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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 […]
Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish, Christian, and Islamic voices into dialogue, with Dante Alighieri's oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment, psychology, soteriology, and collective destiny in light of their historical […]
Josen Masangkay Diaz – Population Crisis and the Reproductive Archive
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk focuses on the development of a population science in the decade that preceded the Ferdinand Marcos regime in the Philippines and throughout the Marcos dictatorship. The regime's management of reproductive health, in particular, illustrates the construction of new technologies of measurement and containment. The talk focuses on readings of "family planning" archives that […]
Islamophobia in a Global Perspective: A Panel Discussion
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) for a panel discussion that situates Islamophobia in a global context as a form of discrimination that shapes politics and culture in Europe, North Africa, and the United States. While it is largely acknowledged that the concept of Islamophobia refers to the racial discrimination […]
More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the More-Than-Human(ities) Lab for our winter "share session.” Two of our early-career lab members will share their current projects and invite your feedback in an informal, interactive conversation. Our presenters will be: Pietro Autorino: Searching for 'contemporary agroecology' beyond Soilutionism: notes from a small on-farm experimental compost station in Italy Stephanie […]
A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join them for their winter Slow Seminar, "A History of Families: Bosses, Bullies, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines Professor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation drawing on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the […]
Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk identifies a critical feature of late populism: popularism. Traditional populism operates through articulation: actively constructing “the people” as a political category by linking heterogeneous demands together against an elite or other. Popularism, alternatively, functions through refraction: it seeks maximum resonance with pre-existing popular attitudes and treats “the people” as an already-coherent homogenous group, […]
Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreIn this talk, Susan Slyomovics will discuss her new book, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. "Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments placed thousands of war memorials across the French colony. But following Algeria's hard-fought independence in 1962, these monuments took on different meanings and some were […]
UC Maghreb Workshop
Virtual and In Person +1 moreThis workshop will bring together over a dozen scholars from the UC-system who research the Maghreb to share their work and exchange ideas. It is designed as a way of maintaining the rich network of expertise on this region found on the west coast. In addition to thematic panels, Susan Slyomovics (UCLA) will be presenting […]
Lana Tatour – Race and the Question of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and The Center for Racial Justice Join us for conversation with Lana Tatour, in dialogue with Muriam Haleh Davis, on her recently published edited volume Race and the Question of Palestine (Stanford University Press, 2025, co-edited with Ronit Lentin). This collection argues that […]