Events
POSTPONED – Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
This event has been postponed to September 2, 2020 Join actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Henry VI, Part 3
Virtual EventJoin actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London […]
Undiscovered Shakespeare: The Wars of the Roses – Richard III
Virtual EventJoin actors, scholars, and friends for ten live readings and discussions focused on the plays about a divided society and a civil war that made Shakespeare famous in the London […]
Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
Virtual EventVIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist […]
The Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
Virtual EventMargaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free, live, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read […]
David Eagleman, Livewired
Virtual EventBestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, during a free online event on the Crowdcast platform. "Eagleman delivers […]
Christopher Nelson: Eisa – Drumming, Dancing and Memory
Virtual EventWith the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! Professor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) […]
Kelly Gillespie, Asher Gamedze & Rasigan Maharajh — Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid (film screening + discussion)
Virtual EventTwo radical collectives in South Africa working inside and outside the academy to agitate against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on […]
Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Virtual EventThe Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even […]
Samia Khatun — Race, Gender & New Epistemic Grounds: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Desert Australia
Virtual EventAt the forefront of white nationalist border regimes, the Australian nation-state has long operated as an Anglo imperial outpost in the Indian Ocean world. If we look at Aboriginal language […]