Events
Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas "Re-rooting 'We Refugees': Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil" - Dr. Scott […]
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018 Event Photos: Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School […]
Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html
Jaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
Music Recital HallThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre […]
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMichel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. Event Photos: Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught […]
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as […]
Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline – Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesKevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports […]
Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for the twenty-first century, emphasizing sustainability, local produce, and a nostalgic longing for family and communal histories. By selling and consuming a revitalized deli cuisine, American Jews […]
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesValeria Luiselli, Hofstra University, is a novelist and non-fiction writer. She is the author of Faces in the Crowd, Sidewalks, The Story of My Teeth, and Tell Me How It Ends. Twice nominated for both the Kirkus Prize and the NBCC Award, she is the two-time winner of an L.A. Times Book Prize, a recipient […]
Save the Waves Film Festival
Patagonia Outlet 415 River St C, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 10th annual Save The Waves Film Festival presented by UGG brings its west coast tour home with an epic evening of live music and international surf films at Patagonia Outlet in Santa Cruz, CA on Thursday, November 8th. The night's festivities will feature world premieres of surf, adventure, and documentary films, as well as live […]