Events
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with 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 and […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Virtual EventUsing an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
Virtual EventPresented by NYU Libraries - Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned […]
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk describes a new book project, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
Virtual and In PersonLearn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibilities […]
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 […]