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 […]
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Is it possible to think in a state of emergency? This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled […]
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 […]
Dai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. […]
The Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present: Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway Followed by a […]
Men 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 […]
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, “Book Talks,” which invites authors to read from their books and engage in […]
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for […]
Stephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in […]
Donna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and […]
Irene Lusztig’s recent nonfiction moving image projects engage the methods and questions of 1970’s collaborative feminist documentary practice, interrogating the contemporary status of public feminism. The presentation focuses on materials […]
Joshua Brahinsky’s current book project is “God’s Bodies: Pentecostal Training in Art of Immediacy.” He is working on a research project on global evangelicalism and theory of mind, and is […]
Roland Tolentino works on Philippine film, literature, and popular culture in national and transnational contexts. He is a fellow of the UP Institute of Creative Writing and a member of […]
The Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, […]
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué. In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in […]
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav. Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. […]
The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich. Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical […]
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Jonathan Beecher Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of […]
The Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s […]
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the […]
Tyler Stovall is currently working on two research projects. One concerns the history of migration from the French Caribbean to France during the 19th and early 20th centuries. The other explores […]
John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition […]
Megan 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 […]
Joshua 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 […]
