Events

A Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies), Rachel Cyper (Anthropology), and Zachary Caple (Anthropology). Seminar readings: Gregg Hetherington, "Beans before the Law: Knowledge practices, responsibility, and the Paraguayan soy boom" Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 65-85 2013 (https://www.academia.edu/2510267/beans_before_the_law-knowledge_practices_responsibility_and_the_paraguayan_soy_boom) or email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for pdf of the reading. […]

Is it possible to think in a state of emergency? This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency, universal, and unpredictable. Lunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1, Room 202. Two theses will […]

"Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future" Sara Mameni, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow In 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 […]

Living Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will be focusing on fiction writers as well as filmmakers. It's going to be an exciting series and we hope to see you there!  For more […]

"Homozionism: 'From the Closet into the Knesset'" My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel's settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. For this presentation I look forward to discuss the first chapter of my dissertation that charts the globally celebrated genealogy of Israel's gay movement from […]