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  • ± AI Initiative Meeting

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

    Join us for a kick-off meeting about The Humanities Institute's new ± AI Initiative. Learn about THI's vision and funding opportunities and connect with colleagues who have overlapping interests in humanities and artificial intelligence. Bring your research ideas, projects, dreams, and plans to the discussion as we look at ways to further advance humanistic work […]

  • Jennifer Mogannam – Palestinian-Lebanese Revolution-Making in Civil War Lebanon

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

    This talk offers a framework for understanding the entangled fate of Palestinian and Lebanese liberation by situating the 1970s Palestinian revolution and Lebanese Civil War opposition front through a shared narrative. This talk will show how these two efforts not only organized jointly, but how their aspirations were shared and impactful of the social landscape […]

  • Navyug Gill – Labor History and the Accumulation of Difference in Colonial Panjab

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

    Within the British empire, Panjab has long been regarded as the quintessential agrarian province inhabited by a diligent, prosperous and “martial race” of peasants. Against such essentialist depictions, I explore the landowning peasant and landless laborer as novel subjects forged in the encounter between colonialism and struggles over culture and capital within Panjabi society. Company […]

  • Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century

    Sociality, Science, and Surveillance: Plantations in the 21st Century
    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    The Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) at the University of California, Santa Cruz, in partnership with Santa Clara University, invites you to a two-day academic workshop exploring the effects and imprints of the plantation complex on life and land in South Asia and beyond. South Asia has had a long, complicated history with plantations. […]

  • María Puig de la Bellacasa – Inheriting the Burdens of Human–Soil Belonging

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

    Co-sponsored by History of Consciousness: earth ecologies x technoscience This talk offers a speculative reading of practices that reclaim and reimagine human–soil relations within the legacies of anthropocentric, productionist, and colonial ecologies. I explore how soils come to epitomize planet Earth, life, death and memory, as well as the fraught significance of writing alternative stories […]

  • Humanities Division Experiential Learning Info Session

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

    Join us for an info session with Kylie Rachwalski, Assistant Director of Experiential Learning in the UCSC Humanities Division to learn more about Humanities EXCEL and EXPLORE Programs for humanities undergraduate students. Humanities EXCEL is a paid internship program for Humanities majors and minors, connecting you with community organizations where you’ll gain hands-on experience, mentorship, and real-world skills. […]

  • Falafel Welcome Lunch with The Center for the Middle East and North Africa

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

    The Center for the Middle East and North Africa invites all CMENA affiliates and students to a falafel welcome lunch. Come catch up with one another, meet CMENA faculty, and learn about the Middle Eastern and North African Studies (MENAS) Minor.

  • More-than-Human(ities) Lab Meet-and-Greet

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

    The More-than-Human(ities) Lab is a multidisciplinary “playgroup”--to borrow from Anna Tsing–dedicated to sharing resources in support of collaborative environmental humanities research. Launched in 2024 as a research cluster of The Humanities Institute, MtH offers speaking events, reading groups, and manuscript “share seshes” for those interested in the more-than-human and with different intellectual, artistic, and community-engaged […]

  • Ussama Makdisi – Palestine, Late Colonialism, and the Question of Genocide

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

    Co-sponsored by the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) This talk explores the relationship between modern philozionism in the West and the denialism of the Palestinians. The nineteenth-century European Zionist idea of implanting and sustaining an exclusively Jewish nationalist state in multireligious Palestine was a response to European racial antisemitism. But it […]

  • Slow Seminar: Moorings by Nidhi Mahajan

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

    The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast), the Center for South Asian Studies (CSAS) and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA), invite you to a Slow Seminar on the new book: Moorings: Voyages of Capital Across the Indian Ocean by Nidhi Mahajan, Assistant Professor of Anthropology. Reception to follow. Opening […]

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