Events
Rebecca Hernandez — Categories, Identities, and Objects: Naming Native Art
Virtual EventThis presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in the construction of American Indian identity. RSVP by 11 AM on Wednesday, April 14th; you will receive the Zoom link and password at 11:30 AM […]
Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
Virtual EventIn 2020, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery, and the discrimination against freed slaves and their descendants from the end of the Civil War to the present. Although the movement for reparations extends […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
Virtual EventThe Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free, live, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life, the intersections between history and literature, and the politics of memory. Confronting slavery and its long, unfinished aftermath, Hartman’s work is a brave, imaginative, genre-bending exercise in historical resurrection. […]
(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
Virtual EventDread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray, UC Davis, will join him in […]
Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing
Virtual EventLeft-Standing is a performance of written and video poems. The video does not illustrate the writing; rather the two media become an interconnected poetics. Together, these forms of poetry engage […]
Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
Virtual EventPlease join the Humanities Division's newest Dean, Jasmine Alinder, to hear her thoughts on her first year as Dean as well as her inspirational vision for the growth and development […]
Living Writers: Anthony Cody
Virtual EventAnthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and finalist for a 2020 National Book Award. He is […]
Michelle Sheehan Linguistics Colloquium
Virtual EventFor more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan, Algeria, and the Western Sahara
Virtual EventIn the past several years, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019, […]