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SUMMARY:On the Canon of the History of Philosophy: Critique & Crisis
DESCRIPTION:Please join us for a day of presentations and conversation featuring: \nSilvestre Gristina (University of Padua / UC Santa Cruz) \nSilvestre Gristina is a Marie Curie Postdoctoral Global Fellow between the University of Padua and the University of California\, Santa Cruz. As part of his MSCA project\, he will be spending a two-year research period at the History of Consciousness Department at UCSC. Silvestre received his PhD in Philosophy in June 2023 from the University of Padua. He carried out a one- year postdoctoral fellowship at the Italian Institute for Philosophical Studies in Naples\, then completed a twenty-month postdoctoral fellowship at the Department of Humanities of the University of Ferrara. His research interests include the history of German Classical Philosophy\, the philosophies of the Young Hegelians and Marx\, the history of twentieth-century Marxism\, and the development of twentieth-century French philosophy. He is currently engaged with methodological questions concerning the history of philosophy and the history of political thought. His research project\, “Temporalities\, Histories\, and Methods of Philosophy”\, intends to contribute to the studies on the critique of the Western Canon\, through specific reflection on the History of Philosophy and its political nature. \n\nElizabeth Millán Brusslan (DePaul University) presenting “Surprises and Hermeneutical Blindness: Elements of Philosophy’s Imperfect Canon” \nElizabeth Millán Brusslan is Chair and Professor in the Department of Philosophy at DePaul University. She works on aesthetics\, German Idealism/Romanticism and Latin American Philosophy. She is the author of Friedrich Schlegel and the Emergence of Romantic Philosophy (SUNY\, 2007) and several edited volumes on early German Romanticism and Latin American philosophy. She recently edited with Jimena Solé\, Fichte in the Americas\, a volume in the Fichte Studien Series (Leiden: Brill\, 2023) and is currently working on The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Philosophy\, which will be an inter-American collection of essays from scholars in the United States\, Canada\, and Latin America. She also recently completed an essay\, “Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre as Bildung The Tale of a Working Class Hero for Freedom” for Fichte’s Wissenschaftslehre: A Critical Guide\, edited by Jeffery Kinlaw (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press\, forthcoming) and an essay\, “Walter Benjamin and Romantic Critique” for The Palgrave Handbook to Walter Benjamin\, edited by Nathan Ross (New York: Palgrave\, 2025). In 2004-5\, she was awarded an Alexander von Humboldt Fellowship for a project on Humboldt’s view of nature\, and she has published several articles on that topic especially on Humboldt’s views of America and is finishing a book-length study on Alexander von Humboldt’s view of nature. \n\nGiulia Valpione (École Normale Supérieure / CNRS / DePaul University) presening “The Subversive Canon of Political Ecology. A fragmented History?” \nGiulia Valpione is Marie Curie Fellow at the École Normale Supérieure (Paris) and Visiting Scholar at DePaul University (Chicago). She is the author of The Romantic Self. Sovereignty and the Politics of Nature (Cambridge University Press\, July 2026). She has published extensively on German Romanticismand Idealism\, environmental philosophy\, the politics/nature relationship\, and the history of women philosophers. She has worked and studied in Italy\, Germany\, France\, Brazil\, and the United States. Her texts have been published by\, among others: Oxford University Press\, Cambridge University Press\, DeGruyter\, the British Journal for the History of Philosophy\, and the Hegel Bulletin. She served as co-manager of the European Teacher Training Program: “Green Europe: Active Citizenship and the Environment” and is the co-founder and former co-editor-in-chief of the peer-reviewed journal Symphilosophie. International Journal of Philosophical Romanticism. \n\nBanu Bargu (UC Santa Cruz) presenitng “On Sea-Rovers: Althusser’s Montesquieu and the Colonial Unconscious of Materialism” \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is a political theorist\, whose research also draws upon anthropology\, philosophy\, global history\, and Middle East studies around questions of the body\, power\, violence\, resistance practices\, authoritarianism and exceptional regimes\, carcerality and democracy. She is the author of two books: Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford UP\, 2024)\, which is the recipient of the 2025 David Easton Award\, and Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia UP\, 2014)\, which was the recipient of the 2015 First Book Award\, both given by APSA’s Foundations of Political Theory section. Bargu’s curated collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory (Edinburgh UP\, 2019)\, “The Political Encounter with Althusser” (2019 special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco)\, and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Bargu has previously taught at The New School for Social Research\, New York City\, and SOAS\, University of London. Her scholarship has been recognized by a number of fellowships\, including the Mercator fellowship\, ACLS fellowship\, and a residential fellowship at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton\, NJ. Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \n\nRobert Nichols (UC Santa Cruz) presenting “Political Philosophy and /as Reception Theory” \nRobert Nichols is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His work in social and political thought takes up questions of power\, sovereignty\, property\, and historical consciousness\, especially as they inform and animate struggles at the intersection of anti-capitalism and anti-colonialism. Nichols has published several books and journal articles on these topics\, including Theft is Property! Dispossession and Critical Theory (2020); The Dispossessed: Karl Marx’s Debates on Wood Theft and the Right of the Poor\, ed. and trans.\, (2021); and The World of Freedom: Heidegger\, Foucault\, and the Politics of Historical Ontology (2014). Before joining UCSC\, Nichols held faculty posts at the University of Minnesota (Twin Cities) and the University of Alberta (Canada)\, and visiting scholar positions at the Humboldt Universität zu Berlin (Germany); École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales (Paris\, France); Columbia University (NYC); and the University of Cambridge (UK). He is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Fulbright\, Humboldt\, Killiam\, McKnight and Trudeau Foundations\, as well as the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada. \n\nMassimiliano Tomba (UC Santa Cruz) \nMassimiliano Tomba (Ph.D. in Political Philosophy at the University of Pisa) taught Political Philosophy at the University of Padova (Italy). He specialized in German classical philosophy during his stay in Germany (University of Würzburg\, Münich\, and Hamburg). Since 2012\, he has been acting as co-director of an international project whose aim is to rethink the predominant schemes of interpretation of global society to overcome the prevailing Eurocentrism in conceptions of universalism\, space\, and time. Among his publications is Krise und Kritik bei Bruno Bauer. Kategorien des Politischen im nachhegelschen Denken\, Peter Lang\, 2005; La vera politica. Kant e Benjamin: la possibilità della giustizia\, Quodlibet\, 2006; Marx’s Temporalities\, Brill\, 2013; Attraverso la piccolo porta. Quattro studi su Walter Benjamin\, Mimesis\, 2017: Insurgent Universality. An Alternative Legacy of Modernity\, New York\, Oxford University Press\, 2019\, Co-winner of the 2021 David and Elaine Spitz Prize for the best book in liberal and/or democratic theory published in 2019. \n\nFor more information please contact Silvestre Gristina at silvestre.gristina@unipd.it \nThis event is Organized by University of Padua & UC Santa Cruz and Co-Funded by the European Union. This event is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute and the History of Consciousness Department. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/on-the-canon-of-the-history-of-philosophy-critique-crisis/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Chair Lisbeth Haas - Saints & Citizens: Book Reading & Discussion
DESCRIPTION:Saints and Citizens is a bold new excavation of the history of Indigenous people in California in the late eighteenth and nineteenth centuries\, showing how the missions became sites of their authority\, memory\, and identity. Shining a forensic eye on colonial encounters in Chumash\, Luiseño\, and Yokuts territories\, Lisbeth Haas depicts how native painters incorporated their cultural iconography in mission painting and how leaders harnessed new knowledge for control in other ways. Through her portrayal of highly varied societies\, she explores the politics of Indigenous citizenship in the independent Mexican nation through events such as the Chumash War of 1824\, native emancipation after 1826\, and the political pursuit of Indigenous rights and land through 1848. \nLisbeth Haas is Professor of History and Chair of Feminist Studies at the University of California\, Santa Cruz\, and author of Pablo Tac\, Indigenous Scholar: Writing on Luiseño Language and Colonial History\, c. 1840 (UC Press\, 2011) and Conquests and Historical Identities in California\, 1769–1936 (UC Press\, 1995). Professor Haas’s research interests include local histories of globalization\, indigenous histories of California\, subaltern scholars and their writing and painting\, Spanish colonial and Mexican California\, the Borderlands – especially the U.S. and Mexico\, the Colonial Americas\, California Studies\, Global Histories of Race\, Ethnicity\, and Diaspora\, Gendered Stories. \nThere will be a small reception following the reading.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chair-lisbeth-haas-saints-citizens-book-reading-discussion-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20131003T160000
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SUMMARY:Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
DESCRIPTION:In this talk\, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly\, in microscopy). To motivate the view\, a critical examination of Bas van Fraassen’s empiricist proposal will be provided. \nOtávio Bueno is Professor of Philosophy and Chair of the Philosophy Department at the University of Miami. His research concentrates in philosophy of science\, philosophy of mathematics\, and philosophy of logic. He has published widely in these areas in journals such as: Noûs\, Mind\, British Journal for the Philosophy of Science\, Philosophy of Science\, Synthese\, Journal of Philosophical Logic\, Studies in History and Philosophy of Science\, and Analysis. He is editor-in-chief of Synthese. In his free time\, he enjoys to run ultramarathons.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/otavio-bueno-seeing-with-a-microscope-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Neil Sinhababu: "Desire's Explanations"
DESCRIPTION:I defend a Humean theory of motivation on which desire motivates all action and drives all practical reasoning. I respond to objections from Christine Korsgaard\, David Velleman\, and others suggesting that this view leaves no room for the self in action. I argue that all the agent’s desires are part of the self\, and that their effects include the self’s decision and action. \nNeil Sinhababu is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at National University of Singapore. He works on Ethics and Metaethics.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/neil-sinhababu-desires-explanations-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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SUMMARY:Patricia Lunn: "In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar"
DESCRIPTION:LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES PRESENTS: \n“In the Defense of Linguistic Grammar” \n \nPatricia Lunn \nProfessor Emeritus of Spanish Michigan State University \nDiscussions about teaching grammar in the foreign language classroom are usually cast in terms of when (in order of acquisition) and how much (as against other activities). A little-discussed aspect of grammar teaching is what the content of grammar lessons should be. But not all grammatical description is equal\, and some is not even accurate. This presentation argues that the simplicity and descriptive adequacy of linguistic grammar should be recognized and exploited.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/patricia-lunn-in-the-defense-of-linguistic-grammar-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20120418T170000
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SUMMARY:Sara M. Benson: "Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography"
DESCRIPTION:This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies\, the talk traces the geography of prisons in what is now the U.S. Midwest\, maps the border politics and competing claims to law that brought the federal prison to Kansas\, and disrupts the conventional regional narrative of American prisons as North/South institutions. The talk locates Leavenworth in the afterlife of a civil war over slavery that began the Civil War and at the center of the federal strategy to establish\, police\, and dissolve Indian Territory. \nSara Benson received her Ph.D. from the Department of Politics and was part of the Designated Emphasis Program in Feminist Studies. She is now a UC President’s Postdoctoral Fellow in the Department of History at UCLA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sara-m-benson-locating-leavenworth-prisons-and-political-geography-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110527T160000
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SUMMARY:Under the Sign of War: U.S. Militarism and Asian Americanist Critique
DESCRIPTION:This year’s Pacific Seminar returns focus to war\, both as a way of invoking the foundational anti-Vietnam War struggles that inaugurated Asian American studies as an urgent political and epistemological project and as a contemporary analytic that wields the potential of reconfiguring the project of Asian American studies today.  In particular\, this year’s Pacific Seminar workshop\, led by Wei Ming Dariotis (San Francisco State) and Jennifer Kwon-Dobbs (St. Olaf College)\, highlights and historicizes the emergence of mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies as simultaneously origin-animating and field-transforming directions within Asian American studies.  Inquiring into the centrality of U.S. wars in Asia to mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, this year’s workshop approaches Asian American studies not as a rigid crystallized academic tradition but rather as a critical intellectual formation whose shifting contours are shaped and renewed by engagement with the political.  In other words\, not simply reducible to new identitarian directions in an academic field whose expansion (and incoherence)\, as critics have argued\, reflect demographic changes brought on by immigration\, mixed-race studies and critical adoption studies\, by raising the question of geopolitics\, biopolitics\, and necropolitics relative to U.S. wars and militarism in the Asia Pacific region\, pose fundamental challenges to an identity-based approach to Asian American studies.   As with the inaugural formation of Asian American studies\, these emergent areas of activism and socially engaged scholarship\, as this year’s workshop will explore\, cannot be theorized outside a framework of U.S. imperialism and war. \nWei Ming Dariotis is Assistant Professor of Asian American Studies\, with an emphasis on Asian Americans of Mixed Heritage and Asian American Literature\, Arts\, and Culture. She has served on the Boards of Directors of Hapa Issues Forum\, the Asian American Theater Company\, and iPride\, and on the Advisory Boards of Kearny Street Workshop and the Asian American Women Artists Association.  Her poetry has been published in Mixed Up\,Too Mixed Up\, 580 Split\, and Yellow as Turmeric\, Fragrant as Cloves: A Contemporary Anthology of Asian American Women’s Poetry. Her academic essays have been published in Mixed Race Literature (2002)\, Restoried Selves: Autobiographies of Queer Asian American Activists (2004)\, Chinese America: History and Perspectives (2007)\, The Influence of Star Trek on Television\, Film and Culture (2007)\, and Interracial Relationships in the 21st Century (2009).  Her current project is War Baby | Love Child: Mixed Race Asian American Art\, co-curated and co-edited with Laura Kina\, an art exhibit (Wing Luke Asian Museum in Seattle and the De Paul University Art Museum in Chicago\, 2013)\, and a book (under formal review at University of Washington Press). \nJennifer Kwon Dobbs is Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing and director of American Race and Multicultural Studies at St. Olaf College.  She is former core staff for Truth and Reconciliation for the Adoption Community of Korea (TRACK) and a current fellow with the Korea Policy Institute.  Jennifer’s debut collection\, Paper Pavilion (White Pine Press 2007)\, received the White Pine Press Poetry Prize and the Sheila Motton Book Award\, and her chapbook\, Song of a Mirror\, was a finalist for the Tupelo Press Snowbound Series Chapbook Award.  Columns and new stories about Jennifer’s present research on Korean adoptee birth searches and unwed mothers have appeared in Chosun Ilbo\, Conducive Magazine\, Gyeonghyang News\, Hankyoreh\, Korea Herald\, Korea Times\, Pressian\, and Yonhap News.  Currently she is writing a book of essays about unwed moms’ realities with the Korean Unwed Mothers and Families Association and a second book of poetry. \nParticipation: Please note that this is a reading workshop.  To take part in the workshop and to obtain readings in advance\, please RSVP to Christine Hong at cjhong@ucsc.edu.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/under-the-sign-of-war-u-s-militarism-and-asian-americanist-critique-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20110228T171500
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SUMMARY:Eve Zyzik: "Authentic texts\, vocabulary load\, and focus-on-form in foreign language teaching"
DESCRIPTION:This talk will present a practical overview of the use of authentic texts for language learning purposes within the context of contemporary second language acquisition (SLA) research. Some of the questions that will be addressed during this talk include: \n\n\nWhat are the benefits and potential difficulties of authentic texts vis-à-vis graded readers?\nWhat are the advantages of extensive reading over intensive reading?\nHow much vocabulary do you need to know in order to read in a foreign language?\nHow much vocabulary can you “pick up” through reading?\nCan authentic texts be used to teach structural features of the language?\nHow can we get students to enjoy reading in a foreign language?\n\nEve Zyzik is an Assistant Professor in the Spanish Language Program at UCSC. Her talk is presented as part of the Language Program’s Colloquium Series.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/eve-zyzik-authentic-texts-vocabulary-load-and-focus-on-form-in-foreign-language-teaching-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 320
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