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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Mario T. García
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Mario T. García (Chicana and Chicano Studies) and Melinda Gandara (Santa Barbara City College) about García’s new book\, Rupert García: The Making of an American Artist\, a Testimonio. Rupert García is a compelling story of a working-class Mexican American from California’s Central Valley who became a major American artist with national and international recognition. Mario T. García’s oral history of Rupert García\, based on extensive interviews over many years\, provides a captivating autobiographical narrative of the life and times of an American artist. This testimonio places Rupert García’s art in historical perspective\, spanning his beginnings in Stockton\, California and his time in the Air Force\, including participating in the U.S. war in Vietnam\, to his experience at San Francisco State during the historic San Francisco State student strike in 1968–69. Influenced by history and politics\, Rupert García’s art speaks to a changing America through the eyes of an artist\, speaking to issues of race\, class\, imperialism\, war\, and the role of the artist in society. \nMario T. García is a Distinguished Professor Emeritus of Chicana and Chicano studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He has published over 20 books over the course of his career\, including Blowout!: Sal Castro and the Chicano Struggle for Educational Justice and The Latino Generation: Voices of the New America. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-mario-t-garcia/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260219T180000
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Looking\, After the Fires
DESCRIPTION:In recent years\, unprecedented wildfires ravaged multiple continents. The fires grow ever larger\, more destructive\, and more ubiquitous as our changing climate plunges us further into the Pyrocene. Despite the scale of the devastation\, small moments of optimism can be found in elemental ecological reflexes. Fires have motivated similar bursts of creative response from human cultural networks as well\, inspiring – perhaps necessitating – new ways to conceive of ourselves in relation to our landscapes. Drawing across disciplines\, this talk explores collected depictions of post-fire landscapes in Italy\, Japan\, and California and searches for new ways to consider human relationships to the landscape and built environment. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nMegumi Aihara is a Landscape Architect. She has played a significant role in the design and construction of landscapes of all scales across the United States and beyond. Her work at SAW and her past teaching as an Adjunct Professor of Architecture at California College of the Arts focuses on blurring distinctions between landscape and architecture. She holds an MLA from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Landscape Architect in California and Hawaii. \nDan Spiegel is an Architect. He is a Continuing Lecturer in Architecture at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design\, where he coordinates advanced graduate studios. Dan’s work spans scales and timelines\, intertwining the conceptual with the practical\, using a background in Public Policy to deploy design as a tool for community engagement and development. He holds an M.Arch from the Harvard University Graduate School of Design and is a licensed Architect in California and Hawaii. \nTogether\, Megumi and Dan founded the hybrid practice SAW (pronounced “Saw”) in San Francisco\, CA in 2014. Their work spans scales\, timelines\, disciplines\, and continents. SAW was the recipient of the League Prize from the Architectural League of New York in 2018\, Design Vanguard from Architectural Record in 2019\, New Talent from Metropolis Magazine\, Next Progressives from Architect Magazine\, Emerging Talent from the Monterey Design Conference\, as well as several regional and national awards from the American Institute of Architects. Their work has been published and exhibited widely\, including the solo show “Other Objectives” at the UC Berkeley College of Environmental Design and the recent installation “Looking\, After the Fires” at the 2025 World Expo in Osaka. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Idee Levitan IHC Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/looking-after-the-fires/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260212T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Suzanne Jill Levine
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Suzanne Jill Levine (Spanish and Portuguese) and Leo Cabranes-Grant (Spanish and Portuguese) about Levine’s new book\, Unfaithful: A Translator’s Memoir. In Unfaithful\, Levine interweaves her personal history and translation history in an important period. Levine analyzes how her openness to another culture and new experiences\, along with a knack for translating the most difficult Latin American novels and positive interactions with her authors\, took her from a modest New York background into a whole new literary and linguistic world. Unfaithful was recently listed by Words Without Borders as a 2025 best book in the field of translation. \nSuzanne Jill Levine is Distinguished Research Professor Emerita of Spanish and Portuguese at the University of California\, Santa Barbara and recipient of the 2024 PEN/Ralph Manheim Award for Translation\, which recognizes the translator’s lifetime achievements. An eminent translator whose prolific literary career began in the early 1970s\, she has won many honors and translated over forty volumes of Latin American fiction. Editor and co-translator of the five-volume series of Jorge Luis Borges’ poetry and non-fictions for Penguin paperback classics (2010)\, her most recent translation\, Guadalupe Nettel’s Bezoar and Other Unsettling Stories\, was shortlisted for the 2021 Oxford-Weidenfeld Prize. She is also author of The Subversive Scribe: Translating Latin American Fiction (1991; 2006) and the biography Manuel Puig & the Spiderwoman: His Life and Fictions (2000). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-suzanne-jill-levine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260205T173000
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Elana Resnick
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Elana Resnick (Anthropology) and Charles Hale (Dean of Social Sciences) about Resnick’s new book\, Refusing Sustainability: Race and Environmentalism in a Changing Europe. Sustainability has become a touchstone for development worldwide\, promising an antidote to environmental degradation and capitalism’s excess: waste. Refusing Sustainability presents a fundamentally different account of sustainability and waste itself by uncovering the intersections of international environmental reforms and racialized labor. In Bulgaria\, Roma comprise the bulk of the country’s waste workers\, while anti-Roma racism casts them as socially disposable. Without their labor\, however\, the country cannot meet the sustainability targets required by the European Union. Drawing on fieldwork that spans twenty years\, including eleven months working alongside Romani women street sweepers and years embedded in waste organizations\, political campaigns\, Roma NGOs\, and activist groups\, Resnick examines the power hierarchies that shape both waste management and European geopolitics. \nElana Resnick is an Assistant Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, where she directs the Infrastructural Inequalities Research Group. Her research examines waste\, racialization\, labor\, nuclear energy\, and friendship through multi-modal methods. She has published in journals including American Anthropologist\, American Ethnologist\, Cultural Anthropology\, and Public Culture. She is the recipient of the 2025 Carolina de Miguel Moyer Young Scholar Award from the Council for European Studies. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-elana-resnick/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260129T120000
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260127T150000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 27 | 2–3 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nThursday\, January 29 | 11 AM–12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-27-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260122T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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LAST-MODIFIED:20260316T212926Z
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Keepers of the Flame: Learning to Be in Relation with Fire
DESCRIPTION:Keepers of the Flame is an initiative rooted in relationships—between cultural fire practitioners and students/faculty\, and between people\, plants\, and fire. In a context of settler colonial environmental policy and increasing risk of catastrophic fire\, Keepers centers respect for Indigenous fire practitioners\, recognition of fire as part of the landscape\, and personal\, place-based understandings with fire. With attention to the environmental injustices of land theft and fire suppression and the inequitable impacts of catastrophic fire\, through Keepers\, we begin to cultivate a respectful relation with fire. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBeth Rose Middleton is a Professor of Native American Studies at UC Davis and the author of Trust in the Land: New Directions in Tribal Conservation (2011\, UA Press) and Upstream: Trust Lands and Power on the Feather River (2018\, UA Press). A collaborative social scientist\, Beth Rose strives to develop and sustain partnerships with Tribes and Native/Indigenous non-profit organizations on environmental health\, sustainable rural economic development\, the historical and political context of river restoration\, the reintroduction of low-intensity fire for land/water/community health\, and Indigenous-led stewardship and climate adaptation. Beth Rose received her B.A. in Nature and Culture from UC Davis and her Ph.D. in Environmental Science\, Policy\, and Management from UC Berkeley. Beth Rose mentors undergraduate and graduate students and postdocs in Native American Studies\, Ecology\, Public Health Sciences\, Geography\, and Community Development. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/keepers-of-the-flame/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251104T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:On Fire Talk: Spheres of Injustice: Minority Politics Today
DESCRIPTION:How can we revitalize minority politics while making the fight against discrimination beneficial for all? Bruno Perreau proposes thinking about minority experiences relationally. How one person is governed has a direct impact on how another is. Legal provisions that protect gender can be used to protect race; those that protect disability can protect age\, sexual orientation\, or class\, and so on. This is what Perreau calls intrasectionality\, a new concept and an innovative legal strategy to tackle today’s political challenges. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nBruno Perreau is the Cynthia L. Reed Professor of French Studies at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and Faculty Affiliate at the Minda de Gunzburg Center for European Studies\, Harvard University. He is the founding chair of MIT’s Center of Excellence in French Studies. Perreau is also the author of thirteen books on French and US institutions\, bioethics\, family policies\, queer cultures\, minority politics\, and contemporary theories of justice\, among them The Politics of Adoption (MIT Press\, 2014)\, Queer Theory: The French Response (Stanford University Press\, 2016)\, Les Défis de la République (with Joan W. Scott\, Presses de Sciences Po\, 2017)\, and Spheres of Injustice: The Ethical Promise of Minority Presence (MIT Press\, 2025). \nCoponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series and the Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/spheres-of-injustice-minority-politics-today/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251021T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Melody Jue
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation about Melody Jue’s (English) recent co-edited volume\, Informatics of Domination. Jue will be joined by co-editors Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee and contributor Rita Raley (English). Lisa Parks (Film and Media Studies) will moderate. Informatics of Domination is an experimental collection addressing formations of power that manifest through technical systems and white capitalist patriarchy in the twenty-first century. The volume takes its name from a chart in Donna J. Haraway’s canonical 1985 essay “A Manifesto for Cyborgs.” Haraway theorizes the informatics of domination as a feminist\, diagrammatic concept for situating power and a world system from which the figure of the cyborg emerges. Informatics of Domination builds on Haraway’s chart as an open structure for thought\, inviting fifty scholars\, artists\, and creative writers to unfold new perspectives. Their writings take on a variety of forms\, such as essays on artificial intelligence\, disability and protest\, and transpacific imaginaries; conversations with an AI trained on Black oral history; a three-dimensional response to Mexico-US border tensions; hand-drawn images on queer autotheory; ecological fictions about gut microbiomes and wet markets; and more. Together\, the writings take up the unfinished structure of the chart in order to proliferate critiques of white capitalist patriarchal power with the study of information systems\, networks\, and computation today. \nMelody Jue is a Professor of English at the University of California\, Santa Barbara\, working across the fields of ocean humanities\, science fiction\, science studies\, and media theory. She is the author of Wild Blue Media: Thinking Through Seawater (Duke University Press\, 2020)\, which won the 2020 Speculative Fictions and Cultures of Science book award. She is the co-editor with Rafico Ruiz of Saturation (Duke University Press\, 2021) and co-editor with Zach Blas and Jennifer Rhee of Informatics of Domination (Duke University Press\, 2025). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-melody-jue/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20251009T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:On Fire Inaugural Talk: When It All Burns: The Creation of California's Wildfire Crisis
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers an on-the-ground perspective from a record-breaking fire season on a California hotshot crew\, tracing the sociological\, historical\, and economic forces that fuel today’s megafires. For wildland firefighters\, navigating the escalating impacts of climate change is a matter of life and death. These fires are not natural disasters\, but the result of political choices. Understanding where they come from—and how firefighters survive on their edges—is essential to imagining a more just and equitable climate future in California. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJordan Thomas is the author of When It All Burns: Fighting Fire in a Transformed World\, which was recently nominated for a National Book Award. His work has appeared in The Los Angeles Times\, The New York Times\, The New York Review of Books\, and The Drift\, among others. He is a cultural anthropology doctoral candidate at UCSB and former wildland firefighter. \nSponsored by the IHC’s On Fire series
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/on-fire-inaugural-talk-when-it-all-burns-the-creation-of-californias-wildfire-crisis/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250930T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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LAST-MODIFIED:20251001T223144Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Tuesday\, September 30\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about On Fire\, our 2025–26 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, music\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:On Fire,All Events,IHC Series,Other Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250522T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20250522T160914Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T210817Z
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SUMMARY:Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program: Capstone Presentations 2025
DESCRIPTION:Join us to celebrate our 2025 Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program graduates\, Tannishtha Bhattacharjee (History) and Cypris Roalsvig (Classics)\, as they deliver presentations about their training\, work\, and identity as public humanists. \nAudience Q&A and reception will follow. \nLearn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-capstone-presentations-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250520T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20241211T214855Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250714T212157Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2024-25 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2024-25 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. \nStephanie Malia Hom\, French and Italian\n“On Redemption: Slavery & Colonialism in Italy” \nSusan Hwang\, East Asian Languages and Cultural Studies\n“Uncaged Songs: Culture and Politics of Protest Music in South Korea” \nDavid Novak\, Music\n“Diggers: A Global Counterhistory of Popular Music”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2024-25-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20250210T230407Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250401T190212Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: No Occupation: Derrida on Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Taking its point of departure from a thread of references to Palestine in Derrida’s writings\, from Glas to his last texts\, this lecture seeks to demonstrate that these key passages can be a resource for us as we navigate our way through the ongoing Israeli-Palestinian conflict. It traces Derrida’s complicated relation to his own Jewishness and argues that it is this complexity that enables him to guide us through the thicket of the recent war in Gaza and its ongoing consequences. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEduardo Cadava is Philip Mayhew Professor of English at Princeton University. He is the author of Words of Light: Theses on the Photography of History\, Emerson and the Climates of History\, Paper Graveyards\, and\, with Sara Nadal-Melsió\, Politically Red. He has co-edited Who Comes After the Subject?\, Cities Without Citizens\, and The Itinerant Languages of Photography. He has also translated with Liana Theodoratou Nadar’s memoirs\, Quand j’étais photographe\, which appeared under the title When I Was a Photographer. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Fazal Sheikh\, Remains of the demolished home of ʽAwad Abu Ḥbak\, in the vicinity of the village of Bīr Haddāj\, 31°1′11″N / 34°43′50″E\, 2011 (detail)\, from Desert Bloom (2015). Courtesy of the artist.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/no-occupation-derrida-on-palestine/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T110000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250129T120000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-29-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250128T170000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20241206T165810Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T204340Z
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SUMMARY:Information Sessions: Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, January 28 | 4-5 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\nAND\nWednesday\, January 29 | 11 AM-12 PM | McCune Conference Room\, HSSB 6020\n \nJoin the IHC on 1/28 or 1/29 to learn more about the Public Humanities Graduate Fellows Program. Explore the course requirements\, hear about paid internship opportunities\, and find out more about the capstone presentation. Refreshments will be provided. \nIf you would like to learn more about the program but cannot attend an info session\, please email IHC Associate Director Christoffer Bovbjerg.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/information-sessions-public-humanities-graduate-fellows-program-january-28-2025/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support,Other Events
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ORGANIZER;CN="Interdisciplinary Humanities Center":MAILTO:events@ihc.ucsb.edu
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240927T210530Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250108T222733Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When the Uyghur Language Confronts Atrocity
DESCRIPTION:Over the last decade\, the persecution of Uyghurs in China has attracted global attention. When Uyghur was officially banned from education by the Chinese government in September 2016\, Uyghur editors were arrested and heavily sentenced\, and books were collected and burned. Private bookstores were shut down and Uyghur publishers and bookstore owners were sentenced. Today\, Uyghur linguists\, writers\, and journalists remain persecuted. In January 2017\, Uyghurs started to organize mother language schools\, publish textbooks\, and write story books for kids. There are now four Uyghur publishing houses\, two bookstores\, three online libraries among the Uyghur diaspora\, and more than 70 Uyghur mother language classes\, both online and in-person\, teaching Uyghur around the world.  \nIn this talk\, Abduweli Ayup will discuss his 2013 arrest for teaching the Uyghur language to kindergarteners\, his activism\, and his advocacy for Uyghur language education in China and the diaspora. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nAbduweli Ayup is a writer\, activist\, and linguist\, specializing in Uyghur-language education. He has lived in Bergen\, Norway since 2019 as a writer-in-residence through the International Cities of Refuge Network (ICORN) program. Abduweli founded Uyghur Hjelp in 2016\, which investigates and documents the Uyghur plight\, publishes books\, and supports Uyghur bookstores\, kindergartens and schools\, and engages in advocacy. He has published six books in Uyghur\, his essays and jail memoirs in Turkish\, and his first English-language book will be published in September 2025 by Silkie Publishing House.  \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-the-uyghur-language-confronts-atrocity/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241107T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240819T214448Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250909T165543Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Talk: When Life Is a Shipwreck: Key Passages in Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night
DESCRIPTION:Shakespeare’s Twelfth Night begins with a shipwreck\, a violent birth onto unknown shores that separates orphaned twins on a journey to nowhere. The turbulent sea visualizes an environment of passages–into adulthood\, towards sexual identity\, and in search of new attachments and communities of belonging. Twelfth Night is a play about transitions and transitioning\, about passages and passing. What skills\, virtues\, and capacities do the twins need to find their way along the shoreline of life\, and back to each other? In this lecture\, scholar and dramaturg Julia Reinhard Lupton examines key passages in Twelfth Night that illuminate the navigation of life changes and social bodies at the heart of Shakespeare’s most beautiful and sonorous romantic comedy.  Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nJulia Reinhard Lupton is Distinguished Professor of English at the University of California\, Irvine and Interim Director of the UC Humanities Research Institute. She also co-directs the New Swan Shakespeare Center and serves as Dramaturg for the New Swan Shakespeare Festival. She is the author or co-author of five books on Shakespeare\, including Shakespeare Dwelling and Thinking with Shakespeare. Her edited collections address topics such as Shakespeare and virtue\, Shakespeare and hospitality\, and Shakespeare and wisdom literature. A former Guggenheim fellow\, she is a frequent teacher in the community. She is currently writing a book on Shakespeare and virtue. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment     \nImage: Twelfth Night\, New Swan Shakespeare Festival\, University of California\, Irvine\, 2024
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/when-life-is-a-shipwreck/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241015T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky (Global Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Hamed-Troyansky’s new book\, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State. Empire of Refugees reframes late Ottoman history through mass displacement and reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Hamed-Troyansky offers a historiographical corrective: the nineteenth-century Ottoman Empire created a refugee regime\, predating refugee systems set up by the League of Nations and the United Nations. Grounded in archival research in over twenty public and private archives across ten countries\, this book contests the boundaries typically assumed between forced and voluntary migration\, and refugees and immigrants\, rewriting the history of Muslim migration in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. \nVladimir Hamed-Troyansky is a historian of global migration and forced displacement and Assistant Professor of Global Studies at UC Santa Barbara. His research examines Muslim refugee migration and its role in shaping the modern world. His articles appeared in Past & Present\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Slavic Review\, and Kritika. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-vladimir-hamed-troyansky/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241010T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240909T234157Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20250115T171308Z
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SUMMARY:Key Passages Inaugural Talk: AI: A New Passage to Human Creativity?
DESCRIPTION:March 14\, 2023 marked the beginning of a new era: Chat GPT-4 was released\, fundamentally changing the way humans relate to language. In this talk\, Professor Park will explore the implications of this pivotal moment. She will consider AI’s impact on the production of works of fiction and on creativity more broadly. Questions to be explored include: Does AI-informed writing have the potential to supplant traditional novel writing? In what ways can AI innovate creativity? How will the proliferation of generative AI impact our understanding of the role of human agency in the creative process? Professor Park will draw from her experience as head judge of a spring 2024 AI-inclusive short story competition sponsored by UCSB’s Mellichamp Initiative in Mind and Machine Intelligence. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Sowon Park is Associate Professor of English at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in Cognitive Literary Criticism and is Director of the Center for Literature and Mind. Her current research projects include a five-year investigation on “Trauma-Informed Pedagogy” (2021- 2026) and the ongoing neuro-literary research forum on “Unconscious Memory” (https://unconsciousmemory.english.ucsb.edu/). \nSponsored by the IHC’s Key Passages series \nImage: Adobe Firefly AI generator
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/inaugural-talk-ai/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241008T183000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240924T160907Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240925T234753Z
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SUMMARY:Salt of the Earth: A Conversation between a Palestinian and an Israeli Peace Activist
DESCRIPTION:Join Osama lliwat and Rotem Levin\, Palestinian and Israeli peace activists\, as they share their personal stories of transformation\, lessons of joint peaceful resistance\, and the vastly different realities they face in the same land. The devastating escalation of violence in Israel and Palestine has left many feeling powerless\, angry\, and hopeless. Rotem and Osama believe in the possibility of a different reality grounded in a shared future of security\, equality\, and justice for all people.  \nOsama lliwat was born in Jerusalem\, where his family is originally from\, and was displaced like so many Palestinians around the world after the war of 1967. He grew up in Jericho. He has been in the peace world for more than 15 years and is the co-founder of Visit Palestine. He has dedicated his life to nonviolent resistance\, working with different organizations\, such as the Sulha Peace Project and Interfaith Encounter Association\, appearing in several documentaries\, including Objector and The Other\, and regularly speaking on peacebuilding at organizations and universities around the world. \nRotem Levin was born and raised in Ein Vered. After his military service\, he participated in a transformational intensive dialogue program in Germany\, where he got to know Palestinians on a personal and intimate level. This instigated a change in perspective on the story he was born and raised with. After this experience\, he started organizing similar programs in Aqaba\, Jordan\, where he offered the experience to other post-military Israelis and to Palestinian and Israeli medical workers. He is a committed activist and doctor by profession. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/salt-of-the-earth/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20241003T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240702T191124Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240905T163543Z
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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 3\, from 4-6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Key Passages\, our 2024-25 public events series. Find out about our publicly engaged programs and funding resources for faculty and graduate students. Enjoy good food\, drink\, and conversation. \nCosponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ihc-open-house-2024/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Key Passages,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240521T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240404T191426Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240612T152159Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Swati Chattopadhyay
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Swati Chattopadhyay (History of Art and Architecture) and Cristina Venegas (Film and Media Studies) about Chattopadhyay’s new book\, Small Spaces: Recasting the Architecture of Empire. Chattopadhyay recasts the history of the British empire by focusing on the small spaces that made the empire possible. Her book takes as its subject a series of small architectural spaces\, objects\, and landscapes of the British empire in India and uses them to narrate the untold stories of the marginalized people—the servants\, women\, children\, subalterns\, and racialized minorities—who held up the infrastructure of empire. In so doing\, it opens up an important new approach to architectural history: an invitation to shift our attention from the large to the small scale. \nSwati Chattopadhyay is Professor of History of Art and Architecture at UC Santa Barbara. She specializes in modern architecture and urbanism and the cultural landscape of the British empire. She is a Founding Editor of PLATFORM and has served as a director of the Subaltern-Popular Workshop\, a University of California Multi-campus Research Group\, and as the editor of the Journal of the Society of Architectural Historians (JSAH). Her other works include Unlearning the City: Infrastructure in a New Optical Field (2012) and Representing Calcutta: Modernity\, Nationalism\, and the Colonial Uncanny (2005). \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-swati-chattopadhyay/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240514T173000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20231204T175126Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240611T220818Z
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Thomas Mazanec
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Thomas Mazanec (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) and Xiaorong Li (East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies) about Mazanec’s new book\, Poet-Monks: The Invention of Buddhist Poetry in Medieval China. \nPoet-Monks focuses on the literary and religious practices of Buddhist poet-monks in Tang-dynasty China to propose an alternative historical arc of medieval Chinese poetry. Combining large-scale quantitative analysis with close readings of important literary texts\, Mazanec describes how Buddhist poet-monks\, who first appeared in the latter half of the Tang dynasty\, asserted a bold new vision of poetry that proclaimed the union of classical verse with Buddhist practices of repetition\, incantation\, and meditation. Mazanec traces the historical development of the poet-monk as a distinct actor in the Chinese literary world\, arguing for the importance of religious practice in medieval literature. As they witnessed the collapse of the world around them\, these monks wove together the frayed threads of their traditions to establish an elite-style Chinese Buddhist poetry. Poet-Monks shows that during the transformative period of the Tang-Song transition\, Buddhist monks were at the forefront of poetic innovation. \nThomas Mazanec is Associate Professor of East Asian Languages & Cultural Studies at UC Santa Barbara. He researches premodern Chinese literature and religion as well as their encounters with other cultures. He is also interested in world literature\, poetics\, digital humanities\, and translation studies. His publications cover a broad range of topics\, from the evolution of a Sanskrit literary term in medieval China; to systems of monetary\, religious\, and literary debts; to the potential contributions of network analysis to literary history. He is especially fond of the art of literary translation\, maintaining a collection of bizarre and obscure translations of classical Chinese poetry into English and co-editing an online bibliography of Chinese poetry in translation. \nRefreshments will be served. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-thomas-mazanec/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240513T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240422T173950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240625T172650Z
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SUMMARY:New Research in the Humanities: Presentations by the IHC’s 2023-24 Faculty Fellows
DESCRIPTION:Please join us in celebrating our 2023-24 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. \nUtathya Chattopadhyaya\, History\n“Ganja Matters: Empire and the Pursuits of Cannabis in British India” \nMona Damluji\, Film and Media Studies\n“Pipeline Cinema” \nRachael King\, English\n“Improving Literature: Media\, Environments\, and the Eighteenth-Century Improvement Debate”
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/new-research-in-the-humanities-presentations-by-the-ihcs-2023-24-faculty-fellows/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Research Support
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240509T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20231004T194521Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240513T184107Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Panel Discussion: Reparations in California
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion on reparations in California with panelists Daina Ramey Berry (UCSB)\, Tiffany Caesar (San Francisco State University)\, and Jovan Scott Lewis (UC Berkeley)\, moderated by Giuliana Perrone (UCSB). Panelists will consider the history of reparations in the United States\, explain why they are being considered in California\, and assess the current status of plans for reparations in San Francisco as well as the state as a whole. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDaina Ramey Berry is the Michael Douglas Dean of Humanities and Fine Arts at UCSB. She is an internationally recognized scholar of the enslaved and a specialist on gender and slavery and Black women’s history in the United States. She is the award-winning author and editor of six books and numerous scholarly articles. Her most recent book\, A Black Women’s History of the United States\, won the 2021 Susan Koppelman Award for the Best Book in Feminist Studies\, was a 2021 NAACP Finalist for Literary Non-Fiction\, and received honorable mention for the 2021 Darlene Clark Hine Book Award sponsored by the Organization of American Historians. \nTiffany Caesar is an Assistant Professor of Africana Studies at San Francisco State University. Her research focuses on the preservation of transnational black women leaders and engagement with public history. She has participated in cultural heritage preservation initiatives in the United States and South Africa focusing on gender issues\, cross-cultural youth dialogue\, and social justice issues\, and she is a cultural heritage ambassador for the Nelson Mandela Museum in Mthatha\, South Africa. Among her recent publications is a co-authored piece entitled “Mothering Dead Bodies: Black Maternal Necropolitics” in the journal Meridians: Feminism\, Race\, Transnationalism. Dr. Caesar is the current commemoration chair of the SFSU 1968 Black Student Union/Third World Liberation Front Student Strike and journal chair of the 50th Anniversary of the 1973 Phillis Wheatley Poetry Festival. With the Iberia African American Historical Society\, she led the recent initiatives to create a historic marker for Queen Mother Moore – a founder of the modern-day reparations movement – in New Iberia\, Louisiana. Dr. Caesar has also organized several public dialogues on reparations in the Bay Area. \nJovan Scott Lewis is Professor and Chair of the Department of Geography at UC Berkeley. His research is concerned with the questions of racial capitalism\, underdevelopment\, and radical terms of repair in the Caribbean and United States. He is the author of Scammer’s Yard: The Crime of Black Repair in Jamaica and Violent Utopia: Dispossession and Black Restoration in Tulsa. In 2021\, he was appointed by California Governor Gavin Newsom to serve on the state’s Reparations Taskforce. \nGiuliana Perrone is Associate Professor of History at UCSB and the author of Nothing More than Freedom: The Failure of Abolition in American Law. \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/reparations-in-california/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240418T180000
DTSTAMP:20260419T010147
CREATED:20240326T193601Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20240717T182356Z
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Discussion: Ending Poverty in California: A Movement\, A Plan\, A More Equitable Future
DESCRIPTION:What would a California without poverty look like? How would ending economic hardship advance freedom and well-being for all? This is a prospect that has captured the imaginations of activists\, reformers\, and everyday people for decades\, ever since Upton Sinclair made it the centerpiece of his near successful gubernatorial campaign in 1934. Today\, it animates the work of a new generation of community-based leaders who have come together in End Poverty in California (EPIC)\, an organization devoted to elevating the voices of people experiencing economic hardship\, creating and implementing policies rooted in their needs\, and advancing a state agenda focused on equal opportunity for all. Since 2022\, EPIC has been building grassroots support through its statewide listening tour and coalition-building activities\, captured in the acclaimed documentary film Poverty and Power. Featuring excerpts from the film and a conversation with EPIC President Devon Gray\, Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative Greg Kaufmann\, and Director of Organizing and Community Engagement Jasmine Dellafosse\, this discussion\, moderated by Professor Alice O’Connor\, will focus on a movement that aims to change the narrative about poverty—and California’s economic future. \nDevon Gray is President of End Poverty in California. He aligns EPIC’s organization’s priorities across issue areas to make a lasting impact for Californians. Prior to joining EPIC\, he was a director with Evergreen Strategy Group\, where he advised gun violence prevention organizations on policy and strategy. Gray previously served in the Newsom Administration as Special Advisor to the Governor’s Chief of Staff and is an alumnus of national and statewide political campaigns. \nGreg Kaufmann is EPIC Chief Advisor for Storytelling and Narrative. He leads EPIC’s storytelling and narrative strategy\, creating platforms for people in poverty to share their experiences\, ideas\, and insights so that we change the story about poverty in California. Prior to joining EPIC\, Kaufmann was poverty correspondent at The Nation where his column was syndicated by Bill Moyers and Melissa Harris-Perry called him “one of the most consistent voices on poverty in America.” \nJasmine Dellafosse is Director of Organizing and Community Engagement at EPIC. She leads EPIC’s organizing and community engagement work to help build a movement that creates equal opportunity and ends poverty in California\, affirming the dignity of all people. Dellafosse has confronted systemic racism for almost a decade—first as a youth organizer in her hometown of Stockton\, CA\, where she helped urban development projects such as bringing food desert areas access to fresh produce. \nAlice O’Connor is Professor of History and Director of the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy at UCSB. \nSponsored by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s Imagining California series\, the Blum Center on Poverty\, Inequality\, and Democracy\, and the Department of History
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/ending-poverty-in-california-a-movement-a-plan-a-more-equitable-future/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,All Events,IHC Series
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SUMMARY:Humanities Decanted: Janet Afary
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a dialogue between Janet Afary (Religious Studies) and Dwight Reynolds (Religious Studies) about Afary’s new book\, Mollā Nasreddin: The Making of a Modern Trickster\, 1906-1911. Refreshments will be served. \nIn the early twentieth century\, a group of artists and intellectuals reinterpreted the Middle Eastern trickster figure Nasreddin in their periodical Mollā Nasreddin. They used folklore\, visual art\, and satire to disseminate a consciously radical and social democratic discourse on religion\, gender\, sexuality\, and power in Transcaucasia and Iran. The periodical reached tens of thousands of people in the Muslim world\, impacting the thinking of a generation. \nThis highly-illustrated book explores the milieu in which Mollā Nasreddin was born\, the way the periodical recreated the trickster trope\, and the influence of European graphic artists\, especially Francisco Goya\, on the journal. It focuses on the most creative period\, 1906-11\, when the journal reflected the social and political concerns of three major upheavals: the 1905 Russian Revolution\, the 1906–1911 Iranian Constitutional Revolution\, and the 1908 Young Turk Movement. Afary received the 2023 Eugenia M. Palmegiano Prize in the History of Journalism from the American Historical Association\, awarded annually to the author of the most outstanding book published in English on the history of journalism. The book also received the 2023 British-Kuwait Friendship Award\, given to the best scholarly work on the Middle East published in the U.K. \nJanet Afary is Professor of Religious Studies at UC Santa Barbara and the author of Sexual Politics in Modern Iran\, Foucault and the Iranian Revolution: Gender and the Seductions of Islamism\, and The Iranian Constitutional Revolution of 1906-11: Grassroots Democracy\, Social Democracy\, and the Origins of Feminism. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-janet-afary/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment,All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240223T120000
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SUMMARY:Imagining California Talk: Aesthetic Mobility and Solidarities at Self Help Graphics & Art
DESCRIPTION:Self Help Graphics & Art is a legacy arts organization that served on the cultural front of the Chicano Movement. Its emphasis on printmaking as an accessible medium infused with activist aims and its ability to cultivate and navigate various solidarities helped to support over fifty years of growth. This presentation by the co-editors of Self Help Graphics at Fifty looks at the multiple aesthetic styles and collaborative innovations that produced intergenerational\, transnational\, and cross-racial connections during the organization’s first five decades. Audience Q&A will follow. \nKaren Mary Davalos\, Professor of Chicano and Latino Studies at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities\, has written two books on Chicana/o/x museums\, Exhibiting Mestizaje: Mexican (American) Museums in the Diaspora (2001) and The Mexican Museum of San Francisco Papers\, 1971-2006 (2010)\, the Silver Prize winner of the International Latino Book Award for Best Reference Book in English. Her research and teaching interests in Chicana feminist scholarship\, spirituality\, and art inform her award-winning book Yolanda M. López (2008). She conducted life history interviews with eighteen artists\, a decade of ethnographic research in Southern California\, and archival research on fifty years of Chican@/x art in Los Angeles to produce her book Chicana/o Remix: Art and Errata since the Sixties (2017). With Dr. Constance Cortez (UTRGV)\, she launched “Rhizomes: Mexican American Art since 1848\,” a multi-component digital ecosystem that resolves the misunderstandings and invisibility of visual art by Mexican Americans. Since 2012\, she has served on the board of directors of Self Help Graphics & Art. \nTatiana Reinoza is Assistant Professor of Art History at the University of Notre Dame. She specializes in the history of printmaking within the field of Latinx art. Her writing has appeared in the Archives of American Art Journal\, Aztlan: A Journal of Chicano Studies\, as well as edited volumes and exhibition catalogues such as ¡Printing the Revolution! The Rise and Impact of Chicano Graphics\, 1965 to Now. She has also curated exhibitions including the 2022 exhibition All My Ancestors: The Spiritual in Afro-Latinx Art\, which took place at the Brandywine’s Printed Image Gallery. In 2023\, she published her first book\, Reclaiming the Americas:  Latinx Art and the Politics of Territory and\, with Davalos\, the co-edited volume Self Help Graphics at Fifty. She is currently at work on a new book project titled “Retorno: Art & Kinship in the Making of a Central American Diaspora.” \nSponsored by the IHC’s Imagining California series\, the IHC Idee Levitan Endowment\, and the UCSB Library \nRelated Exhibition: Cultura Cura: 50 Years of Self Help Graphics in East LA is on view at the Special Research Collections of the UCSB Library from 10/25/2023 to 6/21/2024. Exhibition materials are drawn from the Library’s California Ethnic and Multicultural Archives\, which includes an extensive collection of Self Help Graphics studio silk screen prints as well as organizational records\, photographs\, and ephemera.
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/aesthetic-mobility-and-solidarities-at-self-help-graphics-and-art/
LOCATION:Zoom
CATEGORIES:Imagining California,Idee Levitan Endowment,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20240213T193000
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SUMMARY:2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate: Is Housing a Human Right?
DESCRIPTION:The dramatic housing shortage in California affects millions of residents and leads thousands to homelessness. The 2024 Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate will address this issue by asking\, “Is Housing a Human Right?” If so\, our state faces a massive undertaking. Experts with diverse specialties and experiences will wrestle with some of our biggest challenges. How\, for example\, can we build low and moderate income housing when construction costs are high and community opposition is often present? How can people experiencing homelessness be moved to shelter and housing? The event will include an audience Q&A. \n\nParticipants: \nAndy Bales\nFormer President and CEO\, Union Rescue Mission\nDavid Garcia\nPolicy Director\, Terner Center for Housing Innovation\, University of California\, Berkeley\nRasheedah Phillips\nDirector of Housing\, PolicyLink\nEric Tars\nSenior Policy Director\, National Homelessness Law Center\nModerator: Larry Mantle\nHost of AirTalk with Larry Mantle on NPR member station LAist 89.3\n \nTuesday\, February 13\, 2024 | 7:30 PM\nUCSB Campbell Hall\nDoors open at 7 PM\nThe event is free and open to the public\nPaid parking is available on site\n \n\nThe Arthur N. Rupe Great Debate Series is presented by the UC Santa Barbara College of Letters and Science and co-presented by the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center and Arts & Lectures
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/2024-arthur-n-rupe-great-debate-is-housing-a-human-right/
LOCATION:Campbell Hall\, Building 538\, University of California\, Santa Barbara\, Mesa Rd\,\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,IHC Series
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