News & Events
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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.
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Sora Han’s “Poetics of Mu”
The History of Consciousness is pleased to host Professor Sora Han delivering her talk, Poetics of Mu, on Thursday February 22, 2018. Talk details are below. THURSDAY, FEBRUARY 22, 2018 / 4:00 – 6:00PM / HUMANITIES 2, ROOM 259 Please click the link here to be directed to video of the talk. About Poetics of…
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Jennifer Doyle at Cultural Studies
Jennifer Doyle, Professor of English at UC Riverside, will give a talk on Wednesday, May 16th from 12-1:30 pm in Hum 1, Room 210. Professor Doyle talk will address themes from her recent book Campus Sex, Campus Security (Semiotext(e) / Intervention, 2015). Campus Sex, Campus Security is Jennifer Doyle’s clear-eyed critique of collegiate jurisprudence, in the era of campus corporatization, “less-lethal” weaponry,…
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Work In Progress: Key MacFarlane
History of Consciousness graduate student Key MacFarlane will present the essay “Global Allegory: Electronic Waste, Resilience, and the Bay Area” as part of the History of Consciousness Work In Progress series on Thursday, March 8th from 6-8pm in Hum 1, 420.
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Prospective Graduate Visiting Day Panel
Mark your calendars for the upcoming prospective graduate visiting day on Thursday, March 15th! History of Consciousness will host a panel of current graduate students’ research from 11:30-1:00pm in Hum 2, 359, including:
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Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
April 20 – April 23 Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. Keynote: Jeramy DeCristo (Assistant Professor in American Studies, UC Davis) Since the 1970s, numerous scholars have engaged the discipline of Sound Studies through critical frameworks exploring race, class and gender. As Kara Keeling and Josh Kun suggest in their 2012 anthology…
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Mistaken Identity
Asad Haider‘s Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump will be published by Verso in April. Whether class or race is the more important factor in modern politics is a question right at the heart of recent history’s most contentious debates. Among groups who should readily find common ground, there is little agreement. To…