Events
Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
Humanities 2, Room 259Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesParticipants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC […]
Living Writers – Shruti Swamy
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted […]
PhD+ Workshop – Accessing Campus Resources
Virtual and In PersonJoin the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS, Slug Support, Basic Needs, the Restorative Justice Program, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! Food […]
Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300,000 stories per day), and with their focus on user generated content and open access, promise to democratize contemporary cultural […]
Christina Heatherton – Making Internationalism
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaking Internationalism with Christina Heatherton (Trinity College). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series and co-sponsored by the History Department at UC Santa Cruz. […]
What is Life? Conference
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe conference addresses problems and inconsistencies in modern definitions of life by appealing to explicit and implicit definitions of life offered in ancient texts. This problem is becoming increasingly urgent […]
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 […]
PhD+ Workshop – Identity, Belonging, and Community
Virtual and In PersonJoin the GSC grad peer mentor program for a workshop and discussion on identity, belonging, and community. All grads welcome! From left to right - Lorato Anderson, Marilia Kaisar, Radhika […]
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, CA, United StatesThis 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 of reason under the pretext of law, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its […]