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SUMMARY:Glen Coulthard - Maoism without Guarantees: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism with Glen Coulthard
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by the name Native Alliance for Red Power (or NARP) in Vancouver\, British Columbia (BC)\, from 1967 to the 1975. It argues that their political organizing and theory-building borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Not unlike many radicalized communities of color during this period\, NARP molded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad – with a focus on Maoism in particular – into their own internationalist critiques of racial capitalism\, patriarchy\, and internal colonialism at home. A focus will be placed on NARP’s application of a Red Power- Maoist critique of the political economy of extraction spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to Canada via the Oil Crisis of 1973. \n \nGlen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin\, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book\, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory\, published in English or French\, in 2014/2015\, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning\, a decolonial\, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aoism-without-guarantees-third-world-currents-in-fourth-world-anti-colonialism-with-glen-coulthard/
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:Megha Majumdar - A Guardian and a Thief
DESCRIPTION:Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus\, Publishers Weekly\, and Booklist. A Guardian and a Thief\, a piercing and propulsive tour de force\, is set in a near-future Kolkata\, India\, ravaged by climate change and food scarcity\, in which two families trying to protect their children must battle one another. \n \nMegha Majumdar is the author of the New York Times bestselling novel A Burning\, which was nominated for the National Book Award\, the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Prize\, and the American Library Association’s Andrew Carnegie Medal. It was named one of the best books of the year by media including The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, NPR\, The Atlantic\, Vogue\, and TIME Magazine. A 2022 Whiting Award winner\, she was born and raised in Kolkata\, India\, and holds degrees in anthropology from Harvard and Johns Hopkins. She is the former editor in chief of Catapult Books\, and lives in New York. A Guardian and A Thief is her second novel. \nMore information at: Bookshop Santa Cruz – Megha Majumdar \nCo-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bookshop-santa-cruz-presents-megha-majumdar-a-guardian-and-a-thief/
LOCATION:Bookshop Santa Cruz\, 1520 Pacific Avenue\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martabel Wasserman – Picturing California’s Carceral Landscape: Carleton Watkins’ Views of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:Carleton Watkins\, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West\, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National Park system. This paper explores his previously understudied photographs of Alcatraz\, taken over approximately three decades beginning in 1861. Through close readings of the changing island and surrounding ecosystems\, I use Alcatraz to theorize how the carceral landscape took shape in California during and after the Civil War\, and the role photography played in the project. The landscape is being constantly reconfigured\, often by prison labor\, as San Francisco becomes a nexus of global capitalism. I theorize his photographs as they relate large-scale resource extraction\, surveillance and the eventual emergence of the prison industrial complex in California. \nMartabel Wasserman is an artist\, curator and scholar. Currently a Research Associate at the Center for Creative Ecologies\, she is working on a manuscript Picturing the Rock: Alcatraz\, Photography and the Making of California. She has exhibited at venues such as Human Resources in Los Angeles and the Museum of Art and Culture Santa Cruz. Curated exhibitions include Coastal/Border for the Getty’s Pacific Standard Time LA/LA and Reclaim Pride with the One Archives at University of Southern California. \nFeatured image: Carleton Watkins\, Alcatraz and Black Point from Russian Hill\, albumen silver print from glass negative\, negative c. 1873–80\, print c. 1879–85. \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/martabel-wasserman-picturing-californias-carceral-landscape-carleton-watkins-views-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Armen Khatchatourov - Artificial Intelligence and its "contexts”: between ethics and politics
DESCRIPTION:This talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand\, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and\, second\, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception of subjectivity\, normativity and ethics. We will show how this evolution parallels the establishment of neoliberal – and more recently algorithmic – governmentality\, and how it confronts us not only to the ethical but also to the political significance of ubiquitous AI. Our approach aims to make two contributions: a complementary proposal for the classification of AI\, based on the evolving role that context plays in user’s action and ethos; and a renewed heuristic to grasp the articulation between the operationalization of AI systems and the preservation of socially constructed normativity. \nPlease register\, we will circulate readings related to the talk: \n \nArmen Khatchatourov is an Associate Professor of Information and Communication Sciences at the DICEN-IdF Lab\, University Gustave Eiffel\, Paris\, France. With a dual background in engineering and the philosophy of technology\, Armen has held research positions at leading institutions such as Institut Mines-Télécom and Sony Computer Science Lab Paris. His work spans digital identities\, privacy\, smart cities\, and the societal impacts of Big Data and AI. He published Digital Identities in Tension: Between Autonomy and Control (ISTE/Wiley\, 2019) and directed Corps Connectés. Figures\, Fragments\, Discours (Presses des Mines\, 2022)\, and serves as Editor-in-Chief of the journal Études Digitales. \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative. It is sponsored by Villa Albertine – Cultural Services of the French Embassy. The event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/armen-khatchatourov-artificial-intelligence-and-its-contexts-between-ethics-and-politics/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Hebron Seed Bank Study Session
DESCRIPTION:Join the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank\, which Israeli forces destroyed in August.  Participants will think together about how colonial power targets food sovereignty and what can be done to resist those acts of destruction. \n\nThis event will be hosted at The Greenhouse Project on the UCSC farm\, at 152 Farm Rd. Additional information below: \nUCSC Permitted and non-UCSC Pay-to-Park sites are available at Parking Lot 116 or Parking Lot 168. The closest bus access to the site is located at Hager Dr. and Village Rd. Please reach out if you have additional transportation needs in order to participate in programming. \nWe really want the space to be accessible to you\, so if that’s a challenge in some way\, please don’t hesitate to contact us. TGP is an outdoor community garden space within a farm setting. Accessible bathrooms are available on-site and limited accessible parking is available upon request. Please let us know if you have additional questions or requests related to accessibility. \n\nThis event is presented by the Seeds of Resurgence Research Cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/study-session-on-hebron-seed-bank/
LOCATION:The Greenhouse Project\, 152 Farm Rd\, Santa Cruz\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso - Return to Nanga Jela
DESCRIPTION:The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land\, obliterating those histories\, and weakening communities. \nIn 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo\, along with twenty-one other communities and a land area of 8500 ha disappeared because of the building of the Batang Ai Hydroelectric Dam and the creation of a 33 sq mile reservoir. With the drowning of these houses\, lands\, forests\, and of multiple rivers and streams\, the history of one of the longest-occupied and most historically rich Iban territories in Sarawak was gone. Many of the 3000 people who were displaced moved to government-created resettlement areas. Some left for other parts of Sarawak\, and their descendants scattered around the world. All of those who were forced to leave their Batang Ai and Engkari homelands found their livelihoods completely transformed; none were free to pursue the rice agriculture and forest- and river-centered lives that they had known since their childhoods. \nThree decades after this event\, the ex-residents and descendants of Nanga Jela engaged in a process of reconstructing that submerged history and reconstituting an Engkari and Nanga Jela identity. Rescuing and sharing what images exist of the longhouse and its surrounding land- and waterscapes\, collecting oral histories\, geographical memories\, genealogies\, and a plethora of other local data\, and employing multiple social media tools\, the increasingly diverse\, geographically dispersed community is regaining its history\, knowledge of the lost land- and riverscapes\, and its identity. \nA team comprising Bobby Anak Nyegang and Itin Anak Langit\, both born in Nanga Jela\, and Christine Padoch\, an anthropologist who spent more than two years in the longhouse\, led the effort to assemble these and other materials into an image-rich bilingual (English and Iban) book that would be accessible to all in the Nanga Jela community\, as well as a community-based archive. In this presentation\, Padoch will discuss that complex process of writing the book\, recently published as Pemulai ke NangaJela/Return to Nanga Jela and creating an archive together with the longhouse community to provide present and future descendants of the great longhouse on the Engkari River a written history of a landscape and a livelihood that has disappeared. \n \nThis event is both in-person and on zoom. Click above for virtual access. \nChristine Padoch is a Senior Curator Emerita in the Center for Plants\, People and Culture of the New York Botanical Garden. From 2011 to 2017 she was the Director of Research on Forests and Human Well-Being at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). An anthropologist by training\, she has spent about 50 years carrying out research on smallholder patterns of forest management\, agriculture\, and agroforestry in the humid tropics\, principally in Southeast Asia and Amazonia. Previous to her position at CIFOR\, Padoch was the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany at the NYBG. She is the author or editor of a dozen books and of approximately 100 scientific articles and book chapters. Christine Padoch has served as a scientific advisor to many international projects and has been a member of the boards of several international research institutions\, including the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)\, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM)\, and the Earth Innovation Institute (EII). She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. \nNancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science and Resource Policy in the College of Natural Resources and the Program Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics\, housed in the Institute of International Studies. She serves as a faculty member in the Society and Environment Division of the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy and Management\, where she teaches courses in Political Ecology. Her research since the 1980s has focused on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia\, primarily in Indonesia. She has done field research in various parts of Indonesia—West and Central Java\, East and West Kalimantan and in Sarawak\, Malaysia. Her work addresses questions of property rights and access to resources\, forest policy and politics\, histories of land use change\, and agrarian and environmental violence. She is the author or editor of three books: Rich Forests\, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (UC Press\, 1992 – still available); Borneo in Transition: People\, Forests\, Conservation and Development (Oxford Press\, 1996 and 2003\, ed. with Christine Padoch); and Violent Environments (Cornell Press\, 2001\, ed. with Michael Watts.)\, and nearly fifty journal articles and book chapters. Professor Peluso speaks or reads four languages besides English. In 2003\, she was awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled\, “Ways of Seeing Borneo: Landscape\, Territory\, and Violence”. She is currently working on a comparative study on the formation of “political forests” in Malaysia\, Indonesia\, and Thailand as well as a book examining the entanglements of violence and territoriality in landscape history in West Kalimantan. \n\nPresented by SEACoast and THI’s More-than-Human(ities) Laboratory cluster.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christine-padoch-and-nancy-peluso-return-to-nanga-jela/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers Student Reading
DESCRIPTION:Wonder as the Source \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 Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund\, The Humanities Institute\, The Laurie Sain Endowment\, and the Bay Tree Bookstore.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/living-writers-student-reading-6/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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