Events
Demystifying the Book Publishing Process & Connecting with UC Colleagues
Virtual EventUC Press editors will offer insight into the academic book publishing process. The presentation will include: choosing the right publisher; preparing a book proposal; how the peer review and Editorial Committee process works; revising your manuscript; and working with publishers to promote your book. The session is intended to be interactive and questions are welcome. […]
Revisiting The Koza Uprising in Global Perspectives/ オンラインセミナー「コザ騒動を世界の視点で」
Virtual EventFifty years ago this December, Okinawan protests against US military rule turned violent for the first and, so far, only time. On the anniversary, the Okinawa Memories Initiative will host a public discussion about the "Koza Riots," featuring an eyewitness photojournalist, an American army veteran who had been stationed in Okinawa and two Okinawan American […]
Book Talk: Alma Heckman, The Sultan’s Communists
Virtual EventAlma Rachel Heckman is the Neufeld-Levin Chair of Holocaust Studies and an Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California, Santa Cruz. She specializes in modern […]
Yarimar Bonilla – An Unthinkable State: Puerto Rico, the United States and the Aporias of U.S. Empire
Virtual EventIn the wake of Hurricane Maria, unprecedented attention turned to the unincorporated territory of Puerto Rico and its enduring colonial relationship with the United States. This presentation will examine the […]
An evening with Jennifer Brea and Megan Moodie – Talking about chronic illness, care, and Covid
Virtual EventJoin Sundance Award winning Filmmaker Jennifer Brea and anthropologist and writer Megan Moodie for an evening of conversation and reflection on chronic illness, the global crisis of care, and Covid-19. […]
Living Writers: Sofia Samatar
Virtual EventSofia Samatar is the author of the novels A Stranger in Olondria and The Winged Histories, the short story collection, Tender, and Monster Portraits, a collaboration with her brother, the […]
Migrant Futures: South Asia and The Middle East (I) Sound into Form
Virtual EventPresented by the Center for South Asian Studies and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa. Featuring Lawrence Abu Hamdan (Artist) and Kareem Khubchandani (Mellon Bridge Assistant Professor, […]
Prisons, Histories and Erasures: Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar and Kelly Lytle Hernandez
Virtual EventFor the next Visualizing Abolition event, Joanne Barker, Maria Gaspar, and Kelly Lytle Hernández join us to discuss the histories and present struggles that disappear within the labyrinthian network of […]
Inaugurating Alternative Futures: A Conversation with Melanie Yazzie and Michelle Daigle
Virtual EventThe U.S. President’s Inauguration is on January 20th. We use that date as an occasion to think about alternative futures and political possibilities not beholden to colonial and capitalist dispossession, […]
Dina Danon: Modernity in the Eastern Sephardi Diaspora – The Jews of Late Ottoman Izmir
Virtual EventDina Danon (Binghamton University) will speak in HIS 74B on her book titled The Jews of Ottoman Izmir: A Modern History (Stanford University Press, 2020). This lecture will tell the […]