Events
Layali Morocco: Jewish Songlines & Soundscapes
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterEvent Photos by Jessica Guild: Samuel Torjman Thomas & ASEFA ASEFA (meaning “gathering”) is led by ethnomusicologist and multi-instrumentalist Samuel Torjman Thomas, Ph.D. Blending vocals, oud, violin, nay, and […]
CANCELLED: Stephanie Shih – The Nature of Lexical Categories: Consideration from Sound Symbolism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThere are many approaches to modeling lexically-conditioned phonology in current formal theories, including lexically-indexed constraints and cophonologies. Nearly all of these existing approaches assume categorical membership in the lexical classes […]
Savannah Shange – Abolition as Method: Anti-blackness, Anthropology and Ethics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk draws on Savannah Shange's recently published book, Progressive Dystopia, in which she argues that San Francisco is a site of social apocalypse for Black communities. Given the momentum […]
Urmi Engineer Willoughby – Cultivating Malaria in the Gulf South, 1718-1860
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Thom Gentle Environmental History Lecture In this talk, Urmi Willoughby will present her research on agriculture, development, and the growth of endemic fevers in lower Louisiana. She will explore […]
PhD+ Workshop – Stop #disserhating, Start Writing
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNot sure how to begin your dissertation work? Having a hard time fitting writing in amidst other obligations? Stuck in the middle of your process? Huh, what process? 8th-year PhD […]
Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesUsing photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese […]
Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn We The Enemy, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. As a historian […]
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and relationships, You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. Everyone knows the tired, clichéd advice for a healthy relationship: […]
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Humanities 1, Room 202Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference --- given two or more options --- for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in […]
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. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation […]