Professor White serves as American Representative
of Pasts, Inc. Narrative Therapy:
“Get the Past You Deserve.” He wears the
title Philologian, the division of the American
Academy of Arts and Sciences into which he
was inducted after being rejected by both the
history and literature divisions.

Hayden White is an Emeritus University Professor of Historical Studies at UCSC.

Professor Delpla focuses on the relation
between philosophy and anthropology in
theorizing international ethics and justice.
Her work on postwar Bosnia deals with the
Srebrenica massacre, the reception of the International
Criminal Tribunal and the status
of victims and witnesses.

Isabelle Delpla is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Montpellier III.

What makes animal technicians describe a
pig as “depressed,” “a rebel” or “girly”? How
do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients
biologically and become sources of information
on human health? Professor Pihl discusses
human/pig becomings in biomedical
research, focusing on apparatuses and spaces.

Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl is a PhD Fellow at the Center for Medical Science and Technology
Studies, University of Copenhagen as well as a Visiting Fellow at The Science and Justice Working Group at UCSC.

Excluded from favored liberal remedies for
realizing new freedoms in postemancipation
Virginia, children nevertheless shaped broad
Reconstruction contests over the meaning of
freedom. This paper focuses on children in
order to consider whether liberal assumptions
embedded in the idea of agency have excessively
narrowed historians’ analysis of postemancipation
politics.

Sponsored by The Institute for Humanities Research (IHR) at the University of California, Santa Cruz

Catherine Jones is an Assistant Professor of History at UCSC.

Professor Goldman is a political theorist
whose work concerns the intersection of
utopian thought and political agency. He is
currently completing a book manuscript on
the concept of political hope in the modern
period from Kant to Dewey.

Co-sponsored by The Politics Department

Loren Goldman is a Visiting Assistant Professor, a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow
in the Humanities, and a Townsend Fellow at UCB.

Modern utopias and nuclear wastelands come
together in Professor Brown’s “Plutopia”
about the first two cities in the world to produce
plutonium—Richland, Washington and
Ozersk, Russia. New postwar communities
of high-risk affluence alongside plutonium
disasters and public health catastrophes were
thus created on two of the world’s most radiated
landscapes.

Co-sponsored by The History Department and The Anthropology Department.

Kate Brown is an Associate Professor of History in the University of Maryland,
Baltimore.

Histories of sexuality routinely mediate geopolitical
difference(s) through the narrative
forms of marginality, disenfranchisement and
loss. What happens if we shift our attention
from the reading of sexuality as marginality
to understanding it as a site of vitalized
abundance–even futurity?

Anjali Arondekar ia an Associate Professor in Feminist Studies at UCSC.

While critics have dismissed an image of the Renaissance humanist Petrarch as a nature lover, this talk reconsiders a poetics of the living in his work. Professor Ursell looks at how Petrarch’s “life writing” and “life reading” have been understood in relation to global ecology and world literature.

Michael Ursell is a Visiting Assistant Professor in Literature at UCSC.

Professor Tsing’s current research tracks the commerce and ecology of a high-value wild mushroom to illuminate contemporary dilemmas of capitalism and multispecies life. Her in-progress Living in Ruins explores the consequences of building capitalist supply chains among cultural and biological histories of disturbance and precarious survival.

Anna Tsing is a Professor of Anthropology at UCSC.