Departing from the recent experience of the launch of the Spanish edition of their book Abolition.Feminism.Now (co-authored with Erica Meiners and Beth Richie) in Mexico City, this conversation addresses the challenge of what intersectionality across regions, struggles, and identities might mean in this moment, as well as the expansion of global anti-carceral work. With an […]

What if we considered Southeast Asia from the perspective of its muddy coasts and inland swamps? Precolonial “Soft coasts” supported a maritime world connecting diverse peoples by trade, kinship, and fealty. European ideas of property and governance brought land reclamation, destroying those wetlands. Reclamation continues in postcolonial guises. What are its social and ecological effects? […]

Drawing on research in Sikkim, India, with the Affected Citizens of Teesta movement, and with geoscientists across the Himalayan region, this talk asks: How have state powers used geological ways of seeing the Himalaya and with what consequences? What other geological imaginaries might offer an emancipatory, justice-centered approach to the earth? Centering the 2023 Glacial […]

The panel examines themes animating Isaac Julien’s 1991 film Young Soul Rebels. In the presentations and the discussion, the panelists explore questions of temporality, memory, Black culture, and film theory. Rizvana Bradley: Interval of the Abandoned Over the two decades since Young Soul Rebels and Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask were first screened, Isaac […]

Featured Presenters: Dimitris Papadopoulos & Maria Puig de la Bellacasa: Ecological Worldmaking: Field Notes from Speculative Science and More Than Human Aesthetics This session brings art, science, and ecological thought into an open conversation around a shared question: What more-than-human modes of knowing, sensing, imagining, and world-making may serve our thinking and practice in current […]

UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) and the Center for South Asian Studies invite you to join us for a Slow Seminar to discuss Iftekhar Iqbal’s The Range of the River: Asia’s Great River Systems and the Making of a Transregional World. Spanning nearly four million square kilometers across eastern South Asia, mainland […]

Smart glasses promise to deliver AI's power to their wearers by capturing media, streaming audio, and projecting visual data in the field of view. The technology, Meta suggests, amounts to “the most frictionless way to get help, answers and suggestions—anytime, anywhere.” Smart glasses also aren’t new. The concept dates back to the 1960s, with multiple […]

A record and rendition of the land posits the racialized body as a porous, unfixed site and embodied geography through which cultural histories of memory and place are inscribed and rearticulated. Working in self-portraiture, film, and poetry, Stone's images enter a dialogue with her ancestors by reimagining their presence within the American landscape. Working extensively […]