THICK, SLIMY, SQUISHY, SQUIGGLY & GENERATIVE: 

A Conversation with Donna Haraway 

Featuring HistCon alums Chela Sandoval (’93), Katie King (’87), and Caren Kaplan (’87)

Date: Tuesday, June 3rd, 2025

Time: 3:30 pm - 6:00 pm (Limited space available; plan to arrive early for seating. The conversation will start promptly at 4 pm and the event will continue afterwards with browsing in the archives.)

Location: Special Collections & Archives, McHenry Library Third Floor, UC Santa Cruz

On June 3rd, 2025, join the UCSC Special Collections & Archives for a conversation with Donna Haraway, in dialogue with three former students and long-time intellectual companions: Chela Sandoval (Associate Professor of Chicana Studies at UC Santa Barbara), Katie King (Professor Emerita of Women's Studies at the University of Maryland), and Caren Kaplan (Professor Emerita of American Studies at UC Davis). 

Together with Haraway, these History of Consciousness alums will revisit the collaborative, interdisciplinary, and transformative modes of thinking that shaped their time at UCSC in the 1980s and ’90s—and that continue to animate their work today. Reflecting on this shared historical moment, the conversation will trace the intersections, evolutions, and generative entanglements of their ideas over time—and consider why collectivity, friendship, integrity, and humor remain vital tools for navigating what Haraway has called the “thick and slimy” urgencies of our present.

This event also marks the opening of an exhibition that showcases select materials from the Donna Haraway Papers, newly processed and available for research at UCSC’s McHenry Library.

Organized by the University Library’s Elisabeth Remak-Honnef Center for Archival Research and Training (CART) and 2024-2025 CART Fellow Annika Berry.