Events
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 […]
Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
Virtual EventAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all […]
The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship, the […]
Watsonville is in the Heart Online Screening: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance
Virtual EventONLINE SCREENING: Talk Story II: Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance screening, and community discussion. On Sunday, January 30, the Watsonville is in the Heart (WIITH) project team rings in 2022 with a screening of Geoffrey Dunn and Mark Schwartz’s Dollar a Day, Ten Cents a Dance (1984). The documentary offers a portrait of […]