Events
Labor Hope, Labor Reality: Organizing Unions in 2023 – An Evening with E. Tammy Kim
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOn Wednesday, May 3, at 5:30pm in the Namaste Lounge (College Nine), New Yorker writer and co-host of the podcast Time to Say Goodbye E. Tammy Kim will be giving a talk on the state of labor activism and organizing, followed by a panel discussion with writer, organizer, and doctoral candidate in Sociology Sarah Mason and Unite Here member […]
Unsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land Book Talk and Celebration
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUnsettled Borders: The Militarized Science of Surveillance on Sacred Indigenous Land, examines the ongoing settler colonial war over the US-Mexico border from the perspective of Apache, Tohono O'odham, and Maya who fight to protect their sacred land. Exploring the logic of borders, Schaeffer turns to Indigenous sacred sciences and ancestral land-based practices that are critical […]
Hanna Musiol – Wounded Landscapes and Maps of Hurt: Breaths, Scars, and Tender Story-Sharing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis event is co-sponsored by Film and Digital Media Maps always sense and often cut. Much has been written about their violence, as an overture for the genocidal touch, as a prospecting tool priming landscapes for material and narrative extraction, or as an instrument of attritional social neglect (Lo Presti). Hegemonic cartographies live off of […]
Alev Çinar – The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAfter winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922, Turkey set on a secular, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology, Kemalism, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed 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 […]
Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
Humanities 2, Room 259Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction Keynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean? Susan Gilman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature Lectures & Discussions: G.S. Sahota, UCSC Laura Brueck, Northwestern University Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Zoom: 99270004783 […]
Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks, our practices […]
Living Writers – Laura Jaramillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The […]
Roberta Wue – Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20), these curious and vivid portraits function in a […]
“DOLORES” Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Del Mar TheatrePlease join us on April 26, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, and view his film DOLORES, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. Peter Bratt (1986 Cowell […]