Events
Week of Events
Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
Autotheory’s genre-bending form blends critical theory with life writing. Through performances, readings, papers, and embodied writing exercises, this transdisciplinary conference explores where and how autotheory emerged, the range of its practices, and the ways in which its forms recast the relationships between subjects and the worlds that make them. Panels explore autotheory in relationship to […]
Sunday, March 2, 2025
No events on this day.
Monday, March 3, 2025
- March 3, 2025Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
- March 3, 2025 -Book Conversation: Kevin Pham – The Architects of Dignity
Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the final talk in the Winter 25 session of the HisCon Speaker Series. HistCon Professor Banu Bargu, in discussion with HistCon Grads Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegrovoa will present “Disembodiment: A Conversation” on Monday, March 3, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 with a virtual […]
Book Conversation: Kevin Pham – The Architects of Dignity
Professor Kevin Pham (University of Amsterdam) will be speaking about his 2024 book The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization on Monday March 3, at 3pm in Humanities 1 room 210. To attend virtually, join via Zoom here. In his new book, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press, 2024), […]
Tuesday, March 4, 2025
- March 4, 2025Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
- March 4, 2025 -Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
The Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 4th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Benjamin Breen speaking on "AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research." As artificial […]
Jennifer Finney Boylan – Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning
Join us for this year's Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Jennifer Finney Boylan, who will deliver her talk titled Amelia Earhart, Saved from Drowning. In this collage of story and song, Jennifer Finney Boylan speculates on the life of Amelia Earhart after the crash. Using that event as a springboard, she considers how our […]
Wednesday, March 5, 2025
- March 5, 2025 -Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
- March 5, 2025 -More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
What is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute to decolonizing the transgender imaginary in translation? This talk probes how form—from the grammatical to the material and from the social to the structural—shapes and […]
More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Please join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our first ever “Share Session.” Three of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Snacks will be served! About Our Presenters: Joan Chia-en Chiang - "'I Won't Fight For You': Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII" […]
Thursday, March 6, 2025
- March 6, 2025Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
- March 6, 2025 -Eman Ghanayem – For the Love of Genocide
- March 6, 2025 -Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Omer Aijazi – Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on "Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir." Omer Aijazi takes us to remote mountainous valleys in the portion of Kashmir under Pakistan’s control, where life has been shaped by recurring environmental disasters and by the violence of the contested India/Pakistan border. In conversation with […]
Eman Ghanayem – For the Love of Genocide
The Center for Racial Justice is proud to present For the Love of Genocide with Eman Ghanayem, Assistant Professor of English at the University of San Diego. This presentation unravels love in its colonial manifestation as a rationale for genocidal violence. It centers in its analysis the discourse currently used by those supporting and perpetuating […]
Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Prageeta Sharma is the author of five poetry collections, including Grief Sequence (Wave Books, 2019) and The Opening Question (2004), which won the 2004 Fence Modern Poets Prize. In 2010, she received […]
Friday, March 7, 2025
- March 7, 2025 -Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
- March 7, 2025 -Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
*Note that this event has a new date and location: It will take place in person on March 7 from 12:00 p.m. – 1:30 p.m. at the Cowell Conference Room (132) (map). Please join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits, […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. This is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. Some constructions in some languages involve expletive negation (EN): negation that seems to not affect the truth conditions of the sentence. For example, […]
Saturday, March 8, 2025
No events on this day.