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Anna Tsing & Isabelle Carbonell: “‘Golden Snail Opera’: The More-than-human Performance of Friendly Farming on Taiwan’s Lanyang Plain”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWritten by Anna Tsing, Isabelle Carbonell, Joelle Chevrier and Yen-ling Tsai (Associate Professor of Anthropology at National Chaio Tung University Taiwan), Golden Snail Opera combines video and performance-oriented text into a genre-bending o-pei-la. This piece is a multispecies enactment of experimental natural history considering the “golden treasure snail,” imported to Taiwan in 1979, which is now major pest of […]
FreePhD+: Networking and The Versatile PhD
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Institute for Humanities Research and the Career Center Present PhD+: Networking and Versatile PhD Friday, October 28, 2016 Humanities 1, Room 210 11 am - 12:30 pm Panelists: Christina Hall, Career Advisor for Graduate Students in the Arts and Humanities, Career Center Whitney deVos, PhD Candidate Literature; GSR, Institute for Humanities Research; Peer Advisor, […]
Roundtable Discussion: Research in the Humanities and Social Sciences beyond Academia
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhilip Misevich and Konrad Tuchscherer are historians at St. John's University and co-producers of Ghosts of Amistad: In the Footsteps of the Rebels (2014, dir. Tony Buba), the award-winning documentary based on Marcus Rediker's powerful account of the most successful slave rebellion in American history, The Amistad Rebellion: An Atlantic Odyssey of Slavery and Freedom (Penguin, 2012). […]
P. Sainath: “The People’s Archive of Rural India”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesP. Sainath is India's most highly awarded journalist and a winner of the Ramon Magsayay Prize (often referred to as the 'Asian Nobel'). The only Indian to win the Magsayay for journalism in 32 years, Sainath was also the first reporter in the world to win Amnesty International's Global Journalism Prize, and the only Indian […]
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Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman is Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies will continue to host a Wednesday colloquium series, which […]
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David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of what his concern is. Scholars working on this problem have presented a wide variety of suggestions of what Hume might be thinking. I will argue […]
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Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPaul 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 A Vast Machine: Computer Models, Climate Data, and the Politics of Global Warming (2010). Edwards is Professor at the School of Information and Department of History […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future" Sara Mameni, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow In her video project, "In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain" (2014), Larissa Sansour enters the fictional world of a resistance group who bury porcelain remains of an imaginary civilization to influence history and support their claims to land and […]
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Bernard Stiegler: “Beyond the Anthropocene”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIs 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 – live in a permanent state of emergency, universal, and unpredictable. Lunch will be provided at 11am in Humanities 1, Room 202. Two theses will […]
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The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but please RSVP by writing to cgomezri@ucsc.edu in order for us to have a head count and circulate the papers for discussion. Four scholars will share […]
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