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SUMMARY:Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION: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 attendance option. \nPlease register here in advance for virtual access. \nAbout “Disembodiment: A Conversation”\nJoin us for an engaging conversation on Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal\, Banu Bargu’s recent book\, which examines bodily agency with a focus on forms of self-destruction and self-injury. The conversation will offer an overview of the main philosophical problems Disembodiment addresses and explore the book’s central conceptual apparatus and interpretative moves. What does it mean to do global critical theory in our present? How should it relate to the dominant “canon” of Western philosophy and political thought? Discussing these and related questions\, the conversation will explore how a materialist approach\, which takes the suffering body as its normative compass\, may make visible subterranean historical lineages as well as contemporary practices to expand our understanding of agency\, dignity\, and globality alike. \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, which received the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize given by the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Her new book\, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, examines self-destruction\, self-injury\, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of resistance and refusal. Her edited collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh University Press\, 2019)\, The Political Encounter with Althusser (special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, 2019\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco) and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Banu Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \nKey MacFarlane is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism\, and its contributions to a political theory of experience. He is co-editing a special issue in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space on the problem of space in Frankfurt School critical theory\, and has articles published or forthcoming on the political geography of waste\, the spatial politics of memory\, and Henri Lefebvre’s theory of moments. \nAnna Yegorova is a second-year PhD student in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz. Her articles on the critique of the linear conception of history\, multitemporality\, class\, and identity have been published in Russian-language journals\, including Logos\, Neprikosnovenny Zapas\, and Sociologia Vlasti. She is also a member of the Posle.media editorial collective\, where she has published two articles: “Did Lenin Create Ukraine? On the Right of Nations to Self-Determination and Marxism” and “Adorno in the Kremlin.” Her current research draws on\, and seeks to contribute to\, political and social philosophy\, Marxism\, anti-\, de-\, and post-colonial theory\, the history of anticolonial struggles\, empires and imperialism\, nationalism\, federalism\, and secularization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-bargu-with-key-macfarlane-anna-yegorova-disembodiment-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Book Conversation: Kevin Pham - The Architects of Dignity
DESCRIPTION: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. \nTo attend virtually\, join via Zoom here. \nIn his new book\, The Architects of Dignity: Vietnamese Visions of Decolonization (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, Kevin Pham traces an intergenerational debate among six influential figures in colonial Vietnam. These visionaries debated how to respond to French colonialism\, the role of tradition amidst Western influence\, and how to transform national shame into dignity. Kevin will also share his personal motivations as a Vietnamese American for writing this book\, and how he addresses gaps in representation of Vietnamese political thought and challenges Western-centric perspectives in political theory. \nKevin Pham is an Assistant Professor of Political Theory at the University of Amsterdam. His research introduces Vietnamese political thought to the academic field of political theory\, demonstrating its relevance to global discussions on key political concepts. His works are published in esteemed journals\, and he co-hosts two podcasts: Nam Phong Dialogues and Viet History Makers. The Architects of Dignity is his first book. More information is available on his website: www.kevindoanpham.com. \nPlease note: We will read the Introduction and Chapter 1 of the book and discuss it with Kevin following his remarks. But you are also welcome to lurk in the audience if you do not have a chance to read it or do not want to join the conversation. If you want to receive the readings\, please email ekeser@ucsc.edu. \n \nThis event is presented by the Global Political Thought Working Group. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-pham-the-architects-of-dignity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Benjamin Breen - AI Legibility\, Physical Archives\, and the Future of Research
DESCRIPTION: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.” \nAs artificial intelligence becomes increasingly adept in fields amenable to reinforcement learning (like mathematics\, translation\, and coding)\, forms of research that depend on undigitized archives\, tacit or embodied knowledge\, and social relationships become more valuable\, not less. Through case studies of how current LLMs perform historical analysis\, translation\, and transcription\, I argue that the future of historical research lies not in resistance to AI tools\, but in understanding how they complement rather than replace the more intuitive\, social\, and embodied aspects of research\, such as physically visiting archives\, conducting interviews\, and gathering holistic knowledge of a place\, culture\, or milieu through physical presence. I will also discuss some related experiments in interactive historical simulations enabled by LLMs which approach the well-known “hallucination problem” as a feature\, not a bug. \nBenjamin Breen is an associate professor of history at UC Santa Cruz\, where he teaches classes on early modern Europe\, environmental history\, and the history of science\, technology\, and medicine. From July 2015 to January 2017\, he was a postdoctoral fellow at the Society of Fellows in the Humanities at Columbia University and a lecturer in Columbia’s history department. He received his PhD in history from the University of Texas at Austin in 2015. His first book\, The Age of Intoxication: Origins of the Global Drug Trade\, was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2019. His second book\, Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead\, the Cold War\, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science\, appeared in 2024. He lives in Santa Cruz\, California\, with his partner Roya Pakzad and their two daughters.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-benjamin-breen/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Jennifer Finney Boylan - Amelia Earhart\, Saved from Drowning
DESCRIPTION: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 social and political structures constrain human liberty\, and the price that women and queer people must pay for freedom. \n \nDoors open at 5:30 pm. The lecture will begin at 6:00 pm and will be followed by a Q&A session at 7:00 pm. \nJennifer Finney Boylan is the author of 19 books including the bestsellers She’s Not There and Mad Honey (with Jodi Picoult). Professor\, trans advocate\, reality TV star\, and former New York Times opinion columnist\, Jenny is currently President of PEN America. From 2014-2018\, she was National Co-chair of GLAAD. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables the Humanities Division to promote a dialogue about ethics and ethics related challenges in an interdisciplinary setting. The endowment was established in honor of Peggy Downes Baskin’s longtime interest in ethical issues across the academic spectrum. \n\nJennifer Finney Boylan is THI’s 2025 Scholar-in-Residence and this signature event is part of THI’s 25th anniversary. 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/baskin-ethics-lecture-with-jenny-boylan/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall – UCSC\, 402 McHenry Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility\, Autotheories of Opacity
DESCRIPTION: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 is shaped by the ways in which trans and translation interface with regimes of readability. It argues that the task of the trans translator is to renew trans life with an opacity that thwarts traps of visibility while elucidating the anti-colonial interventions and intertextual solidarities of translation itself. To navigate these counter currents is to surface what I call\, following Glissant\, a trans poetics of relation. \nAlex Brostoff is Assistant Professor of English at Kenyon College and a 2025 Postdoctoral Fellow at University of Edinburgh. An interdisciplinary scholar and translator\, they are currently completing their first book\, Unruly Relations: A Critical Reframing of Autotheory (Columbia University Press\, under advance contract)\, which recasts autotheory’s transnational and transdisciplinary place in the political history of trans and queer literature of the Américas. They are the co-editor of two volumes: Autotheories (The MIT Press\, 2025) and Reassignments: Trans and Sex from the Clinical to the Critical (Fordham University Press\, under advance contract)\, as well as the co-translator of Indigenous leader Ailton Krenak’s Life Is Not Useful (Polity Press\, 2023) and Ancestral Future (Polity Press\, 2024). Their scholarship and translations have appeared in ASAP/Journal\, Critical Times\, Synthesis\, Dibur\, and South Atlantic Quarterly\, as well as at the Museum of Modern Art\, and elsewhere. \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. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alex-brostoff-the-task-of-the-trans-translator/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
DESCRIPTION: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! \nAbout Our Presenters: \nJoan Chia-en Chiang – “‘I Won’t Fight For You’: Amis Soldiers in the Japanese Empire during WWII” \n  \n  \n\n \n  \nAnia Mah Gricuk – “Diasporic Medicine: A Modern History of Chinese Herbal Tea\, 1880s-present” \n\n\nTracy Liu – “Reimagining the Technological Frontier: Posthuman Entanglements across China\, Peru\, and Mexico” \n\n\nThis event is presented by the THI More-Than-Human(ities) Laboratory Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/more-than-humanities-lab-early-career-scholars-share-session/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Intimacies of Relation: The Autotheoretical Turn
DESCRIPTION: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 language\, image\, film\, visual\, and performance art; the autotheoretical subject in dialogue with the psychoanalytic subject and its scenes of desire; autotheory’s encounter with racialized\, trans\, queer\, and differently abled bodies\, and autotheoretical practices of decolonial love. \nThis conference will take place from March 6–8\, 2025\, at the Institute of the Arts and Sciences (March 6\, 2–7 pm) and Humanities 1\, Room 210 (March 7 & 8). \nSee the full program here. \n \nFeaturing: Kazim Ali\, Alex Brostoff\, La Marr Jurelle Bruce\, Vilashini Cooppan\, Iliana Cuellar\, Nadia Ellis\, Carla Freccero\, rl Goldberg\, Che Gossett\, Jan Grue\, Eva Hayward\, Grace Lavery\, Summer Kim Lee\, Megan Moodie\, Micah Perks\, Elda María Román\, Simone Stirner\, Susan Stryker\, Kim TallBear\, Ronaldo V. Wilson\, Arianne Zwartjes \n\nSponsored by: The University of California Humanities Research Institute\, The Seminar in Experimental Critical Theory at UCHRI\, The Humanities Institute at UCSC\, and The Center for Cultural Studies at UCSC. \nImage credit: Ronaldo V. Wilson. Donald and Carmelina’s Heart 2. 2021. Monoprint. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/intimacies-of-relation-the-autotheoretical-turn/
LOCATION:UCSC
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SUMMARY:Omer Aijazi - Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir
DESCRIPTION:The Center for South Asian Studies presents Omer Aijazi speaking on “Atmospheric Violence: Disaster and Repair in Kashmir.” \n \nOmer 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 a radical humanist anthropology and affect theory\, held accountable to Black and Indigenous studies\, Aijazi offers a decolonial approach to disaster studies centering not on trauma and rupture but rather on repair—the social labor of creating and maintaining viable life\, even amidst constant diminishment and world-annihilation. \nOmer Aijazi is a critical disaster studies scholar and decolonial ethnographer of borderland South Asia. He teaches at the Humanitarian and Conflict Response Institute at the University of Manchester. \nThis event is a part of the  2024 – 25 Ecologies of Care Lecture Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/omer-aijazi-atmospheric-violence/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Eman Ghanayem - For the Love of Genocide
DESCRIPTION: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. \nThis 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 genocide in Gaza. Love expressed in contexts of Zionist loyalties and its brand of settler nationalism\, originally and across its transit\, gives us insight into the feelings that animate acts of violence. In response to it\, Palestinian expression\, particularly in relation to atrocity and apocalyptical dread\, reveals what precedes in fundamental form and must conquer genocide. How must we bear love in the face of annihilation? What ideas of it must we confront? Whose love must we learn? \nSponsored by: The UCSC Center for Racial Justice | Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies | Department of Feminist Studies | Department of Sociology | The Center for South Asian Studies | The Center for Cultural Studies | FJP | SJP | Institute for Social Transformation. \nPart of the Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement Speaking Series. For more information\, visit the CRJ website: https://crjucsc.com/.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/for-the-love-of-genocide-with-eman-ghanayem/
LOCATION:Cervantes and Velasquez Conference Room\, Bay Tree Building\, 420 Hagar Dr\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Prageeta Sharma
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \nPrageeta 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 the Howard Foundation Award. Over the years\, she has taught at the New School\, Goddard College\, and the University of Montana-Missoula. She currently teaches at Pomona College and is the founder of the conference Thinking Its Presence: Race\, Creative Writing\, Literary Studies\, and Art. Her hometown is Framingham\, Massachusetts. \nAbout the Living Writers Series\nThe Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There is a new series each quarter\, and each series features writers with unique voices. The LWS is open to all creative writing students and the public. \n\nSponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment\, The Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, Bookshop Santa Cruz\, and Two Birds Books (where the writers’ books are available for purchase).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-with-prageeta-sharma/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Activating Community Engagement with Imagining America at UC Santa Cruz
DESCRIPTION:  \n*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). \n  \nPlease join us for a special workshop with Imagining America: Artists and Scholars in Public Life (IA). Learn about the member benefits\, such as fellowships\, conferences\, research\, and resources\, available to UCSC faculty\, students\, and staff. IA will share a toolkit and creative engagement tools to help organize the people\, projects\, and partners on our campus doing community-engaged work. This discussion will offer strategies for energizing your campus community to engage with community members and uplift public scholarship. \n Lunch will be provided\, register here: \n \nPresenters: Stephanie Maroney\, Managing Director of Imagining America\, and Anuj Vaidya\, Communications Director of Imagining America. \nPublic Scholar Tools Offered by Imagining America\nInspired by a three-year action research project\, the IA public scholar tools are designed to spark conversation about the joys\, contributions\, and struggles of public scholars and artists. The Conversation Cards aim to break the silence surrounding elite academic cultures that value a limited range of understandings of what kinds of knowledge matters and to nurture supportive relationships and environments for public scholars to thrive. The Public Scholar Imagination Guide provides a variety of reflection and action tools for anyone trying to improve their own practice and for those interested in making the university a more hospitable\, caring\, and creative place to nurture public\, engaged\, and activist scholarship\, artmaking\, and design. \nAbout Imagining America\nThe Imagining America consortium (IA) brings together scholars\, artists\, designers\, humanists\, and organizers to imagine\, study\, and enact a more just and liberatory ‘America’ and world. Working across institutional\, disciplinary\, and community divides\, IA strengthens and promotes public scholarship\, cultural organizing\, and campus change that inspires collective imagination\, knowledge-making\, and civic action on pressing public issues. Imagining America is guided by 7 values and committed to bringing people together as our full selves in critical yet hopeful spaces to imagine better ways of living\, learning and working together. \nThis event is brought to you by the Art Research Institute\, Campus + Community\, Humanities Institute\, and the Institute for Social Transformation (IST).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/activating-community-engagement-with-imagining-america-at-uc-santa-cruz/
LOCATION:Cowell Conference Room\, Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquia: Jessica Rett
DESCRIPTION:The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present\, Jessica Rett (UC Los Angeles) speaking on Ambidirectionality and apparently expletive negation. \nThis is an in-person event. You can also join virtually via Zoom. \nSome constructions in some languages involve expletive negation (EN): negation that seems to not affect the truth conditions of the sentence. For example\, the Italian A è più alto di quanto (non) sia B (“A is taller than B (isn’t)”). I follow others (Greco 2018\, Halm and Huszár 2021) in assuming there are two kinds of EN. For me\, this amounts to the fact that there are two different ways a negation can fail to affect truth conditions: 1) high EN involves negation that targets non-truth-conditional content\, and 2) low EN involves negation that targets clauses that display what I call ambidirectionality: the property of being ambiguous between a proposition and its negation. In this talk\, I focus on the latter\, arguing that ambidirectionality answers two urgent questions in the context of expletive negation: it explains why we only get (low) EN in scalar constructions (cf. Cépeda 2018); and it explains several subtle semantic differences between a given construction and its (expletive-) negated counterpart. \nOver the course of each year\, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquia-jessica-rett/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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