Events
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 2-3, is part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective (UCSD, UCR, UCI, UCSC) that over a period of two years will feature events which will […]
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 extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019, […]
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 on categories like secular, spiritual, religious, and superstitious. Relying on years of ethnographic research among very secular people, this lecture describes four ways of producing […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
Del Mar TheatreHow are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Black Audio Film Collective, Kahlil Joseph, Black Quantum Futurism, Danis Goulet, and Woodbine Collective. For more information on the Beyond the World's End […]
CANCELLED – Living Writers: Konrad Steiner
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note that this Thursday's Living Writers reader, Konrad Steiner, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year. Konrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981, and since 2004 has been working with […]
Beyond the World’s End Exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryIn our current moment, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger, it’s crucial to ask how we might imagine a more socially just and ecologically sustainable future? But is the disaster ahead of us or behind us? Many people around the world--including […]
Considering Matthew Shepard
Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United StatesMatthew Shepard was a young gay man, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in the Wyoming countryside, 22 years ago. His death catalyzed a generation of poets, musicians and playwrights to change our attitudes about being different, and to embrace “the other.” This beautiful masterpiece has been called the first important major […]
Caribbean Shores: Networks and Materalities, From Slavery to Freedom
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall Post Room 846 Front St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe past few decades have witnessed the rapid growth in interest by both historians and archaeologists, in the everyday lives of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonial settings. At the same time, however, scholars in these closely related fields find few opportunities to interact and learn from one another. In light of this emerging demand for […]
Prof and a Pint: Death on the Nile – A 3D Visit to Egypt’s Most Enduring Cemetery
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesThe ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara was the burial place of kings, queens, priests, and elite officials for 2500 years (3000-332 BCE), and boasts some of the most spectacular architecture […]
The Deep Read Santa Cruz Salon
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFocusing on Margaret Atwood’s The Testaments the Santa Cruz Salon will be an opportunity to discuss the book with UCSC professors and your fellow community members. Speakers David Draper, Statistics, Director […]