Globalization, along with cultural diversity, and racial justice at home call for the knowledge and comparative methods of the humanities. These methods are essential to sustaining multicultural and multilingual societies, to dismantling structural racism, and to cultivating a strong democratic culture.
Dr. Svetlana Efimova, Assistant Professor of Slavic Literatures and Media Studies at the Ludwig Maximilian University of Munich and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley, will visit UCSB to discuss how Ukrainian writers and illustrators use creative techniques to address children growing up under the circumstances of war.
Rena M. Heinrich, professor of theatre practice at University of Southern California, will discuss the ways in which mixed-race Asian descent artists who crossed national, geographic, and cultural borders, had a hand in the development of modern performing arts by claiming their place in American dance studios and professional theater.
Mimi Khúc, writer, scholar, and teacher, will visit UCSB to hold three separate workshops—one for instructors, one for undergrads, and one for grad students, on ableism and unwellness in the university. See the flier below for specific times and locations.
In an event presented by the Film and Media Studies Department, Mette Simonsen, associate professor at Aalborg University, will be presenting her research on the ways digital infrastructures (wi-fi networks, satellites, etc,.) affect those living ‘on the margins.’
In a presentation co-sponsored by the Walter H. Capps Center, Dina Gilio-Whitaker, author and lecturer at CSU San Marcos, will give the 40th Manley Lecture. In her talk, she will discuss indigenous struggles, leadership, and environmental justice.
In a Classics sponsored event, Thomas Moody, Classics professor, will give a talk titled, “Socrates, Hestia, and the Hearth of the City.”