Events
Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening “Lessons of the Hour”
Virtual EventIn collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing Abolition series. The ten-screen immersive film installation exploring the life of Frederick Douglass is on view at McEvoy Arts Oct 14, 2020–Mar 13, 2021. A […]
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Virtual EventDust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons, she will demonstrate how to make […]
Ta-Nehisi Coates: Special post-election conversation
Virtual EventWe’re thrilled to welcome Ta-Nehisi Coates, one of our country's best thinkers and writers, for a virtual conversation about the state of our country post-election, truth telling, and the idea that stories and mythology can persuade and change attitudes when facts alone cannot. Coates’ novel, The Water Dancer, will serve as a starting off point […]
Donka Farkas: Canonical and non-canonical speech acts
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Donka Farkas speaking on Canonical and non-canonical speech acts. Zoom Information will be emailed on Thursday, November 19, 2020. Abstract The general issue addressed in this talk is how best to characterize canonical and non-canonical speech acts. The framework I will use is rooted in Farkas and […]
Beyond the End of the World: Manifesta 13 Artist Talk
Virtual EventWar ecologies call forth not just mutuality but collapse, survival within violence. Conflict involves corporate extraction and militarised assaults on environments and environmentalists, while multispecies life and coexistence fall under grave threat. In its curatorial presentation, the Center for Creative Ecologies offers two artistic case studies asking what kind of pluriverse is possible in the face of […]
Living Writers: Dawn Lundy Martin
Virtual EventDawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for Poetry; Life in a Box is a Pretty Life, which won the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Poetry; DISCIPLINE, A Gathering of Matter / A […]
Pascha Bueno-Hansen: Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes – Transitional Justice Otherwise
Virtual EventCo-presented with Research Center for the Americas, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to armed conflict, political repression, and authoritarian regimes in Peru, Ecuador and Colombia. Dr. Bueno-Hansen is an Associate Professor of Women and Gender Studies at the […]
Vicente Rafael & Jorgge Menna Barreto – Authoritarianism in the Philippines and Brazil
Virtual EventThis dialogic colloquium enjoins us to learn about and reflect on authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil. In each of these democracies, what histories and dynamics have contributed to these figures’ rise, and how is their appeal connected to the place of each country in global economies of material and cultural capital? […]
Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations – Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
Virtual EventThe third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing mass incarceration and the racist brutalities of policing within the social landscape and political vision of America. Questions of visuality and formations moves beyond critiques […]
PhD+ Workshop – Getting Hired at a California Community College
Virtual EventA panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni, including: Beth Au, Moderator Director California Community Colleges Registry Francesca Caparas, Panelist M.A. Literature English Professor and Faculty Coordinator, Jean Miller Resource Room for Women, Genders, and Sexuality De Anza College Sarah Gerhardt, Panelist […]