Events
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 […]
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 […]
Gregg Mitman – Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia
Virtual EventThom Gentle Environmental History Lecture Empire of Rubber: Scenes from Firestone’s Scramble for Land and Power in Liberia In the early 1920s, Americans owned 80 percent of the world’s automobiles and consumed 75 percent of the world’s rubber. But only one percent of the world’s rubber grew under the U.S. flag, creating a bottleneck that […]