News & Events
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PhD Brian Kantor on All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, Palazzo Te
Brian Kantor, a PhD student in the History of Consciousness department, is working as the 2025 THI Moving Image Lab Public Fellow with the Isaac Julien Studio. In this report from the field, he shares about his recent experience traveling to Italy for the opening of Isaac Julien’s new film installation.
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Massimiliano Tomba Co-Edits a Special Edition of Journal History of the Present
HistCon professor Massimiliano Tomba was co-editor of a Special Edition of History of the Present: A Journal of Critical Theory. This special issue, “Thomas Müntzer and the German Peasants’ War at 500 years” is Volume 15 in the journal’s series. The year 2025 marks the five hundredth anniversary of the end of the German Peasants’…
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Applications for the HistCon PhD Now Open!
Applications to the History of Consciousness PhD Program are now open! Find application requirements here & apply at the below link! Questions about the application process? Have a look at our Admissions FAQ page. The deadline to apply to the History of Consciousness is December 11th at 11:59pm PST.
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Banu Bargu’s Disembodiment Wins 2025 David Easton Award
Banu Bargu’s Disembodiment: Corporeal Politics of Radical Refusal, published by Oxford University Press in 2024, is the co-winner of this year’s David Easton Award given by the American Political Science Association’s Foundations of Political Theory Section. The David Easton Award is given for a book, published in the past calendar year, that broadens the horizons…
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Revolution & Restoration: New Publication from Massimiliano Tomba
Professor Massimiliano Tomba’s new publication, Revolution and Restoration: The Politics of Anachronism (Fordham University Press, 2025) is now available! At a time when terms like restoration, religion, authority, obligations, and natural law—once the rallying cries of the most emancipatory movements—are increasingly coopted by conservative forces, Revolution and Restoration offers a thought-provoking account of how “outdated” concepts can…
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History of Consciousness Welcomes Our New Cohort
The History of Consciousness Department is pleased to welcome our incoming cohort for the 2025 – 2026 academic year. Ipso Cantong (they/ them) Nicholas Denning (he/ him) Read about their proposed research here!
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Maria Puig de la Bellacasa in Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair
Fragilities: Essays on the Politics, Ethics, and Aesthetics of Maintenance and Repair (MIT Press, 2025) with a contribution from HistCon’s own Professor Maria Puig de la Bellacasa is now available! At a time when it may be easy to fall into a defeatist melancholia, if not outright pessimism, fragility offers an opportunity for a different kind…
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Emeritus Donna Haraway Receives Laureate Erasmus Prize 2025
HistCon Emeriti Donna Haraway was awarded the prestigious Laureate Erasmus Prize for her work in keeping with this year’s theme “the pursuit of what binds us.” Read all about the prize here.
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Emeritus Donna Haraway receives The 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement
HistCon Emeritus Donna Haraway was awarded the 2025 Golden Lion for Lifetime Achievement. Read more about the award here.
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HISC Graduate Student & Professor receive grant from the American Political Science Association
HistCon graduate student Pablo Escudero & HistCon professor Robert Nichols were jointly awarded an Advancing Research Grant for Indigenous Politics from the American Political Science Association to support their work on “Indigenous Autonomy amongst the Kichwa of Sarayaku”. Read more about the award here.
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History of Consciousness Faculty Statement on UAW Strike
The views expressed herein do not necessarily represent the views of all faculty and graduate students in the History of Consciousness Department, the Regents of the University of California, or the University of California, Santa Cruz. 48,000 employees at the University of California represented by UAW 4811 have authorized an Unfair Labor Practice strike action,…
