What is the significance and power of community in the 21st century? How has community been conceptualized and created by different cultures throughout history? How are relationships between specific communities and the broader social milieu constructed and maintained? In today’s global society, what provides the impetus for a life of civic engagement, built upon democratic values, goals, and aspirations? Is the “network” the latest form of community, now disconnected from the preconditions of shared physical or social space? These and other questions will be explored in the 2017 convening of the Western Humanities Alliance.

The Humanities in the Community: 2017 Convening of the Western Humanities Alliance

“Impermanent Citizens: Precarity and the Recon guration of Communities,” Stephen James (UC Riverside)
“How Advertisements are Made Political and Provoke Emotion,” Matthew Alvarez (UC Merced)

Moderator: Jennifer Lugris (UCSB)

Panel-Critical Reflections on Citizenship and Belonging

Panel - Critical Reflections On Citizenship And Belonging

“Nursing the Spark of Social Engagement,” Michele Bury, Vivian Price, and Ellie Zenhari (CSU Dominguez Hills)
“Black Migrant Women: Seeking Voice, Finding Community,” Geta LeSeur (University of Arizona)
Moderator: Corinne Bancroft (UCSB)

Panel-Imagining and Narrating Communities

Panel - Imagining And Narrating Communities

Keynote Address: "The Democratic Frame of Mind," Christopher Bollas

The Humanities in the Community-2017 Convening of the Western Humanities Alliance

“Disarming Hate: Gun Violence Prevention E orts and the University,” Melissa Barthelemy (UCSB)
“Co-mingling Bodies and Collective Postmemory: Theater and Performance as Ethical Praxis in Mexico,” Ruth Hellier- Tinoco (UCSB)

Moderator: Naz Keynejad (UCSB)

Panel: Social Memory and Community building

Panel - Social Memory And Community Building

“Making the Humanities Count: The Cultural Study of Quantification,” Heather Steffen (UCSB)

Originally a part of : "PANEL: EDUCATION AS COMMUNITY BUILDING"

Making the Humanities Count: The Cultural Study of Quantification

“Sovereignty Makes the Monument”
Swati Chattopadhyay (UCSB)
“Monuments Are Not Memory”
Dell Upton (UCLA)
Moderator: Jeremy White (UCSB)

The Humanities in the Community: 2017 Convening of the Weatern Humanities Alliance

Panel: Civic Monuments and Community

The IHC’s mission is to advance knowledge about human experience in cultural, historical, and social contexts and to do so through programs that foster human agency, social connectivity, and civic empowerment.

IHC events include lectures, seminars and conferences organized by IHC research focus groups and sub-units as well as events co-sponsored with campus departments. In addition, the IHC mounts year-long public programs on themes suggested by UCSB faculty and graduate students.

Keynote Address: "The Democratic Frame of Mind," Christopher Bollas

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