George Estreich is a poet and the author of the memoir, The Shape of The Eye, winner of the Oregon Book Award. “The Shape of the Eye is a memoir […]

Join the IHR's Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster for a workshop with Fenella Cannell. We will be discussing an early draft of her current work on kinship and religion […]

This Anthropology Colloquium is co-sponsored by the IHR's Religious & Secular Entanglements Research Cluster. Dr. Fenella Cannell is a specialist in Southeast Asian anthropology, and has also conducted research on […]

Please join us for readings by UCSC's creative writing students.

bodies / moving / borders displacements and dreams of citizenship a research symposium and performances re-membering legacies, pedagogies and ways of knowing with special guests: Julio Salgado, Leti Volpp, and […]

Note: due to two unfortunate cancellations, the session originally planned for Tuesday evening, June 25th, will not take place. The workshop will begin Wednesday morning. All conference events will take […]

Dr. Nicole Stahlmann, Director of Fellowship Programs at the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), will host an information session at 1:00 PM in the Geballe Room, 220 Stephens Hall at UC Berkeley. This presentation will provide an overview of ACLS funding opportunities for faculty and advanced graduate students, and include information on research proposal […]

Daniel Sack, National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH) Program Officer in the Division of Research Programs, will provide an overview of NEH programs and initiatives, offer strategies for application writing, and facilitate a mock peer review panel session. NEH is an independent grant-making agency of the United States government dedicated to supporting research, education, preservation, […]

In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate the view, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen's empiricist proposal will be provided. Otávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy […]

Intervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, […]