Events
Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeif Haven Martinson is a writer, poet, and designer. His first book, Arcane Rituals From The Future, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by 1913 Press in 2016. He is currently the Lead Designer at Botanic Technologies, where he helps develop chatbots, voice assistants, and avatars. Previously, he developed […]
Yiannis Papadakis: “Here/There: Immigrants, Comparison & Critique”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesYiannis Papadakis holds an appointment in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus, and is a visiting scholar at UCSC. Papadakis’s published work on Cyprus has focused on ethnic conflict, borders, nationalism, memory, museums, historiography, history education and cinema. His recent work explores issues of migration and social democracy in Denmark, […]
PhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: “Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library“Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History” Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki A Special PhD+ Event at the VizWall (DSC, McHenry Library) Consumable anywhere, podcasts have emerged as an important medium for cultural discussions. Join us for a conversation about East Asia for All, a public history podcast that provides nuanced […]
Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. This conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous sonic trope of noise, considering its counter-productive character and how it can be a tactic for critique against the capture of individuals and communities of […]
Mayanthi Fernando: “SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMayanthi Fernando works on Islam, secularism, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside other traditions of nonhuman ontologies, including Islamic sciences of the unseen, she asks whether we might rethink “natureculture” as “supernatureculture.” Mayanthi Fernando is an associate […]
Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOriginally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He is Diné of the Todích’ii’nii (Bitter Water Clan), born for the Tlizílaaní (Many Goats Clan) and holds an AFA from the Institute of American Indian […]
Christopher Breu: “The Post-PhD Path”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing RSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) Christopher Breu is Professor of English at Illinois State University, where he teaches courses on cultural and critical theory, American literature 1900 to the present, American popular culture, […]
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of sex anymore? Is it hopelessly retrograde, a category that has run its course and has rightly been replaced by the endlessly more flexible category of […]
Gabrielle Hecht – “Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene" This talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century, piles of mine waste have defined Johannesburg’s topography. Today, corporations and individuals continually revisit these piles – at very different scales – in the eternal hope of extracting further value. Particles from these mine wastes […]
Amanda Smith: “Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAmanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures smoothed by homogenizing processes of spatial integration. In this talk, she addresses the stakes of such a spatial reading by exploring the legacy of misreading […]