Events

Name: Oceans of Dissent: A Feminist Commons
Start: 2026-04-03T00:00:00-07:00
End: 2026-04-04T23:59:59-07:00
Location: UC Santa Cruz

UC Santa Cruz

February 2026
February 17, 2026 - February 18, 2026
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean

UC Santa Cruz
This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]
April 2026
April 3, 2026 - April 4, 2026
Oceans of Dissent: A Feminist Commons

UC Santa Cruz
We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery, indenture, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further […]