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SUMMARY:"Zone of Flux: The Mutable Geographies\, Interrupted Histories\, and Multiple Languages of the Mediterranean" – Iain Chambers in Conversation with Camilla Hawthorne and Mediterranean Studies Roundtable
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a Mediterranean Studies talk and roundtable featuring Iain Chambers\, former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes\, Oriental University\, Naples. \n4:30-5:30  |  “Mediterranean Blues: Colonial Spacetime and Other Archives\,” Iain Chambers\nIntroducer and Respondent: Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, UCSC) \n5:45-7:00  |  “Mediterranean as Materiality\, Method\, and Geolinguistic Movements”\nA Roundtable with Chris Connery (chair and moderator)\, with Sharon Kinoshita\, Susan Gillman\, and Camilo Gomez-Rivas (Professors of Literature\, UCSC). Four lightning talks followed by plenary discussion and Q&A with Iain Chambers and Camilla Hawthorne. \nIain Chambers has taught cultural\, postcolonial\, and Mediterranean studies for many years at the University of Naples\, Orientale\, and is now an independent researcher. Amongst his recent publications are Postcolonial Interruptions\, Unauthorised Modernities (2017)\, and\, with Marta Cariello\, The Mediterranean Question (2025). In 2022\, he was a member of the artistic collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road at documenta 15. He writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zone-of-flux-iain-chambers/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Matthew L. Jones - Great Exploitations: Hacking\, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence
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 11th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker\, Matthew L. Jones speaking on Great Exploitations: Hacking\, Machine Learning and the NSA in the Golden Age of Signals Intelligence. \nAccording to the US National Security Agency\, we’re living in the “golden age” of signals intelligence—the spying on worldwide communications of all kinds. The Snowden documents\, now in the public eye for about a decade\, revealed a surveillance apparatus of extraordinary breadth and depth. Yet\, for all their lurid fascination\, their confirmation of some tinfoil hat theories\, their illustration of compliance regimes\, the documents reveal little about how we came to build this apparatus. They tell little of the surprisingly broad bipartisan consensus\, from the mid-1990s onward\, supporting the vast expansion of domestic and international surveillance and dramatic alterations in the law around wiretapping and hacking\, in the US as well as its close partners. \n9/11 accelerated these shifts. It did not cause them. From the war on drugs of the 1980s\, to beginnings of the focus on terrorism as the new primary enemy from the mid 1990s\, electronic surveillance came to appear ever more essential and licit to spies\, presidents\, legislators and judges. This talk will trace the technological and legal developments\, as well as the radical rethinking of the security of the “homeland\,” making this all possible. In the wake of 9/11\, these contested developments were made to appear at once technologically determined and essential for security in an asymmetric age. \nThis event will be in person at Humanities 1\, Room 210. You may also join via Zoom here. \nMatthew L. Jones is the Smith Family Professor of History at Princeton University. In 2023\, Norton published his How Data Happened: A History from the Age of Reason to the Age of Algorithms\, written with Chris Wiggins. He is completing a book\, Great Exploitations on state surveillance of communications and information warfare. He has published two books previously\, Reckoning with Matter: Calculating Machines\, Innovation\, and Thinking about Thinking from Pascal to Babbage and The Good Life in the Scientific Revolution: Descartes\, Pascal\, Leibniz and the Cultivation of Virtue (both with Chicago). The Mellon Foundation\, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation\, the Guggenheim Foundation\, and the National Science Foundation have funded his research and teaching.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ai-cluster-meeting-matthew-l-jones/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Critical Imagination in Crisis Times
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a one-day conference\, “Critical Imagination in Crisis Times\,” featuring presentations by: \n\nIain Chambers\, Former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes\, Oriental University\, Naples\nPaul Gilroy\, Emeritus Professor of Humanities\, University College\, London\nVron Ware\, Visiting Professor at the Gender Institute of the London School of Economics and Political Science\n\nUC Santa Cruz faculty participants include: Jim Clifford (Emeritus Professor\, History of Consciousness) Chris Connery (Professor\, Literature)\, Vilashini Cooppan (Professor\, Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies)\, Isaac Julien (Distinguished Professor\, Arts and History of Consciousness)\, Mark Nash (Professor\, Arts and History of Consciousness)\, María Puig de la Bellacasa (Professor\, History of Consciousness). \n \n  \nConference Program: \n2:00-2:15 pm          Conference Introduction:  Isaac Julien and Mark Nash \n2:15-3:15 pm           Iain Chambers\, “From Kassel to Gaza: Art and Critical Testimony” (Moderator\, Chris Connery) \n3:30-4:30 pm         Vron Ware\, “Letting the Land Speak” (Moderator\, María Puig de la Bellacasa) \n4:45-5:45 pm         Paul Gilroy\, “Political Eschatologies of Mismanaged Decline” (Moderator\, Jim Clifford) \n5:45-6:30 pm         Plenary Discussion:  Moderators\, Isaac Julien and Mark Nash \nLight refreshments will be served throughout the afternoon. The conference will also be live-streamed. Follow this link to join online. Conference presented by Moving Image Lab\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. Co-sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. \n  \nIain Chambers has taught cultural\, postcolonial\, and Mediterranean studies for many years at the University of Naples\, Orientale\, and is now an independent researcher. Amongst his recent publications are Postcolonial Interruptions\, Unauthorised Modernities (2017)\, and\, with Marta Cariello\, The Mediterranean Question (2025). In 2022\, he was a member of the artistic collective Jimmie Durham & A Stick in the Forest by the Side of the Road at documenta 15. He writes regularly for the Italian daily il Manifesto. \nPaul Gilroy was born in the East End of London in 1956. He is Emeritus Professor of Humanities at University College London where he was founding director of the Sarah Parker Remond Centre for the study of racism and racialisation. Gilroy was previously Professor of American and English at King’s College London\, Giddens Professor of Social Theory at the London School of Economics and Political Science (2005-2012)\, Charlotte Marian Saden Professor of African American Studies and Sociology at Yale (1999-2005) and Professor of Cultural Studies and Sociology at Goldsmiths College London (1995-1999). He holds honorary doctorates from Goldsmiths College\, Sussex University\, the University of Liege\, the University of Copenhagen\, Oxford University and the University of St. Andrews. He is an honorary Fellow of Sussex University and of King’s College\, London. In 2014\, he was made a Fellow of the British Academy and in 2018 of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. He was awarded Norway’s Holberg Prize in 2019. He writes widely on Art\, Music\, Literature and Politics. His publications include: Darker than Blue: On The Moral Economies of Black Atlantic Cultures (2010)\, Black Britain: A Pictorial History (2007)\, After Empire:Melancholia or Convivial Culture? (2005). \nVron Ware is a London-based writer and photographer\, having previously taught geography\, sociology and gender studies at universities in the UK and the US. She has written several books on the politics of gender and race\, colonial history\, national identity\, ecological thought and the cultural heritage of war. She gave her first book talk for Beyond the Pale: White Women\, Racism and History at UC Santa Cruz in 1992. More recently she has published Return of a Native: Learning from the Land (2022) and co-authored England’s Military Heartland: Preparing for War on Salisbury Plain (2025). \n\nImage Credit: Isaac Julien\, Western Union Series no. 1 (Cast No Shadow)\, 2007\, Duratrans image in lightbox\, Courtesy the artist.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/critical-imagination-in-crisis-times/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \n \n  \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2025 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2025 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs and Communications Director\, at saskia@ucsc.edu before the workshop if you are unable to attend due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on April 4th\, 2025. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Humanities Campus to Career: Job Talk with Tammy Tolgo\, Amazon Talent Acquisition
DESCRIPTION:Considering careers in recruiting\, human resources\, or business? Join this informative job talk and Q&A to learn about talent acquisition from a UCSC Humanities alumna who is a leader in the field! \nTammy will offer insights about her journey as a first generation college student from graduation through various talent acquisition roles in multiple industries\, and about how her Humanities degree set her up for success along the way. \n \nTammy Tolgo is a proud alumnus of UC Santa Cruz and CSU Northridge. As a first-generation college student\, she credits her experiences at these institutions for providing a strong foundation for both work and life. After starting her career in higher education\, Tammy joined an Executive Search Firm\, launching her career in Talent Acquisition. Over the last 20 years\, Tammy has built and led Talent Acquisition teams across industries\, focused on global organizational build outs. She has become a proven leader in diversity recruiting\, executive search\, and transformational leadership. Tammy currently leads Talent Acquisition for Amazon Advertising’s Emerging Businesses. \nThis event is presented by the Employing Humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/humanities-campus-to-career-job-talk-with-tammy-tolgo-amazon-talent-acquisition/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop - Alt-Ac in the Archives: Archives and Rare Books Career Pathways
DESCRIPTION:Ever thought about pursuing a career in archives and libraries? Wondered about what other paths you can pursue with your degree – PhD or otherwise? Come to this panel discussion with four professional librarians and archivists\, all from the UC Santa Cruz Special Collections & Archives in McHenry Library. We’ll have a conversation on the diverse and diverging paths we took to get to our current positions in the library\, share some advice\, and answer questions you have about pursuing these kinds of careers. \nIt’s also a great chance to meet your local librarians who can assist you in your research and connect you to all kinds of resources at UC Santa Cruz and beyond! \nThis event is presented by Special Collections and Archives at the University Library and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. See the event page here. \nEveryone is welcome to attend this session. The Zoom webinar will not be recorded. \nDetails:\nMarch 13th\, 3-4pm PST \nRegistration for this webinar is required. Register here via Zoom. \n \nPanelist bios:\nAlix Norton is the Archivist for the Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) in Special Collections & Archives at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. In her primary role\, she trains and mentors graduate students in archival processing and exhibition curation. Alix has worked in Special Collections & Archives at four universities\, including at the University of California\, Irvine\, and previously worked in a neuroscience lab at the University of Washington. She earned a BS in Psychology from the University of Washington before obtaining her MSI from the University of Michigan School of information. \nSam Regal is the Instruction and Exhibitions Librarian in Special Collections and Archives at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, where she oversees experiential learning programs\, exhibitions\, programming\, public services\, and bibliographic collection development. She holds an MLIS with a specialization in rare books and visual culture from UCLA\, an MFA in poetry from Hunter College\, and a BA in English and American literature from NYU; she also completed coursework toward a PhD in English with a creative writing concentration at the University of Georgia. She is editor of the American Printing History Association (APHA)’s Printing History journal\, and her writing has most recently appeared in Parenthesis\, RBM\, and East of Borneo. She previously served as a librarian at the California Institute of the Arts and as project manager of California Rare Book School. \nRebecca Hernandez earned a PhD in American Studies\, specializing in American Indian art and material culture. Her academic work examines inherent complexities in the public representation of culture(s) – particularly how describing and defining Native American objects affects the understanding of Amerindian identity. She is currently the Community Archivist at the UC Santa Cruz University Library\, where her role involves assisting with preserving and documenting the history and cultural heritage of Santa Cruz County. Through partnerships with community members\, these materials can (if desired) be made accessible to the public\, helping to educate and inspire future generations about the rich history of Santa Cruz County. \nKate Dundon is the Supervisory Archivist for Special Collections & Archives at University of California Santa Cruz where she oversees archival processing\, accessioning\, collection management\, and born-digital stewardship programs. Prior to this\, she held positions at Occidental College Library\, New York University Law Library\, and the New York Public Library. She earned an MA in Archives and Public History from New York University and an MLIS from Long Island University.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alt-ac-in-the-archives-archives-and-rare-books-career-pathways/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
CATEGORIES:PhD+ Event
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Living Writers Series – Winter 2025 \nGrief Sequence\nNot to suppress mourning (suffering)…but to change it\, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes \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-student-reading-4/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:2025 Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture featuring Raghuram Rajan
DESCRIPTION:UC Santa Cruz Chancellor Cynthia Larive and Foundation Board Trustee Anuradha Luther Maitra invite you to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture: “How can India (and developing countries) grow? Navigating an automating and protectionist world” featuring Raghuram Rajan. \nThe schedule for Thursday\, March 13\, includes a reception from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m.\, followed by the program from 6:30 to 8:15 p.m.\, and concluding with tea and dessert from 8:15 to 9:00 p.m. \n \nIndia is at a crossroads today. Its economic growth rate\, while respectable relative to other large countries\, is too low for the jobs its youth need. The East Asian path of manufacturing-led exports no longer seems feasible—aside from increasing automation in manufacturing\, the world isn’t prepared or right for another export-driven economy like China. India broke away from the standard development path—from agriculture to low-skilled manufacturing\, then high-skilled manufacturing and\, finally\, services—a long time back by leapfrogging the intermediate steps. \nInstead of now trying to regress to development paths that may no longer be feasible\, Dr. Rajan will lay out an alternative path to accelerate economic development and make India a ferment of ideas and creativity. By breaking from the past and looking to the future\, India can craft a truly Indian way\, a path that could be emulated by other developing countries. \nRaghuram Rajan is the Katherine Dusak Miller Distinguished Service Professor of Finance at the University of Chicago’s Booth School. He was the Governor of the Reserve Bank of India between 2013 and 2016\, Vice-Chairman of the Board of the Bank for International Settlements (2015-16) and Chief Economist at the International Monetary Fund (2003-2006). \nDr. Rajan’s book Fault Lines (2010) won the Financial Times prize for best business book and his book The Third Pillar: How Markets and the State Hold the Community Behind (2019) was a finalist for the award. His most recent book (December 2023) is Breaking the Mold: India’s Untraveled Path to Prosperity\, with Rohit Lamba. \nDr. Rajan received AFA’s inaugural Fischer Black Prize in 2003\, the Deutsche Bank Prize for financial economics in 2013\, Euromoney magazine’s Central Banker of the Year award in 2014\, and The Banker magazine’s Global Central Banker award in 2016. \nAnuradha Luther Maitra received her Ph.D. in Economics from Stanford University\, and has served UC Santa Cruz in many capacities: Professor of Economics\, Special Advisor to the Chancellor on International Initiatives\, UC Santa Cruz Foundation Trustee and President\, and founder of the Sidhartha Maitra Lecture Series on Humanism\, Reason\, and Tolerance. \n\nThis premier campus event series seeks to enrich the intellectual life of the campus and the community\, and is made possible thanks to the Sidhartha Maitra Memorial Lecture endowment. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the India House Foundation\, the Center for South Asian Studies at UCSC\, and The Humanities Institute at UCSC.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2025-sidhartha-maitra-memorial-lecture-featuring-raghuram-rajan/
LOCATION:UC Santa Cruz Silicon Valley Campus
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