Events
Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
College 8, Room 301 College Eight Rd, University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAs emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat […]
Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites […]
Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
Humanities 1, Room 202American Philanthropy and "Aggressive Altruism" in Richard Wright's Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias' The Green Pope My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of […]
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar […]
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRegina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTowards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to […]
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the […]
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesC Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Humanities 1, Room 202Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy […]