Co-sponsored by Center for Cultural Studies, History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations, Global and Community Health, and the Science & Justice Research Center This two-hour roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised […]

Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: GeoEcologies + TechnoScience Conversations Through a series of 222 photographs and a separate conceptual narration, this intermedial and semi-performative presentation discusses the pervasive, toxic realism of anthropochemicals and the search for alternative substances. Dimitris Papadopoulos is Professor of History of Consciousness in the Department of History of Consciousness, University of […]

This talk will explore the possible relationships between global economic restructuring and the emergence of new politics of family, gender, and sexuality. The rise of "service economies" in many forms around the world has had profound implications for individual life courses and the normative genders attached to them. Why is this, and what can we […]

The History of Consciousness Department and THI's Humanities in the Age of Artificial Intelligence Cluster welcome Alice Barale for her talk, "Art and Artificial Intelligence: a philosophical Investigation." It has been several years since the first artwork created with artificial intelligence was sold at the renowned auction house Christie's in 2018. In the meantime, new […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]

Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) It seems we are living and witnessing a historical moment in the politics of “the Palestine Question.” No […]