Events
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 […]
“Just Futures” Opens
Mary Porter Sesnon Art GalleryThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. Just Futures, a highly anticipated exhibition featuring the works of Arthur Jafa, […]
Massimiliano Tomba – Revolutions/Restorations
Virtual and In PersonReading revolutions through the prism of a concept of history that is not teleological or unilinear but is instead structured as a pluriverse of historical temporalities, this talk shows how […]
PhD+ Workshop – Introduction to Digital Humanities
Virtual EventJoin us for the first meeting of the Digital Humanities Workshop series 2022 to learn about what digital humanities means, how digital tools empower humanities scholarship, the role of […]
From the Margins: Dante 701 Years Later – Reading Dante, Seeking Freedom, Fleeing Racism
Virtual EventAfrican American culture has been attentive to Dante Alighieri, the man and his writing, since the mid-19th century. Dante's Divine Comedy has proved to be an effective primer on issues of justice for the broader community. This talk will present the work of African American authors from the 19th century to today who have turned […]
Isebill Gruhn, “From McCarthyism to Today: Demagoguery Then and Now”
Virtual EventThe 2022 season of Our Community Reads from the Friends of the Aptos Library is featuring a series of special events related to themes in Red Letter Days by Sarah-Jane Stratford. All events aim to create a shared experience that will increase appreciation for our community libraries and for our local bookstores; foster pride in […]
Jorgge Menna Barreto – Voicescapes for the Landless
Virtual and In PersonThis project expands traditional oral history methodologies by recording the voices of farmers of the Brazilian Landless Workers Movement (MST) embedded in the soundscapes of the food forests they cultivate. The resulting situated multispecies voicescapes will be used in the creation of pedagogical material for students in rural schools and beyond. Jorgge Menna Barreto, Ph.D. […]