Category: Events
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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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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…
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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 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: