Events
Center for Emerging Worlds
Global Islam: Entangled Universalisms Panel
Humanities 1, Room 202CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
Global Islam: "Taking Radicalism Seriously: Or How to Think (or Not Think) About Jihad"
Social Sciences 2, Room 071CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
Global Islam: Reading Seminar
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2104-2015: GLOBAL ISLAM INAUGURAL EVENT Monday, November 17, 3:30-5, Humanities 1, Room 202 Panel: Entangled Universalisms Dr. Darryl Li, Associate Research Scholar, Yale Law School, "Jihad and Other Universalisms" Professor Henri Lauzière, Northwestern University "Imperial Entanglement as Moderating Factor" Monday, November 17, 7:00pm, Social Sciences 2, Room 071 Public Discussion with […]
Understanding Conflict in South Sudan
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM Winter Quarter Events Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College Tuesday, February 10th Public Event "Understanding Conflict in South Sudan" 6:30-7:30 PM, Social Sciences 2, Room 075 Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC Wednesday, February 11th Colloquium "When […]
"When the State is Everywhere: Rethinking the Islamic Public Sphere"
Humanities 1, Room 202CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM Winter Quarter Events Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College Tuesday, February 10th Public Event "Understanding Conflict in South Sudan" 6:30-7:30 PM, Social Sciences 2, Room 075 Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC Wednesday, February 11th Colloquium "When […]
Manuscript Reading Seminar: "The People of Sudan Love You, Oh Messenger of God"
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS 2014-2015 Theme: GLOBAL ISLAM Winter Quarter Events Featuring: Noah Salomon, Assistant Professor of Religion, Carleton College Tuesday, February 10th Public Event "Understanding Conflict in South Sudan" 6:30-7:30 PM, Social Sciences 2, Room 075 Moderated by Mark Massoud, Assistant Professor of Politics and Legal Studies, UCSC Wednesday, February 11th Colloquium "When […]
Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
Communications 150, Studio CFriday, May 29th 4:00-5:30pm Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004) Discussion with: Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz. 7:00-9:00pm Feature film: Dernier Maquis/Aden, dir. Rabah Ameur-Zaïmeche (France, 2008) Discussion with: Mayanthi Fernando, Associate Professor, […]
Amitav Ghosh: "Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War"
Kresge Town HallUC Santa Cruz Center For Emerging Worlds presents in collaboration with Kresge College and the UCSC Living Writers Series “Flood of Fire: India and the First Opium War” A talk and reading by Dr. Amitav Ghosh from his new book, Flood of Fire Monday | October 12, 2015 Kresge Town Hall 12:00-1:30 PM Free and open to the public For […]
Book Talks – Gil Anidjar: “Blood: A Critique of Christianity”
Humanities 2, Room 359Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western Culture, politics, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with […]
Book Talk: Sherene Seikaly
Humanities 2, Room 259Men of Capital examines British-ruled Palestine in the 1930s and 1940s through a focus on economy. In a departure from the expected histories of Palestine, this book illuminates dynamic class constructions that aimed to shape a pan-Arab utopia in terms of free trade, profit accumulation, and private property. And in so doing, it positions Palestine […]