Arts & Insights - a Collection of online events happening across the Humanities and Fine Arts!
Join the Division of Humanities and Fine Arts for a curated selection of virtual events across disciplines that explore current issues and ideas. We are pleased to share upcoming interactive online programming, including live lectures, presentations, performances, and post-screening film conversations, most of which are free of charge.
Students, alumni, supporters, and lifelong learners are all welcome. Come explore and interact with your HFA community, no matter where you are!
Upcoming Events
Four history graduate students will discuss various topics, including rural Egypt, Holocaust evacuations, and other instances of violence and governance. The discussion will be moderated by Charlie Hale, the SAGE Sara Miller McCune Dean of Social Sciences and Professor of Anthropology and Global Studies
Meredith A. Bak, an Associate Professor of Childhood Studies at Rutgers University-Camden, will explore cardboard boxes and their cultural and educational significance in children’s play, examining their role in creativity, environmental awareness, and STEAM education.
The Luis Leal Award for Distinction in Chicano/Latino Literature, now in its twentieth year, honors a writer of Chicano/Latino background who has attained national and international distinction. Manuel Muñoz, A MacArthur Fellow and a Professor of English at the University of Arizona, is the recipient of the 2025 Leal Award is Manuel Muñoz. Mr. Muñoz will converse with Prof. Mario T. Garcia, UCSB Department of Chicano Studies, and the founder and director of the Leal Award.
Juan Cobo Betancourt, an associate Professor of History at UCSB, will discuss his recent book, “The Coming of the Kingdom: The Muisca, Catholic Reform, and Spanish Colonialism in the New Kingdom of Granada.” The book follows the experiences of the Indigenous Muisca peoples of the New Kingdom of Granada during the first century of Spanish colonial rule. Betancourt focuses on the development of Christianity, including colonialism, religious reform, law, language, and historical writing.
The Classics Department will host a colloquium featuring five scholars who will explore ways for Classics to engage more ethically with minority perspectives without co-opting or appropriating them. Each participant will discuss their work in critical race studies within the field of Classics.
Nancy Yunhwa Rao, a Distinguished Professor at Rutgers University, will discuss the 19th—and early 20th-century history of the Sinophone community and its relation to Chinese theater, drawing from the diary of a Chinese laborer.
