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Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa CruzThis talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruzThe use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and cultural contexts across the world. The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, originating with the Santo Daime in Brazil founded in the 1930s, are now internationally recognised and […]