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Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Farther Traveler: Poetry, Prose, Other”

Humanities 2, Room 259

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. Farther Traveler is […]

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“The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India”

Humanities 1, Room 402

The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute   "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper   "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium […]

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adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora

Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The Center for Emerging Worlds and The Department of Anthropology Present: Dr. Sareeta Amrute   "The Widow and the Orphan: Stories of Reform in Multigenerational India" Works-In-Progress Seminar Tuesday, February 7, 2017 2-4pm Humanities 1, Room 402 Email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for copies of the paper   "adding.sleep(): Race and Refusal in the Indian Tech Diaspora" Colloquium Wednesday, […]

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Gary Wilder: “Black Radicalism/Radical Humanism: W.E.B. Du Bois’s Cooperative Commonwealth”

Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Event Photos:   Gary 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 […]

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“What’s Left of Progressive Politics?”

Humanities 2, Room 259

The Center for Emerging Worlds presents "What's Left of Progressive Politics?" Roundtable Discussion with Dr. Vijay Prashad, Dr. Lisa Rofel, Dr. Mayanthi Fernando, and Asad Haider Dr. Vijay Prashad is […]

Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri

Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

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 […]

POSTPONED – Elizabeth Marcus: “The Arrest of Ziad Doueiri and the Laws of Cultural Critique”

Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

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 […]