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SUMMARY:Glen Coulthard - Maoism without Guarantees: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism with Glen Coulthard
DESCRIPTION:This lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by the name Native Alliance for Red Power (or NARP) in Vancouver\, British Columbia (BC)\, from 1967 to the 1975. It argues that their political organizing and theory-building borrowed substantively and productively from a Third World-adapted Marxism which provided an appealing international language of political contestation that they not only inherited but sought to radically transform through a critical engagement with their own cultural traditions and land-based struggles. Not unlike many radicalized communities of color during this period\, NARP molded and adapted the insights they gleaned from Third World Marxism abroad – with a focus on Maoism in particular – into their own internationalist critiques of racial capitalism\, patriarchy\, and internal colonialism at home. A focus will be placed on NARP’s application of a Red Power- Maoist critique of the political economy of extraction spanning from Palestine and the Middle East to Canada via the Oil Crisis of 1973. \n \nGlen Coulthard is Yellowknives Dene and an associate professor in the First Nations and Indigenous Studies Program and the Departments of Political Science at the University of British Columbia. He is the author of Red Skin\, White Masks: Rejecting the Colonial Politics of Recognition (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press\, 2014)\, winner of the 2016 Caribbean Philosophical Association’s Frantz Fanon Award for Outstanding Book\, the Canadian Political Science Association’s CB Macpherson Award for Best Book in Political Theory\, published in English or French\, in 2014/2015\, and the Rik Davidson Studies in Political Economy Award for Best Book in 2016. He is also a co-founder of Dechinta Centre for Research and Learning\, a decolonial\, Indigenous land-based post-secondary program
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/aoism-without-guarantees-third-world-currents-in-fourth-world-anti-colonialism-with-glen-coulthard/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads with Kevin Anderson
DESCRIPTION:Anna Yegorova and Pablo Escudero will engage Professor Kevin Anderson on his recently published monograph\, The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads. In this work\, Anderson carries out a systematic analysis of Marx’s Ethnological Notebooks and related texts on Russia\, India\, Ireland\, Algeria\, Latin America\, and ancient Rome\, with an eye to how viewing the world beyond the boundaries of Western modernity fundamentally alters our understanding of capitalism\, empire\, historical development\, and revolutionary possibilities\, past and present. \n \nKevin Anderson is Distinguished Professor of Sociology at the University of California\, Santa Barbara. He is the author of numerous books and articles\, including The Late Marx’s Revolutionary Roads; Marx at the Margins; Foucault and the Iranian Revolution (with Janet Afary); and Lenin\, Hegel\, and Western Marxism. \n  \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/the-late-marxs-revolutionary-roads-with-kevin-anderson/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Isaac Blacksin - Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism's Humanitarian Desire
DESCRIPTION:The final guest of the Spring 2025 HistCon Speaker Series will be one of HistCon’s own\, alumnus Isaac Blacksin! He will be joining us on Monday\, June 2nd\, to give his talk “Making Death Meaningful: On Journalism’s Humanitarian Desire” at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. If you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via Zoom. \nLauded journalism from the 2016-17 battle for Mosul\, Iraq\, revealed gross underestimates of US-caused civilian harm from anti-Islamic State operations\, exemplifying journalism’s ability to “speak truth to power.” Yet in questioning official death tallies\, journalists failed to challenge the rationale offered for this harm: an accidental exception or necessary excess to justified violence. By focusing on individuated and corporeal suffering\, by categorizing violence as lawful or extreme\, and by attending to immanent violence – rather than the structures perpetuating violence – as the central problem of war\, journalism emphasized the moral dynamics of militarism while mystifying its political logic. Drawing on ethnographic research conducted in and around Mosul during the battle\, this talk assesses war reportage in its contemporary humanitarian mode. It tracks a transformation in the journalistic representation of war from the effects of policy on populations to the effects of violence on the innocent\, with implications for popular understandings of violence from Ukraine to Palestine. \nIsaac Blacksin is Assistant Professor of Critical Media Studies in the Department of Communication and Journalism at Texas A&M University. He is the author of Conflicted: Making News from Global War (Stanford University Press\, 2024) and co-editor of a recent issue of boundary 2 on the life and thought of Norman O. Brown. Isaac’s work – on violence\, fantasy\, and the politics of representation – appears in journals such as Public Culture\, Media\, War & Conflict\, and HAU: Journal of Ethnographic Theory. \nAfter the talk\, all attendees are invited to continue the conversation over dinner and drinks at Abbott Square at 5:30pm.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/isaac-blacksin-making-death-meaningful/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Sophia Azeb - Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the next speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series\, Sophia Azeb\, who will deliver her talk entitled “Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation” on Monday\, May 12th at 1pm in Humanities Building 1\, Room 420. \nThis talk explores the radical anticolonial subjectivities forged across what Richard Iton suggests as “diasporic breathing room\,” or – in my own interpretation – the ungeographic sensibilities that Black study offers transnational and translational theories of decolonisation. Focusing on the productive tensions emergent from 20th century Black anticolonial practice – particularly the unmapping tendencies of Frantz Fanon – this talk attends to the cultural\, political\, and affective matrix of anticolonial possibilities and limits emergent from across the African diaspora. This emphasis on how Black anticolonial practice draws upon the unsettled spatial orientation of the diaspora\, which informs Black anticolonial epistemologies\, does not presume that racial identity itself is fixed\, or that meanings made from identity and experience constitute an anticolonial politic in and of itself. Rather\, the ever shifting\, “undecidable blackness” that instructs and shapes particular anticolonial pursuits towards the horizon of decolonisation make legible a set of radical subjectivities that embolden anticolonial sociality beyond the “authenticating geography” of the nation-state. \nSophia Azeb is an assistant professor of Black studies in the Department of Critical Race & Ethnic Studies at UCSC. Her book\, tentatively titled “Another Country: Translational Blackness and the Afro-Arab\,” follows the circuits of transnational and translational blackness charted by African American\, Afro-Caribbean\, African\, and Afro-Arab peoples across 20th century North and West Africa and Europe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/sophia-azeb-black-anticolonialism-and-radical-relation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Banu Bargu with Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegorova – Disembodiment: A Conversation
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the final talk in the Winter 25 session of the HisCon Speaker Series. HistCon Professor Banu Bargu\, in discussion with HistCon Grads Key MacFarlane & Anna Yegrovoa will present “Disembodiment: A Conversation” on Monday\, March 3\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420 with a virtual attendance option. \nPlease register here in advance for virtual access. \nAbout “Disembodiment: A Conversation”\nJoin us for an engaging conversation on Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal\, Banu Bargu’s recent book\, which examines bodily agency with a focus on forms of self-destruction and self-injury. The conversation will offer an overview of the main philosophical problems Disembodiment addresses and explore the book’s central conceptual apparatus and interpretative moves. What does it mean to do global critical theory in our present? How should it relate to the dominant “canon” of Western philosophy and political thought? Discussing these and related questions\, the conversation will explore how a materialist approach\, which takes the suffering body as its normative compass\, may make visible subterranean historical lineages as well as contemporary practices to expand our understanding of agency\, dignity\, and globality alike. \nBanu Bargu is Professor of History of Consciousness at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. She is the author of Starve and Immolate: The Politics of Human Weapons (Columbia University Press\, 2014)\, which received the Foundations of Political Theory First Book Prize given by the American Political Science Association and was named an Outstanding Academic Title by Choice. Her new book\, Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal (Oxford University Press\, 2024)\, examines self-destruction\, self-injury\, and radical self-endangerment as unconventional performances of resistance and refusal. Her edited collections include Turkey’s Necropolitical Laboratory: Democracy\, Violence\, and Resistance (Edinburgh University Press\, 2019)\, The Political Encounter with Althusser (special issue of Rethinking Marxism\, 2019\, co-edited with Robyn Marasco) and Feminism\, Capitalism\, and Critique: Essays in Honor of Nancy Fraser (Palgrave\, 2017\, co-edited with Chiara Bottici). Banu Bargu currently serves as the editor of Political Theory. \nKey MacFarlane is a PhD Candidate in the History of Consciousness department at the University of California\, Santa Cruz. His research focuses on the relationship between phenomenology and Marxism\, and its contributions to a political theory of experience. He is co-editing a special issue in Environment and Planning C: Politics and Space on the problem of space in Frankfurt School critical theory\, and has articles published or forthcoming on the political geography of waste\, the spatial politics of memory\, and Henri Lefebvre’s theory of moments. \nAnna Yegorova is a second-year PhD student in the History of Consciousness program at UC Santa Cruz. Her articles on the critique of the linear conception of history\, multitemporality\, class\, and identity have been published in Russian-language journals\, including Logos\, Neprikosnovenny Zapas\, and Sociologia Vlasti. She is also a member of the Posle.media editorial collective\, where she has published two articles: “Did Lenin Create Ukraine? On the Right of Nations to Self-Determination and Marxism” and “Adorno in the Kremlin.” Her current research draws on\, and seeks to contribute to\, political and social philosophy\, Marxism\, anti-\, de-\, and post-colonial theory\, the history of anticolonial struggles\, empires and imperialism\, nationalism\, federalism\, and secularization.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/banu-bargu-with-key-macfarlane-anna-yegorova-disembodiment-a-conversation/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova – Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration
DESCRIPTION:Join us as we continue the Winter 25 session of the HistCon Speaker Series next week! Riccardo Bellofiore & Giovanna Vertova\, University of Bergamo (the class[y] economists) will give their talk “Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration” on Monday\, February 10\, at 1pm in Hum 1 Rm 420. \nIf you are unable to make it in person\, you can register to attend virtually via the Zoom at this link. \nAbout Nature\, Women\, and Capital: A Critical Reconsideration:\nIn the last decades there has been a large debate of what may be referred to as the “gender question” and the “nature question”. Large parts of feminism and ecologism have been critical of the Marxian approach\, while Marxists have never really engaged in a debate\, either seen the encounter as unproblematical or dismissing it altogether. Discussing also aspects of the Italian debate\, we argue that feminism and ecologism need finally to meet Marx\, at least the Marx where the centrality of the working condition in capitalism is at the same time a criticism of the overwhelming centrality of production. Common misconceptions of what is the meaning of the “primacy of labour” point of view\, as well as about domestic labour and social reproduction\, need to be clarified and dispelled. \nRiccardo Bellofiore\, formerly Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the Marxian theory of value and crisis\, the development and crisis of capitalism\, the endogenous theories of money\, the history of economic thought and economic philosophy. He has published ‘The Adventures of Vergesellschaftung’ (in Consecutio Rerum\, 2018) and\, with Giovanna Vertova\, The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). He has recently co-edited\, in English with Tommaso Redolfi Riva\, Marx: Key Concepts ((Edward Elgar\, 2024) and\, with Stefano Breda\, the Italian translation of Michael Heinrich’s Die Wissenschaft vom Wert [Science of Value] (Pgreco\, 2024). With Giovanna Vertova he runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe. \nGiovanna Vertova\, Assistant Professor of Political Economy at the University of Bergamo (Italy)\, is interested in the spatial dimension of economics\, with a focus on the globalization debate; the economics of innovation\, especially in reference to national innovation systems; gender and feminist economics\, especially in relation to the labor market. With Riccardo Bellofiore she has published The Great Recession and the Contradiction of Contemporary Capitalism (Edward Elgar\, 2014). She has recently published chapters for Spinger’s and Elgar’s collective volumes and articles in scientific journals\, on the themes of the permanent catastrophe of capitalism\, gender mainstreaming\, and the so-called Great Resignation. With Riccardo Bellofiore she runs the facebook page Economisti di Classe.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/nature-women-and-capital-a-critical-reconsideration/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Rahel Jaeggi: Progress and Regression
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present Progress and Regression with Rahel Jaeggi (Humboldt University of Berlin) \nThis 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 seeing you there! \n\nAbout Progress and Regression\nMy paper deals with a question which has repeatedly preoccupied contemporary philosophical discussion and which seems to me to be indispensable for a critical theory of society in the tradition of left-Hegelian critique in particular—namely\, the question of progress and regression. So what does it mean to understand social change as a movement of progression\, or\, respectively\, regression? How can the concept of progress help us to understand\, as Wendy Brown says “where we have come from and where we are going”\, if where we are trying to go is towards emancipation – or at least away from the multi-crisis we are currently in? And in which respect does it prevent us from understanding this? How can we (and can we?) distinguish regressive from progressive or emancipatory movements? Read more \nAbout Rahel Jaeggi\nRahel Jaeggi is Professor of Philosophy with a focus on Political Philosophy at Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. Since 2018 she is also director of the University’s Centre for Social Critique. She has researched and taught as a visiting professor at Yale University\, Fudan University\, and as Theodor Heuss Professor at The New School for Social Research. Jaeggi was also a fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in Princeton. She is a prominent representative of critical theory\, has received numerous awards\, and is the author and co-editor of numerous books\, including Alienation (2015)\, Critique of Forms of Life (Harvard University Press\, 2018) and Fortschritt und Regression\, which is about to be translated and will appear in English in 2025. She is currently a fellow at the Thomas Mann Haus in Los Angeles.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/rahel-jaeggi-progress-and-regression/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Stefan Tanaka: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History
DESCRIPTION:The History of Consciousness department is delighted to present: What Do Pasts Do? Toward Potential History with Stefan Tanaka. \nThis 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 apposite for understanding our world today. \nAn increasing number of writings argue that “time is out of joint\,” we are “fatally confused\,” in “times of unprecedented change\,” or more troubling\, “in times of collapse.” My subtitle–drawing from Ariella Azoulay’s book–points to the need for other modes of historical understanding. In this essay\, I question a foundational ideas of modern history\, the separation of past from present\, and argue for pasts rather than “the past.” With this rather simple (but difficult) distinction time and space shift from absolutes within which we exist to modes by which we think; other histories become possible. \nMy goal is to explore what history (and histories) might become\, the potential of history released from the restrictions of chronology. Multiple pasts recognize variability\, situatedness\, and perspectives; history expands (or returns) to a mode of communication; and pasts require greater articulation of purpose and awareness of responsibility. \n  \nStefan Tanaka is Professor Emeritus of Communication at the University of California\, San Diego. Throughout his career he has inquired into the uses of pasts and time in the writing of history\, especially in Japan. Japan’s Orient: Rendering Pasts into History (1993)\, examines the reconfiguration of Japan’s past as foundational to the redefinition of Japan’s relations with Asia during the early twentieth century. New Times in Modern Japan (2004) is an examination of the social constitution of time in Meiji (1868-1912) Japan. His current research examines the challenge that our digital age presents for history itself. This activity ranges from the philosophical to the practical. His recent book\, History without Chronology (2019\, Open Access)\, brings out the historicity of the linear and homogenizing structure of history itself. He has also written several essays on historical narrative and digital media (for example\, “The Old and New of Digital History” 2022) and worked (especially with the Force11 community) to foster new\, more open modes of scholarly communication. \nThe event will take place in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 420 at 2:00pm PST. Guests are also welcome to visit the HISC website to join virtually via Zoom. We look forward to seeing you there!
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/stefan-tanaka-what-do-pasts-do-toward-potential-history/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Chiara Bottici - Anarchafeminism
DESCRIPTION:History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/chiara-bottici-anarchafeminism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Alev Çinar - The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
DESCRIPTION:After 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 spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology\, Kemalism\, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the Ottoman system and Islam as inferior\, backward\, and uncivilized. First forms of what I refer to as “Islamic decolonial thought\,” or Islamic decoloniality\, emerged against this backdrop in the 1950s\, which later developed into a collection of diverse intellectual movements constituting the current Islamic intellectual field (IIF) in Turkey. This study examines the Sufi-based political thought of Turkish Muslim poet and writer Necip Fazıl Kısakürek (1904-1983) as one of the pioneers of Islamic decolonial thought in Turkey. Necip Fazıl\, who is current President Erdogan’s main ideological inspiration\, was the founder and lead writer of the The Great East (Büyük Doğu) journal published in 1943-1978\, which is considered to be Turkey’s first Islam-based political journal that was instrumental in inspiring numerous political and intellectual movements currently active in the IIF. \nAlev Çınar is Professor and Chair of the Department of Political Science and Public Administration at Bilkent University\, Turkey. She received her M.A. in Sociology from Bogazici University; Ph.D. in Political Science from the University of Pennsylvania\, and completed two postdoctoral fellowships at the International Center for Advanced Studies\, New York University\, and the Five College Women’s Studies Research Center\, University of Massachusetts at Amherst. \n\nShe is the author of Modernity\, Islam and Secularism in Turkey: Bodies Places and Time; co-editor of Urban Imaginaries: Locating the Modern City\, and of Visualizing Secularism and Religion: Egypt\, Lebanon\, Turkey\, India. She also has articles that have appeared in journals such as the Comparative Studies in Society and History\, International Journal of Middle East Studies\, Theory\, Culture and Society\, and Signs: Journal of Women in Culture and Society. She is currently serving on the Editorial Board of the International Journal of Middle East Studies. \nHistory of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details. \nTalk co-sponsored by CMENA.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/alev-cinar-the-predicament-of-islamic-decoloniality-in-turkey-sufi-political-thought-and-the-great-east-project-of-necip-fazil-kisakurek-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Karen Feldman - The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg\, Felski\, and Bottomless Critique
DESCRIPTION:–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. \nIn person and via zoom. \nPlease see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/karen-feldman-the-reality-of-suspicion-on-blumenberg-felski-and-bottomless-critique/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Taija McDougall  – Plantations Derivations
DESCRIPTION:Plantations Derivations with Taija McDougall (UC Irvine). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/taija-mcdougall-plantations-derivations/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20230307T140000
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SUMMARY:Elena Vasiliou  – Queer Pleasure\, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
DESCRIPTION:Queer pleasure\, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series.  \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/elena-vasiliou-queer-pleasure-resistance-and-pain-in-ex-prisoners-narratives/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
DESCRIPTION:Making Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). \nThis talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. \nThis event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. \nFor full speaker and event information\, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/christina-heatherton-making-internationalism/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T151500
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190530T170000
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SUMMARY:*ROOM CHANGE* NOW IN 420 - Thi Nguyen: "The Gamification of Public Discourse"
DESCRIPTION:The 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\, for the sake of the pleasure of the experience of play. This is morally acceptable in games\, because the ends in games are temporary and disposable. Instrumentalizing our enduring epistemic ends\, on the other hand\, invites bad faith reasoning. Social media encourages the instrumentalization of our epistemic ends\, by offering highly salient quantified targets: Facebook Likes and Twitter Likes and Retweet numbers. It invites us to shift the ends of public discourse from some more subtle value towards\, say\, maximizing retweet numbers. We would thereby increase the pleasures of value clarity from engaging in discourse. Importantly\, among those pleasures are: the pleasures of the simplified experience of moral outrage\, and the pleasures of being part of a united epistemic community. But changing one’s epistemic aims for the sake of these pleasures is bad faith reasoning. And the form of the pleasures may help us to understand the relationship between social media and the formation of echo chambers. \nThe gamification of public discourse is an example of what I call “value capture”. Value capture occurs when: 1.) our values are naturally rich and subtle; 2.) we are placed in a social or institutional setting with simple\, explicit\, typically quantified representations of those values; 3.) we internalize those simple representations of our values; and 4.) things get worse. Some other examples include being value captured by FitBit’s step counts\, academic citation rates\, and GPA’s. The gamification of public discourse helps us see how we can understand the problem of value capture: it’s the inappropriate instrumentalizatio of an end.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/thi-nguyen-gamification-public-discourse/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T123000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190524T134500
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Katie Ligmond
DESCRIPTION:The Outcrop of Blue Rocks: Andean Animacy as Illustrated by Guaman Poma \nAndeanists 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 one of very few Indigenous Peruvian voices that exist in the literary record\, and as we have pored over his words and line drawings\, very few of us have focused on color. This paper analyzes the use of the color blue in the Galvin Murúa\, as it diplicts the rocks as animate\, similarly to water\, and exists as a hidden code to Indigenous readers of this work. \nKatie Ligmond is a second year PhD student in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her work focuses on the empires of the Andes\, including the Warm. Inka\, and Spanish imperial forces with a focus on their gendered dynamics and the maintenance of  ethic identities. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. \nFor questions email: fridayforum.ucsc@gmail.com
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-katie-ligmond/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T003000
DTEND;TZID=America/Los_Angeles:20190315T134500
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Elizabeth Goldman
DESCRIPTION:World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions \nHow do children interact with a robot? What features does a robot need to have to appeal to children? Will children help a robot complete a task? The project investigates child-root interactions- specifically how a robot’s behavior will influence how a child responds. The designers which features should be included to create the best possible robots for children. \nElizabeth Goldman is a fourth year doctoral student in the developmental psychology. She works in the Infant and Child Development Lab. Her current line of research focuses on how children interact with robots. Many robots are being designed and marketed towards children. This research focuses on answering questions about how these robots impact children developmentally/ \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-elizabeth-goldman/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
DESCRIPTION:“Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies\, death\, and Western cultural practices” \nAccording to Norse mythology\, two male goats\, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr\, pull Thor’s chariot. Once they have completed their labor\, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter\, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes the focus of this dissertation\, which will engage with the ways in which Western societies and culture negotiate animal depth and engage with the materiality of the animal body. This dissertation explores this relationship by focusing on the representation and cultural digestion of the animal body\, specifically on the instances in which animal bodies are\, like in the Norse myth\, “brought back to life\,” in order to serve human needs. Once dead\, their bodies are rearranged-as in the case of taxidermy -so that’s Ann illusion of life can be represented to serve human needs-of knowledge and education\, wonder and discovery\, entertainment\, and amusement. Consequently\, this research focuses on how the animal body is used to mediate its own loss\, in what seems to be a system created for human pleasure. \nAlessia Cecchet is an experimental filmmaker and PhD candidate whose work is invested in the representation of non-human animals. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. It is a weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/friday-forum-graduate-research-alessia-cecchet/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
DESCRIPTION:Between Two Africas: “Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination” \nThis paper explores the region and anthropologized people\, of Nubia\, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa “proper.” By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes\, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic concerns with representing Nubian people\, Alirio Karina explores how the disavowal of the ethnographic (in all of its racial and cultural senses in Sudan and Egypt is an attempt to narrate of capitalist modernity in terms of ancient lineages\, and against any sense of relation to the rest African continent\, Karina argues that\, in resurfacing the ethnographic\, we may find a resistant frame through which to think Africanity north of the Sahara. \nAlirio Karina is a PhD candidate in the History of Consciousness Department\, with designated emphasis in the Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Alirio’s dissertation examines ethnographic photographs\, objects and text representing British Africa\, exploring how these materials produce ideas of race\, culture and continent that have shaped and may yet transform African political possibility. \nFriday Forum for Graduate Research is supported by the Graduate Student Association\, the Humanities Institute\, and the following departments HAVC\, Literature\, History of Consciousness\, Psychology\, and Education. \n 
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/two-africas-nubia-ethnographic-imagination/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Charles Post: "The American Road to Capitalism"
DESCRIPTION:University Press Books and the 2430 Arts Alliance invite you to join\nCharles Post for a reading and discussion of his new book: \nThe American Road to Capitalism:\nStudies in Class Structure\, Economic Development and Political Conflict\, 1620-1877\n\n“Charles Post’s new book\, The American Road to Capitalism\, is sure to become a reference point for debates among historians and Marxists about the transformation of the English colonies into the fully developed capitalist United States. […] it should be widely read\, appreciated for its insights and rigor\, and also debated.” —Ashley Smith\, International Socialist Review \n“This is a thoughtful\, learned\, stimulating\, challenging and altogether valuable volume. It reprints a series of reflections by the Marxist sociologist Charles Post on various aspects of the rise and evolution of capitalism in North America between the colonial era and the late 19th century. The book is anchored in a wide-ranging study of (and it duly credits) the work of generations of historians.” —Bruce Levine\, author of Confederate Emancipation: Southern Plans to Free and Arm Slaves during the Civil War\, in Against the Current \n“Explaining the origin and early development of American capitalism is a particularly challenging task. It is in some ways even more difficult than in other cases to strike the right historical balance\, capturing the systemic imperatives of capitalism\, and explaining how they emerged\, while doing justice to historical particularities… To confront these historical complexities requires both a command of historical detail and a clear theoretical grasp of capitalism’s systemic imperatives\, a combination that is all too rare. Charles Post succeeds in striking that difficult balance\, which makes his book a major contribution to truly historical scholarship.” —Ellen Meiksins-Wood\, York University\, author of The Origins of Capitalism: A Long View. \nUnable to analyze the dynamics of specific forms of social labour in the antebellum U.S.\, most historians of the US Civil War have ignored its deep social roots. To search out these roots\, Post applies the theoretical insights from the transition debates to the historical literature on the U.S. to produce a new analysis of the origins of American capitalism. \nCharles Post Ph. D. (1983) in Sociology\, SUNY-Binghamton\, is Professor of Sociology at Borough of Manhattan Community College-CUNY. He has published in New Left Review\, Journal of Peasant Studies\, Journal of Agrarian Change\, Against the Current and Historical Materialism. \nSponsored by the History of Consciousness Department. Co-sponsored by the Sociology Department and the History Department.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/charles-post-the-american-road-to-capitalism-3/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Ruth Mueller: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist”
DESCRIPTION:Ruth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. \nShe will present: “Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist\,” at UCSC on Wednesday\, October 20\, 2010. \nDonna Haraway has argued that “the exclusion of the non-independent person” (Haraway 1997) has been constitutive for the social organization of the emerging modern sciences\, practically excluding everyone but the bourgeois white man from participating in scientific knowledge production\, in part because the multiple others were perceived as socially and emotionally bound\, attached and tied. Drawing on recent research work in Austria and the US\, this talk will look into how independence\, tielessness and detachment are essential features of the scientific self in the contemporary socio-epistemic configurations of the academic life sciences. It look at how the ideal scientific person – especially in fast growing\, highly global and increasingly commercialized fields such as the life sciences – is still imagined as being tied to nothing but science itself\, happily subordinating other interests in life to the scientific vocation. \nAgainst a backdrop of rising competition for academic positions\, it seems that in the life sciences and in academia beyond\, increasingly normative ideas are emerging about what a scientist’s life course should look like in order to qualify for a career in science. Central elements of this normative vision include engaging in international mobility and global competition\, as well as submitting to ongoing procedures of evaluation\, application and selection. Together\, these requirements constitute a kind of “blueprint” for measuring the quality of the scientists’ work and the suitability of their lives for careers in research – a blueprint which has become institutionalized in the employment and assessment policies of contemporary academic institutions. \nThese contemporary career rationales both draw on and rework the notion of the detached\, independent\, tieless scientists on a number of levels\, participating in the shaping of a nomadic\, disposable research scientist who is accumulating nothing “but the absence of inhibition\, a sort of free energy prepared to invest itself anywhere.” (Latour 1984) \nHowever\, at any given moment in time\, these scientists are also part of specific local collectives – such as research group\, project teams – in which they work and live. This paper will explore how young scientists make sense of these different forms of collectivity in their local research environments\, given the current career rationales that emphasise individualism\, competition\, mobility and tielessness. I will argue that what we are currently witnessing is a trend towards the institutionalization of highly fragile and exploitative social relations in academic settings and of a “devil-may-care” mentality towards colleagues\, groups and institutions that young scientists increasingly consider an obligatory trait for making a career in the life sciences today.
URL:https://thi.ucsc.edu/event/ruth-mueller-bound-to-nothing-but-science-itself-academic-life-science-careers-and-the-nomadic-disposable-research-scientist-2/
LOCATION:Humanities 1\, Room 420\, Humanites 1 University of California\, Santa Cruz Cowell College\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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