News & Events
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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…
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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…