Events
Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Virtual EventThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, both movement-generated theory magazines; […]
FeaturedThe Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Virtual EventJoin us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein's book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family, Lived History, and Personal Letters. Stein will discuss her recent, award winning book, Family Papers, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the […]
Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms
Virtual EventThis talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel, El Filibusterismo, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals, indios into free citizen-subjects, Tadiar explores […]
#StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era, with Fatema Ahmad
Virtual EventIn 2014, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a grant program that funneled federal money to police, universities, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although CVE and other “anti-radicalization” programs target Muslims and political activists, they have enjoyed support from some liberals who view anti-radicalization as a softer, more humane […]
PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
Virtual EventInterested in podcasting and the different ways you can engage this medium as a scholar? This session will focus on how podcasting might fit into your academic and career goals, including approaches for developing your own podcasting project, building scholarly and community networks with podcast interviews, preparing to be interviewed on a podcast, and the […]
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Virtual EventValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty […]
Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran – Patriotism, national belonging, integration, and identity
Virtual EventDaniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2,500 years, with a population of 100,000 at their height in 1945. Today, Iran contains the […]
Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies, Covid-19, and Healing Futures
Virtual EventReimagining cultural healing ways is central to healing justice, Black Lives Matter, and other contemporary movements. However, “moving from race to culture to creation,” as Resmaa Menakem puts it, takes work. This talk engages in this work by centering epistemologies of Black/African-American traditional medicine, often reclaimed as “conjure.” Drawing on short stories by Zora Neale […]
Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
Virtual EventSandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]
Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
Virtual EventOn Friday, February 5th, 12-1 pm, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled "'Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:' Abdallah Laroui's Critique of Colonized Subjectivity." Professor Megan Thomas (Politics) will serve as the discussant. Please email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for the paper. Click To join. This event […]