Donna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and biopolitics, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life, Duration, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism.

Jones is Associate Professor of English at UC Berkeley.

Date/Time
May 4, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Stephanie Jones-Rogers is completing her manuscript “Mistresses of the Market: White Women and the Economy of American Slavery.” It examines white women’s economic investments in American slavery and reveals their active participation in the South’s slave market economy.

Jones-Rogers is Assistant Professor of History at UC Berkeley.

Date/Time
May 11, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s studies at the heart of the consolidation of the post-Civil Rights U.S. university.

Mitchell is Assistant Professor in Feminist Studies and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
January 20, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Joes Segal has published extensively on Cold War culture, German cultural history, and art and politics in the twentieth century. He is chair of the Culture Network of the European Social Science and History Conference and managing editor of the International Journal for History, Culture and Modernity.

Segal is Chief Curator at The Wende Museum of the Cold War.

Date/Time
January 27, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Jonathan Beecher’s current project consists of linked essays on writers who witnessed and wrote about the first months of the French revolution of 1848, some familiar, others less so. The central question: How do these writers explain the collapse of the radical dreams that inspired revolutionaries in 1848?

Jonathan Beecher is Professor Emeritus of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
Febrary 3, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and Chantal Akerman.

B. Ruby Rich is Professor of Social Documentation Program and Film + Digital Media Department at UC Santa Cruz.
Date/Time
February 10, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even when no steady work can be found.

Aaron Benanav is a lecturer of History at UC Los Angeles and editor of Endnotes, a journal of political theory and history.

Date/Time
February 17, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context.

Professor Bistué is Associate Researcher in Comparative Literature for the Argentine National Research Council and Assistant Professor of English Literature at the Universidad Nacional de Cuyo, Argentina.

Date/Time
February 24, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz

Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and “Mu,” and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth volume, Late Arcade, was recently completed.

Professor Mackey is Reynolds Price Professor of English at Duke University & Distinguished Professor of Literature Emeritus at UC Santa Cruz. His visit is generously sponsored by UCSC’s Critical Race and Ethnic Studies program, Porter College, and Kresge College.

Date/Time
March 2, 2016 | 12:00 PM
Free and open to the public

Venue
Humanities Building 1, Room 210
University of California, Santa Cruz