Events
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, […]
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 […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Gabriella Caballero
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGabriella Caballero, UC San Diego: The Interaction Between Lexical and Grammatical Tone in Choguita Rarámuri (Tarahumara)* The cross-linguistic study of tone has largely focused on its lexical phonological properties, its phonetic implementation and interaction with other prosodic phenomena, but the morphological role of tone is still under-documented: What kind of morphological information may tone convey across […]
The Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Maghrib Workshop: Sovereignty, Crisis, and Narratives of Belonging Part I Morning 8:30 am transportation from Hotel to Humanities 1 by carpool. 9:00 am Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas (UCSC) “Sanctuary, Refuge, and Displacement to the Maghrib during the Reconquista.” 11:00 Ashley V. Miller (UCB) “Designing Moroccan Heritage on the Economic Battlefield of World War I.” 12:30 Lunch Afternoon […]
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing Ceremony
Humanities 2, Room 259Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s ninth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony. UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s six winners and their families. Please RSVP by completing […]
Julie Livingston: “Self-Devouring Growth – A Planetary Parable”
This talk, like the book from which it is drawn, calls into question the imperative of economic growth, tracing the unintended consequences of escalating consumption. Using a series of linked cases of successful economic growth (water, roads, and cattle in Botswana), it shows how insatiable growth, predicated on consumption, will inevitably overwhelm, a process Dr. […]