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SUMMARY:Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:\n“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms” \nCaught within the both/and of dystopic collapse\, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures. \n  \nJodi Byrd is Associate Professor\, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker\, writer\, teacher\, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fire-flood-settler-colonialisms-pessimistic-indigenous-futurisms/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171103T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India"
DESCRIPTION:Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India” \nVinay Gidwani\, University of Minnesota\nPriti Ramamurthy\, University of Washington \nBased on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad\, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender and caste\, we ask how these\, as embodied imprints of the agrarian\, impose limit conditions on possible politics for urban migrants. We explore two propositions: First\, workers are constantly striving to disarticulate from the sway of value\, and the growth of urban informal economies has made this both necessary and more possible. Second\, agrarian origins\, when mediated through gender and caste\, become limit conditions on possible autonomy. The issue is not only proscriptions on forms of labor\, but also how workers – females more acutely than males – remain orientated to agrarian caste relations and norms even when they work in the city (and are the enablers of men’s economic trajectories). In short\, we foreground the spatial dialectics of social reproduction: how social reproduction straddles village and city\, and is at once oppressive and nurturing. \nVinay Gidwani is a professor of Geography\, Environment\, and Society at the Institute forGlobal Studies\, University of Minnesota. He studies the interactions of labor processes and ecologies in agrarian and urban settings\, as well as capitalist transformations of these. \nPriti Ramamurthy\, a professor in Gender\, Women and Sexuality Studies at the University of Washington\, is an ethnographer\, who has returned to the same villages in the Telangana region of southern India for three decades\, to understand the relationship between the social reproduction of families\, lives and livelihoods and processes of agrarian transformation. \nPresented by the UCSC Feminist Studies Department and the Center for South Asian Studies\, with generous contributions from the UCSC Division of the Humanities\, UCSC Arts Department\, and UCSC Economics Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-agrarian-questions-in-urban-india-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
DESCRIPTION:Fatima Mojaddedi\, “Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier” \nThis talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration\, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of language (particularly a language that demands its own translation (English) into one that signifies what Afghans do not know (Persian/ Pashto)\, doubles as a harbinger of wartime death and surveillance.  It illustrates how military translators mediate the exchange of words and sense-making\, and participate in the construction of a dangerous rural subjectivity as the exemplification of ineradicable danger. \nLinguistic and biometric practices deployed in intercultural translation within military campaigns\, while newly commodified and bearing much greater and more devastating consequences\, are also the ideological heirs of an earlier imperial discourse on nomadism and irregular frontier movement in the subcontinent. This now transpires in contexts of counterinsurgency\, and speech has come to signify collaboration or guilt (apostasy or terrorism). It informs the contemporary fear about the status of dialect in the Afghan countryside\, where rural subjects are thought to be especially (and dangerously) itinerant\, taking their dialect with them in order to evade military interrogation and biometric capture. \nFatima Mojaddedi\, a President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Anthropology Department at UCBerkeley\, completed her Ph.D. in Anthropology at Columbia University in 2016. Her ethnographic research\, based in Kabul\, Afghanistan\, considers the nature of contemporary warfare\, language\, and questions of cultural representation and catastrophe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-fatima-mojaddedi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Patricia de Santana Pinho
DESCRIPTION:We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation\nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor\, UC Santa Cruz  \nThe talk presents a chapter of my nearly completed book manuscript Diaspora Detours: African American Roots Tourism in Brazil. Previous chapters examine the effects of national identities on the connections between black diaspora communities. In this chapter I analyze how gender impacts these transnational relations while simultaneously differentiating the experiences of female and male travelers. Analyzing why and how women travel is important in deconstructing the implicitly masculinist abstract tourist subject. At the same time\, by focusing on women travelers\, it is crucial not to confirm men as the norm that goes unexamined and unquestioned. While the chapter looks more closely at women\, it does so in order to examine how travel and tourism function as fundamentally gendered and embodied practices\, which in turn contribute to the gendering of the black diaspora. \n  \nPatricia de Santana Pinho\, Associate Professor in LALS\, is a Brazilian social scientist whose research focuses on topics of blackness\, whiteness\, racism\, anti-racism\, tourism\, and the black diaspora. She is author of Mama Africa: Reinventing Blackness in Bahia (Duke University Press\, 2010). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-patricia-de-santana-pinho-2/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
DESCRIPTION:What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need\nSusan O’Neal Stryker\, Associate Professor\, University of Arizona  \nHistory is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk\, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title\, gender theorist and historian Susan Stryker examines the trans-temporal dimensions of what gets labelled “transgender” today\, but which can be thought of as a more general capacity for life to exceed whatever current configurations it might have. At stake\, Stryker contends\, in vexing contemporary conflicts over pronouns and public toilets\, is a deeper ontological struggle over which fantasies of past and futurity have the ability to ground themselves in materiality and come to count as real. \n  \nSusan Stryker is Associate Professor of Gender and Women’s Studies at the University of Arizona\, where she spearheads the Transgender Studies Initiative. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-2-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170504T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Doris Leibetseder
DESCRIPTION:QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies \nDoris Leibetseder\, Visiting Scholar\, UC Berkeley  \nIn this paper I present part of an allied queer-feminist and transgender ethics of reproduc-tion. I look at ARTs and how they raise challenges for transgender and queer people. My focus lies in the ways these technologies confront queer and people with normative expectations concerning biological sex\, gender\, sexuality\, kinship relations and the right to procreate\, and how this leads to medical migration. This presentation gives an overview of my new EU-funded (Marie Skłodowska-Curie Actions) project starting August 2017 at Uppsala University: “Towards an Inclusive Common European Framework for Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART): Queer Transgender Reproduction in the Age of ART.” \n  \nDoris Leibetseder is a researcher at the University of Uppsala\, Sweden in the Centre for Gender Research and a visiting scholar at UC Berkeley\, CSMTS (Center for Science\, Technology\, Medicine and Society). \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Spring 2017 Schedule:\nMay 4th: Doris Leibetseder\, “QT Reproduction: Queen and Transgender Use of Assisted Reproductive Technologies”\nMay 17th: Susan O’Neal Stryker\, “What Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need”\nJune 1st: Patricia de Santana Pinho\, “We Bring Home the Roots: African American Women Touring Brazil and Bearing their Nation”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-doris-leibetseder-3/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170418T163000
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SUMMARY:Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
DESCRIPTION:Comparative urban studies are on the rise\, raising new questions about translation\, fungibility\, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This talk\, moderated by Feminist Studies doctoral candidate and Anti-Eviction Mapping Project cofounder Erin McElroy\, will feature Bucharest-based housing justice activist\, artist\, and scholar Veda Popovici. Veda will share more about the Bucharest’s direct action collective\, the Common Front for the Right to Housing\, as well as histories of postsocialist neoliberal housing restitution laws that have incited current Romanian spatial struggles. Erin and Veda will discuss a growing call to think both global capital formations and comparative urbanism in Romania through decolonial analytics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/common-front-for-the-right-to-housing-in-bucharest-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170302T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
DESCRIPTION:The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference\nOmid Mohamadi\, Lecturer\, Feminist Studies \nMy talk centers on the Irania women’s movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign’s central text\, The Effect of Laws on Women’s Lives\, and activists’ testimonies\, I show how the Iranian women’s movement appeals to (and also challenges) multiple sites simultaneously\, and highlight and critique scholars who subscribe to a shared historical narrative suggesting that the current unity between secular and religious feminists is evidence that the women’s movement has superseded a century of internecine conflict and possibly ideology itself. One must also look at the internal logic of rights themselves and their ability to either imperil or strengthen social movements. I argue that two central facets of rights coupled with two historical development after the 1979 Revolution are responsible for the recent rights-based activism of Iranian feminist\, and conclude by thinking through the politics of difference within the movement\, especially claims of radical alterity that fray when confronted with the complex relationship between secularism and religion. \n  \nOmid Mohamadi earned his Ph.D. in Politics at UCSC with a Designated Emphasis in Feminist Studies. Focusing on contemporary Iran\, his research utilizes feminist and political theory to explore interrelated questions on religion\, secularism\, gender\, rights\, the state\, art\, and social movements. \n  \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-omid-mohamadi-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
DESCRIPTION:Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities\nMikki Stelder\, Visiting Scholar \nIn 2010\, Palestinian Queers for Boycott\, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First\, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists have engaged with PQBDS’ call and conditions of possibility within which responses emerged. Secondly\, I discuss an event that undermined the logics of settler colonialism and sexual imperialism in Israel/Palestine: In 2011\, three Palestinian queer groups engaged in email conversation with the International Gay and Lesbian Youth and Student Organization (IGLYO) about its decision to host its General Assembly in Tel Aviv. IGLYO went ahead with its plans\, but invited the groups to a public debate with an Israeli LGBT group cohosting the GA. The Palestinian groups refused and then publicized their email correspondence with IGLYO. Viewing these decisions as a politics of refusal\, I ask what other practices endure under Israeli occupation and alter the terms of Israel/Palestine engagement. \n  \nMikki Stelder is a PhD Candidate at the Amsterdam School for Cultural Analysis at the University of Amsterdam. She is a visiting scholar at UCSC in the History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies Department under the auspices and guidance of Gina Dent. She also teaches Feminist and Postcolonial Critique to choreography students at the School for New Dance Development\, Amsterdam. \n  \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-mikki-stelder-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170112T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
DESCRIPTION:Parenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area\nSoma de Bourbon\, Lecturer\, Feminist Studies \nParents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide among trans youth. There is evidence (Olson at al. 2016)that a gender-affirming environment can\, in part\, accomplish this. Many Bay Area families are gender supportive\, but is the larger Bay Area? I think we need to address the marginalization of binary trans youth of color within the non-binary movement in the Bay Area. Although the landscape of infinite gender holds radical potential for many\, it can shift\, and in some cases has shifted\, to a repressive space for some. As mother to a binary trans girl\, I watch her live in a liminal space-occupying a duality: acceptance as feminized girl when she is stealth and rejection for cissimilation when she is “out.” Both the revolutionary potential of the struggle to unbind the binary\, and its capacity to exclude individuals who pioneered its inception and continue to die for it each year\, binary trans women of color\, are issues I am interested in engaging. \n  \nSoma de Bourbon is an adjunct professor at SJSU\, De Anza College\, and UCSC. She received her Ph.D. from the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC and her B.A. from the Ethics Studies Department at UC Berkeley. Soma’s heritage is Blackfeet and French\, and she is the advisor to the Native American Student Organization at SJSU. \n  \nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Winter 2017 Schedule:\nJanuary 12th: Soma de Bourbon\, “Parenting BinaryTrans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area”\nFebruary 2nd: Mikki Stelder\, “Towards Other Scenes of speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities”\nMarch 2nd: Omid Mohamadi\, “The Iranian Women’s Movement: Rights and Difference”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-soma-de-bourbon-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
DESCRIPTION:“Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”\nCleo Woelfle-Erskine\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nEcologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction\, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies\, even or especially among more-than-human others dying because of human (in)action? I search for signs of resistant ‘world making’ (Munoz) in ephemeral moments where scientist were able to speak their grief at extinction and love for their study species\, through three cases: (1) scientists’ field photos and captions circulated during a twitter #cuteoff\, (2) my own encounters with dead salmon during ecological field studies\, and (3) “Tell A Salmon Your Troubles\,” an interactive performance in which scientist confessed their troubles about data\, habitat loss\, and extinction to a silent yet responsive salmon character. I explore resonance between queer and trans theory and indigenous theory that foregrounds multispecies ethics and relational practices\, and consider how field ecologist can challenge settler ontologies and epistemologies embedded in scientific and environmental management practices. \nDr.Cleo Woelfle-Erskine is an ecologist\, hydrologist\, writer\, and scholar of water\, working with mentor Karen Barad to explore queer\, transgender\, and decolonial possibilities for ecological science. In July 2017\, he will join the faculty of the School of Marine and Environmental Affairs at the University of Washington\, Seattle as Assistant Professor of Equity and Environmental Justice. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\, “Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\, “Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,  “Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-cleo-woelfle-erskine-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T122000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161201T140000
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SUMMARY:WHAT GOES UP\, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
DESCRIPTION:We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness\, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies.\n\nAK Thompson\nEpistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization \nThursday\, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM 210; UCSC\n+\nFriday\, DECEMBER 2 | 6-8pm | SUB ROSA 703 Pacific Ave\, Downtown Santa Cruz \nSince the visual turn in the social sciences at the beginning of the twenty-first century\, images have become important points of engagement both as objects and as modes of analysis. For this reason\, along with its 50+ entries exploring the keywords used by contemporary activists\, Keywords for Radicals (AK Press 2016) incorporates data visualization to show how the “vocabulary” shared by radicals constitutes a kind of self-supporting small world network. \nSuch visualizations can help readers to map how the project’s vocabulary “works” and how struggles over word usage and meaning might most effectively be carried out. But while data visualization of this kind can be useful\, it also raises significant epistemological questions about the relationship between representation and what’s real. \nIn this presentation\, Keywords for Radicals editor AK Thompson will discuss the theoretical and aesthetic foundations of the project’s data visualization in order to evaluate the promise and perils of this technique in the age of the infographic. \nAK Thompson got kicked out of high school for publishing an underground newspaper called The Agitator and has been an activist\, writer\, and social theorist ever since. Currently teaching social theory at Fordham University\, his publications include Black Bloc\, White Riot: Anti-Globalization and the Genealogy of Dissent (2010) and Sociology for Changing the World: Social Movements/Social Research (2006). Between 2005 and 2012\, he served on the Editorial Committee of Upping The Anti: A Journal of Theory and Action. \nhttps://www.facebook.com/events/1865000727120347/
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/what-goes-up-must-come-down-contemporary-activist-scholarship-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161103T140000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
DESCRIPTION:“Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nRedi Koobak\, Assitant Professor\, Linkoping University\, Sweden \nAfter its 50-year occupation by the Soviets\, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small\, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. For example\, Estonia’s participation in Afghanistan missions was presented as self-evident and largely unquestioned both in parliament and in the media. In this context\, it is difficult to find counter-narratives to war in public discourse\, with implications for understandings of gender\, geopolitics\, and nationalism. In search of voices that question the general consensus about Estonia’s participation in NATO missions\, I zoom in on the artworks of Estonian artist Maarit Murka who was invited to visit Estonian troops in Afghanistan on the commission of the Estonian Military Museum. Pondering upon three exhibitions she made as a result of her trip\, I explore how artistic interventions might denaturalize gendered and nationalized notions of violence and justifications for war. \nRedi Koobak is an Assistant Professor at the Department of Thematic Studies- Gender Studies at Linking University\, Sweden\, where she also defended her dissertation\, Whirling Stories: Postsocialist Feminist Imaginaries and the Visual Arts (Linking University Press\, 2013). She is a visiting scholar and lecturer in the Feminist Studies Department at UC Santa Cruz during Fall 2016. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\,”Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-redi-koobak-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T143000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T163000
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SUMMARY:P. Sainath: "The People's Archive of Rural India"
DESCRIPTION:P. Sainath is India’s most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the ‘Asian Nobel’). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years\, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International’s Global Journalism Prize\, and the only Indian winner so far of the European Commission’s Lorenzo Natali prize\, the EC’s main award for development and human rights. Last year\, he won the first World Media Summit Global Award for Excellence for his 2014 series of field reports on India’s mega water crisis. He is the author of Everybody Loves A Good Drought (2013)\, and has spent\, on average\, around 270 days a year in India’s poorest regions\, writing from there for the country’s largest newspaper\, including The Times of India and The Hindu\, of which he was rural editor for a decade.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/p-sainath-the-peoples-archive-of-rural-india-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161013T160000
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SUMMARY:Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni
DESCRIPTION:“Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nSara Mameni\, UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow \nIn her video project\, “In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain” (2014)\, Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and sovereignty. Shuttling between past and future\, the film uses science fiction aesthetics and speculative language to re-write the history of the future and lay claim to home. Similarly\, Morehshin Allahyari’s ongoing project titled “Material Speculation” (2015) reconstructs archeological artifacts destroyed by ISIS in 3D format \, archiving lost objects by including a digital memory card inside each newly constructed artifact. Sansour and Allahyari use the science of past-making to enter into the future. Yet unlike archeology’s attachment to stable land\, they propose a virtual archeology of landsand artifacts already lost. I argue that artist such as Sansour and Allahyari launch an ethnofuturist aesthetic geared towards a sustained relationship with otherness\, defying temporarily by claiming their politics in the imaginitve space of the future and the speculative space of hope. \nSara Mameni received her PhD in Art History at UC San Diego with dissertation titled “On Persian Blues: Queer Bodies\, Racial Affects.” Her research\, publications and curatorial work have engaged gender\, race and sexuality in art and visual culture in Iran and Arab/Muslim world. \n\nFeminist Studies Colloquium Series Fall 2016 Schedule: \nOctober 13th: Sara Mameni\,”Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future”\nNovember 3rd: Redi Koobak\,”Rethinking Gender\, Art & Geopolitics through Post-national War Rhetoric”\nDecember 1st: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine\,”Queer x Trans x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/feminist-studies-colloquium-series-sara-mameni-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20160505T153000
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SUMMARY:A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle
DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department\, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity\, Equity and Inclusion\, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle!\n  \nAnubha Bhonsle\, author of\nMother\, Where’s My Country?\nJournalist\, Executive Editor\, CNN-IBN\nFulbright Humphrey Fellow\, 2015-16\n  \nMother\, Where’s My country? arc the life of Manipular\, a state located in India’s north east\, a diverse\, picturesque\, and strategically-vial state. It is also home to multiple insurgencies\, a contested political identity\, and a law called the Armed Forces Special Powers Act (AFSPA). Based on nine years of reporting from Manipur\, including more than 200 interviews\, scrutinizing dozens of court documents and testimonials\, and revisiting places and conversations\, Anubha Bhonsle paints a picture where impunity\, fake encounters\, protests and denial of memory and justice continue in an endless cycle. The book is available in the United Sates via Amazon.\n  \nPraise for the book – P Sainath: “…Anubha Bhonsle reproaches our hypocrisy but addresses our humanity.”
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/a-book-reading-and-conversation-with-anubha-bhonsle-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 359
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150127T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150127T183000
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SUMMARY:Kristina Lyons: “Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents:  Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kristina-lyons-decomposition-as-life-politics-soils-shared-bodies-and-stamina-under-the-gun-of-the-u-s-colombia-war-on-drugs-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sara Giordano: “Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics"
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents:  Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-giordano-tinkering-with-science-irb-diy-and-feminist-science-ethics-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150113T183000
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SUMMARY:Ann Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents:  Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nKalindi Vora\, University of California of San Diego\n“Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”\nJanuary 6\, 5:oo – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ann-fink-feminist-ethics-and-the-neurobiology-of-memory-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20150106T183000
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SUMMARY:Kalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
DESCRIPTION:Transnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary disparities in medical and legal protections to bear upon reections on recent innovations in articial uterine environments\, this talk suggests that the metaphors we use to structure our understanding of bodies and body parts impact how we imagine appropriate roles for people and their bodies in ways that are still deeply entangled with imperial histories of science. The techno-fantasy of the isolated womb is part of the originating conditions for the structure and discourse of Indian surrogacy as “wombs for rent\,” and the notion of the disembodied uterus that has arisen in scientic and medical practice allows for alienating logic of the “gestational carrier” as a functional role in Assisted Reproductive Technologies (ART) practices. Given these ongoing histories and metaphors\, it is important to consider the unequal positions of participants in transnational fertility exchanges when evaluating recent articulations of the relationship between governance\, medicine\, and transnational ART markets in the debates about draft ART legislation in India. \nKalindi Vora is Assistant Professor of Ethnic Studies and aliate faculty of the Critical Gender and Science Studies Programs at UC San Diego. Her book\, Life Support: Biocapital and the New History of Outsourced Labor (University of Minnesota Press\, 2015)\, examines domestic work\, customer care\, the commodication of human organs\, gestational surrogacy and knowledge work as representing a global economy of vitality that relies on aective and biological labor of feminized workers. Her research and publications have focused on gendered labor\, globalization\, South Asian area and diaspora studies\, postcolonial studies\, and feminist theory.\n  \nUpcoming Feminist Science Studies Colloquia \nAnn Fink\, New York University\n“Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”\nJanuary 13\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nSara Giordano\, San Diego State University\n“Tinkering with Science: IRB\, DIY and Feminist Science Ethics”\nJanuary 20\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210 \nKristina Lyons\, University of California of Santa Cruz\n“Decomposition as Life Politics: Soils\, Shared Bodies\, and Stamina Under the Gun of the U.S.-Colombia War on Drugs”\nJanuary 27\, 5:00 – 6:30pm\, Humanities 1 Room 210
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kalindi-vora-life-support-legacies-of-imperial-science-and-surrogate-technologies-of-racialized-reproduction-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Queen for a Day: Transformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
DESCRIPTION:The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce… \nQueen for a Day\nTransformistas\, Beauty Queens\, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela\nA Conversation & Book Party\n for Marcia Ochoa\n with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich \nTuesday\, June 3 \nAbout the Book\nQueen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and femininity that connects the logic of Venezuelan modernity with the production of a national femininity. is ethnography examines how femininities are produced\, performed\, and consumed in the mass-media spectacles of international beauty pageants\, on the runways of the Miss Venezuela contest\, on the well-traveled Caracas avenue where transgender women (transformistas) project themselves into the urban imaginary\, and on the bodies of both\ntransformistas and beauty pageant contestants (misses). Placing transformistas and misses in the same analytic frame enables Ochoa to delve deeply into complex questions of media and spectacle\, gender and sexuality\, race and class\, and self-fashioning and identity. \nVenezuela has won more international beauty contests than any other. e femininity performed by Venezuelan women in high-profile\, widely viewed pageants defines a kind of national femininity. Ochoa argues that as transformistas and misses work to achieve the bodies\, clothing and makeup styles\, and postures and gestures of this national femininity\, they come to embody Venezuelan modernity. \nAbout the Author\nMarcia Ochoa is an Associate Professor of Feminist Studies at the University of California at Santa Cruz. An ethnographer of media\, Ochoa’s work focuses on the role of the imaginary in the survival of queer and transgender people in Latin America\, and the place of these subjects in the nation. She is a founder and advisor to El/La Para TransLatinas\, a social justice project for transgender Latina immigrants in the Mission District of San Francisco\, CA. Ochoa is incoming co-editor of GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies. \nA chapter from the book will be available to read prior to the talk at:\nChapter 5: Sacar el Cuerpo \nPlease join us for a small reception in the Feminist Studies library following the reading.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/queen-for-a-day-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120403T120000
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SUMMARY:Selma James on Sex\, Race\, and Class
DESCRIPTION:Selma James is a renowned women’s rights and anti-racist campaigner and author. In her activist work and her writings\, Selma has addressed the power relations within the working class movement\, and how to organize across sectors despite divisions of sex\, race\, and class\, South and North. She has founded the International Wages for Housework Campaign in 1972\, and in 2000 she helped launch the Global Women’s Strike\, which she coordinates. She is currently in the United States on a speaking tour for the publication of her new book\, Sex\, Race and Class – The Perspective of Winning: A Selection of Writings\, 1952-2011 (PM Press\, March 2012). \nSelma James will be speaking about the historical and contemporary reality of unwaged work in the household\, the community\, and beyond. She will discuss specifically the exploitation of women in the capitalist system and the context and meaning of the recent assault on welfare and women’s reproductive rights in the current global economic crisis. Come join us for a talk and discussion. \nSponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by American Studies\, Community Studies and Feminist Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/selma-james-on-sex-race-and-class-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20091031T090000
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SUMMARY:Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making
DESCRIPTION:Recognizing the Academic\, Activist and Cultural Interventions of a Contemporary Visionary\nFor almost four decades\, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a public intellectual and has radically transformed many sites of knowledge production\, including the positioning of the U.S. academy as a site of intervention and social transformation. Few professors have had such a broad impact in their fields of expertise or on the world in their lifetimes. This gathering of her former students\, in conversation with scholars nationally\, maps the impact of her vision on issues such as democratic theory\, philosophy\, Marxism\, cultural studies/popular culture\, social policy\, race\, class\, and feminisms. Professor Davis has also trained students as activist scholars for almost four decades in both university systems in California. We thus convene this conference to examine the poetics and politics of Professor Davis’s pedagogy in California over the past forty years (1969-2009) and to consider how her role as an activist-scholar-teacher bridges the academy/community divide and dismantles the false dichotomy of theory/praxis. \nOne focus of the event will be to highlight cultural production that has emerged in conversation with the writing and theorizing that Angela Davis has facilitated and inspired. We are inviting Professor Davis’ colleagues\, friends\, and family to provide video messages recognizing her considerable on-going contributions to academic and activist work; these will be compiled into a montage to be screened at the symposium. The event\, as a whole\, will be recorded\, and we plan to liaise with the California Documentary Fund to translate those records into a multi-media resource for education. There will also be an evening of music and poetry in honor of Professor Davis and her contributions to cultural “legacies in the making.” \nSaturday\, October 31\, 2009\nHumanities Lecture Hall \n9:00 am – Breakfast \n9:15 am – Screening The Fire This Time\, a trailer of a film by Blair Doroshwalther \n9:45 am – Welcome \n10:00 am – Panel 1: Voices of Resistance\nFacilitator: Rashad Shabazz\, George Washington Henderson Post Doctoral Fellow\, Geography\, University of Vermont \nW. Mark Cobb\, Theoretical Transmission and Creative Defiance: Angela Davis and Intergenerational Politics \nChe Gossett\, Kiyoshi Kuromiya and the Legacy of Queer and Trans Anti-Prison Activism \nJordan T. Camp\, The Sound Before the Fury of the Oppressed \nAndrea Smith\, The Color of Violence: Angela Davis and the Radicalization of the\nAnti-Violence Movement \n11:30 am – Panel 2: Race\, Gender\, and Politics\nFacilitator: J. Kehaulani Kauanui\, American Studies\, Anthropology\, Wesleyan University \nErik McDuffie \, “I was walking a path… already established by my mother”: Black Left\nFeminism and the Making of Angela Y. Davis’ Black Feminist Scholarship and Activism  \nJack Jackson\, Passing Class Notes: How Queer  \nMaylei Blackwell\, Multiple Insurgencies: Women of Color Feminisms\, Genealogies of\nResistance \n1 pm- 2:30 pm Lunch\nPublic Secrets: An Interactive Art Installation by Sharon Daniel\, Professor\, Film & Digital Media\, Humanities 210 \n2:30 pm – Panel 3: Cultural Legacies\nFacilitator: Kevin Fellezs\, School of Social Sciences\, Humanities\, and Arts\, UC Merced \nSherrie Tucker\, Blues Legacies and Black Feminism-in-the-Making: Reflections from the\nWomen’s Studies Classrooms of Angela Davis in the 1980s and 1990s  \nRoya Rastegar and Susy Zepeda\, To “expand and make more capacious our notion of\nfreedom”: The Women of Color Research Cluster and Film Festival \nSujatha Moni\, When Home becomes a Prison\, does Prison become Home? Reflections on\nViolent Diasporic Displacement in Jag Mundhra’s film\, Provoked  \nMichelle F. Erai\, Civilizing Images: Violence and the Visual Interpellation of Maori women \n4-4:15 pm Break \n4:15 pm – Panel 4: Are Prisons Obsolete?\nFacilitator: Sora Han\, Criminology\, Law and Society\, UC Irvine \nElizabeth Alexander\, Reframing the Idea of the Prison-Industrial Complex \nLeslie Patrick\, “Are Prisons Obsolete?”: If Only It Were So–A Tribute to Angela Davis’ Foresight. \nLizbet Simmons\, Angela Davis and the Terrains of Justice: Schools\, Prisons\, and New Orleans  \nCassandra Shaylor\, “Lectures on Liberation” to “Lectures on Abolition”: Angela Davis and New Terrains of Struggle \n5:45-7 pm – Reception\, Humanities 202 \n7 pm – Introduction: Maylei Blackwell \nScreening: Mountains that Take Wing – Angela Davis & Yuri Kochiyama: A Conversation on Life\, Struggles & Liberation\, a film by C. A. Griffith and H. L. T. Quan (QUAD Productions © 2009) \nSunday\, November 1\, 2009\nHumanities Lecture Hall \n9:30 Breakfast \n9:45 Welcome \n10 am-noon Panel: Legacies in the Making Panel\nFacilitator: Bettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies and History\, UC Santa Cruz \nNeferti Tadiar\, Women’s Studies\, Barnard College\, “Lifetimes in Becoming Human” \nSaidiya Hartman\, English\, Columbia University\, “A Little History of Abolition Dream Book” \nJacqui Alexander\, Women’s Studies & Gender Studies\, U of Toronto\, “Working the Conjunctions: Angela Davis & the Radicalization of Oppositional Praxis” \n12-12:15 pm – Break \n12:15-12:30 Piano Performance: Anthony Davis (Kevin Fellezs\, introduction) \n12:30 pm – Screening: Angela Y. Davis and Radical Pedagogy\, a film by Angela N Carroll and Eric Stanley \n1:00 pm – Closing Remarks: Angela Davis \n—–\nPhoto by John Lee and poster design by Arianne Archer. \nEvent Sponsored by: University of California Humanities Research Institute Conference Grant\, The Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Endowment\, the UCSC Center for Cultural Studies\, the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research\, UCSC Faculty Against the War\, History of Consciousness Department\, UCSC Vice Chancellor for Research\, UCSC Arts Division\, UCSC Chief Diversity Officer\, Community Studies\, Feminist Studies\, Latin American and Latino Studies\, Merrill College\, Oakes College\, Philosophy\, Porter College\, Literature\, Cowell College\, American Studies\, Languages\, Politics\, Psychology\, and Stevenson College. \nConference Organizing Committee:\nMaylei Blackwell\, Christopher Connery\, Michelle Erai\, Carla Freccero\, Irena Polić\, Shann Ritchie\, Trevor Joy Sangrey\, Eric Stanley\, Gregory Youmans\, with additional assistance from Bettina Aptheker\, Kevin Fellezs\, Sora Han\, J. Kehaulani Kauanui\, Natalie Purcell\, and Rashad Shabazz. \nStaff Assistance provided by the UCSC Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/angela-davis-legacies-in-the-making-2/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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