Events
PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
Zoom CA, United StatesDrafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. The […]
Living Writers – Sara Freeman
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel, Tides, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US), Hamish Hamilton (Canada), and […]
Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesInvited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryWhat is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]
Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image - As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the […]
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Stevenson College Library Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language. This event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the […]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
Virtual EventThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]
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 for the Story Prize. Her novel, The Archer, was longlisted for the Center for Fiction’s First Novel Prize, and won the California Book Award for […]