Events
International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two […]
Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their […]
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i: The Detours Project
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFeminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - The Detours Project Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Friday, March 1 - HUM 1 room 210 12:00 to […]
Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNumerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique, including Marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory. But do we […]
Camilla Hawthorne: “On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework […]
Stevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity" Professor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and […]
Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice – A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues […]
Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryLearn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting […]
Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement - San Diego, Los Angeles and San […]