By Kira Logan
UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center is ending a fall season that was packed with lectures and panels by announcing some recent accomplishments and new opportunities for students and faculty.
Among them:
UCSB students worked as interpreters at more than 400 parent/guardian-teacher conferences at local elementary schools just last month, through IHC’s Interpreting in our Local Schools program. UCSB Graduate and undergraduate students who are heritage and bilingual Spanish speakers serve as paid interpreters at local elementary schools and help foster clear communication about their child’s learning experience.
UCSB Faculty and graduate students from across campus are welcome to apply to the Visual, Performing and Media Arts Awards for individual and collaborative projects. With applications due by Jan. 15th, the IHC offers up to $1,500 to participants who push past confinements of just one particular humanities discipline, and instead focus on the intersectionality of multiple departments in their project. Eligible projects include conferences, symposia, exhibitions, and performances at UCSB or in the local community. Groups of graduate students from at least two UCSB departments and academic programs are eligible to apply. A faculty advisor is required.
UCSB graduate students are also invited to apply for the IHC’s Graduate Collaborative Awards, which supports interdisciplinary projects and events, with applications. Due by Jan. 15. The award supports collaborative work whose interdisciplinarity is essential to the project’s conceptualization and that draws upon techniques, methodologies, and media from multiple disciplines for its execution.