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On Fire Talk: Mass Deportation as Racial Engineering

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

Ahilan Arulanantham will describe the role race discrimination has played in immigration and refugee policy and how that history continues to play out in the current struggle over the Temporary Protected Status program, which allows individuals to remain in the United States because of unsafe conditions in their home countries. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. Ahilan T. Arulanantham is Professor from Practice and Co-Director of the Center for Immigration Law and Policy (CILP) ...

On Fire Talk: The Fires Last Time: Landlord Arson and the Reverb of Racial Capitalism

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

Last year's wildfires in L.A. turned a spotlight on a corner of the insurance world that typically exists in the shadows: the California FAIR plan, the state's insurer of last resort. Though it is now synonymous with wildfire risk, the FAIR plan is the byproduct of a very different conflagration: the Watts uprising of 1965. The strange career of the FAIR plan illustrates the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and ...

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 ...

Humanities Decanted: Josephine Metcalf

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

Join us for a dialogue between Josephine Metcalf (University of Hull) and Ben Olguín (English) 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, incarceration and drug abuse, gruelling factory work and union organising activities and collective approaches to redemption and ...

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.