Events
Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction […]
Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
Communications 150, Studio CMania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction […]
CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones – Run With It
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDee Hibbert-Jones' colloquium talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for Spring or Fall 2020. Hibbert-Jones will discuss the challenges, politics and aesthetics in making her upcoming film […]
Living Writers: Gretchen Primack
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She's the author of […]
Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’”
Music Center Recital HallCREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam. The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series AMITAV […]
Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe East Asian Colloquium Presents: Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective Many commentators claim that China's ongoing global rise reflects a restoration of its earlier international prominence, while others […]
Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2020
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvery year towards the end of the winter quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with […]
Speculative Futures of Labor: New Feminist and Critical Race Approaches Symposium
Dream Inn Santa Cruz 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis symposium features emergent approaches to labor in light of the surge of interest in technological socioeconomic transformations (including robotics, AI, and app-based on demand services).This symposium, held on March […]
Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez – Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFor the last four years, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016, the U.S. government started to implement […]
Joseph Blankholm – The Rituals of Secular Purification: Four Ways to Purify Religious Pollution
CA, United StatesBeing secular means not being religious, but it also means participating in a religion-like tradition. This paradox shapes the everyday lives of secular people, as well as institutions that depend […]