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SUMMARY:Dan Zimmer - From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics
DESCRIPTION:The first guest of the Winter ’25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence\, Ecological Collapse\, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday\, January 27th\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout From Left/Right to Up/Down:\nRecent years have seen a growing number renounce the anthropocentrism of the modern Left/Right political spectrum to champion nothing less than the cause of Life itself. This talk charts how the totality of Life became a source of political concern and maps the consequences. It traces the beginning of these developments back to mid-20th century cybernetics before proceeding to show how the environmental crises of the 1970s split the servants of Life into competing camps: one wing striving to ensure that human beings do not overstep Life’s planetary boundaries and the other seeking to use artificial intelligence to free Life from all earthly limits to growth. The talk introduces an Up/Down dichotomy as a heuristic tool to help observers better parse this growing opposition. It concludes by warning that the growing struggle between Life’s partisans may come to resemble less the human-scale conflicts of Western political modernity than a new war of religion. \nDan Zimmer is a political theorist who studies the planet-scale application of human power\, with a transdisciplinary focus on nuclear weapons\, global warming\, and artificial intelligence (AI). He received a doctorate in political science from the Government Department of Cornell University and has since studied contemporary issues in climate science and AI with STS scholar Paul Edwards as a postdoctoral researcher at Stanford University’s Center for International Security and Cooperation. He now works as a lecturer in the Stanford Civic\, Liberal\, and Global Education Program and is currently completing a book manuscript that traces the emergence of the human species as a political object from Aristotle to the atom bomb to the Anthropocene. \nThis talk is co-sponsored by Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence & The Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-dan-zimmer/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture
DESCRIPTION:Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan\, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional\, continental\, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue essay composed alongside The Art Institute of Chicago’s current exhibition\, Project a Black Planet: The Art and Culture of Panafrica\, this talk navigates a genealogy of similarly unsettled anticolonial solidarities throughout Africa and its diaspora during the Non-Aligned era. By narrowing in on the contentious relationship between “North” and “Sub-Saharan” African artistic production in this period – particularly during the 1969 “First” Pan-African Cultural Festival in Algiers – I explore how varying articulations and mis/translations of Blackness\, Arabness\, and Africanness in the political and cultural realm ultimately elude a stable and coherent Pan-African sensibility. However\, I also contend that the necessarily fleeting nature of these cultural encounters did still chart routes towards an African diasporic relation of difference that strives towards the most emancipatory possibilities of a transnational and anticolonial practice of solidarity. \nSophia Azeb (she/they) is an assistant professor of Black Studies in the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Sophia’s current book project\, Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\, explores the currents of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North Africa and Europe. Prior to joining the faculty at UC Santa Cruz\, Sophia was a member of the faculty collective that founded the Department of Race\, Diaspora\, and Indigeneity at the University of Chicago. Sophia is a frequent contributor to The Funambulist magazine. \n\n \nWINTER 2025 COLLOQUIUM SERIES \nTHE CENTER FOR CULTURAL STUDIES hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work-in-progress by faculty & visitors. We are pleased to announce our Winter 2025 Series. Sessions begin promptly at 12:15 PM and end at 1:30 PM (PST) in Humanities Building 1\, Room 210. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-mapping-the-arab-in-pan-african-political-culture/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Francesca Orsini — East of Delhi:  Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature
DESCRIPTION:Join us Friday\, January 31st at 10am PST for a discussion with Francesca Orsini on East of Delhi: Multilingual Literary Culture and World Literature\, in conversation with G.S. Sahota and Rahul Parson. This event is part of the Winter 2025 Aurora Lecture Series. \n \nFrancesca Orsini is Professor Emerita of Hindi and South Asian Literature\, School of Oriental and African Studies – University of London \nRahul Parson is Assistant Professor of Hindi Literature and Culture\, South & Southeast Asian Studies – University of California\, Berkeley \nG.S. Sahota is Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies\, Associate Professsor of Literature – University of California\, Santa Cruz
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/winter-2025-aurora-lecture-series-francesca-orsini-east-of-delhi/
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SUMMARY:Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
DESCRIPTION:Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical\, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. \n \nThe first 20 students who register for the full day will receive\ntheir choice of one of the speakers’ books. \n\n11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans Everyday and the Making of an Urban World \nAsli Zengin – Assistant Professor\, Rutgers University\nIn Violent Intimacies\, Asli Zengin traces how trans people in Turkey creatively negotiate and resist everyday cisheteronormative violence. Drawing on the ethnographic history of trans communal life in Istanbul\, Zengin develops an understanding cisheteronormative violence that expands beyond sex\, gender and sexuality. \n12:30 | Lunch provided \n1:30pm | Defiant Disrobing and Double Dissent in Feminist Thought \nNaminata Diabate – Associate Professor\, Cornell University\nNaminata Diabate is a scholar of sexuality\, race\, biopolitics\, and postcoloniality\, whose research explores African\, African American\, Caribbean\, and Afro-Hispanic literatures\, cultures\, cinema\, and new media. Her book\, Naked Agency: Genital Cursing and Biopolitics in Africa\, won the African Studies Association Best Book Award in 2021 and the African Literature First Book Prize in 2022.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geographies-of-dissent-a-trans-feminist-dialogue/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:American Patchwork Quartet
DESCRIPTION:The Humanities Institute and Kuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday\, January 31\, 2025 at 7:00PM! \nJoin the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet’s mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. \n \n \nAmerican Patchwork Quartet (APQ)\, led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross\, binds timeless American folk songs with jazz sophistication\, country twang\, West African hypnotics\, and East Asian ornamentation. APQ’s sound is a masterful confluence of tradition and innovation\, transcending culture\, politics\, and ideology. \nA southern-born roots music aficionado\, Ross is also the founder of the world-renowned Gullah group Ranky Tanky. In APQ\, Ross intertwines with other Grammy-winning artists: Falguni Shah\, an eleventh-generation Hindustani classical vocalist\, Yasushi Nakamura\, an internationally acclaimed Issei jazz bassist\, and Clarence Penn\, a drumming protégée of Ellis Marsalis whose fibers were honed by African American church traditions. \nAPQ resonates as a potent symbol of unity in diversity. It stands testament to the notion that\, from a collage of varied backgrounds\, a coherent and beautiful whole can be fashioned. Mirroring America’s cultural mosaic\, APQ stitches together a story that’s both intricate and resilient. The fabric of their music is genuine—it neither feigns tolerance nor presents an overly-embellished image of unity. Instead\, each carefully chosen piece dives deep into America’s patchwork soul and shares the joys\, sorrows\, and unwavering hope of a nation crafted by shared dreams and diverse histories. \nFar from being a haphazard collection of musical scraps\, APQ is a deliberately designed homage to America’s past and a showcase of its dynamic present. It beckons listeners to meditate upon our shared identity and relish in the musical threads that bind us. Just as an intricately designed quilt becomes a cherished family heirloom\, when the distinct patterns of APQ’s music align in perfect harmony\, the result is both a blanket of warmth and a timeless treasure. \nSponsored by The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/american-patchwork-quartet-2/
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