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SUMMARY:A Discussion of Mike Wilson’s book\, What Side Are You On?\, with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a discussion of Mike Wilson’s book What Side Are You On? with Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer on Wednesday\, December 4th\, from 4:00-6:00pm at Merrill Provost’s House\, Public Living Room. Light refreshments will be provided. \nMike Wilson is a dedicated humanitarian and co-author of What Side Are You On? with Dr. Jose Antonio Lucero. His work addresses the intersections of poverty\, racism\, and colonialism\, with a focus on migrant rights and humanitarian aid along the border. Known for establishing water stations for migrants on tribal lands\, Mike’s advocacy often places him at odds with both the U.S. government and his own Indigenous community. His recent book offers a profound examination of these critical issues. \nFelicity Amaya Schaeffer is Professor of the Feminist Studies Department and the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, as well as an Affiliate Faculty in Latin American and Latinx Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n\nCo-sponsored by the UCSC History Department\, the Feminist Studies Department\, the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department\, the Latin American and Latino Studies Department\, the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Peggy And Jack Baskin Foundation\, Cowell College\, Merrill College\, Porter College\, Rachel Carson College\, Stevenson College\, and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-discussion-of-mike-wilsons-book-what-side-are-you-on/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Fall 2024 \nGrowing Things\n~ gardens\, poems\, emotions\, relationships\, stories\, our artistic practices\, carefully tended\, beautifully ordered\, rewilded and wild ~ \n\nSponsored by The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books\, which provides books for purchase at the readings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-fall-2024/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Casting the Dice: A Dialogue on Migration Through Music
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a special event with composer Iván Enrique Rodríguez and UC Santa Cruz scholar Amy Argenal to discuss the complex experiences of migrants\, the many challenges of seeking asylum and refuge in the United States\, and the power of music as a tool for social change. \nPresented by The Humanities Institute and the Cabrillo Festival of Contemporary Music\, the event features “Casting the Dice\,” an orchestral work narrated and composed by Rodríguez and based on stories collected from migrants around the world. The piece\, which premiered at the Cabrillo Festival in Summer 2024\, examines the lived experiences of people who have been displaced\, delving into the connections of immigrants and refugees with their homelands\, and their personal journeys as they navigate rebuilding their lives in a new country. \nRodríguez will discuss his process composing this orchestral piece with Argenal\, a scholar of migration\, human rights educator\, and active collaborator with local immigrant and refugee rights organizations. Alongside the conversation\, attendees will get a chance to connect with groups that offer resources to migrants in Santa Cruz County and advocate for just immigration policies\, providing an opportunity to learn about ways to support local efforts in our community. \nThis event is free and open to the public but we ask that you please register. \n \n \nDr. Iván Enrique Rodríguez\, a Puerto Rican composer\, is acclaimed for his gripping\, dramatic music rooted in social justice and Puerto Rican heritage. His notable works include A Metaphor for Power\, addressing Latinx and equality issues\, and Casting the Dice\, about refugees and immigration\, commissioned by the Cabrillo Festival. His music has been performed in major venues like Carnegie Hall and Lincoln Center\, as well as in refugee camps across Europe. Rodríguez received the 2019 ASCAP Leonard Bernstein Award and the 2023 ASCAP Rudolf Nissim Prize. He earned his doctorate from The Juilliard School. \nDr. Amy Argenal is an Assistant Teaching Professor of Community-Engaged Research and Learning in the Sociology Department. She completed her doctorate in International and Multicultural Education at the University of San Francisco\, where she also received her Master’s in the same area of study. She received her second Masters in Human Rights from Mahidol University in Thailand. Her current research focuses on the root causes of migration from Central America and explores methodologies that bring the narratives of migrant communities to the forefront. \nEvent Logistics\nParking is available in UCSC Lot #115 or 116 but we also encourage bicycling\, car pooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation. To reach the UCSC lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. Overflow parking is available at lot 122. Download a parking map here. \n  \n\n \nCo-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Department of Sociology\, Department of Latin American and Latino Studies\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Arts Research Institute\, the Institute for Social Transformation\, and the Santa Cruz Welcoming Network.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/casting-the-dice-a-dialogue-on-migration-through-music/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slug Book Club Holiday Party with the Deep Read
DESCRIPTION:Join us for an undergraduate holiday party with the Slug Book Club and the Deep Read. Come for pizza and drinks as well as holiday crafts and a literary white elephant exchange ($10-$15 budget). We’ll be handing out copies of this year’s Deep Read book\, James by Percival Everett\, and discussing opportunities to participate in the Deep Read program. \n  \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slug-book-club-holiday-party-with-the-deep-read/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Analects: Book Launch and Poetry Reading
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for the release of American Analects\, poems by Gary Young and Feasting on the World\, an exhibition at MK Contemporary Art Gallery\, paintings by Gene Holton paired with poems by Gary Young. Gary Young will be reading from his new book inspired by his friend and mentor Gene Holton. \nPresented by MK Contemporary Art Gallery and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, UC Santa Cruz: Special Collection Archives\, UC Santa Cruz: The Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History; Bookshop Santa Cruz; The Hive Poetry Collective; and Santa Cruz Public Libraries. \nMore info at: www.mkcontemporary.art. \nAmerican Analects uses the Analects of Confucius as an inspiration to mediate upon the life\, death\, and the subsequent loss of the poet’s influential\, beloved mentor—the painter Gene Holtan. These poems are juxtaposed with poems about other losses—of parents\, of friends and friends of friends. Still\, this is not a dour book. Many poems celebrate our ability to inspire\, to comfort\, and to nurture one another. In the end\, American Analects is about resiliency\, about moving on from personal loss\, from the pandemic\, and from catastrophic fires\, to rejoice in what remains. \nGary Young is the author of several collections of poetry. His most recent books are That’s What I Thought\, winner of the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books\, and Precious Mirror\, translations from the Japanese. His other books include Even So: New and Selected Poems; Pleasure; No Other Life\, winner of the William Carlos Williams Award; Braver Deeds\, winner of the Peregrine Smith Poetry Prize; Days; The Dream of a Moral Life\, which won the James D. Phelan Award; and Hands. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the National Endowment for the Arts\, the California Arts Council\, and the Vogelstein Foundation\, among others. In 2009 he received the Shelley Memorial Award from the Poetry Society of America. Young was the first Poet Laureate of Santa Cruz County\, and in 2012 he was named Santa Cruz County Artist of the Year. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition letterpress books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His fine print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Museum\, and special collection libraries throughout the U.S. and Europe. He teaches creative writing and directs the Cowell Press at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feasting-on-the-world-book-launch-and-poetry-reading/
LOCATION:m.k. contemporary art\, 703 Front Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Slugs and Steins with Professor Renee Fox and Professor Elaine Sullivan - The Curse of the Mummy
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on a new UCSC Humanities course called “The Curse of the Mummy\,” co-taught by Associate Professor of Literature Renée Fox and Associate Professor Elaine Sullivan. Combining analysis of 19th-century Egyptology’s transformation of ancient Egypt into a European fantasy with study of ancient Egyptian culture itself\, the course relies on the collaborative expertise of an Egyptologist and a Victorian studies scholar to discover how and why the ancient past can become integral to contemporary identity\, society\, and aesthetics. \nThe talk will focus on the genesis of the course\, some of the bizarre mummy literature it covers\, the ways it relates to Professor Fox’s and Professor Sullivan’s current (and very different) research\, and why mummies are a perfect subject to think about the intersections and divergences between different Humanities disciplines. \n \nRenee Fox is Associate Professor of Literature\, the Jordan-Stern Presidential Chair for Dickens and Nineteenth-Century Studies\, Co-Director of the Dickens Project\, and Co-Director of the Center for Monster Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Necromantics: Reanimation\, the Historical Imagination\, and Victorian British and Irish Literature (The Ohio State University Press\, 2023)\, co-editor of the Routledge International Handbook of Irish Studies (Routledge\, 2021)\, and co-editor of the forthcoming Race\, Violence\, and Form: Reframing Nineteenth-Century Ireland (Liverpool University Press\, 2025). Her other publications include essays and articles on topics ranging from Victorian acrobats to Dracula’s gothic realism to epitaphic form in Irish poetry\, and she’s currently at work on a new book entitled Violent Reading: 19th-Century Ireland and the Politics of Genre. \nElaine Sullivan (M.A. and Ph.D. in Egyptian Art and Archaeology at Johns Hopkins University) is an Associate Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sullivan is an Egyptologist and a Digital Humanist whose work focuses on applying new technologies to ancient cultural materials. Her born-digital publication\, Constructing the Sacred (Stanford University Press\, 2020\, awarded prizes by the American Historical Association and the Archaeological Institute of America)\, utilizes a geo-temporal 3D model of the necropolis of Saqqara (near modern Cairo) to investigate questions of ritual landscape at the site. She was the project coordinator of the Digital Karnak Project\, a multi-phased 3D virtual reality model of the famous ancient Egyptian temple complex of Karnak. \nSlugs and Steins are free informal lectures served up over Zoom. Brought to you by the UC Santa Cruz Alumni Association\, each talk will engage one of our favorite professors in discussion with you\, the local community of Silicon Valley\, and beyond. We will cover everything from organic artichokes to endangered zebras\, self-driving cars to Shakespeare. All are welcome. Audience participation is encouraged. \nWatch past Slugs and Steins events here. \nQuestions? Contact the UC Santa Cruz University Events office at specialevents@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/slugs-and-steins-with-professor-renee-fox-and-professor-elaine-sullivan-the-curse-of-the-mummy/
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SUMMARY:Humanities Division Graduate Awards Make-up
DESCRIPTION:Dean Jasmine Alinder will recognize Kimberly Tallbear (Ph.D. ’05\, History of Consciousness) with the 2023-2024 Distinguished Humanities Graduate Alumni award. Professor Tallbear will give remarks\, and we will recognize graduate student awards from last year\, with a reception following. \nThe event will take place at the Merrill Provost House from 4 – 6 pm. We also plan to display graduate student publications and other research projects completed since 2021. Information about how to display work is included in the RSVP form below. \n \nPlease RSVP by Tuesday December 3rd to attend. We are looking forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-division-graduate-awards-make-up/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Global Soccer Culture: How Immigrants Created the World's Game
DESCRIPTION:Global Soccer Culture\nHow Immigrants Created the World’s Game \nProf. Laurent Dubois (U. of Virginia) in Conversation with Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\nMonday\, January 6\, 2025\n6 pm || Cultural Center @ Merrill \n \nKick off your winter quarter with this inspiring conversation between renowned global soccer historian Dr. Laurent Dubois and Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani\, Vice Chancellor of Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion. \nHow have immigrants and immigration created a culture of soccer that spans the globe? What is at stake in current struggles over immigration for the future of soccer as “the world’s game”? \nLaurent Dubois is John L. Nau III Bicentennial Professor in the History and Principles of Democracy at the University of Virginia. He is the author of seven books\, including Soccer Empire: The World Cup and the Future of France (2010) and The Language of the Game: How to Understand Soccer (2018). \nAnju Reejhsinghani is Inaugural Vice Chancellor for Diversity\, Equity\, and Inclusion and Chief Diversity Officer\, UC Santa Cruz. A former tenured history professor in the University of Wisconsin System\, Dr. Reejhsinghani is a scholar of race\, gender\, sport\, and diaspora in the Americas. \n\nThis event is co-sponsored by Merrill College\, the UCSC Office for Diversity and Inclusion\, the History department\, The Center for World History\, the Council of Provosts\, and the Merrill Programs and Leadership Office.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/global-soccer-culture-how-immigrants-created-the-worlds-game/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zionism: Past\, Present\, Future?
DESCRIPTION:Zionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism\, what is its history\, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings to diverse groups? Why have so many embraced different versions of Zionism\, and\, on the flip side\, why and how has Zionism been critiqued\, both among its proponents as well as its detractors? What is the future of Zionism\, particularly in the wake of Israel’s devastating assaults on Gaza and Lebanon following the Hamas organized massacres of Israelis on Oct. 7\, 2023? Please join the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies in a panel conversation featuring\, Liora Halperin (University of Washington)\, Shaul Magid (Dartmouth)\, and Dov Waxman (UCLA); prominent scholars of the history of Zionism\, who will address these questions and many more. \n \nRegistration required for event entry. Seating will be first come\, first served. \n Prof. Halperin is Professor of International Studies and History\, and Distinguished Endowed Chair of Jewish Studies\, at the University of Washington. She is an historian of Israel/Palestine with particular interests in nationalism and collective memory\, Jewish cultural and social history\, language ideology and policy\, and the politics of colonization and settlement. She is the author of The Oldest Guard: Forging the Zionist Settler Past (Stanford\, 2021)\, a study of the European Jewish agricultural colonies established in late nineteenth-century Ottoman Palestine and the politics of their twentieth-century commemoration and Babel in Zion: Jews\, Nationalism\, and Language Diversity in Palestine\, 1920-1948 (Yale\, 2015)\, which was awarded the Shapiro Prize from the Association for Israel Studies for the best book in Israel Studies. She is currently working on a book about the diverse urban Jewish communities of late 19th/early 20th century Ottoman Palestine and the way a wide range of later groups and political movements\, both Zionist and anti-Zionist\, have commemorated and promoted narratives about this history. \nShaul Magid is a rabbi\, Visiting Professor of Modern Jewish Studies at Harvard Divinity School\, and Distinguished Fellow in Jewish Studies at Dartmouth College. He teaches Modern Judaism at Harvard Divinity School and is a senior research fellow at the Center for the Study of World Religions at Harvard. He has written extensively on Zionism\, anti-Zionism\, Diasporism\, and the Israeli/Palestinian conflict. He is the author of many books and essays\, most recently Meir Kahane: The Public Life and Political Thought of an American Jewish Radical (2021) and The Necessity of Exile: Essays from a Distance (2023). His present book project is The Political Theology of Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar – Zionism as Anti-Messianism. \nDov Waxman is the Rosalinde and Arthur Gilbert Foundation Professor of Israel Studies at the University of California\, Los Angeles (UCLA). He is the author of four books: The Pursuit of Peace and The Crisis of Israeli Identity: Defending / Defining the Nation (2006)\, Israel’s Palestinians: The Conflict Within (2011)\, Trouble in the Tribe: The American Jewish Conflict over Israel (2016)\, and The Israeli-Palestinian Conflict: What Everyone Needs to Know (2019). His writing has also been published in The New York Times\, The Washington Post\, The Los Angeles Times\, The Guardian\, The Atlantic\, Time\, Slate\, and many other publications. \n  \nThis event is presented by the Center for Jewish Studies and co-sponsored by Porter College.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zionism-past-present-future/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall
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SUMMARY:Kim Tallbear – Settler Love Is Breaking My Heart: Sex\, Kin\, and Country
DESCRIPTION:Settler sexuality\, family\, and “love” are key to sustaining settler property relations in the US and Canada. In this in-process book chapter (a shorter version was previously published in a 2024 edited volume)\, I draw on the work of historians\, anthropologists\, and science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have investigated the history of state- sanctioned marriage and monogamy in the US\, Hawai’i\, Canada\, and Europe. I also build on popular and academic polyamory literatures\, Native American and Indigenous Studies and critical race theory. In addition\, (auto)ethnographic examination of eco-erotic\, polyamorous\, and other more-than-monogamous relating inform alternative concepts of anticolonial relating after the unsettling of settler sex and family. Finally\, I center the role of country—both music and place—to think through and beyond unsustainable settler- colonial practices of making relations with human loves and more-than-human loves. Decolonization is more sustainable with music. \nKim TallBear (Sisseton-Wahpeton Oyate) is Professor and Canada Research Chair in Indigenous Peoples\, Technoscience\, and Society\, Faculty of Native Studies\, University of Alberta. She is the author of Native American DNA: Tribal Belonging and the False Promise of Genetic Science. In addition to studying genome science disruptions to Indigenous self-definitions\, Dr. TallBear studies colonial disruptions to Indigenous sexual relations. She is a regular panelist on the Media Indigena podcast. She is also a regular media commentator on topics including Indigenous peoples\, science\, and technology; and Indigenous sexualities. You can also follow her Substack newsletter\, Unsettle: Indigenous affairs\, cultural politics & (de)colonization at https://kimtallbear.substack.com. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kim-tallbear-settler-love-is-breaking-my-heart-sex-kin-and-country/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Andrea Cohen
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nAndrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections; her latest is The Sorrow Apartments (2024). You can also find her writing in The New Yorker\, Poetry\, The Threepenny Review\, and The New York Review of Books\, etc. Her awards include a Guggenheim Fellowship and residencies at MacDowell. Over the years\, she has taught at The University of Iowa\, Emerson College\, UMASS-Boston\, The Fine Arts Work Center\, and Merrimack College; starting this spring\, she will teach at Boston University. She also directs the Blacksmith House Poetry Series. Her hometown is Atlanta\, Georgia. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-andrea-cohen/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marc Matera - Race After Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain
DESCRIPTION:“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and\, ultimately\, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However\, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean\, South Asian\, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s\, race relations served as a means of conceptualizing and grappling with “problems of the end of Empire\,” and efforts to study and manage them focused on centers of extractive industries in British settler colonies in Africa. \nThis talk demonstrates how white liberals and business leaders in colonial Africa provided institutional models and much of the personnel and start-up capital for a race relations industry in Britain that depoliticized racism and delegitimated anticolonial and Black Power politics by attributing them to racial identification. Studies of and policies targeting race relations in 1960s Britain emerged alongside and in connection with efforts to manage\, co-opt\, or divert the transformative potential of decolonization and to shape postcolonial futures with neoliberal solutions. From this perspective\, when it comes to liberal politics of race\, as the South African artist William Kentridge suggests (“Art in a State of Siege (100 Years of Easy Living)\,” 1988)\, “London is a suburb of Johannesburg”. \nMarc Matera is Professor of History at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He is the author of Black London: The Imperial Metropolis and Decolonization in the Twentieth Century (University of California Press\, 2015). He coauthored The Global 1930s: The International Decade (Routledge\, 2017) with Susan Kingsley Kent and The Women’s War of 1929: Gender and Violence in Colonial Nigeria (Palgrave Macmillan\, 2012) with Misty L. Bastian and Susan Kingsley Kent. He recently contributed to and coauthored introductory and concluding essays for a thematic issue of Modern British History\, “Marking Race in Twentieth Century Britain”. The research for Professor Matera’s talk was supported in part by a research fellowship from the American Council of Learned Societies. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marc-matera-race-after-empire/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ambika Aiyadurai - Caring for Humans and Nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
DESCRIPTION:Organized by the Center for South Asian Studies\, this talk examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on fieldwork and case studies from across the country\, Professor Aiyadurai will discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people\, the talk asks how and in what ways the notions of care for humans and nonhumans among these groups vary\, overlap\, and sometimes compete against each other. How do we reconcile the conflicts emerging through the hierarchical nature of the ethics of care in wildlife conservation? \n \nAmbika Aiyadurai is Associate Professor in the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences at Indian Institute of Technology\, Gandhinagar. Her research interests include human-animal relations and community-based wildlife conservation. \nThis talk is a part of the Center for South Asian Studies Ecologies of Care 2024-25 Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/caring-for-humans-and-nonhumans/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Venita Blackburn
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nWorks by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker\, NY Times\, Harper’s\, McSweeney’s\, Story Magazine\, the Virginia Quarterly Review\, the Paris Review\, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in 2014 and several Pushcart prize nominations. She received the Prairie Schooner book prize for fiction\, which resulted in the publication of her collected stories\, Black Jesus and Other Superheroes\, in 2017 and earned a place as a finalist for the NYPL Young Lions award among other honors. Blackburn’s second collection of stories is How to Wrestle a Girl\, 2021\, finalist for a Lambda Literary Prize and was a NY Times editor’s choice. Her debut novel\, Dead in Long Beach\, California\, is about the mania of grief\, all of human history and a lesbian assassin at the end of the world and was selected as one of the NYTimes and NPR’s best books of 2024. She is the founder and president of Live\, Write\, an organization devoted to offering free creative writing workshops for communities of color. Her hometown is Compton\, California\, and she is an Associate Professor of creative writing at California State University\, Fresno. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-venita-blackburn/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:With support from Santa Cruz County and The Humanities Institute\, the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History (MAH) is proud to present Accidentally Wes Anderson: Adventures in Santa Cruz—an exhibition that pays tribute to the world of travel photography\, community\, and adventure\, where architecture\, design\, and aesthetics converge in stunning symmetry reminiscent of the iconic filmmaker’s visual style. \nThe exhibit will run from January 24th – May 18th. \nThis is an adventure. Join us to discover the most interesting places on Earth\, both near and far\, inspired by the eponymous director’s cinematic vision. Produced in collaboration with brand and social media community Accidentally Wes Anderson (AWA)\, this exhibition takes guests on a visual journey to the most beautiful\, idiosyncratic locations around the globe—including Santa Cruz County—all seemingly plucked from the whimsical world of filmmaker Wes Anderson. \nFrom impossibly grand hotels and chateaus to idyllic lighthouses\, cable cars\, and train carriages\, AWA explores the filmmaker’s distinct aesthetic\, whether a perfectly symmetrical landscape or a European city brimming with technicolor structures. The MAH exhibition\, which will include a selection of community-sourced images of quirky places and locales in Central Coast California\, is also presented as homage to the centennial celebration of the Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk’s Giant Dipper roller coaster\, an Anderson-esque vintage wooden coaster that debuted in 1924. \nBorn off the back of a viral online phenomenon and community of the same name\, AWA celebrates the undeniable visual vernacular of one of cinema’s greatest filmmakers. Each of the locations highlighted in the exhibition boasts the recognizable singular aesthetic that is oh-so typical of film master Wes Anderson. Bright\, vivid\, and often slightly jarring to reality\, AWA collects the world’s most Anderson-like sites in all their faded grandeur and pop-pastel colors\, telling the story behind each stranger-than-fiction location. Authorized by Anderson himself\, the exhibition and its companion books celebrate much of the weird and wonderful architecture that exists in our unique world\, paying tribute to travel\, photography\, community\, and adventure. \nAWA photo contributors have been called “adventurers” who range from travelers\, architects\, history buffs\, artists\, editors\, photographers\, to teachers\, students\, and all walks of life intrigued by the wonders of the world and civilization. \n\nBanner Image: Santa Cruz Beach Boardwalk\, photo by Ludwig Favre\, @ludwigfavre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/accidentally-wes-anderson-adventures-in-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series: Francesca Orsini — Varieties of Realism
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 24th at 10am PST for Varieties of Realism\, a lecture by Francesca Orsini with discussants: G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-varieties-of-realism/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth\, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever\, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book\, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who would like to participate. \n \nPlease sign up here for a free copy of the book. If you would like a copy to read over the winter break\, please sign up by December 2nd. Registrations received after December 2nd will receive their books in January. \nProfessor Amanda Smith will email all the registrants with a time to pick up their book. \nAn American Library Association Notable Book\, We Are the Middle of Forever draws on interviews with people from different North American Indigenous cultures and communities\, generations\, and geographic regions\, who share their knowledge and experience\, their questions\, their observations\, and their dreams of maintaining the best relationship possible to all of life. A welcome antidote to the despair arising from the climate crisis\, We Are the Middle of Forever will be an indispensable aid to those looking for new and different ideas and responses to the challenges we face. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster. \nStan Rushworth is a teacher of Native American literature and the author of Sam Woods: American Healing\, Going to Water: The Journal of Beginning Rain\, Diaspora’s Children\, and (with Dahr Jamail) We Are the Middle of Forever: Indigenous Voices from Turtle Island on the Changing Earth (The New Press). He lives in Northern California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/we-are-the-middle-of-forever/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dan Zimmer - From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the Winter ’25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday\, January 27th\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout From Left/Right to Up/Down:\nRecent years have seen a growing number renounce the anthropocentrism of the modern Left/Right political spectrum to champion nothing less than the cause of Life itself. This talk charts how the totality of Life became a source of political concern and maps the consequences. It traces the beginning of these developments back to mid-20th century cybernetics before proceeding to show how the environmental crises of the 1970s split the servants of Life into competing camps: one wing striving to ensure that human beings do not overstep Life’s planetary boundaries and the other seeking to use artificial intelligence to free Life from all earthly limits to growth. The talk introduces an Up/Down dichotomy as a heuristic tool to help observers better parse this growing opposition. It concludes by warning that the growing struggle between Life’s partisans may come to resemble less the human-scale conflicts of Western political modernity than a new war of religion. \nDan Zimmer is a political theorist who studies the planet-scale application of human power\, with a transdisciplinary focus on nuclear weapons\, global warming\, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received a doctorate in political science from the Government Department of Cornell University and has since studied contemporary issues in climate science and AI with STS scholar Paul Edwards as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He now works as a lecturer in the Stanford Civic\, Liberal\, and Global Education Program and is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the emergence of the human species as a political object from Aristotle to the atom bomb to the Anthropocene. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-dan-zimmer/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
DESCRIPTION:Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan\, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional\, continental\, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue essay composed alongside The Art Institute of Chicago’s current exhibition\, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica\, this talk navigates a genealogy of similarly unsettled anticolonial solidarities throughout Africa and its diaspora during the Non-Aligned era. By narrowing in on the contentious relationship between “North” and “Sub-Saharan” African artistic production in this period – particularly during the 1969 “First” Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers – I explore how varying articulations and mis/translations of Blackness\, Arabness\, and Africanness in the political and cultural realm ultimately elude a stable and coherent Pan-African sensibility. However\, I also contend that the necessarily fleeting nature of these cultural encounters did still chart routes towards an African diasporic relation of difference that strives towards the most emancipatory possibilities of a transnational and anticolonial practice of solidarity. \nSophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sophia’s current book project\, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz\, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist magazine. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-mapping-the-arab-in-pan-african-political-culture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi:  Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature\, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-east-of-delhi/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical\, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. \n \nThe first 20 students who register for the full day will receive\ntheir choice of one of the speakers’ books. \n\n11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World \nAsli Zengin – Assistant Professor\, Rutgers University\nIn Violent Intimacies\, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the ethnographic history of trans communal life in Istanbul\, Zengin develops an understanding cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex\, gender and sexuality. \n12:30 | Lunch provided \n1:30pm | Defiant Disrobing and Double Dissent in Feminist Thought \nNaminata Diabate – Associate Professor\, Cornell University\nNaminata Diabate is a scholar of sexuality\, race\, biopolitics\, and postcoloniality\, whose research explores African\, African American\, Caribbean\, and Afro-Hispanic literatures\, cultures\, cinema\, and new media. Her book\, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa\, won the African Studies Association Best Book Award in 2021 and the African Literature First Book Prize in 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-dissent-a-trans-feminist-dialogue/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday\, January 31\, 2025 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \n \n \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nFar from being a haphazard collection of musical scraps\, APQ is a deliberately designed homage to America’s past and a showcase of its dynamic present. It beckons listeners to meditate upon our shared identity and relish in the musical threads that bind us. Just as an intricately designed quilt becomes a cherished family heirloom\, when the distinct patterns of APQ’s music align in perfect harmony\, the result is both a blanket of warmth and a timeless treasure. \nSponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet-2/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Zhongmin Chen — "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language"
DESCRIPTION:The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents\, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the ‘One-center Multi-Layer’ Development Hypothesis.” This talk will take place Monday\, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 – Room 210. \nLanguage is humanity’s most vital tool for communication\, making the study of its evolution inherently linked to the dynamics of human activity\, society\, history\, and other influencing factors. Based on the historical and cultural contexts of language development\, the evolution of language can be broadly categorized into three models: \n1. The Family Tree Model – exemplified by Indo-European languages.\n2. The Polycentric Mixed Model – observed in regions such as Australia\, Papua New Guinea\, and the Balkans.\n3. The One-Center Multi-Layer Model – characteristic of East and Southeast Asian languages\, including Chinese. \nThis presentation delves into the historical and social contexts underlying these evolutionary models and highlights their defining characteristics. It also demonstrates the methodology used to analyze historical linguistic layers\, with examples drawn from the lexical\, syntactic\, and phonetic features of various Chinese dialects and East Asian languages. \nZhongmin Chen (陈忠敏) is Professor of Chinese Linguistics at Fudan University (Shanghai). He received his Ph.D. in Linguistics from University of California\, Berkeley. He works on experimental phonetics\, historical linguistics\, and Chinese dialectology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zhongmin-chen-re-evaluating-the-development-of-the-chinese-language/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life – Film Screening and Discussion with Co-Director/Executive Producer\, Dr. Persis Karim
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a screening of the film\, The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life\, and a discussion with the film’s Co-Director and Executive Producer\, Persis Karim\, who will be in conversation with UCSC PhD candidate\, Shirin Towfiq. The film shares a multi-generational perspective of those who came to the U.S. as students\, refugees\, and exiles in the context of the 1979 Iranian Revolution. The film charts the longer history of Iranian Americans in the San Francisco Bay area and the ways they have been impacted by and contributed to the region. The event is presented by the Center for Middle East and North Africa and the Department of Film and Digital Media. \nPersis Karim is the director of the Center for Iranian Diaspora Studies at San Francisco State University where she also teaches in the Department of Humanities and Comparative and World Literature. She is the editor of three anthologies of Iranian diasporic literature\, and she has published numerous articles about Iranian diasporic literature and culture for academic journals as well as poetry and essays in non-academic publications. The Dawn is Too Far: Stories of Iranian-American Life is her first film and reflects her interest in documenting and sharing the larger history and personal stories of those who are part of the global Iranian diaspora. She co-directed and co-produced the film with Soumyaa Behrens. Karim received her Master’s degree in Middle East Studies and her PhD in Comparative Literature from UT Austin. She is also a poet.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-dawn-is-too-far/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Paul North & Paul Reitter – Notes on Translating Marx’s Capital
DESCRIPTION:This presentation will discuss the history of Anglophone translations of Capital (Vol. 1) Karl Marx’s magnus opus\, paying particular attention to the different circumstances that have shaped important translation decisions. It will also identify some of the major translation challenges the text poses and ask how the meaning of the Capital varies according to how we respond to those challenges. \nThis event will be held in Humanities 1 Room 210\, as well as via Zoom. Register here for the Zoom link. \nPaul Reitter teaches in the German department at Ohio State University. He is the author\, most recently\, of Permanent Crisis: The Humanities in a Disenchanted Age (cowritten with Chad Wellmon). His articles and essays have appeared in venues ranging from Representations to The New York Review of Books. \n  \nPaul North is Maurice Natanson Professor of German at Yale University. He teaches and writes critical theory. His books include The Problem of Distraction (Stanford University Press\, 2011)\, The Yield: Kafka’s Atheological Reformation (Stanford University Press\, 2015)\, Bizarre-Privileged Items in the Universe: The Logic of Likeness (Princeton University Press\, 2021)\, and a new translation and critical reading edition of Marx’s Capital\, Volume 1 (Princeton University Press\, 2024). \nThis talk is hosted in collaboration with History of Consciousness and is co-sponsored by the UC’s Interdisciplinary Marxism Working Group (IMWG)\, the Marxist Institute for Research (MIR)\, UC Berkeley’s Department of German Languages and Literatures\, UC Berkeley’s Townsend Center for the Humanities\, UC Berkeley’s Department of English and Program in Critical Theory. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/paul-reitter-notes-on-translating-marxs-capital/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Humanities at Work: Informational Interviewing
DESCRIPTION:Wondering about your career options? Your curiosity is one of your greatest assets for discovering career possibilities\, for building your network\, and for creating a fulfilling professional life. Join this interactive workshop to learn about exploring your career options and growing your network with the practice of informational interviewing. \n \nFree copies of Designing Your Life by Bill Burnett and Dave Evans for all those who register by Friday 1/31 and attend the event. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-at-work-informational-interviewing/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Radhika Govindrajan — “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India
DESCRIPTION:Winter 2025 Anthropology Colloquium Series\, “It’s Not Love\, It’s Deception”: The Affective Politics of Law and Majoritarianism in Himalayan India with Radhika Govindrajan. \nThis talk draws on ethnographic research in Himalayan India to explore how majoritarian feeling creeps into the legal domain by exploring the contingent production of sentiment among state officials who legislate inter-religious relationships. \nRadhika Govindrajan is an Associate Professor of Anthropology and International Studies at the University of Washington\, Seattle. She is the author of Animal Intimacies: Interspecies Relatedness in India’s Central Himalayas published by the University of Chicago Press in 2018. She is currently working on a book manuscript that explores how the question of the village in contemporary India is tangled up with the political economy of sex and sexuality. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/radhika-govindrajan-its-not-love-its-deception/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dixita Deka--After Insurgency: Farming Journeys and Rehabilitation in Northeast India
DESCRIPTION:Since India’s independence in 1947\, militarization\, the extractive regime\, and capital have significantly transformed the agrarian landscape in Northeast India. This talk is based on ongoing ethnographic work in Assam among the former insurgents of the United Liberation Front of Asom (ULFA) who have taken up farming. Reclaiming the fields and the commons has been a mammoth task for communities and surrendered insurgents alike. In the absence of a state rehabilitation program\, grassroots farming initiatives started by former ULFA insurgents in rural Assam allow them to reconnect with the community\, earn a livelihood\, and work with dignity. In doing so\, insurgents and communities are paving the path for a sustainable ecosystem in the aftermath of insurgency. \nDixita Deka is a Postdoctoral Associate in the Program in Agrarian Studies at MacMillan Center\, Yale University\, New Haven\, CT. Her research interests include insurgency in Northeast India\, gender studies\, and food cultures in the Eastern Himalayas. \n\nThis talk will be in person and online.  To attend on Zoom\, register here.  Presented by the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, this event is part of the Ecologies of Care Lecture Series. Learn more about the series here: https://csas.ucsc.edu/2024-25-events/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dixita-deka-after-insurgency-farming-journeys-and-rehabilitation-in-northeast-india/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Neko Case | THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU
DESCRIPTION:Beloved Grammy-nominated musician Neko Case will share her new book\, THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU — a “heartbreaking and funny” memoir of a poverty-stricken childhood\, obsessive desires\, and indispensable friendships that reflects on the way art and music and a deep connection to nature guided her journey towards stardom (Maggie Smith\, NYT bestselling author of You Could Make This Place Beautiful). \n \nSinger\, songwriter\, music producer\, visual artist\, and writer Neko Case has built a career with her distinctive style and musical versatility. In addition to her numerous critically-acclaimed and Grammy-nominated solo records\, Case is a founding member of The New Pornographers and has recorded a collaborative album with k.d. lang and Laura Veirs. She currently authors the popular bi-weekly Substack newsletter “Entering the Lung” and is writing the music for a high-profile Broadway production. \nNeko Case has long been revered as one of music’s most influential artists\, whose authenticity\, lyrical storytelling\, and sly wit have endeared her to a legion of critics\, musicians\, and lifelong fans. In THE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU\, Case brings her trademark candor and precision to a memoir that traces her evolution from an invisible girl “raised by two dogs and a space heater” in rural Washington state to her improbable emergence as an internationally-acclaimed talent. \nIn luminous\, sharp-edged prose\, Case shows readers what it’s like to be left alone for hours and hours as a child\, to take refuge in the woods around her home\, and to channel the monotony and loneliness and joy that comes from music\, camaraderie\, and shared experience into art. \nTHE HARDER I FIGHT THE MORE I LOVE YOU is a rebellious meditation on identity and corruption\, and a manifesto on how to make space for ourselves in this world\, despite the obstacles we face. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Neko Case \nCo-sponsored by Streetlight Records and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neko-case/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova\, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday\, February 10\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:\nIn the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach\, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate\, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate\, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx\, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view\, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction\, need to be clarified and dispelled. \nRiccardo Bellofiore\, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis\, the development and crisis of capitalism\, the endogenous theories of money\, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum\, 2018) and\, with Giovanna Vertova\, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). He has recently co-edited\, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva\, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar\, 2024) and\, with Stefano Breda\, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco\, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe. \nGiovanna Vertova\, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the spatial dimension of economics\, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation\, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics\, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals\, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism\, gender mainstreaming\, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nature-women-and-capital-a-critical-reconsideration/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: "Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature" with Douglas E. Christie
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar Lecture: “Primary Wonder: Spirituality\, Art\, and Nature” with Douglas E. Christie\, Professor Emeritus in the Theological Studies Department at Loyola Marymount University. \n“Primary wonder.” Poet Denise Levertov describes this as the feeling that sometimes arises within us when we encounter “the mystery/that there is anything\, anything at all/let alone cosmos\, joy\, memory\, everything\,/rather than void.” It is an idea resonant with spiritual meaning\, but sometimes more accessible to us through art\, poetry and nature than through traditional religious practice. This lecture will consider the role art and poetry can play in helping us recover a spirituality of primary wonder–beyond traditional religious practice–especially in relation to the natural world. \nProfessor Christie is the author of The Word in The Desert: Scripture and the Quest for Holiness in Early Christian Monasticism (Oxford\, 1993)\, The Blue Sapphire of the Mind: Note for a Contemplative Ecology (Oxford\, 2013)\, and The Insurmountable Darkness of Love: Mysticism\, Loss and the Common Life (Oxford\, 2022). He has been awarded fellowships from the Luce Foundation\, the Lilly Foundation\, and the National Endowment for the Humanities. From 2013-2015 he served as Co-director of the Casa de la Mateada study abroad program in Córdoba\, Argentina\, a program rooted in the Jesuit vision of education for solidarity. He lives with his family in Los Angeles. He is currently working on a book on the desert as spiritual landscape. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the Council of Provosts.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phi-beta-kappa-visiting-scholar-lecture-with-douglas-e-christie/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a thought-provoking talk with Armen Khatchatourov on “Truths and Rewards of Algorithmic Governmentality: A Heuristic Approach to Normativity at Play in AI Systems.” \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can attend virtually via Zoom. \nThe rapid proliferation of AI-based systems has transformed how we understand and relate to normativity. Drawing on Foucault’s insights\, Armen Khatchatourov will explore how social norms are translated into dynamic\, adaptable AI systems and how these technologies redefine our relationship with normativity through their opacity and adjustability. This talk will present a heuristic approach to unpacking the ways normative concepts operate within AI technologies and their implications for society and governance. \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He is the author of Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-truths-and-rewards-of-algorithmic-governmentality/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: Revisiting Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Deep Read salon on Mark Twain’s Adventures of Huckleberry Finn featuring UC Santa Cruz Professor of Literature and Twain scholar\, Susan Gillman. Prof. Gillman will discuss Twain’s novel in the context of 19th-century popular literature and political history and explore its broader cultural influence and reach as our American idol and target. She’ll help lay the groundwork for understanding this year’s Deep Read book\, Percival Everett’s James\, a rewriting of Huckleberry Finn that engages with both Twain’s novel and legacy. After delivering a brief lecture\, Prof. Gillman will be in conversation with Vilashini Cooppan (UCSC Professor of Literature\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead) and Laura Martin (UCSC Lecturer\, Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead). \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-talk-on-mark-twains-adventures-of-huckleberry-finn/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:La Marr Jurelle Bruce – COME OUTSIDE: Black Love\, Open Sky
DESCRIPTION:This presentation is culled from The Afromantic: Black Love Out Yonder\, a book-length cultural history\, critical theory\, aesthetic expression\, and existential assertion of B/black love outside. The project will follow black love to cookouts\, carnivals\, rooftops\, rallies\, jazz funerals\, cruising spots\, garden plots\, hush harbors\, distant stars\, and forest clearings—emphasizing ways of loving that escape and exceed normative enclosures of Western modernity. In a public sphere overrun with spectacles of black death outside\, I plan to compile a counter-archive and counter-narrative of B/black love that can breathe under open sky\, in the open air. \nLa Marr Jurelle Bruce is a philosopher\, fever dreamer\, interdisciplinary humanities scholar\, first-generation college graduate\, and Associate Professor of American Studies at the University of Maryland\, College Park. Much of his scholarship explores and activates B/black\, queer\, and mad expressive cultures—spanning literature\, music\, film\, theatre\, and the art and aesthetics of quotidian life. Dr. Bruce’s writing is featured or forthcoming in African American Review\, American Quarterly\, The Black Scholar\, GLQ\, Social Text\, TDR\, and several anthologies. His debut book\, How to Go Mad without Losing Your Mind: Madness and Black Radical Creativity (2021)\, earned the Modern Language Association’s First Book Prize. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/la-marr-jurelle-bruce-come-outside/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Career Workshop: Using LinkedIn to Accelerate Your Career
DESCRIPTION:LinkedIn can be a powerful tool to leverage in your career journey. Join us for a fast-paced and practical workshop where you’ll learn how to create a professional and dynamic LinkedIn profile\, as well as how to use various LinkedIn resources to improve your networking and job search skills! \n \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/career-workshop-using-linkedin-to-accelerate-your-career/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 1
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \n \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-1/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Derek Penslar - Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State?
DESCRIPTION:Due to the atmospheric river event effecting  Santa Cruz County\, this event will now take place via Zoom. Everyone who has RSVP’d for the event will receive a Zoom link. Anyone interested in attending the virtual event can register below using the “register” button.  \n\nThe Center for Jewish Studies Presents The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies featuring Derek Penslar. Derek Penslar will be presenting his talk titled Is Israel a Settler-Colonial State? \n \nSince the 1960s\, referencing Israel as settler-colonial has been a common polemical practice\, a means of delegitimization of the state of Israel and those who believe in its right to exist. But over this same period\, scholars have done serious work on the relationship between Zionism\, Israel\, and settler-colonialism. This talk will separate the analytical from the polemic threads in the discourse on Israel and settler-colonialism. It will propose a new vocabulary\, both more flexible and precise\, to describe Israel and that can be more conducive to a just resolution of the Israeli-Palestinian struggle. \nDerek Penslar Harvard University\nDerek Penslar is the William Lee Frost Professor of Jewish History and the Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Harvard University. He has published a dozen books\, most recently Theodor Herzl: The Charismatic Leader (2020; German ed. 2022); and Zionism: An Emotional State (2023). He is currently writing a book titled The War for Palestine\, 1947-1949: A Global History. He is a past president of the American Academy for Jewish Research\, a fellow of the Royal Society of Canada\, and an Honorary Fellow of St. Anne’s College\, Oxford. \n  \n\nEvery year\, the Jewish Studies Department honors Helen Diller\, whose generous endowment continues to provide crucial support to Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz\, by hosting a public lecture on campus by an internationally recognized scholar. See a full list of previous Diller lectures here. \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-helen-diller-distinguished-lecture-in-jewish-studies-featuring-derek-penslar/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Thomas Haigh--Artificial Intelligence: The Brand That Wouldn't Die
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this undergraduate-facing event at the Merrill Cultural Center featuring leading historian of computing\, Thomas Haigh. He will contextualize the current Artificial Intelligence hype in the longer history of boom and bust for for the AI brand\, critiquing claims made for large language models. Pizza will be served and all are welcome. Presented by Merrill College/Ming Ong Tech Cluster and co-sponsored by Humanizing Technology and the Humanities Division. \nThomas Haigh is lead author of A New History of Modern Computing (MIT Press\, 2022) and ENIAC In Action: Making & Remaking the Modern Computer (MIT Press\, 2016) and a regular contributor to Communications of the ACM. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thomas-haigh-artificial-intelligence-the-brand-that-wouldnt-die/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Katie Shilton - Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI
DESCRIPTION:This meeting is scheduled for February 18th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker\, Katie Shilton speaking on “Trust\, Trustworthiness and Participation: Findings From a Survey of Global Projects Navigating Participatory Forms of AI.” \nAs the discourse on responsible and trustworthy AI intensifies\, Participatory AI (PAI) presents a compelling approach to the democratic development of automated technologies. But how should we think about how and whether participatory methods increase trust in\, and the trustworthiness of\, AI systems? This talk will report on a systematic examination of the landscape of methods and theoretical lenses used in global participatory AI projects\, and connect those methods and lenses to trust building. The talk will explore differences in theoretical frameworks\, participation methods\, and the details of shared tasks within the AI lifecycle across sectors and geographies. Our findings reveal an evolving definition of PAI\, with actors implementing diverse methods and shared tasks. Focusing on shared tasks also provides a lens for analyzing how participation can build trust in\, and trustworthiness of\, AI systems. Our analysis reveals that participation alone is not necessarily a straightforward approach to building public trust in AI technologies\, but that the promise of participation lies in trustworthiness by increasing the diversity of expertise engaged in alignment and decision-making within AI technologies. \nKatie Shilton is a professor in the College of Information at the University of Maryland\, College Park\, and is currently visiting faculty in Computational Media at UCSC. Her research focuses on technology and data ethics. She is a co-PI of the NSF Institute for Trustworthy Artificial Intelligence in Law & Society (TRAILS) and a co-PI of the UMD Values-Centered Artificial Intelligence (VCAI) initiative. She was also recently the PI of the PERVADE project\, a multi-campus collaboration focused on big data research ethics. Other projects include improving online content moderation with human-in-the-loop machine learning techniques and designing experiential data ethics education. Katie received a B.A. from Oberlin College\, a Master of Library and Information Science from UCLA and a Ph.D. in Information Studies from UCLA. \n\nThe Humanities Institute Research cluster\, “Humanities in the Age of AI\,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines\, graduate students representing politics\, history\, literature\, philosophy\, feminist studies\, and film and visual studies\, and undergraduate scholars from computer science\, computational media\, and creative writing. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/katie-shilton-trust-trustworthiness-and-participation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:A Conversation with Bay Area Journalist Joe Eskenazi
DESCRIPTION:In partnership with City on a Hill Press and with support from The Humanities Institute and The Alumni Association\, Kresge’s Media and Society Series presents an evening with acclaimed journalist Joe Eskenazi\, who will speak to the nuts and bolts of regionally rooted reporting\, and survey several of his most impactful stories. \nJoe Eskenazi is the managing editor of Mission Local\, and has written for the Guardian\, San Francisco Public Press\, San Francisco Chronicle\, San Francisco Examiner\, and SF Weekly\, where he was a regular columnist from 2007 to 2015. He has also served as a senior editor at San Francisco Magazine.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-conversation-with-joe-eskenazi/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T093000
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SUMMARY:Valentin Lopez – Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome Valentin Lopez\, Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band for his talk “Amah Mutsun Tribal History & Importance of Traditional Land Stewardship.” \nValentin Lopez is the Chairman of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, one of three historic tribes that are recognized as Ohlone. The Amah Mutsun are comprised of the indigenous descendants forcibly taken to Missions San Juan Bautista and Santa Cruz. Chairman Lopez is also the President of the Amah Mutsun Land Trust which was established in 2012. He is a Native American Advisor to the University of California\, Office of the President. He is also a Native American Adviser to the National Alliance on Mental Illness (NAMI). The Amah Mutsun are currently working to restore their traditional indigenous knowledge regarding land stewardship and ensuring that truthful history is taught. Consequently\, the Amah Mutsun are very active in conservation and protection efforts within their traditional tribal territory. Chairman Lopez is working to restore the Mutsun Language and is a traditional Mutsun singer and dancer. \nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/valentin-lopez-amah-mutsun-tribal-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250219T133000
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SUMMARY:Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom
DESCRIPTION:This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements\,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern Studies project is driven by a subaltern intimation of freedom—a freedom that recognizes that domination takes the form of not only exploitation but oppression\, and a freedom that\, even as it exits subalternity\, seeks not to make a new group subaltern in either way. Revisiting my 1999 book\, Hybrid Histories\, I explore this subaltern intimation of freedom by focusing on 1) how it played a role in the turn away from a focus on subaltern autonomy; 2) how the community constituted by it differs from those constituted by claims to oppression such as those made by Hindu nationalists or white nationalists; and 3) how it allows us to read differently the claim to indigeneity involved in the identity “Adivasi.” \nAjay Skaria studied Political Science and History at Maharaja Sayajirao University\, Vadodara\, during which he also worked as a journalist for Indian Express. He teaches at the University of Minnesota. A member of the Subaltern Studies editorial collective from 1995 till its dissolution\, he is one of the co-editors of Subaltern Studies Vol. XII\, and the author of Hybrid Histories: Forests\, Frontiers and Wildness in Western India (1999) and Unconditional Equality: Gandhi’s Religion of Resistance (2016). He is currently completing a collection of essays\, Thinking With Gandhi and Ambedkar\, and is also working on another book\, Ambedkar’s Buddhism. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ajay-skaria-the-part-of-the-indigenous-adivasis-and-the-subaltern-intimation-of-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 2
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T153000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250220T170000
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SUMMARY:Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture: G. S. Sahota
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we welcome G.S. Sahota—Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz for a conversation on Equality of the Minor: Ambedkar’s Critical Legacy Today. This engaging discussion will take place on February 20\, 2025 at 3:30 PM in Humanities 1\, Room 202. You can also join us virtually via Zoom: \n \nThis event is a part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fall-2024-aurora-lecture-g-s-sahota/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250224T100000
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SUMMARY:Mediterranean Slavery Since the 18th Century and the Historical Study of Race: M’hamed Oualdi in Conversation with Shreya Parikh
DESCRIPTION:From ancient times through abolition\, scholars have often described slavery in the Mediterranean region as being relatively unaffected by the history of racial thought. Instead\, many historians have focused on the decisive role played by religion. At the same time\, however\, it is undeniable that dark-skinned enslaved people occupied a more subordinate position in comparison with other dominated groups. Presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa\, this talk investigates whether theories of race and racism can elucidate the social\, political\, and economic dimensions of slavery in the Mediterranean\, while also asking how studying slavery in the Mediterranean might provide a different understanding of racialization during the early modern period. \n \nM’hamed Oualdi is a Professor at the European University Institute\, Florence. Before joining the EUI\, he taught at Sciences Po-Paris and Princeton University. He is supervising a European Research Council-funded project about the demise of slavery in the Mediterranean from the mid-18th century to the 1930s. He is the author of Esclaves et maîtres. Les mamelouks au service des beys de Tunis du XVIIe siècle aux années 1880 (Publications de la Sorbonne\, 2011) and A Slave between Empires (Columbia University Press\, 2020). \nShreya Parikh is a lecturer and affiliated researcher at Sciences Po Paris. She received a Dual Ph.D. in Political Science and in Sociology from Sciences Po and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill in 2024. Her dissertation\, Mirages of Race: Blackness\, Racialization\, and the Black Movement in Tunisia\, examines the intersections of race\, migration\, and citizenship in the production of Blackness in contemporary Tunisia. She is currently working on adapting her dissertation manuscript into a book.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mhamed-oualdi-in-conversation-with-shreya-parikh/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250225T113000
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Scholars in the Humanities  \nLearn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal\, the proper tone and form\, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and avoid the jargon of field-specific descriptions. This session will help you craft a research proposal that appeals to a broad academic audience. This workshop will be an opportunity for graduate students to learn about The Humanities Institute’s funding resources as well as strategies for acquiring extramural support. \nThe workshop will be led by Pranav Anand (Faculty Director at The Humanities Institute and Professor of Linguistics) Alma Heckman (Steering Committee Member at The Humanities Institute and Associate Professor of History & Jewish Studies)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (Research Programs and Communications Director at The Humanities Institute). \n  \nPlease RSVP using your UCSC email address: \nLoading… \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-grants-and-fellowships-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T133000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Nora Khan – Discernment: Unruly Images\, Synthetic Media\, and Evolving Critical Impulse
DESCRIPTION:What can criticism offer us in a world of unruly generative images and synthetic media? What precise language might we use for machine learning’s impact\, or the wake of an algorithm? How must our practices of discernment and the critical impulse evolve in response to computational developments\, to perhaps be more resilient and responsive? \nThis talk invites one to consider how our language might move with ‘intelligent’ systems and beings that simulate liveness and likeness. To navigate a present and future dominated by synthetic media\, and created by predictive systems\, we take up a practice of seeing through systems. This talk first explores the craft of developing a hybrid\, strategic\, collective and dissident criticism of technology. It second reviews cases of baffling\, seemingly inarticulable experiences from early software experiments and artists’ interventions\, into AI/ML. Third\, it explores the evolution of language in response to material and symbolic systems that dramatically shape our creative approaches and cognition. Throughout\, the talk explores evolving critical methods that help us better situate ourselves to identify a vast range of hidden fictions and beliefs about what technology is meant to do and be. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nora-khan-discernment/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T180000
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SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Humanities Campus to Career:  Law Panel
DESCRIPTION:Please stay tuned for a new date! \n\nAre you interested in a career in the legal field? Come learn about careers in law from current and former attorneys with Humanities backgrounds. \nAppetizers and light refreshments will be served. \n \nSarah Cunniff (she/her) attended Stevenson College at UC Santa Cruz\, where she majored in French Literature. After law school\, she worked in large and small law firms and in-house at Levi Strauss. Most recently she spent a dozen years at the Career Development Office at Berkeley Law school\, where she supported students in their job searches\, with a special affinity for students with humanities backgrounds. \nChris Khasho (he/him) graduated from UC Santa Cruz in 2013 with a B.A. in Philosophy and is now a successful young attorney in Los Angeles. Chris represents clients in a broad array of business litigation matters and counsels them in corporate and transactional matters at Cypress LLP\, a premier business litigation firm in Century City. Chris is passionate about giving back to his community and helping clients resolve their legal issues. \nRitu Goswamy (they/them) is a Staff Attorney with the UC Immigrant Legal Services Center and serves UC Santa Cruz. They are a graduate from Barnard College\, Columbia University and Boston College (Joint J.D./M.S.W. degrees). Prior to joining the Center\, Ritu worked as a child welfare worker in Oakland\, and as an attorney with the Legal Aid Society – Employment Law Center (now Legal Aid at Work) and Legal Advocates for Children & Youth (part of the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley). \nJalyn Mitchell (she/her) is a proud UCSC College Ten Alum and majored in English Language Literature with a minor in Legal Studies. She graduated from Law School from Loyola University in Chicago and went to work in San Jose at the Law Foundation of Silicon Valley where she represented people on long term psychiatric holds with their due process right to a hearing to leave the hospital. Currently and for the last 2.5 years\, she has represented young people on a variety of issues including restraining orders\, traffic tickets\, education law\, and guardianships. \nLearn more about the panelists here. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-law-panel/
LOCATION:Merrill Provost House\, Provost's Residence\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
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SUMMARY:Undiscovered Shakespeare: Timon of Athens - Episode 3
DESCRIPTION:Join us for this year’s\, Undiscovered Shakespeare featuring Timon of Athens (1606)\, a late play focusing on the corrosive effects of prodigality and ingratitude in an apparently democratic society. Gretchen Minton\, Professor of English at the University of Montana\, Bozeman and the editor of the most recent Arden edition of the play\, will be the production’s visiting scholar. \n \nUndiscovered Shakespeare is a public arts and humanities series co-produced by Santa Cruz Shakespeare\, UCSC Shakespeare Workshop\, and The Humanities Institute. It brings professional actors and scholars together with the public for a staged reading and discussion of works by Shakespeare that are rarely produced. \nGretchen Minton is a Shakespeare scholar and Professor of English at Montana State University. She is the editor and author of several works\, including the award-winning Shakespeare in Montana\, and she works frequently as a dramaturg\, script adaptor\, and director.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/undiscovered-shakespeare-timon-of-athens-episode-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250226T190000
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SUMMARY:Bookshop Santa Cruz Presents: Jennifer Finney Boylan | CLEAVAGE: MEN\, WOMEN\, AND THE SPACE BETWEEN US
DESCRIPTION:What is the difference between men and women? In her new book Cleavage: Men\, Women\, and the Space Between Us\, Jennifer Finney Boylan\, bestselling author of She’s Not There and co-author of Mad Honey with Jodi Picoult\, examines the divisions—as well as the common ground—between the genders\, and reflects on her own experiences\, both difficult and joyful\, as a transgender American. \n \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of nineteen books\, including Mad Honey\, coauthored with Jodi Picoult. Her memoir\, She’s Not There\, was the first bestselling work by a transgender American. Since 2014\, she has been the inaugural Anna Quindlen Writer in Residence at Barnard College of Columbia University; she is also on the faculty of the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference of Middlebury College and the Sirenland Writers Conference in Positano\, Italy. She is the President of PEN America\, and from 2011 to 2018 she was a member of the Board of Directors of GLAAD\, including four years as national cochair. In 2022-23 she was a Fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute for Advanced Study. She graduated from Wesleyan University and Johns Hopkins\, and she holds doctorates honoris causafrom Sarah Lawrence College\, the New School\, and Wesleyan University. For many years she was a contributing opinion writer for the opinion section of the New York Times. Her work has also appeared in the New Yorker\, the Washington Post\, the Boston Globe\, Literary Hub\, Down East\, and many other publications. She lives in Maine and New York with her wife\, Deirdre. They have two children: a daughter\, Zai\, and a son\, Sean. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Jennifer Finney Boylan \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-jennifer-finney-boylan-cleavage-men-women-and-the-space-between-us/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Hannah Sanghee Park
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nHannah Sanghee Park is the author of two poetry collections. a chapbook\, Ode Days Ode (2011) and The Same-Different (2015)\, which won the Walt Whitman Award from the Academy of American Poets. In 2013\, she was awarded the Ruth Lilly Fellowship from the Poetry Foundation. Her hometown is Federal Way\, Washington\, and she currently resides in Los Angeles\, California. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-hannah-sanghee-park/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250227T190000
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SUMMARY:An Evening with Colin Winnette
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThe event will start at 7pm in the Kresge A Lounge (the first-floor lounge in one of the new residence halls). \nColin Winnette is the author of several books\, including Coyote\, Haints Stay\, The Job of the Wasp\, and most recently Users\, which was a finalist for the PEN/Faulkner Award. Winnette’s writing has appeared in McSweeney’s\, The Believer\, and The Paris Review Daily\, among many others. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/an-evening-with-colin-winnette/
LOCATION:Kresge Collge – A Lounge
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T163000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250228T180000
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SUMMARY:Evgeny Morozov - AI and its Others: Cold War Legacies\, Neoliberal Futures\, and the Fight for Ecological Reason
DESCRIPTION:Evgeny Morozov will be on campus Friday afternoon\, February 28 to talk about his recent Boston Review article “The AI We Deserve.” \nEvgeny 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).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evgeny-morozov-ai-and-its-others/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250303T130000
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SUMMARY:Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION: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 attendance option. \nPlease register here in advance for virtual access. \nAbout “Disembodiment: A Conversation”\nJoin us for an engaging conversation on Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal\, Banu Bargu’s recent book\, which examines bodily agency with a focus on forms of self-destruction and self-injury. The conversation will offer an overview of the main philosophical problems Disembodiment addresses and explore the book’s central conceptual apparatus and interpretative moves. What does it mean to do global critical theory in our present? How should it relate to the dominant “canon” of Western philosophy and political thought? Discussing these and related questions\, the conversation will explore how a materialist approach\, which takes the suffering body as its normative compass\, may make visible subterranean historical lineages as well as contemporary practices to expand our understanding of agency\, dignity\, and globality alike. \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, which received the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize given by the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Her new book\, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, examines self-destruction\, self-injury\, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of resistance and refusal. Her edited collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh University Press\, 2019)\, The Political Encounter with Althusser (special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, 2019\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco) and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Banu Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \nKey MacFarlane is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism\, and its contributions to a political theory of experience. He is co-editing a special issue in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space on the problem of space in Frankfurt School critical theory\, and has articles published or forthcoming on the political geography of waste\, the spatial politics of memory\, and Henri Lefebvre’s theory of moments. \nAnna Yegorova is a second-year PhD student in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz. Her articles on the critique of the linear conception of history\, multitemporality\, class\, and identity have been published in Russian-language journals\, including Logos\, Neprikosnovenny Zapas\, and Sociologia Vlasti. She is also a member of the Posle.media editorial collective\, where she has published two articles: “Did Lenin Create Ukraine? On the Right of Nations to Self-Determination and Marxism” and “Adorno in the Kremlin.” Her current research draws on\, and seeks to contribute to\, political and social philosophy\, Marxism\, anti-\, de-\, and post-colonial theory\, the history of anticolonial struggles\, empires and imperialism\, nationalism\, federalism\, and secularization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-bargu-with-key-macfarlane-anna-yegorova-disembodiment-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Conversation: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo attend virtually\, join via Zoom here. \nIn his new book\, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, Kevin Pham traces an intergenerational debate among six influential figures in colonial Vietnam. These visionaries debated how to respond to French colonialism\, the role of tradition amidst Western influence\, and how to transform national shame into dignity. Kevin will also share his personal motivations as a Vietnamese American for writing this book\, and how he addresses gaps in representation of Vietnamese political thought and challenges Western-centric perspectives in political theory. \nKevin Pham is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. His research introduces Vietnamese political thought to the academic field of political theory\, demonstrating its relevance to global discussions on key political concepts. His works are published in esteemed journals\, and he co-hosts two podcasts: Nam Phong Dialogues and Viet History Makers. The Architects of Dignity is his first book. More information is available on his website: www.kevindoanpham.com. \nPlease note: We will read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the book and discuss it with Kevin following his remarks. But you are also welcome to lurk in the audience if you do not have a chance to read it or do not want to join the conversation. If you want to receive the readings\, please email ekeser@ucsc.edu. \n \nThis event is presented by the Global Political Thought Working Group. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-pham-the-architects-of-dignity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Breen - AI Legibility\, Physical Archives\, and the Future of Research
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nAs artificial intelligence becomes increasingly adept in fields amenable to reinforcement learning (like mathematics\, translation\, and coding)\, forms of research that depend on undigitized archives\, tacit or embodied knowledge\, and social relationships become more valuable\, not less. Through case studies of how current LLMs perform historical analysis\, translation\, and transcription\, I argue that the future of historical research lies not in resistance to AI tools\, but in understanding how they complement rather than replace the more intuitive\, social\, and embodied aspects of research\, such as physically visiting archives\, conducting interviews\, and gathering holistic knowledge of a place\, culture\, or milieu through physical presence. I will also discuss some related experiments in interactive historical simulations enabled by LLMs which approach the well-known “hallucination problem” as a feature\, not a bug. \nBenjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, where he teaches classes on early modern Europe\, environmental history\, and the history of science\, technology\, and medicine. From July 2015 to January 2017\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and a lecturer in Columbia’s history department. He received his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His first book\, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. His second book\, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead\, the Cold War\, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science\, appeared in 2024. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his partner Roya Pakzad and their two daughters.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-benjamin-breen/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Finney Boylan - Amelia Earhart\, Saved from Drowning
DESCRIPTION: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 social and political structures constrain human liberty\, and the price that women and queer people must pay for freedom. \n \nDoors open at 5:30 pm. The lecture will begin at 6:00 pm and will be followed by a Q&A session at 7:00 pm. \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of 19 books including the bestsellers She’s Not There and Mad Honey (with Jodi Picoult). Professor\, trans advocate\, reality TV star\, and former New York Times opinion columnist\, Jenny is currently President of PEN America. From 2014-2018\, she was National Co-chair of GLAAD. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \n\nJennifer Finney Boylan is THI’s 2025 Scholar-in-Residence and this signature event is part of THI’s 25th anniversary. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-with-jenny-boylan/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility\, Autotheories of Opacity
DESCRIPTION: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 is shaped by the ways in which trans and translation interface with regimes of readability. It argues that the task of the trans translator is to renew trans life with an opacity that thwarts traps of visibility while elucidating the anti-colonial interventions and intertextual solidarities of translation itself. To navigate these counter currents is to surface what I call\, following Glissant\, a trans poetics of relation. \nAlex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College and a 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Edinburgh. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator\, they are currently completing their first book\, Unruly Relations: A Critical Reframing of Autotheory (Columbia University Press\, under advance contract)\, which recasts autotheory’s transnational and transdisciplinary place in the political history of trans and queer literature of the Américas. They are the co-editor of two volumes: Autotheories (The MIT Press\, 2025) and Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical (Fordham University Press\, under advance contract)\, as well as the co-translator of Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak’s Life Is Not Useful (Polity Press\, 2023) and Ancestral Future (Polity Press\, 2024). Their scholarship and translations have appeared in ASAP/Journal\, Critical Times\, Synthesis\, Dibur\, and South Atlantic Quarterly\, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art\, and elsewhere. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alex-brostoff-the-task-of-the-trans-translator/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
DESCRIPTION: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! \nAbout Our Presenters: \nJoan Chia-en Chiang – “‘I Won’t Fight For You’: Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII” \n  \n  \n\n \n  \nAnia Mah Gricuk – “Diasporic Medicine: A Modern History of Chinese Herbal Tea\, 1880s-present” \n\n\nTracy Liu – “Reimagining the Technological Frontier: Posthuman Entanglements across China\, Peru\, and Mexico” \n\n\nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
DESCRIPTION: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 language\, image\, film\, visual\, and performance art; the autotheoretical subject in dialogue with the psychoanalytic subject and its scenes of desire; autotheory’s encounter with racialized\, trans\, queer\, and differently abled bodies\, and autotheoretical practices of decolonial love. \nThis conference will take place from March 6–8\, 2025\, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (March 6\, 2–7 pm) and Humanities 1\, Room 210 (March 7 & 8). \nSee the full program here. \n \nFeaturing: Kazim Ali\, Alex Brostoff\, La Marr Jurelle Bruce\, Vilashini Cooppan\, Iliana Cuellar\, Nadia Ellis\, Carla Freccero\, rl Goldberg\, Che Gossett\, Jan Grue\, Eva Hayward\, Grace Lavery\, Summer Kim Lee\, Megan Moodie\, Micah Perks\, Elda María Román\, Simone Stirner\, Susan Stryker\, Kim TallBear\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\, Arianne Zwartjes \n\nSponsored by: The University of California Humanities Research Institute\, The Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory at UCHRI\, The Humanities Institute at UCSC\, and The Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. \nImage credit: Ronaldo V. Wilson. Donald and Carmelina’s Heart 2. 2021. Monoprint. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intimacies-of-relation-the-autotheoretical-turn/
LOCATION:UCSC
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SUMMARY:Omer Aijazi - Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir.” \n \nOmer 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 a radical humanist anthropology and affect theory\, held accountable to Black and Indigenous studies\, Aijazi offers a decolonial approach to disaster studies centering not on trauma and rupture but rather on repair—the social labor of creating and maintaining viable life\, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation. \nOmer Aijazi is a critical disaster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. \nThis event is a part of the  2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omer-aijazi-atmospheric-violence/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Eman Ghanayem - For the Love of Genocide
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice is proud to present For the Love of Genocide with Eman Ghanayem\, Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. \nThis presentation unravels love in its colonial manifestation as a rationale for genocidal violence. It centers in its analysis the discourse currently used by those supporting and perpetuating genocide in Gaza. Love expressed in contexts of Zionist loyalties and its brand of settler nationalism\, originally and across its transit\, gives us insight into the feelings that animate acts of violence. In response to it\, Palestinian expression\, particularly in relation to atrocity and apocalyptical dread\, reveals what precedes in fundamental form and must conquer genocide. How must we bear love in the face of annihilation? What ideas of it must we confront? Whose love must we learn? \nSponsored by: The UCSC Center for Racial Justice | Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Department of Feminist Studies | Department of Sociology | The Center for South Asian Studies | The Center for Cultural Studies | FJP | SJP | Institute for Social Transformation. \nPart of the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement Speaking Series. For more information\, visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/for-the-love-of-genocide-with-eman-ghanayem/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nPrageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections\, including Grief Sequence (Wave Books\, 2019) and The Opening Question (2004)\, which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize. In 2010\, she received the Howard Foundation Award. Over the years\, she has taught at the New School\, Goddard College\, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She currently teaches at Pomona College and is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies\, and Art. Her hometown is Framingham\, Massachusetts. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:  \n*Note that this event has a new date and location: It will take place in person on March 7 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Cowell Conference Room (132) (map). \n  \nPlease join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits\, such as fellowships\, conferences\, research\, and resources\, available to UCSC faculty\, students\, and staff. IA will share a toolkit and creative engagement tools to help organize the people\, projects\, and partners on our campus doing community-engaged work. This discussion will offer strategies for energizing your campus community to engage with community members and uplift public scholarship. \n Lunch will be provided\, register here: \n \nPresenters: Stephanie Maroney\, Managing Director of Imagining America\, and Anuj Vaidya\, Communications Director of Imagining America. \nPublic Scholar Tools Offered by Imagining America\nInspired by a three-year action research project\, the IA public scholar tools are designed to spark conversation about the joys\, contributions\, and struggles of public scholars and artists. The Conversation Cards aim to break the silence surrounding elite academic cultures that value a limited range of understandings of what kinds of knowledge matters and to nurture supportive relationships and environments for public scholars to thrive. The Public Scholar Imagination Guide provides a variety of reflection and action tools for anyone trying to improve their own practice and for those interested in making the university a more hospitable\, caring\, and creative place to nurture public\, engaged\, and activist scholarship\, artmaking\, and design. \nAbout Imagining America\nThe Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars\, artists\, designers\, humanists\, and organizers to imagine\, study\, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional\, disciplinary\, and community divides\, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship\, cultural organizing\, and campus change that inspires collective imagination\, knowledge-making\, and civic action on pressing public issues. Imagining America is guided by 7 values and committed to bringing people together as our full selves in critical yet hopeful spaces to imagine better ways of living\, learning and working together. \nThis event is brought to you by the Art Research Institute\, Campus + Community\, Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Social Transformation (IST).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/activating-community-engagement-with-imagining-america-at-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nSome constructions in some languages involve expletive negation (EN): negation that seems to not affect the truth conditions of the sentence. For example\, the Italian A è più alto di quanto (non) sia B (“A is taller than B (isn’t)”). I follow others (Greco 2018\, Halm and Huszár 2021) in assuming there are two kinds of EN. For me\, this amounts to the fact that there are two different ways a negation can fail to affect truth conditions: 1) high EN involves negation that targets non-truth-conditional content\, and 2) low EN involves negation that targets clauses that display what I call ambidirectionality: the property of being ambiguous between a proposition and its negation. In this talk\, I focus on the latter\, arguing that ambidirectionality answers two urgent questions in the context of expletive negation: it explains why we only get (low) EN in scalar constructions (cf. Cépeda 2018); and it explains several subtle semantic differences between a given construction and its (expletive-) negated counterpart. \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jessica-rett/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:"Zone of Flux: The Mutable Geographies\, Interrupted Histories\, and Multiple Languages of the Mediterranean" – Iain Chambers in Conversation with Camilla Hawthorne and Mediterranean Studies Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Mediterranean Studies talk and roundtable featuring Iain Chambers\, former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes\, Oriental University\, Naples. \n4:30-5:30  |  “Mediterranean Blues: Colonial Spacetime and Other Archives\,” Iain Chambers\nIntroducer and Respondent: Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UCSC) \n5:45-7:00  |  “Mediterranean as Materiality\, Method\, and Geolinguistic Movements”\nA Roundtable with Chris Connery (chair and moderator)\, with Sharon Kinoshita\, Susan Gillman\, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas (Professors of Literature\, UCSC). Four lightning talks followed by plenary discussion and Q&A with Iain Chambers and Camilla Hawthorne. \nIain Chambers has taught cultural\, postcolonial\, and Mediterranean studies for many years at the University of Naples\, Orientale\, and is now an independent researcher. Amongst his recent publications are Postcolonial Interruptions\, Unauthorised Modernities (2017)\, and\, with Marta Cariello\, The Mediterranean Question (2025). In 2022\, he was a member of the artistic collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road at documenta 15. He writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zone-of-flux-iain-chambers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Matthew L. Jones - Great Exploitations: Hacking\, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
DESCRIPTION: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 11th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker\, Matthew L. Jones speaking on Great Exploitations: Hacking\, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence. \nAccording to the US National Security Agency\, we’re living in the “golden age” of signals intelligence—the spying on worldwide communications of all kinds. The Snowden documents\, now in the public eye for about a decade\, revealed a surveillance apparatus of extraordinary breadth and depth. Yet\, for all their lurid fascination\, their confirmation of some tinfoil hat theories\, their illustration of compliance regimes\, the documents reveal little about how we came to build this apparatus. They tell little of the surprisingly broad bipartisan consensus\, from the mid-1990s onward\, supporting the vast expansion of domestic and international surveillance and dramatic alterations in the law around wiretapping and hacking\, in the US as well as its close partners. \n9/11 accelerated these shifts. It did not cause them. From the war on drugs of the 1980s\, to beginnings of the focus on terrorism as the new primary enemy from the mid 1990s\, electronic surveillance came to appear ever more essential and licit to spies\, presidents\, legislators and judges. This talk will trace the technological and legal developments\, as well as the radical rethinking of the security of the “homeland\,” making this all possible. In the wake of 9/11\, these contested developments were made to appear at once technologically determined and essential for security in an asymmetric age. \nThis event will be in person at Humanities 1\, Room 210. You may also join via Zoom here. \nMatthew L. Jones is the Smith Family Professor of History at Princeton University. In 2023\, Norton published his How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms\, written with Chris Wiggins. He is completing a book\, Great Exploitations on state surveillance of communications and information warfare. He has published two books previously\, Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines\, Innovation\, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage and The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes\, Pascal\, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue (both with Chicago). The Mellon Foundation\, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and the National Science Foundation have funded his research and teaching.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-matthew-l-jones/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Critical Imagination in Crisis Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-day conference\, “Critical Imagination in Crisis Times\,” featuring presentations by: \n\nIain Chambers\, Former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes\, Oriental University\, Naples\nPaul Gilroy\, Emeritus Professor of Humanities\, University College\, London\nVron Ware\, Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\n\nUC Santa Cruz faculty participants include: Jim Clifford (Emeritus Professor\, History of Consciousness) Chris Connery (Professor\, Literature)\, Vilashini Cooppan (Professor\, Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies)\, Isaac Julien (Distinguished Professor\, Arts and History of Consciousness)\, Mark Nash (Professor\, Arts and History of Consciousness)\, María Puig de la Bellacasa (Professor\, History of Consciousness). \n \n  \nConference Program: \n2:00-2:15 pm          Conference Introduction:  Isaac Julien and Mark Nash \n2:15-3:15 pm           Iain Chambers\, “From Kassel to Gaza: Art and Critical Testimony” (Moderator\, Chris Connery) \n3:30-4:30 pm         Vron Ware\, “Letting the Land Speak” (Moderator\, María Puig de la Bellacasa) \n4:45-5:45 pm         Paul Gilroy\, “Political Eschatologies of Mismanaged Decline” (Moderator\, Jim Clifford) \n5:45-6:30 pm         Plenary Discussion:  Moderators\, Isaac Julien and Mark Nash \nLight refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon. The conference will also be live-streamed. Follow this link to join online. Conference presented by Moving Image Lab\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. Co-sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. \n  \nIain Chambers has taught cultural\, postcolonial\, and Mediterranean studies for many years at the University of Naples\, Orientale\, and is now an independent researcher. Amongst his recent publications are Postcolonial Interruptions\, Unauthorised Modernities (2017)\, and\, with Marta Cariello\, The Mediterranean Question (2025). In 2022\, he was a member of the artistic collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road at documenta 15. He writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto. \nPaul Gilroy was born in the East End of London in 1956. He is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at University College London where he was founding director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the study of racism and racialisation. Gilroy was previously Professor of American and English at King’s College London\, Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2005-2012)\, Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College London (1995-1999). He holds honorary doctorates from Goldsmiths College\, Sussex University\, the University of Liege\, the University of Copenhagen\, Oxford University and the University of St. Andrews. He is an honorary Fellow of Sussex University and of King’s College\, London. In 2014\, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2018 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded Norway’s Holberg Prize in 2019. He writes widely on Art\, Music\, Literature and Politics. His publications include: Darker than Blue: On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Cultures (2010)\, Black Britain: A Pictorial History (2007)\, After Empire:Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2005). \nVron Ware is a London-based writer and photographer\, having previously taught geography\, sociology and gender studies at universities in the UK and the US. She has written several books on the politics of gender and race\, colonial history\, national identity\, ecological thought and the cultural heritage of war. She gave her first book talk for Beyond the Pale: White Women\, Racism and History at UC Santa Cruz in 1992. More recently she has published Return of a Native: Learning from the Land (2022) and co-authored England’s Military Heartland: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain (2025). \n\nImage Credit: Isaac Julien\, Western Union Series no. 1 (Cast No Shadow)\, 2007\, Duratrans image in lightbox\, Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-imagination-in-crisis-times/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \n \n  \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2025 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2025 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs and Communications Director\, at saskia@ucsc.edu before the workshop if you are unable to attend due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on April 4th\, 2025. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Humanities Campus to Career: Job Talk with Tammy Tolgo\, Amazon Talent Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:Considering careers in recruiting\, human resources\, or business? Join this informative job talk and Q&A to learn about talent acquisition from a UCSC Humanities alumna who is a leader in the field! \nTammy will offer insights about her journey as a first generation college student from graduation through various talent acquisition roles in multiple industries\, and about how her Humanities degree set her up for success along the way. \n \nTammy Tolgo is a proud alumnus of UC Santa Cruz and CSU Northridge. As a first-generation college student\, she credits her experiences at these institutions for providing a strong foundation for both work and life. After starting her career in higher education\, Tammy joined an Executive Search Firm\, launching her career in Talent Acquisition. Over the last 20 years\, Tammy has built and led Talent Acquisition teams across industries\, focused on global organizational build outs. She has become a proven leader in diversity recruiting\, executive search\, and transformational leadership. Tammy currently leads Talent Acquisition for Amazon Advertising’s Emerging Businesses. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-job-talk-with-tammy-tolgo-amazon-talent-acquisition/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
DESCRIPTION:Ever thought about pursuing a career in archives and libraries? Wondered about what other paths you can pursue with your degree – PhD or otherwise? Come to this panel discussion with four professional librarians and archivists\, all from the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives in McHenry Library. We’ll have a conversation on the diverse and diverging paths we took to get to our current positions in the library\, share some advice\, and answer questions you have about pursuing these kinds of careers. \nIt’s also a great chance to meet your local librarians who can assist you in your research and connect you to all kinds of resources at UC Santa Cruz and beyond! \nThis event is presented by Special Collections and Archives at the University Library and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. See the event page here. \nEveryone is welcome to attend this session. The Zoom webinar will not be recorded. \nDetails:\nMarch 13th\, 3-4pm PST \nRegistration for this webinar is required. Register here via Zoom. \n \nPanelist bios:\nAlix Norton is the Archivist for the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her primary role\, she trains and mentors graduate students in archival processing and exhibition curation. Alix has worked in Special Collections & Archives at four universities\, including at the University of California\, Irvine\, and previously worked in a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington. She earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington before obtaining her MSI from the University of Michigan School of information. \nSam Regal is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she oversees experiential learning programs\, exhibitions\, programming\, public services\, and bibliographic collection development. She holds an MLIS with a specialization in rare books and visual culture from UCLA\, an MFA in poetry from Hunter College\, and a BA in English and American literature from NYU; she also completed coursework toward a PhD in English with a creative writing concentration at the University of Georgia. She is editor of the American Printing History Association (APHA)’s Printing History journal\, and her writing has most recently appeared in Parenthesis\, RBM\, and East of Borneo. She previously served as a librarian at the California Institute of the Arts and as project manager of California Rare Book School. \nRebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies\, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. Her academic work examines inherent complexities in the public representation of culture(s) – particularly how describing and defining Native American objects affects the understanding of Amerindian identity. She is currently the Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where her role involves assisting with preserving and documenting the history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Through partnerships with community members\, these materials can (if desired) be made accessible to the public\, helping to educate and inspire future generations about the rich history of Santa Cruz County. \nKate Dundon is the Supervisory Archivist for Special Collections & Archives at University of California Santa Cruz where she oversees archival processing\, accessioning\, collection management\, and born-digital stewardship programs. Prior to this\, she held positions at Occidental College Library\, New York University Law Library\, and the New York Public Library. She earned an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University and an MLIS from Long Island University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alt-ac-in-the-archives-archives-and-rare-books-career-pathways/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-4/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Raghuram Rajan
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Foundation Board Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra invite you to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture: “How can India (and developing countries) grow? Navigating an automating and protectionist world” featuring Raghuram Rajan. \nThe schedule for Thursday\, March 13\, includes a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.\, followed by the program from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m.\, and concluding with tea and dessert from 8:15 to 9:00 p.m. \n \nIndia is at a crossroads today. Its economic growth rate\, while respectable relative to other large countries\, is too low for the jobs its youth need. The East Asian path of manufacturing-led exports no longer seems feasible—aside from increasing automation in manufacturing\, the world isn’t prepared or right for another export-driven economy like China. India broke away from the standard development path—from agriculture to low-skilled manufacturing\, then high-skilled manufacturing and\, finally\, services—a long time back by leapfrogging the intermediate steps. \nInstead of now trying to regress to development paths that may no longer be feasible\, Dr. Rajan will lay out an alternative path to accelerate economic development and make India a ferment of ideas and creativity. By breaking from the past and looking to the future\, India can craft a truly Indian way\, a path that could be emulated by other developing countries. \nRaghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016\, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (2015-16) and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-2006). \nDr. Rajan’s book Fault Lines (2010) won the Financial Times prize for best business book and his book The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Hold the Community Behind (2019) was a finalist for the award. His most recent book (December 2023) is Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity\, with Rohit Lamba. \nDr. Rajan received AFA’s inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003\, the Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics in 2013\, Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year award in 2014\, and The Banker magazine’s Global Central Banker award in 2016. \nAnuradha Luther Maitra received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University\, and has served UC Santa Cruz in many capacities: Professor of Economics\, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on International Initiatives\, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and President\, and founder of the Sidhartha Maitra Lecture Series on Humanism\, Reason\, and Tolerance. \n\nThis premier campus event series seeks to enrich the intellectual life of the campus and the community\, and is made possible thanks to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture endowment. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the India House Foundation\, the Center for South Asian Studies at UCSC\, and The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2025-sidhartha-maitra-memorial-lecture-featuring-raghuram-rajan/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
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SUMMARY:Rick Steves: On the Hippie Trail
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents bestselling travel writer Rick Steves \, who will join us for a special event at The Rio Theatre to discuss his new memoir On the Hippie Trail: Istanbul to Kathmandu and the Making of a Travel Writer. \nStow away with Rick Steves for a glimpse into the unforgettable moments\, misadventures\, and memories of his 1978 journey on the legendary Hippie Trail. \n \nIn the 1970s\, the ultimate trip for any backpacker was the storied “Hippie Trail” from Istanbul to Kathmandu. A 23-year old Rick Steves made the trek\, and like a travel writer in training\, he documented everything along the way: jumping off a moving train\, making friends in Tehran\, getting lost in Lahore\, getting high for the first time in Herat\, battling leeches in Pokhara\, and much more. The experience ignited his love of travel and forever broadened his perspective on the world. \nThis book contains edited selections from Rick’s journal and travel photos with a 45-years-later preface and postscript reflecting on how the journey changed his life. Stow away with Rick Steves on the adventure of a lifetime through Turkey\, Iran\, Afghanistan\, Pakistan\, India\, and Nepal. \nYou know Rick Steves. Now discover the adventure that made him the travel writer he is today. \nSince 1973\, Rick Steves has spent about four months a year exploring Europe. His mission: to empower Americans to have European trips that are fun\, affordable\, and culturally broadening. Rick produces a best-selling guidebook series\, a public television series\, and a public radio show\, and organizes small-group tours that take over 30\,000 travelers to Europe annually. He does all of this with the help of more than 100 well-traveled staff members at Rick Steves’ Europe in Edmonds\, WA (near Seattle). When not on the road\, Rick is active in his church and with advocacy groups focused on economic and social justice\, drug policy reform\, and ending hunger. To recharge\, Rick plays piano\, relaxes at his family cabin in the Cascade Mountains\, and spends time with his son Andy\, daughter Jackie\, and his grandson…baby Atlas. Find out more about Rick at www.ricksteves.com and on Facebook. \nMore information at: Rick Steves\, On the Hippie Trail | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nThis event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-steves-on-the-hippie-trail/
LOCATION:Rio Theater\, 1205 Soquel Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95062\, United States
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SUMMARY:Story & Pictures By : A Benefit Film Screening for Santa Cruz County Public School Libraries
DESCRIPTION:With book bans skyrocketing across the country\, let’s celebrate the value of children’s books by supporting our local public school libraries together. \nChildren’s books are often one of the first moments that allow children to dive deep into their imaginations. Come celebrate the impact of children’s books with a benefit screening of a new documentary “Story & Pictures By” followed by a discussion with filmmaker Joanna Rudnick. \n100% of the proceeds of every ticket will be used to buy children’s books from Bookshop for Santa Cruz County public school libraries. \n \nThis event will feature a film screening (Run Time: 1 hour\, 24 minutes) + 20-minute conversation with filmmaker. \nABOUT “STORY & PICTURES BY” \n“Story & Pictures By” is the first feature documentary to take audiences behind the scenes to meet the authors and artists who create children’s books. Following bestselling authors Christian Robinson (Last Stop on Market Street)\, Yuyi Morales (Dreamers)\, and Mac Barnett (Sam & Dave Dig a Hole)\, as well as highlighting perennial favorites such as Goodnight Moon\, Snowy Day and Where the Wild Things Are\, the film shows how children’s books reflect the mysteries of childhood\, champion the marginalized\, and provide children with windows and mirrors into their own lives. \nFilm Trailer: https://vimeo.com/925152924 \nABOUT FILMMAKER JOANNA RUDNICK \nAfter earning a master’s degree in journalism from NYU\, Joanna worked for the American Master’s series WNET/PBS New York where she co-produced the film Robert Capa in Love and War\, which premiered at the Sundance Film Festival and was the presenting film for the 2003 Emmy award Outstanding Nonfiction Series. She then spent a decade working for Kartemquin Films producing several titles for national public television before she made her directorial debut with In the Family\, an Emmy nominated and deeply personal story about coming to terms with having a mutation in one of the breast cancer genes which is still currently used in teaching courses on medical ethics and genetic counseling today. \n\nThis event co-sponsored by Bookshop Santa Cruz\, The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz\, and The Santa Cruz County Office of Education.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/story-pictures-by/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz High School Auditorium\, 415 Walnut Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, 95060
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SUMMARY:Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
DESCRIPTION:Crafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews – are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed to make disappear. Asking ‘who am I?’ / ‘who are we?’ means breaking apart the cohesiveness and solidity of the identities assigned by settler colonial states to children born within their borders. Azoulay will present her new book The Jewelers of the Ummah – A Potential History of the Jewish Muslim World and will focus on her methodological choices of inhabiting the ruins of this world with kin and elected kin\, and of engaging with jewelry making as part of this journey. \nAriella Aïsha Azoulay teaches at Brown political theory from an anti-colonial perspective\, using photography and material culture. Her latest books: The Jewelers of the ummah – Potential History of The Jewish Muslim World (Verso\, 2024)\, Potential History: Unlearning Imperialism (Verso Books\, 2019)\, Civil Imagination – A Political Ontology of photography (revised & augmented edition\, 2024\, Verso) and From Palestine to Israel: A Photographic Record of Destruction and State Formation\, 1947–1950 (Pluto Press\, 2011); She recently published her first children book Golden Threads (Ayin Press\, 2024). Her latest films include the trilogy Unlearning Imperial Plunder: One Thousand and One Jewels (2025)\, The world like a jewel in the hand (2023)\, Un-documented (2019); her latest exhibitions: Errata (Fundació Antoni Tàpies\, Barcelona\, 2019; HKW\, Berlin\, 2020)\, and The Natural History of Rape (Berlin Biennale\, 2022). \n\n \nSpring 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nThis event is presented by CCS with the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and the Visual Media and Culture Colloquium Series (VMCC). Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ariella-azoulay-crafting-a-jewish-muslim-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests related to South Asia and the Center. \nGrab a bite\, get a drink\, and tell us about your research!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-south-asian-studies-meet-and-greet/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250404T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250404T210000
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SUMMARY:Night of Ideas
DESCRIPTION:The Future We Share: Activism\, Creativity\, and Collective Imagination \nJoin us on April 4\, 2025 for the Night of Ideas in Santa Cruz\, a nocturnal celebration of art\, philosophy\, and activism! From solar energy and housing justice to communal music and movement\, Night of Ideas – Santa Cruz invites you to explore interactive sessions on democracy\, environmental solutions\, and housing rights\, as well as immersive experiences fostering embodied connection. With a Capoeira opening\, sculptural performances\, and live piano meditations\, come create\, move\, and reflect on our shared future! The 2025 Program is below. \nNight of Ideas\, a global event taking place simultaneously in more than 100 countries and 22 cities in the United States\, invites thought leaders\, activists\, performers\, authors\, and academics to engage the public in discussions around central questions that address major\, contemporary global issues. \nTaking place from March 27 through April 6\, Night of Ideas returns this year with nocturnal arts and culture marathons in cities across the U.S. Events will feature late-night discussions addressing major global issues\, plus live music\, screenings\, performances\, and more\, all centered this year’s theme\, “common ground.” Exploring the expression’s literal and metaphorical interpretations\, Night of Ideas will prompt participants to consider how we can commit to and protect what we have in common. How can we foster authentic interpersonal connection in an increasingly digital world? In a polarized political landscape\, where are our opportunities for dialogue? As extreme weather threatens our planet\, how can we preserve the land beneath our feet? Learn more and sign up for updates at nightofideas.org. \nThis event is brought to the public by the Center for Public Philosophy\, with support from the Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, The Humanities Institute\, Cowell College\, Humanities West\, The Marc Sanders Foundation\, Villa Albertine\, and Institut français. \n  \nThis event is free and open to the public. RSVP is required. \n \n  \n\nNight of Ideas 2025 Program\nMAIN HALL \n5pm: Brazilian Cultural Art of Capoeira \n5:30pm: Welcome – Opening Remarks (J. Proust) \n6:30pm: IAS Exhibition Walkthrough with Curator R. Nelson \n7:30pm: Activating the EDELO exhibition (C. Duarte and YELO) \n8pm: Piano Meditation/Sound Healing (E. Shanken) \n8:30pm: What if We Moved as One? (B-Moving\, B. Wittmer\, with E. Shanken) \nCONFERENCE ROOM (Room 1) \n6 – 6:25pm: The Common Ground That Creates an Uncommon Good (G. Hammond) \n7 – 7:25pm: Mind\, Body and Tiktok Problem (J. Candray) \n8 – 8:25pm: Common Ground\, No Ground: Housing\, Rights\, and the Refusal to Disappear (J.Schendledecker) \nWEST ROOM (Room 2) \n6 – 6:25pm: Post-nonmonogamy and Poly-river-amory (K. TallBear) \n7 – 7:25pm: Empowering the Solar Commons through Community Energy (R. Lipschutz\, K. Milun\, R. Stayton) \n8 – 8:25pm: Understanding Through Play (Liminal Space Collective) \nONGOING \n“Ask a Philosopher” booth (M. Mattinson\, R. Kusyuniati\, J. Read) & TEQ project \nMelodies of Hope (El Sistema – I. Tuncer) \n\nSpeakers and Performers\nThis event will feature Kim TallBear\, Caleb Duarte\, Joy Schendledecker\, Dr. Kathryn Milun\, Dr. Ronnie D. Lipschutz\, Robert Stayton\, Liminal Space Collective\, Juliet Candray\, George Hammond\, Brigitte Wittmer\, Edhi Shanken\, El Sistema Santa Cruz/Pajaro Valley\, Raízes do Brasil Capoeira and Brazilian Cultural Arts Center\, Dr. Jeanne Proust\, Rachel Nelson. \nFor more information about all guest speakers and performers visit: Night of Ideas 2025 — Institute of the Arts and Sciences
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/night-of-ideas-2025/
LOCATION:Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, 100 Panetta Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
DESCRIPTION:What does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes for disabled writers sharing their first-person perspectives with the world? In this dialogue with two scholars and memoirists of disability\, we will explore how intellectual and aesthetic engagement with non-normative embodied life speaks to questions that matter — now more than ever. \nFeaturing: Pranav Anand (UC Santa Cruz)\, Jan Grue (University of Oslo)\, Megan Moodie (UC Santa Cruz). \nDoors open 5:30pm – Event begins 6:00pm\nTickets: $15 \n \nFree student tickets are available. Please email thi@ucsc.edu to reserve a student spot.\nA ucsc.edu email and student ID number will be required. \nJan Grue is the author of a wide-ranging body of work in fiction\, nonfiction\, children’s books\, and academic literature\, and a professor at the University of Oslo. I Live a Life Like Yours was published in 2018 in Norway\, where it won the Norwegian Critics Prize for Literature and was nominated to the Nordic Council Literature Prize\, the first Norwegian nonfiction book to be so honored in fifty years. \n  \nPranav Anand is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates how context mediates the interpretation of language\, and has explored the interpretation of subjectivity\, persuasive tactics\, bias\, evidence\, belief\, time\, and narrative structure. \n  \nMegan Moodie is a cultural anthropologist\, writer\, performer\, and disability studies scholar whose work spans multiple genres. As a Professor of Anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, she specializes in teaching experimental research methods that bring together social sciences and the arts. Her work on disability\, motherhood\, and artistic practice has appeared in the Los Angeles Review of Books\, Catamaran\, Hip Mama\, MUTHA Magazine\, and Sapiens. In 2019\, her essay “Birthright\,” which appeared in the Chicago Quarterly Review (Volume 26)\, was named a Notable Essay of the Year by Best American Essays. \nQuestions That Matter is a public humanities series developed by The Humanities Institute and the community of Santa Cruz. It brings together\, in conversation\, two or more UC Santa Cruz scholars with community residents and students to explore questions that matter to all of us.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/questions-that-matter-disability-in-medicine-and-memoir/
LOCATION:Kuumbwa Jazz Center
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SUMMARY:Cat Bohannon - Eve
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon’s book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting\, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved\, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is\, how it came to be\, and how this evolution still shapes all our lives today. Now in paperback\, Eve is also available in an edition adapted for young adults. \n“A smart\, funny\, scientific deep-dive into the power of a woman’s body\, Eve surprises\, educates\, and emboldens.” — Bonnie Garmus\, bestselling author of Lessons in Chemistry \n \nHow did the female body drive 200 million years of human evolution? • Why do women live longer than men? • Why are women more likely to get Alzheimer’s? • Why do girls score better at every academic subject than boys until puberty\, when suddenly their scores plummet? • Is sexism useful for evolution? • And why\, seriously why\, do women have to sweat through our sheets every night when we hit menopause? \nThese questions are producing some truly exciting science – and in Eve\, with boundless curiosity and sharp wit\, Cat Bohannon covers the past 200 million years to explain the specific science behind the development of the female sex: “We need a kind of user’s manual for the female mammal. \nCat Bohannon is a researcher and author with a Ph.D. from Columbia University in the evolution of narrative and cognition. Her essays and poems have appeared in Scientific American\, Mind\, Science Magazine\, The Best American Nonrequired Reading\, The Georgia Review\, The Story Collider\, and Poets Against the War. She lives with her family in Seattle. \nVicky Oelze is an associate professor in anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, where she teaches subjects including human evolution\, archeological science and primatology. Dr. Oelze joined UCSC after completing her PhD in Archeological Science at Leiden University in the Netherlands and almost a decade of research at the Max Planck Institute for Evolutionary Anthropology in Germany. Her archeological work spans five continents and ranges from the first farmers in prehistoric Europe to the history of the transatlantic slave trade. Her primatological research focuses on the dietary ecology of African great apes and how maternal investment in terms of breastfeeding varies between species and populations. \nMore information at: Cat Bohannon\, Eve | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-cat-bohannon-eve/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
DESCRIPTION:Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales\, fantasy\, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. \nThis is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. \nKimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she teaches courses on fairy tales\, monster studies\, popular culture\, and twentieth- and twenty-first-century women’s fiction\, all within the context feminist theory\, critical race studies\, and gender and sexuality studies. She is the author of Specters of the Marvelous: Race and the Development of the European Fairy Tale (2024) \nMicah Perks is the author of a short story collection\, a memoir and two novels. Her novel\, What Becomes Us\, won an Independent Publisher’s Gold Medal and was named one of the Top Ten Books about the Apocalypse by The Guardian. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/how-fairy-tales-became-white-a-conversation-with-professors-kimberly-lau-and-micah-perks/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Public Library – Downtown Branch\, 224 Church Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Gary Young: A Retrospective - Exhibition Opening
DESCRIPTION:Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books\, Broadsides\, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. \nGary Young is a poet and artist whose honors include grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities\, the Vogelstein Foundation\, the California Arts Council\, and two fellowship grants from the National Endowment for the Arts. He has received a Pushcart Prize\, and his latest book of poems\, That’s What I Thought\, won the Lexi Rudnitsky Editor’s Choice Award from Persea Books. His book The Dream of a Moral Life\, won the James D. Phelan Award. Since 1975 he has designed\, illustrated\, and printed limited edition books and broadsides at his Greenhouse Review Press. His print work is represented in numerous collections including the Museum of Modern Art\, the Victoria and Albert Museum\, The Getty Center for the Arts\, and special collection libraries throughout the country. He was Santa Cruz County’s first Poet Laureate\, and he is Santa Cruz County’s 2012 Artist of the Year. He teaches Creative Writing and directs the Cowell Press at the University of California\, Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-young-a-retrospective-books-broadsides-prints-ephemera-exhibition-opening/
LOCATION:McHenry Library (3rd Floor)\, Special Collections
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SUMMARY:Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South
DESCRIPTION:This talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit\, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate\, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. Both South Korea and South Vietnam aligned with the US during the Cold War and therefore seemingly diverged from a Global South politics defined by socialist revolution and the Third World Liberation movement. To constellate South Korea and South Vietnam with the US South\, a region in the Global North\, is to then ask: how and why do some South Vietnamese and South Korean refugees and migrants to the US gravitate towards the iconography and vernacular of the US South to make legible their own “southern politics” à la Gramsci? \nEvyn Lê Espiritu Gandhi is an associate professor of Asian American Studies at UCLA (Tovaangar). She currently serves as an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center. She is the author of Archipelago of Resettlement: Vietnamese Refugee Settlers and Decolonization across Guam and Israel-Palestine (University of California Press\, 2022) and co-editor with Vinh Nguyen of The Routledge Handbook of Refugee Narratives (Routledge\, 2023). Dr. Gandhi is the lead curator of a public history exhibit\, “Remembering Saigon: Journeys through and from Guam\,” which is on view at UC Irvine’s Orange County and Southeast Asian Archive Center. She is currently working on a second book project which revisits Gramsci’s “southern question” by constellating the southern spaces of South Korea\, South Vietnam\, and the US South. \n\n \nSpring 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Spring 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/evyn-le-espiritu-gandhi-southern-constellations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture\, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. \nThis talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on a phrase and variation that Cedric Robinson sometimes used: We must deepen or\, alternatively\, we must heighten the contradiction. What is contradiction\, what are the implications of refusing its resolution\, and how do we propel its movement from (speech) act to practice? \n \nThe lecture will also be live-streamed via Zoom. Register here to attend virtually. \nFred Moten studies the social practice of poetry/criticism. He lives in New York and teaches at New York University. His most recent work\, in collaboration with Brandon López\, is Revision (TAO Forms Records\, 2024). \n  \n\nThe Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture Series is made possible by the support of the Thomas H. and Josephine Baird Memorial Fund\, an endowment that supports yearly lectures relevant to historical and cultural theory\, and to ensure that Hayden White’s legacy and intellectual spirit is honored and sustained.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fred-moten-theory-and-practice-of-contradiction/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 \nInsight\, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries \n \nPoet\, visual artist\, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons\, 2024). J Walking thru the Alphabet\, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete\, visual\, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present\, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books\, Fall\, 2025. The recently released Chicago Review (Vol. 67)\, ARKiTEXT\, focuses on Let It Bee\, her “poetic conceit” of transforming a 1913 Rustbelt brownstone into a living archive of work created by Depression-era artists Russell Atkins\, Clifton Clay\, Virgie Patton\, Theresa Ramey and others\, whom Patton has advocated for and collected since the mid-aughts\, is a unique collaboration featuring housing\, assemblages and installations of locally resourced detritus\, For the Birds\, an edible forest for wildlife\, a coal room theater\, writing and meditation spaces\, herb gardens and a Cat Cafe. Patton’s “in-the-moment” sound and performance work bridging musical and literary collaborations with artists as diverse as instrumentalists Nasheet Waits\, Ken Filiano\, Melanie Dyer\, Janice Lowe\, Jay Rodriguez\, and others\, has captivated audiences at the Stone\, Torn Page\, Jazz Standard\, Arts for Arts\, Festival Internacional de Poesía in Medellín\, Colombia\, and at a host of international venues. A recipient of an Acker Award\, Denniston Hill Residency\, a Doan Brook Watershed Hero Award\, and a Foundation for Contemporary Art Poetry Award\, Patton currently divides her time between New York City & the rest of the US. Her noted Womb Room Tomb Installation was featured in the 2018 Front International Triennial to great acclaim. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, the Laurie Sain Endowment\, the Humanities Institute\, The Literature Department\, Creative Writing Program\, and the Center for Racial Justice.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-julie-ezelle-patton/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
DESCRIPTION:The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13\, 2025. \n \nThe conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience\, community\, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the renowned trans philosopher Talia Mae Bettcher (Cal State LA). \nTalks will cover topics such as gender euphoria\, trans sex talk\, BDSM and social class\, informed consent\, and the social construction of butchness. In addition to talks\, the conference will include a workshop on LGBTQIA+ activism and philosophy\, a party (of course)\, and other glam surprises. \nView the Full Conference Schedule here. \nFor more information\, visit this link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queer-analytic-philosophy-conference/
LOCATION:UCSC
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SUMMARY:Frances Malino - Rediscovering Mazaltob: A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi Novel
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Frances Malino (Emerita\, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel\, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press\, 2024). \nRaised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan\, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century\, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who has returned from Argentina to seek a wife.  In this award-winning poetic novel\, Algerian-born Blanche Bendahan evokes the two compelling forces tearing Mazaltob apart in her body and soul: her loyalty to the juderia and her powerful desire to follow her own voice and find true love. \nTo join this event\, please email Alma Heckman (aheckman@ucsc.edu) for the Zoom link.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/frances-malino-rediscovering-mazaltob/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
DESCRIPTION:The Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! \nThe Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year’s Deep Read book\, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to think deeply about literature\, art\, and the most pressing issues of our day. Even if you haven’t read the book\, we encourage you to come and enjoy the discussion and connect with fellow San Diego alumni and Deep Readers. Refreshments provided by Crown College alumnus and co-founder of Stone Brewing\, Steve Wagner. \n \nEvent Participants:  Jasmine Alinder (Humanities Dean)\, Irena Polić (Deep Read Co/Founder\, THI Managing Director)\,  Vilashini Cooppan (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Professor of Literature)\, Laura Martin (Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, THI Research Program Manager\, Lecturer) \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-san-diego-alumni-salon/
LOCATION:Stone Brewing Liberty Station\, 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116\, San Diego\, CA\, 92106\, United States
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SUMMARY:Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on “Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being.” \nIn this talk\, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past\, present\, and future\, she will highlight moments of visual and aural attention that shape the Indigenous present. \nTo register and for more information visit: CSAS | Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being \nElspeth Iralu (Angami Naga) is an Assistant Professor of Indigenous Planning at the University of New Mexico\, where her research and teaching focus on Indigenous methodologies\, Indigenous space\, place\, and mapping\, and violence and visual culture. Her scholarly writing has appeared in numerous scholarly journals\, including Antipode: A Journal of Radical Geography\, Political Geography\, and American Quarterly. \nCo-sponsored by The Center for South Asian Studies. This event is a part of the  2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series and the Spring 2025 Colloquium Series. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elspeth-iralu-indigenous-epistemologies-for-the-time-being/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Asaf Elia-Shalev - Israel’s Black Panthers: How a Left-Wing Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Israel's Right-Wing “Revolution”
DESCRIPTION:In Zionism’s early decades\, Mizrahim\, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries\, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel’s founding\, however\, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim\, led by the Black Panthers\, challenged the secondary role imposed on them and reshaped the nation\, leading to contradictory and\, in some ways\, unintended outcomes. \nTo join this event\, please email Alma Heckman (aheckman@ucsc.edu) for the Zoom link. \nAsaf Elia-Shalev is an Israeli-American investigative journalist based in Los Angeles. He is a senior reporter with the Jewish Telegraphic Agency (JTA News)\, where he covers philanthropy\, Jewish institutions\, antisemitism\, Christian nationalism\, and other topics for a global audience. His articles for JTA are syndicated by dozens of outlets in multiple languages worldwide. His byline has appeared in The Atlantic\, The Guardian\, Los Angeles Times\, Haaretz\, The Forward\, and many other publications. He led the archival and historical research for the 2022 re-release of The Israeli Black Panthers Haggadah\, with Jewish Currents Press. In 2024\, he published his first book\, Israel Black Panthers: The Radicals Who Punctured a Nation’s Founding Myth\, with UC Press. He holds an undergraduate degree from the University of California\, Berkeley\, and a master’s degree in journalism from Columbia University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/asaf-elia-shalev-israels-black-panthers/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Sir Isaac Julien - Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:When was the last time you felt inspired? Learned something new? Pushed boundaries? Let’s do that—again. \nExperience an exclusive UC Santa Cruz evening with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate with world renowned artist\, and UCSC faculty member\, Sir Isaac Julien whose retrospective exhibit Isaac Julien: I Dream a World is opening at the de Young Museum. \nReconnect with UC Santa Cruz alumni\, parents\, and friends at this special event in San Francisco. Enjoy the chance to network\, engage with your vibrant UCSC community\, and participate in a thought-provoking discussion led by our brilliant faculty. \n \nSir Isaac Julien\, Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities \nJulien\, a filmmaker and installation artist\, blends film\, dance\, photography\, music\, theatre\, and sculpture into powerful multi-screen narratives. A Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities at UC Santa Cruz\, he co-leads the Moving Image Lab and teaches in the History of Consciousness Department. His honors include the 2017 Royal Academy Charles Wollaston Award\, the 2022 Kaiserring Goslar Award\, a knighthood\, and a 2024 British Academy Fellowship. \n“Isaac Julien: I Dream a World” will be at the de Young Museum April 12-July 13 and will feature 10 major video installations by the British artist\, a genre he has pioneered. \nJennifer González\, Professor of the History of Art and Visual Culture \nGonzález writes about contemporary art with an emphasis on installation art\, digital art and activist art. She is interested in understanding the strategic use of space by contemporary artists and by cultural institutions such as museums. More specifically\, she has focused on the representation of the human body and its relation to discourses of race and gender. \nHosted by\, Chancellor Cynthia Larive \nAs the 11th chancellor of the University of California at Santa Cruz\, Cynthia Larive leads an institution known worldwide for its interdisciplinary approach to high impact research\, for seeking solutions to the world’s greatest challenges and for its commitment to social and environmental justice. UC Santa Cruz joined the Association of American Universities in 2019 and the Association of Pacific Rim Universities in 2020\, remarkable achievements that underscore the impact and quality of the university’s research and teaching across the five academic divisions of Arts\, Baskin Engineering\, Humanities\, Physical and Biological Science\, and Social Science. Under her leadership\, in 2022 UC Santa Cruz was ranked No. 1 in the nation among top research universities for racial and gender diversity in leadership. \nLearn more about the INSPIRE series events here. The INSPIRE series has something for all UCSC alumni\, parents\, and friends.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sir-issac-julien-inspire-leading-ideas-from-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:de Young Museum\, 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr\, San Francisco\, 94118\, United States
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SUMMARY:Giuseppe Longo - From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department\, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster\, is pleased to present “From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World” delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210\, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually\, join here. \nThe invention of the alphabet marked a fundamental shift in our epistemic relation to the world. In particular\, the Greek alphabet played a crucial role in shaping our cultures\, leading up to today’s “term re-writing machines” that are transforming our lives. The vision of a world that can be fully described in elementary and simple components lies at the foundation of two techno-sciences of great interest and power. We informally compare the perspectives developed in cognitive and natural sciences through the lens of differing mathematical tools\, e.g. continuous vs discrete mathematics. Both historical and contemporary scientific alternatives will be briefly discussed. \nGiuseppe Longo is a Research Director CNRS (Emeritus)\, Cavaillès interdisciplinary center of Ecole Normale Supérieure\, Paris (ENS)\, formely in the Dept. of Mathematics and Computer Science\, at ENS (1990-2012). He has been Professor of Mathematics for Informatics\, University of Pisa (1981-1990) and adjunct professor\, School of Medicine\, Tufts U.\, Boston (2013-19). He spent three years in the USA (Berkeley\, M.I.T.\, Carnegie Mellon) as researcher and visiting professor\, and frequent visitor in Oxford (GB) and Utrecht (NL). Founder and editor-in-chief (1990-2015) of Mathematical Structures in Computer Science\, Camdridge U.P..\, he is (co-)author of more than 100 papers and six books. In the last 20 years\, he extended his research interests and work to the epistemology of mathematics and theoretical biology.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/giuseppe-longo-from-the-alphabet-to-ai-discretizing-the-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett’s James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing\, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel\, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their presentations will be followed by an audience Q&A period\, which will be moderated by Professor of Literature and Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Vilashini Cooppan. \n \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/deep-read-salon-the-craft-of-james/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T121500
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SUMMARY:TechnoScience Improv
DESCRIPTION:This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social\, historical\, and cultural studies of science\, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open\, improvised conversations\, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices\, speculative transformations\, and critical imaginings of technoscience\, health and ecology. \nParticipants include: \nKaren Barad\, Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies\, Philosophy\, and History of Consciousness. \nJames Doucet-Battle\, Associate Professor in the Department of Sociology and Co-Director of the Science & Justice Research Center. \nKat Gutierrez\, Assistant Professor in the History Department. \nDimitris Papadopoulos\, Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness. \nMaria Puig de la Bellacasa\, Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness. \nJenny Reardon\, Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science & Justice Research Center. \nWarren Sack\, Professor of the Software Arts in the Film + Digital Media Department. \nKriti Sharma\, Assistant Professor of Critical Race Science and Technology Studies in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. \nMatt Sparke\, Professor of Politics in the Politics Department and Co-Director of Global and Community Health. \nZac Zimmer\, Associate Professor of Literature in the Literature Department. \n\nCo-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience conversations\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Global and Community Health\, and the Science & Justice Research Center.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/technoscience-improv-2025/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250423T190000
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SUMMARY:Debbie Millman - Love Letter to a Garden
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman\, award-winning artist\, designer\, and the host of the podcast Design Matters\, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden\, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. \n \nDebbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless\, she kept trying. Over the years she came to realize that no one is a bad gardener—a garden is a journey that develops over time\, through space\, and evolves along with our hearts. In Love Letter to a Garden\, Debbie Millman shares her journey to make and grow a garden—and the plants she has collected along the way—a process that started with handed-down houseplants from beloved friends and a lone peony. \nDebbie Millman has been named “one of the most creative people in business” by Fast Company\, and “one of the most influential designers working today” by GDUSA. Millman is an illustrator\, author\, educator\, and host of the podcast Design Matters. Broadcasting for 19 years\, Design Matters is one of the first and longest running podcasts in the world. The show won a Cooper Hewitt National Design Award in 2011\, and Apple has named it one of their “All Time Favorites” three times. In 2023 the show won two Webby’s\, three Communicator Awards\, a Signal Award\, three awards from The Academy of Interactive and Visual Arts\, and earned an Ambie nomination. \nMore information at: Debbie Millman\, Love Letter to a Garden | Bookshop Santa Cruz \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-debbie-millman-love-letter-to-a-garden/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20250424T150000
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SUMMARY:Connections to land with Mercedes Dorame\, joined by Aspen Mays\, Unseen California
DESCRIPTION:Mercedes Dorame uses her artistic process to examine and rebuild her relationship with the land. This talk will explore personal\, social\, and institutional connections to home\, site\, and land. These concepts intersect within her work as an Indigenous artist as she addresses both the taught and erased histories the land holds\, as well as its broader identity in relation to ideas of landscape photography. Centering on Indigenous relationships\, reciprocity\, and kinship with the land\, her work interrogates tangible\, centered\, and embodied experiences within lens-based practice. \nDorame will speak about her work and multi-year engagement with Unseen California. She will then be joined by Karolina Karlic\, Director and Founder of Unseen California and artist Aspen Mays\, part of the project’s first cohort for a round table discussion about the project and their publication\, Language Has No Weather: Field Notes from Unseen California. Copies will be available for sale. \nSponsored by: Art Department Environmental Art + Social Practice MFA Program\, American Indian Resource Center\, Unseen California\, Arts Research Institute\, The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mercedes-dorame-connections-to-land/
LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center #108
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SUMMARY:Amanda Batarseh - Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) is proud to present Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh\, Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. \nAnalyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and physiologically from life) since 1948. Thinking beyond colonial epistemology\, however\, is not merely a task of refuting settler-colonial narratives but of dismantling the very ways of knowing that produce them. This talk re-centers a Palestinian analytic through the lens of “radicality\,” which encompasses both Palestinian rootedness and revolutionary movement. This radicality both predates and regenerates in contravention of settler colonialism’s violent uprootings/removals\, unsettling colonial-national constructs of spatial belonging\, and cohering the decolonization of literary analysis to then decolonization of our physical geographies. Palestinian writers navigate the dynamic tensions between rootedness and movement to forge liberatory pathways\, opening up alternative horizons of political and creative possibility. \n \nAmanda Batarseh (بطارسة / bah–taar–say) is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Her teaching and research focuses on Palestinian literature\, Arabic literature\, Arab American and Arab diaspora literature\, Indigenous studies\, Mediterranean studies and comparative literature. Her research has been supported by the UC Humanities Research Institute\, Hellman Fellowship\, Faculty Career Development Program and the UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellowship Program. \nCo-sponsored by Feminist Studies\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES)\, Students for Justice in Palestine\, Faculty for Justice in Palestine\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS)\, Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA)\, Anthropology Department\, Sociology Department\, Institute for Social Transformation\, and People’s University. \nPart of the year-long speaker series\, Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement. For more information\, visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/amanda-batarseh-rooted-movements-the-radical-poetics-of-palestinian-space/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan - The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
DESCRIPTION:Each year\, the TLC hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. \nThis year’s Convocation speaker will be Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan\, who will present his talk\, The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence. \nHis talk will examine the ideas that have motivated the rush to deploy both generative artificial intelligence and predictive artificial intelligence into our computer systems and our lives. It will consider the effects on our collective intelligence and our habits of creativity and collaboration. What problem do we hope to solve with this suite of technologies? What do we gain? What do we lose? And how should those questions shape how educators and students interface with these technologies? \nAfterwards\, Dr. Vaidhyanathan will be joined in conversation by THI Faculty Director and Linguistics Professor Pranav Anand. \n \nDr. Siva Vaidhyanathan is the Robertson Professor of Media Studies and director of the Center for Media and Citizenship at the University of Virginia. He is the author of Antisocial Media: How Facebook Disconnects Us and Undermines Democracy (Oxford University Press\, 2018)\, Intellectual Property: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford University Press\, 2017)\, and The Googlization of Everything — and Why We Should Worry (University of California Press\, 2011). After five years as a professional journalist\, he earned a Ph.D. in American Studies from the University of Texas at Austin. He is a fellow at the New York Institute for the Humanities and a Faculty Associate of the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard University. He was born and raised in Buffalo\, New York\, and resides in Charlottesville\, Virginia. \nPranav Anand is Professor of Linguistics and Faculty Director of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. His research investigates how context mediates the interpretation of language\, and has explored the interpretation of subjectivity\, persuasive tactics\, bias\, evidence\, belief\, time\, and narrative structure. \n  \nTo view past convocations visit: TLC | About Convocation
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/tlc-convocation-2025/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Matt Wagers - Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Matt Wagers\, speaking on Setting Healthy (mnemonic) Boundaries. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nNearly 20 years ago\, Lewis & Vasishth (2005) applied the ACT-R modeling framework to language processing by creating an English parser fragment embedded in an associative memory. McElree (2000) and McElree\, Foraker & Dyer (2003) informed this development by providing earlier arguments in favor of such a content-addressable memory. This proved to be hugely influential because it offered a general theory of dependency resolution which could be made precise by reference to any particular theory of linguistic features. Both strands of thought reoriented thinking in the field away from models of working memory that required serial search procedures and\, generally\, the discovery of widespread interference effects has vindicated that shift. \nMuch recent research has made progress in delineating what the representations are (Yadav et al. 2023\, Keshev et al. 2025) and how they can be learned in an unsupervised manner (Ryu & Lewis\, 2021). Relatively unexplored is how to characterize the information that can be attended to simultaneously\, sometimes called the “focus of attention” (Oberauer & Hein\, 2012). This is an important commitment of models like ACT-R and provides an attractive point of articulation to theories of locality or linguistic domains. In this talk\, I will survey what we know (and don’t know) about the focus of attention in language processing (Wagers & McElree\, 2013\, 2022) and relate it to recent thinking about the dynamics of context encoding (Healey\, Long & Kahana\, 2019; Balachandran\, Wagers & Rich\, 2025). \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-matt-wagers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night's Dream
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night’s Dream\, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24\, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker\, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final session\, on May 24th\, a film will be presented. Meetings will take place in the Aptos Library Community Room (in person) and over Zoom (virtual). \nFor more information\, Zoom link\, or to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nThe guest speaker on April 26 is Michael Warren\, Emeritus Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz\, former dramaturg for Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act 1\, Scenes 1 & 2 \nAll Scheduled Meetings \n\nApril 26: Michael Warren\nMay 3: Julia Lupton\nMay 10: Charles Pasternak\nMay 17: Sean Keilen\nMay 24 (Film Screening)
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-a-midsummer-nights-dream/
LOCATION:Aptos Library\, 7695 Soquel Dr\, Aptos\, 95003\, United States
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