Events
Humanities 1, Room 210
Zirwat Chowdhury – Transacting Empire: Family Portraits
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Center for South Asian Studies presents Transacting Empire: Family Portraits with Zirwat Chowdhury on April 17th. Participants are invited to attend in person at HUM 1 room 210 or register via Zoom. This talk traces across the disjointed pairing of two portraits an imperial form of kinship that emerged among covenanted servants of […]
Book Talk with Laila Shereen Sakr: Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLaila Shereen Sakr (UC Santa Barbara) will give her talk entitled, "Arabic Glitch and Digital Palestine" and present her recent book, Arabic Glitch: Technocultures, Data Bodies, and Archives. Arabic Glitch explores an alternative origin story of twenty-first century technological innovation in digital politics—one centered on the Middle East and the 2011 Arab uprisings. Developed from […]
Juned Shaikh – The Afterlife of Confiscation: Engels’ The Origin of the Family in 1930s and 40s India
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGangadhar Adhikari returned to India from Germany in the 1920s with a tranche of books. He had recently completed his PhD in Chemistry in Berlin and had joined the Communist Party of Germany. Upon his return to India in 1928, he joined the Communist Party of India and was jailed in 1929 on charges of […]
Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Feminist Studies and Faculty for Justice in Palestine present Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine with panelists: Lila Adib Sharif (Arizona State University), Jennifer Lynn Kelly (UC Santa Cruz), and Somdeep Sen (Roskilde University); the editorial collective of Detours: A Decolonial Guide to Palestine. Join us for this panel discussion with excerpts from Detours: […]
Humanities in the Age of AI Lunch meeting
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 their lunch meeting scheduled for Monday, April 8th at 12pm in HUM 210. This month's meeting will feature guest speakers Theresa Hice-Fromille (Ohio State University) and Sarah Papazoglakis (Lit PhD, '18) on Afrofuturism for Tech: Creative Approaches to […]
CANCELLED – Linguistics Colloquia: Karlos Arregi
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present: Karlos Arregi University of Chicago speaking on The relation between head movement and periphrasis Abstract In joint work with Asia Pietraszko, I've been investigating the relation between head movement and the synthesis-periphrasis distinction in the verbal domain. We use the term "synthesis" to refer to verbal expressions […]
PhD+ Workshop – THI Public Fellowship Information Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about becoming a THI 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 contribute to […]
Dr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky – Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Vladimir Hamed-Troyansky will present on his book, Empire of Refugees: North Caucasian Muslims and the Late Ottoman State (Stanford University Press, 2024), which reveals the origins of refugee resettlement in the modern Middle East. Between the 1850s and World War I, the Ottoman Empire welcomed about a million Muslim refugees from Russia. Empire of […]
Chris Connery – China and the Mutations of Neoliberalism: Thoughts on the Current Conjuncture
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChina’s economic and social development over the last 25 years has featured significant elements from the neoliberal playbook–ideologies of competition and human capital, market metrics, efficiency, suppression of labor rights, and more–coexisting with severe state limitations on private property, impediments to the formation of a capitalist class, and, especially in the last ten years, an […]
An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn Partnership with the Humanities Institute and City on a Hill Press Kresge's Media & Society Series Presents: An Evening with Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman Prize-winning Associated Press coauthors Martha Mendoza and Juliet Linderman will be speaking about journalistic collaboration and their groundbreaking investigation into the US Marine who abducted an Afghan child. Martha […]