Events
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 space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses […]
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 known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on […]
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 lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. […]
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. Her primary research interests lie in phonology, morphology, and fieldwork/language documentation. She published her first reference grammar, A Grammar of Tommo So, in 2013 based […]
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
Distinguished Graduate Student Alumni Award Luncheon and Career Paths Panel
Stevenson Event Center11:30am-12:50pm Annual award luncheon for five distinguished graduate student alumni, one from each academic division. This year's luncheon will include a panel discussion with the five distinguished graduate student alumni honorees […]
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure […]
Nidhi Mahajan: “Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows […]
Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism […]