Events
Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe extraction of ecological value from nature, labor value from workers, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions, commons-based production […]
2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
London Nelson Community Center 301 Center St., Santa Cruz, United StatesDid you know that without fungus, we’d have no bread, cheese, beer, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGrants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not […]
Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways […]
Moulay Hicham Alaoui – Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion, Politics, and the Struggle for Freedom
Charles E. Merrill LoungeJoin us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East, drawing upon his recent book, […]
Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons - Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). […]
Lisa Wedeen – Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon, Žižek, and Al Attar
Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk begins with a question inspired by the work of the anthropologist David Scott, as to whether radical social transformation can remain a credible historical possibility if it is […]
The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others […]
Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
Virtual EventTamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and […]
Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
Communications 150, Studio CFilm Screening and Panel Discussion: 5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception: Communications 139, 7-8pm Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is […]