UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center

UCSB Interdisciplinary Humanities Center The IHC's programs in Public Humanities advance civic engagement through scholarly and creative work in the humanities and arts.

The IHC’s mission is to advance knowledge about human experience in cultural, historical, and social context and to do so through humanities programs that foster human agency, social connectedness, and civic empowerment. Since its founding in 1987 the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center at UC Santa Barbara has supported interdisciplinary scholarship in the humanities, the performing and visual art

s, and humanistic social sciences. The IHC’s fellowships, research focus groups, and public events enrich the cultural and intellectual life of the campus and promote innovative research and teaching. UCSB faculty and students engage with community partners in the Santa Barbara area and beyond in collaborative problem solving and public creation and discovery. The Center is committed to advancing the place of the humanities in a public university and to fostering a spirit of free inquiry and expression. By hosting a wide array of interdisciplinary programs and activities, the IHC serves as a vital link between the campus and the community, and to the University as a whole through the UC Consortium of Humanities Centers and the UC Humanities Network. All events are free and open to the public unless otherwise noted.

Thank you to Bench Ansfield and everyone who joined us for their talk on the links between the urban crisis of the late ...
05/29/2026

Thank you to Bench Ansfield and everyone who joined us for their talk on the links between the urban crisis of the late twentieth century and the climate crisis of the present!

05/29/2026
Thank you to Ahilan Arulanantham and everyone who joined us for his talk on mass deportation as racial engineering!
05/26/2026

Thank you to Ahilan Arulanantham and everyone who joined us for his talk on mass deportation as racial engineering!

TOMORROW!
05/20/2026

TOMORROW!

HUMANITIES DECANTED | JOSEPHINE METCALF AND BEN OLGUÍN
WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ
Join us for a dialogue with Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguín, who will be speaking with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval about their new co-edited volume, The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run.
5/21, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB

Learn more: https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-josephine-metcalf/

RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: RE-NEGOTIATING THE ALGORITHMIC CONTRACTThe Low-Resource Research Ethics RFG invites you to a ...
05/15/2026

RESEARCH FOCUS GROUP TALK: RE-NEGOTIATING THE ALGORITHMIC CONTRACT
The Low-Resource Research Ethics RFG invites you to a talk by Jose Marichal that will explore the unwritten social contract we have with the algorithms that shape what we see, hear, and think and how algorithms and AI are changing our expectations of liberal democracy.
5/22, 3:30 PM | 3605 South Hall

Learn more: https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/research-focus-group-talk-re-negotiating-the-algorithmic-contract-the-need-for-a-politics-of-potentiality/

HUMANITIES DECANTED | JOSEPHINE METCALF AND BEN OLGUÍNWITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZJoin us for a dialogue with Jo...
05/15/2026

HUMANITIES DECANTED | JOSEPHINE METCALF AND BEN OLGUÍN
WITH SPECIAL GUEST LUIS J. RODRÍGUEZ
Join us for a dialogue with Josephine Metcalf and Ben Olguín, who will be speaking with Ralph Armbruster-Sandoval about their new co-edited volume, The Life, Literature and Legacy of Luis J. Rodríguez: In the Long Run.
5/21, 4 PM | 6020 HSSB

Learn more: https://ihc.ucsb.edu/event/humanities-decanted-josephine-metcalf/

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