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.
Due to a medical emergency, this event has been cancelled. – April 12, 2014
Kris Alexanderson’s current work examines the collaborative efforts of the Netherlands East Indies’ colonial administration, Dutch shipping businesses, and Dutch foreign consulates in port cities across the Middle East and Asia to control the flow of anti-Western and anti-colonial ideas—including pan-Islamism, Communism, and pan-Asianism—across its colonial borders during the interwar period.
Kris Alexanderson is Assistant Professor of History at University of the Pacific.
Susan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism, Christian revivalism, Civil Rights, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism.
Susan Harding is Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.
Morten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Western China on topics as diverse as shamanism, political cosmology, post-socialist transition, infrastructure, social networks, and hope. He is currently completing a comparative ethnography of Chinese Resource-Extraction projects in Mongolia and Mozambique.
Morten Axel Pedersen is Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen.