Events

Next in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with […]

Edith Kulstein, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences.   HIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” […]

This talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites […]

Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in […]

Sandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]

Daniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2,500 years, with a population of 100,000 at their height in 1945. Today, Iran contains the […]

This talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel, El Filibusterismo, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals, indios into free citizen-subjects, Tadiar explores […]

The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, both movement-generated theory magazines; […]

Merrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God, Voices of Madness Following Prof. Luhrmann's talk, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, […]

Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange's novel, There There.  This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]

Elaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published "born-digital" monograph, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020). Using 3D models of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, the online, interactive monograph addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the […]

Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]

Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza, Principal at Black Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee's new book, The Sum of Us, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and […]

Professors Mayanthi Fernando (Anthropology),  Katie Keliiaa (Feminist Studies & Indigenous Studies), and Renya Ramirez (Anthropology) will participate in a salon-style conversation about the novel, sharing their intelelctual approaches to the work and answering questions from the Deep Read community. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to […]

Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer joins us to speak about the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, profiled in the documentary, "We Still Live Here." The film tells the story of the cultural revival of the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts and the return of the Wôpanâak language, silenced for more than a century. It is recommended that attendees […]

Discuss the Tommy Orange's There There with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]

Visualizing Abolition presents artist Ashley Hunt in conversation with MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars Initiative. The Underground Scholars Initiative supports formerly incarcerated students at UC Santa Cruz and system impacted students in the transition experience and beyond. For Art, Abolition, and the University, Hunt […]

Mir Suhail is a political cartoonist and illustrator based in New York City. He is from Indian-occupied Kashmir, where he grew up and started his political cartooning career drawing for a local daily at the age of fourteen. He has since drawn cartoons for leading print and digital news media, magazines, publishers and non-profit organizations […]