Events
PhD+ Workshop – Podcasting and the Humanities
Virtual EventInterested in podcasting and the different ways you can engage this medium as a scholar? This session will focus on how podcasting might fit into your academic and career goals, […]
#StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era, with Fatema Ahmad
Virtual EventIn 2014, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a grant program that funneled federal money to police, universities, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although […]
Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms
Virtual EventThis talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel, El Filibusterismo, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals, indios into free citizen-subjects, Tadiar explores […]
The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein
Virtual EventJoin us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein's book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family, Lived History, and Personal Letters. Stein will discuss her recent, award winning book, Family Papers, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the […]
Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Virtual EventThe 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 Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, both movement-generated theory magazines; […]
The Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture with Tanya Marie Luhrmann
Virtual EventMerrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God, Voices of Madness Following Prof. Luhrmann's talk, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, […]
Ethan Katz: Jews and Antisemites – The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch
Virtual EventEthan Katz, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak in HIS 185O on "Jews and Antisemites - The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch." Among Jewish resistance movements in World War II, none had the strategic impact of the Algiers underground. This talk will explore […]
Deep Read Salon: The Writing Craft of There There
Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange's novel, There There. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]
Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities
Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities February 19-20, 2021 Please register for Zoom connections Friday, 3:30-5 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcO2upzkrHNXJIpeessjoejEbdjqIQ3UF Saturday, 11:00-12:30 and 12:50-2:20 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyhrz0jGNPQA9pd9-MXOQhZ205ABiK3 Emphasizing her relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible, this conference honors the work of Distinguished Professor Emerita Helene Moglen (1936-2018). She contributed […]
Book Talk: Kwaito Bodies by Xavier Livermon
Virtual EventJoin us on February 19 for a Feminist Studies Book Talk celebrating the publication of Associate Professor Xavier Livermon's new book: Kwaito Bodies. Xavier will be joined by respondents Marcia Ochoa, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Savannah Shange, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Kwaito Bodies, Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in […]