Events
Massimiliano Tomba – Revolutions/Restorations
Virtual and In PersonReading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilinear but is instead structured as a pluriverse of historical temporalities, this talk shows how different temporalities and semantic stratification of revolution are reactivated in historical revolutionary moments. From this perspective, the ancient notions of revolution and restoration are not […]
Caitlin Keliiaa – Occupational Risk: Sexual Surveillance and Federal Regulation of Native Women’s Bodies
Virtual and In PersonThis talk examines how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native women. To this end, I analyze cases of sexual surveillance, presumed delinquency, sexually transmitted infections and policing of Native women’s bodies. Through these intimate stories, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing
Virtual and In PersonLearn about the VOCES Graduate Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! This workshop will be led by Andrea Seeger (Director VOCES Graduate Writing Center). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on the "Psychology of Writing" is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of […]
Nasser Zakariya – Questions on “Anthroperiphery”
Virtual and In PersonTaking recent discussions of "Copernican Forecasting" as a point of departure, this talk will look to historical and probabilistic arguments representing science in terms of ongoing demonstrations of the increasingly marginal position of humanity. A sketch of some of the genealogies of these arguments and their representations suggest how ill-fitting they might be when set […]
PhD+ Workshop – Publishing in Academia
Virtual and In PersonLearn how to publish scholarly work, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright. This workshop will be led by Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian, University Library) and Erich van Rijn (Director of Journals and Open Access, UC Office of Scholarly Communication, UC Press). The Division of Graduate Studies' […]
Lital Levy – World Literature, Translation, and Diaspora: The Intimately Global Journey of Grace Aguilar’s The Vale of Cedars
Virtual and In PersonThis talk follows the translation history of the Anglo-Jewish author Grace Aguilar’s 1850 novel The Vale of Cedars from Victorian England to Mainz, Warsaw, Vilna, Calcutta, and Tunis. A case study for Levy's broader project on “Global Haskalah,” it brings together Sephardic studies, world literature and translation studies, transnational literary history, and Jewish literary studies. […]
BuYun Chen – Making the Intangible Tangible: Craft, History, and the Ryukyus
Virtual and In PersonHow did the global and regional circulation of resources, techniques, and technologies transform local ecologies, practices, and livelihoods? Located between the East China Sea and the Pacific Ocean, the Ryukyu Kingdom (?-1879; modern-day Okinawa, Japan) was a vital entrepôt in the early modern world, facilitating the movement of goods and people between northeast Asia and […]
Naya Jones + Jennifer Steverson — The Art of Black Ecologies: A Virtual Studio Visit & Conversation
Virtual and In PersonThe concept of black ecologies underscores the undue impact of climate and environmental injustice on Black diaspora communities while lifting up “insurgent” Black ecological knowledge (Roane & Hosbey 2019). Join us for a virtual studio visit and conversation on art and black ecologies with independent scholar and artist Jennifer Steverson. Steverson uses indigo dye, textiles, […]
Radhika Natarajan – Post-Imperial Contractions: Asian Migration and Marriage in Deindustrializing Britain
Virtual and In PersonThe talk explores how Asian women became unassimilable in social work and public discourse in 1970s Britain. In the context of decolonization and deindustrialization, the Pakistani woman who worked for wages posed a threat to the stability of the white male working class. To keep the Pakistani woman at home, social workers created new forms […]
Thomas Serres – Reflections on Abject Victimhood and the Impossibility of Post-Islamism: The trajectory of the Rachad Movement
Virtual and In PersonThis presentation looks at the trajectory of former Algerian Islamists belonging to the opposition movement Rachad, who denounce state exactions perpetrated during the civil war of the 1990s. In so doing, the talk focuses on the notion of “abject victimhood,” to think about the legal and political challenges faced by actors once associated with an […]