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  • CANCELLED: Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy

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

    This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, displacements, and transubstantiations, tracking their place in the history of political thought, structures of minoritization, and contemporary formations where they became rhetorical vehicles and conceptual […]

  • Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens

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

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press

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

    Join Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a "publishing bootcamp" workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process - how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals. Time will be left […]

  • Jaco de Swart – Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments

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

    The History of Consciousness earthecologies x technoscience conversations and the Science and Justice Research Center are pleased to invite you to the following talk entitled Dark Matter, Dirty Xenon, and the Limits of Laboratory Experiments with Jaco de Swart (MIT, Visiting Scholar at Science and Justice Research Center). This event will take place May 7th […]

  • Deirdre de la Cruz – “It’s Your Curse,” and Other Lessons in Repairing Historical Harm

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

    The University of Michigan possesses extensive archival, photographic, archaeological and natural history collections from the Philippines, many of which were built during the American colonial period from objects, images, and ancestors taken without the consent of local source communities. This talk introduces a multi-year, collaborative effort by Michigan faculty, curators, collection managers, students, and community […]

  • M. Ty – It Is Time to Say to the Water, “Disobey”: Reflections with the Art of Jumana Emil Abboud

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

    Perhaps water is a mouth that runs toward unwritten histories.  This possibility comes closer to the senses in the work of Jumana Emil Abboud, an artist whose practice is grounded in Palestinian landscapes—and the refusal to cede them to their brutal equation with narratives of damage that colonial occupation programmatically inflicts.  For some time, Abboud […]

  • Carolyn Fornoff – Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change

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

    In this talk, Carolyn Fornoff will discuss her recent book, Subjunctive Aesthetics: Mexican Cultural Production in the Era of Climate Change (Vanderbilt Press, 2024). Her book assesses contemporary trends in the representation of environmental crisis in order to suggest that there has been a shift away from evidentiary modes focused on proving the existence of […]

  • TechnoScience Improv

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

    This roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]

  • Giuseppe Longo – From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World

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

    The History of Consciousness department, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster, is pleased to present "From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World" delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually, […]

  • Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being

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

    The Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, she will highlight […]

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