Events
George Saunders, Liberation Day
Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa CruzWe are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. This event is cosponsored […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed, to the ilustrado-led […]
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk […]
Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
Humanities 1, Room 202*Charla en español* "Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st […]
Tariq Thachil – Who Governs in India’s Small Towns? Notes from Rajasthan’s Nagar Palikas
Virtual Event“Who Governs in India's Small Towns” will take place on October 28, 2022 from 10am to 12pm PST, and is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Tariq Thachil (University of Pennsylvania)
Living Writers: Addie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAddie Tsai in conversation with Micah Perks. Conversations: Power Forged, the Fall Living Writers theme, features poets, novelists, academics, curators, and artists in conversation with one another, in person, across genre and media to open up a space between them, and all of us, within dialogue, collaboration, politics, intimacy and difference which poet and activist Audre […]
PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing
Virtual and In PersonSometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome psychological barriers and start writing! Andrea Seeger received a bachelor’s degree in literature from UC Santa Cruz, master’s in English literature from the University of […]
Rebecca Solnit, Orwell’s Roses
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome acclaimed writer Rebecca Solnit to the store for a discussion and signing of her most recent book, Orwell's Roses (in paperback October 18th). This event is cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz. Bookshop's head book buyer, Melinda, says: "The gift of Rebecca Solnit is that […]
Archive as Offering – Grace L. Sanders Johnson
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk names the layered applications, quotidian quality, and refusals of physical, psychological, and archival violence against Haitian women during the US occupation (1915-1934). Told alongside the story of a teenage girl’s life and death, the talk ultimately considers experimental historical practices as an opportunity to intervene in the presumed teleology of Black women’s lives […]
PhD+ Workshop – Disrupting Imposter Phenomenon from the Inside Out
Virtual and In PersonHave you ever felt imposter phenomenon? Learn how to cultivate a growth mindset to disrupt it and move toward empowering ways of learning. Silvia Austerlic is an intercultural educator, facilitator and consultant, and founder of Senti-pensante Connections, whose mission is to bridge inner work and social justice in service of individual transformation, social change, and […]