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  • Zhongmin Chen — “Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language”

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

    The Fusional Linguistics Initiative presents, Zhongmin Chen (Fudan University) speaking on "Re-evaluating the Development of the Chinese Language: the 'One-center Multi-Layer' Development Hypothesis." This talk will take place Monday, February 3 at 1:20pm in Humanities 1 - Room 210. Language is humanity's most vital tool for communication, making the study of its evolution inherently linked […]

  • Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue

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

    Feminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. The first 20 students who register for the full day will receive their choice of one of the speakers' books. 11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans […]

  • Sophia Azeb – Mapping the “Arab” in Pan-African Political Culture

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

    Amid the US-backed Israeli genocide in Palestine and the UAE-backed genocide in Sudan, the constellation of transnational and multiracial movement solidarities forged throughout the myriad capitalist and colonialist crises of the 21st century continue to reckon with the precarity of their uneven legibility across various regional, continental, and global contexts. Expanding on the titular catalogue […]

  • Dan Zimmer – From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics

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

    The first guest of the Winter '25 lineup of the HistCon Speaker Series will be joining us next week! Dan Zimmer will give his talk “From Left/Right to Up/Down: Technological Transcendence, Ecological Collapse, and a New Polarity in Politics” on Monday, January 27th, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 210. If you are unable to make […]

  • We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-Than-Human(ities) Lab Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth

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

    Please join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who […]

  • Marc Matera – Race After Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain

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

    “Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and, ultimately, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean, South Asian, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s, […]

  • Kim Tallbear – Settler Love Is Breaking My Heart: Sex, Kin, and Country

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

    Settler sexuality, family, and “love” are key to sustaining settler property relations in the US and Canada. In this in-process book chapter (a shorter version was previously published in a 2024 edited volume), I draw on the work of historians, anthropologists, and science and technology studies (STS) scholars who have investigated the history of state- […]

  • Laliv Melamed – On Intimacy and Other Sovereignties

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

    How can we explain decades of Israeli civil society’s consensus around a regime of oppression and impunity? What mediated attachments and disavowals mandate settler colonial violence? This talk follows what the private media complex in order to articulate the intimate channels through which state sovereignty is distributed, structured and internalized. A prerequisite to the current […]

  • Kunal Purohit – H-Pop, The Secretive World of Hindutva Popstars

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

    Can a song trigger a murder? Can a poem spark a riot? Can a book divide a people? Away from the gaze of mainstream urban media, across India’s dusty, sleepy towns, a brand of popular culture is quietly seizing the imagination of millions, on the internet and off it. From catchy songs with acerbic lyrics […]

  • Abundance: Living with a Forest Film Poster

    Dolly Kikon – Abundance: Living with a Forest

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

    We welcome Dolly Kikon for a screening of her film Abundance: Living with a Forest and a talk about her work on Indigenous ecology in the Eastern Himalayan region. Abundance: Living with a Forest (2024) is a filmic biography of foraging, forest, and jhum cultivation in Nagaland, a hill state in Northeast India where approximately 60% […]

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