Events
Humanities 1, Room 210
TechnoScience Improv
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis 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 conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]
Giuseppe Longo – From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster, is pleased to present "From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World" delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually, […]
Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, she will highlight […]
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]
Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a Center for South Asian Studies Meet and Greet! Come have some food and refreshments with the CSAS community and tell us about your research and interests related to South Asia and the Center. Grab a bite, get a drink, and tell us about your research!
Ariella Azoulay – Crafting a Jewish Muslim World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCrafting a potential history of the Jewish Muslim World means taking seriously the fact that we – Muslim Jews - are the living ruins of worlds that imperialism is committed to make disappear. Asking ‘who am I?’ / ‘who are we?’ means breaking apart the cohesiveness and solidity of the identities assigned by settler colonial […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about becoming a THI Graduate Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you’re thinking about applying your expertise in the public sphere or exploring career opportunities beyond academia, then you may be interested in THI’s Public Fellowship program. Public fellowships provide opportunities for doctoral students in the Humanities to […]
“Zone of Flux: The Mutable Geographies, Interrupted Histories, and Multiple Languages of the Mediterranean” – Iain Chambers in Conversation with Camilla Hawthorne and Mediterranean Studies Roundtable
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a Mediterranean Studies talk and roundtable featuring Iain Chambers, former Professor of the Sociology of Cultural Processes, Oriental University, Naples. 4:30-5:30 | “Mediterranean Blues: Colonial Spacetime and Other Archives,” Iain Chambers Introducer and Respondent: Camilla Hawthorne (Associate Professor of Sociology and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, UCSC) 5:45-7:00 | “Mediterranean as Materiality, […]
Alex Brostoff – The Task of the Trans Translator: Paradoxes of Visibility, Autotheories of Opacity
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the task of the trans translator? How have paradoxes of visibility bound translation and trans studies in uncanny inversions of each other? And what might autotheoretical methodologies contribute to decolonizing the transgender imaginary in translation? This talk probes how form—from the grammatical to the material and from the social to the structural—shapes and […]
Benjamin Breen – AI Legibility, Physical Archives, and the Future of Research
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. This meeting is scheduled for March 4th (Tuesday) at noon in HUM 210 with guest speaker, Benjamin Breen speaking on "AI legibility, physical archives, and the future of research." As artificial […]