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  • Camilla Hawthorne, Michael Whalen, Christina Zanfagna, and John Gennari – BLACKITALIAN: A Documentary Screening and Discussion

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    What are the meanings of belonging and cultural identity at a time of resurgent white nationalism, large-scale transnational migration, and the increasingly convulsive dynamics of nation and imperium? We address this question in a screening and robust critical discussion of scenes from a documentary film-in-progress called BLACKITALIAN. A collaboration between cultural geographer Camilla Hawthorne, ethnomusicologist […]

  • Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Cindy Cohn has devoted her life to the fight for digital rights. She’s tangled with federal officials to keep our online conversations secure from the government’s prying eyes, fought to ensure that you are told when your information has been turned over to the government, and argued before judges to protect our right to speak […]

  • Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Co-sponsored by the Center for Critical Urban and Environmental Studies Although capitalism is typically treated as a force for relentless commodification, it consistently fails to place value on vital aspects of the nonhuman world, whether carbon emissions or entire ecosystems. Free Gifts argues that to understand contemporary ecological problems from biodiversity collapse to climate change, […]

  • Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Co-sponsored by the Global Political Thought Working Group The idea that “hate” names a fundamental problem of our time has engulfed Anglophone public discourse. Republicans and Democrats, university presidents and doxxing campaigns, advocacy organizations and journalists, scholarly experts and “hate glossaries” criticize what they oppose as hate, demand standing against hate, and seem to treat […]

  • CMENA Student Choice Lecture: Razan Ghazzawi -Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Join us for the annual student choice lecture presented by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa:  Razan Ghazzawi, "Carceral Geographies to Racialized Borders: A Queer Feminist Ethnography."  From a positionality of an exiled protestor in Europe and a former political prisoner in Syria, this project traces the journeys of eight self-identified Syrian […]

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