Joshua Dienstag is the author of Pessimism: Philosophy, Ethic, Spirit and many books and articles on the history of political thought, film, literature and democratic theory.  He is currently working on a project entitled The Animal Condition: A Political Theory of Human Citizenship. Dienstag is Professor of Political Science and Law at UCLA and Andrew W. Mellon Fellow in Center for Advanced Study in the Behavioral Sciences at Stanford.

Date/Time
May 6, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Megan Thomas’s research focuses on the British forces that occupied Manila in 1762, just as East India Company rule in the subcontinent began. She traces their composition, the conditions under which they labored, and the strategies they employed for what they can tell us about the British Empire in and around the Indian Ocean.  Thomas is Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
May 13, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Johnathan Beller is the author of The Cinematic Mode of Production: Attention Economy and the Society of the Spectacle and Acquiring Eyes: Philippine Visuality, Nationalist Struggle and the World-Media System. His current book projects include The Rain of Images and Computational Capital. Beller is Professor and Director of the Graduate Program in Media Studies at the Pratt Institute in Brooklyn, NY.

Date/Time
May 20, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

John Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. Modern is Chair and Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin & Marshall College.

Date/Time
May 27, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Maya Peterson’s work stands at the intersection of environmental and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open up new avenues for thinking about modernity and colonial relationships in Central Asia under Russian and Soviet rule. She is Assistant Professor of History at UCSC.

Date/Time
January 14, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Naveeda Khan’s work traverses spaces of religious crisis and conflict in urban Pakistan to everyday life on shifting land and emergent perceptions of climate change in riparian Bangladesh.  Her current interest is to explore the physiognomy of the natural from within the social and the theological.  She is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Johns Hopkins University.

Date/Time
January 21, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

In addition to the Cultural Studies colloquia, Naveeda Khan will participate in the following events for UCSC’s Center for Emerging Worlds:

CENTER FOR EMERGING WORLDS
2014-2015 THEME: GLOBAL ISLAM
WINTER SPEAKER EVENT

Wednesday, January 21
3.30pm-5pm, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
“The Flow Forms of Elections on the Sand Bars of the Jamuna”

Manuscript Reading Seminar
with Professor Khan
Students welcome.

Thursday, January 22
10am-12pm, Social Sciences 1, Room 261
Graduate Student Workshop
with Professor Khan

All events are free and open to the public

Carolyn Dean is currently working on a co-authored book project entitled Colonial Things, Cosmopolitan Thinking: Locating the Indigenous Art of Spanish America. Recognizing that the humanistic disciplines have often had an uncomfortable relationship with objects created outside Western traditions, this project seeks to illuminate how indigenous things in the colonial past have been used and invested with meaning.  She is Professor of History of Art and Visual Culture at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
January 28, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Madhavi Murty works in the fields of feminist media studies, gender and globalization, nationalism and South Asian cultural studies. Madhavi is currently working on a book manuscript titled Myths of the Real: Political Economy and the Spectacle of the Ordinary in Post Reform India.  She is Assistant Professor in the Department of Religion and Culture at Virginia Tech.

Date/Time
February 4, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Kris Alexanderson’s current book project examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia in controlling the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism. She is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.

Date/Time
February 11, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Jennifer Horne’s work considers the film-program-as-civics-lesson in the context of the American civics movement.  Centering on a film series from 1917, rife with conquesting tropes of manifest destiny, empire and nation, it explores the programming context of the late silent era to theorize seriality as a mode of American visual education.  Jennifer Horne is Assistant Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
February 18, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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