Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and engineering. This year's panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of "affect" demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility. Erin Gray (History of Consciousness): "The White Flesh of the World: Affect […]

This public conference investigates the relation between philosophy and its multicultural context. Are there immutable questions and universal answers regarding knowledge, values, and reality, or is philosophical inquiry bound by history, geography, and culture? Should the philosopher be responsible to the public? Four panels of local intellectuals from Google, San Francisco State University, San José […]

Through a study of the Haitian Revolution, James Martel's recent work not only questions the liberal universalism of the French Revolution, but also the myriad of ways in which Haitians appropriated, subverted, and radicalized Enlightenment principles. James Martel is Professor and Chair of Political Science at San Francisco State University.

Carla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west, from economic competitor in Plautus's "homo hominy lupus" to sovereign double in Derrida's The Beast and the Sovereign. Carla Freccero is Professor and Chair of […]

Over the course of this conference, Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, we shall explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, state, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives. A focus on cosmopolitanism will open new views of the literati theory of knowledge, the transition from the Qing regime to the modern republic, the […]

Full dates: Sunday, August 26th through Wednesday, August 29th. Our project seeks to catalyze major progress in how we create and understand the computational systems that drive interactive media. We will begin by convening a set of field leaders who have been working across the boundaries of media-focused computer science, the digital humanities, and the […]

Join us for this unique opportunity to view the Zaricor Flag Collection. Flags from: U.S. Presidents, Abraham Lincoln, World Trade Center, George Custer, True Betsy Ross, Women's Suffrage, Taliban, and many more will be shown. 36 Star President A. Lincoln Mourning Flag, photo courtesy of Zaricor Flag Collection. 1:30-3:00 pm with formal remarks and Q&A […]

The IHR will host a workshop on funding opportunities and grant writing on Wednesday, June 6. FOOD AND COFFEE provided! Please email Irena Polić (ipolic@ucsc.edu) by May 23rd if you are interested in coming, so that we can order the appropriate amount of food. Please also email Irena by then a list of topics you […]

Professor Weinberg will explore the nature of popular antisemitism in the Russian Empire during the trial of Mendel Beilis, a Kievan Jew accused of ritual murder in 1913. Concerned citizens sent letters to the prosecution during the trial in order to buttress the government's case against Beilis. The letters permit us to delve into the […]

SAM BALL WILL PRESENT HIS WORK WITH TWO GRAPHIC NOVELISTS: Joann Sfar Draws from Memory and Ben Katchor: Pleasures of Urban Decay Sam Ball’s documentaries have been exhibited at many of America's most prestigious venues for independent film, ranging from the Sundance Film Festival to the Museum of Modern Art - New York’s documentary fortnight, […]