Events
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 color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]
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 pixellated, have been blurred. Through sound, theory, image, and affect, Farman and his collaborators explore some practices of daily resurrection and critical mourning. RSVP by […]
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 Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee's new book, The Sum of Us, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and […]
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 work and answering questions from the Deep Read community. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to […]
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 […]
Latinos Modelos Conferencia Virtual 2021 – Latino Roles Models 2021 Virtual Conference
Virtual EventUn evento anual gratuito para estudiantes del condado de Santa Cruz desde el sexto grado a la universidad y sus familias, con profesionales latinos, estudiantes universitarios y talleres de información. […]
Art, Abolition, and the University: Ashley Hunt and the Underground Scholars
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition presents artist Ashley Hunt in conversation with MJ Hart, Joshua Solis, Alberto Lule, Ryan Flaco Rising, and Rodrigo Vazquez of the Underground Scholars Initiative. The Underground Scholars Initiative […]