Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 25, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, January 26, 2026
- January 26, 2026 -Lisa Wedeen – Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon, Žižek, and Al Attar
Lisa Wedeen – Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon, Žižek, and Al Attar
This talk begins with a question inspired by the work of the anthropologist David Scott, as to whether radical social transformation can remain a credible historical possibility if it is not undergirded by a belief in teleology. Does collectively willed transformation—the kind to which leftist and anticolonial movements have traditionally aspired—become unthinkable absent some degree […]
Tuesday, January 27, 2026
No events on this day.
Wednesday, January 28, 2026
- January 28, 2026 -Lana Tatour – Race and the Question of Palestine
- January 28, 2026The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
Lana Tatour – Race and the Question of Palestine
Co-sponsored by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and The Center for Racial Justice Join us for conversation with Lana Tatour, in dialogue with Muriam Haleh Davis, on her recently published edited volume Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025, co-edited with Ronit Lentin). This collection argues that […]
The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
The Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others more recently settled—that played important roles in North African society. French colonial rule, however, brought changes that profoundly reshaped Jews’ relationship to their Muslim neighbors. […]
Thursday, January 29, 2026
- January 29, 2026 -Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
- January 29, 2026 -Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
Tamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and several thousand were displaced. In this last phase, kanji (rice gruel) became the sole source of sustenance. Kanji, a versatile traditional Tamil dish that is […]
Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
Film Screening: 5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A: 7-8pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception: 8-9pm, Communications 139 Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center for Middle East and North Africa is hosting a film screening of True Chronicles of the Blida Joinville Psychiatric Hospital, the recent film by Algerian […]
Friday, January 30, 2026
- January 30, 2026 -UC Maghreb Workshop
- January 30, 2026 -Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
UC Maghreb Workshop
This workshop will bring together over a dozen scholars from the UC-system who research the Maghreb to share their work and exchange ideas. It is designed as a way of maintaining the rich network of expertise on this region found on the west coast. In addition to thematic panels, Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) will be presenting […]
Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
In this talk, Susan Slyomovics will discuss her new book, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. "Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meanings and some were […]
Saturday, January 31, 2026
- January 31, 2026Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Saturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 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 a […]