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UC Santa Barbara’s Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) recently welcomed author and journalist M.G. Lord to speak to students as part of IHC’s Imagining California Series. Lord shared her perspective on the creation and impact of Barbie dolls, specifically through a feminist lens. In her speech, she spoke on controversies over gender stereotypes encouraged by Barbie dolls, while also acknowledging the impact of Barbie’s early feminist portrayals.
Rob Boddice, author and historian, spoke as the inaugural speaker for the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center’s new Research Focus Group of the History of Emotions. Bodice highlighted the importance of different scholarly fields working together to continue making progress for research on emotions.
Touch is the largest organ of our body, says Felicia Davis, professor of Architectural Design at Pennsylvania State University. Davis uses computer-manipulated textiles that change in response to their environment. The textiles could provide relief for people who have a hard time expressing or understanding their own emotions. Presented by the graduate program in Media, Arts and Technology, she discussed her project in a recent seminar.
In his new book, The Psychopathology of Political Ideologies, UC Santa Barbara writing lecturer and author Robert Samuels approaches American political ideologies through a psychological lens. He explores the guiding forces behind political ideologies and how they appear in current politics.
UC Santa Barbara theater professor, William Davies King and NYU assistant professor, Rebecca Falkoff talk about the relationship that collecting and hoarding have with art and the mind.
“Groupthink” occurs when a group of individuals feel pressure to agree, abandoning critical thinking and conforming to group values. It’s also a psychology concept that Justine Betti never imagined would intersect with a field that she had considered entirely separate: history. But when an example of groupthink appeared in her social psychology course, referencing the Kennedy administration, she decided to explore the History department as an avenue to expand her views on psychology.
