Events
Linking Citizenship, Migration, Labor, Border, and Carceral Studies: A Seminar with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHow, when, where, and why do citizenship, migration, labor, border, and carceral studies converge? What happens when we put these fields in dialogue with one another? Why the distinction between […]
Alma Heckman: “Absence and Counter-Narratives: The Years of Lead and the Moroccan Jewish Exodus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlma Rachel Heckman’s research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire and the history of social movements. Her talk emerges from her project “Radical Nationalists: Moroccan Jewish Communists 1925-1975.” Heckman […]
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Micah Perks: “What Becomes Us”
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us as we celebrate the launch of this wonderfully consuming new novel from local author, professor, and co-director of UCSC’s creative writing program Micah Perks. Following a near-fatal accident, […]
Julia Clancy-Smith “Springs Equinox in 18th Century Tunsia: Wreaks, People, and Things in the Sea”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Clancy-Smith is the author of, most recently, Mediterraneans: North Africa and Europe in an Age of Migration, c. 1800-1900 (2010). Her current work, From Household to Schoolroom: Education and Gender in […]
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Building Bridges and Institutions: A Conversation with Bridget Anderson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBridget Anderson, Deputy Director of the Centre on Migration, Policy and Society (COMPAS) at the University of Oxford, discusses her vision and hopes for COMPAS, the relationship between COMPAS and other […]
Living Writers: Jennifer Chang
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoet and scholar Jennifer Chang was born in New Jersey. She is a Henry Hoyns Fellow at the University of Virginia, where she is a PhD candidate. Chang’s lyrical poems […]
Bridget Anderson: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly: Citizenship and the Politics of Exclusion (Non-citizenship series)
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryThe Chicano Latino Research Center and Institute for Humanities Research present Leading labor and migration scholar, Bridget Anderson, for the inaugural event in a series of events on Non-citizenship, our […]
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Linguistics Colloquium: Akira Omaki
Humanities 2, Room 259Akira Omaki will be speaking on Developing incrementality: Grammar and parsing of wh-dependencies in children It is well established in the adult psycholinguistics literature that our comprehension is incremental: based […]
The Maghrib Workshop: Law and Movement Historical Roots and Contexts Contemporary Questions Part I
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for the first meeting of the Maghrib Workshop, an interdisciplinary network for Maghrib studies based at UC Santa Cruz. The meeting is open to the public, but […]
FreeAnthropocene: Ecological & Political Consequences of Plantations
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA Reading seminar with Dr. Kregg Hetherington (Concordia University), with initial discussion comments by Vivian Undersell (Feminist Studies), Rachel Cyper (Anthropology), and Zachary Caple (Anthropology). Seminar readings: Gregg Hetherington, "Beans […]
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