Events
Humanities 1, Room 420
Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin) This talk is part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. Guests are invited to join us in-person in HUM 1, Room 420 at 2:00 pm PST, or join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to […]
Stefan Tanaka: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department is delighted to present: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka. This talk is a part of the HISC Winter 2024 Speaker Series. It builds from recent work on time and history that question whether the history understood and practiced over the past two centuries is still […]
Chiara Bottici – Anarchafeminism
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHistory of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
Alev Çinar – The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAfter winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922, Turkey set on a secular, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey […]
Karen Feldman – The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg, Felski, and Bottomless Critique
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
Taija McDougall – Plantations Derivations
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesQueer pleasure, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaking Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 – Thi Nguyen: “The Gamification of Public Discourse”
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm - a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma Andeanists have cultivated an obsession with the illustrations and writing of Guaman Poma, and with good reason. There are only three truly illuminated manuscript to come out of Colonial Peru, a scat account in comparison with the plethora from Mexico. Guaman Poma is […]