Events
Humanities 1, Room 210
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Allen Riley – Critical Play with Large Language Models
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe idea of keeping the "human in the loop" is offered as a way to make AI "human-centered" and to safeguard against AI mischief, but how does being in a loop with AI shape our communication with each other? Over the last 20 years, Allen Riley created dozens of interactive artworks that explore mediated communication […]
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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 StatesJoin 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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Murad Idris – Against Hate: On the Politics of a False Diagnosis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-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 […]
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Alyssa Battistoni – Free Gifts: Capitalism and the Politics of Nature
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-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, […]
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Privacy’s Defender: Fight Against Digital Surveillance with Cindy Cohn
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCindy 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 […]
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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 StatesWhat 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 […]
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Alexander Ghedi Weheliye – Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe final guest of the History of Consciousness Spring 2026 Research Colloquium will be joining us next Monday, May 11th. This event brings Alexander Ghedi Weheliye to give their talk “Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life”. Schwarz-Sein: Elements of Black Life establishes the different ways Blackness operates as the ontological mattering of ungendering. This allows me […]
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Gukha Amin — From the Margins: The Lives and Labor of Yemen’s “Undesirable” Subjects
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for the Middle East and North Africa for a presentation by Gukha Amin. Her talk follows the lives of social outcasts and marginalized Black people who lived and moved across Southern Arabia in the first half of the twentieth century using deportation records, petitions, and criminal cases. These include street performers, sex […]
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Sanjay Barbora – Territorial Autonomy, States and Politics in the 21st Century: Notes from a Frontier
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow can we interpret the increasing centralisation of political authority and decision-making in the 21st century, and can movements for autonomy provide an answer to this question? The concept of territorial autonomy has been a complex issue in modern politics, especially since the emergence of postwar nation-states in the 20th century. While it provided a […]
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The Current Status of the Torment Nexus, and how are those Stochastic Parrots?
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLet’s check in on two of our old friends in the critical history of artificial intelligences. What’s the status of the torment nexus today? And how are those stochastic parrots? This talk will provide an update on AI projects that continue to abuse their science fiction namesakes (RIP the Metaverse & Horizon Worlds), and reevaluate […]