Events
Bernard Harcourt: “The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia […]
Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 202An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.
Vanessa Ogle: “‘Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct […]
Counterpoints Book Launch
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCounterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a […]
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the […]
Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesColonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was […]
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she […]
Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCLinguistics Colloquia: Laura McPherson
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLaura McPherson, is an Assistant Professor in the Linguistics program at Dartmouth College. McPherson finished her Ph.D. at UCLA in 2014, with the dissertation Replacive grammatical tone in the Dogon languages. […]
Graduate Research Symposium Award Reception
Mchenry Library Second Level Terrace and South Lawn 1156 High St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCome celebrate the announcement of the winners of this year's Graduate Research Symposium. Live music, light refreshments. Free and open to the public