4:00pm, Humanities 1, Room 210 Co-Sponsored by UCSC Philosophy, History of Consciousness, Cultural Studies, and Science and Justice Working Group  ABSTRACT: The notion of the “biological individual” is crucial to studies of genetics, immunology, evolution, development, anatomy, and physiology. Each of these biological sub-disciplines has a specific conception of individuality, which has historically provided conceptual contexts for […]

Gregory E. O'Malley is currently finishing his first book, Final Passages: The Intercolonial Slave Trade of British America, 1619-1807. It examines a complex network for distributing enslaved Africans throughout North America and the Caribbean after their survival of the infamous (and much more thoroughly studied) Middle Passage across the Atlantic. Gregory E. O'Malley is Assistant […]

Katherine Dunbabin is Emerita with the Department of Classics, McMaster University, and holds her degrees from Oxford University. Her areas of specialization are Roman art and mosaics, Roman dining customs, and theater and spectacle in the Roman Empire, and she has published widely on these topics. She served as the specialist on the Roman mosaics […]

This talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to engage in solidarity with those beyond its borders who are targets of imperial violence. It draws on an ethnographic study of South Asian, Arab, and […]

The Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress, "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right," in advance. Two graduate students, Sarah Kelman and Brent Crosson, will lead the discussion. All are welcome.  

Rembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, was formed early in his career. Male figures from the Bible such as Moses, Abraham or Jeremiah are represented as heroic protagonists. Female figures, essential to […]

Laurie Palmer's current work explores matter's agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects, she asks how we might access differing temporalities to re-imagine our entanglements in the material/social world. Laurie Palmer is Professor in the Sculptural Department, School of the Art Institute […]

Come learn how to navigate the Community of Science database to best aid your research funding explorations. This database is the best way to search and track funding opportunities that fit your exact research areas and funding needs. 1) It is easy to use. All you need is a ucsc email account to log in. […]

Jenny Reardon is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome. This book traces the efforts to transform genomics from a fields that in the 1990s sparked fears of racism and dehumanization to one that todays claims the banners of democracy and justice. Jenny Reardon is Associate Professor […]

James Clifford taught in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, […]