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 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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Halloween Lecture “The Vampire in Love” (with costume contest)
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesBrought to you by the UCSC Prof and a Pint Lecture Series Oh yeah, there will be a costume contest! And there will be prizes! If you want to compete please gather on the stage at 6:15pm. The lecture will start at 6:30pm as usual. From the beginning of the earliest English-language vampire narrative in […]
CANCELLED – Glenn Tiffert: Censorship, Digitalization and the Fragility of Our Knowledge Base – Lessons from China
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTechnological and economic forces are radically restructuring our ecosystem of knowledge, and opening our information space increasingly to forms of digital disruption and manipulation that are scalable, difficult to detect, and corrosive of the trust upon which vigorous scholarship and liberal democratic practice depend. Using an illustrative case from the people’s republic of china, this […]
Riyaaz Qawwali Performance – Sufi Music Ensemble
Music Center Recital HallQawwali is a musical tradition from present-day India, Pakistan, and Afghanistan, dating back 700 years. The group Riyaaz Qawwali brings 13th-century Sufi music to life by overcoming cultural and linguistic barriers, translating lyrics to unravel the cultural heritage of South Asian devotional music. Trained in Eastern and Western classical music, the members have been professionally […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon, Palestine and Hollywood, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri” This paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director, Ziad Doueiri. Doueiri broke the 1955 Boycott Law by shooting a film in Israel, using Israeli and Palestinian actors. The film was then banned across the […]
The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks
Music Center Recital HallPlease note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter, '73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about Oliver Sacks. Robert Krulwich is unable to join us this evening. Please enjoy this recent Kitchen Sisters episode of The Keepers featuring Ren Weschler. And […]
Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities 1, Room 620 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Marcelo 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 […]
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s […]