Events

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Nobody's Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

James Clifford taught in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, […]

Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and engineering. This year's panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of "affect" demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility. Erin Gray (History of Consciousness): "The White Flesh of the World: Affect […]

This public conference investigates the relation between philosophy and its multicultural context. Are there immutable questions and universal answers regarding knowledge, values, and reality, or is philosophical inquiry bound by history, geography, and culture? Should the philosopher be responsible to the public? Four panels of local intellectuals from Google, San Francisco State University, San José […]

Celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of California’s great treasures, William Everson/Brother Antoninus: teacher, shamanistic poet-in-residence at UCSC from 1970 to 1981, famed hand-press printer, advocate of an erotic, earth-based spirituality and herald of the environmental revolution. William Everson was born in Sacramento, California in 1912 to Christian Science parents on a farm near Selma […]

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Through a study of the Haitian Revolution, James Martel's recent work not only questions the liberal universalism of the French Revolution, but also the myriad of ways in which Haitians appropriated, subverted, and radicalized Enlightenment principles. James Martel is Professor and Chair of Political Science at San Francisco State University.

Faculty Research Lecturer: For pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women, and her major contributions to the history of women, labor, and sexuality. Gail Hershatter is a specialist in Modern Chinese social and cultural history who has pioneered field research and oral history among Chinese women. Her books have covered topics including the […]