Events
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 […]
Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
Virtual EventTHI's Forgotten Wars Research Cluster and the Center for Racial Justice have partnered to present a conversation on the war-forged Korean adoptee diaspora with the director of Geographies of Kinship […]
Futures: Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition, the year-long program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition, concludes with a conversation on strategies, activism, and […]
Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Virtual EventSavcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation, which draws on the case of Turkey’s 16 years of AKP governance to intervene in Queer Studies’ separate — indeed, diagonically […]
Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
Virtual EventLegal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture presents Professor Noura Erakat (Rutgers University): Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle? More information and Zoom info: https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article.html This event is co-sponsored by THI's Center for […]
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
Virtual EventEl objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk, […]
Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
Virtual EventMorocco, and especially the desert oasis of Ouarzazate, is well-known as a destination for big-budget Hollywood film productions like The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988) and Gladiator (Ridley […]
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Virtual EventForging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Virtual EventJoin the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined […]
CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
Virtual EventThis event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. What does it mean to conjure a world without borders, a world without prisons, and a world without the carceral logics […]