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SUMMARY:Ashwak Hauter - Physics of Affinity: Violence\, Love\, & Affinity in the Physician-Patient Relationship
DESCRIPTION:This talk recalls the recent phenomena of the murder of physicians in Jordan and Yemen\, and the rise in altercations in Saudi Arabia between physicians and patients and their family. Aiming to work on the physics of affinity\, the binding and unbinding of ethical relationalities\, within the patient-doctor relationship the physicians claim to be prophets and reintroduced alghayb (unknown\, God’s knowledge) into the clinic in order to prevent the arrogation of power to them and counter the demand of patients for them to deliver the cure. This talk prompts us to ask what kinds of ethics emerges with Alghayb in view? In dialogue with Abu-Hamid Alghazaly\, Ibn Qayyim al-Jawziyya\, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe\, Sigmund Freud\, and Jacque Lacan’s work on affinity\, transference\, savoir\, and alghayb\, this paper explores the auto-erotics within ethical relationalities in the clinic. It provokes us to reexamine the anthropological reduction of affinity to a preoccupation with aggression\, moving us toward understanding the asymmetries of exchange and relationalities. \nAshwak Sam Hauter is an assistant professor of medical anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of “Fright and the Fraying of Community” published in Cultural Anthropology and “Madness\, Pain\, & Ikhtilāṭ al-ʿaql: Conceptualizing Ibn Abī Ṣādiq’s Medico-Philosophical Psychology” in Early Science and Medicine. Her manuscript in progress details scenes of Islah (reform) within medicines in Yemen\, Saudi Arabia\, and Jordan aimed at securing demands for ‘afiya (holistic well-being)\, recentering the health of the individual body around the political\, economic\, and spiritual dimensions of the community (umma). Her current project centers around examining mental health and the work of culture amidst the war in Yemen among Yemeni artists\, poets\, filmmakers\, and psychologists. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 2026 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2026 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwak-hauter-physics-of-affinity-violence-love-affinity-in-the-physician-patient-relationship/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Arts and Ecology Festival
DESCRIPTION:The first Arts & Ecology Festival at UC Santa Cruz will bring together talks and panels featuring artists\, scientists\, and researchers. The April 22 program includes film screenings\, live music\, artworks\, a clothing swap\, a poetry slam\, a solar powered mobile projection system\, and groups like the Norris Center of Natural History\, The Fábrica community textile Arts & Salvage Workshop in Santa Cruz\, and a mobile podcast booth from UC Davis for participants to respond to climate-focused prompts\, capturing creative perspectives on climate change. \nThis program is part of OpenLab Collaborative Research Center\, led by Jennifer Parker\, with support from the Art Department and the University of California Climate Action Arts Network (UC CAAN). UC CAAN is a new system wide initiative to support creative research\, scholars\, students\, and community partners to address the climate crisis through the transformative power of the arts. The network is supported by the University of California Office of the President through its Multicampus Research Programs and Initiatives (MRPI) grant program. \nLearn more at the Arts & Ecology Festival website.  \nThe Humanities Institute’s Deep Read program is co-sponsoring a Compost and Fungi: Interactive Talk at 5 pm on Megafires\, Floods and Fungi.  \nWith the rise of catastrophic megafires and flooding\, we look to fungi and other microbes as nature’s mediators between fire and water. They sink carbon\, retain water\, prevent erosion\, digest toxins\, and establish ecological balance in both pre and post fire ecosystems. As fires enter the human-made environment more regularly\, there is a growing concern about post-fire toxic ash\, and the consequences of ash-runoff entering the surrounding waterways. Wildfire also provides a unique opportunity to revitalize ecosystems\, restore water and maximize nutrient cycling. There is a growing grassroots network with hubs in Colorado\, California and Hawaii that seeks to generate fire resilience by allying with fungi and other microbes. CoRenewal’s FENiXS program and the Biome Logs Project are evaluating the efficacy of fungal inoculation\, with the aim of producing widely applicable tools and methodologies to facilitate ecological regeneration and recovery in the aftermath of disaster and environmental injustice\, while honoring and taking inspiration from indigenous relationships with fire and fungi. In this participatory workshop\, we will discuss how to organize and integrate inoculants into land tending practices\, as well as how to contribute to community science that supports these efforts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/arts-and-ecology-festival/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center\, 407 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz
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SUMMARY:Bibliography as Biography - Recovering Early-Nineteenth-Century Latinx Figures
DESCRIPTION:The lecture will focus on the history of Spanish-language writing and publishing in the United States with particular attention to a New York publisher in the early nineteenth century. \nCarmen E. Lamas is Associate Professor of English at the University of Virginia. She is the author of The Latino Continuum and the Nineteenth-Century Americas: Literature\, Translation\, and Historiography (Oxford University Press\, 2021; 2025 paperback release) which won the MLA Prize in Latina and Latino and Chicana and Chicano Literary and Cultural Studies and the Latin American Studies Association Latinx Studies Book Award. She is the co-editor of the critical edition Irene Albar. Novela cubana (1885\, 1886) by Eusebio Guiteras (Calambur 2023). Her work has appeared in various journals and edited volumes\, and she is a co-founding editor of Pasados: Recovering History\, Imagining Latinidad\, a new open-access journal published with the University of Pennsylvania Press. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by the Literature Department and the Spanish Studies Major
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bibliography-as-biography-recovering-early-nineteenth-century-latinx-figures/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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