interdisciplinary humanities center university of california, santa barbara

ROUNDTABLE:
The Future of the
University:
The Future of
Graduate Education
in the Humanities
Thursday, October 29 / 4:00 PM
McCune Conference Room, 6020 HSSB

Does graduate education in the humanities have a future at the University of California, and if
so what might it look like? In this roundtable, the first event in the IHC’s Future of the University
series, UCSB faculty will discuss innovative graduate programs and initiatives that transcend
disciplinary boundaries and train students for the new intellectual, professional, and economic
landscape of the twenty-first century. Participants will include David Marshall (Executive Dean of
the College of Letters and Science), Mary Bucholtz (Linguistics), Susan Derwin (German, Slavic
& Semitic Studies), Carl Gutierrez-Jones (English), Alan Liu (English), Patrick McCray (History),
and Janet Walker (Film & Media Studies).

Sponsored by the IHC’s Future of the University series.

Information: 893-3907 | www.ihc.ucsb.edu