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SUMMARY:Revolution and Restoration: A Conversation with Massimiliano Tomba\, Ariella Patchen\, and Shaun Terry
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Winter 2026 Research Colloquium series. \nThis talk examines Tomba’s Revolution and Restoration as an expression of his philosophy of political time. Tomba argues that modernity consists of dynamic and overlapping temporal layers and that revolutionary change occurs when oppressed groups draw on forgotten or suppressed forms within these layers—commons\, councils\, sanctuary—to move beyond prevailing institutions. For Tomba\, every social form is an open totality\, shot through with contradictions and tensions\, and therefore subject to radical change from within. The political horizon of revolutionary practice is\, then\, a form of relative transcendence that activates resources of justice already sedimented in the historical field. Understanding this method as revolutionary stratigraphy illuminates how concepts such as democratic excess and insurgent universality arise from the layered morphology of political life and how the past becomes a source of practical intervention in the present. \n \nThis event is both in-person and virtual. Register above to attend virtually. \nMassimiliano Tomba is Professor in the Department of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His publications include Marx’s Temporalities (Brill\, 2012; Haymarket\, 2013)\, Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity (Oxford\, 2019; paperback 2021)\, and Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham\, 2025). \n  \nAriella Patchen is a PhD student in the History of Consciousness Department at UC Santa Cruz. Her work engages primarily with political theology\, affect theory\, archival research\, and histories of the construct of race and ethnicity. \n  \n  \nShaun Terry is a PhD student in History of Consciousness and a communication scholar and political theorist.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/revolution-and-restoration-a-conversation-with-massimiliano-tomba-ariella-patchen-and-shaun-terry/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Islamophobia in a Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics and culture in Europe\, North Africa\, and the United States. While it is largely acknowledged that the concept of Islamophobia refers to the racial discrimination or othering of Muslims\, it has been institutionalized and experienced differently in various national and historical contexts. Instead of seeking a single definition of Islamophobia\, this panel brings together researchers based in France\, the United States\, and Tunisia to grapple with how certain iterations of anti-Muslim sentiment\, such as the Great Replacement Theory\, have circulated across space\, while accounting for the major differences between how Islamophobia operates in Muslim majority or formerly colonized countries and those regions that have historical been colonial powers that relied on orientalist or racist tropes to secure their imperial hegemony. It also looks at specific practices\, from notions of literacy to carceral regimes\, that demonstrate the functioning of Islamophobia as a form of racial governance. \nProgram: \n2pm – 3:15 pm: Textual Transmission and Categories of Analysis \nPresenters: \nAdrien Thibault (IRMC)\, “An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of “Islamophobia” in Social Scientific Journals on the Maghreb” \nArshad Ali (UCSC)\, “Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nDiscussant: Thomas Serres (UCSC) \n3:30 – 5pm: Islamophobia in France: Discourses and Practices \nPresenters: \nIman El Feki (University of Strasbourg)\, “Anti-Radicalization Politics in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nDorian Bell (UCSC)\, “Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nDiscussant: Huzaifa Shahbaz (UCSC) \n\nParticipants: \nAdrien Thibault  \n“An Alien Concept? Uses and Circulation of the Concept of Islamophobia in Social Science Journals on the Maghreb” \nIn order to contribute to the history of the international circulation of the concept of Islamophobia\, this paper presents an exhaustive review and qualitative analysis of occurrences of the term (in French\, English\, and Arabic) in six leading social science journals specializing in the Maghreb: two French journals (L’Année du Maghreb\, since 2004\, and Maghreb-Machrek\, since 2008)\, two Anglo-American journals (The Journal of North African Studies\, since 1996\, and The Maghreb Review\, since 2009)\, and two Maghrebi journals (IBLA\, Tunisia\, since 2000\, and Insaniyat\, Algeria\, since 1997). This review not only documents the relative scarcity of contemporary uses of the concept in relation to the Maghreb\, but also situates it geographically and socially by systematically relating the diversity of its uses to the national and academic positions\, as well as the social and migratory trajectories\, of the authors who mobilize it. \nDr. Adrien Thibault is a French sociologist and political scientist serving as a postdoctoral researcher at the Institut de Recherche sur le Maghreb Contemporain (IRMC) in Tunis. Dr. Thibault’s research focuses on migration\, mobilities\, and social stratification. He explores questions of circulation\, borders\, and marginality\, conducting sociological analyses of how individuals navigate institutional categories and social hierarchies. \n  \n\nArshad Ali  \n“Reading Islam Otherwise: Islamophobia\, The Afterlives of Literacy\, Anti-Blackness\, and Muslim Ways of Knowing” \nThis paper examines global Islamophobia through the lens of literacy\, arguing that contemporary suspicion toward Muslim texts\, languages\, and reading practices cannot be understood apart from longer histories of racial governance. Drawing on the afterlives of African Muslim literacies in the Atlantic world\, the paper shows how Qur’anic pedagogies and manuscript traditions carried by enslaved Muslims disrupted racial regimes that required Black non-literacy\, rendering Muslim textuality unintelligible or dangerous. These historical misreadings persist today in securitized responses to Arabic script\, Qur’anic recitation\, and Muslim study across schools\, airports\, courts\, and digital platforms. Rather than treating these moments as isolated acts of bias\, the paper situates them within literacy’s secular and racial architecture. It then turns to Muslim epistemologies as a methodological intervention\, foregrounding embodied\, ethical\, and relational forms of knowing that unsettle dominant definitions of literacy. Reading Islam otherwise\, the paper argues\, is essential to confronting Islamophobia as an epistemic and racial project\, not merely a cultural misunderstanding. \nArshad Imtiaz Ali is an educator\, community worker\, and scholar who studies youth culture\, race\, identity\, and politics. He is an Associate Professor of Ethnic Studies Education and Civic Education at UC Santa Cruz. He is concerned with questions of educational possibilities\, liberatory moments/movements\, and social research methodologies. He has written extensively on issues relating to the cultural geography of Muslim student surveillance\, citizenship\, governmentality\, and other issues of coloniality and Muslims in Western spaces. His current project draws upon Muslim and non-Western storywork and ways of knowing to explore how students engage in a science curriculum that appreciates multiple\, culturally sustained ways of understanding the world. \n\nDorian Bell \n“Of Nations and Nomads: Antisemitism\, Islamophobia\, and the Great Replacement Theory” \nIn today’s far-right warnings about a “Great Replacement” of white populations by immigrants and their “globalist” protectors\, the long-entwined histories of antisemitism and Islamophobia are converging again. What’s new\, and what’s old\, about the latest round of Western demographic anxiety? Drawing examples from France\, where the Great Replacement Theory first took shape\, this paper traces how elites and immigrants are being consolidated into an imagined race of “nomads”—rich and poor\, cosmopolitan and migratory—against which the far right now defends the rights of “sedentary” white peoples. The results demonstrate how right-wing antisemitism and its legacies are shaping contemporary animus toward Muslims—and what this means for Jews themselves. \nDorian Bell is Associate Professor of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His first book\, Globalizing Race: Antisemitism and Empire in French and European Culture (2018)\, traces intersections between antisemitism and imperialism that shaped the emergence of European racial thought. He is at work on a second book exploring how shifting notions of whiteness are driving political change on both sides of the Atlantic. \n\nIman El Feki \n“Public Policies Countering ‘Terrorism’ and ‘Radicalization’ in French Prisons: A Case Study of Racialized Institutional Islamophobia” \nThe goal of this presentation is to analyze French institutional Islamophobia by examining public policies for countering violent radicalization within the French prison system. To accomplish this\, I have organized the presentation into three parts. First\, I will analyze the detection devices used in prisons\, with a specific focus on grid detection. Second\, I will examine how the institutional understanding of radicalization spreads through the extension of suspicion to other prisoners\, researchers\, and the outside world. Lastly\, based on my experience as an object of institutional suspicion\, I will discuss the effects of Islamophobic suspicion on individuals. \nIman El Feki is currently a Ph.D. student at the University of Strasbourg (France)\, and a member of the “Societies\, stakeholders\, governments in Europe” (SAGE) center. Since 2018\, her research has focused on French public policies for countering radicalization and terrorism\, especially their effects on targeted groups\, such as French Muslims. She studies these policies within the prison administration and has conducted three years of ethnography (2019-2021) with a special unit dedicated to radicalization inside this French institution (public policies\, critical security studies\, prison sociology\, sociology of Islamophobia). \n\n  \nHuzaifa Shahbaz \nHuzaifa Shahbaz is a Ph.D. candidate in the Department of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research examines the evolution of Muslim American organizing and the political strategies Muslim organizations have adopted in response to Islamophobia and the War on Terror. Prior to joining UCSC\, Huzaifa held research roles at the Othering & Belonging Institute\, the Institute for Policy Studies\, and the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR). \n  \n\nThomas Serres  \nThomas Serres is Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research spans the field of Middle Eastern studies\, critical security studies\, and comparative politics\, combining an ethnographic approach with a conceptual apparatus inspired by critical theory. He is particularly interested in the effects of protracted and entangled crises (popular uprisings\, “war on terror\,” refugee crisis\, neoliberalization) in North Africa and beyond. His first book\, The Suspended Disaster: Governance by Catastrophization in Bouteflika’s Algeria\, was published in 2023 with Columbia University Press\, expanding on a French edition initially released in 2019. He also co-edited the volume North Africa and the Making of Europe with Bloomsbury Publishing (2018). \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and supported by the Villa Albertine
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/islamophobia-in-a-global-perspective-a-panel-discussion/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Josen Masangkay Diaz - Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
DESCRIPTION:This talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime’s management of reproductive health\, in particular\, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of “family planning” archives that highlight both family planning as the management of the Philippines labor-surplus economy and the different ways that family planning workers struggled against these impositions. \nJosen Masangkay Diaz (she/they) writes and teaches about race\, gender\, colonialism\, and authoritarianism. Her book\, Postcolonial Configurations: Dictatorship\, the Racial Cold War\, and Filipino America (Duke University Press\, 2023)\, analyzes the formation of Filipino American subjectivity through a study of U.S.-Philippine cold war politics. \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/josen-masangkay-diaz-population-crisis-and-the-reproductive-archive/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Rosie Stockton
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nRosie Stockton is a poet and scholar\, author of the collections Permanent Volta (Nightboat Books\, 2021) and Fuel (Nightboat Books\, 2025). In Fuel\, Stockton explores how capitalist extraction seeps into intimate life\, traversing oil fields\, domestic spaces\, and painful retractions of love. Stockton is an organizer with the California Coalition for Women Prisoners and directs the Creative Writing Stream of the UC Sentencing Project\, where they facilitate a poetry workshop at the California Institution for Women. \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-with-rosie-stockton/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Marion Nestle - Sustainable Food in the Trump Era
DESCRIPTION:What is the state of sustainable food now\, what are the forces affecting food choice\, and what can we do about it? Join us for this year’s Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture featuring Marion Nestle — Mark Bittman’s “guiding light” on nutrition and Alice Waters’ “tireless warrior for public health” — for a bracing look at what’s on today’s menu and what’s in store. \nThank you for your interest in this event! The event is now sold out but please join us online via live stream. \nMarion Nestle is a consumer advocate\, nutritionist\, award-winning author\, and academic who specializes in the politics of food and dietary choice. Her research examines scientific\, economic\, and social influences on food choice and health\, with an emphasis on the role of food industry marketing. Her books explore how politics affects food production\, dietary intake\, food safety\, and human and planetary health. She is the author of books such as the classic\, Food Politics: How the Food Industry Influences Nutrition and Health\, Safe Food: The Politics of Food Safety\, What to Eat\, and many more! Nestle is the emerita Paulette Goddard Professor in the Department of Nutrition\, Food Studies\, and Public Health and Professor of Sociology at New York University. She also holds an appointment as visiting professor in the Cornell Division of Nutritional Sciences. Her degrees include a Ph.D. in molecular biology and an M.P.H. in public health nutrition\, both from the University of California\, Berkeley. \n\nThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is made possible by the Peggy Downes Baskin Humanities Endowment for Interdisciplinary Ethics which enables lively dialogue about ethics related challenges in interdisciplinary settings.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/marion-nestle-sustainable-food-in-the-trump-era/
LOCATION:Cowell Ranch Hay Barn\, Ranch View Rd\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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