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SUMMARY:IHC Open House
DESCRIPTION:You are invited to the IHC’s Open House on Thursday\, October 1\, from 4 to 6 pm. \nMeet new Humanities faculty\, IHC fellows\, and staff members. Learn about Bodies Politic\, our 2026–27 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-2026/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:All Events,Other Events
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261029T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Food and The Body:  The Politics of What We Eat
DESCRIPTION:What we eat may feel like a matter of personal choice\, but our choices are shaped by powerful forces: food companies and their marketing teams\, government policy\, agricultural subsidies\, public health priorities\, and an industry whose profits depend on selling us more. \nIn this conversation with Good Food host Evan Kleiman\, pioneering food-policy scholar Dr. Marion Nestle will explore how corporate and political power shape the American diet — and\, ultimately\, our bodies. Drawing on decades of work investigating the intersection of food\, nutrition\, business\, and politics\, as well as her new book\, Sugar Coated: Unboxing the Hidden Forces Shaping America’s Favorite Breakfast Food\, written with Lisa Sutherland\, Dr. Nestle will examine who gets to decide what constitutes a healthy diet\, why meaningful food-policy reform is so difficult\, and what it takes for individuals and communities to push back against a food system designed around corporate interests. \nDr. Marion Nestle is Paulette Goddard Professor of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health\, Emerita\, at New York University and the author of numerous books\, including Food Politics\, Soda Politics\, Unsavory Truth\, and What to Eat. She writes regularly about the intersection of food\, nutrition\, and politics at FoodPolitics.com. \nEvan Kleiman has been called the “fairy godmother of the L.A food scene.” Former chef-restaurateur\, cookbook author\, and host of KCRW’s Good Food radio show and podcast for nearly 30 years\, Evan is known for her conversational interview style focusing on how food informs human life and life choices. She has interviewed thousands of guests ranging from artists\, cookbook authors\, and chefs to farmers and scientists\, which has enabled her to explore every aspect of food culture and how it intersects with our lives. \nCosponsored by the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment \n 
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-food-and-the-body-the-politics-of-what-we-eat/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261105T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T181823Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A-Maizing Nahua Healers: Colonial Attacks on Indigenous Healers in Early Modern Central Mexico
DESCRIPTION:Dr. Edward Anthony Polanco will discuss how Nahua healers used maize to heal the human body in central Mexican communities in the 16th century. Titiçih (Nahua healing specialists) provided maize to patients topically and orally and relied on it for answers about illnesses. Dr. Polanco will also explore how Spanish Catholic authorities viewed these healers and their practices as a threat to settler colonial society and attempted to extirpate them. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Edward Anthony Polanco is a Kuskatanchanej scholar of Mesoamerica. His parents fled their homeland due to political violence and instability. Although he was born in Los Angeles\, CA\, his ancestors are from Kuskatan of the Nahua territories\, in what is now western and central El Salvador. He is an associate professor\, associate chair\, and the director of undergraduate studies in the Department of History\, and the director of Indigenous Studies at Virginia Tech in Blacksburg\, VA. Dr. Polanco’s research presents Native ideas with Indigenous concepts and focuses on 15th-\, 16th-\, and 17th-century Nahua communities in Mexico and El Salvador. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-maizing-nahua-healers-colonial-attacks-on-indigenous-healers-in-early-modern-central-mexico/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261112T173000
DTSTAMP:20260916T225017Z
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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
CATEGORIES:All Events,Humanities Decanted
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20261119T160000
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: A Dark Cast: Disability\, Blackface\, and Franklin D. Roosevelt
DESCRIPTION:Drawing from her national best-selling book Darkology: Blackface and the American Way of Entertainment\, Rhae Lynn Barnes will explore the complex intersections of disability\, presidential power\, and racial masquerade. She will examine how minstrelsy and the dark cast of blackface performance functioned both as cultural entertainment and a political prosthetic during the Roosevelt era\, masking the physical vulnerability of white children with polio while reinforcing racial hierarchies. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDr. Rhae Lynn Barnes is Assistant Professor of American Cultural History at Princeton University. A fourth-generation Southern Californian\, she earned her B.A. from UC Berkeley and her Ph.D. from Harvard University. Dr. Barnes is also the founder of the digital education platform U.S. History Scene\, providing historical multimedia curriculum resources to public schools. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Hester and Cedric Crowell Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-a-dark-cast-disability-blackface-and-fdr/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270119T173000
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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. It examines a diverse array of literary and cinematic fictions from across the globe—West and North Africa\, West and South Asia\, the Caribbean and Latin America—in dialogue with influential social scientific studies of urban informality. Prieto explores the formal and representational strategies authors have used to address the realities of life in the informal city. He demonstrates the ability of literary texts to provide significant insights into the kinds of real-world concerns that preoccupy planning and policy specialists but that have remained resistant to the more traditional methodologies of urban studies and planning. The book sheds new light on the forces that have led to the prevalence of urban informality in the Global South\, while also debunking some common misconceptions about the phenomenon\, highlighting the great diversity of subjective experiences hidden behind the euphemistic “informal settlement” (or the more pejorative “slum”)\, and identifying some of the most promising ways forward for the urban poor. At a time when over half of all city dwellers in the Global South live in an informal settlement of some kind\, the urgency of the 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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270128T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270128T180000
DTSTAMP:20260922T225538Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: American Sexual Exceptionalism: Sex\, Labor\, and U.S. Foreign Policy
DESCRIPTION:Between the 1870s and 1930s\, American social reformers\, working closely with the U.S. government\, transformed sexual vice into an international political and humanitarian concern. As these activists worked to eradicate prostitution and trafficking\, they promoted sexual self-control for both men and women as a cornerstone of civilization and a basis of American exceptionalism. American reformers successfully pushed for international anti-trafficking agreements that mirrored U.S. laws\, calling for states to criminalize commercial sex and restrict migration\, and harming the very women they claimed to protect. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nEva Payne is associate professor of United States history at the University of Mississippi. She is a historian of gender\, sexuality\, labor\, and U.S. empire in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. Her first book\, Empire of Purity: The History of Americans’ Global War on Prostitution (Princeton University Press\, 2024) received the Susanne M. Glasscock Humanities Book Prize for Interdisciplinary Scholarship and the Berkshire Conference of Women Historians First Book Prize. The book has been featured in such publications as the New Yorker and BBC History. Her writing has also appeared in Foreign Policy\, the Journal of Women’s History\, Radical History Review\, and the European Review of Books. She serves as the Co-Director of the Queer Mississippi Histories Project at the University of Mississippi. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and Harry Girvetz Memorial Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-american-sexual-exceptionalism-sex-labor-and-us-foreign-policy/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270211T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270211T173000
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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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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270304T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270304T173000
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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/
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:20270415T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20270415T180000
DTSTAMP:20260901T194408Z
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SUMMARY:Bodies Politic Talk: Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends
DESCRIPTION:Esmé E. Deprez is an investigative reporter whose father was an aid-in-dying patient. In her forthcoming book\, she explores assisted death through both a clinical and a personal perspective. She considers assisted death as a social phenomenon\, a legal and political movement\, and an area of medical practice that has transformed end-of-life health care. Audience Q&A and a reception will follow. \nDeprez is the author of the forthcoming book Inviting Death In: How I Helped My Dad Die\, and The Fight to Control How Life Ends (Simon & Schuster\, 2027). Deprez spent 14 years as a reporter at Bloomberg News and Bloomberg Businessweek. Her work has been recognized by National Magazine Awards\, Livingston Awards\, the National Press Foundation\, among many others. She is a contributor to The New York Times. \nCosponsored by the IHC’s Bodies Politic series and the Sara Miller McCune and George D. McCune Endowment
URL:https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/bodies-politic-talk-inviting-death-in-how-i-helped-my-dad-die-and-the-fight-to-control-how-life-ends/
LOCATION:McCune Conference Room\, 6020 HSSB\, Santa Barbara\, CA\, 93106\, United States
CATEGORIES:Bodies Politic,All Events,IHC Series
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