Events
Week of Events
Sunday, April 5, 2026
No events on this day.
Monday, April 6, 2026
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April 6, 2026 -Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
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April 6, 2026 -Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
On April 6, 2026, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political, legal, and societal landscape. Sotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided […]
Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
What does the life of an ordinary working-class, Muslim woman look and feel like in modern India? Award-winning journalist Neha Dixit traces the story of one such faceless Indian woman, from the early 1990s to the present day. What emerges is a picture of a life lived under constant corrosive tension. Syeda X left the […]
Tuesday, April 7, 2026
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April 7, 2026 -Chris Gray – The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
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April 7, 2026 -Central American Report Back: In Defense Of Land & Dignity
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April 7, 2026 -Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
Chris Gray – The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
All AI (algorithmic intelligence) companies claim they are pursuing the next logical step in digital—perhaps even human—evolution. But, the development of AI is clearly shaped by a wide range of untethered belief systems from obscure German philosophy to The Lord of the Rings. There is nothing logical about it. It is unreasonable to make AI […]
Central American Report Back: In Defense Of Land & Dignity
Facilitated by SCC intern Rafael Revolorio, this report-back features community members and organizers Ana and Allan Fisher, Amy Argenal, Lupita Alvarado-Sanchez, and Cynthia Lopez-Fernandez who will reflect on their recent experiences in El Salvador and Honduras during a time of heightened imperialist escalation and right-wing shifts in Latin America. This event is sponsored by the […]
Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine The damming of the Nile River transformed agriculture and human health in twentieth-century Egypt. While dams enabled year-round irrigation and provided hydroelectricity, the prevalence of parasitic disease also skyrocketed. Professor Derr explores the effects of damming the Nile on the health of […]
Wednesday, April 8, 2026
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April 8, 2026 -Dr. V. Chitra – Drawn to Life: Environments, Managerial Logics, and the Limits of Care
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April 8, 2026Documentación Lingüística en México
Dr. V. Chitra – Drawn to Life: Environments, Managerial Logics, and the Limits of Care
This talk examines how urban planning, animal governance, and racial politics converge in the production of interspecies belonging in Singapore. Through this, it considers what drawing, as an analytic, might offer anthropology for understanding how more-than-human worlds become governed. Focusing on the "Singapore Special" — a term for local mongrel dogs — it traces how […]
Documentación Lingüística en México
Please join us for a presentation on "Children's role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico". Cuando realizamos proyectos de documentación lingüística, nos encontramos con niñas y niños que quieren participar en alguna actividad del proceso de documentación, sean o no hablantes o sean hablantes de herencia. Su colaboración es valiosa en los proyectos porque aportan […]
Thursday, April 9, 2026
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April 9, 2026 -New Articulations with James Clifford
New Articulations with James Clifford
This event engages the theme of articulation and James Clifford’s contributions to cultural studies, anthropology, and literary studies, addressing our current disconcerting cultural, historical, and ecological conjuncture. For more info, please visit: tinyurl.com/5ecv4t27 With talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia), James Clifford (UCSC), and Kirin Narayan (ANU), and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC), Chris Connery […]
Friday, April 10, 2026
No events on this day.
Saturday, April 11, 2026
No events on this day.