Events
Jasmin Young: She Stood There by Him with a Gun – Mabel Williams and the Philosophy of Armed Resistance
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStevenson Fall Lecture Presented by Jasmin Young: Mabel Williams practiced armed resistance when white vigilante violence and police repression threatened the lives of activists. This talk interrogates the gendering of armed resistance and reveals the complex set of struggles between Black men and women about Black self-defense. Jasmin A. Young is a University of California […]
CANCELLED – Elizabeth Strout: Olive, Again
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDue to disruptions and concerns about ongoing wildfire and power disruptions across California, Elizabeth Strout's entire California tour has been cancelled/postponed to a future date. This means our event with Elizabeth Strout on October 29th has been CANCELLED. If you purchased a ticket to this event, Bookshop Santa Cruz will be in touch with you […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Aishwary Kumar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What is Political Cruelty? An Archeology of the Liberalism of Fear” Under what conditions might fear become a saturating phenomenon of liberal democracy and extreme violence cease to be even a moral crime? Is this silent war on the body and idea of the citizen on the constitutional theorist and moral philosopher B. R. Ambedkar’s […]
Against Orthodoxies: Working with Hayden White
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Jessica Guild: On Friday and Saturday, November 1 and 2, 2019, UC Santa Cruz will hold a conference to honor the late Hayden White. The event is conceived as an invitation to extend Hayden White’s thinking in new directions. Inspired by his rigorous, daring, iconoclastic spirit, this will be a time […]
CANCELLED – Roumyana Pancheva: Linguistics Colloquia- Temporal Interpretation Without Tense
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLanguages without overt tense morphemes have typically been analyzed as having semantic tense, either contributed by a phonologically covert lexical item or supplied by a post-syntactic semantic rule. From a neo-Reichenbachian perspective, having semantic tense means having a linguistic device (a lexical item or a rule) dedicated to invoking a reference time in relation to […]
Katharyne Mitchell: Cultural Studies Colloquium – Church Sanctuary and the Spatial Politics of the Sacred
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChurch sanctuary is not legal in any state in Europe, but the cultural and religious sense of church space as sacred, and the collective memory of this practice as an alternative form of justice, still has a powerful legacy. In citing past sanctuary ideals and practices, from medieval asylum law to recent sanctuary movements on […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading: Gary Soto
Music Center Recital HallEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: Gary Soto has published more than forty books for children, young adults and adults, including Too Many Tamales, Chato’s Kitchen, Baseball in April, Buried Onions and The Elements of San Joaquin. He is the author of In and Out of Shadows, a musical about undocumented youth and, most recently, […]
A Literary Masquerade with Erin Morgenstern
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesYou are cordially invited to Bookshop Santa Cruz's first-ever Literary Masquerade, celebrating the release of Erin Morgenstern's highly anticipated new novel, The Starless Sea. Co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. From Erin Morgenstern, the New York Times bestselling author of The Night Circus, a timeless love story set in a secret underground […]
LOCATION CHANGE David Biggs: Archipelagic Vietnam – Rethinking Nationalism From the Shoreline
CA, United StatesPlease RSVP for the Cultural Studies Colloquium location Until recent conflicts over islands in the South China Sea, Vietnam’s history was described in terrestrial terms. Vietnam’s nationalist struggles, we were told, involved epic battles with American and other troops in highland jungles and city streets; and the nation’s territorial expansion from Hanoi happened in two […]
LOCATION CHANGE Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity – Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival
Resource Center for Non ViolenceJoin the Feminist Studies department as they present their second FMST Colloquium for the 2019 Fall quarter! Widespread, effective social movements usually include mutual aid strategies that directly address conditions faced by targeted people, such as providing housing, food, healthcare and transportation. Examples include the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program, the Young Lords' hijacking […]