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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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