–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.

Plantations 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

Queer 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

Making 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

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, […]

The 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 […]

World of Robots: Child-Robot Interactions How 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 […]

"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According 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 […]

Between Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This 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 […]