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SUMMARY:Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish\, Christian\, and Islamic voices into dialogue\, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment\, psychology\, soteriology\, and collective destiny in light of their historical contexts and their wider intellectual and political implications. \nPanels are organized around four thematic currents — Aristotelianism\, Neoplatonism\, Mysticism\, and Political Eschatology — in order to examine how body-soul anthropology\, political theology\, and visions of history intersected in the pre-modern Mediterranean (12th–16th centuries). \nThis event will be live-streamed via a Zoom Webinar for anyone outside of the Santa Cruz who would like to attend. Please register for the live stream here: https://ucsc.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_P3yCD6CxRwWY_MO6dJKAMg \nFull event schedule here. \nThe day’s program will feature (Full bios here): \nAkash Kumar (University of California\, Berkeley) \n  \n  \n \nAlexander Green (University of Florida\, The Hamilton School for Classic and Civic Education)\nTalk title: “Maimonides on the Duality of Love” \n  \n\nAlison Cornish (New York University) \n  \n  \nAndrew LaZella (The University of Scranton)\nTalk title: “Averroes and the Aristotelian Left: The Latin Averroists’ Agent Intellect and Dante’s Empire” \n  \nBettina Koch (Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University)\nTalk title: “The Challenged Souls: How the Abuse of Spiritual Power Threatens the Souls in Marsilius of Padua’s Defensor Pacis” \n  \nElliot Wolfson (University of California\, Santa Barbara)\nTalk title: “Transposition of the Material into the Angelic Body: Abraham Abulafia’s Polemic with the Christian Dogma of Incarnation” \n  \nEthan H. Shagan (University of California\, Berkeley)\nTalk title: “The Protestant Emergence of ‘Secular’ Political Theology” \n  \n  \n \nFilippo Gianferrari (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nGiacomo Berchi (Stanford University) \n  \n  \nHeather Webb (Yale University)\nTalk title: “The Forms of Affective Communities: Clare of Assisi\, Dante\, and Catherine of Siena” \n  \nJason Aleksander (San José State University)\nTalk title: “The Enigma of History in Nicholas of Cusa’s De ultimis diebus” \n  \n  \nMassimiliano Tomba (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nNathanael Deutsh (University of California\, Santa Cruz) \n  \n  \nPaola Nasti (Northwestern University)\nTalk title: “Humana Universitas: Dante’s Universal Monarchy between Politics and Eschatology” \n  \nPaula Pico Estrada (Universidad Nacional de San Martín)\nTalk title: “Annihilation and Embodiment: St. Catherine of Genoa’s Doctrine of Purgatory as Political Eschatology” \n  \nPeerawat Chiaranunt (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Two Aspects of Local Motion in the Paradiso: subtilitas and agilitas” \n  \n  \nSeyed N. Mousavian (Loyola University\, Chicago)\nTalk title: “Avicenna on the Human Soul\, Body and Eschatology” \n  \n  \n \nTheodore Cachey (The University of Notre Dame)\nTalk title: “Mapping the Unmappable: Poetics\, Participation\, and the Body–Soul Problem in Dante’s Paradiso” \n  \n\nThis event is sponsored by Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College\, The Humanities Institute\, the Italian Studies and the Literature Department\, The Center for Jewish Studies\, University of California Regents System Collaboration Funding\, and San José State University Division of Research and Innovation. \nTower of Babel mosaic\, Monreale Cathedral\, Palermo\, Sicily (12th c.). Photo © Holger Uwe Schmitt\, Wikimedia Commons. CC BY-SA 4.0. Cropped for design.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/of-body-and-soul-politics-and-eschatology-in-the-pre-modern-mediterranean/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Martin Rizzo-Martinez - Wounded Lee: the Red Power movement in 1970s Santa Cruz in the wake of Alcatraz
DESCRIPTION:In the spring of 1975\, a 1\,500-year-old Indigenous cemetery on Lee Road in Watsonville\, California\, was threatened by a development project. Members of the local Native American community with ties to this sacred site occupied the construction site in protest of the development. The local Sheriff called upon the newly formed well-armed County SWAT force\, leading to an armed confrontation. They were quickly joined by allies\, including representatives from the San Jose AIM office\, local Vietnam Veterans against the War / Winter Soldiers\, and representatives from the Indigenous run Northwest Indian Cemetery Protective Association from Humboldt County. Fortunately\, a compromise was made and violence was averted. This incident is one piece of a larger book project looking at similar grass roots\, Indigenous led movements to protect sacred spaces in California in the 1970s and early 80s. \nMartin Rizzo-Martinez is an Assistant Professor in the Film & Digital Media department at UCSC. He is a historian and media maker\, author of We are not Animals\, which explores the history of Indigenous peoples of the Santa Cruz area\, as well as co-producer of the podcast Challenging Colonialism. He has worked closely and collaboratively with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band\, and other local Tribes. \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/martin-rizzo-martinez-wounded-lee-the-red-power-movement-in-1970s-santa-cruz-in-the-wake-of-alcatraz/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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SUMMARY:PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
DESCRIPTION:Curious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia\, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. \nPublic fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to contribute to research\, programming\, communications\, and fundraising at non-profit organizations\, cultural institutions\, or companies and expand their skills in a non-academic setting while engaged in graduate study. \n  \n \n  \nPlease join us for an information session about the 2026 THI Graduate Public Fellows program to learn about Summer 2026 opportunities. \nAll THI Public Fellow applicants are required to attend an Info Session or talk with THI staff. Please contact Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell\, Research Programs and Communications Director\, at saskia@ucsc.edu if you are unable to attend the workshop due to a work or class scheduling conflict. Final applications are due on March 30th\, 2026. \n  \nAbout the PhD+ Workshop Series\nJoin us for the ninth year of PhD+ Workshops\, hosted by The Humanities Institute. We meet monthly to discuss possible career paths for PhDs\, internship possibilities\, grants/fellowships\, work/life balance\, elements of style\, online identity issues\, and much\, much more. \nRSVP here: \nLoading…
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/phd-workshop-thi-public-fellowship-information-session-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Nathalie Khankan
DESCRIPTION:Craft Between Worlds \nNathalie Khankan is a poet and scholar\, author of quiet orient riot (Omnidawn). The collection won Omnidawn’s 2019 1st/2nd Book Prize and received the 2021 California Book Award in Poetry. Fady Joudah calls the book “a flowering wound\,” posing subversive questions about the body\, motherhood\, and settler colonialism while insisting on tenderness. Juliana Spahr calls it “a book about holding tight to the intimacy and love for a child\,” whose poems show how to sustain deep loves in difficult times. \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-nathalie-khankan/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Room 206\, UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall\, 1156 High Street\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Linguistics Colloquium with Ethan Poole
DESCRIPTION:Join the Linguistics Department for Ethan Poole’s talk “Syntactic Variables and Semantic Minimality” in collaboration with Zahra Mirrazi. \nIn this talk\, Poole argues that when two syntactic variables are “related” and stand in a c- command relationship at LF\, a 3⁄4-pattern emerges: free/free\, bound/bound\, bound/free\, and *free/bound. Several otherwise-disparate puzzles are shown to fall under this pattern: Dahl’s Puzzle\, SCO effects\, the Nested DP Constraint\, exceptional de dicto\, de re blocking\, and certain restrictions on fake indexicals. Building on Drummond 2014\, Poole proposes that these phenomena reflect a minimality-style constraint on variables: (roughly) a variable may not be bound across a related free variable. The notion of “related”\, we define in terms of overlap in value and counterparts\, an extension of Reinhart’s (2006) covaluation. He argues that this “semantic minimality” does not straightforwardly reduce to the garden-variety syntactic minimality; rather\, he suggests that syntactic and semantic minimality are separate\, convergent consequences of pressure for shorter dependencies. \n \nThis event is in-person with an option to join virtually available.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/linguistics-colloquium-with-ethan-poole/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:Latino Role Models Conference
DESCRIPTION:Achieve your dreams for college and career! \nA free annual event for Santa Cruz County students\, grades 6 to college\, and their families\, featuring Latino professionals\, college students\, and resource information. Presented in Spanish with English translation. Attendees eligible for prizes. \nFor more information: SCSenderos.org \n\nPresented by Cabrillo College\, Live Oak School District\, Mexican Consulate –  San Jose\, Pajaro Valley Unified\, San Lorenzo Valley Unified\, Santa Cruz City Schools\, Santa Cruz County Office of Education\, Scotts Valley Unified\, Senderos\, Soquel Union Elementary\, UCSC
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/latino-role-models-conference/
LOCATION:Cabrillo College Crocker Theater\, 6500 Soquel Dr.\, Aptos\, CA\, 95003\, United States
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