Events of Interest for the Week of November 18, 2019

Monday, November 18, 2019
Research Center for the Americas
Breakfast with Scholar: Dr. Christine Vega, CSU Fort Collins
9:00 AM – 11:00 AM
Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Tuesday, November 19, 2019
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Symposium: Questions of Translation
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Wednesday, November 20, 2019
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia
On Trouble
Mariah Garnett, UCLA
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Porter College, Room D-245

Thursday, November 21, 2019
Science & Justice Research Center
Missing and Murdered Indigenous Women Database
Jessica Kolopenuk, University of Alberta
7:10 PM – 8:45 PM
Merrill Cultural Center

Thursday, November 21, 2019
Creative Writing Program
Living Writers Series
Sophia Shalmiyev (Mother Winter: A Memoir) and Peg Alford Pursell (A Girl Goes Into the Forest)
7:10 PM – 8:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall
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Events of Interest for the Week of November 11, 2019

Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Department of Feminist Studies
Solidarity Not Charity: Mutual Aid for Mobilization & Survival
Dean Spade, Seattle University School of Law
3:00 – 5:00 PM
Resource Center for Non-Violence
612 Ocean St.

Wednesday, November 13, 2019
Department of Anthropology
Reconnecting through Water or the One with the Longest Straw Takes it All: Groundwater Self-Management in a Green Californian Desert
Birgit Müller, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
for location update, contact mda@ucsc.edu

Thursday, November 14, 2019
Department of Sociology
Verona, the City of Love and Hate:
Struggle to Define City-Space and Belonging in the Age of Right-Wing Populism

Ipek Demirsu, University of Padova
11:40 AM – 1:15 PM
Rachel Carson College, Room 301

Thursday, November 14, 2019
Creative Writing Program
Living Writers Series
After Ursula: Karen Joy Fowler, Molly Gloss, Nisi Shawl, and Kim Stanley Robinson
7:10 PM – 8:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall
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Events of Interest for the Week of November 4, 2019

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Opening Reception: Solitary Garden
5:30 PM – 6:45 PM
Baskin Art Studios Quad

Tuesday, November 5, 2019
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Traction: Art Talk
jackie sumell, The House that Herman Built
with Gina DentUC Santa Cruz
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Research Center for the Americas
Dr. Marian Schlotterbeck:
How to Build a Revolution from the Bottom Up: Lessons from Allende’s Chile

Marian Schlotterbeck, UC Davis
1:30 PM – 2:45 PM
Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Wednesday, November 6, 2019
Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions and the Department of Anthropology
State, Society, and Relations of Dependence over the Long Term in North Seram, Eastern Indonesia
Tony Rudyansjah, University of Indonesia
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Thursday, November 7, 2019
Department of Sociology
Feminist Radical Left Internationalism and Border Crossings to Cuba:
The Vexing of Race, Gender, Sexuality, and Political Solidarities, 1960-1985

Karen Tice, University of Kentucky
11:40 AM – 1:15 PM
Rachel Carson College, Room 301

Thursday, November 7, 2019
The Humanities Institute and the Creative Writing Program
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Gary Soto, The Elements of San Joaquin
7:00 PM
Music Recital Hall

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Events of Interest for the Week of October 28, 2019

Tuesday, October 29, 2019
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Traction: Art Talk
with Sadie Barnette, Artist, Do Not Destroy
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
DARC 108

Wednesday, October 30, 2019
Research Center for the Americas and the Department of Politics
André Borges: Right-wing Populism and Party System Change in Brazil:
A Subnational Perspective

André Borges, University of Brasília
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Friday, November 1-Saturday, November 2, 2019 
The Humanities Institute
Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
Merrill College Cultural Center
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Events of Interest for the Week of October 21, 2019

Monday, October 21, 2019
Department of Anthropology
Ethnographic Engagements
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 328

Thursday, October 24, 2019
Department of Sociology
 “The Island in the Middle Sea: Lampedusa, Migration, and the Ripple Effects of Empire”
Stephanie Malia Hom, Executive Director of the Acus Foundation
11:40 AM – 1:15 PM
Rachel Carson College 301

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Events of Interest for the Week of October 14, 2019

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Department of Feminist Studies
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda and Carl Lerner: Intersectionality Experience as Deviants and the film “Black Like Me”
Vera Kallenberg, UC Santa Cruz
11:30 AM – 1:30 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210

Tuesday, October 15, 2019
Department of Literature
Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
David L. Eng, University of Pennsylvania
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 202

Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Science and Justice Research Center
A New Jim Code? Race, Carceral Technoscience, and Liberatory Imagination in Everyday Life
Ruha Benjamin
2:00 PM – 4:00 PM
Merrill College Cultural Center

Wednesday, October 16, 2019
Department of Anthropology
News of Fish: Techniques and Distributed Ecological Knowledge among Fishermen, Fish Traders and Schools of Mullets in Brazil
Rafael Devos and Viviane Vedana, Universidade Federal de Santa Catarina
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Social Sciences 1, 261

Thursday, October 17, 2019
Minorities & Philosophy Chapter
Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
José Medina, NorthWestern University
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Humanities 2, Room 259

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Of Interest Events for the Week of October 7, 2019

Tuesday, October 8, 2019
Research Center for the Americas & History of Art & Visual Culture
Roundtable: Chicano and Chicana Art: A Critical Anthology
Laura Perez (Latinx Research Center), Amalia Mesa-Bains (CSU Monterey Bay), Catherine Ramirez (UC Santa Cruz), and Felicia Rice (Moving Parts Press) with Jennifer A. Gonzalez (UC Santa Cruz)
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Charles E. Merrill Lounge

Thursday, October 10, 2019
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies
Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor
5:30 PM – 7:00 PM
Music Recital Hall

Thursday, October 10, 2019
Creative Writing Program
Living Writers Series
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Ashland University
7:10 PM – 8:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall

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November 1-2, 2019 – “Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White”

Poster with conference schedule for "Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White"

Registration information available on the Humanities Institute website.

Schedule:

Friday, November 1, 2019

10:30 AM, Gathering at McHenry Library, Special Collections. Hayden White Archive Exhibition.

(remarks at 11:00)

Lunch at campus cafés.

Conference venue: Merrill College Cultural Center

1:00 PM, Welcome: Dean of Humanities

Opening Remarks: Jim Clifford

1:15 PM, Keynote Speaker: Carol Mavor (University of Manchester),

“Everything is Kleptocratic: Mary Glass Dances Happening (1970).”

2:45 PM, Panel #1:

Karyn Ball (University of Alberta), “After Unspeakability.”
Paul Kottman (The New School), “History and the Past: On the Rights to Speculation Today.”
Todd Presner (UCLA), “Toward a Pedagogy of the Practical Past: Approaches to Teaching the Holocaust.”
Roland Greene (Stanford University), “’Interpretation’ in the 1970’s.”

General discussion.

5:30 PM, Reception and Dinner at Cowell Provost’s House

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Saturday, November 2, 2019

Merrill College Cultural Center

8:30 AM, Coffee and gathering.

9:00, Keynote Speaker: Susan Stewart (Princeton University),

“The Natural History of Lyric.” 

10:30, Panel #2

Amir Eshel (Stanford University), “Poetic Thinking: On Gerhard Richter’s ‘Birkenau’ (2014).”
David Palumbo-Lui (Stanford University), “A certain perverse experience…made it possible for it to be true…”
Verónica Tozzi Thompson (University of Buenos Aires), “The Exemplary Role of Narrative Argumentation to Escape from the Echo Chamber.
Ethan Kleinberg (Wesleyan University), “The Poros of the Aporia in an Era of Thin Historicization.”

General discussion.

12:30-2:00, Lunch

2:00, Keynote Speaker: Judith Butler (UC Berkeley),

“What Should I Do?”

3: 30 Panel #3:

Amy Elias (University of Tennessee), “History as the Sideways Future Glance.”
Robert Pogue Harrison (Stanford University), “Adolescence: A Vichian Theory of the Sixties.”
José Rabasa (UC Berkeley), “When Globalatinization Does Not Stick.”
María Inés La Greca (University of Buenos Aires), “With or Against Hayden White? Philosophical Reflections from the Argentinian Feminist Movement.”

General Discussion

5:30, Closing Reception

 

Organizing committee: 

Paul Roth, Professor of Philosophy, UCSC

James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness, UCSC

Sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. With support from UCSC’s Cowell College and Stanford University’s Division of Literatures, Cultures and Languages.

January 17, 2019 — Ralina Joseph, “Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity”

Flyer for Ralina Joseph's talk, "Postracial Resistance"

January 17, 2019, 1:30-3:30 pm, Humanities 1 Room 210

Postracial Resistance: Black Women, Media, and the Uses of Strategic Ambiguity. How African American women celebrities, cultural products, and audiences subversively used the tools of postracial discourse — the media-propagated notion that race and race-based discrimination are over — in order to resist its very tenets.

June 11, 2018 – Asad Haider: “Mistaken Identity: Race and Class in the Age of Trump”

A flyer showing Haider's book and text is shown

From advanced reviews of Mistaken Identity:

Asad Haider renews the critique of identity politics for the contemporary Left. Drawing on the work of British cultural studies, black feminism, and theories of the subject (and subjection), Haider writes in an open and persuasive prose to show how identity is always partial and ambivalent, deflecting from the larger racial ideologies while reproducing its terms. This is a fresh and timely book, thoughtful and provocative.”

– Judith Butler, author of Gender Trouble and Frames of War

“Reviving what has become a deeply unfashionable anti-racist standpoint, Asad Haider indicts the complicity of “identity politics” from the left. For him, the dissident mentalities and meticulous historical methods of open-ended, ecumenical commitment to radical social transformation are still valid. This spiky little book shows how opposition might be salvaged from an ocean of pessimism and despair.”

– Paul Gilroy, author of The Black Atlantic and There Ain’t No Black in the Union Jack

Mistaken Identity will inspire some, piss off others, and compel all of us to reconsider how we fight back. A bold, fresh, and radical critique of so-called “identity politics,” this book deserves a wide reading—especially now, when liberal multiculturalism, the “renaturalization” of capitalism, and a resurgent bourgeois black nationalism draped in radical language forecloses the possibility of revolutionary solidarity. Asad Haider proclaims another universality is possible, and it’s probably not what you think.”

– Robin D. G. Kelley, author of Freedom Dreams: The Black Radical Imagination

Asad Haider offers a devastating and constructive critique of what is commonly understood as “identity politics,” while still maintaining the centrality race, racism and racist oppression in capitalism.”

– Bill Fletcher, Jr., coauthor of Solidarity Divided and former president of TransAfrica Forum

“Pithy, smart and readable, Mistaken Identity is a wonderful book for our time. Notwithstanding his critique of identity, there is a compelling authenticity to Haider’s voice, making him someone one wants to think with about shaping a left vision today.”

– Wendy Brown, author of States of Injury and Undoing the Demos

“[Haider] constructs a comprehensive and critical dissection of identity politics in his hard-hitting debut … This book is an important contribution to discourses on American politics, race, and social movements.”

-Publishers Weekly

 

Commentary with be provided by: History Professor and Humanites Dean Tyler Stovall and History of Consciousness Professor Banu Bargu. Refreshments served. For a pdf of the book (114 pp. of text) please email mwuerth@ucsc.edu. Hope to see you there!

Date/Time
June 11, 2018 | 2:00-3:50 PM
Free and open to the public

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