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SUMMARY:Lisa Wedeen - Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon\, Žižek\, and Al Attar
DESCRIPTION: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 of confidence in the arc of History bending toward social amelioration on its own? And if not\, how do we begin adjudicating what counts as an emancipatory politics today? Put another way\, this talk searches for forms that political hope might take in the disappointing and exhausted ruins of our postcolonial and post-socialist present. It approaches answers to these questions by examining a core concept in key narratives of leftist collective transformation\, that is\, by exploring anew the promise and limitations of “the dialectic.” It puts Frantz Fanon and Slavoj Žižek into conversation with the playwright Mohammad Al Attar\, whose play While I Was Waiting not only shows us the dialectic in action\, but in so doing offers a compelling approach to political transformation in the present. \n \nThis event will be hybrid. Register above to join via zoom. \nLisa Wedeen is a political scientist and the Mary R. Morton Professor of Political Science at the University of Chicago. Known for her influential work on symbolic politics\, authoritarianism\, and the Middle East—particularly Syria—she combines interpretive methods with grounded ethnographic research. She is the author of Ambiguities of Domination\, Peripheral Visions\, and numerous widely cited articles that have shaped debates in comparative politics and political theory. \n\nCo-presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and the History of Consciousness Department
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/lisa-wedeen-whose-dialectic-thinking-with-fanon-zizek-and-al-attar/
LOCATION:Humanites 1\, Room 320\, Humanities and Social Science Facility\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260128T121500
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SUMMARY:Lana Tatour - Race and the Question of Palestine
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and The Center for Racial Justice \nJoin 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 colonization of Palestine is inseparable from the global histories and logics of race\, and it places Palestine at the heart of conversations about imperialism\, settler colonialism\, capitalism\, and heteropatriarchy. \nThe event will delve into the rich and often-overlooked tradition of theorizing race within Palestine studies; the entanglements of race and international law; the politics and practice of racialization; and the structures and everyday expressions of anti-Palestinian racism. It will also speak to the urgency of the present moment\, addressing how these frameworks help us understand Israel’s ongoing violence in Gaza and the wider global landscape of solidarity\, resistance and struggle. \nLana Tatour is a Senior Lecturer in Global Development at the University of New South Wales\, and an Associate at the Australian Human Rights Institute. She is a scholar of settler colonialism\, indigeneity\, race\, and citizenship\, with a focus on Palestine. Her coedited book\, Race and the Question of Palestine was published in 2025 with Stanford University Press. She is currently completing her monograph\, Colonized Citizens: Liberalism\, Settler Colonialism\, and Palestinian resistance. Lana is also a public commentator. She has appeared on ABC News\, the BBC\, and TRT World\, and her publications have appeared in The Guardian\, Al-Jazeera\, Mondoweiss\, Middle East Eye\, The Age\, Overland\, and more. \n\n \nWinter 2026 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 2026 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/lana-tatour-race-and-the-question-of-palestine/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Sheikh's Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Jewish Studies presents\, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. \nUntil 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. By the years leading up to the Algerian War of Independence (1954-1962)\, these changes had created new lines of solidarity—and new tensions—that cast doubt on Jews’ place in Algeria’s future. In this lecture\, Professor Joshua Schreier will explore how the most prominent figure among Algerian Ulema\, ͑Abd al-Ḥamīd Ben Bādīs (1889–1940)\, the undisputed leader of reformist Islam in interwar Algeria and a powerful influence on Algeria’s nascent nationalist movement\, understood Jews\, their relationship to Muslims\, and the escalating conflict in Palestine. \n \nRegistration is required for event entry \n \nJoshua Schreier’s research and teaching navigate the intersection of Jewish\, Middle Eastern\, North African\, and French colonial history. His publications explore the ways colonialism in Algeria not only transformed the relationship between Jews and Muslims but also redefined what these identifiers meant. He is the author of Arabs of the Jewish Faith: The Civilizing Mission in Colonial Algeria (Rutgers\, 2010)\, and The Merchants of Oran: A Jewish Port at the Dawn of Empire (Stanford\, 2017)\, which was a National Jewish Book Award Finalist. \n\nThis event is a part of The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-sheikhs-jews-muslim-jewish-relations-in-interwar-algeria/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Geetha Sukumaran - Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
DESCRIPTION: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 central to religious festivals\, also adapts to circumstances of scarcity. This talk situates Mullivaikkal Kanji within the broader Sri Lankan Tamil culinary tradition and explores how it became a symbol of resistance. \n \nDr. Geetha Sukumaran is a Postdoctoral Fellow at the Feeding City Lab in the Department of Physical and Environmental Sciences. \n  \n  \nThis event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law \n\nPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/geetha-sukumaran-kanji-before-and-after-mullivaikkal-resistance-histories-of-jaffna/
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SUMMARY:Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
DESCRIPTION:Film Screening:  5:30-7pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nPanel Discussion and Audience Q&A:  7-8pm\, Communications 150\, Studio C\nReception:  8-9pm\, Communications 139 \nMarking 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 director Abdenour Zahzah that focuses on his time in the psychiatric hospital in Blida\, Algeria. The screening will be followed by a panel discussion with Meryem Belkaïd (Bowdoin College)\, Isaac Julien (UCSC)\, and Mark Nash (UCSC) on the representation of Fanon’s work and life in film\, from Julien and Nash’s classic 1998 documentary\, Black Skin White Masks\, to more recent films that focus on how Fanon’s time in Algeria shaped his intellectual and political commitments. \nMeryem Belkaïd is the Harriet Sara Walker and Mary Sophia Walker Associate Professor of Humanities at Bowdoin College. Trained in both literature (PhD from La Sorbonne) and political science (Master degree from Science Po\, Paris)\, her research focuses on a decolonial approach of North African cinema and literature. She is the author of From Outlaw to Rebel: Contemporary documentary in Contemporary Algeria (Palgrave 2023). Her works have appeared in peer-reviewed journals such as Journal of North African Studies\, Fixxion and Expressions maghrébines. She is a regular contributor of the online magazine Orient XXI. \nMark Nash is a distinguished independent curator\, film historian\, and filmmaker with a specialization in contemporary fine art moving image practices\, avant-garde\, and world cinema. He holds a PhD from Middlesex University and an MA from Cambridge University. He is a professor in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz\, where he founded the Isaac Julien Lab with his partner and long-time collaborator\, Isaac Julien. His most recent publication\, Curating the Moving Image (Duke UP\, 2023)\, outlines several key concepts that range from exhibition architecture and curating as an affective and artistic practice to post-cold war aesthetics and contemporary Chinese art. \n \nIsaac Julien is a filmmaker and installation artist who has been making films and producing film installations for over forty years. Recent works include All that Changes You. Metamorphosis (2025)\, Once Again… (Statues Never Die) (2022)\, Lina Bo Bardi – A Marvellous Entanglement (2019)\, and Lessons of the Hour – Frederick Douglass (2019). A retrospective of his work\, Isaac Julien: I Dream a World\, was exhibited at the De Young Museum in 2025. In 2018\, Julien joined the faculty at the UC Santa Cruz where he is a Distinguished Professor of the Arts and Humanities and leads the Moving Image Lab together with Mark Nash. Julien is the recipient of The Royal Academy of Arts Charles Wollaston Award in 2017. In 2022\, he was awarded a Kaiserring Goslar Award in 2022\, and he was granted a knighthood as part of the Queen’s Honours List. \nParking Info: \nThis is the Communications Building on Google maps\, and this is a map with parking information: https://transportation.ucsc.edu/parking/campus-parking-map/#interactive-map. Park Mobile parking spots can be located in lot 139A. Alternative parking options include the Core West parking structure\, which is located down the hill from the Communications Building. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by the Film and Digital Media Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fanon-in-documentary-film-algerian-legacies/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:UC Maghreb Workshop
DESCRIPTION: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 on her recently published work\, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press\, 2024). \nThe preliminary program can be found here. \nThis event will be hybrid. Please RSVP at cmenasc@ucsc.edu to receive the zoom link. \nParking Info: \nThe following parking lots are the closest to the Humanities 1 building: 107\, 109\, 110.  Lot 109 has several park mobile spots as well as A permit spaces.  See the link to the campus map: https://maps.ucsc.edu/printable-maps/parking-map-111916.pdf
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/uc-maghreb-working-group/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260130T130000
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SUMMARY:Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria's French Colonial Heritage
DESCRIPTION: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 “repatriated” to France\, legally or clandestinely. Today\, in both Algeria and France\, people are moving and removing\, vandalizing and preserving this contested\, yet shared monumental heritage. Drawing on extensive fieldwork and interviews in both countries\, she analyzes the colonial nostalgia\, dissonant heritage\, and ongoing decolonization and iconoclasm of these works of art. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Click above for the zoom link. \nSusan Slyomovics is Distinguished Professor of Anthropology and Near Eastern Languages & Cultures at UCLA. She is the author of books and articles on the topics of reparations\, anthropology of art\, and cultural and material heritage of the Middle East and North Africa. Her recent book\, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage (Stanford University Press\, 2024)\, received the 2025 Ed Bruner Book Award from the Council on Heritage and the Anthropology of Tourism (CHAT) of the American Anthropological Association.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-slyomovics-monuments-decolonized-algerias-french-colonial-heritage/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Saturday Shakespeare - Henry IV\, Part 1
DESCRIPTION: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 volunteer read aloud of the play. On February 7\, the film The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1 will be shown. 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\nJan 10: Alexander Brondarbit\, A historian who specializes in kingship in late medieval and early modern England; author of two books on The Wars of the Roses. Readings: Act 1 – Act 2\, Scene 2\nJan 17: Patty Gallagher\, An actor and Professor of Theater Arts at UC Santa Cruz; Artistic Associate at Santa Cruz Shakespeare and the Rogue Theatre in Tucson\, Arizona. Readings: Act 2\, Scene 3 – Act 3\, Scene 2.\nJan 24: Julia Reinhardt Lupton\, Distinguished Professor of English at UC Irvine\, co-director of the UCI Shakespeare Center. She is the author of six books on Shakespeare. Readings: Act 3\, Scene 3 – Act 4.\nJan 31: Abigail Heald is currently teaching the Henriad (Richard II\, Henry IV\, Parts I and Part II\, and Henry V) at Stanford University. Readings: Act 5.\nFeb 7: Film Screening: The Hollow Crown\, Henry IV Part 1. Jeremy Irons-King Henry/ Tom Hiddleson-Prince Hal/ Simon Russell Beale-Falstaff\, directed by Richard Eyre.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/saturday-shakespeare-henry-iv-part-1-4/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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