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SUMMARY:Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
DESCRIPTION:Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes\, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government\, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak and to share science and knowledge on the internet. \nIn Privacy’s Defender: My Thirty-Year Fight Against Digital Surveillance (MIT Press)\, Cindy weaves her own personal story with her role as a leading legal voice representing the rights and interests of technology users\, innovators\, whistleblowers\, and researchers during the Crypto Wars of the 1990s\, battles over NSA’s dragnet internet spying revealed in the 2000s\, and the fight against FBI gag orders. \nDuring this national book tour\, Cindy will be at UC Santa Cruz to give a book talk on May 19\, 2026 from 12:00-1:30 pm. \n \nFree and open to the public with registration. This event is both in-person and virtual. \nCindy Cohn is the Executive Director of the Electronic Frontier Foundation\, which works to ensure that technology supports freedom\, justice and innovation for all the people of the world. Before becoming Executive Director a decade ago\, Cindy was the organization’s Legal Director from 2000-2015\, and led the organization’s impact litigation work on bringing balance to copyright law\, stopping mass spying and protecting freedom of expression online. She’s won many awards for her work and even more court decisions. \n\nInstitute for Social Transformation\, The Humanities Institute\, Dolores Huerta Research Center for the Americas\, The Center for Information Technology Research in the Interest of Society and the Banatao Institute (CITRIS)\, and the Security Research Lab.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/privacys-defender-fight-against-digital-surveillance-with-cindy-cohn/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Deep Read: Faculty Salon on Entangled Life
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a salon-style event at the Hay Barn on campus where our participating Deep Read faculty\, Professors Benjamin Breen (History)\, Gregory Gilbert (Environmental Studies)\, and Donna Haraway (History of Consciousness and Feminist Studies) will give brief presentations and discuss Entangled Life with the Deep Read community in a Q&A moderated by Deep Read Faculty Co-Lead\, Laura Martin. Participants can also attend virtually. \n \nIn person at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn. Doors open at 5:30pm. \nEvent Logistics: Bicycling\, carpooling\, ridesharing\, and public transportation are encouraged as parking is limited on campus. If you drive to the event\, please plan to park in UCSC Lot #115 or #116. To reach these lots\, proceed through the main entrance to campus\, continue up the hill from the information kiosk on Coolidge\, then turn right at the Ranch View/Carriage House Road stoplight into the Carriage House/Campus Facilities parking lot. The Hay Barn is a 5-minute walk across the street from the parking lot. There will be directional signage to help you get to the correct parking lot and the Hay Barn entrance. Overflow parking will be available in lot #122. View the campus parking map here. \n\n \nThe Deep Read is an annual program of The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz made possible through the generous support of the Helen and Will Webster Foundation. We invite curious minds to think deeply about books and the most pressing issues of our contemporary moment.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-deep-read-faculty-salon-on-entangled-life/
LOCATION:Virtual and In Person
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SUMMARY:Alyssa Battistoni - Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
DESCRIPTION:Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies \nAlthough capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification\, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world\, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change\, we have to understand how some things come to have value under capitalism—and how others do not. The book recovers and reinterprets the idea of the free gift of nature used by classical economic thinkers to describe what we gratuitously obtain from the natural world\, and builds on Karl Marx’s critique of political economy to show how capitalism fundamentally treats nature as free for the taking. This novel theory of capitalism’s relationship to nature not only helps us understand contemporary ecological breakdown\, but also casts capitalism’s own core dynamics in a new light. \nAlyssa Battistoni is Assistant Professor of Political Science at Barnard College. She works and teaches on climate and environmental politics\, capitalism\, Marxism\, feminism\, and other topics in contemporary social and political thought. Alyssa is the co-author of A Planet to Win: Why We Need a Green New Deal (Verso 2019)\, and Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature (Princeton 2025)\, and her academic work has been published in the American Political Science Review\, Political Theory\, NOMOS\, Perspectives on Politics\, Contemporary Political Theory\, among other outlets. \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/alyssa-battistoni-free-gifts-capitalism-and-the-politics-of-nature/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:2026 Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities with Donna Haraway – Staying with the Trouble for Still Possible Times
DESCRIPTION:There will be refreshments from 5:00 – 5:30\, the talk at 5:30 – 7:00\, and a reception at the very end. \nThe sky has not fallen – yet. In troubled times\, this lecture joins human and more-than-human companion species to ask how to think\, really think\, without either the apocalyptic violence or salvific comfort of human exceptionalism. Revisiting themes\, images\, arguments\, and collaborations from a lifetime of feminist work and play in science studies\, biology\, cultural studies\, and arts\, Haraway asks how to tell evidence-laden\, effective stories for earthly flourishing in exterminationist times. Is it still possible to make powerful oddkin in opposition to techbro anti-immigrant pronatalism and extraterrestrial settler nationalism in order to partially heal devastated worlds together? If oddkin hold up the sky\, we have a chance. \nDonna Haraway is Distinguished Professor Emerita in the History of Consciousness Department at the University of California Santa Cruz. She earned her PhD in Biology at Yale in 1972 and writes and speaks in science and technology studies\, feminist theory\, and multispecies studies. She has served as thesis adviser for over 60 doctoral students in several disciplinary and interdisciplinary areas. At UCSC\, she is an active participant in the Science and Justice Research Center and Center for Cultural Studies. She came to UCSC from the History of Science Department at Johns Hopkins in 1980. From the beginning\, Helene Moglen\, then Dean of Humanities\, became a friend\, colleague\, and critical builder of feminist work of all kinds. \n\nThis lecture is presented by the Center for Cultural Studies and made possible by the Helene Moglen Lecture in Feminism and Humanities for the Center for Cultural Studies Endowment\, The Humanities Institute\, and the Department of Politics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/2026-helene-moglen-lecture-in-feminism-and-humanities-with-donna-haraway-staying-with-the-trouble-for-still-possible-times/
LOCATION:Cultural Center at Merrill\, Merrill Cultural Center\, UC Santa Cruz\, Merrill College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Film Screening with Raed Rafei - "Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities"
DESCRIPTION:Pre-Screening Reception: 5:30-7pm\, Communications 139 \nFilm Screening:  7-8:30\, Communications\, Studio C \nWhile living abroad\, a filmmaker returns to Tripoli\, Lebanon\, to confront a hometown that once rejected him as a queer child. With a microphone in hand\, he walks around coffee shops\, public squares\, and a park to ask the city’s inhabitants about their cultural and social beliefs and their embrace of new ideas. Gradually\, he meets a group of marginalized individuals whose eccentric life choices contradict the general lifestyle in this religiously and socially conservative city. Through intimate conversations with a communist activist\, a queer music producer\, and other unconventional characters\, Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities explores the complicated relations one forms with a hometown in crisis. This contemplative urban symphony paints a picture of a city trapped in a self-spun web\, paralyzed by a deep economic crisis\, a faltering revolution\, and a looming doomsday. \nJoin us for a screening of the film followed by a discussion between UC Santa Cruz alum\, Raed Rafei\, and Professor of Film and Digital Media\, Peter Limbrick. \nRaed (El) Rafei is a filmmaker\, scholar\, and multimedia journalist who has directed award-winning documentaries and experimental films. As a journalist\, he has worked for international publications like the Los Angeles Times and news outlets like CNN and Al-Jazeera Documentary Channel. Rafei holds a PhD in Film and Digital Media from the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and an MA in Journalism from the City University of New York Graduate School of Journalism. He is an Assistant Professor of Film and Media Studies at the University of Pittsburgh and his research focuses on queer cinema in the Arab region and its diasporas. His films\, which include Tripoli: A Tale of Three Cities\, 74 (The Reconstitution of a Struggle) and Al-Atlal (The Ruins)\, have screened at international film festivals and venues like IDFA\, the Centre Pompidou in Paris\, Doc Lisboa\, Visions du Réel\, and the Pacific Film Archives in Berkeley. \n\nPresented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa and co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-tripoli-a-tale-of-three-cities/
LOCATION:Communications 150\, Studio C
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SUMMARY:Laura Van Broekhoven - Indigenous-Led Regenerative Partnerships: Reframing Museum Ethics for Reconciliation and Societal Healing
DESCRIPTION:For over a decade\, the Pitt Rivers Museum has engaged in sustained\, collaborative work with Indigenous peoples whose cultural belongings\, acquired through histories of dispossession and colonial violence\, are now held in Oxford. Part of the work has helped reposition the museum as a site of cultural care rather than a repository of extracted\, well-preserved “assets.” Drawing on four recent projects that have prioritised listening and collaboration grounded in Indigenous self-determination—including “Maasai: Living Cultures\,” “Naga: A Path Home\,” “Shuar: Proyecto Tsantsa\,” and “Evenki: Wandering in Other Worlds”—Prof. Van Broekhoven explores how Indigenous-led partnerships can enable transformational change through shifting power dynamics on an institutional and societal level. \nThis lecture examines how Indigenous-led partnerships challenge entrenched academic norms that privilege written documentation over Indigenous knowledge systems. In some contexts\, communities have chosen not repatriation but cultural care\, reconciliation\, and processes of peace-building through reparative justice\, using collaboration as a catalyst to renew and strengthen their own governance structures and to address internal inequities shaped by colonial histories. In others\, existing peace-making frameworks have been reactivated to collectively confront the enduring impact of colonialism and to imagine pathways for recovery and decolonising the present. Across these contexts\, regenerative partnerships can support peace\, healing\, and structural repair\, even as such shifts may be experienced as loss by those long accustomed to institutional advantage. \nLaura Van Broekhoven is the Director of the Pitt Rivers Museum and Professor of Museum Studies\, Ethics\, and Material Culture at the University of Oxford. As a member of the Colonial Collections Committee\, she advises the Dutch Ministry of Culture on repatriation. She is an international authority on museum ethics and the development of new praxis in the field of ethnographic museums\, especially with regards to redress and repatriation\, always working through partnership. At the 2022 European Museum of the Year Awards\, Laura was awarded the Kenneth Hudson Award for Institutional Courage and Professional Integrity by the European Museum Forum as recognition of four museum directors for their ‘”personal courage and professional integrity in their continuous contributions to developing a new global ethics for museums\, addressing the urgent and contentious issues of decolonization\, restitution\, reparation\, and repatriation.” In May 2025\, Laura won the “Making a difference globally” VC award and the Museum+Heritage ‘Partnership of the Year’ award for the groundbreaking Maasai Living Cultures project.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/prof-dr-laura-van-broekhoven-indigenous-led-regenerative-partnerships-reframing-museum-ethics-for-reconciliation-and-societal-healing/
LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\,  Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Living Writers with Terri Witek
DESCRIPTION:In Nourishment\, Us. \nTerri Witek (Stetson University Emeritus). Poet/Visual Artist \nLiving Writers Spring 2026: Our Nourishment\, US features poets\, writers\, critics\, visual and performance artists\, who demonstrate how writing and art enacts around the idea of freedom and the imaginary in the face of the constant threat of terror and erasure. In the presence of who we all are within marginalized yet expansively powerful fields of racialized and multiply lived complex and diverse identities\, please come as we convene in spirit\, deep celebration\, and resource with one another. \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-terri-witek/
LOCATION:Humanities Lecture Hall\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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