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  • Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso – Return to Nanga Jela

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

    The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those histories, and weakening communities. In 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo, along with twenty-one other communities and […]

  • Armen Khatchatourov – Artificial Intelligence and its “contexts”: between ethics and politics

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

    This talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and, second, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception […]

  • Martabel Wasserman – Picturing California’s Carceral Landscape: Carleton Watkins’ Views of Alcatraz

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

    Carleton Watkins, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National Park system. This paper explores his previously understudied photographs of Alcatraz, taken over approximately three decades beginning in 1861. Through close readings of the changing […]

  • Carla Hernández Garavito – Rethinking South American Archaeology Through the Work of Silvia Rivera Cusicanqui: A Ch’ixi Approach

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

    South American Archaeology is living through a growing push towards a theoretical focus developed from within. Of particular influence is the concept of “coloniality”, an enduring form of colonialism that affects the frameworks of reference the colonized have of themselves. However, coloniality and the emphasis on “subaltern archaeologies” as a generalized category for the production […]

  • POSTPONED: Timescape of Rings with Stephen David Engel

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

    This event has been postponed. An updated date will be announced in the coming weeks. The History of Consciousness department invites you to the next talk in their Fall 2025 Research Colloquium series. Stephen David Engel will read from an experimental history called “Timescape of Rings.” In it, he meditates on a 2,200-year-old redwood round […]

  • Campus to Career – Job Talk with Kim Angulo, Assistant Public Defender

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

    Interested in an impact-driven career in law, public policy, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you, and ideas for how […]

  • Jay Afrisando – Shaping the Arts within Disability and Community of Diverse Bodies

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

    What does it look like when our creative process is driven by disability and community? How does the work develop, change, and differ from the already-established ways of making? In this talk, Jay Afrisando will share his recent and upcoming works focusing on how disability and community of diverse bodies drive the ways such works […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Crafting the Research-Based Essay with Ariel Gore

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

    Join award-winning author and editor Ariel Gore for a conversation and mini-workshop on translating your research for non-academic genres including personal essays, fiction, memoir/autofiction, and journalism. What does your reader need to know? How do you find a balance between your own voice and the words of others? What do you do about things like […]

  • Upatyaka Dutta – As We Sing, So Shall We Pluck

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

    Within the everyday workspaces of Assam’s tea plantations, Adivasi tea tribes engage in listening, sounding, and music. At times, these sounds and music flow into Adivasi living areas known as “lines.” Upatyaka explores the dynamic relationship between the sounds of the workplace and the sociocultural life woven through tea plantation labor. Drawing on ethnographic fieldwork […]

  • Nour Joudah – Palestine is the Countermap

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

    Please join us for a talk with Nour Joudah at the second annual Possibilities of Palestinian Refusal: Against Disciplining Knowledge and Movement series! The Palestinian experience, like that of many indigenous peoples, is one unbound by time; it occupies a simultaneity of temporalities in any given moment and is constantly finding ways to escape the […]

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