Career Development

Join us for our second Lunch & Learn of the quarter! For our February event, you'll be treated to talks by graduate students in Linguistics and Physics -- all while enjoying free lunch. Sign up today!

Tuesday, January 30th, 2018 - 8:36am


Join us for our ​​​February Lunch & Learn, featuring talks by graduate students in ​Linguistics & Physics! Lunch & Learn is co-sponsored by the Graduate Division, the Graduate Student Association, and the Library. ​Feed your mind and stomach while socializing with grad students from across the campus!

Lunch & Learn
This Edition: ​Imaging and Informed Consent

​​Friday, ​​February 9
Noon-1 p.m.
Library, Room 1312 (map)
Lunch will be provided
*To help us estimate food, ​please RSVP*
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"Unless You're Immigration Police": The Ethical Dilemmas of Informed Consent in a Mixed-Status Workplace

Joyhanna Yoo Garza
Graduate Student in ​Linguistics

In this presentation, Joyhanna will reflect on the ways in which immigrant workers refused or negotiated research participation through linguistic resources and embodied practices throughout the course of an ethnographic project. She will discuss how she responded to the ethical limitations of the written consent form and how participation was a constantly negotiated practice: a combination of participant agency and researcher ethnosensitivity (Alim 2004). She will also take up the concept of refusal - as theorized by Mohawk scholar Audra Simpson (2007) - as a way to make visible invisibilized limits, and ultimately a productive framework for understanding the ethical and epistemic limits of her project.

High Contrast Imaging with Microwave Kinetic Inductor Detectors

​Clint Bockstiegel
Graduate Student in Physics

Clint will be discussing the field of astronomical high contrast imaging and his group's efforts to directly image exoplanets and debris disks. He will give an overview of the methods and tools he used to achieve high contrast at small angular separations, including adaptive optics, coronography, and detector development.


This event will be moderated by​ ​​Robert Hamm, the Assistant Dean of the Graduate Division at UCSB.

Interested in being a presenter at an upcoming Lunch & Learn? Click here to find out more! If you have any questions about this event or Lunch & Learn in general, please email Shawn Warner-Garcia.