Events
POSTPONED – Slugs and Steins with Professor Eric Porter: What Can We Learn from the Airport?
Virtual EventFor many people, airports may seem like alienating “nonplaces”—as anthropologist Marc Augé put it—where we rush to make connections and spend long, monotonous hours waiting for delayed flights. But airports […]
Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAHow did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no […]
Gershom Gorenberg: The Secret War Against the Nazis for the Middle East
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CAAt the midpoint of World War II, an Axis army under Field Marshal Erwin Rommel was on the brink of conquering the Middle East. Drawing on his latest book, War […]
Elora Shehebuddin – Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism
Virtual Event“Bangladesh, Third World Solidarity, and the Global Politics of Feminism” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to […]
Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore
Virtual EventThe Friends of the Dickens Project invites you to participate in "Anthony Trollope Down Under: Travel Writing, Bushfires and Australian Ecology with Professor Grace Moore." The three sessions will offer […]
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Joy Connolly – A Connected Planet: Scholarship for the Global Good
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA“Serving the public good” is the motto and a strategic goal of many an American research university. In this lecture, Joy asks: what public do humanistic scholars serve, how do […]
ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly
Humanities 2, Room 259Professor Connelly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She […]
Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAIn the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in […]
Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAThis talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal […]
Aurora Workshop – Gramsci: Southern Questions
Virtual and In Person"The Aurora Workshop - Gramsci: Southern Questions" will take place Friday, February 17th from 3-5pm (PST) and Saturday, February 18th from 9am-3pm (PST). This workshop will be in person in […]