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Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
Reyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
UC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, will discuss her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. A DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to […]
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Digital Humanities Meet Up
Digital Humanities Meet Up
Join the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor […]
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Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Samiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Led by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, […]
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Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Over the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This […]
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UCHRI Funding Workshop
UCHRI Funding Workshop
UCHRI has just announced their call for applications for the 2018-2019 Academic Year. Join us for an Information Session with Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director, UCHRI) and Shana Melnysyn (UCHRI Competitive Grants) to learn more. UCHRI has released six new competitive grants. The workshop will address these new opportunities and cover what you need to […]
David Lee: “Pictures of the Past – Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”
David Lee: “Pictures of the Past – Introduction to the Rock Art of Western North America”
Ancient hunter-gatherer peoples across the globe painted and carved designs on rock walls for tens of thousands of years. The deserts of western North America contain some of the largest and most complex rock art sites known, and careful documentation of them has helped us to understand how these enigmatic images fit into the lives […]
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Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire […]
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VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of […]
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are […]
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Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Event Photos: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas "Re-rooting 'We Refugees': Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil" - Dr. Scott Ritner "Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective" - Hannes Glück "Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times" - Veronika Zablotsky 12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break 1:30-3:30 pm Session 2: Chair: […]
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018 Event Photos: Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her work focuses on the […]
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Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to […]
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Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Michel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. Event Photos: Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught […]
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Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Julian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as […]
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