4Humanities@UCSB functions both independently as a Research Focus Group of the Interdisciplinary Humanities Center (IHC) at UC Santa Barbara and as a local chapter of the international 4Humanities initiative.

As a local IHC Research Focus Group, 4Humanities@UCSB meets periodically during the year around a few topics and readings–e.g., core issues in public discourse on the humanities, current media technologies for advocacy, etc. Beyond discussion-style activity, 4Humanities@UCSB also has a practical production-shop dimension. The group will create content for 4Humanities by writing posts, starting new group projects, contributing to a sitewide bibliography, and so on. The group will also link up with local chapters of 4Humanities now forming at other universities.

4Humanities@UCSB Co-convenors: Claudio Fogu (French & Italian, UCSB) and Alan Liu (English, UCSB)