BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20200308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20201101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20210314T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20211107T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200504T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20200114T184619Z LAST-MODIFIED:20200414T202212Z UID:10005687-1588608000-1588615200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Nancy Luxon - Switch Points of Power: Psychodynamics of state legitimation and neoauthoritarianism DESCRIPTION:Recent political trends not just in the United States but globally have led to speculation about the resurgence of authoritarianism and an “authoritarian personality.” As the usual orientations of Left and Right held in place by a liberal status quo begin to falter\, social science looks for new frameworks through which to describe these political phenomena and to analyze the kind of challenge they pose to existing liberal or neoliberal institutions. With this paper\, I argue that these contemporary political currents revive older debates about state legitimation and the terms on which to construe “the people.” In the wake of a neoliberalism has reduced political and moral vocabularies to a financial language of risk and exposure\, politics seeks new sources of psycho-social investment that would reframe classic relations of care and obligation. To think through this political conjuncture\, I draw on Michel Foucault and the relational school of psychoanalysis. I argue that these contemporary political trends direct us towards those “switch points of power” in which relations of power have become unstable and thus capable of being redirected. These switch points potentially open up for revision those authorial practices that sustain or undo the status quo. \n\nNancy Luxon is an associate professor in Political Science at the University of Minnesota\, Twin Cities. Her work in contemporary political and social theory concentrates on questions of power\, subjectivity\, and truth-telling. She came to these themes from a preoccupation with those practices that organize the interstices of political spaces – namely\, the spaces between personal and political practices\, between political conditions of possibility and psychic interiority\, and between past and future. Her first book\, Crisis of Authority (2013)\, considers political authority as a political and psychological process in which individuals come to author themselves\, and so to act within and against relations of hierarchy. More recently\, she has edited a translation of Arlette Farge and Michel Foucault’s Disorderly Families (2017)\, along with a companion scholarly volume\, Archives of Infamy (2019)\, and Foucault’s lectures at Berkeley\, Discourse and Truth (2019). Her current work is on Fanon and désaliénation. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nancy-luxon/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191121T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190821T174915Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191107T190253Z UID:10006765-1574352000-1574359200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dylan Riley: Capitalism\, Democracy\, and Authoritarianism - A Reconsideration  DESCRIPTION:Dylan Riley is Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Berkeley. He is the author of The Civic Foundations of Fascism in Europe: Italy\, Spain\, and Romania 1870-1945 (Johns Hopkins University Press\, 2010\, Verso\, 2019). He is also the co-author of a two-volume work with Rebecca Jean Emigh and Patricia Ahmed entitled Antecedents of Censuses: From Medieval to Nation States and Changes in Censuses: From Imperialism to Welfare States (Palgrave 2016). In addition to these books\, he has published articles in the American Journal of Sociology\, American Sociological Review\, Catalyst\, Comparative Sociology\, Contemporary Sociology\, Comparative Studies in Society and History\, Social Science History\, The Socio-Economic Review and the New Left Review (of which he is a member of the editorial committee). His work has been translated into German\, Portuguese\, Russian\, and Spanish. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dylan-john-riley-neo-authoritarianism-cluster/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T093000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191011T170000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190919T213514Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T175743Z UID:10006777-1570786200-1570813200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED) DESCRIPTION: URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/democratic-interpellations-conference/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191010T183000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190722T185625Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191010T175549Z UID:10006757-1570712400-1570732200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED) DESCRIPTION:Please note: this is a two-day event. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-practices-key-note/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190415T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190114T191807Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173455Z UID:10005559-1555344000-1555351200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Bernard Harcourt: "The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) at the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Socialesin Paris. \nBernard Harcourt’s writings examine modes of governing in our digital age\, especially in the post 9/11 period. Harcourt is the author most recently of The Counterrevolution: How Our Government Went to War Against Its Own Citizens (Basic Books\, 2018)\, where he documents our recent turn to the counterinsurgency warfare paradigm as a way of governing populations at home and abroad. He traces the birth of what he calls our “expository society” in Exposed: Desire and Disobedience in the Digital Age (Harvard 2015). He is the author\, recently as well\, of The Illusion of Free Markets: Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order (Harvard 2011)\, and Occupy: Three Inquiries in Disobedience with Michael Taussig and W.J.T. Mitchell (Chicago 2013). Earlier books include Against Prediction: Profiling\, Policing and Punishing in an Actuarial Age (Chicago 2007)\, Language of the Gun: Youth\, Crime\, and Public Policy(Chicago 2005)\, and Illusion of Order: The False Promise Of Broken Windows Policing (Harvard 2001). \nBernard Harcourt is also an editor of the works of Michel Foucault. He recently edited the French edition of Michel Foucault’s 1972-73 lectures at the Collège de France\, La Société punitive (Gallimard 2013) and the 1971-1972 lectures\, Theories et institutions pénales (Gallimard 2015). He is also the editor of the new Pléiade edition of Surveiller et punirin the collected works of Foucault at Gallimard (2016). He is co-editor with Fabienne Brion of the lectures Foucault delivered at Louvain in 1981\, in French and English\, Wrong-Doing\, Truth-Telling: The Function of Avowal in Justice (Chicago 2014). He is currently working on Foucault’s lectures on Nietzsche for the next series of lecture publications by Gallimard/Le Seuil called Cours et Travaux. \nA passionate advocate for justice\, Bernard Harcourt started his legal career representing death row inmates\, working with Bryan Stevenson at what is now the Equal Justice Initiative in Montgomery\, Alabama. He lived and worked in Montgomery for several years and still today continues to represent pro bono inmates sentenced to death and life imprisonment without parole. He recently resolved the case of death row inmate Doyle Hamm. He also served on human rights missions to South Africa and Guatemala\, and actively challenged the Trump administration’s Muslim Ban\, representing pro bono a Syrian medical resident excluded under the executive order\, as well as Moseb Zeiton\, a Columbia SIPA student. \nThis event is part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bernard-hartcourt/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2019/01/Untitled-design-2.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190311T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190306T193011Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T194203Z UID:10005589-1552323600-1552330800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anne Norton; "Theses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering" DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAnne Norton is professor and department chair of political science at the University of Pennsylvania. Dr. Norton is the author of seven books\, including On the Muslim Question and 95 Theses on Politics\, Culture and Method. She is Co-Founding Editor of the journal Theory and Event and on the executive board of the journal Political Theory. Her present work concerns problems of property and democracy. \nTheses on Democracy or\, The People\, Steering \n1. The practice of democracy is being toward death.\n2. Democracy requires courage.\n3. Democrats take risks.\n4. Bandits\, pirates\, outlaws and rogues are close to democracy.\n5. Authoritarianism is the enemy of democracy\, anarchy is its shadow.\n6. Anarchy is not only to be feared\, it is also a place that offers shade\, a place to rest\, a place to hide.\n(…)\n38. Democracies depend on truth.\n39. Truth prospers in democracies. Truth depends on the democratic.\n40. We are not democrats yet.\n41. Democracy is not an idyllic state\, democracy is a struggle.\n42. Each democracy is distinct.\n(…) \nThis is an event part of the After Neoliberalism research cluster \nNext event: Monday\, April 15th Bernard Harcourt URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anne-norton-theses-democracy-people-steering/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T170000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190304T190000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20181109T002338Z LAST-MODIFIED:20190408T192841Z UID:10006686-1551718800-1551726000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nNumerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique\, including Marxism\, feminism\, and Critical Race Theory. But do we ‘own’ ourselves in any meaningful or politically productive sense? This lecture considers the dilemmas involved in this question with particular reference to the Black Radical Tradition\, situating it within the broader framework of ‘dispossession’. \nRobert Nichols is a McKnight Land-Grant Professor and Associate Professor in the Department of Political Science at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities). His areas of research specialization include contemporary political theory (especially Critical Theory\, Marx and Marxism\, Foucault); the history of political thought (especially pertaining to imperialism and colonialism in the 19th century); and the contemporary politics of settler colonialism and indigeneity in the Anglo-American world. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neoliberalism-cluster-robert-nichols/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/11/Obnoxious-Liberals-Jean-Michel-Basquiat.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190208T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20190114T191113Z LAST-MODIFIED:20191216T232507Z UID:10006699-1549634400-1549648800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Elizabeth Allen: "Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" DESCRIPTION:“Sanctuary and Medieval Kings” – Elizabeth Allen  \nAmerican nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”\, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities\, universities\, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages\, felons could avoid death by running to the church\, and kings bolstered their sacral power by protecting them. At the same time\, those who seek sanctuary exerted an influence upon their kings “from below\,” calling upon them to live up to the role of merciful monarch. Examining medieval chronicles of a fallen justiciar and an infamous breach of sanctuary\, this talk will offer a provocation to contemporary ideas about both kingship itself and  sanctuary as a ‘weak’ form of social protest. \n“A Constellation of Moments: Walter Benjamin on the Middle Ages\, Sanctuary\, and the Current Emergency” – James R Martel  \nAlso featuring:\nStephen David Engel\nVeronika Zablotsky \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nCo-Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elizabeth-allen/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181026T180000 DTSTAMP:20260430T010929 CREATED:20181015T203403Z LAST-MODIFIED:20181031T183147Z UID:10006669-1540548000-1540576800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n10:00 am – 12:00 pm \nSession 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas \n“Re-rooting ‘We Refugees’: Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil” – Dr. Scott Ritner \n“Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective” – Hannes Glück \n“Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times” – Veronika Zablotsky \n12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break \n1:30-3:30 pm \nSession 2: Chair: Prof. Max Tomba \n“Borders and Crossings:  Lessons of the 1980s Central American Solidarity Movement for 2010s Sanctuary Practices” – Prof. Susan Coutin (skype) \n“History\, Sense\, Sanctuary: The Time-Lapse Politics of Church Asylum” – Key MacFarland \n“Hotspot Geopolitics versus Geosocial Solidarity: Contending Constructions of Safe Space for Migrants in Europe” – Prof. Katharyne Mitchell and Prof. Matthew Sparke \n3:30-4:00 pm: Coffee break \n4:00-6:00pm  \nSession 3: Keynote Address\n“Time\, Sanctuary\, and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison” – Prof. Anne McNevin \n6:00-8:00 pm \nDinner at the Cowell Provost’s House URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sanctuary-subjectivity-practices-workshop/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR