Events
MAH Film Night: Radical Futurisms (Part II Rescreen)
Gather 'round your home screen and watch films from a diverse group of visionaries on topics and themes related to our current exhibition, Beyond the World's End. Join curator TJ Demos for a virtual introduction and (re)screening of films originally shown last month at the Del Mar Theater that seek to offer points of light in […]
POSTPONED – Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, the movement-generated theory magazine; Global Ultra […]
CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
POSTPONED – The Challenge of Diversity: A Conference on Global Minorities
Humanities 2, Room 259The 3rd Annual Center for World History Grad Student Conference. Please stay tuned for more information.
POSTPONED – Lisa Wolpe: Shakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumShakespeare and the Alchemy of Gender is a solo show, written and performed by Lisa Wolpe. It is an hour long, with no intermission. Lisa is an expert on gender-flipping Shakespeare as well as an actress, director, teacher, writer, traveler, and distinguished scholar. Her one-women show explores her experiences as an activist for inclusion, diversity, […]
CANCELLED – Cultural Studies Colloquium: Matthew Engelke
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
VIRTUAL – PhD+ Workshop: Social Media and Scholarly Practice
Zoom CA, United StatesThe field of higher ed is struggling to define its relationship to social media. We have all read high profile stories of offers and tenure denied because of online posts. At the same time, there is clear motivation for scholars to engage with public audiences and grow their reputations through social media. What are the risks, […]
CANCELLED – Linguistics Colloquia: Kevin Ryan
Humanities 2, Room 259Kevin Ryan (Harvard) - Title TBD Kevin M. Ryan is a phonologist whose research focuses on prosodic systems and the constituents of speech, especially stress, weight, meter, and phrasal phonology. This work draws on the statistical analysis of speech/text corpora, experiments, and studies of particular languages (often Indic or Dravidian). About eight times each year, […]
MAH Film Night: Radical Futurisms (Part I Rescreen)
Gather 'round your home screen and watch films from a diverse group of visionaries on topics and themes related to our current exhibition, Beyond the World's End. Join curator TJ Demos for a virtual introduction and (re)screening of films originally shown last month at the Del Mar Theater that seek to offer points of light […]
CANCELLED – Nick Estes and Melanie Yazzie: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
TBD CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. […]