Events
Karen Tei Yamashita Fall 2022 Emeriti Lecture – Questions 27 & 28: Loyalty and Japanese American Incarceration
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 1942, at the outset of World War II, President Franklin D. Roosevelt authorized the incarceration of all Japanese Americans on the West Coast. The following year, the War Relocation Authority had the task of determining the loyalty of their inmates in order to release them for productive normalized lives outside camp. A loyalty questionnaire […]
PhD+ Workshop – Slide Design Workshop
Virtual and In PersonHave you ever inflicted a boring slide presentation on an audience? Learn tips and techniques for using slides the way they should be used, as visual aids to your spoken-word presentation. Prior to attending this workshop, review this slide design page, including viewing the video by Sonya. Sonya Newlyn received her M.A. in English literature […]
Mark Massoud – The Power of Positionality
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWhat is the impact on and influence of the researcher in their scholarship? Drawing in part on Mark’s empirical research and professional experience, this talk investigates the benefits and burdens of positionality. Positionality is the disclosure of how an author’s racial, gender, class, or other self-identifications, experiences, and privileges influence research methods. A statement of […]
Chih-ming Wang – Retelling Chinese Stories in the Era of Global China: On Ha Jin’s Immigrant Novels
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesExamining Ha Jin’s immigrant novels in the crossfires of US-China competition, this talk proposes post/Cold War entanglements as a critical frame for reconsidering Asian American studies today. It argues that attention to Chineseness as a political, rather than cultural, construct is more urgent than ever. Ha Jin’s emphasis on immigration as freedom in his novels […]
PhD+ Workshop – Preventing and Mitigating Burnout
Virtual and In PersonA vexing problem for academics is burnout: the experience of exhaustion, cynicism, and ineffectiveness that results from stretching across the gap between the ideals of your academic vocation and the reality of your academic job. Jonathan Malesic left his job as a tenured theology professor at a small liberal arts college after undergoing burnout over […]
Yoav Di-Capua: Reconsidering the 60s Generation in the Arab World and Beyond
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis is a talk about a book that is still being written. It begins and ends with a funeral. In between, lies the story of the 60s generation in the […]
Living Writers: Duriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuriel E. Harris, Bakar Wilson, Elizabeth Owuor, and Fahima Ife, a reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of "Genre Queer/ Gender Queer Playground," Obsidian: Litrature and Arts in the […]
CANCELED – PhD+ Workshop – Listening, Mentoring, Coaching, Advising
Virtual and In PersonListening to understand represents an equally important half of effective oral communication to the other half, delivery of the communication by spoken word. Listening well forms the essential communication base […]
CANCELED Dale Tomich – Capitalism and Slavery: The Contemporaneity of the Non-Contemporaneous
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 […]
CANCELED – Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis event has been cancelled, please stay tuned for a future date for this event. According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and […]