Events
Monolingualism can be cured! And what does this mean for bilingual speech?
Virtual EventIt is by no means a small feat that bilinguals can speak two or more languages. In addition to acquiring a variety of components of the linguistic system, they must […]
Japan Circa 1972: Setting The Stage For Reversion
Virtual EventPlease join the conversation on Okinawa, Japan, and the media in the years leading up to reversion. Yoshikuni Igarashi will discuss the contents of his recent book, Japan, 1972: Visions […]
Jean Beaman – Suspect Citizenship
Virtual EventIncidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France, the United States, and worldwide. Based on […]
Living Writers Series: Jane Wong
Virtual EventJane Wong’s poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her […]
Caitlin Keliiaa – Occupational Risk: Sexual Surveillance and Federal Regulation of Native Women’s Bodies
Virtual and In PersonThis talk examines how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native […]
Mona El-Ghobashy – “Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation”
Virtual EventBread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, […]
Bishnupriya Ghosh – Multispecies Distributions in the Epidemic Episteme
Virtual EventBishnupriya Ghosh teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP, 2004) and Global […]
Demystifying Book Publishing for FirstGen Scholars
Virtual EventJoin us for a panel with first-gen authors about their publishing experiences, followed by a presentation and Q&A with UC Press editors about common publishing topics, such as choosing the […]
Pamela Z – Seminar in Composition
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us on Monday, January 24, at 4:00 PM, for our keynote event in Pamela Z's 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency, jointly funded by the University Library, the Humanities […]
Xavier Livermon – Safe Houses? Queerness, Performance, and the Land Question in South Africa
Virtual EventDuring the height of COVID restrictions in 2020, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and […]