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New Books in Economic and Business HistoryJody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700 – 1850 (Ohio UP, 2024) examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa—from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone—through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk cloths constituted major trade items that linked African producers and consumers to exchange networks that were both regional and global. While much of the historiography of commerce in Africa in the eighteenth century has focused on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact, this study follows the global cloth trade to account...
2025-05-241h 17
New Books in Early Modern HistoryJody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700 – 1850 (Ohio UP, 2024) examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa—from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone—through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk cloths constituted major trade items that linked African producers and consumers to exchange networks that were both regional and global. While much of the historiography of commerce in Africa in the eighteenth century has focused on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact, this study follows the global cloth trade to account...
2025-05-191h 17
New Books in African StudiesJody Benjamin, "The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850" (Ohio UP, 2024)The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700 – 1850 (Ohio UP, 2024) examines historical change across a broad region of western Africa—from Saint Louis, Senegal, to Freetown, Sierra Leone—through the development of textile commerce, consumption, and dress. Indigo-dyed and printed cotton, wool, linen, and silk cloths constituted major trade items that linked African producers and consumers to exchange networks that were both regional and global. While much of the historiography of commerce in Africa in the eighteenth century has focused on the Atlantic slave trade and its impact, this study follows the global cloth trade to account...
2025-05-171h 14
Conversations in Atlantic TheoryJody Benjamin on The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning, and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850This discussion is with Dr. Jody Benjamin, a social and cultural historian of western Africa with expertise in the period between 1650 and 1850. He received his PhD in African and African American Studies at Harvard University in 2016. His research is informed by a methodological concern to center the diverse experiences and perspectives of Africans in ways that transcend the limitations of the colonial archive. His first book, the topic for this discussion, The Texture of Change: Dress, Self-Fashioning and History in Western Africa, 1700-1850 (Ohio University Press New African History Series, 2024), explores questions of state-making, social hierarchy and...
2025-04-221h 05
Precio Del Exito NFL¿Saldrán DERRICK HENRY y DEANDRE HOPKINS De Titans? | Ep. 817Titans está listo para vender a Derrick Henry y DeAndre Hopkins; el cornerback JC Jackson revive su carrera con Patriots; Cowboys no buscará trade; y Packers da el temido voto de confianza a su QB Jordan Love.¡Te esperamos EN VIVO por youtube.com/precionfl! Participa en el programa cada lunes a viernes a las 10 am hora centro.-----💙 ¡Conviértete en SUPERFAN del PRECIO DEL ÉXITO!🏈 Únete al PRECIO DEL FANTASY, ¡tu ventaja injusta en fantasy football!🔔 GRATIS: ¡Descarga Tus Revistas Del Éxito! (100+ Precios Del Éxito en formato PDF)-----...
2023-10-2655 minPrecio Del Exito NFL¿Saldrán DERRICK HENRY y DEANDRE HOPKINS De Titans? | Ep. 817Titans está listo para vender a Derrick Henry y DeAndre Hopkins; el cornerback JC Jackson revive su carrera con Patriots; Cowboys no buscará trade; y Packers da el temido voto de confianza a su QB Jordan Love.¡Te esperamos EN VIVO por youtube.com/precionfl! Participa en el programa cada lunes a viernes a las 10 am hora centro.-----💙 ¡Conviértete en SUPERFAN del PRECIO DEL ÉXITO!🏈 Únete al PRECIO DEL FANTASY, ¡tu ventaja injusta en fantasy football!🔔 GRATIS: ¡Descarga Tus Revistas Del Éxito! (100+ Precios Del Éxito en formato PDF)-----...
2023-10-2655 min
UCHRI PodcastHumanizing Acts: Researchers' RoundtableHumanizing Acts: Researcher's Roundtable examines the gifts of resisting the historical erasure of the COVID-19 pandemic with community and research. This is the podcast component of Humanizing Acts: Resisting the Historical Erasures of the Global COVID-19 Pandemic across the U.S.-Mexico Borderlands.
It features series contributors Dan Bustillo, Amy Sanchez Arteaga and Misael Diaz (Cognate Collective), and Mario Alberto Obando, Jr.
This podcast has been edited and written by Mario Alberto Obando, Jr. and co-produced by Mario Alberto Obando, Jr. and Daniel Topete. Ana Elizabeth Rosas provided editorial support.
2023-09-141h 17
The Discursive Power of Rock en español and the Desire for DemocracyEpisode Eight—The Evolving Meaning(s) of Rock en EspañolWhat are the evolving meanings of Rock en Español anthems?In this episode, incoming UC Santa Barbara Ph.D. student Gabriela Lúa joins us to discuss her own coming of age with Rock en Español albums. Gabriela —who’s 22 years young! — shares how the songs by Café Tacvba and Los Prisioneros have influenced the formation of her Chicane identity, while teaching her about Latin American history.Also, we will discuss a bit of the historical context of Café Tacvba’s “RE” and Los Prisioneros “Corazones” as both albums were recorded in Los Angeles!We wil...
2023-08-0948 min
UCHRI PodcastEveryday Upheavals Episode 1.3“Tracing Everyday Upheavals in the Middle East” is a multi-campus project that departs from grand totalizing narratives of upheaval by unearthing intimate histories, complex presents, and imagined futures from across the Middle East. Our main research question is: What are the different stories and narratives of upheaval that we can derive from everyday life?
This episode features a conversation between nine UC graduate students: Gehad Abaza, Banan Abdelrahman, Ingy Higazy, Mary Michael, Aida Mukharesh, Lalu Esra Ozban, Raed El Rafei, Salma Shash, Yasemin Taskin-Alp.
Learn more about this project at uchri.org/awards/tracing-everyday-upheavals-in-the-middle-east/
Music: Möbius Surface by escp-music.bandc...
2023-05-2625 minUCHRI PodcastEveryday Upheavals Episode 1.1“Tracing Everyday Upheavals in the Middle East” is a multi-campus project that departs from grand totalizing narratives of upheaval by unearthing intimate histories, complex presents, and imagined futures from across the Middle East. Our main research question is: What are the different stories and narratives of upheaval that we can derive from everyday life?
This episode features a conversation between nine UC graduate students: Gehad Abaza, Banan Abdelrahman, Ingy Higazy, Mary Michael, Aida Mukharesh, Lalu Esra Ozban, Raed El Rafei, Salma Shash, Yasemin Taskin-Alp.
Learn more about this project at uchri.org/awards/tracing-everyday-upheavals-in-the-middle-east/
Music: Möbius Surface by escp-music.bandc...
2023-05-2625 minUCHRI PodcastEveryday Upheavals Episode 1.2“Tracing Everyday Upheavals in the Middle East” is a multi-campus project that departs from grand totalizing narratives of upheaval by unearthing intimate histories, complex presents, and imagined futures from across the Middle East. Our main research question is: What are the different stories and narratives of upheaval that we can derive from everyday life?
This episode features a conversation between nine UC graduate students: Gehad Abaza, Banan Abdelrahman, Ingy Higazy, Mary Michael, Aida Mukharesh, Lalu Esra Ozban, Raed El Rafei, Salma Shash, Yasemin Taskin-Alp.
Learn more about this project at uchri.org/awards/tracing-everyday-upheavals-in-the-middle-east/
Music: Möbius Surface by escp-music.bandc...
2023-05-2620 min
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 6: The Role of Humanities Centers and Institutes (UCHRI X UF CHPS)What is the role of humanities centers and institutes, and what can they do to spark change in graduate education? In this episode, we speak with our mentors, Dr. Barbara Mennel (UF CHPS) and Dr. Kelly Anne Brown (UCHRI), in a wide-ranging conversation about how humanities centers and institutes function as an incubator for intellectual and professional networks, hubs for experimental programming, and safe spaces for grad students. We discuss how underfunding the humanities might lead to a host of issues downstream, including space for cutting-edge scholarship. We also speak about distributed models of mentorship and how they can prepare...
2023-02-111h 10
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 5: Funding the Humanities (UCHRI X UF CHPS)Given the crisis of declining student enrollments and tenure-track jobs, what is the role of scholarly organizations in facilitating systemic change? This episode, we speak with Dr. Joy Connolly about her role as president of the American Council of Learned Societies (ACLS), where she works on fellowship design, change acceleration, and creating spaces for students, faculty, and administrators to craft a more sustainable future for the humanities. But first: A job ad that asks for too much and gives too little.
Contact us at humanitiesunderreview@gmail.com.
2022-12-0757 min
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 4: Unwellness and the University (UCHRI X UF CHPS)Under Review Episode 4: Unwellness and the University (UCHRI X UF CHPS)
How do we create spaces of care for one another in structures that make us unwell? In this episode, we speak with Dr. Mimi Khuc, a writer, scholar, mental health advocate, and adjunct lecturer in disability studies at Georgetown University. We cover her advocacy for adjunct professors, mental health issues students face in grad school, the silencing of emotions in professional settings, and changing one’s career trajectory during the PhD. Plus, a sound experiment on how it feels to be contingent.
Contact us at humanitiesunderreview@gmail.com.
2022-10-1355 min
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 3: Digital Collaborations (UCHRI X UF CHPS)The digital wave is sweeping the humanities, raising provocative new questions: Should podcasting count as a form of scholarship, and can the dissertation be other than a book-length monograph? In this episode, we visit the National Humanities Center’s virtual podcasting institute, where four PhD students (Lauren Cox, June Ke, Mirna Wasef, and Kevin Woram) met and collaborated on a podcast about digital intimacies during the 2020 lockdown. We caught up with them one year later. We also spoke with Andy Mink, Vice President of Education Programs at the National Humanities Center, about NHC’s programming for graduate students and the impo...
2022-09-0853 min
The Queer SpiritDrama Therapy & Theatre as Activism with Anna WingetAnna Renée Winget (they/them - currently living on Tongva land) is an artist, activist, scholar and educator. They currently serve as Affiliated Scholar at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) where they are collaborating on Crossing Pride: a transnational digital healing storytelling project and archive by/ for/ with queer and trans refugees. They hold a doctorate in drama and theatre from the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and at San Diego (UCSD) where they completed their dissertation, "Performing Possibilities: Trans-Healing in Activist Performance" and received their MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Anna teaches t...
2022-05-1631 minThe Queer SpiritDrama Therapy & Theatre as Activism with Anna WingetAnna Renée Winget (they/them - currently living on Tongva land) is an artist, activist, scholar and educator. They currently serve as Affiliated Scholar at the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI) where they are collaborating on Crossing Pride: a transnational digital healing storytelling project and archive by/ for/ with queer and trans refugees. They hold a doctorate in drama and theatre from the University of California at Irvine (UCI) and at San Diego (UCSD) where they completed their dissertation, "Performing Possibilities: Trans-Healing in Activist Performance" and received their MFA in Playwriting from Boston University. Anna teaches t...
2022-05-1631 min
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 2: It’s Not Working (UCHRI X UF CHPS)We need to talk about work, and what’s not working, in graduate school. Graduate students are instructors, teaching assistants, research assistants, and researchers, but our stipends are often not enough to make ends meet. First, we look back at the Columbia University graduate student strikes with Sourav Chatterjee, a PhD student at the Middle Eastern, South Asian, and African Studies program at Columbia. Then we chat with Dr. Nick Mitchell, Professor of Ethnic Studies and Graduate Feminist Director at UC Santa Cruz, about the jobs crisis, academic labor as labor, the UCSC graduate strike, and what can and needs to...
2022-05-091h 06
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review Episode 1: Rethinking Prestige (UCHRI X UF CHPS)Under Review is a podcast hosted by June Ke and Lauren Burrell Cox, two PhD students who ask questions about humanities graduate education. In the first episode, we spoke with Dr. Rachel Arteaga, Assistant Director of the Simpson Center for the Humanities at the University of Washington, and co-author of ‘We All Have Levers We Can Pull’: Reforming Graduate Education.” We spoke about what we can learn from community colleges, the “prestige economy” of higher ed, resistance to alt-ac career paths, and what can be done to reform graduate education today.
Episode resources here: https://humwork.uchri.org/blog/2022/04/under-review-episode-1/
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2022-04-0643 min
UCHRI PodcastUnder Review TrailerUnder Review is a podcast about rethinking humanities graduate education, produced and hosted by two PhD students in the humanities, June Ke and Lauren Burrell Cox. In a time when 70 percent of academic positions are off the tenure track, we speak to experts about issues surrounding prestige, labor, contingency, and diverse post-doctoral pathways. This podcast is a collaboration of the University of California Humanities Research Institute and the University of Florida Center for the Humanities and the Public Sphere.
2022-03-3001 min
UCHRI PodcastLiving Through Upheaval: Under FireWe explore the power and perils of fire. Standing apart from water, earth, and air, fire is discussed as a centerpiece of human developments, dynamics, and transformations, of narration across most all modes and forms of cultural expression, and as a catalyst for developments in food and shelter, not to mention sometimes unwelcome, if significant shifts in our contemporary culture. Joined by: Elizabeth Hoover (UC Berkeley), Abrahm Lustgarten (ProPublica), Elizabeth Povinelli (Columbia), Brandi Summers (UC Berkeley), and Karen Tei Yamashita (UC Santa Cruz).
2020-12-141h 27
UCHRI PodcastCivil WarThe driving question today is no longer whether this or that conflict is a civil war but what political work the notion of “civil war” is being exercised to do. States descend into civil wars when contrasting conceptions of life within them are deemed irreconcilable. Living, for a considerable proportion of the state’s inhabitants, is made unbearable. Those at least nominally controlling the state apparatus insist on obedience and deference to its way of being, on pain of erasure. Civil wars are struggles over competing ways of being in the world, over their underlying conceptions, over control of the state...
2020-11-021h 30
UCHRI PodcastRace at Boiling Point: Powers of the FalseCounterfeit is our culture, our history forged, our idols fraudulent. We seek sources of truth as an active concept. But when the line dividing fact from fiction is buried beneath layers of bigotry, senselessness, and corruption, supposition becomes indistinguishable from the real, and we risk mortal wounds as victims to the powers of the false. How can we reinvigorate mechanisms of scrutiny and systems of representation? Where are the spaces from which the silenced might emerge?
On Friday, August 14, at 12:00 pm PDT, UCHRI hosted Race at Boiling Point: Powers of the False, a conversation with Beth Coleman (University of Toronto...
2020-08-2000 min
UCHRI PodcastRace at Boiling Point: Movement We MakeRuth Wilson Gilmore (City University of New York), AbdouMaliq Simone (University of Sheffield), Rafeef Ziadah (University of London), and moderator Avery Gordon (UC Santa Barbara) in conversation about movement as a vital keyword for understanding our fractious present— as collective mobilization, as social movements, as the circulation of ideas, as the shifting boundaries of the tolerable and the intolerable, as the movement of displaced populations, as constriction and its networkings of resistance.
The wide-ranging conversation emerged out of the national and international uprisings in response to the death of George Floyd and others. These leading critical thinkers engage questions about ab...
2020-07-2300 min
UCHRI PodcastRace at Boiling Point: The Fire This TimeOn June 5, 2020, UCHRI gathered Angela Y. Davis (Emerita, UC Santa Cruz), Herman Gray (Emeritus, UC Santa Cruz), Gaye Theresa Johnson (UC Los Angeles), Robin D.G. Kelley (UCLA), and Josh Kun (USC) to think differently together about the structural conditions and explosive events shattering our times.
In a wide-ranging conversation emerging out of the national protests in response to yet another spate of anti-Black police violence, these leading critical thinkers engage questions about intersectional and international struggle, the militarization of the border, racial capitalism, the feminist dimension of new social justice movements, the unsustainability of the nation-state, the power of...
2020-07-2100 min
UCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: Biomedicine in PartsFor our final installment of our talkbit series interrogating civil war, we spoke with Jennifer Terry, professor of gender and sexuality studies at UC Irvine, about her 2017 work, Attachments to War: Biomedical Logics and Violence in Twenty-First-Century America, in order to investigate the symbiotic logic by which war and the advanced world of biomedicine are intertwined. How might war look differently if medicine had never progressed into the reparative world of prosthetics? Together, we talk through this important hypothetical as well as the implications of her work for our civil war project overall.
2020-02-0700 min
UCHRI PodcastRRG on Truth: ConspiraciesSince its founding, UCHRI has funded Residential Research Groups for faculty and graduate students to engage in collaborative work around a specific topic. In Spring 2019, the topic was Truth, broadly conceived. UCHRI welcomed convener Aaron James in philosophy at UC Irvine, and participants Wayne Spencer Coffey in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, Robin Derby in History at UCLA, Liron Mor in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, Poulomi Saha in English at UC Berkeley, and Abigail Stepnitz in Jurisprudence and Social Policy also at UC Berkeley. The following is an intimate look into one of their weekly interdisciplinary seminars...
2020-01-2400 min
UCHRI PodcastCivil War: Race Under RepresentationAs part of its Fall 2019 inquiry into civil war, UCHRI gathered colleagues from across the UC system and beyond for a lecture and seminar discussion about how racial formation and aesthetic tradition mutually constitute what we think of as the essential form of the civil subject: the autonomous, universal individual that has been a bedrock of Western political ideology since the Enlightenment.
Here, Distinguished Professor of English, David Lloyd (UC Riverside), critically interrogates what he characterizes as "this Hegelian commitment, on Fanon's part, to the transformation of the racial, colonized 'thing' into the human" in the context of a larger...
2019-12-1900 min
UCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: The Body's DisharmonyIn this installment of our ongoing series of audiovisual conversations on civil war, Mei Zhan considers our theme as a conceptual device in relationship to her work, past and present. Currently, Zhan is writing an ethnography on the invention of a new kind of classical Chinese medicine on the edges of the healthcare establishment in China. She examines how these experiments in thinking, doing and being aim to "bring medicine back to life" in entrepreneurial China. In this interview, we discuss the divisions among allopathic medicine, traditional Chinese medicine (TCM), and new biomedicine and the implications this has for civil...
2019-10-0800 min
UCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: There May be a Rebarbarization of the WorldIn this edition of UCHRI’s Talkbits on civil war, Dipesh Chakrabarty reflects on the politics of survival, flourishing, and postcolonial worldmaking in a time of accelerated planetary destruction.
2019-10-0300 min
UCHRI PodcastRRG On Truth: VampiresSince its founding, UCHRI has funded Residential Research Groups for faculty and graduate students to engage in collaborative work around a specific topic. In Spring 2019, the topic was Truth, broadly conceived. UCHRI welcomed convener Aaron James in philosophy at UC Irvine, and participants Wayne Spencer Coffey in History of Consciousness at UC Santa Cruz, Robin Derby in History at UCLA, Liron Mor in Comparative Literature at UC Irvine, Poulomi Saha in English at UC Berkeley, and Abigail Stepnitz in Jurisprudence and Social Policy also at UC Berkeley. The following is an intimate look into one of their weekly interdisciplinary seminars...
2019-09-1700 min
UCHRI PodcastRace Class Podcast Ep. 2The Instagram user Lil Miquela (@lilmiquela) has 1.5 million followers, lucrative advertising deals with giants in the fashion industry, and a management team dedicated to helping her craft her influential personal brand. She’s also a self-identified robot. In this episode, seminar participants discuss the strategic use of Lil Miquela’s biracial identity, progressivism in the fashion industry, and ideas of a digital post-racial future.
2019-06-0700 min
UCHRI PodcastRace Class Podcast Ep. 1In Spring of 2018, a white Utah teenager named Keziah Daum posted photos of herself and her prom date on Facebook and Twitter. She was wearing a red qi pao (or cheongsam), a traditional Chinese dress popularized in China in the 1920s. Twitter users quickly responded that her decision to wear the dress was an example of cultural appropriation. Others argued that it was simply cultural appreciation.
In this episode, seminar participants discuss the way that national and international media reported on this incident and examine the assumptions US commentators make how commentators in the United States make decisions about who...
2019-06-0700 min
UCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: Civility UnmaskedIn this installment of our ongoing series audiovisual conversations on civil war, Bishnupriya Ghosh helps us think civility as a handmaiden to power, traversing histories of colonial violence and contemporary populisms.
2019-05-2300 min
UCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: The Drone's Eye ViewIn this installment of our ongoing series of audiovisual conversations on civil war, Caren Kaplan unpacks the history of aerial technology and warfare in order to underscore the limits of perception, the precariousness of seeing from above, and to trace the intricate web that binds war and everyday life.
2019-05-0100 min
UCHRI PodcastVoices of Diversity: Diversity and ProfessionalizationThe Council of Graduate Schools’ Doctoral Initiative on Minority and Attrition Completion measured the ten-year completion rates for PhDs and found that all students currently stand at 57%, while Latinos complete their degrees at a rate of 51%, and African Americans at 47%. These numbers are limited to STEM fields and do not reflect, for example, notably higher attrition rates in the humanities with a 42% completion rate overall.
High attrition rates can be causally linked to problems of graduate student professionalization. The university model equates conference attendance and teaching with professionalization, but this is not enough to efficiently and effectively prepare PhD students fo...
2019-04-0300 min
UCHRI PodcastVoices of Diversity Episode 2: Mothers of Color in AcademiaIn this podcast, we hear from Cynthia Estremera, PhD candidate in English at Lehigh University, Irene Sanchez, PhD, University of Washington alumni and ethnic studies instructor with the Azusa Unified School District, and returning guest Whitney N. Laster Pirtle, assistant professor of sociology at UC Merced and author of “Birthing both a baby and a PhD as a Woman of Color” on the topic. Together, these guests share their experiences in navigating the challenges of motherhood at various stages of their academic careers.
2018-12-1200 min
UCHRI PodcastUnbecoming Academic: The Value of a Humanities PhDFor most of those who have devoted the better part of a decade to earning a PhD in the humanities, a doctoral degree and the experience of earning it holds a deep, inherent value. And yet, higher education struggles to articulate the nature of that value, often resorting to traditional economic notions of earnings and transferrable skills. In this podcast, we explore the concept of value as it is defined within multiple disciplines and contexts.
2018-09-2600 min
UCHRI PodcastVoices of Diversity Episode OneEpisode 1: What is Diversity? examines social justice issues and inclusivity in higher education, centering on the perspectives of faculty, administrators, and graduate students from underrepresented groups. These groups include women, those who identify as LGBTQ, individuals from working-class backgrounds, and people of color. As the United States becomes increasingly diverse, graduation rates for advanced degree holders, management level staff positions, and faculty fail to reflect these changing demographics. Diversity is at the heart of our podcast, however, definitions vary. In this episode we will hear from scholars Whitney N. Pirtle, Assistant Professor of Sociology at UC-Merced, Dr. Jenny Kwon Special...
2018-09-2600 minUCHRI PodcastTalkbits on Civil War: Conflicts of Digital InterfacingOn Foundry, UCHRI is hosting a series of audiovisual conversations designed to unpack the thematic of civil war. In our first installment, Toby Miller discusses the social and political hazards of mobile devices—its industry and production—and the violent manipulation embedded in the personal user interface.
2018-01-1200 min
UCHRI PodcastUCHRI Perspectives Spring 2017 - Queer of Color Formations and Translocal Spaces in EuropeQueer People of Color (QPoC) positionalities are a valuable yet underexplored lens through which to rethink the racial and colonial imaginaries and material conditions of subjects and space in Europe. It brings together race, gender, class, colonialism and sexuality, inseparably, in a shared analytic. It addresses multiple erasures: of sexualities and race from discussions of space; of QPoC in Europe from discussions of European subjects, race and space; and from US-centric QPoC studies. Indeed Europeans are generally presumed to be homogeneously white, while people of color are generally presumed to be uniformly straight. Rarely is space understood as a formation...
2017-06-0500 min
UCHRI PodcastUCHRI's Perspectives Fall 2015 with Karen BassiInterview with Karen Bassi, Literature and Classics, UC Santa Cruz, Convener with UCHRI Director, David Theo Goldberg about the Fall 2015 Residential Research Group.
The fact and consequences of human mortality are principal variables in humanities research. And yet this fact, so often relegated to euphemism, has resisted anything like a comprehensive and sustained interdisciplinary approach. Although the prospects of fearing, facing, and evading death can be found in scholarship in a wide number of disciplines, the study of mortality per se is not a recognized area of research in the humanities. The aim of the Residency is to identify the...
2016-01-1900 min
UCHRI PodcastDead in the Waters – Talk by Brad Evans, University of BristolContinental Europe is currently facing the most challenging refugee crises since the Second World War. As many fleeing the conflict raging in Syria and elsewhere, set out onto the treacherous Mediterranean seas, images of dead bodies- including children- now appear in widespread circulation. While such images have, on occasions, notably shifted the political debates, evidencing in the process the power of social media, they are nevertheless still framed and mediated in order to regulate their effects. Indeed, as the images provide an intimate portrait of the encounter with contemporary violence, speaking directly to the questions of human sacrifice, the status...
2015-11-1600 min