Year: 2019
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Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
On November 1 and 2, 2019, a conference will be held at UC Santa Cruz to honor Hayden White who died a year ago. The conference organizers, Paul Roth, Professor of Philosophy, and James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, conceive the event as an invitation to extend Hayden’s thinking in new directions. The intent…
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You Have the Right to Be Brilliant: An Interview with Dr. Angela Davis
Photography by Shawn Theodore Dr. Angela Davis’ brilliance is politics in motion. Active in the struggle for Black liberation for over 50 years, Dr. Davis has pursued racial justice whatever the cost. From prison abolition to Black feminist theory to cultural critique to LGBTQ advocacy, she has championed the notion that a world of full…
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UCSC emerita professor Angela Davis to be inducted into the National Women’s Hall of Fame
In celebration of the 100th anniversary of the 19th Amendment giving women the right to vote, The National Women’s Hall of Fame will host a weekend in New York honoring the achievements of women in the birthplace of the Women’s Rights movement. The highlight will be the induction of 10 prominent women into the Hall…
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The Counterrevolution Takes A New Right Turn
The History of Consciousness is proud to host to the final After Neoliberalism research cluster event of the academic year featuring Prof. Bernard Harcourt. Prof. Harcourt’s lecture, “The Counterrevolution Takes a Right Turn,” was given to the research cluster, and a highlight of the event. Bernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is…
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Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering
The History of Consciousness is happy to host Professor Anne Norton giving talk entitled “Theses on Democracy or, The People, Steering.”
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Sanctuary Practices Workshop, Feb 8th!
Please join us for our next Sanctuary Practices event:Sanctuary Practices Workshop February 8 @ 2:00 pm – 6:00 pm | Humanities 1, Room 210 “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings” – Elizabeth Allen American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to…