Events
Eli Yassif: Before Seinfeld – The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for Eli Yassif's lecture "Before Seinfeld - The Early Modern Roots of Jewish Humor" Jewish humor has been described as one of the most outstanding characteristics of the Jewish People, and its history dates back to Biblical times. But is there really “Jewish Humor”, and if so, what are its major characteristics? […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography" This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced? How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note: this is a two-day event.
Kresge’s Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people, titled Human Archipelago, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the […]
RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23, 2020. Click here for updated event information. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on […]
CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Film Festival: General Magic
Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View) 1010 River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival's showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary, is a tale of how a great vision, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless […]
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner – Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film “Black Like Me”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg Vera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a pioneer of women's history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like Me with husband and film director Carl Lerner. The film is based on the highly controversial book by John Howard Griffin, a white writer who […]
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation […]