Category: Events
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California Ideology Conference Paper Submissions Open
California Ideology Project (UCHRI) at UC Santa Cruz Conference held April 6-7, 2024 Paper submission deadline: January 26th, 2024 at midnight PST Speakers: Massimiliano Tomba, Banu Bargu; additional speakers TBA. California, the place and the idea, may seem sunny and exceptional: in its economy, its politics, itsculture. It promises a unique form of dynamism and…
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María Puig de la Bellacasa – Worlding Soils Talk with University of Luxembourg and LUCA
Professor María Puig de la Bellacasa will give talk “Worlding Soils” as part of the Fall 2023 Lecture Series organised by Marija Marić, David Peleman, and Cesar Reyes Nájera at the Master in Architecture (University of Luxembourg) and hosted by luca – Luxembourg Centre for Architecture and Cultures of Assembly. Other lecturers in the series…
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Massimiliano Tomba – Questioning the PresentTalk with The Center for Global Culture and Communication (Northwestern University) & The Center for Transcultural Studies
The Center for Global Culture and Communication (An interdisciplinary initiative of Northwestern University’s School of Communication) & The Center for Transcultural Studies jointly present “Questioning the Present: An Online Public Forum on Insurgent Universality: An alternative legacy of modernity (Oxford University Press, 2019)” on Friday, December 8, 2023 from 10 am to 12 pm CST. Respondents to the book include John Brenkman (Comparative Literature and English, CUNY Graduate Center and…
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Robert Nichols – The Indian Wars Have Never Ended Talk
HistCon Professor Robert Nichols will give talk “The Indian Wars Have Never Ended” on November 29 as part of the Fall 2023 Center for Cultural Studies’ colloquia series. Register here.
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Critical Theory Roundtable Comes to UC Santa Cruz
Next month the 30th annual Critical Theory Roundtable will take place on UC Santa Cruz’s campus in Humanities 2 Room 259 hosted by HistCon professors Banu Bargu & Massimiliano Tomba. The events will take place on November 3rd & 4th. Find the program below. The Critical Theory Roundtable is a small, high caliber conference that…
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Reproduction of Possibility: A Colloquium on Black Critical Thought
History of Consciousness graduate student Daniel Butler, alumni Colin Drumm, and incoming Post-Doctoral Scholar Taija McDougall will be presenting in the upcoming Reproduction of Possibility: A Colloquium on Black Critical Thought. The colloquium will take place over over two multi-day periods: April 27-29 & May 4-6. April’s series will be a set of hybrid events,…
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Prof. Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality: Continuing the Debate Virtual Discussion
Massimiliano Tomba’s Insurgent Universality: An Alternative Legacy of Modernity, is considered one of the most important recent contributions to political philosophy. Its main argument is that within traditions of subaltern resistance and insurgency, a different form of universality emerges – radical, agonistic, egalitarian – that represents the alternative ‘subterranean’ current of modernity. This resonates with both…
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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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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…
