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SUMMARY:Film Screening: Sotong and Against this Messy World
DESCRIPTION:On April 6\, 2026\, the Graduate Training in Southeast Asia (GETSEA) consortium and UCSC’s Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions will host two short films highlighting the challenges to art and expression in Malaysia’s complex political\, legal\, and societal landscape. \nSotong follows four fierce local drag queens who were part of the 2022 Halloween party raided by the authorities. One of them\, Juan\, was arrested for ‘a man dressing up as a woman’. Two years later\, they revisit on the fallout of that night as they continue to perform underground and nurture the Malaysian drag scene in all its beauty\, joy\, and pain. \nAgainst This Messy World is a deeply introspective and visually captivating short documentary that delves into the heart and soul of artistic expression in Malaysia. A personal exploration\, narrated by Malaysian artists\, this documentary takes viewers on an evocative journey to understand the essence and purpose of being an artist in a world marked by chaos and uncertainty and piece together conversations and unfiltered moments in their lives. \nUniversities from across North America will come together to watch the films simultaneously\, then connect via Zoom with the filmmakers for a post-screening discussion. Please join us in conversation!
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/film-screening-sotong-and-against-this-messy-world/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Oceans of Dissent: Towards a Feminist Commons Workshop
DESCRIPTION:We gather to forge new vernaculars of the geopolitical\, to assemble spatial imaginaries of the “oceanic” that refuse rather than relent to the insistent march of capital and empire. To dissent here is an invitation to think more about the messiness and stuckness of our intellectual labors across histories of slavery\, indenture\, colonialism and more. This event is open to the campus community. Further details about registration to come. With questions email Sadie Lynn at sklynn@ucsc.edu \nThis workshop put on by the chair of Feminist Studies. Co-sponsored by the Humanities Division\, the Center for South Asian Studies\, and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. \n 
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/oceans-of-dissent-towards-a-feminist-commons-workshop/
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SUMMARY:Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean
DESCRIPTION:This seminar explores how pre-modern debates over body and soulshaped political and eschatological thought in the Mediterranean. Each panel brings Jewish\, Christian\, and Islamic voices into dialogue\, with Dante Alighieri’s oeuvre as a recurring point of comparison. Our aim is to situate questions of embodiment\, psychology\, soteriology\, and collective destiny in light of their historical contexts and their wider intellectual and political implications. \nPanels are organized around four thematic currents — Aristotelianism\, Neoplatonism\, Mysticism\, and Political Eschatology — in order to examine how body-soul anthropology\, political theology\, and visions of history intersected in the pre-modern Mediterranean (12th–16th centuries). \nFor more information: Of Body and Soul: Politics and Eschatology in the Pre-Modern Mediterranean \nThis event is sponsored by Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment\, Porter College\, The Humanities Institute\, the Italian Studies and the Literature Department\, The Center for Jewish Studies\, University of California Regents System Collaboration Funding\, and San José State University Division of Research and Innovation.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/of-body-and-soul-politics-and-eschatology-in-the-pre-modern-mediterranean/
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SUMMARY:SEACoast Slow Seminar: A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines
DESCRIPTION:The Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) invites you to join us for our winter Slow Seminar\, “A History of Families: Bosses\, Bullies\, and Dictators in the Modern Philippines\,” on February 5\, 2026 from 11:00 am – 1:00pm. \nProfessor Steve McKay (Sociology) will facilitate our conversation focused on a selection of classic and contemporary scholarship on regional politics in the Philippines. With the present Ferdinand “Bongbong” Marcos Jr. presidency and the International Criminal Court case against former president Rodrigo Duterte in mind\, we look forward to a critical discussion of historical and contemporary Southeast Asian politics \nPlease register for the Slow Seminar by filling out this Google Form. Registered guests will receive copies of the selected readings via email. \nThis is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out to registered participants at least 1 hour before the event. \nNew to Slow Seminars? Check out SEACoast’s definition here.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/seacoast-slow-seminar-a-history-of-families-bosses-bullies-and-dictators-in-the-modern-philippines/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Pemulai ke Nanga Jela/Return to Nanga Jela
DESCRIPTION:About the Talk: The history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land\, obliterating those histories\, and weakening communities. \nIn 1984/5 the Iban longhouse at Nanga Jela on Sarawak’s Engkari River in Malaysian Borneo\, along with twenty-one other communities and a land area of 8500 ha disappeared because of the building of the Batang Ai Hydroelectric Dam and the creation of a 33 sq mile reservoir. With the drowning of these houses\, lands\, forests\, and of multiple rivers and streams\, the history of one of the longest-occupied and most historically rich Iban territories in Sarawak was gone. Many of the 3000 people who were displaced moved to government-created resettlement areas. Some left for other parts of Sarawak\, and their descendants scattered around the world. All of those who were forced to leave their Batang Ai and Engkari homelands found their livelihoods completely transformed; none were free to pursue the rice agriculture and forest- and river-centered lives that they had known since their childhoods. \nThree decades after this event\, the ex-residents and descendants of Nanga Jela engaged in a process of reconstructing that submerged history and reconstituting an Engkari and Nanga Jela identity. Rescuing and sharing what images exist of the longhouse and its surrounding land- and waterscapes\, collecting oral histories\, geographical memories\, genealogies\, and a plethora of other local data\, and employing multiple social media tools\, the increasingly diverse\, geographically dispersed community is regaining its history\, knowledge of the lost land- and riverscapes\, and its identity. \nA team comprising Bobby Anak Nyegang and Itin Anak Langit\, both born in Nanga Jela\, and Christine Padoch\, an anthropologist who spent more than two years in the longhouse\, led the effort to assemble these and other materials into an image-rich bilingual (English and Iban) book that would be accessible to all in the Nanga Jela community\, as well as a community-based archive. In this presentation\, Padoch will discuss that complex process of writing the book\, recently published as Pemulai ke NangaJela/Return to Nanga Jela and creating an archive together with the longhouse community to provide present and future descendants of the great longhouse on the Engkari River a written history of a landscape and a livelihood that has disappeared. \nAbout the Speakers:  \nChristine Padoch is a Senior Curator Emerita in the Center for Plants\, People and Culture of the New York Botanical Garden. From 2011 to 2017 she was the Director of Research on Forests and Human Well-Being at the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR). An anthropologist by training\, she has spent about 50 years carrying out research on smallholder patterns of forest management\, agriculture\, and agroforestry in the humid tropics\, principally in Southeast Asia and Amazonia. Previous to her position at CIFOR\, Padoch was the Matthew Calbraith Perry Curator of Economic Botany at the NYBG. She is the author or editor of a dozen books and of approximately 100 scientific articles and book chapters. Christine Padoch has served as a scientific advisor to many international projects and has been a member of the boards of several international research institutions\, including the Center for International Forestry Research (CIFOR)\, the Amazon Institute for Environmental Research (IPAM)\, and the Earth Innovation Institute (EII). She holds a Ph.D. from Columbia University. \nNancy Lee Peluso is Professor of Environmental Social Science and Resource Policy in the College of Natural Resources and the Program Director of the Berkeley Workshop in Environmental Politics\, housed in the Institute of International Studies. She serves as a faculty member in the Society and Environment Division of the Department of Environmental Science\, Policy and Management\, where she teaches courses in Political Ecology. Her research since the 1980s has focused on Forest Politics and Agrarian Change in Southeast Asia\, primarily in Indonesia. She has done field research in various parts of Indonesia—West and Central Java\, East and West Kalimantan and in Sarawak\, Malaysia. Her work addresses questions of property rights and access to resources\, forest policy and politics\, histories of land use change\, and agrarian and environmental violence. She is the author or editor of three books: Rich Forests\, Poor People: Resource Control and Resistance in Java (UC Press\, 1992 – still available); Borneo in Transition: People\, Forests\, Conservation and Development (Oxford Press\, 1996 and 2003\, ed. with Christine Padoch); and Violent Environments (Cornell Press\, 2001\, ed. with Michael Watts.)\, and nearly fifty journal articles and book chapters. Professor Peluso speaks or reads four languages besides English. In 2003\, she was awarded a Harry Frank Guggenheim Fellowship and is finishing a book manuscript tentatively titled\, “Ways of Seeing Borneo: Landscape\, Territory\, and Violence”. She is currently working on a comparative study on the formation of “political forests” in Malaysia\, Indonesia\, and Thailand as well as a book examining the entanglements of violence and territoriality in landscape history in West Kalimantan.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/pemulai-ke-nanga-jela-return-to-nanga-jela/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:Campus to Career: Job Talk with Kim Angulo\, Assistant Public Defender
DESCRIPTION:Interested in an impact-driven career in law\, public policy\, or politics? Come hear from UCSC Humanities alum Kim Angulo\, an Assistant Public Defender with experience in both law and public policy work. You’ll gain insights into how to enter these fields\, considerations for knowing whether they’re a good fit for you\, and ideas for how to put your humanistic training to work for public service. \nThis is a hybrid event and will be hosted both in-person in Humanities 1\, Room 210 and on Zoom. All attendees will enter a raffle for a Humanities tumbler\, and pizza will be provided for those joining in person! \nRegister on Handshake here \nLearn more about Kim: \nKim Angulo (she/her) graduated from UCSC in 2013 with her BA in Feminist Studies. She worked in the California State Capitol on public policy and politics for three years\, focusing on courts\, criminal justice\, and human services. Kim attended UC Davis Law School from 2016 to 2019\, gaining experience in Public Defense\, Workers’ Rights\, and Civil Rights. Kim has been an Assistant Public Defender representing people who cannot afford to hire an attorney for six years. She has represented hundreds of clients facing criminal charges and conducted misdemeanor and felony jury trials. She currently works in Mental Health Diversion.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/campus-to-career-job-talk-with-kim-angulo-assistant-public-defender/
LOCATION:Humanities 1 Building\, 257 Cowell-Stevenson Road\, Santa Cruz\, CA\, 95064\, United States
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SUMMARY:SEACoast Slow Seminar: “The Urban Grotesque” by Doreen Lee
DESCRIPTION:Join the Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions (SEACoast) to read and discuss The Urban Grotesque: Jakarta's Financial Lives by Dr. Doreen Lee (Anthropology\, Northeastern University). Discussion will be facilitated by Dr. Kirsten Keller (Anthropology/SEACoast UCSC). Dr. Lee will join us in conversation during the last thirty minutes of the event.  \nPlease RSVP by and filling out this form.  \nThis is a Hybrid event. Participants may join in-person or by Zoom. The Zoom link will be sent out at least 1 hour before the event. \nParticipants are required to read the book in advance.
URL:https://events.ucsc.edu/event/seacoast-slow-seminar-the-urban-grotesque-by-doreen-lee/
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