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Kunal Purohit – H-Pop, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars

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

Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India’s dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics […]

Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties

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

How can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current […]

We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-than-human(ities) Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth

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

Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who […]

Ajay Skaria – The Part of the Indigenous: Adivasis and the Subaltern Intimation of Freedom

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

This talk attends to what the Subaltern Studies tradition begins to think and gives to our own times to think. The emergence of Subaltern Studies was part of the increasing prominence of the “New Social Movements,” new because they were focused more on oppression than exploitation. Recognizing this allows us to discern that the Subaltern […]