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Find an eclectic collection of authors, philosophers, filmmakers and thinkers who explore essential aspects of what makes us human. Visit uctv.tv/humanities
Bias in health AI can shape who gets care, how fairly risk is measured, and whether automation helps or harms patients. Karandeep Singh, M.D...
New York Times bestselling author George Saunders is an American writer who won the Booker Prize for his novel Lincoln in the Bardo. Saunder...
Embodiment affects how we understand personhood, moral status, and whether this life is our only life. Mark Johnston, Henry Putnam Universit...
AI in healthcare raises urgent questions about bias, privacy, and power. Safiya U. Noble, Ph.D., examines how AI systems can reproduce socia...
Jamaica Kincaid is an Antiguan-American writer known for her vivid, poetic prose and exploration of themes like colonialism, family, identit...
Widely regarded as one of the most respected figures in American broadcast journalism, Judy Woodruff is known for her decades-long career co...
A common model of AI suggests that there is a single measure of intelligence, often called AGI, and that AI systems are agents who can posse...
How are Indigenous communities in the U.S. facing challenges to their ways of life in the current political moment? Focusing on questions co...
Poetry becomes more approachable when it reflects everyday language, humor, and lived experience. San Diego Poet Laureate Paola Capó-García...
Rudeness is not just annoying. John O’Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab," links everyday rudeness to stress and even broader...
Espiritismo traces its roots to the sacred knowledge of West and Central African peoples carried into the Americas by enslaved ancestors bet...
Peter Godfrey-Smith, Professor of History and Philosophy of Science at the University of Sydney, explores the evolutionary roots of consciou...
If you feel like there's more rudeness in the world, you're not alone. According to John O'Brien, psychologist and author of "Rudeness Rehab...
Writer R.F. Kuang has quickly become one of today’s most daring and original voices in fiction, blending sharp social critique with rich sto...
Peter Bolland, professor of philosophy and humanities at Southwestern College, explores the lasting influence of Augustine of Hippo. Born in...
Artist and filmmaker Tom Kalin joins moderator Bhaskar Sarkar (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of his 1992 film Swoon. Kalin...
Film producer Liz Yale Marsh and mustang wrangler West Taylor join moderator and co-producer Wendy Eley Jackson to discuss their work on the...
Filmmakers Natasha Merkulova and Alexey Chupov join moderator Sasha Razor (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) to discuss their film Captain Volko...
Eric Faden (Bucknell University) discusses his work on the Japanese Paper Film Project, a project that has been preserving paper films made...
Mona Damluji (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) and Elisabeth Weber (German and Slavic Studies, UCSB) join moderator Bishnupriya Ghosh (English...
The Sleepy Lagoon case of 1942 became one of the most racially charged trials in U.S. history. Twenty-two Mexican American youths, mostly te...
Film historian Rebecca Prime joins moderator Ross Melnick (Film and Media Studies, UCSB) for a discussion of the classic Hollywood film The...
Documentary subject and Chicano activist Jerry Ramirez joins moderator Clint Terrell (English, UCSB) for a discussion of the documentary fil...
How should federal governments attempt to right, or at least remedy, past wrongs? Is it appropriate for victims of group-based harms or thei...
Over 20 years since its release, Hedwig and the Angry Inch remains as relevant as ever to the politics of the day. A child of division, Hedw...
Film curators Michelle Baroody and Maggie Hennefeld join moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of their program “Archives of Anonymous La...
Carol Stabile (Clark Honors College, University of Oregon) joins moderator Patrice Petro for a discussion of “CBS and the 1950s Blacklist,”...
Legal scholar Annabel Brett explores the idea of “moral possibility”—the boundary between what laws demand and what people can realistically...
Political theorist Annabel Brett of Cambridge University explores how the concept of “moral possibility” shapes law, politics, and public ob...
Science communication expert Lisa Warshaw and scientist Rob Signer, Ph.D., offer a practical guide to turning complex research into clear, m...
Is sacred space protective space? This question lies at the heart of the Sanctuary Movement. From the 1980s to the present, this practice ha...
The land we now call Scripps Oceanography has been home to the Kumeyaay people for thousands of years. A history of encroachment, colonizati...
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks....
There's a powerful idea in the history of European legal and political thought: that laws must be possible for people to follow. Annabel Bre...
Humans have long been exposed to three main types of smoke: from early domestic fires, modern wildfires, and more recently, tobacco and foss...
What paradoxes arise when victims of related persecution tell their stories next to, and after, each other? This question is at the heart of...
The human gut microbiome is tightly linked our health. Our analyses of diverse human populations from around the globe, ranging from hunter-...
Frank Silva talks with writer and educator Eduardo Corvera about the power of reading, writing, and the humanities. They explore how stories...
The essence of Being Human is the practice of Biocultural Reproduction (BCR). BCR is defined as the set of marriage and kinship based rules...
Musculoskeletal disorders are one of the most important challenges of modern medicine worldwide. They are often attributed to maladaptations...
What are the future horizons for indigenous repatriation work? What are best practices in repatriation settings, and how might they inform r...
Phenotypic variation within the skeleton has biological, behavioral, and biomedical functional implications for individuals and species. Thu...
The Birch Aquarium celebrates the incredible contributions of women in the rich history of marine plankton research at Scripps. Judit Hersko...
Filmmaker RaMell Ross discusses "Nickel Boys", his 2024 feature film adaptation of Colson Whitehead’s Pulitzer Prize–winning novel. Directed...
The rate of cancer and cancer malignancy differ greatly among mammalian species. The placental – maternal interface is also highly variable...
Menstruation is the cyclical shedding of the endometrium triggered by falling progesterone levels. Menstruation is a rare trait found in les...
Filmmaker Adamu Chan joins UC Santa Barbara’s Althea Wasow for a powerful conversation about "What These Walls Won’t Hold", a documentary he...
Pressures of life on Earth experienced by our ancestors – as multicellular beings, as hosts to parasites, and as home to microbes – shaped t...
The Carsey-Wolf Center welcomes Jeff Bridges and Amy Brenneman, the award-winning stars of The Old Man, for a conversation with director/wri...
The human body has traits that evolved at different times, from 1.5 billion to 2 million years ago, each bringing health benefits and risks....