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Kris Alexanderson: "Japanese Penetration and Dutch Conciliation: Transoceanic Politics in Maritime Asia during the 1930s"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKris Alexanderson’s current book project examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia in controlling the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism. She is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific. […]
FreeJennifer Horne: "Serial Americans and the 'Conquest Program'"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement. Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education. She is Assistant Professor […]
FreeGayle Salamon: "The Life and Death of Leticia King"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts the first of which is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain while the second manuscript Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. She is Associate Professor of English and the […]
FreeChristopher Chen: "Ed Roberson and the Poetics of Serial Identities"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Chen’s scholarly interests include theories of comparative racialization, racial capitalism and the black radical tradition, and debates over what Charles Taylor and others have called the "politics of recognition." Christopher is currently working on a book-length comparative study of contemporary African-American and Asian-American experimental or "avant-garde" writing. He is Assistant Professor of Literature at […]
FreeNeloufer de Mel "The Perethaya's Fury: Ethical Frameworks and Zones of Justice in Post-War Sri Lanka"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNeloufer de Mel is the author of Militarizing Sri Lanka and Women and the Nation’s Narrative: Gender and Nationalism in Twentieth Century Sri Lanka. Her current research is on cultures of justice in postwar Sri Lanka, disability performance, and the politics of aesthetic work in contexts of violence. Neloufer de Mel is a Professor of English […]
FreeKaren deVries "Queer Storytelling, Secular Religion, and the Anthropocene Blues"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorking at the intersection of religion, science, and feminist studies, Karen deVries examines structures of knowledge and power in the Contemporary American West. Her current book project deploys queer storytelling both to explore tensions and schisms between religious and secular knowledge formations and to produce more livable futures. Karen deVries is a Lecturer in the Political […]
FreeT.J. Demos: "Rights of Nature: The Art and Politics of Earth Jurisprudence"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesT.J. Demos’s current work explores the intersection of visual culture, art, environmental and indigenous activism, and the recent biocentric turn in law, particularly as it relates to political ecology in the Americas. His research accompanied the preparation for Rights of Nature: Art and Ecology in the Americas, a 2015 exhibition he co-curated at Nottingham Contemporary […]
FreeBrian Connolly "The Curse of Canaan: A Fantasy of Race in the Nineteenth-Century United States"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrian Connolly is currently working on two book projects. The first, Sacred Kin: Sovereignty, Kinship, and Religion in the Nineteenth-Century United States, excavates the relationship between national sovereignty and religion. The second project, Against the Human, is a genealogy of the human as a category of emancipation. Brian Connolly is an Associate Professor of History at the […]
FreeJoshua Dienstag "The Human Boundary: Democracy in a Post-Species Age"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory. He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship. Joshua Dienstag is a Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA; as well […]
FreeMegan Thomas "Lascars, Sepoys, and the Traveling Labor of British Empire (Manila, 1762-4)"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMegan Thomas’ research focuses on the British forces that occupied Manila in 1762 just as East India Company rule in the subcontinent began. She traces their composition, the conditions under which they labored, and the strategies they employed for what they can tell us about the British empire in and around the Indian Ocean. Megan […]
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