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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Neha Dixit — The Many Lives of Syeda X: A People’s History of Invisible India
DESCRIPTION: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. \nSyeda X left the holy city of Banaras (now Varanasi) for Delhi with her young family in the aftermath of riots and communal violence in the early ’90s. In Delhi\, she settled into the life of a poor migrant\, juggling multiple jobs a day – from sewing soccer balls and removing the stems from raisins\, to shelling almonds sold in bulk to multinationals and assisting in illegal abortions. Syeda has held over 50 different jobs in 30 years\, earning paltry sums in the process. And if she ever took a day off\, her job would be lost to another faceless migrant. \nWe meet an unforgettable cast of characters: a rickshaw driver in Chandni Chowk who ends up tragically dead in a terrorist blast\, a doctor who gets arrested for pre-natal sex determination\, a Hindu nationalist “cow vigilante” whose sister elopes with Syeda’s son\, and policemen who delight in beating up young Muslim men. \nWritten with empathy and deep insight\, The Many Lives of Syeda X is a portal to a harsh\, hidden world. It is the story of untold millions and a searing account of urban life in new India. \nNeha Dixit is an independent journalist based in New Delhi. She has covered politics\, gender\, and social justice for seventeen years. Most of her work is investigative\, narrative\, and long-form. She has reported for Al Jazeera\, The Washington Post\, The New York Times\, The Caravan\, The Wire\, and other notable publications. \n\nPresented by the Department of Sociology and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neha-dixit-the-many-lives-of-syeda-x-a-peoples-history-of-invisible-india/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College Red Room\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20260407T133000
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SUMMARY:Chris Gray - The Fantasies Shaping Today’s AI
DESCRIPTION: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 the dominant industry in terms of investment and valuation when it has produced little profit\, great social disruption\, and a worsening of most aspects of today’s polycrisis\, from climate change to military operations and genocide. \nThe forces trying to produce general purpose AI and super intelligence are multiple and almost all irrational\, even fantastical. The most rational is the hunger for wealth and power\, considered sacred by capitalist true believers\, for even if AIs never wins a war or produce real value\, they will make money and shape societies. \nTo explain today’s “Tech Lords” more than a simplistic “California Ideology” argument is needed. Accepting we now live under Surveillance Capitalism is only the context. Looking at the psychodynamics of Postmodern War is also helpful\, for today’s AI complex shares the same genealogy as contemporary high-tech militaries. A close analysis of key parts of the actual beliefs of AI billionaires\, from fantasy novels to fantasy altruism to dreams of immortality and divinity\, is also very helpful. \nTogether\, they might help begin to answer the real question—how do we transition from this clearly unsustainable socio-technological society into something better? \n\nThis event is presented by The Humanities Institute’s ± AI Initiative.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-gray-the-fantasies-shaping-todays-ai/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Central American Report Back: In Defense Of Land & Dignity
DESCRIPTION: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. \n\nThis event is sponsored by the Center for Racial Justice and Santa Cruz in Color. Special thanks to the Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, the Resource Center for Nonviolence\, and the Bay Area chapter of Committee in Solidarity with the People of El Salvador (CISPES) for their support in co-sponsoring this event.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/central-american-report-back-in-defense-of-land-dignity/
LOCATION:Namaste Lounge – College 9\, Namaste Lounge\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nauenberg History of Science Lecture with Jennifer Derr
DESCRIPTION:World Wounds: The Damming of the Nile River and the Transformation of Medicine \nThe 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 Egyptians and the impact of large-scale environmental transformation on the knowledge and practice that made medicine during the twentieth century. \nApril 7\, 2026\nReception 5:30 p.m.\nLecture 6 p.m.\nMusic Recital Hall and Virtual\nFree and open to the public \n \n  \n Jennifer Derr is an Associate Professor in the history department at UC Santa Cruz. Her first book\, The Lived Nile: Environment\, Disease\, and Material Colonial Economy in Egypt\, won the Middle East Political Economy Book Prize. In 2019\, the National Science Foundation awarded Derr a CAREER grant to support her research on the “History of Science at the Interface of Biomedical and Environmental Concerns.” In 2024-2025\, she was a fellow at the Harvard Radcliffe Institute. \n\nNauenberg History of Science Lecture\nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture was established in honor of Michael Nauenberg\, a founding faculty member in the Physics Department at UCSC who came to the campus in 1966. During his distinguished academic career\, he contributed to a remarkably broad range of fields\, including particle physics\, condensed matter physics\, astrophysics\, chaos theory\, fluid dynamics\, and the history of physics in the 17th-18th centuries. \nAmongst Professor Nauenberg’s passions\, he deeply believed in the importance of interdisciplinary scholarship connecting the sciences with the humanities. Following his retirement in 1994\, he pursued his long-standing interests in the history of science\, writing books and articles about Joseph Banks\, Robert Hooke\, Christiaan Huygens\, and Isaac Newton. The Nauenberg History of Science Lecture Series features leading historians of science and highlights the significance of their work across disciplines for faculty\, students\, and community members. \nThe Nauenberg History of Science Lecture is presented by the UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Association and co-sponsored by the Science & Justice Research Center\, The Humanities Institute\, the Humanities Division\, the Environmental Studies Department\, the History Department\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA). 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nauenberg-history-of-science-lecture-with-jenniferderr/
LOCATION:Music Center Recital Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Dr. V. Chitra - Drawn to Life: Environments\, Managerial Logics\, and the Limits of Care
DESCRIPTION: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 housing policy\, behavioral training regimes\, and administrative classification shape the conditions under which dogs can find belonging in the island-city. \nRecent shifts from culling toward sterilization and rehoming appear to signal a more humane approach to animal care. Yet these interventions install a more demanding managerial logic: dogs must demonstrate governability — proper conduct\, emotional regulation\, adaptability — to qualify for care. Belonging is produced through the same administrative machinery that has long mediated human access to housing\, mobility\, and security in Singapore\, where racialized ideals of civility and order underpin the city-state’s developmental project. \nDrawing on ethnographic research with animal welfare volunteers\, the talk delves into how managerial logics naturalize the conditions they impose\, and sits with the limits of companionship that cannot accommodate refusal\, flight\, and ferality. \nV. Chitra is an anthropologist and visual artist based at The Australian National University. Her research intersects environmental studies\, science and technology studies\, and the visual arts. Her first book\, Drawing Coastlines: Climate Anxieties and the Visual Reinvention of Mumbai (Cornell University Press\, 2024) looks at how science\, management\, and planning remake coastal worlds in urban India. Chitra has a background in visual design and works with comics as an ethnographic medium. \n\nPresented by the Center for Cultural Studies and co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Department of Anthropology Colloquium. This event is open to all students\, faculty\, staff\, and members of the public consistent with University policy and state and federal law. \n\n \nSpring 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 Spring 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/dr-v-chitra-drawn-to-life-environments-managerial-logics-and-the-limits-of-care/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Documentación Lingüística en México
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a presentation on “Children’s role in Language Documentation Efforts in Mexico“. \nCuando 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 muchos elementos clave para el proceso de registro de la lengua y la cultura que se está documentando. En esta charla platicaremos sobre algunas experiencias con niñas y niños que colaboraron en diferentes etapas del trabajo de campo que se realizó para la documentación de la lengua otomí de Santa Ana Hueytlalpan\, en el municipio de Tulancingo de Bravo\, en México. \nMaría de Jesús Selene Hernández Gómez Doctora en Estudios Mesoamericanos por la UNAM\, Maestra en Lingüística con Línea Terminal en Lingüística Teórica-Descriptiva y Licenciada en Lenguas Modernas en Inglés\, ambas por la UAQ. Es profesora de la Facultad de Lenguas y Letras y de la Facultad de Filosofía en la Universidad Autónoma de Querétaro. Es investigadora asociada del Laboratorio de Educación y Mediación Intercultural (LEMI) y es responsable del programa de Prácticas Profesionales “Prácticas Universitarias de Traducción”\, que se ofrece en el LEMI. Da clases a nivel licenciatura y posgrado en ambas facultades. Se dedica particularmente a la enseñanza de la historia de la lengua inglesa y sus líneas de investigación son: la documentación y descripción de lenguas originarias mexicanas en peligro de extinción (particularmente el otomí del estado de Hidalgo\, México)\, procesos de traducción de documentos en inglés antiguo y medieval y procesos de traducción en/de lenguas originarias mexicanas. Ha sido becaria del Programa Santander Universities en la Universidad de Surrey y del Programa “Endangered Languages Documentation Programme” (ELDP) en la Universidad de Londres\, ambos en el Reino Unido. \nThis talk will be in Spanish.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/documentacion-linguistica-en-mexico/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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SUMMARY:New Articulations with James Clifford
DESCRIPTION: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 \nWith talks by Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia)\, James Clifford (UCSC)\, and Kirin Narayan (ANU)\, and a panel with Mark Anderson (UCSC)\, Chris Connery (UCSC)\, Donna Haraway (UCSC)\, Gail Hershatter (UCSC)\, Caren Kaplan (UCD)\, and Richard Rodriguez (UCR). \nProgram schedule: \n12.00 Dimitris Papadopoulos & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa\n12.15 Elizabeth Povinelli\n1.30 Light Lunch\n2.00 James Clifford\n2.45 Break\n3.00 Mark Anderson\, Chris Connery\, Donna Haraway\, Gail Hershatter\, Caren Kaplan\, Richard Rodriguez\n4.30 Break\n4.45 Kirin Narayan\n6.00 End \n\nConvened by Dimitris Papadopoulos (UCSC) & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa (UCSC) and co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, History of Consciousness\, and the Center for Cultural Studies. Please note that this event will be held in person only.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/new-articulations-with-james-clifford/
LOCATION:Humanities 1
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