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SUMMARY:The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Anna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work\, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia\, India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Latin America\, and ancient Rome\, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the boundaries of Western modernity fundamentally alters our understanding of capitalism\, empire\, historical development\, and revolutionary possibilities\, past and present. \n \nKevin Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books and articles\, including The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads; Marx at the Margins; Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary); and Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-with-kevin-anderson/
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:Jennifer Mogannam - Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon
DESCRIPTION:This talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly\, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape in Lebanon. By situating these histories together\, this talk will reframe the notion of “civil war” in Lebanon and dissect the concept of revolution for a free Palestine. \n \nJennifer Mogannam is an Assistant Professor of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC and affiliate faculty with the Center for the Middle East & North Africa. Her research centers Palestinian and Arab movements of the 20th and 21st century. She also intervenes in the question of refugees\, colonialism and imperialism\, Palestinian feminism\, violence\, and third world solidarities. \n  \n\n \nFall 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 Fall 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/jennifer-mogannam-palestinian-lebanese-revolution-making-in-civil-war-lebanon/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Zine-Making Workshop with Christie George
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for this year’s first anthropology colloquium/Abolition Medicine and Disability Justice event! \n \nThis event is in-person and virtual. Register for virtual participation here. \nChristie George is a writer\, curator and producer who has beenworking at the intersection of media\, technology and social change for more than twenty years — first as a film distributor with Women Make Movies and later as the President of New Media Ventures for a decade. In her creative practice\, she is interested in collaborative art\, especially work that explores and expands the idea of collective authorship. Christie recently released “The Emergency Was Curiosity\,” a book report\, exhibition and event series about cultivating individual and collective creative attention. She has a BA from Yale University and an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford where she was a Skoll Scholar and was awarded the Said Prize. Christie is a proud board member of the Indivisible Project. \n\nSponsored by the UCOP-sponsored MRPI in Disability Justice and Abolition Medicine\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Anthropology
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/zine-making-workshop-with-christie-george/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Mary Roach - Replaceable You
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes #1 New York Times bestselling author Mary Roach for a discussion about Replaceable You: Adventures in Human Anatomy. In this irrepressible new work\, Mary Roach explores the remarkable advances and difficult questions prompted by the human body’s failings. When and how does a person decide they’d be better off with a prosthetic than their existing limb? Can a donated heart be made to beat forever? Can an intestine provide a workable substitute for a vagina? \n \nThe body is the most complex machine in the world\, and the only one for which you cannot get a replacement part from the manufacturer. For centuries\, medicine has reached for what’s available–sculpting noses from brass\, borrowing skin from frogs and hearts from pigs\, crafting eye parts from jet canopies and breasts from petroleum by-products. Today we’re attempting to grow body parts from scratch using stem cells and 3D printers. How are we doing? Are we there yet? Irrepressible and accessible\, Replaceable You immerses readers in the wondrous\, improbable\, and surreal quest to build a new you. This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. \nMary Roach is the author of seven best-selling works of nonfiction\, including Grunt\, Stiff\, and\, most recently\, Fuzz. Her writing has appeared in National Geographic and the New York Times Magazine\, among other publications. She lives in California.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mary-roach-replaceable-you/
LOCATION:London Nelson Community Center\, 301 Center St.\, Santa Cruz\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Elsi Kaiser
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Elsi Kaiser’s talk\, “Do Birds of a Feather Flock Together? Exploring Interpretation and Dissimilation of Third Person Pronouns in English and Finnish”. \nTransitive clauses with two personal pronouns in coargument position (e.g. “she saw her”\, “he helped him”) are perfectly natural in English. But perhaps surprisingly\, such two-pronoun sequences are highly dispreferred in Finnish. To further our understanding of the notion of ‘prominence\,’ I report a series of psycholinguistic studies and corpus analyses on two-pronoun sequences in English and Finnish. My recent work with Jina Song on English two-pronoun sequences shows that pronoun interpretation depends on referential structure in ways that cannot be reduced to Binding Theory: Interpretation of a subject pronoun depends on whether the clause contains a second pronoun. In other words\, two-pronoun sequences exhibit distinct patterns\, which we show are not reducible to semantic or syntactic parallelism. Furthermore\, in striking contrast to English\, I propose that Finnish is subject to a Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint: When two expressions in the same local domain are referentially distinct\, realizing both as personal pronouns is dispreferred (and crucially\, replacing one with an anaphoric demonstrative yields an acceptable sentence). I present evidence showing that the Pronoun Dissimilation Constraint cannot be reduced to a pure disambiguation phenomenon\, nor to linear proximity\, phonological similarity\, or the presence of another option in the language’s anaphoric paradigm. I explore this phenomenon from a typological perspective in relation to other dissimilation phenomena\, as well as obviation phenomena in languages with obviative-proximate systems. Time permitting\, I will also present new data from English exploring the notion of prominence in transitive clauses from the perspective of spatial orientation effects\, using a drawing task. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available. \nElsi Kaiser is a professor at the Department of Linguistics at the University of Southern California. She received her PhD from the University of Pennsylvania. Elsi Kaiser’s primary research focus is in language processing and psycholinguistics. She investigates the processes and representations involved in comprehension and production\, especially in domains that involve multiple aspects of linguistic representation (syntax\, semantics\, pragmatics)\, such as reference resolution.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguists-colloquium-with-elsi-kaiser/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - The Tragedy of King Richard II
DESCRIPTION:Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents The Tragedy of King Richard II by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on October 4\, 11\, 18\, 25 & November 1\, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library Betty Leonard Community Room (in person or join by Zoom). The first hour will be a conversation with the scheduled guest speaker followed by volunteer read aloud of the play. This event series is co-sponsored by the UC Santa Cruz Shakespeare Workshop. \nFor more information\, Zoom Link\, or to volunteer to be a reader\, contact: saturdayshakespeare@gmail.com \nGuest Speakers / Film Presentation \n\nOct 4: Sean Keilen: Professor of Literature\, UC Santa Cruz; founding Director of Shakespeare Workshop. Serves as dramaturg at Santa Cruz Shakespeare. Readings: Act I\, Scenes 1-4\nOct 11: Katie O’Hare: UCSC Graduate Dissertation on Shakespeare’s Henriad\, which includes Richard II. She will begin teaching at UCLA in Fall 2025. Readings: Act II\, Scene 1-4\, Act III\, Scene 1\nOct 18: Jessica Kubzansky: Artistic Director of Boston Court Pasadena\, author ‘R2’\, a re-envisioning of ‘Richard II’\, performed by SC Shakespeare in 2021. Readings: Act III\, Scenes 2-3\, Act IV Scene 1 to line 162\nOct 25: Paul Whitworth: Professor Emeritus Theater Arts\, UCSC. Began his career as an actor at the Royal Shakespeare Company 1976. Served as Artistic Director for Shakespeare Santa Cruz\, 1996-2007. Readings: Act IV\, Scene 1 line 163 to Act V\, Scenes 1-8\nNov 1: Film Screening: Richard II: The Hollow Crown directed by Rupert Goold with Ben Whishaw\, Rory Kinnear\, David Suchet\, Patrick Stewart\, 2012\, 148 minutes.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-the-tragedy-of-king-richard-ii-3/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Día de los Muertos Celebration
DESCRIPTION:Join us for the Día de los Muertos community celebration of traditional music\, dance\, and art at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History.\nEnjoy live performances by Senderos’ Centeotl Danza y Baile and Ensamble Musical de Senderos. Stroll through the museum in a self-guided presentation of community altars. \nPerformances all day! \nThis event is presented by the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History in collaboration with Senderos\, and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute. For more details\, please visit the event page on the MAH’s website here.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dia-de-los-muertos-celebration/
LOCATION:Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History\, 705 Front St.\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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