Year: 2018
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No No Boy Project will be visiting UCSC and the Santa Cruz Community!
On October 28th and 29th, the No No Boy Project will be visiting UCSC and the Santa Cruz Community. No No Boy is performed by Erin Aoyama and Julian Saporiti (PhD students from American Studies at Brown University). It is a multi-media concert illuminating untold stories of Asian American displacement and exile through oral history, film, and folk songs. Please…
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Histcon Emeritus Faculty to Receive Birmingham Civil Rights Institute’s Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award
“This week, the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute announced that the honoree for the prestigious 2018 Fred Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award will be Birmingham native, global human rights activist, scholar and author Angela Y. Davis. The highest award given by the Birmingham Civil Rights Institute, the Shuttlesworth Human Rights Award recognizes outstanding individuals for their significant contributions to civil and…
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HistCon alum Karlene Faith featured in The New Yorker
[Karlene] Faith’s name probably won’t ring loud bells, if any at all. She was a radical-feminist criminologist who spent her career as a teacher and a researcher at Simon Fraser University, in Canada. In 1972, while a graduate student in the history-of-consciousness program at the University of California, Santa Cruz, Faith co-founded the Santa Cruz…
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In Various Constructs: Remembering Cecil Taylor
“Pianist, composer, poet, philosopher Cecil Taylor turned sound outside in, gathering influences far and wide, reassembling them into the ever-changing grammars that defined his career and inspired others. He defied while producing his critics; he created and alienated an overlapping community of listeners. He was a radical thinker and doer – out and outside sexually,…
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The becoming-black of the world? On Achille Mbembe’s Critique of Black Reason
“We have known for a long time that ‘critique’ – as a guide for judgement – emerged as a rule for telling apart the proper limits of reason from its various forms of error or misconception. Critique, by definition, establishes the limits of reason; it forges the laws, ends and beginnings of thought. Critique legislates…
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Mistaken Identity Book Discussion
Monday June 11, 20182:00-3:50 PMHumanities 210 Asad Haider will discuss his book Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump (Verso, May 2018) with commentary by History Professor and Humanites Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Consciousness Professor Banu Bargu. Sponsored by the History of Consciousness Department Refreshments served. For a pdf of the book (114…
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Work In Progress: Alirio Karina
History of Consciousness graduate candidate Alirio Karina will present the essay “Sovereign Magic: on the Nature of Witchcraft in Livingstone, Zambia” as part of the History of Consciousness Work In Progress series on Thursday, May 31 from 6-8pm in Hum 1, 420.
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Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory
Critical Times: Interventions in Global Critical Theory is a peer-reviewed, open access online journal published by the International Consortium of Critical Theory Programs with the aim of foregrounding the global reach and form of contemporary critical theory. The inaugural issue includes, “Year One: Reflections on Turkey’s Second Founding and the Politics of Division,” by Professor Banu…
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Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
In the Shadow of Counterrevolution: Race and the American Welfare/Warfare State Hum 1 210, Friday May 25, 2-4pm Trung P. Q. Nguyen, History of Consciousness graduate candidate, will present “Crude Nightmares: Oil, the Refugee, and the Futures of National Reproductivity” as part of the Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress. The event will…
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In Search of “Values as Yet Uncaptured by Language:” Learning from Great Historical Paradigm Shifts
May 4 @ 2:00 pm – 5:00 pm Page Smith Library A Language of Conservation Project Colloquium. Presented by The Humanities Institute and the Center for Public Philosophy. Speakers: Daniel Guevara – Chair, Department of Philosophy at UCSC Claudio Campagna – Adjunct Professor, Ecology & Evolutionary Biology at UCSC, Wildlife Conservation Society Karen Barad – Professor of Feminist Studies at UCSC Eric…
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Pacific Island Worlds Symposium
May 5, 2018 at UC Santa Cruz8:30 am – 4 pmHumanities 1, Room 210 In this symposium, artists and scholars explore creative expression and research that chart Pacific Island Studies in the 21st century. Speakers examine the Pacific Ocean as worlds of complex human interaction and dynamic spaces in which diverse communities have produced a range of cultural and political…
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Work In Progress: Christian Alvarado
History of Consciousness graduate student Christian Alvarado will present the essay “The New and Endless World: Ideology, Development, and Human Consciousness in the Historiography of the Angolan Revolution” as part of the History of Consciousness Work In Progress series on Thursday, April 12th from 6-8pm in Hum 1, 420.