The Center for South Asian Studies and Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, […]

The invention of the alphabet is at the origin of a fundamental change in our relationship to knowledge and the world. In particular, the Greek alphabet greatly contributed to shaping our cultures, leading up to today’s “term rewriting machines” that are changing our lives. The vision of a world completely describable in elementary and simple […]

Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations. Rather than structured […]

In this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of […]

Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the […]

This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, […]

The Humanities Institute Research cluster, Humanities in the Age of AI, presents "When Human-Centered AI Encountered Digital Humanities: A Dialogue between Magy Seif El-Nasr and Minghui Hu." What happens when […]