Events
Humanities 1, Room 202
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Humanities 1, Room 202Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened...feminist unions, Eastern European migrants […]
Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 202An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.
Barry Lam – Fighting the Future: The Philosophy of Predictive Algorithms in Criminal Justice
Humanities 1, Room 202At different stages of the criminal justice system, from policing, bail hearings, and sentencing, computerized algorithms are replacing human decision-making in determining where to police, who to arrest, who goes to jail, and who goes free. This talk will introduce people to how these algorithms work, the under-appreciated moral problems with their implementation, and how […]
Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
Humanities 1, Room 202Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman Breakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials * […]
Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 202"Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism" Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position […]
Book Presentation: Jai Sen’s The Movements of Movements
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS), Deborah Gould (UCSC), and Patrick King (UCSC). Jai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer, then a researcher into popular movement, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote […]
Jeff Michno: “Nicaragua Y ¿Vos, tú o usted?”
Humanities 1, Room 202In this talk, I highlight variation in second-person singular pronoun use (vos, tú, and usted) by local residents of a rural Nicaraguan community experiencing linguistic and cultural contact driven by tourism. I demonstrate that pronoun selection can vary according to the amount of contact locals have with outsiders in their community, providing evidence that […]
Applied Linguistics Colloquia
Humanities 1, Room 202Philosophy Colloquium: Gene Witmer
Humanities 1, Room 202“Metaphysics and A Priori Vindication” Is there reason to expect any interesting kind of a priori access to metaphysical truths of the sort often in dispute in contemporary philosophy? In this paper I zero in on truths about what is metaphysically necessary and about the essences or natures of things as key topics in metaphysics […]