation and Lock-in in the Age of the Internet
Christopher Kelty (Center for Society and Genetics and Information Studies, UCLA) Thursday, October 27, 2011 / 4:00 PM
01
Oct
01
Oct
Articulating The Public Good: Protocols of Liberty and the American Revolution
Audio Now Available...
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Audio / Visual
01
Mar
Isla Vista: Near Goleta, But Closer – The Poetics of Place
Harry Reese (Art, UCSB) Tuesday, March 1, 2011 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In February 1991 at the Santa Barbara Contemporary Arts Forum, Harry and Sandra Liddell Reese exhibited “Near Goleta, But Closer,” a book installation subtitled “An Unnatural History.” While making...
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Audio / Visual / Featured Events / Geographies of Place / Local Places / Series / IHC Series / Archive
24
Feb
Keeping Time IV: Longitude and Simultaneity in Philosophy, Physics, and Empires
Bernhard Siegert (Bauhaus University of Weimar, Germany) Thursday, February 24 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB Bernhard Siegert co-directs the International Research Institute for Cultural Technologies and Media Philosophy (IKKM) in Weimar. Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Humanities and the IHC’s Keeping Time RFG. Website: http://www.gss.ucsb.edu/projects/keeping_time/ Click...
08
Nov
What is the New Normal in Higher Education?
Stanley Katz (Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs, Princeton University) Monday, November 8, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB The financial crisis of the past two years looks like its becoming structural, especially in the public universities. Is privatization the answer, at least for the "elite" state sector in higher education? If so, what are the implications both for the elites and "the rest"? A related question is what can/will replace the traditional, if nervous, balance between research and instruction in universities? How do we balance the growing pressures for greater inclusion of the college age cohort, and the growing cost of increasingly specialized research? The post-World War II history of higher education, with the emergence of the multiversity, has been one of more or less successful adaptation of traditional organizational structures. But haven't we reached the point at which we can no longer add epicycles without destroying the basic structure of higher education? Sponsored by the IHC's Faculty Forums series and the UCSB Faculty Association.
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Upcoming Events / IHC Series / Audio / Visual / Faculty Forums / Series / Future of the University
04
Nov
Keeping Time II
Mario Biagioli (History of Science, Harvard) Rüdiger Campe (German, Yale) Thursday, November 4 / 5:00 PM McCune Conference Room This second event in the "Keeping Time" series features two talks on the construction of temporal categories in literature and science, from the 17th through the early 19th century. Mario...
21
Oct
From 1973 Photo Documentary to 2010 Cyber-Infrastructure Cultural Atlas
George Legrady (Media Arts & Technology, UCSB) Thursday, October 21, 2010 / 4:00 PM McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB In 1973, George Legrady created a photographic document of everyday life in four James Bay Cree Indian settlements in sub-arctic Canada at the time of the start of their...
30
Apr
Future of Publishing in the Humanities Audio Now Available
The audio version of the Future of the University series' Future of Publishing in the Humanities event is now available on the event webpage. ...
09
Mar
Current and Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing Audio Available
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University: Current and Emerging Trends in Scholarly Publishing event is now available for steaming on the event webpage....
29
Jan
Future of the University : Equity and Access Audio Available
The audio recording of the IHC’s Future of the University : Equity and Access event is now available for listening on the event webpage....
29
Dec
Future of the University Audio Now Available
The audio recordings from the IHC's Future of the University symposium with talks by Jennifer Washburn and David Marshall is now available on the event webpage....