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  • More-Than-Humanities Lab Early Career Scholars Share Session

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

    Please 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 […]

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    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 more

    The 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 […]

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    Mike McCarthy – A Theory of Late Populism: Popularism

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

    This 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 more

    In 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 more

    This 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 […]

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    Lana Tatour – Race and the Question of Palestine

    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) 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 […]

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    Cinthya Martinez – Toxic Caging!: Abolish ICE & Feminist Resistance

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

    This talk looks at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California and the grassroots movement to abolish ICE led by formerly detained migrants and local activists. It focuses on the Adelanto Toxic Tours, a community action where survivors and organizers guide people through the areas surrounding the detention center to share stories about environmental harm, […]

  • Moulay Hicham Alaoui – Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Religion, Politics, and the Struggle for Freedom

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

    Join us for a book talk by Dr. Hicham Alaoui in which he will deliver insights about the battle for democracy in the Middle East, drawing upon his recent book, Pacted Democracy in the Middle East: Tunisia and Egypt in Comparative Perspective (Palgrave, 2022), also available in French (Le Cherche Midi, 2024) and Arabic (Dar […]

  • Prophetic Maharaja: Loss, Sovereignty, and the Sikh Tradition in Colonial South Asia

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

    How do traditions and peoples grapple with loss, particularly when it is of such magnitude that it defies the possibility of recovery or restoration? Rajbir Singh Judge offers new ways to understand loss and the limits of history by considering Maharaja Duleep Singh and his struggle during the 1880s to reestablish Sikh rule, the lost […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships

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

    Grants and Fellowships for Humanities Scholars Learn how to make your fellowship and grant proposals competitive to a wide range of selection committees. We’ll discuss what does and does not need to be in a research proposal, the proper tone and form, and ways to tease out the larger stakes of individual research projects and […]

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