Events

On the eve of International Women’s Day in 2015, the Chinese government arrested five feminist activists and jailed them for thirty-seven days. The Feminist Five became a global cause célèbre, […]

Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential […]

  “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so, I unearth the normative relationship between candor, courage, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First, I recount Wells’s […]

"Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" - Elizabeth Allen  American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages, felons could avoid death by running to the church, and kings bolstered […]

John Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018. He was 86. Dizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors […]

  The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.   Speaker: […]

"Public Sun"   A. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture, public projects, and writing, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from […]

"Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ Jerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC's Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China's meteorological contemporary. This talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework […]

La presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co, una plataforma de inversión, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es, sin duda, prometedor. Sin embargo, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de […]

Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you. Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public […]

Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, […]

Between Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa "proper." By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic […]

Professor Hibbert-Jones will be screening her academy award nominated short film "Last Day of Freedom." When Bill Babbitt realizes his brother Manny has committed a crime he agonizes over his decision- should he call the police? Last Day of Freedom is a richly animated personal narrative that tells the story of Bill’s decision to stand […]

The Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making […]

Join us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Living Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita, Seshu Foster, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. This event is sponsored by The […]

"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes […]