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SUMMARY:Mizanur Rahman--The Mass Uprisings in Bangladesh: Youth Mobilization\, Political Possibility\, and Precarity
DESCRIPTION:Bangladesh’s recent student-led mass uprising which ousted the longstanding autocrat\, Sheikh Hasina\, from office is widely considered to have ushered in a new era in Bangladesh politics. How did the uprising\, which began with a demand for student’s job quota reform\, unfold\, and eventually turn into a mass movement? What political possibilities and precarities lie ahead for post-uprising Bangladesh? What united people of different religions\, regions\, castes\, classes\, and generations to fight against authoritarian rule? What inspired them to fearlessly confront state violence and sacrifice their lives? This talk will treat these questions about recent and unfolding political events in Bangladesh and suggest that the mass uprising has been a struggle to reclaim people’s sovereignty and to recover their right to speak and reinstate their dignity. \nMd Mizanur Rahman is a PhD candidate in Politics at UC Santa Cruz. His research focuses on liberalism and its critics\, Islamic political thought\, and religion and politics in South Asia. He is particularly interested in Bangladesh politics and has written on debates concerning Islam\, modernity\, and the politics of Islamic seminaries in Bangladesh. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for Cultural Studies
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mizanur-rahman-the-mass-uprisings-in-bangladesh-youth-mobilization-political-possibility-and-precarity/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20231018T120000
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SUMMARY:Martina Broner – From Arboreal to Aerial: Seeing the Amazon from Above
DESCRIPTION:Can seeing the Amazon from above bring about new perspectives on the forest at a critical time? This talk proposes that the documentary Helena Sarayaku manta (dir. Eriberto Gualinga\, 2021) rethinks the aerial view by pushing against its historical associations with omniscience and a desire for mastery and by reframing it instead around the vitality of the forest in a site that resists exploitation: the Indigenous territory of Sarayaku in the Ecuadorian Amazon. As I examine the role of trees in the film’s production\, I argue that Helena Sarayaku manta achieves this new aerial grammar through an attunement to the arboreal. \nMartina Broner’s research sits at the intersection of Latin American cinema and media studies and the environmental humanities. Her book manuscript\, “Forest Formats: Media and Environment in the Amazon\,” examines new media formats that emerge from entanglements between human and other living entities in the transnational Amazon rainforest. She is assistant professor in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese at Dartmouth. \n \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ccs-colloquium-with-martina-broner/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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SUMMARY:Nick Mitchell – The University in Surplus Perspective\, 1945-1968
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to historicize higher education without taking its basic categories for granted? In this talk\, I aim to provide a historical and theoretical framework for the emergence of mass higher education in the twentieth century U.S. framed by the problem of surpluses—population\, labor\, and governance capacity. Faced with the prospect of mass unemployment in the wake of the second world war\, U.S. state-making found in the university a means of putting wartime budget surpluses to work in an effort to absorb demobilized population and labor surpluses. The category of the college student emerges in this period as a means of anticipating and managing the potential crises attendant to modern warfare. But as it develops\, it does not remain there. The university as a site for the absorption of surplus emerges as a site for the struggle over how and toward what ends surplus time—time free of and freed from the wage—might be used. \nNick Mitchell (she/her) works in the Department of Feminist Studies and the Department of Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz. As a researcher\, Mitchell is principally engaged the status with higher education in the U.S. as a problem for historical and theoretical inquiry. As a writer\, Mitchell aims to make better sense of university life-worlds by developing scales\, vocabularies\, and categories to reframe and rethink its rhythms and textures. These research and writing efforts can be found in essays published in Feminist Studies\, Critical Ethnic Studies\, The New Inquiry\, and Spectre\, as well as in two forthcoming books: “Discipline and Surplus: Black Studies\, Women’s Studies\, and the Dawn of Neoliberalism” (under contract with Duke University Press) and “The University\, in Theory: Essays on Institutionalized Knowledge.” \n \n  \n  \n  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. We gather at 12:00 PM\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. \nStaff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nick-mitchell-the-university-in-surplus-perspective-1945-1968/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201202T120000
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SUMMARY:In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
DESCRIPTION:IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind\, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island – Productions on Vimeo. \nJoin the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film\, In Vitro\, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. \nIn Vitro is a 2-channel Arabic-language sci-fi film filmed in black and white. It is set in the aftermath of an eco-disaster. An abandoned nuclear reactor under the biblical town of Bethlehem has been converted into an enormous orchard. Using heirloom seeds collected in the final days before the apocalypse\, a group of scientists are preparing to replant the soil above. \nIn the hospital wing of the underground compound\, the orchard’s ailing founder\, 70-year-old Alia\, played by Hiam Abbass\, is lying in her deathbed\, as 30-year-old Alia\, played by Maisa Abd Elhadi\, comes to visit her. Alia is born underground as part of a comprehensive cloning program and has never seen the town she’s destined to rebuild. \nThe talk between the two scientists soon evolves into an intimate dialogue about memory\, exile and nostalgia. Central to their discussion is the intricate relationship between past\, present and future\, with the Bethlehem setting providing a narratively\, politically and symbolically charged backdrop. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, December 2nd to receive Zoom link and password. \n \n______________________________________________________________________________________________ \nLarissa Sansour was born in 1973 in East Jerusalem\, Palestine\, and studied fine arts in London\, New York and Copenhagen. Central to her work is the dialectics between myth and historical narrative. In her recent works\, she uses science fiction to address social and political issues. Working mainly with film\, Sansour also produces installations\, photos and sculptures. \nSansour’s work is shown in film festivals and museums worldwide. In 2019\, she represented Denmark at the 58th Venice Biennial. She has shown her work at Tate Modern\, MoMA\, Centre Pompidou and the Istanbul Biennial. Recent solo exhibitions include Copenhagen Contemporary in Denmark\, Bluecoat in Liverpool\, Bildmuseet in Umeå and Dar El-Nimer in Beirut. Sansour currently lives and works in London\, UK. \nSoren Lind (b. 1970) is a Danish author\, artist\, director and scriptwriter. With a background in philosophy\, Lind wrote books on mind\, language and understanding before turning to art\, film and fiction. He has published novels\, shorts story collections and several children’s books. \nLind screens and exhibits his films at museums\, galleries and film festivals worldwide. His work was shown at the Danish Pavilion at the 58th Venice Biennial. Other recent venues and festivals include Copenhagen Contemporary (DK)\, MoMA (US)\, Barbican (UK)\, Nikolaj Kunsthal (DK)\, Berlinale (D)\, International Film Festival Rotterdam (NL) and BFI London Film Festival (UK). He lives and works in London. \nThis event is part of The Humanities Institute’s yearlong series on Memory. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould & Savannah Shange - The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about the weeks\, months\, and years to come. Gina Dent\, Debbie Gould\, and Savannah Shange will start off the conversation. And if it makes more sense to take to the streets on this Wednesday\, then that’s what we’ll do. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, November 4th to receive Zoom link and password. \nFrom Fair Fight: for voters who plan to vote by mail\, you should request your ballot now so that you have plenty of time to receive and return it\, by going to www.vote.org. If your state offers ballot tracking\, you will be able to track your application and ballot from vote.org. You can find information on how to return your ballot\, including drop boxes and other methods\, on vote.org. \nIf you plan to vote in person\, Fair Fight strongly recommends that you vote early if your state offers early voting. To make your early vote plan\, visit https://www.vote.org/early-voting-calendar/. If your state does not offer early voting\, visit https://www.vote.org/polling-place-locator/ to find your Election Day polling location. \n\nGina Dent is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Legal Studies at UC Santa Cruz. She writes and teaches on race\, feminism\, popular culture\, and visual art\, and her current book project — Prison as a Border and Other Essays\, on popular culture and the conditions of knowledge — grows out of her work as an advocate for human rights and prison abolition. \nDebbie Gould is Associate Professor of Sociology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of Moving Politics: Emotion and ACT UP’s Fight Against Aids (2009)\, and works on political emotion and affect\, social movements and contentious politics\, and feminist and queer theory. She was involved in ACT UP/Chicago for many years and was a founding member of the research/art/activist collaborative group\, Feel Tank Chicago\, most famous for its International Parades of the Politically Depressed. \nSavannah Shange is an urban anthropologist who works at the intersections of race\, place\, sexuality\, and the state. She is author of Progressive Dystopia: Abolition\, AntiBlackness\, and Schooling in San Francisco (2019) and is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz\, with research interests in circulated and lived forms of blackness\, ethnographic ethics\, Afro-pessimism\, and queer of color critique. \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20201028T120000
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SUMMARY:Anna Tsing - Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
DESCRIPTION:A collection of maps\, a game\, an archive\, an analysis\, a meditation on life on Earth: Feral Atlas is the cumulation of a five-year curatorial project involving more than a hundred scientists\, humanists\, poets\, and artists. Stretching the concept of the map\, the atlas shows how imperial and industrial infrastructures have had world-ripping effects on the ways humans and nonhumans live together. A diversity of observers\, from Indigenous elders to research scientists\, bring us beyond transcendent terror and hope into the present. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 28th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz. She is the author of The Mushroom at the End of the World (2015)\, Friction: An Ethnography of Global Connection (2005)\, and In the Realm of the Diamond Queen (1994). Tsing is the recipient of a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Niels Bohr Professorship for a multi-year project on the Anthropocene. She is interested in multi-species anthropology; social landscapes and forest ethnoecologies; globalization; feminist theory; and multi-sited ethnography. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Gerald Casel - Not About Race Dance
DESCRIPTION:During this “talk\,” the artists/collaborators and Gerald Casel will share their recent recent choreographic explorations during COVID-19 based on their latest work\, Not About Race Dance. \nNot About Race Dance is a collaborative\, choreographic response to the homoraciality that haunts US American postmodern dance. The work’s title reflects its primary impetus\, Neil Greenberg’s Not About AIDS Dance (1994)\, which discursively refused the project’s central focus to underscore its appeal for public acknowledgment of the lived experiences and losses of the AIDS crisis. Not About Race Dance employs this central paradox to call attention to how whiteness historically formed the structures\, experiences\, and experiments of postmodern choreographers; whiteness is the “not race” that Not About Race Dance exposes as a durable history and dominant social structure perpetuated through modern and contemporary dance practices. \nNot About Race Dance further contests the structural endurance of white postmodernity by disidentifying with the white cube activated by Trisha Brown’s Locus (1975). The dance’s adaptations of Greenberg and Brown’s choreographic devices are intended to raise questions around the racial politics of mimesis\, or what Homi Bhabha refers to as “colonial mimicry.” Moving beyond the politics of representation\, Not About Race Dance thus poses a common conundrum faced by artists of color whose work is often positioned in opposition to or on the margins of the dominant through a false binary that simultaneously reclaims the sanctity of the center. By deliberately occupying a space that has historically been defined by white artists\, this dance asks if and how difference can be made visible through choreographic structures and processes that do not necessarily make space for brown and black bodies. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 21st to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nGerald Casel is a dance artist\, performance maker\, cultural activator\, and educator. As a queer\, immigrant\, artist of color\, he is proud to be a first-generation college graduate. He serves as the Provost of Porter College and is an Associate Professor of Dance at UC Santa Cruz. Casel is the artistic director of GERALDCASELDANCE. His choreographic research and social practice converge to complicate and provoke questions surrounding colonialism\, collective cultural amnesia\, whiteness and privilege\, and the tensions between the invisible/perceived/obvious structures of power. He and his collaborators imagine alternative futures beyond the one that is being determined by our current economy and social structures of inequity. A graduate of The Juilliard School with an MFA from UW-Milwaukee\, Casel received a Bessie award for dancing in the companies of Michael Clark\, Stephen Petronio\, Zvi Gotheiner\, and Stanley Love. His choreography has been presented by Danspace Project at St. Mark’s Church\, Dance Theater Workshop\, The Yard\, ODC Theater\, YBCA\, Dancebase Edinburgh\, Kuan Du Arts Festival Taiwan\, and has been developed in residencies at The Bogliasco Foundation\, The National Center for Choreography-Akron\, ODC Theater\, and CHIME. Dancing Around Race\, a community engagement process that interrogates racial inequity in the San Francisco Bay Area and beyond continues to grow under his leadership. Casel’s Not About Race Dance has been awarded a National Dance Project grant\, which will be in residence at the Maggie Allesee National Center for Choreography and will premiere at CounterPulse in 2021 with a forthcoming tour.  www.geraldcasel.com \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Samia Khatun — Race\, Gender & New Epistemic Grounds: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Desert Australia
DESCRIPTION:At the forefront of white nationalist border regimes\, the Australian nation-state has long operated as an Anglo imperial outpost in the Indian Ocean world. If we look at Aboriginal language archives about South Asians\, however\, we see alternative epistemic grounds and spatial imaginations on which we can situate historical storytelling about race\, gender\, and migration. This presentation will follow two Muslim men into Australian deserts\, where they encountered two Aboriginal sisters waiting for a train at a lonely railway station c.1897. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 14th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nSamia Khatun became a feminist historian because she once lost her way to a mathematics lecture at the University of Sydney. Since then\, Khatun has chased truths about the past in Sydney\, Antigua\, Kolkata\, Istanbul\, Berlin\, New York\, Dunedin\, Melbourne\, London\, and Dhaka. She researches the life-worlds of people colonised by the British Empire and her documentaries have screened on ABC and SBS-TV in Australia. She is the new Chair for the Centre for Gender Studies at SOAS\, London. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Virtual Event
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SUMMARY:Kelly Gillespie\, Asher Gamedze & Rasigan Maharajh — Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid (film screening + discussion)
DESCRIPTION:Two radical collectives in South Africa working inside and outside the academy to agitate against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on earth. This 50-minute film looks at how the promises of redistribution in the anti-apartheid liberation movement were foreclosed during the transition out of apartheid in South Africa. The film features three left economists who were active in the anti-apartheid movement but have lived through a transition in which the promise and idea of redistribution was abandoned as South Africa inserted a post-apartheid project into global processes of financialization and neoliberalization. \nWe will screen the film and then discuss it with filmmakers Asher Gamedze and Kelly Gillespie and featured economist Rasigan Maharajh. \nRSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday\, October 7th to receive Zoom link and password. \n \nKelly Gillespie is a political and legal anthropologist and cultural worker with a research focus on criminal justice and abolition in South Africa. She works at the department of Anthropology at the University of the Western Cape. She writes and teaches about urbanism\, violence\, sexualities\, race\, and the praxis of social justice. In 2008 she co-founded the Johannesburg Workshop in Theory and Criticism (JWTC). \nAsher Gamedze is a cultural worker based in Cape Town\, South Africa\, working mainly as a musician\, student\, and writer. He is also involved\, as an organiser and an educator\, with various cultural and political collectives such as Fulan Fulan\, The Interim\, and Radical Education Network. His debut album\, dialectic soul\, was released in July 2020. \nRasigan Maharajh is an activist scholar whose research focuses on the political economy of innovation and development\, including the changing world of work\, democratic governance\, and ecological reconstruction. He is the founding Chief Director of the Institute for Economic Research on Innovation based at the Tshwane University of Technology and Professor Extraordinary of the Centre for Research on Evaluation\, Science and Technology at Stellenbosch University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.* \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n*2020-2021 colloquia will be held virtually until further notice. Attendees are encouraged to bring their own coffee\, tea\, and cookies to the session.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/virtual-cultural-studies-colloquium/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200527T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-6/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200520T133000
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SUMMARY:VIRTUAL: Special Session - World Without Clouds
DESCRIPTION:World Without Clouds: an experimental work by Steven Gonzalez (MIT)\, Jia Hui Lee (MIT)\, Luísa Reis-Castro (MIT)\, Gabrielle Robbins (MIT)\, and Julianne Yip (Independent Scholar). \nWorld Without Clouds is an experimental\, multi-modal piece of speculative fiction filmed only with smartphone cameras. The story revolves around five anthropologists in the years 2045-50 who are trying to save clouds from going extinct. As climate change and authoritarian governments take over the Earth\, these “salvage nephologists” invent an Ontology Machine to communicate with the last remaining clouds\, hoping the clouds will “speak back” and offer a cloud-centered way to save clouds from dying out. The story draws inspiration from science fiction’s ability to experiment and make us aware of our epistemic limitations. The creators blend storytelling and academic scholarship in a way that refuses easy categorization into individual-authored research. They ask what kinds of new (cloud) formations might appear in the future. And they flirt—critically—with possible anthropological logics that are rooted in century-long practices of ethnographic documentation and salvation. \nWe will start on Zoom\, then watch the 30-minute film synchronously on a separate site\, and then reconvene on Zoom with the creators for a discussion. Donna Haraway will kick off the conversation. \nRSVP below by 10 AM on Wednesday\, May 20th to receive Zoom link and password.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/special-session-world-without-clouds/
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200513T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200506T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200429T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200422T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Cultural Studies Colloquium: Matthew Engelke
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-matthew-engelke/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20200415T130000
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SUMMARY:CANCELLED - Cultural Studies Colloquium: Christiana Giordana
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-christiana-giordana/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191113T133000
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SUMMARY:LOCATION CHANGE David Biggs: Archipelagic Vietnam - Rethinking Nationalism From the Shoreline
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP for the Cultural Studies Colloquium location \nUntil recent conflicts over islands in the South China Sea\, Vietnam’s history was described in terrestrial terms. Vietnam’s nationalist struggles\, we were told\, involved epic battles with American and other troops in highland jungles and city streets; and the nation’s territorial expansion from Hanoi happened in two directions: southward and uphill. The sea\, as so many history books taught\, was a nothing space where foreign invasions began. Vietnam’s geo-body was tied to a Westphalian notion of sovereignty reified in so many books and maps. Real sovereignty in Vietnam\, however\, was and still is relational. Topologies of trade\, commerce\, migration and communication have for centuries defined where “Vietnam” begins and so many other cultures and ecologies taper off. Rather than assume a closed model\, this talk reimagines Vietnam as an archipelago\, a more permeable nation-system of nodes linked by flows of energy\, food\, people and technology moving from the sea to the mountains and spaces beyond. Drawing from his recently published book\, Footprints of War: Militarized Landscapes in Vietnam (Washington\, 2018)\, environmental historian David Biggs conducts an archipelagic history tour along Vietnam’s central coast with stops in the ancient\, early modern\, colonial and post-colonial past. \nDavid Biggs is a Professor of History at the University of California\, Riverside\, specializing in twentieth century environmental history with an area focus on Vietnam and Southeast Asia. His first book\, Quagmire: Nation-Building and Nature\, won the 2011 George Perkins Marsh Prize in Environmental History; and his essays have appeared in such venues as the Journal of Asian Studies\, Technology and Culture and the New York Times. He is currently working on a trans-Pacific history of the mid-twentieth century. \n  \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-david-biggs/
LOCATION:CA\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191106T133000
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SUMMARY:Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium - Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred
DESCRIPTION:Church sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe\, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred\, and the collective memory of this practice as an alternative form of justice\, still has a powerful legacy. In citing past sanctuary ideals and practices\, from medieval asylum law to recent sanctuary movements on behalf of refugees\, faith-based actors draw on these memories to reactivate older traditions of insurgent citizenship. In this talk\, Mitchell explores the critical role of space\, collective memory and non-secular webs of belief in these current challenges to orthodox assumptions of state sovereignty. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nKatharyne Mitchell is Dean of the Social Sciences and Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. Current research explores various aspects of migration and religion. Recent books include Making Workers: Radical Geographies of Education (Pluto Press\, 2018)\, and the co-edited Handbook on Critical Geographies of Migration (Edward Elgar\, 2019). Mitchell is the author of over 100 articles and book chapters and the recipient of grants from the MacArthur Foundation\, Spencer Foundation\, and National Science Foundation. The research for this talk was made possible by a Guggenheim Fellowship. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-katharyne-mitchell/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191030T133000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
DESCRIPTION:“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear”\nUnder what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s mind when\, in his revolutionary classic Annihilation of Caste (1936)\, he coins the phrase “armed neutrality?” In this lecture\, building on a new constellation of thinkers in political theory\, Kumar develops the fundamental insight that Ambedkar\, Hannah Arendt\, and Judith Shklar\, in conceptually different ways and with radically different moral psychological consequences\, offer on today’s insoluble democratic impasse: that the most catastrophic effect of social inequality is not merely a betrayal of our constitutional compact to justice but a weaponization of a new form of political cruelty. What is this new cruelty? And what kind of constitutional courage– a re-articulation of dignity– might today be necessary to retrieve our freedom? \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAishwary Kumar is an intellectual historian and political theorist with interests in South Asian\, European\, and American political thought. His work spans a wide spectrum of issues in moral and political philosophy\, constitutional theory and political justice\, war and ethics\, empire and liberalism\, and the history of democratic thought and rights. Kumar’s first book\, Radical Equality: Ambedkar\, Gandhi\, and the Risk of Democracy (Stanford\, 2015; Delhi\, 2019)\, was listed by The Indian Express among the fifteen most important works on politics\, morality\, and law to be published anywhere that year. His essays have appeared\, among other places\, in Modern Intellectual History\, Contemporary South Asia\, Social History\, Indian Economic and Social History Review\, and Public Culture. He has also been featured on the radio shows Entitled Opinions and Philosophy Talk. Kumar is currently working on two related book-length studies. The first\, titled “The Sovereign Void: Ambedkar’s Critique of Violence\,” examines the genealogies of political freedom and war in Southern and Atlantic political thought\, and their relation to notions of “force” across epistemological\, theological\, and secular traditions. The second\, titled “The Gravity of Truth: Disenchantment\, Disappointment\, Democracy\,” takes the Obama Presidency as its starting point to explore the place of moral and political judgment in the global constitutional imagination. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-aishwary-kumar/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191023T133000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus
DESCRIPTION:“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon\, Palestine and Hollywood\, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri” \nThis paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director\, Ziad Doueiri. Doueiri broke the 1955 Boycott Law by shooting a film in Israel\, using Israeli and Palestinian actors. The film was then banned across the all the countries of the Arab League. Marcus argues that his case compelled the law to define the terms around which a cultural object should be subject to a boycott\, and she investigates the intersections between old laws\, new global movements\, and state sovereignty. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nElizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program at Stanford University and a British Academy Postdoctoral Fellow at the University of Leeds. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. Her research focuses on the literatures as well as the intellectual and cultural history of the Francophone and Arab world with a particular interest in the relationship between language and cultural politics\, intellectual networks\, and migration in the afterlife of the French Empire. Her current manuscript\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, 1943-1975\, uncovers the response of local actors to the unique period of transition Lebanon at the end of the French mandate to the beginning of the civil war in 1975. During her time as a British Academy Fellow\, she will start her second project\, Paris and the Global University: International Students and Cultural Internationalism at the Cité Universitaire\, 1945-1975\, which looks at how the Cité internationale Universitaire\, a residential campus in the Parisian outskirts\, became a crucible of left and right-wing transnational political and cultural activism during the Trente Glorieuses (1945-1975). \n The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-elizabeth-marcus/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191016T133000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
DESCRIPTION:Sara Mameni “On the Terracene” \nThis talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept of the Anthropocene dates to the early 2000s–the very moment of the declaration of the War on Terror–the two modes of imagining the geopolitics of the present have yet to be considered together. Mameni coins the term “Terracene” as an entry point into considering the condition of the planet under terror. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSara Mameni is the director of Aesthetics and Politics program and faculty in the school of Critical Studies at California Institute of the Arts. She received her PhD in Art History from University of California San Diego in 2015 and was a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz in 2016/2017. Her specialization is contemporary art in the Arab/Muslim world with a focus on queer of color theory. Her current research explores biopolitics\, racial discourse in the Anthropocene\, post-humanist aesthetics and the geo-ecological age of petroleum. \nFree and open to the public. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-anjali-arondekar-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191015T180000
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SUMMARY:David Eng: Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation - On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
DESCRIPTION:Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book\, Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press\, 2019)\, co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation X to Generation Y. Combining critical race theory with several strands of psychoanalytic thought and clinical practice\, Eng and Han develop the concepts of racial melancholia and racial dissociation to investigate changing processes of loss associated with immigration\, displacement\, diaspora\, and assimilation. These case studies of first- and second-generation Asian Americans deal with a range of difficulties\, from depression\, suicide\, and the politics of coming out to broader issues of the model minority stereotype\, transnational adoption\, parachute children\, colorblind discourses in the United States\, and the rise of Asia under globalization. Throughout\, Eng and Han link psychoanalysis to larger structural and historical phenomena\, illuminating how the study of psychic processes of individuals can inform investigations of race\, sexuality\, and immigration while creating a more sustained conversation about the social lives of Asian Americans and Asians in the diaspora. \nDavid L. Eng is Richard L. Fisher Professor of English at the University of Pennsylvania. He is also Professor in the Program in Asian American Studies\, the Program in Comparative Literature & Literary Theory\, and the Program in Gender\, Sexuality & Women’s Studies. After receiving his B.A. in English from Columbia University and his Ph.D. in comparative literature from the University of California at Berkeley\, he taught at Columbia and Rutgers before joining Penn in 2007. Eng has held visiting professorships at the University of Bergen (Norway)\, King’s College London\, Harvard University\, and the University of Hong Kong. He is the recipient of research fellowships from the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, the Helsinki Collegium for Advanced Studies\, and the Mellon Foundation\, among others. In 2016\, Eng was elected an honorary member of the Institute for Psychoanalytic Training and Research (IPTAR) in New York City. His areas of specialization include American literature\, Asian American studies\, Asian diaspora\, critical race theory\, psychoanalysis\, queer studies\, gender studies\, and visual culture. \nEng is author with Shinhee Han of Racial Melancholia\, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke\, 2019)\, The Feeling of Kinship: Queer Liberalism and the Racialization of Intimacy (Duke\, 2010)\, and Racial Castration: Managing Masculinity in Asian America (Duke\, 2001). He is co-editor with David Kazanjian of Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California\, 2003) and with Alice Y. Hom of Q & A: Queer in Asian America (Temple\, 1998\, winner of a Lambda Literary Award and Association of Asian American Studies Book Award). In addition\, he is co-editor of two special issues of the journal Social Text: with Teemu Ruskola and Shuang Shen\, “China and the Human”  (2011/2012)\, and with Jack Halberstam and José Esteban Muñoz\, “What’s Queer about Queer Studies Now?” (2005). \nCurrently\, he is co-editing with Jasbir Puar a third special issue of Social Text\, “Left of Queer” as well as completing a monograph\, “Reparations and the Human\,” which investigates the relationship between political and psychic genealogies of reparation in Cold War Asia. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies\, Literature\, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies\, History of Consciousness\, and Feminist Studies departments.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/david-eng-racial-melancholia-racial-dissociation-on-the-social-and-psychic-lives-of-asian-americans/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20191009T133000
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SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
DESCRIPTION:“What More Remains: Sexuality\, Slavery\, Historiography” \nThis talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced?  How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit and pleasure\, than in archives of loss and trauma? How do we open a dialogue between the interdisciplinary fields of area studies and sexuality studies with an eye to understanding how histories of slavery can reshape\, even devastate\, these very field-formations? \nAnjali Arondekar is Associate Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC. Her research engages the poetics and politics of sexuality\, colonialism and historiography\, with a focus on South Asia. She is the author of For the Record: On Sexuality and the Colonial Archive in India (Duke University Press\, 2009\, Orient Blackswan\, India\, 2010)\, winner of the Alan Bray Memorial Book Award for best book in lesbian\, gay\, or queer studies in literature and cultural studies\, Modern Language Association (MLA)\, 2010. She is co-editor (with Geeta Patel) of “Area Impossible: The Geopolitics of Queer Studies\,” GLQ: A Journal of Lesbian and Gay Studies (2016). Her talk is an excerpt from her forthcoming book\, Abundance: On Sexuality and Historiography. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-anjali-arondekar/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190529T133000
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SUMMARY:Ashwini Tambe: "Tropical Exceptions: Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates"
DESCRIPTION:Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. My talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases I discuss —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— I show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices. Ashwini Tambe is Associate Professor of Women’s Studies at the University of Maryland-College Park and affiliate faculty in the History department and Asian American Studies program. She is also the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. Her interests include transnational feminist theory\, modern South Asian history\, and sexuality studies. Her previous books are Codes of Misconduct:Regulating Prostitution in Late Colonial Bombay (2009\, Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press/New Delhi: Zubaan) and The Limits of Colonial Control in South Asia: Spaces of Disorder in the Indian Ocean (2008\, London: Routledge) coedited with Harald Fischer-Tiné. Her recent articles have spanned topics such as population and age of marriage (Women’s Studies International Forum 2014)\, climatology in scientific racism (Theory\, Culture and Society\, 2011)\, interdisciplinary approaches to feminist state theory (Comparative Studies of South Asia\, Africa and the Middle East\, 2010)\, economic liberalization and sexual liberalism in contemporary India (Economic and Political Weekly\, 2010)\, and the long record of transnational approaches in feminist scholarship (New Global Studies\, 2010). Her current work\, supported by SSHRC and NEH grants\, examines the legal paradoxes in age standards for sexual consent in India; her forthcoming book on the subject is Defining Girlhood in India: A Transnational History of Sexual Maturity Laws (2019\, University of Illinois Press). She is also co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory with Millie Thayer titled Transnational Feminist Itineraries. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-16/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190522T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
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UID:10006667-1558526400-1558531800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Shadi Rohana: "Cervantes and the Arabs: Don Quixote in translation"
DESCRIPTION:The modern Arab reader cannot be indifferent when reading a novel like Don Quixote. Through its geography\, historical context\, characters and language\, the novel evokes to the modern reader one of the Arabs’ most splendorous historical episodes: Al Andalus. This talk traces the Arab and Andalusian presence in Cervantes’ Don Quixote from 1605\, and how this presence was later translated into modern Arabic during the 20th century. The talk will also discuss the reception of Don Quixote in varios Arabic speaking contexts. \nShadi Rohana is a Mexico City-based literary translator\, translating between Arabic\, Spanish and English. He has introduced and translated a number of Latin American authors from Spanish to Arabic\, as well as speeches and declarations from the EZLN in Chiapas. He pursued Latin American Studies in the United States (Swarthmore College) and Mexico (UNAM)\, and is currently a full-time faculty member at the Center for Asian and African Studies at El Colegio de México\, where he teaches Arabic language and literature. The Arabic translation of José Emilio Pacheco’s Las batallas en el desierto (Palestine\, 2016) was his first novel-length worth \nSpanish: \n“Cervantes y los árabes: Las traducciones del Quijote al árabe” \nShadi Rohana es traductor literario y profesor de tiempo completo en el Centro de Estudios de Asia y África de El Colegio de México. Traduce entre el árabe\, español e inglés. Ha introducido a la lengua árabe a varios escritores latinoamericanos\, así como los comunicados del EZLN en Chiapas. Cursó Estudios Latinoamericanos en los Estados Unidos (Swarthmore College) y México (UNAM). Es traductor al árabe de la novela mexicana Las batallas en el desierto de José Emilio Pacheco (Palestina\, 2016). \nAl leer el Quijote de Miguel de Cervantes\, el lector árabe no puede ser indiferente. En esta novela española del siglo XVII existe un sinnúmero de referencias a la presencia árabe-islámica en la Península ibérica: la geografía\, arabismos\, moriscos\, guerra contra los otomanos\, y personajes que hablan en lengua árabe. Dicha presencia es conocida por los árabes como “Al Ándalus”: un territorio y cultura que se extendió\, de forma cambiante\, en la Península ibérica desde el año 711 hasta la caída de Granada/Ghurnaata en 1492. ¿De qué manera en nuestros días los árabes han leído\, interpretado y traducido aquella presencia de Al Ándalus en el Quijote? Abordaré esta cuestión narrando la historia de las traducciones del Quijote al árabe moderno\, así como la recepción de la novela y sus personajes en varios contextos de habla árabe. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-15/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190515T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T195648Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190520T180610Z
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SUMMARY:David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nIn this paper\, “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán\,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely\, that the dispossessed had prior possession over that which was stolen from them by their dispossessors. Like a number of other such cases I have been examining from the 17th and 18th centuries\, in this case those who were dispossessed do not make claims about prior possession. Rather\, both Juan Patricio and Fabiana Pech seem to have lived dispossession outside the terms of possession as such\, critiquing and countering their dispossession in ways that call for a revision of contemporary understandings of dispossession. I suggest we read the archive of a case like this for alternative theories of dispossession as well as as-yet-unrealized anti-dispossessive politics. \nDavid Kazanjian is Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of Pennsylvania. He received his PhD from the Rhetoric Department at the University of California\, Berkeley\, his M.A. in Critical Theory from the University of Sussex\, and his B.A. in Modern Thought and Literature from Stanford University. His areas of specialization are transnational American literary and historical studies through the nineteenth century\, Latin American studies (especially eighteenth and nineteenth-century Mexico)\, political philosophy\, continental philosophy\, colonial discourse studies\, and Armenian diaspora studies. He is a member of the organizing collectives of the journal Social Text and of the Tepoztlán Institute for Transnational History of the Americas\, and is co-director of the Tepoztlán Institute from 2017-2019. His the author of The Colonizing Trick: National Culture and Imperial Citizenship in Early America (Minnesota) and The Brink of Freedom: Improvising Life in the Nineteenth-Century Atlantic World (Duke). He has co-edited (with David L. Eng) Loss: The Politics of Mourning (California)\, as well as (with Shay Brawn\, Bonnie Dow\, Lisa Maria Hogeland\, Mary Klages\, Deb Meem\, and Rhonda Pettit) The Aunt Lute Anthology of U.S. Women Writers\, Volume One: Seventeenth through Nineteenth Centuries (Aunt Lute Books). He is currently at work on two monographs. The first sets radical aesthetics in the contemporary Armenian diaspora against the diaspora’s melancholically nationalist understandings of genocide. The second finds anti-foundationalist critiques of dispossession in the late seventeenth and early eighteenth-century Afro-Indigenous Atlantic. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nThis event is co-sponsored by Feminist Studies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-14/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190508T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T195548Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T181432Z
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SUMMARY:Banu Bargu: "Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis paper analyzes Althusser’s proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism\, and particularly with Marx on “primitive accumulation.” It identifies two different legacies of Marx’s reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time\, taking both thinkers to task on their approach to colonialism\, and especially settler colonialism\, the paper moves toward decolonizing the aleatory materialist imaginary. \nBanu Bargu is associate professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, with a focus on modern and contemporary political thought and critical theory. Bargu is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which received APSA’s First Book Prize given by the Foundations of Political Theory section and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. She is the editor of Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh UP\, forthcoming in 2019) and co-editor of Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017). Her next book\, Friends of the Earth: Althusser and the Critique of Teleological Reason\, is forthcoming from Columbia University Press in 2020. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-13/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190501T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T195452Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T182055Z
UID:10005542-1556712000-1556717400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Nidhi Mahajan: "Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean\, transporting goods\, and people across South Asia\, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage\, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade\, centered in port cities such as Dubai and Sharjah that have “free trade” policies. I argue that these notions of free trade are entangled with war\, conflict\, and broader geopolitical concerns across the Indian Ocean region. \nNidhi Mahajan is an Assistant Professor in the Department of Anthropology at UCSC and a principal faculty in the Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Program. Her works examines how vernacular Indian Ocean trade networks articulate with regional and global circuits of capital. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-12/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190424T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T195341Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190513T183331Z
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SUMMARY:Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects\, PR professionals\, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory\,” a “sci-fi” space\, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses promote imperial and capitalist class power in the Gulf. Through combining this framework with a postcolonial discursive critique and feminist scholarship on social reproduction\, a class struggle perspective both moves us beyond victimization discourses of Gulf labor and highlights global patterns of capitalist accumulation. In turn\, the paper shows how the Gulf is an unexceptional zone of capital accumulation with labor exploitation and social reproduction regimes continuous with\, and shaped by\, similar such regimes in the Global North. \nAhmed Kanna is associate professor of anthropology at University of the Pacific. He is the author of Dubai: The City as Corporation (2011\, University of Minnesota Press)\, De-Exceptionalizing the Field (with Amelie Le Renard and Neha Vora\, forthcoming\, Cornell University Press)\, and articles in Cultural Anthropology\, City\, and Arab Studies Journal among others. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-11/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190417T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T195055Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190424T173319Z
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SUMMARY:Vanessa Ogle: "'Funk Money': Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens\, 1950s-1960"
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces\, reaching from the Channel Islands\, Monaco\, and Luxembourg to the Bahamas\, Panama\, and Singapore\, among many others. The talk asks why tax havens in particular expanded significantly between ca. 1945 and 1965\, and points to decolonization and colonial systems of taxation as one answer. It thus sheds light on a crucial period during which much of today’s tax avoidance industry got off the ground\, with lasting implications for the rise of inequality in Europe and North America. \nVanessa Ogle received her PhD at Harvard in 2011\, Assistant\, was a Associate Professor in modern European history at the University of Pennsylvania\, 2011-2017\,  and is currently an Associate Professor\, modern European history\, UC Berkeley\, 2017-present. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-10/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190410T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T194956Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190402T194849Z
UID:10005536-1554897600-1554903000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:POSTPONED - Elizabeth Marcus: "The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique"
DESCRIPTION:Elizabeth Marcus is a Mellon Fellow in the Scholars in the Humanities program for 2017-2019. She received her BA from the University of Oxford in Modern History and French\, and completed her PhD in French and Comparative Literature at Columbia University in 2017. Her research and teaching focus on the francophone and Arab worlds\, with a particular interest in knowledge production\, cultural imperialism\, and the histories of religious and minority groups. In her current book project\, Difference and Dissidence: Cultural Politics and the End of Empire in Lebanon\, she uses post-independence Lebanon as a case study of multilingualism and decolonization from below. \nShe is developing a second project on global intellectual history\, international students and radical politics in post-war France. Recovering the history of the Cité internationale universitaire\, an international university campus set on the outskirts of Paris\, she looks at how it became a key physical and symbolic space for students\, writers and intellectuals from the Middle East\, Africa and Europe. Elizabeth has taught in the Core Curriculum at Columbia University and at MIT as a Visiting Assistant Professor in the Global Studies and Languages Department. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-9/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190313T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20190125T201400Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T194821Z
UID:10005569-1552478400-1552483800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Dai Jinhua: “On Twenty-first Century Postcolonialism”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDai Jinhua’s lecture will address the place of post-colonial theory in the twenty-first century. This question is highly relevant to China\, as it recalls the history of China’s involvement in the non-aligned movement\, and subsequent efforts after the break with the Soviet Union to form third-world solidarities. But Dai calls into question whether the insights of postcolonialism are relevant for the transformations that have taken place in China in the last thirty years\, as part of what she calls our current era of “the post-post-Cold War.” Historically the postcolonial binary of colonization/de-colonization blurred the coordinates of the Cold War\, including most importantly China’s position as a “third” option within the non-aligned third world. Since the end of the Cold War\, what can post-colonial theory tell us about the current dominance of finance capital and capital monopoly of new technologies that has reconstructed the entire third world to serve as production zones of cheap goods or fields of monoculture? To what extent is China implicated in these transformations? How can post-colonial theory address the enormous debt imposed on the global South by former colonial powers? Analysis of the cultural in post-colonial theory depended on the political-economic structure of the Cold War. How do we analyze the cultural in today’s world? And how can political critique and resistance become effective once again in China as well as around the world? \nDai Jinhua is an internationally well-known feminist Marxist critic. She is a Professor in the Institute of Comparative Literatureand Culture and director of the Center for Film and Cultural Studies\, Peking University. Her research interests include popular culture\, film studies\, and gender studies. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dai-jinhua-twenty-first-century-postcolonialism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190306T130000
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CREATED:20181015T194843Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190315T193707Z
UID:10005534-1551874500-1551877200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Camilla Hawthorne: "On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles"
DESCRIPTION:This talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for understanding the historical and contemporary forms of racial criminalization and racialized citizenship in Italy. The emergent “Black Italian” movement in Italy has been increasingly confronted with the limits of national citizenship as a means for addressing racial inequality. In response\, activists have begun to turn toward alternative political imaginaries and practices of community that extend far beyond the Italian nation-state. In this context\, what can the Black Mediterranean open up in terms of new political praxes and transgressive alliance? Specifically\, how might this framework help to bridge Black liberation politics in Italy with refugee rights mobilizations? \nCamilla Hawthorne is Assistant Professor of Public Policy and Inequality at UC Santa Cruz. Camilla received her PhD in Geography with a designated emphasis in Science and Technology Studies from UC Berkeley in 2018. She also holds an MPA from Brown University. Camilla’s work addresses the politics of migration and citizenship\, racism and inequality\, and social movements. Her book project\, tentatively titled Different Waters\, Same Sea: Contesting Racialized Citizenship in the Black Mediterranean\, explores the politics of race and citizenship in contemporary Italy. She is also co-editing a volume about Black Geographies with Dr. Jovan Scott Lewis of UC Berkeley. Camilla serves as faculty member and project manager of the Summer School on Black Europe in Amsterdam\, the Netherlands. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-8/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190227T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T194717Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T211726Z
UID:10005532-1551268800-1551274200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Dee Hibbert-Jones: “Last Day of Freedom & Run With It”
DESCRIPTION:Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film “Last Day of Freedom.” When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand by his brother\, a Veteran returning from war\, as he faces criminal charges\, racism\, and ultimately the death penalty. This film is a portrait of a man at the nexus of the most pressing social issues of our day – veterans’ care\, mental health access and criminal justice. She will discuss Last Day of Freedom as well as her upcoming animated documentary Run With It on Troy Davis’ story. A black man accused of killing a white police officer in Savannah Georgia\, USA. \nDee Hibbert-Jones is an Academy Award® nominated\, Emmy® award winning documentary filmmaker; a Guggenheim Fellow and MacDowell Fellow. Working in collaboration with Nomi Talisman\, she produces animated documentary films that explore the crisis in the criminal justice system and the US racial divide\, challenging entrenched attitudes\, immersing viewers in a complex world of feelings and experiences\, engendering empathy and critical reflection. In 2015 they received the Filmmaker Award from the Center for Documentary Studies at Duke\, created to honor and support documentary artists whose works are potential catalysts for education and change. Hibbert-Jones was recently awarded a United States Congressional Black Caucus Veterans Braintrust Award in recognition for her “outstanding national commitment to civil rights\, and social justice” and a Gideon award for “support to indigent minorities” for her film work.She a Professor of Art\, Film\, and Digital Art New Media at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-7/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190220T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T194623Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190225T210922Z
UID:10005530-1550664000-1550669400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jerry Zee: "Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
DESCRIPTION:“Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ \nJerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC’s Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China’s meteorological contemporary. \nThis talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms\, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework contemporary land and air into a substantial continuum. It tracks territorial governance as it shifts into experimental formations that draw into the choreographies of sand\, wind\, and dust that they seek to re-engineer. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.  \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-6/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190213T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T194516Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T213045Z
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SUMMARY:Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun”
DESCRIPTION:“Public Sun” \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nA. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture\, public projects\, and writing\, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from the ground\, and how these materials\, once liberated\, move between the earth and our bodies. She is currently researching the shapes and structures of underground oil shale formations and continuing to develop work on The Lichen Museum\, a massively distributed\, inside-out institution that considers this slow\, resistant\, adaptive and collective organism as an anti-capitalist companion and climate change survivor. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.  \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-5/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190206T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
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LAST-MODIFIED:20190213T214230Z
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SUMMARY:Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \n“Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” \nThis paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so\, I unearth the normative relationship between candor\, courage\, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First\, I recount Wells’s argument that “yellow” and impartial journalism are\, in different ways\, responsible for the precipitous rise in the lynching of African Americans at the turn of the century. Yellow journalism uses sensationalism to fuel whites’ fear and anxiety and\, at times\, goes so far as to coordinate lynchings. The more fact-driven and impartial journalism of the New York Times does no such thing. But it substitutes cold facts for moral courage and thus shirks an important social responsibility. Second\, and drawing on work by Michel Foucault\, I contend that her willingness to risk death to expose the true causes of lynching to help others see their way toward justice and away from injustice exemplifies fearless speech\, or what the ancients called parrhesia. Third\, I question whether intrepid speech can be a moral obligation for journalists and leaders living under extreme persecution. \n  \nDesmond Jagmohan is an Assistant Professor in the Politics Department at Princeton University. He researches and teaches history of political theory\, and he works primarily in the areas of American and African American political thought. He also has interests in slavery and modern political thought and historical methods. At the moment\, he is completing his first book\, which is titled Dark Virtues: Booker T. Washington’s Tragic Realism. Based on several years of archival research\, the book recovers an unseen Booker T. Washington. It reconstructs his political ethics\, including his moral defense of equivocation\, concealment\, and deception as political virtues under conditions of extremity. His second project takes up Harriet Jacobs’s slave narrative to look at the broader philosophical relationship between property\, personhood\, and moral agency in the context of nineteenth-century American slavery. His work has been published in Perspectives on Politics\, Politics\, Groups\, and Identities\, and Contemporary Political Theory. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies.  \n  \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-4/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190130T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T194118Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181128T212044Z
UID:10006665-1548849600-1548855000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Leta Hong Fincher: “The Feminist Awakening in China”
DESCRIPTION:On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015\, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre\, with Hillary Clinton speaking out on their behalf and activists inundating social media with #FreetheFive messages. But the Five are only symbols of a much larger feminist movement of university students\, labor activists\, civil rights lawyers\, performance artists\, and online warriors prompting an unprecedented awakening among young Chinese women. In Betraying Big Brother\, journalist and scholar Leta Hong Fincher argues that the popular\, broad-based movement poses the greatest challenge to China’s authoritarian state today. \nThrough interviews with the Feminist Five and other leading Chinese activists\, Hong Fincher illuminates both the difficulties they face and their “joy of betraying Big Brother\,” as one of the Feminist Five wrote of the defiance she felt during her detention. Tracing the rise of a new feminist consciousness now finding expression through the #MeToo movement\, and describing how the Communist Party has suppressed the history of its own feminist struggles\, Betraying Big Brother is a story of how the movement against patriarchy could reconfigure China and the world. \nLeta Hong Fincher is a journalist\, scholar and author of Betraying Big Brother: The Feminist Awakening in China (Verso 2018)\, which was named one of Vanity Fair’s top eight political books of fall 2018. Dr. Hong Fincher has written for the New York Times\, Washington Post\, The Guardian\, Dissent Magazine\, Ms. Magazine and others. She won the Society of Professional Journalists Sigma Delta Chi award for her China reporting and is the first American to receive a Ph.D. from Tsinghua University’s Department of Sociology in Beijing. She also has a master’s degree from Stanford University and a bachelor’s degree with high honors from Harvard University. Her first book was the critically acclaimed Leftover Women: The Resurgence of Gender Inequality in China (Zed 2014). Hong Fincher was a Mellon Visiting Assistant Professor at Columbia University and recently moved to New York. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190123T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T193957Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20190211T215653Z
UID:10006664-1548244800-1548250200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Massimiliano Tomba: “Insurgent Universality - An Alternative Legacy of Modernity”
DESCRIPTION:An Alternative Legacy of Modernity” Insurgent Universality offers a new way of thinking political universality that radically differs from the legal universalism of human rights and cosmopolitanism. Assuming a conception of history that is not linear but articulated in a multiverse of historical temporalities\, Insurgent Universality excavates an alternative trajectory of modernity\, which originally bridges European and non-European political experiments. \nMassimiliano Tomba is professor of History of Consciousness Department at University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work aims at reconsidering predominant schemes of interpretation in political theory and universal history in order to open up political trajectories of modernity which constitute the terrain for an alternative canon. His publications include Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer\, Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken\, trans. L. Schröder\, Frankfurt am Main\, Peter Lang\, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia\, Macerata\, Quodlibet\, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities\, trans. Sara Farris and Peter Thomas\, Leiden\, Brill\, 2013; Attraverso la piccola porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin. Milano\, Mimesis\, 2017. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20181015T193506Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181205T180412Z
UID:10006663-1547640000-1547645400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Cancelled: Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium
DESCRIPTION:This week’s Center Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium has been cancelled. See you next week! \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181205T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T202312Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181129T212349Z
UID:10006645-1544011200-1544016600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Muriam Davis: “Colonial Genealogies of Racial Neoliberalism - Governing for the Market in Algeria\, 1958-1965”
DESCRIPTION:Prof. Davis’s current work studies how French attempts to introduce a market economy during the Algerian War of Independence transformed the prevailing understandings of racial difference organized around Islam. It highlights the continuities with the post-colonial period\, when Algerian socialism introduced new economic practices that were a locus for expressing revolutionary values and national identity. \nMuriam Haleh Davis is an Assistant Professor of History at the University of California Santa Cruz. Her research interests focus on questions of political economy\, racial classification\, and post-colonial studies in Algeria. She recently co-edited an edited volume entitled North Africa and the Making of Europe: Governance\, Institutions and Culture (Bloomsbury Press\, 2018). Her recent articles have appeared in the Journal of European Integration History and Journal of Contemporary History. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/muriam-davis-colonial-genealogies-racial-neoliberalism-governing-market-algeria-1958-1965/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181128T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T202107Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181130T211212Z
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SUMMARY:Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda - Moumen Smihi\, World Cinema\, and Arab Modernism”
DESCRIPTION:If you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nDr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century\, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region\, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take up the Nahda’s challenge for a new age. \nPeter Limbrick is Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media. He is the author of Making Settler Cinemas: Film and Colonial Encounters in the United States\, Australia\, and New Zealand (Palgrave 2010) and has published on transnational cinema and postcolonial culture in Cinema Journal\, Camera Obscura\, Third Text\, Framework\, Visual Anthropology and other journals. He has received fellowships from National Endowment for the Humanities and the UC President’s Research program and is currently finishing a book about Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi\, a key figure in the “new Arab cinema” that emerged in the late 1960s across North Africa and the Middle East. In 2013\, he curated a major retrospective of Smihi’s work that has screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley\, Block Cinema\, in Chicago\, and Tate Modern\, in London.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181114T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T195015Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181114T224029Z
UID:10005511-1542196800-1542202200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Julie Livingston: “Self-Devouring Growth - A Planetary Parable”
DESCRIPTION:This talk\, like the book from which it is drawn\, calls into question the imperative of economic growth\, tracing the unintended consequences of escalating consumption.  Using a series of linked cases of successful economic growth (water\, roads\, and cattle in Botswana)\, it shows how insatiable growth\, predicated on consumption\, will inevitably overwhelm\, a process Dr. Livingston terms self-devouring growth. \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nJulie Livingston is Professor of Social and Cultural Analysis and History at New York University. She is the author of the forthcoming Self-devouring growth: a planetary parable told from Southern Africa (Duke University Press)\, Improvising Medicine: An African Oncology Ward in an Emerging Cancer Epidemic (Duke University Press)\, Debility and the Moral Imagination in Botswana (Indiana University Press)\, and numerous articles and essays and edited volumes and special journal issues. Livingston is the recipient of the Victor Turner Prize for Ethnographic Writing\, the Royal Anthropological Institute’s Wellcome Medal\, and the American Association for the History of Medicine’s William Welch Medal. In 2013 she was named a MacArthur fellow. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julie-livingston-cultural-studies-colloquium/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181107T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T194816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183513Z
UID:10005510-1541592000-1541597400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Kevin Dawson:  “History Below the Waterline - Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas\, c.1540-1840”
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming\, surfing\, canoe-making\, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks\, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships\, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports between hinterlands and overseas markets\, assuming economies pivoted around rural production. This talk shifts our intellectual focus seaward to consider how enslaved aquanauts’ African-based expertise enabled them to harvest hinter-seas to produce capital that helped finance terrestrial production throughout the English Empire. \nKevin Dawson grew up surfing\, swimming\, and freediving in south Los Angeles County\, all of which profoundly informed his scholarship. He received a BA from California State University\, Fullerton and was awarded his PhD from the University of South Carolina in 2005\, where his advisor was Dan Littlefield. Dawson’s scholarship and teaching focus on the African diaspora and Atlantic History from roughly 1444\, when the Portuguese first sailed into Sub-Saharan Africa to 1888\, when Brazil became the last country in the New World to abolish slavery. \nHe has conducted research throughout the continental US\, Hawai‘i\, the Caribbean\, and West Africa and has published articles in the Journal of American History and Journal of Social History\, as well as several chapters in edited volumes. His book Undercurrents of Power: Aquatic Culture in the Africa Diaspora was published by the University of Pennsylvania Press in 2018. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/kevin-dawson-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181031T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T194211Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181101T224514Z
UID:10005509-1540987200-1540992600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Michel Feher: "Creditworthiness - The Political Stake of a Speculative Age"
DESCRIPTION:Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book\, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books\, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization\, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nMichel Feher is a philosopher who has taught at the École Nationale Supérieure\, Paris\, and at the University of California\, Berkeley\, and was recently a Visiting Professor at Goldsmiths\, University of London. He is the publisher and a founding editor of Zone Books\, NY (in 1986) as well as the president and co-founder of Cette France-là\, Paris (in 2008)\, a monitoring group on French immigration policy. He is the author of Powerless by Design: The Age of the International Community (2000) and\, most recently\, of Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (2018); the co-author\, with Cette France-là\, of Xénophobie d’en haut: le choix d’une droite éhontée (2012) and Sans-papiers et préfets: la culture du résultat en portraits (2012) and the co-editor of Nongovernmental Politics (2007)\, with Gaëlle Krikorian and Yates McKee\, and of Europe at a Crossroads/near Futures Online\, with William Callison\, Milad Odabaei and Aurélie Windels (2015). \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/michel-feher-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181024T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T193734Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181022T202501Z
UID:10005508-1540382400-1540387800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
DESCRIPTION:“Tropical Exceptions – Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates” Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level\, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. Dr. Tambe’s talk traces how intergovernmental efforts at setting common age standards for sexual consent and marriage occasioned elaborate posturing and coding of racial difference. In the two cases Tambe discusses —League of Nations conventions on trafficking in the 1920s and United Nations conventions on marriage in the 1950s— she show how the proceedings staged contests between competing imperialisms and foregrounded moral differences between parts of the world. In effect\, seemingly neutral age categories became a means to express geopolitical hierarchies and undercut formal liberal relationships of equivalence. \nAshwini Tambe studies how societies regulate sexual practices\, and why sexual practices are freighted with political meaning. Her previous work has engaged the history of sex trade regulation in Bombay. Her forthcoming book focuses on age standards for sexual consent and the legal paradoxes in defining girlhood in India. She is also writing a book on academic feminism and the #MeToo movement\, and co-editing a volume on the history and future of transnational feminist theory. She is the editorial director of Feminist Studies\, the oldest US journal of feminist interdisciplinary scholarship. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ashwini-tambe-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181017T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T165333Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T202855Z
UID:10005507-1539777600-1539783000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
DESCRIPTION:“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban\, South Africa\, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century\, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s\, and in today’s racial capitalism. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nSharad Chari is a geographer working at the interface of political economy\, historical ethnography\, Marxist geography\, agrarian studies\, Black and subaltern radical traditions and oceanic studies. He has spent time at the Michigan Society of Fellows and the ‘Anthrohistory’ program at Michigan\, Geography at the LSE\, and Anthropology at the University of the Witwatersrand\, before returning to Berkeley Geography. Sharad is a scholar of agrarian transition and industrialization in South India (his first book\, Fraternal Capital\, 2004) and has been working on South Africa since 2002 (on the book project Apartheid Remains which he is speaking from.) He has also begun new work on an oceanic conception of capitalism\, in relation to the fetishism of ‘the Ocean Economy’ in the Southern African Indian Ocean region\, focusing on the South African and Mozambican Indian Ocean littorals\, Réunion and Mauritius. At Berkeley\, he is also part of Berkeley Black Geographies and the Submergent Archive\, both collective projects in Geography Department\, and at WiSER he is part of the project on the Oceanic Humanities in the Global South.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sharad-chari-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20181010T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180810T165109Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20181019T202816Z
UID:10005506-1539172800-1539178200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Chris Benner: "A Universal Technology Dividend? - Rethinking price\, value\, work and the commons"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation\, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets\, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. \nEvent Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nChris Benner is the Dorothy E. Everett Chair in Global Information and Social Entrepreneurship\, and a Professor of Environmental Studies and Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. He currently directs the Everett Program for Technology and Social Change and the Santa Cruz Institute for Social Transformation. His research examines the relationships between technological change\, regional development\, and the structure of economic opportunity\, focusing on regional labor markets and the transformation of work and employment. He has authored or co-authored six books (most recently Equity\, Growth and Community\, 2015\, UC Press) and more that 70 journal articles\, chapters and research reports. He received his Ph.D. in City and Regional Planning from the University of California\, Berkeley. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Humanities Institute.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-benner-cultural-studies-colloquium/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180606T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
CREATED:20180125T193231Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180606T172227Z
UID:10005446-1528286400-1528291800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Stephanie Bosch Santana: "The Digital Worlding of African Literature: From Blog and Facebook Fiction to the Blockchain"
DESCRIPTION:Stephanie Bosch Santana is Assistant Professor of Comparative Literature at the University of California\, Los Angeles. Her work\, which has been supported by the Mellon foundation\, focuses on Anglophone and African language fiction from southern Africa. Her current book project examines an alternative history of literary forms in periodical print and digital media from the 1950s to the present. It argues that writers from South Africa\, Malawi\, Zambia\, and Zimbabwe have developed new genres of fiction in these media to imagine changing modes of interconnection across space. \nThis Cultural Studies Colloquium is part of the UCHRI Junior Faculty Lecture Circuit. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cs-colloquium-ucla-junior-faculty-exchange-talk-stephanie-santana/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180530T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181450
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SUMMARY:Robin Coste Lewis: "Voyage of the Sable Venus: Bodies\, Art\, Race\, & Poetry"
DESCRIPTION:Robin Coste Lewis is the author of Voyage of the Sable Venus (2015)\, which won the National Book Award for Poetry. Her work has appeared in various journals and anthologies\, including The Massachusetts Review\, Callaloo\, The Harvard Gay & Lesbian Review\, Transition\, and VIDA. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by The Humanities Institute. \nRELATED EVENTS \nTuesday\, May 29th\n“Opera Works: Journey in Creation”\nWorkshop rehearsals with Opera Parallele for a new opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe.\n2 pm – 5 pm Opera Workshop \nThe Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, and the Humanities Institute\, invites students\, faculty\, staff and community to witness the creation of an opera based on the life of Georgia O’Keeffe\, called “Today it Rains”. Opera Parallele\, San Francisco based company\, under the direction of Maestra Nicole Paiement (Emerita\, UCSC Music Department)\, commissioned this opera by award-winning composer Laura Kaminsky. Performers\, the librettists\, the composer\, and the director will be in residence and will workshop and rehearse this opera in the making. Workshops are free and open to everyone. \n  \nTuesday\, May 29th \nPanel “Always Moving Up Hill: Women in the Arts”– Registration Required \nFeaturing: \nRobin Coste Lewis\, Poet\, National Book Award Winner for Voyage of the Sable Venus\nNicole Paiement\, Conductor\, Musical Director\, Opera Parallele\nLaura Kaminsky\, Opera Composer\nJennifer Gonzalez\, Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture\, UCSC\nBettina Aptheker\, Professor of Feminist Studies\, UCSC (moderator) \nDoors open at 6:30pm – Light refreshments will be available for purchase at the Kuumbwa kitchen \nEvent starts at 7:00pm \n  \nWed\, May 30th\nRobin Coste Lewis reading and book signing – Bookshop Santa Cruz @ 7pm \n  \nThurs\, May 31st\nLiving Writers with Robin Coste Lewis – Humanities Lecture Hall @ 5:20pm \n  \nThese events are co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute\, The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies\, Arts Division\, Porter College\, Living Writers & Cultural Studies.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-robin-coste-lewis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180523T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T234424Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T015140Z
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SUMMARY:Saein Park: "Dancing Waste of History: Lumpen in Heine\, Marx\, & Benjamin"
DESCRIPTION:Saein Park’s current project argues that the discourses of Lumpen record the changing demarcations of disposable lives during the emergence of European industrial modernity. She researches 19th- and early-20th-century German-language literature\, political philosophy\, and critical theory\, focusing on translation and reception studies\, theories of waste\, and plant studies. \nSaein Park is a Visiting Assistant Professor at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-saein-park/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180516T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T234026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180922T183101Z
UID:10005473-1526472000-1526477400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Jennifer Doyle: "Harassment & the Unravelling of the Queer Commons"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will attempt to speak to the difficulty of this moment for queer/feminist theorists—for teachers\, students and staff who live and work with harassment\, with forms of misogyny that are so embedded in professional life as\, in some ways\, to feel synonymous with it. This work is a return to a scene many of us have never left\, but which critical formations tend to represent as having passed: super-sexual political writing calling for openness against an intolerable future. \nJennifer Doyle is a Professor of English at UC Riverside. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-jennifer-doyle/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180502T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T221947Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172245Z
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SUMMARY:Kyla Schuller: "The Biopolitics of Feeling: Race\, Sex\, & Science in the Nineteenth Century"
DESCRIPTION:Kyla Schuller is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Rutgers University\, New Brunswick and an External Faculty Fellow at the Stanford Humanities Center (2017-2018). She has previously held fellowships from ACLS and the UC Humanities Research Institute and a visiting scholar position at UC Berkeley. Schuller investigates the intersections between race\, gender\, sexuality\, and the sciences in U.S. culture\, and is particularly interested in ideas about how the body interacts with its environment from the periods both before and after classical genetics\, i.e. the 19th century and the present. Overall\, she examines how science and culture function as systems of knowledge that share methods and sources in common\, even as they rhetorically claim distinct spheres. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-kyla-schuller/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180425T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T221353Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T173219Z
UID:10005469-1524657600-1524663000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Yiannis Papadakis: "Here/There: Immigrants\, Comparison & Critique"
DESCRIPTION:Yiannis Papadakis holds an appointment in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus\, and is a visiting scholar at UCSC. Papadakis’s published work on Cyprus has focused on ethnic conflict\, borders\, nationalism\, memory\, museums\, historiography\, history education and cinema. His recent work explores issues of migration and social democracy in Denmark\, based on fieldwork with Greek and Greek Cypriot immigrants in Copenhagen. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-yiannis-papadakis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180418T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T221148Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180524T172728Z
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SUMMARY:Mayanthi Fernando: "SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular"
DESCRIPTION:Mayanthi Fernando works on Islam\, secularism\, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside other traditions of nonhuman ontologies\, including Islamic sciences of the unseen\, she asks whether we might rethink “natureculture” as “supernatureculture.” \nMayanthi Fernando is an associate professor of Anthropology at UCSC\, and the director of the Center For Emerging Worlds. Her current project attends to the nexus of sex and religion in the articulation of modern secularity\, analyzing how the secular state’s project of regulating and transforming religious life is interwoven with its project of sexual normalization\, i.e. the production of secular\, sexually “normal” citizens. She is interested in how proper religion and proper sexuality are mutually constituted (often in opposition to each other) by secular rule. \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-mayanthi-fernando/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180411T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180228T220816Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180402T021613Z
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SUMMARY:Amanda Smith: "Cartographic Delusion: When Maps Lie & People Believe Them"
DESCRIPTION:Amanda M. Smith approaches literary expression as a point of entry into spatialities effaced from other official records. She proposes a reading practice of rigorous intertextuality to recover geographic textures smoothed by homogenizing processes of spatial integration. In this talk\, she addresses the stakes of such a spatial reading by exploring the legacy of misreading in contemporary Amazonia. \nSmith is Assistant Professor of Latin American Literature in the Department of Literature at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She specializes in 20th and 21st-century Latin American literatures and cultures\, working across the fields of Indigenous studies and the spatial humanities\, with emphasis on the Andean and Amazonian regions. Her current project\, tentatively titled Novel Maps\, examines how literature and cartography have both overlapped and clashed in transforming Amazonia into a landscape of extraction. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-amanda-smith/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180221T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20180206T201925Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20180307T230206Z
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SUMMARY:Jodi Byrd: "Fire & Flood - Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nThe Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk:\n“Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms” \nCaught within the both/and of dystopic collapse\, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle for colonial dominance. This talk closely reads HBO’s Westworld alongside LeAnne Howe’s Indian Radio Days to consider how procedural elements of technological play produce dystopic visions of American collapse as the failure of indigenous futures. \n  \nJodi Byrd is Associate Professor\, English and Gender & Women’s Studies University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign. Prof. Byrd is a Chickasaw decolonial thinker\, writer\, teacher\, and video gamer. She is a faculty affiliate of the National Center for Supercomputing Applications.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/fire-flood-settler-colonialisms-pessimistic-indigenous-futurisms/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 210\, 1156 high st\, Santa cruz\, CA\, 95060\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171129T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20170809T180821Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T180821Z
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SUMMARY:Jenny Reardon\, "The Postgenomic Condition: Meaning and Justice After the Genome"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nJenny Reardon’s research draws into focus questions about identity\, justice and democracy that are often silently embedded in scientific ideas and practices\, particularly in modern genomic research. Her training spans molecular biology\, the history of biology\, science studies\, feminist and critical race studies\, and the sociology of science\, technology and medicine. \nDr. Reardon is a Professor of Sociology and the Founding Director of the Science and Justice Research Center at the UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-6-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171115T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20170809T180153Z
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SUMMARY:On Barak\, "Against Energy: Provincializing Thermodynamics between Aden and Port Said"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nDespite feigning perpetuity\, “energy” is a child of its time\, the nineteenth century. Born from the related challenges of steam engineering and British imperialism its legacies still haunt and limit our thinking on matters ranging from fossil fuels to race\, from labor to the underground. This talk seeks to situate the emblematic energy source – coal – back in its imperial context\, revealing what may be called “coalonialism” at play in the territories between the two major global fueling stations of the century\, Aden and Port Said. Such acts of provincializing flesh out alternative ways for regarding fossil fuels\, including ethical\, political and environmental insights that the science of thermodynamics helped evaporate. \nBarak is Senior Lecturer in the Department of Middle Eastern & African History at Tel Aviv University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-5-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171108T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181451
CREATED:20170809T174852Z
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UID:10005388-1510142400-1510147800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Nirvikar Singh\, "The Other One Percent? Indians in Trump’s America"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nWhat is the selection process that governed the migration of people of Indian origin to the United States? How has that selection been important in determining of the economic success of this group? This talk highlights the diversity within this broad group\, & the lessons of that diversity\, and concludes by exploring some of the challenges that Indian Americans face as a minority in the contemporary United States & the implications of events in contemporary India. \nNirvikar Singh holds the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair of Sikh and Punjabi Studies at UC Santa Cruz. He also directs the UCSC South Asian Studies Initiative within the Division of Social Sciences. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-4-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171101T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170809T174604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T174604Z
UID:10006527-1509537600-1509543000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Najat Abdulhaq\, "Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the 'Arab Jew' in Contemporary Arabic Literature"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nFor decades\, two official nationalist narratives\, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli\, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently\, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere\, with documentaries\, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? \nNajat Abdulhaq is the author of Jewish and Greek Communities in Egypt: Entrepreneurship and Business Before Nasser (I. B. Tauris). \nThis week’s Cultural Studies colloquium is co-sponsored by the Jewish Studies Program. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-3-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20171019T205544Z
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SUMMARY:Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
DESCRIPTION:In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27\, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1\, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford\, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3\, 5\, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if you can). Please note that Hardt himself will not be there; this is simply an occasion to discuss his and Negri’s work in anticipation of his talk. \nCo-sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and Center for Emerging Worlds
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/informal-reading-seminar-on-assembly-by-michael-hardt-and-antonio-negri-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171025T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170809T172929Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172929Z
UID:10006525-1508932800-1508938200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Carla Freccero\, "Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity"
DESCRIPTION:Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise\, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms? \nCarla Freccero is Distinguished Professor of Literature and History of Consciousness\, and Professor of Feminist Studies\, at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-2-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171018T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170809T172433Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172433Z
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SUMMARY:María Inés La Greca: "The Collective Shout of 'Ni una menos' ('Not one less') in the Streets\, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina"
DESCRIPTION:María Inés La Greca’s research focuses on the relationship between narrativity\, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work\, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative\, psychoanalysis & subject formation\, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse\, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing. \nInés La Greca is an adjunct professor at Tres de Febrero National University in Argentina. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-professor-la-greca-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171011T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170809T172137Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170809T172137Z
UID:10006523-1507723200-1507728600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Carrie Smith\, "Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance\, Art Activism\, & the Affects of Political Practice"
DESCRIPTION:Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism\, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity\, intersectional community-building\, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. \nSmith-Prei Associate Professor of of Modern Languages and Cultural Studies at the University of Alberta. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-carrie-smith-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20171004T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170821T045621Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170821T045621Z
UID:10006532-1507118400-1507123800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Briohny Doyle\, "Postapocalypse Now"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \nBriohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin\, the virus\, & the nomad. ​ \nBriohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and academic. Her debut novel\, The Island Will Sink\, is the critically acclaimed first book published by The Lifted Brow. Her first book of nonfiction Adult Fantasy is out through Scribe in 2017. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-briohny-doyle-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170601T150000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170519T180259Z
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SUMMARY:Mat Callahan\, “The Explosion of Deferred Dreams”
DESCRIPTION:Presented by The History of Consciousness\, The Center for Cultural Studies\, & UCSC University Library Special Collections & Archives\, with support from Logo’s Books. \nWith special musical guest Dry Days \nAs the fiftieth anniversary of the Summer of Love floods the media with debates and celebrations of music\, political movements\, “flower power\,” “acid rock\,” and “hippies”; author\, musician\, and native San Franciscan Mat Callahan’s new book\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams: Musical Renaissance and Social Revolution in San Francisco\, 1965–1975 (PM Press\, 2017) offers a critical re-examination of the interwoven political and musical happenings in San Francisco in the Sixties. Callahan explores the dynamic links between the Black Panthers and Sly and the Family Stone\, the United Farm Workers and Santana\, the Indian Occupation of Alcatraz and the San Francisco Mime Troupe\, and the New Left and the counterculture. \nCallahan’s meticulous\, impassioned arguments both expose and reframe the political and social context for the San Francisco Sound and the vibrant subcultural uprisings with which it is associated. Using dozens of original interviews\, primary sources\, and personal experiences\, the author shows how the intense interplay of artistic and political movements put San Francisco\, briefly\, in the forefront of a worldwide revolutionary upsurge. \nA must-read for any musician\, historian\, or person who “was there” (or longed to have been)\, The Explosion of Deferred Dreams is substantive and provocative\, inviting us to reinvigorate our historical sense-making of an era that assumes a mythic role in the contemporary American zeitgeist. \nMat Callahan is a musician and author originally from San Francisco\, where he founded Komotion International. He is the author of three books\, Sex\, Death & the Angry Young Man\, Testimony\, and The Trouble with Music as well as the editor of Songs of Freedom: The James Connolly Songbook. He currently resides in Bern\, Switzerland.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/mat-callahan-the-explosion-of-deferred-dreams-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170531T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170507T175944Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175944Z
UID:10005379-1496232000-1496237400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Shahzad Bashir\, “Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Issues”
DESCRIPTION:This talk emerges from Professor Bashir’s current project\, Islamic Pasts and Futures: Conceptual Explorations\, a critique of the conceptualization of Islamic history in modern scholarship. Bashir suggests alternatives emphasizing multiple temporalities and engaging contemporary academic debates regarding language\, historiography\, and history on the basis of materials of Islamic provenance. \nShahzad Bashir is professor in Islamic Studies and Director of the Abbasi Program in Islamic Studies at Stanford University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/shahzad-bashir-islamic-pasts-and-futures-conceptual-issues-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170524T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181452
CREATED:20170507T175721Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170507T175721Z
UID:10005378-1495627200-1495632600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Johan Mathew\, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
DESCRIPTION:Johan Mathew’s current project\, Opiates of the Masses: Labor\, Narcotics\, and Global Capitalism\, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange\, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. \nJohan Matthew is Assistant Professor of History at Rutgers University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \nEvent Photos:
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/johan-matthew-smoke-on-the-water-hashish-smuggling-and-imperial-surveillance-between-asia-and-the-middle-east-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170517T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170426T103325Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103325Z
UID:10006507-1495022400-1495027800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Martin Devecka: "Socratic Economics"
DESCRIPTION:Socratic Economics \nMartin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens.  His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. \nMartin Devecka is an Assistant Professor of Literature and Classics at UCSC. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/martin-devecka-socratic-economics-2/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T140000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170515T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170503T154026Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170503T154026Z
UID:10006512-1494856800-1494871200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
DESCRIPTION:The start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. \nFeaturing: \nChristopher Chen\, Literature\nJim Clifford\, History of Consciousness\nChristopher Connery\, Literature\nT.J. Demos\, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies\nCarla Freccero\, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies\nSusan Gilman\, Literature\nAsad Haider\, History of Consciousness\nDonna Haraway\, History of Consciousness\nSandra Harvey\, Politics\nGail Hershatter\, History\nLaurie Palmer\, Art\nWarren Sack\, Film and Digital Media / Digital Arts and New Media \n  \nCoffee and refreshments will be provided.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/conjuncture-crisis-critique-a-symposium-on-cultural-studies-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170510T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170426T103156Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T103156Z
UID:10006506-1494417600-1494423000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Debbora Battaglia: "Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension"
DESCRIPTION:“Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension” \nOut of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its wake\, questions open concerning the ethics of plant-people relations in future-making projects. \nDebbora Battaglia is Professor Emerita of Anthropology at Mt. Holyoke College. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/debborah-battaglia-roots-in-air-peopleplantsethics-in-suspension-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170503T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170426T102852Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170426T102852Z
UID:10006505-1493812800-1493818200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Chris Connery: "Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape"
DESCRIPTION:“Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape” \nThis talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate\, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China’s political economy\, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life\, intellectual and critical work\, ideological formation\, cultural production\, social movements\, political action\, and social space. \nChris Connery is a Professor of Literature at UCSC and Professor of Cultural Studies at Shanghai University. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chris-connery-contemporary-chinese-capitalism-and-its-critical-landscape-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170412T231106Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T231106Z
UID:10005352-1493208000-1493213400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Eric Porter\, "'The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising': The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO"
DESCRIPTION:This talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical\, social\, and imagined urban space. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-eric-porter-the-future-appears-both-bleak-and-promising-the-politics-of-jet-noise-around-sfo-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170419T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170412T230458Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170412T230458Z
UID:10006491-1492603200-1492608600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Zac Zimmer: “Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
DESCRIPTION:Conquest\, Contact\, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas \nZac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres\, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction\, creating a point of contact between the contemporary world and the hemispheric American colonial encounter. \nZac Zimmer is Assistant Professor of Literature and LALS at UCSC. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-zac-zimmer-conquest-contact-and-cosmovision-sf-rewritings-of-the-conquest-of-the-americas-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170405T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170328T195604Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170328T195604Z
UID:10006487-1491393600-1491399000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: Matthew Fuller "In Praise of Plasticity"
DESCRIPTION:About the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAbout “In Praise of Plasticity”: Plasticity\, in neurology\, is the ability to adapt\, change\, grow and find new forms at multiple scalar levels whilst retaining\, rerouting or developing function. Professor Fuller examines the notion of plasticity as it is articulated by cybernetics\, machine learning\, and anarchism. \nMatthew Fuller will be presenting and is a Professor of Cultural Studies and the Director of the Centre for Cultural Studies at Goldsmiths\, University of London
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/center-for-cultural-studies-colloquium-series-matthew-fuller-in-praise-of-plasticity-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170315T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170307T200950Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170307T200950Z
UID:10005342-1489579200-1489584600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Akash Kumar: "All the World on a Board: Chess and Cultural Crossings in Dante and Boccaccio"
DESCRIPTION:Akash Kumar focuses on the crossing of poetry\, philosophy\, and science in 13th-14th century Italy\, emphasizing multicultural knowledge transmission in the medieval Mediterranean. His talk emerges from his second book project on medieval Italian representations of chess and the exchange made possible by the game across gender\, religious\, and social boundaries. \nAkash Kumar is a Visiting Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 15th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170308T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T193828Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T193828Z
UID:10005305-1488974400-1488978000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:RESCHEDULED Akash Kumar
DESCRIPTION:Rescheduled for March 15\, 2017
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/akash-kumar-all-the-world-on-a-board-chess-and-cultural-crossings-in-dante-and-boccaccio-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170301T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T193457Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T193457Z
UID:10005304-1488369600-1488373200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Hillary Angelo: "Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the 'Green Screen'"
DESCRIPTION:Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban “greening” in Germany’s Ruhr region\, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology\, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. \nHillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n\nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/hillary-angelo-manufacturing-gesellschaft-urbanized-nature-and-the-green-screen-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170227T170000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20170216T234139Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20170216T234139Z
UID:10006467-1488207600-1488214800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: "Streetopia and Beyond"
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: \nStreetopia and Beyond\nA Talk by Eric Lyle \n3-5 pm\nMonday\, February 27\nHumanities 1\, 210 \nWhat does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era\, cities like Los Angeles\, New York\, and San Francisco have rushed to reassure that their governments intend to oppose new restrictive federal immigration policies and to reinforce these cities’ status as Sanctuary Cities. But as homeless sweeps and evictions continue to endanger communities of working class and people of color\, we have to ask what does “sanctuary” mean in the era of rampant displacement? Author Erick Lyle suggests the path to resisting Trump Administration policies lies in doubling down on existing anti-gentrification efforts and organizing on a hyperlocal basis to seize community control of development\, housing\, planning\, and utilities. Join Lyle for a discussion of the possibilities for resistance in neighborhood organizing and for a look at the author’s work on Streetopia\, a massive anti-gentrification art fair that took place in San Francisco in 2012\, and brought together residents of the city’s Tenderloin with over a hundred artists and activists to actualize mutual aid-based community projects and to consider utopian aspiration for the city. \nErick Lyle is a writer\, curator\, musician\, and underground journalist. His work has appeared in Art in America\, Vice\, California Sunday Magazine\, Huck\, LA Weekly\, Brooklyn Rail\, and on NPR’s This American Life. Since 1991\, he has written\, edited\, and published the influential punk/activist/art/crime magazine\, SCAM\, and he was a frequent contributor to the arts and literary section of the San Francisco Bay Guardian. He has played on some 30 records by at least a dozen bands.  He currently lives in Brooklyn\, NY.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-talk-erick-lyle-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170222T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T192953Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192953Z
UID:10005303-1487764800-1487768400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Rick Prelinger: "Silence\, Cacophony\, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points"
DESCRIPTION:Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians. \nRick Prelinger is an Associate Professor of Film and Digital Media at UCSC; Founder of Prelinger Archives; and board member of Internet Archive. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rick-prelinger-silence-cacophony-crosstalk-archival-talking-points-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170215T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T192504Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T192504Z
UID:10005302-1487160000-1487163600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Gary Wilder: "Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth"
DESCRIPTION:Event Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nGary Wilder is the author of Freedom Time: Negritude\, Decolonization\, and the Future of the World (2015) and The French Imperial Nation-State: Negritude and Colonial Humanism Between the World Wars (2005). He is currently co-editing the volume The Postcolonial Contemporary and working on a book entitled “Cooperative Commonwealth: Radical Humanism and Black Atlantic Criticism.” \nGary Wilder is a Professor of Anthropology\, History\, and French; and Director\, Committee on Globalization and Social Change at the CUNY Graduate Center. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gary-wilder-black-radicalismradical-humanism-w-e-b-du-boiss-cooperative-commonwealth-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170208T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T191611Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T191611Z
UID:10005301-1486555200-1486558800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Camillo Gomez-Rivas: "The Ransom Industry and the Expectation of Refuge on the Medieval Western Mediterranean Muslim-Christian Frontier"
DESCRIPTION:Camillo Gomez-Rivas’s current project Refugees of the Reconquista is a history of social responses to displaced populations across the Muslim-Christian frontier over the long territorial decline of al-Andalus. Proceeding from a set of historical questions\, the project is based on readings of multiple sources\, including Arabic\, Castilian\, and Catalan legal\, historiographical\, and literary sources. \nCamillo Gomez-Rivas is an Assistant Professor of Literature at UCSC\, and an Alexander von Humboldt Fellow. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public. Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/camillo-gomez-rivas-the-ransom-industry-and-the-expectation-of-refuge-on-the-medieval-western-mediterranean-muslim-christian-frontier-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T170000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170202T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T063024Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T063024Z
UID:10006439-1486054800-1486062000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Christopher Newfield: "After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration"
DESCRIPTION:Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California\, Santa Barbara) new book\, “The Great Mistake\,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission.  But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in every arena? Newfield argues that universities should use this period to rebuild their public purpose from the ground up\, with special attention to the non-college voters that allegedly turned the election towards Donald J. Trump. \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Santa Cruz Faculty Association.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christopher-newfield-after-the-great-mistake-fixing-public-universities-in-the-trump-administration-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170201T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T170824Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T170824Z
UID:10005300-1485950400-1485954000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Regina Kunzel: "In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality"
DESCRIPTION:Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives\, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny\, stigma\, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. \nRegina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director\, Program in Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/regina-kunzel-in-treatment-psychiatry-and-the-archives-of-modern-sexuality-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170125T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T170246Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T170246Z
UID:10006440-1485345600-1485349200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Emily Mitchell-Eaton: "What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands"
DESCRIPTION:Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle\, exposing new racial formations\, modes of (un)belonging\, and immigrant solidarities. \nEmily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship\, LALS/Chicano Latino Resource Center at UCSC. \n  \n\nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/emily-mitchell-eaton-whats-free-about-freely-associated-statehood-preserving-colonial-legacies-in-the-marshall-islands-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T160000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170119T180000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T062056Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T062056Z
UID:10006437-1484841600-1484848800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
DESCRIPTION:Susan Buck Morss\, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University\, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia. \nCultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”\nJanuary 18th 12-1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210\nSusan Buck-Morss’s current project\, Year 1\, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses)\, and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way).
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-buck-morss-seminar-prolegomena-to-any-future-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170118T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161212T165736Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161212T165736Z
UID:10006438-1484740800-1484744400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Susan Buck-Morss: "History as Translation"
DESCRIPTION:Susan Buck-Morss’s current project\, Year 1\, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses)\, and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers along the way). \nSusan Buck-Morss is a Distinguished Professor of Political Science at CUNY Graduate Center and a Professor Emerita of Government at Cornell University. \n  \nCo-Sponsored by the Departments of History of Consciousness\, Literature\, and Politics \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nAll Center for Cultural Studies events are free and open to the public.  Staff assistance is provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. \n  \nWinter 2017 Colloquium Dates: \nJanuary 18th: Susan Buck-Morss \nJanuary 25th: Emily Mitchell-Eaton \nFebruary 1st: Regina Kunzel \nFebruary 8th: Camillo Gomez-Rivas \nFebruary 15th: Gary Wilder \nFebruary 22nd: Rick Prelinger \nMarch 1st: Hillary Angelo \nMarch 8th: Akash Kumar
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/susan-buck-morss-history-as-translation-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T114000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161129T131500
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161027T190303Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T190303Z
UID:10005293-1480419600-1480425300@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:The Devil's Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
DESCRIPTION:“The Devil’s Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic” by Sasha Disko \nDuring the high days of modernization fever\, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly\, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s burgeoning motorcycle culture. With automobiles largely a luxury of the upper classes\, motorcycles complexly symbolized masculinity and freedom\, embodying a widespread desire to embrace progress as well as profound anxieties over the course of social transformation. Through its richly textured account of the motorcycle as both icon and commodity\, The Devil’s Wheels teases out the intricacies of gender and class in the Weimar years. \n\nSasha Disko is a historian and independent scholar. She is an alumnus of UCSC (BA in History and German Studies\, 1997) and received her PhD in History from New York University. She has been living and working in Germany since 2008. Her research interests include the history of motorization\, industrialization\, business administration\, and leisure. She currently lives in Hamburg\, Germany.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-devils-wheels-men-and-motorcycling-in-the-weimar-republic-2/
LOCATION:Rachel Carson College\, Room 301\, Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161116T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T191815Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191815Z
UID:10006401-1479298500-1479303000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design\, Art\, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
DESCRIPTION:Robin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding\, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective\, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play. \nHunicke is Associate Professor of Digital Arts & New Media at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/robin-hunicke-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161109T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T191704Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191704Z
UID:10006400-1478693700-1478698200@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
DESCRIPTION:Joan Wallach Scott’s recent books\, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011)\, focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment in anti-Muslim campaigns. \nScott is Professor Emerita of the School of Social Science at the Institute for Advanced Study\, Princeton University. \nCo-Sponsored by the Center for Emerging Worlds \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/joan-wallach-scott-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161102T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T191558Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191558Z
UID:10006399-1478088000-1478093400@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
DESCRIPTION:Written by Anna Tsing\, Isabelle Carbonell\, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan)\, Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail\,” imported to Taiwan in 1979\, which is now major pest of rice agriculture. Whereas farmers in the Green Revolution’s legacy use poison to exterminate snails\, a new generation of “friendly farmers” attempts to insert farming as one among many multispecies life ways within the paddy. \nAnna Tsing is Professor of Anthropology at UC Santa Cruz and Co-Director of Aarhus University Research on the Anthropocene (AURA). \nIsabelle Carbonell is a PhD student in Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and a documentary filmmaker. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anna-tsing-isbelle-carbonell-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161101T173000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161101T190000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161027T182733Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161027T182733Z
UID:10005291-1478021400-1478026800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Ronaldo V. Wilson: "Farther Traveler: Poetry\, Prose\, Other"
DESCRIPTION:Ronaldo V. Wilson is the author of Narrative of the Life of the Brown Boy and the White Man (2008)\, Poems of the Black Object (2009)\, and Lucy 72 (2015). He is co-founder of the Black Took Collective\, and is currently Associate Professor of Poetry\, Fiction\, and Literature at UC Santa Cruz. \nFarther Traveler is an expansive\, complex hybrid of poetry\, prose\, and memoir. Wilson writes of loss\, desire\, abjection and radical possibility\, traversing and transgressing boundaries of genre to produce a searing meditation on race\, sexuality\, and contemporary culture.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ronaldo-v-wilson-reading-from-farther-traveler-poetry-prose-other-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161026T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T191326Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191326Z
UID:10006398-1477484100-1477488600@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus"
DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” \nHeckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Date \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alma-heckman-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T121500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161019T133000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T191101Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T191101Z
UID:10006397-1476879300-1476883800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere\, Anthropocene\, Geostory”
DESCRIPTION:Paul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures\, the history of climate science\, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of A Vast Machine: Computer Models\, Climate Data\, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010). \nEdwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History at University of Michigan. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates \nOctober 26 Alma Heckman \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/cultural-studies-colloquium-23/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T190901Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T190901Z
UID:10006396-1476273600-1476280800@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Bernard Stiegler: "Beyond the Anthropocene"
DESCRIPTION:Is it possible to think in a state of emergency? \nThis is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled – live in a permanent state of emergency\, universal\, and unpredictable. \nLunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1\, Room 202. \nTwo theses will be addressed:\n– On the one hand\, to think in the Anthropocene\, one must rethink the Anthropocene itself\, and to rethink the Anthropocene\, we must think beyond the Anthropocene\, which is a dead end.\n– On the other hand\, beyond the Anthropocene\, there is the Neguanthropocene\, a coming era in which thinking means taking care (in French\, « panser » ; in German « sorgen »).\nThis is what will be expressed by an untranslatable neologism\, a neologism not unrelated to Jacques Derrida’s concept of « differance » : in the Anthropocene\, thought becomes « la p(a)nsée ». \nBernard Stiegler will also have an event at 4pm in Porter 245 were he will talk about digital studies at the Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium. \nRespondents: Hayden White\, Wlad Godzich\, and Anna Tsing. \nSponsored by: Computation\, Culture\, and Games Research Cluster\, Center for Cultural Studies\, Institute for Humanities Research\, Arts Division\, DANM\, and Film & Digital Media. \nBernard Stiegler directs the Institut de recherche et d’innovation du Centre Pompidou and is president of the Ars Industrialis association. He is affiliate faculty at the Université de Technologie de Compiègne\, distinguished professor at Nanjing University\, and visiting professor at the Cogut Center for the Humanities at Brown University. \n  \n\n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates: \nOctober 19 Paul N. Edwards \nOctober 26 Alma Heckman \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/bernard-stiegler-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161005T140000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20160913T190659Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20160913T190659Z
UID:10006395-1475668800-1475676000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Julia Clancy-Smith "Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks\, People\, and Things in the Sea"
DESCRIPTION:Julia Clancy-Smith is the author of\, most recently\, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration\, c. 1800-1900 (2010).  Her current work\, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in North Africa\, Europe\, and the Mediterranean\, c. 1900-present\, is a multi-sided ethnographic inquiry into gender\, education\, literacy\, and the social circulation of knowledge and people. \nClancy-Smith is Regents Professor of History at University of Arizona. \nEVENT PHOTOS:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr.  \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates: \nOctober 12 Bernard Stiegler \nOctober 19 Paul N. Edwards \nOctober 26 Alma Heckman \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/julia-clancy-smith-3/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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BEGIN:VEVENT
DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161004T120000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161004T130000
DTSTAMP:20260429T181453
CREATED:20161004T175247Z
LAST-MODIFIED:20161004T175247Z
UID:10005269-1475582400-1475586000@thi.ucsc.edu
SUMMARY:Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
DESCRIPTION:Alma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history\, North Africa\, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” \nHeckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. \n  \nThe Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series\, which features current cultural studies work by campus faculty and visitors. The sessions are informal\, normally consisting of a 30-40 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon\, with presentations beginning at 12:15. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center will provide coffee\, tea\, and cookies. \nFall 2016 Colloquium Dates: \nNovember 2 Anna Tsing / Isbelle Carbonell \nNovember 9 Joan Wallach Scott \nNovember 16 Robin Hunicke
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alma-heckman-absence-and-counter-narratives-the-years-of-lead-and-the-moroccan-jewish-exodus-2/
LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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