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SUMMARY:Decolonial AI: Designing Technologies for Generative Justice
DESCRIPTION:The extraction of ecological value from nature\, labor value from workers\, and social value from communities constitutes the root cause of pollution\, poverty and social domination. Indigenous traditions\, commons-based production and related alternatives offer models in which value is not extracted\, but rather circulated back to the human and non-human agencies that generated it. In this talk we will describe how this framework of “generative justice” can be used to design decolonized technologies. In Detroit our experiments develop AI and other applications in a platform for community-based economies. In Africa they are developed for a collective of crafters\, artists and other creatives. We find that establishing democratized\, regenerative value flows requires “full stack decolonization\,” because extraction occurs at every layer from infrastructure to machine learning algorithms. The transition to worker-owned systems\, in which they determine where AI will be located across the broad spectrum of human-machine agency possibilities\, is a key component in developing pathways for egalitarian and sustainable futures. \nRon Eglash is the Director of the Center for Generative Justice and a former Professor in the School of Information at University of Michigan. Audrey Bennett is a Professor in the Stamps School of Art and Design at the University of Michigan and a University Diversity and Social Transformation Professor.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/decolonial-ai-designing-technologies-for-generative-justice/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:2026 Santa Cruz Fungus Fair
DESCRIPTION:Did you know that without fungus\, we’d have no bread\, cheese\, beer\, or wine? Or that anti-cholesterol medicine was developed from mushrooms? Come to the Santa Cruz Fungus Fair to learn fascinating and fun facts about beautiful and diverse species of mushrooms! This unique Santa Cruz area tradition draws thousands of visitors each January. View remarkable mushroom arts and crafts\, taste unusual and exceptionally good fungal fare\, and experience FFSC’s overriding mission: “We keep the fun in fungus!” \n \n\nThe Humanities Institute will be present at this event to promote the 2026 Deep Read\, which will feature Entangled Life: How Fungi Make our Worlds\, Change our Minds\, and Shape our Futures by British mycologist Merlin Sheldrake. We hope you’ll join us at the Fungus Fair and for this year’s Deep Read!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-santa-cruz-fungus-fair/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Christopher Chen - The Poetics of Racial Boundary Formation
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines how National Book Award-winning poet and translator Daniel Borzutzky and poet-essayist Wendy S. Walters explore the relationship between capitalism and racialization through poetics of spatial boundary formation. Mobilizing innovative poetic forms\, Borzutzky’s recursive\, translational syntax mirrors capitalist processes of abstraction and Walters’ sonnets are mapped onto suburban planning documents. Borzutzky’s poetry offers a sustained meditation on the globalized political economy of border walls\, revealing how the US-Mexico boundary\, debt walls\, and factory enclosures simultaneously divide and connect populations through transnational circuits of capital accumulation and neoliberal state violence. Walters’ Troy\, Michigan\, a book-length experimental autobiography in sonnets\, reads race as a set of bounded conditions of life in the post-Fordist Rust Belt structured by the history of residential segregation\, highway and transportation infrastructure\, and thwarted class mobility. \nChristopher Chen is Associate Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He has published articles\, poetry\, and reviews in boundary 2\, Post45 Contemporaries\, South Atlantic Quarterly\, The SAGE Handbook of Frankfurt School Critical Theory\, The Routledge Companion to Literature and Economics\, Money and American Literature\, and The Los Angeles Review of Books. He is the author of Literature and Race in the Democracy of Goods (2022)\, a comparative study of contemporary Black and Asian North American experimental poetry. \n  \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 2026 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/christopher-chen-the-poetics-of-racial-boundary-formation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Grants and Fellowships
DESCRIPTION:Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars \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. It will also 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 (THI Faculty Director and Professor of Linguistics)\, Banu Bargu (THI Steering Committee Member and Professor of History of Consciousness)\, and Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (THI Research Programs and Communications Director). \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-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia
DESCRIPTION:How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss\, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule\, the lost Khalsa Raj\, in Punjab. \nSikh sovereignty in what is today northern India and northeastern Pakistan came to an end in the middle of the nineteenth century\, when the British annexed the Sikh kingdom and\, eventually\, exiled its child maharaja\, Duleep Singh\, to England. In the 1880s\, Singh embarked on an abortive attempt to restore the lost Sikh kingdom. Judge explores not only Singh’s efforts but also the Sikh people’s responses—the dreams\, fantasies\, and hopes that became attached to the Khalsa Raj. He shows how a community engaged military\, political\, and psychological loss through theological debate\, literary production\, bodily discipline\, and ethical practice in order to contest colonial politics. This book argues that Sikhs in the final decades of the nineteenth century were not simply looking to recuperate the past but to remake it—and to dwell within loss instead of transcending it—and in so doing opened new possibilities. \nBringing together Sikh tradition\, psychoanalysis\, and postcolonial thought\, Prophetic Maharaja provides bracing insights into concepts of sovereignty and the writing of history. \nRajbir Singh Judge is Associate Professor of History and Associate Member of Asian and Asian American Studies at California State University\, Long Beach. He specializes in the intellectual and cultural history of South Asia with a particular emphasis on Punjab and the Sikh tradition. His first book\, Prophetic Maharaja: Loss\, Sovereignty\, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia was published by Columbia University Press in 2024 and was awarded “Best First Book in the History of Religions” by the American Academy of Religion. He is currently working on his second book\, A Critique of Contextual Reason\, for which he was awarded membership at the Institute for Advanced Study in the 2024-2025 Academic Year. His publications have appeared in the Journal of the American Academy of Religion\, Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory\, Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa\, the Middle East\, Modern Asian Studies\, Theory & Event\, Cultural Critique\, the Journal of the History of Sexuality\, History & Theory\, among others. \n\nSponsored by Sarbjit Singh Aurora Endowed Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Department of History\, and Center for South Asian Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-act-of-periodizing-the-sikh-tradition-and-the-promise-of-an-indic-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Moulay Hicham Alaoui - Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion\, Politics\, and the Struggle for Freedom
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East\, drawing upon his recent book\, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, also available in French (Le Cherche Midi\, 2024) and Arabic (Dar Saqi\, 2025). Reflecting an ongoing research agenda\, the book provides a novel framework for imagining how democratic politics can emerge from social conflicts waged over religion and Islamism in the public sphere. Contrasting cases like Tunisia\, Egypt\, and other regional countries\, it further illuminates the novel and oft-ignored connections between secular opposition\, theological identity\, and authoritarian rule in the Arab world. A reception will be held from 5-6pm in Hum 1\, Room 202\, after the event. \nDr. Hicham Alaoui is a lecturer at Stanford University\, where he teaches political science. He also serves on the Advisory Board of the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University. He is the founder and director of the Hicham Alaoui Foundation\, which undertakes innovative social scientific research in the Middle East and North Africa. He is a scholar on the comparative politics of democratization and religion. His latest publications include Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave\, 2022)\, which has been translated into French and Arabic\, as well as various other books\, including the most recent co-edited book Political Economy\, Power\, and Cultural Heritage in the Arab World (Lynne Rienner\, 2025) and co-authored book Making Aid Work: Dueling with Dictators and Warlords in the Middle East and North Africa (Lynne Rienner\, 2025). He holds an A.B. from Princeton University\, M.A. from Stanford University\, and D.Phil. from the University of Oxford. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the Politics Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/moulay-hicham-alaoui-pacted-democracy-in-the-middle-east-religion-politics-and-the-struggle-for-freedom/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-2/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Nurturing Difference - Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
DESCRIPTION:We’ll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University Press) and Noah Wardrip-Fruin’s Animal Crossing: New Horizons – Can a game take care of us? (University of Chicago Press). Joined by Donna Haraway and Megan Moodie\, and moderated by THI Faculty Director\, Pranav Anand\, the panel will discuss caregiving\, parenthood\, disability\, language\, meaning\, and technology. \nIn an increasingly careless world where cruelty is celebrated and disability mocked\, these two highly-readable scholars remind us that beautiful relationships of compassion\, connection\, communication\, and empathy still exist. Rutherford recounts her experiences raising a high assistance-needs daughter\, Millie\, describing the importance of a web of caregivers who support and enrich their lives and the potential for human communication beyond words. Wardrip-Fruin writes about parenting in the early days of the Covid-19 pandemic\, exploring how his own need for rest and care in the face of growing disablement reshaped his ideas about masculinity\, fatherhood\, and video game imaginaries. Both books speak to Wardrip-Fruin’s provocative question posed in the subtitle to Animal Crossing: New Horizons\, “Can a game take care of us?” If the “game” is a resource-stripped\, social media-driven capitalist competition where everyone must fight for survival\, where basic welfare programs are being destroyed\, what can we learn from care-centered disability worlds? At a time when we most need it\, these scholar-parents give us extraordinary insight into the form of attention in which all our hopes rest: love. \n \nIf you have disability-related needs\, please contact us at thi@ucsc.edu or call 831-459-1274 by January 13\, 2026. ADA parking for this event will be available in lot 170\, directly adjacent to the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Sign language interpretation will also be available during the event. \nAbout Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World: \nWhen Danilyn Rutherford and her husband Craig noticed that their six-month-old daughter Millie wasn’t making eye contact\, they took her to their pediatrician. And an optometrist. Then a neurologist. Later\, to a team of physical and occupational therapists. None of the doctors could give Millie a diagnosis\, but it was clear that her brain was not developing at the rate it should. At an age when some children take their first steps\, Millie had the cognitive ability and motor skills of a three-month-old. Three years later\, Craig died suddenly of a heart attack and Danilyn found herself on the precipice of her anthropology career as a widow and single mother\, still trying to solve the puzzle posed by Millie’s inaccessible mind. \nNow in her twenties\, Millie has never been able to express herself verbally\, but she has a thriving social environment rooted in the people around her and in things her companions and family can see\, hear\, smell\, and feel. Life in Millie’s world is far richer than might be immediately evident to those who think and communicate in conventional ways. \nBeautiful Mystery explores what it means to be a person in the spaces between what we can and cannot say\, and how we can fight to care for those we love when they don’t have the language to fight for themselves. Through her unique lens as a mother and an anthropologist\, Rutherford tells the story of arriving in Millie’s world\, what she found there\, and how Millie showed her that words aren’t always what makes us human. Enlightening and deeply felt\, Beautiful Mystery proves that you don’t have to understand someone to love them—a lesson that\, if we all learned it\, might allow us to live together in a fractured world. \nAbout Animal Crossing: New Horizons: Can a game take care of us? \nAnimal Crossing: New Horizons was released on March 20\, 2020—just as a pandemic kept many from family\, work\, restaurants\, and the rest of their regularly scheduled lives. At its height\, the game averaged one million copies sold per day\, as players sought comfort\, escape\, and a virtual means of connection. In this book\, game scholar Noah Wardrip-Fruin\, isolated with his family by both lockdown and disability\, explores the power of this game and the mixed emotions of a player and a parent trying to make it from one day to the next—while his kids’ obsession with Animal Crossing creates conflicts between them and pushback against family rules. \nWardrip-Fruin helps both Animal Crossing fans and newcomers understand the unexpected beneath the game’s surface: like the story of the first Animal Crossing\, codesigned by an absent father seeking connection; like the hallmarks of video game manipulation\, from “streak” bonuses to game-determined playtimes; like the appeal of endless shopping\, in a kind of “safe” capitalism; and\, of course\, like the character quirks of a raccoon dog\, Tom Nook\, who provides a world of both safety and strange paternalism. \nFor many\, this blockbuster game offered a comforting world compared to a reality of danger. In this first entry in the Replay series\, Wardrip-Fruin offers an absorbing investigation of a game’s role in contemporary social life and a book that belongs on the shelf of anyone who loves or is puzzled by this Nintendo sensation. \nDanilyn Rutherford is the president of the Wenner-Gren Foundation for Anthropological Research and a professor emerita of anthropology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Raiding the Land of the Foreigners: The Limits of the Nation on an Indonesian Frontier (Princeton\, 2003)\, Laughing at Leviathan: Sovereignty and Audience in West Papua (Chicago\, 2012)\, Living in the Stone Age: Reflections on the Origins of a Colonial Fantasy (Chicago\, 2018)\, and\, most recently\, Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke\, 2025). \nNoah Wardrip-Fruin is a Professor of Computational Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He studies and makes video games and electronic literature. Before his most recent book\, Noah authored or co-edited six books on games and digital media for the MIT Press\, including The New Media Reader (2003). His collaborative art projects have been exhibited by the Whitney Museum of American Art\, New Museum of Contemporary Art\, Krannert Art Museum\, and a wide variety of festivals and conferences. Noah holds both a PhD (2006) and an MFA (2003) from Brown University\, an MA (2000) from the Gallatin School at New York University\, and a BA (1994) from the Johnston Center at the University of Redlands. \nMegan Moodie is a Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is chair of the Disabled Faculty Networking Group and a core member of the disability studies initiative on campus. meganmoodie.github.io \n\nThis event is presented by the Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice Project\, a UC Multicampus Research Program and Initiative and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and is a featured event of THI’s year of Nourishment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nurturing-difference-parenting-and-disability-in-a-careless-age/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Cinthya Martinez - Toxic Caging!: Abolish ICE & Feminist Resistance
DESCRIPTION:This talk looks at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California and the grassroots movement to abolish ICE led by formerly detained migrants and local activists. It focuses on the Adelanto Toxic Tours\, a community action where survivors and organizers guide people through the areas surrounding the detention center to share stories about environmental harm\, toxic exposure\, and violence inside detention. Through these tours\, activists connect damage to the land with harm to migrant bodies\, showing how detention impacts both people and their environments. The presentation highlights how organizing in Adelanto challenges detention and imagines futures beyond cages\, surveillance\, and border enforcement. \nCinthya Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Latin American and Latino Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz. She earned her doctorate from the University of California\, Riverside in Ethnic Studies. Her teaching and research interests are sexual violence\, abolition theory/praxis\, and migrant detention. Her research and current book project\, ICE on Fire: Incinerating Prison/Border Violence through Feminist Abolition Geographies\, investigates sexual violence and reproductive (in)justice in ICE detention facilities\, while examining how affected communities\, and migrant activists more broadly\, are forging geographies of abolition through confronting the connections between bodies in resistance\, the carceral\, and border regimes. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 2026 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/cinthya-martinez-toxic-caging-abolish-ice-feminist-resistance/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-3/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Lisa Wedeen - Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon\, Žižek\, and Al Attar
DESCRIPTION:This talk begins with a question inspired by the work of the anthropologist David Scott\, as to whether radical social transformation can remain a credible historical possibility if it is not undergirded by a belief in teleology. Does collectively willed transformation—the kind to which leftist and anticolonial movements have traditionally aspired—become unthinkable absent some degree of confidence in the arc of History bending toward social amelioration on its own? And if not\, how do we begin adjudicating what counts as an emancipatory politics today? Put another way\, this talk searches for forms that political hope might take in the disappointing and exhausted ruins of our postcolonial and post-socialist present. It approaches answers to these questions by examining a core concept in key narratives of leftist collective transformation\, that is\, by exploring anew the promise and limitations of “the dialectic.” It puts Frantz Fanon and Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the playwright Mohammad Al Attar\, whose play While I Was Waiting not only shows us the dialectic in action\, but in so doing offers a compelling approach to political transformation in the present. \n \nThis event will be hybrid. Register above to join via zoom. \nLisa Wedeen is a political scientist and the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Known for her influential work on symbolic politics\, authoritarianism\, and the Middle East—particularly Syria—she combines interpretive methods with grounded ethnographic research. She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination\, Peripheral Visions\, and numerous widely cited articles that have shaped debates in comparative politics and political theory. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the History of Consciousness Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-wedeen-whose-dialectic-thinking-with-fanon-zizek-and-al-attar/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Lana Tatour - Race and the Question of Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and The Center for Racial Justice \nJoin us for conversation with Lana Tatour\, in dialogue with Muriam Haleh Davis\, on her recently published edited volume Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press\, 2025\, co-edited with Ronit Lentin). This collection argues that the colonization of Palestine is inseparable from the global histories and logics of race\, and it places Palestine at the heart of conversations about imperialism\, settler colonialism\, capitalism\, and heteropatriarchy. \nThe event will delve into the rich and often-overlooked tradition of theorizing race within Palestine studies; the entanglements of race and international law; the politics and practice of racialization; and the structures and everyday expressions of anti-Palestinian racism. It will also speak to the urgency of the present moment\, addressing how these frameworks help us understand Israel’s ongoing violence in Gaza and the wider global landscape of solidarity\, resistance and struggle. \nLana Tatour is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of New South Wales\, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute. She is a scholar of settler colonialism\, indigeneity\, race\, and citizenship\, with a focus on Palestine. Her coedited book\, Race and the Question of Palestine was published in 2025 with Stanford University Press. She is currently completing her monograph\, Colonized Citizens: Liberalism\, Settler Colonialism\, and Palestinian resistance. Lana is also a public commentator. She has appeared on ABC News\, the BBC\, and TRT World\, and her publications have appeared in The Guardian\, Al-Jazeera\, Mondoweiss\, Middle East Eye\, The Age\, Overland\, and more. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 2026 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/lana-tatour-race-and-the-question-of-palestine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Sheikh's Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents\, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. \nUntil the middle of the twentieth century\, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted\, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule\, however\, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. By the years leading up to the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)\, these changes had created new lines of solidarity—and new tensions—that cast doubt on Jews’ place in Algeria’s future. In this lecture\, Professor Joshua Schreier will explore how the most prominent figure among Algerian Ulema\, ͑Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs (1889–1940)\, the undisputed leader of reformist Islam in interwar Algeria and a powerful influence on Algeria’s nascent nationalist movement\, understood Jews\, their relationship to Muslims\, and the escalating conflict in Palestine. \n \nRegistration is required for event entry \n \nJoshua Schreier’s research and teaching navigate the intersection of Jewish\, Middle Eastern\, North African\, and French colonial history. His publications explore the ways colonialism in Algeria not only transformed the relationship between Jews and Muslims but also redefined what these identifiers meant. He is the author of Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria (Rutgers\, 2010)\, and The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Stanford\, 2017)\, which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n\nThis event is a part of The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-sheikhs-jews-muslim-jewish-relations-in-interwar-algeria/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geetha Sukumaran - Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
DESCRIPTION:Tamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end\, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and several thousand were displaced. In this last phase\, kanji (rice gruel) became the sole source of sustenance. Kanji\, a versatile traditional Tamil dish that is central to religious festivals\, also adapts to circumstances of scarcity. This talk situates Mullivaikkal Kanji within the broader Sri Lankan Tamil culinary tradition and explores how it became a symbol of resistance. \n \nDr. Geetha Sukumaran is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Feeding City Lab in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences. \n  \n  \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geetha-sukumaran-kanji-before-and-after-mullivaikkal-resistance-histories-of-jaffna/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening:  5:30-7pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nPanel Discussion and Audience Q&A:  7-8pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nReception:  8-9pm\, Communications 139 \nMarking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth\, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital\, the recent film by Algerian director Abdenour Zahzah that focuses on his time in the psychiatric hospital in Blida\, Algeria. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Meryem Belkaïd (Bowdoin College)\, Isaac Julien (UCSC)\, and Mark Nash (UCSC) on the representation of Fanon’s work and life in film\, from Julien and Nash’s classic 1998 documentary\, Black Skin White Masks\, to more recent films that focus on how Fanon’s time in Algeria shaped his intellectual and political commitments. \nMeryem Belkaïd is the Harriet Sara Walker and Mary Sophia Walker Associate Professor of Humanities at Bowdoin College. Trained in both literature (PhD from La Sorbonne) and political science (Master degree from Science Po\, Paris)\, her research focuses on a decolonial approach of North African cinema and literature. She is the author of From Outlaw to Rebel: Contemporary documentary in Contemporary Algeria (Palgrave 2023). Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of North African Studies\, Fixxion and Expressions maghrébines. She is a regular contributor of the online magazine Orient XXI. \nMark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian\, and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde\, and world cinema. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a professor in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. His most recent publication\, Curating the Moving Image (Duke UP\, 2023)\, outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective and artistic practice to post-cold war aesthetics and contemporary Chinese art. \n \nIsaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist who has been making films and producing film installations for over forty years. Recent works include All that Changes You. Metamorphosis (2025)\, Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022)\, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019)\, and Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2019). A retrospective of his work\, Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, was exhibited at the De Young Museum in 2025. In 2018\, Julien joined the faculty at the UC Santa Cruz where he is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities and leads the Moving Image Lab together with Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award in 2017. In 2022\, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022\, and he was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List. \nParking Info: \nThis is the Communications Building on Google maps\, and this is a map with parking information: https://transportation.ucsc.edu/parking/campus-parking-map/#interactive-map. Park Mobile parking spots can be located in lot 139A. Alternative parking options include the Core West parking structure\, which is located down the hill from the Communications Building. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fanon-in-documentary-film-algerian-legacies/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:UC Maghreb Workshop
DESCRIPTION:This workshop will bring together over a dozen scholars from the UC-system who research the Maghreb to share their work and exchange ideas. It is designed as a way of maintaining the rich network of expertise on this region found on the west coast. In addition to thematic panels\, Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) will be presenting on her recently published work\, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press\, 2024). \nThe preliminary program can be found here. \nThis event will be hybrid. Please RSVP at cmenasc@ucsc.edu to receive the zoom link. \nParking Info: \nThe following parking lots are the closest to the Humanities 1 building: 107\, 109\, 110.  Lot 109 has several park mobile spots as well as A permit spaces.  See the link to the campus map: https://maps.ucsc.edu/printable-maps/parking-map-111916.pdf
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uc-maghreb-working-group/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Susan Slyomovics will discuss her new book\, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. “Statuomania” overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria’s hard-fought independence in 1962\, these monuments took on different meanings and some were “repatriated” to France\, legally or clandestinely. Today\, in both Algeria and France\, people are moving and removing\, vandalizing and preserving this contested\, yet shared monumental heritage. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews in both countries\, she analyzes the colonial nostalgia\, dissonant heritage\, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Click above for the zoom link. \nSusan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. She is the author of books and articles on the topics of reparations\, anthropology of art\, and cultural and material heritage of the Middle East and North Africa. Her recent book\, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, received the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award from the Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism (CHAT) of the American Anthropological Association.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-slyomovics-monuments-decolonized-algerias-french-colonial-heritage/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV\, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10\, 17\, 24\, 31 & February 7\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by a volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-4/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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