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Donna Haraway: “Staying with the Trouble: Becoming Worldly with Companion Species”

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What does it mean to inherit the histories of companion species on a blasted earth where getting on together is still the task? “Staying with the Trouble” works through ontological, ethical, and ecological knots in multispecies contact zones, where human exceptionalism gives way to the “open” of companion species: the rapidly growing world of 21st-century urban chickens and the families who depend on them in Botswana and Montana, and the Navajo Sheep Project that brings the Iberian Churro into worlds of alliance and conflict.

Donna Haraway is Distinguished Professor of History of Consciousness at UCSC.

Embodying Theory, Theorizing Embodiment: A Graduate Student Conference

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The Bodies and Embodiment Research Cluster presents:

Embodying Theory, Theorizing Embodiment: A Graduate Student Conference

Friday, May 28 / 9 AM – 5 PM / Humanities 210
Saturday, May 29 / 9:30 AM – 3 PM / Humanities 620

Click here to download the complete conference schedule.

The conference addresses how paying attention to bodies and embodiment in our academic work questions what theory is and does, and how this moves us to think differently. Building on work on the body as a material, signifying, experienced, and experiencing entity, the conference focuses on embodiment and critical practices of sense-making that include tactility and affective knowledge.

The first day of the conference consists of graduate student panels with respondents and a keynote speech. On the second day, the cluster will host a workshop for the speakers and respondents.

Keynote Speaker: Professor Jennifer Doyle (English, UC Riverside)

Respondents: Carla Freccero (Literature, UCSC), Wlad Godzich (Literature, UCSC), Jennifer González (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), and Vanita Seth (Politics, UCSC)

For more information, contact Sara Orning at sorning@ucsc.edu.

Co-sponsored by the departments of Literature, Politics, History of Art and Visual Culture, Sociology, and Film and Digital Media, and the Graduate Student Association (GSA).

Ananya Roy

Ananya Roy – “Slumdog Cities: The Politics of Subaltern Urbanism”

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The Urban Studies Research Cluster presents:

Ananya Roy – “Slumdog Cities: The Politics of Subaltern Urbanism”

The study of megacities in the global South has come to be dominated by two contrasting paradigms: an apocalyptic vision of a “planet of slums” and a populist vision of entrepreneurial “shadow cities.” This talk will critically examine such paradigms, calling into question the ways in which “subaltern urbanism” is currently framed. Drawing on postcolonial theory, it will present an alternative framework for the understanding of urbanism in the global South and make the case for new geographies of theory.

Bio: Ananya Roy is a leading scholar in comparative urban studies and international development. She is Professor of City and Regional Planning at U.C. Berkeley, and also serves as Education Director of the Blum Center for Developing Economies and as co-Director of the Global Metropolitan Studies Center at Berkeley. Roy is author of numerous books, including: City Requiem, Calcutta: Gender and the Politics of Poverty (2003), co-editor of Urban Informality: Transnational Perspectives from the Middle East, South Asia, and Latin America (2004), and co-editor (with Aihwa Ong) of the forthcoming Worlding Cities: Asian Experiments and the Art of Being Global.

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Seminar co-sponsored by the Departments of Sociology, Feminist Studies, and Colleges 9 & 10.