BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Humanities Institute - ECPv6.15.18//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Humanities Institute X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Humanities Institute REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/Los_Angeles BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20150308T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20151101T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20160313T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20161106T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20170312T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20171105T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20180311T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20181104T090000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0800 TZOFFSETTO:-0700 TZNAME:PDT DTSTART:20190310T100000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0700 TZOFFSETTO:-0800 TZNAME:PST DTSTART:20191103T090000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T153000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20180131T173000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20180116T192255Z LAST-MODIFIED:20180213T202346Z UID:10006581-1517412600-1517419800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Yarimar Bonilla: "The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico" DESCRIPTION:The Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Research Cluster Presents: \n“Dr. Yarimar Bonilla\, The Wait of Disaster: Hurricanes and the Politics of Recovery in Puerto Rico” \nEvent Photos:\nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \nDr. Yarimar Bonilla is Associate Professor of Anthropology and Latino/Caribbean Studies at Rutgers University.\nHer research focuses on the colonial logics of sovereignty and on questions of race\, citizenship\, and nation\nacross the Americas. She is the author of Non-Sovereign Futures: French Caribbean Politics in the Wake of\nDisenchantment (2016). \nFree and open to the public. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/wait-disaster-hurricanes-politics-recovery-puerto-rico/ LOCATION:Humanities 2\, Room 259 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2018/01/8.5X11-Yarimar-Bonilla-W2018.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T133000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170523T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20170512T173620Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170512T173620Z UID:10006513-1495546200-1495551600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Dr. Nikhil Anand: "Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. \nNikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures\, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship in Mumbai (Duke\, 2017). His talk is based on a new project that focuses on the uncertain boundaries of land and water in Mumbai\, looking at how sea level rise and struggles over coastal property intersect with the livelihoods of coastal people. \nThe IHR Research Cluster will also host an off-campus Dinner Salon with Dr. Anand later that evening to discuss his afternoon talk and Amitav Ghosh’s The Great Derangement. The dinner salon will start at 6pm. Please email Mayanthi Fernando (mfernan3@ucsc.edu) by Saturday May 20 to RSVP for the salon and to get the Ghosh reading. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/dr-nikhil-anand-waterlines-uncertainty-and-the-future-urban-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 202 END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T140000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170426T160000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20170321T222251Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T222251Z UID:10006484-1493215200-1493222400@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\nCan a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-can-a-sea-be-a-settler-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170425T170000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20170321T221830Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170321T221830Z UID:10006483-1493132400-1493139600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Traci Brynne Voyles: "Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country" DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene Presents \nTraci Brynne Voyles \nTuesday April 25\, 3-5pm\nWastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country\n(reading workshop for faculty and graduate students)\nHumanities 1\, room 210\nContact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings \nWednesday April 26\, 2-4pm\n“Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (justice) History\nHumanities 1\, room 210 \nDr. Traci Brynne Voyles is an Assistant Professor of Women’s and Gender Studies at Loyola Marymount university. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/voyles-wastelanding-legacies-of-uranium-mining-in-navajo-country-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/03/Voyles-poster.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T130000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170307T150000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20170222T201348Z LAST-MODIFIED:20170222T201348Z UID:10006470-1488891600-1488898800@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Slow Seminar on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene DESCRIPTION:2016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS \nRACE\, VIOLENCE\, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE \nThe contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change\, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era\, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems\, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and animal domestication\, and to more recent histories of European colonialism\, transatlantic slavery and capitalism. Via a year-long slow seminar and a series of public events\, we hope to enrich conversations about the Anthropocene – as term\, concept\, and historical era – by bringing together diverse bodies of scholarship\, in particular decolonial and postcolonial theory. This re-politicizes the Anthropocene as an object of study\, making race and empire\, capitalism and colonialism\, and social inequality and violence central to the story of ecological transformation. \nSEMINAR 2: \nTuesday March 7th\, 1-3pm\nHumanities 1\, Room 408 \nSeminar readings: \nElizabeth Povinelli\, Geontologies: A Requiem to Late Liberalism (Duke University Press\, 2016) \nNB: We will be reading the whole book. Copies have been ordered at the Literary Guillotine and can be purchased there. \nSponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/race-violence-inequality-and-the-anthropocene-seminar-2-2/ LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 408 ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2017/02/RACE-VIOLENCE-INEQUALITY-AND-THE-ANTHROPOCENE-CLUSTER-PRESENTS-1.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T114000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170124T131500 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20161220T205817Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161220T205817Z UID:10006445-1485258000-1485263700@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science DESCRIPTION:As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock\, water is a foundational element—biophysical\, epistemological\, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which impact the lives of all of our relations: human and more-than-human. In North America\, energy extraction has accelerated processes of accumulation by dispossession\, in a context of “light touch” regulation in which threats to water are scantily monitored\, under-regulated\, and under-reported\, creating new and significant breaches of Indigenous rights. \nTuesday\, January 24th from 11:40-1:15 in the Rachel Carson College room 301. \nOur collective is beginning a large\, seven year research project (decolonizingwater.ca) through which we are creating Indigenous-led water monitoring systems embedded in Indigenous water laws\, as an expression of Indigenous self-governance. This raises a series of questions about the desirability and possibility of decolonizing water science; resurgent Indigenous self-governance in Canada’s north; the challenges posed to the nation-state by legal pluralism and parallel governance structures. More broadly\, our initiative unfolds within the set of possibilities opened up by big data and eco-informatics in the Anthropocene\, in which “Wiring Gaia” creates new openings for science\, democratic decision-making\, and Indigenous self-determination in Canada’s North. How might an “Internet of Earthlings” be co-constituted\, and what possibilities (and pitfalls) might it create for all of our relations? \nBio: Dr. Karen Bakker is Professor\, Canada Research Chair\, and Director of the Program on Water Governance at the University of British Columbia (www.watergovernance.ca). She is currently the midwife (aka Principal Investigator) to a research collective of Indigenous community members\, academics\, artists\, activists who are striving to decolonize water in both theory and practice (www.decolonizingwater.ca). A Rhodes Scholar with a PhD from Oxford\, Karen is trained in both the natural and social sciences. She currently works at the intersection of political economy and political ecology\, and publishes on a wide range of environmental issues (water\, hydropower\, food\, energy). \nCo-sponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene and the Science and Justice Research Center. URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/indigenous-water-guardians-and-decolonizing-water-science-2/ LOCATION:College 8\, Room 301\, College Eight Rd‎\, University of California Santa Cruz\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170110T113000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170110T133000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20161208T204901Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161208T204901Z UID:10006435-1484047800-1484055000@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Film\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record DESCRIPTION:The IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents \nFilm\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record\nA reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman \nWe will read two chapters by Gregg Mitman and Faye Ginsburg from Documenting the World: Film\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record\, edited by Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder (University of Chicago Press\, 2016). Documenting the World concerns the material and social life of photographs and film made in the scientific quest to document the world. Mitman’s chapter investigates the many lives of a 1926 Harvard expedition film shot in Liberia; Ginsburg’s chapter explores the repurposing of Nazi medical films by disability activists. Both chapters examine what can happen when colonial and totalitarian impulses to collect\, classify\, and control are repurposed by those whose ancestors were once the objects of that documentary gaze. \nFor the readings and more information\, contact mfernan3@ucsc.edu URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/film-photography-and-the-scientific-record-2/ LOCATION:Stevenson Fireside Lounge\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T173000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20170109T193000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20161129T222127Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161129T222127Z UID:10006424-1483983000-1483990200@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman DESCRIPTION:Event Photos: \nIf you have trouble viewing above images\, you may view this album directly on Flickr. \n  \nThe IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality\, and the Anthropocene presents \nThe Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman \nThe Land Beneath Our Feet\, a film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman\, follows a young Liberian man\, uprooted by war\, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage of Liberia’s past. The uncovered footage is embraced as a national treasure. Depicting a 1926 corporate land grab\, it is also an explosive reminder of eroding land rights. In post-conflict Liberia\, individuals and communities are pitted against multinational corporations\, the government\, and each other in life-threatening disputes over land. What can this ghostly footage offer a nation\, as it debates radical land reforms that could empower communities to shape a more diverse\, stable\, and sustainable future? \nThe film showing will be followed by a conversation with Gregg Mitman & Donna Haraway. \nRSVP Here \nFor more information\, contact: mfernan3@ucsc.edu \nCo-sponsored by: Institute for Humanities Research\, Institute of the Arts and Sciences\, Center for Creative Ecologies\, Science and Justice Research Center\, and Center for Emerging Worlds \nClick here for Directions & Parking for the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) \n  \n\n  \nReading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman \nFilm\, Photography\, and the Scientific Record \nJanuary 10\, 2017 @ 11:30 am – 1:30 pm \nHumanities 1\, Room 210 URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/gregg-mitman-2/ LOCATION:Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thi.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2016/11/MITMAN-poster-11x17.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T100000 DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20161012T120000 DTSTAMP:20260405T171235 CREATED:20161018T180110Z LAST-MODIFIED:20161018T180110Z UID:10005285-1476266400-1476273600@thi.ucsc.edu SUMMARY:Anthropocene: Ecological & Political Consequences of Plantations DESCRIPTION:A Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University)\, with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies)\, Rachel Cyper (Anthropology)\, and Zachary Caple (Anthropology). \nSeminar readings:\nGregg Hetherington\, “Beans before the Law: Knowledge practices\, responsibility\, and the Paraguayan soy boom” Cultural Anthropology 28(1): 65-85 2013\n(https://www.academia.edu/2510267/beans_before_the_law-knowledge_practices_responsibility_and_the_paraguayan_soy_boom)\nor email mfernan3@ucsc.edu for pdf of the reading. \nSponsored by the IHR Research Cluster on Race\, Violence\, Inequality and the Anthropocene URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/anthropocene-ecological-political-consequences-of-plantations-2/ LOCATION:Social Sciences 1\, Room 261\, Social Sciences 1‎ University of California Santa Cruz\, College Ten\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR