Gayle Salamon is currently working on two manuscripts. The first is an exploration of narrations of bodily pain and disability and is titled Painography: Metaphor and the Phenomenology of Chronic Pain. The second manuscript, Passing Period, analyzes the 2008 classroom shooting of gender-transgressive 15-year-old Leticia King. Gayle Salamon is Associate Professor of English and Gender and Sexuality Studies at Princeton University.

Date/Time
February 25, 2015 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Christopher Chen’s scholarly interests include theories of comparative racialization, racial capitalism and the black radical tradition, and debates over what Charles Taylor and others have called the “politics of recognition.” Christopher is currently working on a book-length comparative study of contemporary African-American and Asian-American experimental or “avant-garde” writing.  Christopher Chen is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

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

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

G.S. Sahota is currently completing two books, Late Colonial Sublime: Neo-Epics and the End of Romanticism and The Name of Reason: Sikhism, Secularism, Modernism. He is Assistant Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 15, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Vilashini Cooppan is the author of Worlds Within: National Narratives and Global Connections in Postcolonial Writing, published by Stanford University Press in 2009. Her most recent scholarship engages postcolonial studies, race and ethnicity, and comparative and world literature. She is Associate Professor of Literature at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 22, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Professor Singh explores how Sikh Studies in the North American academy is engaging with intellectual currents that can broadly be termed “post-modern.” More specifically, he critiques the asymmetrical privileging of Western “post-modern” scholarship on Sikhs against the Sikh community’s own self-understanding. Professor Singh is the Sarbjit Singh Aurora Chair in Sikh and Punjabi Studies and Professor of Economics at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
October 29, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Juned Shaikh works on labor, urbanity, and caste in India. His book focuses on the entanglements and contradictions of space in Bombay city in the 20th century. It explores the role of caste – more particularly the former untouchable or Dalit castes – in city planning, labor markets, trade unions, and the field of Literature. Juned Shaikh is Assistant Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
November 5, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes sense of the challenges that luxury poses for the realization of democratic aims, and explores the possibilities offered by leisure as a counterpoint to these challenges. Dean Mathiowetz is Associate Professor of Politics at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
November 12, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

In addition to completing a book on Immanuel Kant’s late work, Bodies and Pleasures in Late Kant, David Clark is pursuing two projects: on on the question of animality, atrocity, and testamentary, and another on the principle of redaction and avisuality in Francisco Goya’s Disasters of War engravings. David L. Clark is Professor of English and Cultural Studies and Associate Member of the Department of Health, Aging and Society at McMaster University, in Canada.

Date/Time
November 19, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Alone among Muslim countries, Morocco is known for its own national form of Islam, “Moroccan Islam.” In his most recent book The Ethnographic State, Professor Burke argues that Moroccan Islam was actually invented in the early twentieth century by French ethnographers and colonial officers influenced by British colonial practices in India. Through this process the monarchy was resurrected and Morocco was reinvented as a modern polity. Edmund “Terry” Burke, III is Research Professor of History at UC Santa Cruz.

Date/Time
December 3, 2014 | 12:15 PM
Free and open to the public

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

Mark Anderson works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s.

Mark Anderson is Associate Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.