About the Cluster Bridging multiple disciplines and practices, this research cluster invites conversation between ways of knowing the places that are currently arrayed under the name of “California.” Scaling up […]
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About the Cluster The cluster seeks to create an interdisciplinary platform for scholars working on anticolonial, postcolonial, decolonial, global, and comparative thought to better understand the meaning of these approaches, […]
“In the United States, scholars are asked to become entrepreneurs, producing ourselves as brands and seeking stardom from the very first days of our studies, when we know nothing…. By […]
About the Cluster This cluster examines the intersections between monsters and technology in global literature, performance, arts, and media, and brings together faculty in humanities, arts, social sciences, and engineering […]
About the Cluster Our goal for “Santa Cruz, Reconsidered: Decolonial Tours and Local Ethnic Studies Curricula” is to develop and put into motion inaugural programming that grounds ethnic studies in […]
About the Cluster Since Alan Turing proposed his test to measure machine intelligence, whether machines can accurately replicate actual human cognition has been a continuous and sometimes contentious debate fueled […]
About the Cluster In recent years, a number of concepts have offered vocabularies to capture the ways in which attachments to cultures and territories were uprooted by imperialism on a […]
About the Cluster Our cluster is interested in how disabled people travel to and through academic geographies. We are interested in the barriers and joys of traveling to and within […]
About the Cluster This Research Cluster will explore memory’s movements across the borders of geographic space, historical periods/events, generational divides, and the spaces between bodies, places, objects, and subjectivities. The […]
About the Cluster Our goal for the “Border Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective” Humanities Institute Research Cluster is to conceptualize connections between border regimes around the world. Taking up […]
About the Cluster In tandem with the new Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) and in order to boost the latter’s profile and reach across campus, this cluster brings together Humanities […]
About the Cluster How do we story embodiment? The relationship between narrative and the body continues to trouble feminist, queer, critical race, and disability studies. The question is all the […]
About the Cluster The social and historical impacts of psychoactive drugs cannot be encompassed by a simple accounting of statistics, but the striking numbers involved can offer a place to […]
About the Cluster Since Fernand Braudel’s study of the Mediterranean, oceans have provided humanists and social scientists with heuristics through which to decenter the categories of “nation,” “society,” and “continent.” […]
About the Cluster This research cluster on neo-authoritarianism aims to interrogate contemporary rightwing movements around the globe to pinpoint the continuities and discontinuities they present with historical forms of authoritarianism. […]
About the Cluster This research cluster focuses primarily on “fictions” of the future, that is, on creative “worldings” that take, as their premise, the outcome of particular technological/scientific findings in […]
About the Cluster We have probably all heard the factoid that if California were its own country, it would rank fifth in the world based on gross domestic product. This […]
About the Cluster The main intellectual objective of the cluster is to discuss the historical depth and regional connections of what we have conventionally called “East Asia” and “Southeast Asia.” […]
About the Cluster Recent developments around the world, such as the rise of authoritarianism, the emergence of rightwing populist movements with strongly racist and xenophobic undercurrents, the migration crisis, and […]
About the Cluster Syntax (from Greek σύνταξις, an abstract derivative of συντάσσω ‘put in order together, organize, arrange’), is the set of linguistic rules, principles, and processes that govern the […]
About the Cluster The study of narrative structure (and the imposition of narrative structuring) has been a fundamental question across a wide swath of humanisitic studies — Propp’s folkloric taxonomy, […]
About the Cluster The Language of Conservation Project was founded in 2014, by Claudio Campagna and Daniel Guevara, at UC Santa Cruz, as part of the Center for Public Philosophy. The […]
About the Cluster This research cluster aims to revive and re-envision the Center for World History at UC Santa Cruz. We will focus on new research in, and theoretical discussions […]
About the Cluster The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, […]
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