Events
Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred
Virtual EventElaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published "born-digital" monograph, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020). Using 3D models of […]
Queering the Undocumented Archive: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado
Virtual EventThe Program in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and the Center for Racial Justice is proud to present: Queering the Undocumented Archive - A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio […]
Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark
Virtual EventBeth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of […]
Abou Farman — Terminality as Performance
Virtual EventOver the last eight months, the lines separating private from public domains of grief, protest from mourning, dying from being killed, the dead from the living, the fleshly from the […]
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us
Virtual EventBookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza, Principal at Black […]
Deep Read Salon: Going Deep with There There
Professors Mayanthi Fernando (Anthropology), Katie Keliiaa (Feminist Studies & Indigenous Studies), and Renya Ramirez (Anthropology) will participate in a salon-style conversation about the novel, sharing their intelelctual approaches to the […]
Bryan K. Roby: Blackness in Israel
Virtual EventBryan K. Roby (University of Michigan) will speak in HIS 74B on his book titled The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press, 2015) and […]
Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer: Indigenous Feminism and Language Reclamation
Virtual EventDr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer joins us to speak about the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, profiled in the documentary, "We Still Live Here." The film tells the story of the cultural […]
Living Writers: Danusha Lemeris and Tess Taylor
Virtual EventDanusha Laméris’ first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her […]
Deep Read Salon: A Discussion with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Virtual EventDiscuss the Tommy Orange's There There with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region. This salon is for Deep Read Community […]