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  • Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir

    Virtual Event

    The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir." Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Pakistan border. In conversation with […]

  • Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn

    UCSC

    Autotheory’s genre-bending form blends critical theory with life writing. Through performances, readings, papers, and embodied writing exercises, this transdisciplinary conference explores where and how autotheory emerged, the range of its practices, and the ways in which its forms recast the relationships between subjects and the worlds that make them. Panels explore autotheory in relationship to […]

  • More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Snacks will be served! About Our Presenters: Joan Chia-en Chiang - "'I Won't Fight For You': Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII" […]

  • Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    What is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute to decolonizing the transgender imaginary in translation? This talk probes how form—from the grammatical to the material and from the social to the structural—shapes and […]

  • Jennifer Finney Boylan

    Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning

    Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for this year's Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story and song, Jennifer Finney Boylan speculates on the life of Amelia Earhart after the crash. Using that event as a springboard, she considers how our […]

  • Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 4th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Benjamin Breen speaking on "AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research." As artificial […]

  • Book Conversation: Kevin Pham – The Architects of Dignity

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Professor Kevin Pham (University of Amsterdam) will be speaking about his 2024 book The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization on Monday March 3, at 3pm in Humanities 1 room 210. To attend virtually, join via Zoom here. In his new book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024), […]

  • Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation

    Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the final talk in the Winter 25 session of the HisCon Speaker Series. HistCon Professor Banu Bargu, in discussion with HistCon Grads Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegrovoa will present “Disembodiment: A Conversation” on Monday, March 3, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 with a virtual […]

  • Evgeny Morozov – AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies, Neoliberal Futures, and the Fight for Ecological Reason

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article "The AI We Deserve." Evgeny Morozov holds a PhD in History of Science from Harvard University. He is the founder of "The Syllabus" and author of The Net Delusion (2011) and To Save Everything, Click Here (2013).

  • An Evening with Colin Winnette

    Kresge Collge - A Lounge

    As part of Kresge's Writers House Reading Series, Kresge's Media and Society presents an evening with novelist and short-story writer Colin Winnette, who will be giving a reading followed by Q&A. The event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). Colin Winnette is the […]

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