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Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. Johan Matthew […]
Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what […]
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The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli Levin: Baby's First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You Panel Two: […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and […]
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Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. Featuring: Christopher Chen, Literature Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness Christopher Connery, Literature T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies Susan Gilman, Literature Asad Haider, History of Consciousness Donna […]
FreeDebbora Battaglia: “Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Roots in Air: People/Plants/Ethics in Suspension" Out of the urban ruins and food deprivation of World War II came the prototype for growing plants aeroponically. Aeroponics has since taken surprising turns as a technology for anthropocenic conditions – in Global South laboratories; “vertical gardens”; art installations; plant biology experiments for colonizing the cosmos. In its […]
Brett Rushforth: “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCenter for World History Presents Brett Rushforth “‘Daily Trafficke with the Frenchmen’: Merchant Colonialism and African Sovereignty in the Sixteenth-Century Atlantic" May 8, 2017 @ 1:30-3pm Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Brett Rushforth is an Assistant Professor at the University of Oregon. He is a scholar of early American and […]
PhD+: Mentorship
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMentorship Managed Up: cultivating successful professional relationships within, alongside, and outside the academy This PhD+ session is being presented in coordination with members of the NEH Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant Committee. Please join faculty, administration, and graduate students in a facilitated discussion and share your thoughts about how to foster and maintain successful mentorship […]
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Earl Jackson: “Critical Conditions: Japanese Film Theory and Practice”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEarl Jackson Jr. is Professor at National Chiao Tung University in Taiwan and Co-Director of the Trans-Asian Screen Cultures Institute in South Korea. Co-Sponsored by Cultural Studies, Cowell College, and the Literature Department.
Chris Connery: “Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Contemporary Chinese Capitalism and Its Critical Landscape" This talk draws on a work in progress entitled Revolutionary China and its Late Capitalist Fate, an analysis of the nature of post-reform China's political economy, with particular attention to how this has affected everyday life, intellectual and critical work, ideological formation, cultural production, social movements, political action, and […]