Events
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Mikael Wolfe: Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution – Historical Reality and Perception
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSpeaker, Mikael Wolfe, presents recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events, especially drought and frost, and the origins of […]
Extreme Weather and the Mexican Revolution: Historical Reality and Perception
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will present recently published research that combines environmental history and historical climatology to examine the relationship between extreme weather events, especially drought and frost, and the origins of […]