Events
Fighting for Life: Race and the Limits of Infant Survival
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesJoin Dr. Wangui Muigai as she charts the history of one of the most enduring health disparities in America, the racial gap in infant survival. Drawing on a trove of historical records and archival materials, this talk follows Black families as they have journeyed from birthing rooms to burial grounds, fighting for the ability to […]
Elena Vasiliou – Queer Pleasure, Resistance and Pain in Ex-Prisoners’ Narratives
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesQueer pleasure, resistance and pain in ex-prisoners’ narratives with Elena Vasiliou (UC Berkeley). This talk is part of the History of Consciousness Winter 2023 Speaker Series. This event will be in person in Humanities 1 Room 420 or virtually via zoom. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://histcon.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/histcon-winter23-speaker-series.html
Baptiste Morizot, Ways of Being Alive
Humanities 1, Room 202Ways of Being Alive: Lecture followed by a conversation with Donna Haraway, Professor Emerita, History of Consciousness. Baptiste Morizot is a writer and lecturer in philosophy at Aix-Marseille University. His work is devoted to the relationship between human beings and other living creatures, based on practices carried out in the field. He is the […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Rajesh Bhatt
Humanities 1, Room 202Rajesh Bhatt, U Mass Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
PhD+ Workshop – Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThere’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. But how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications […]
PhD+ Workshop – VOCES Drafting Stages with Carlos Decena
Zoom CA, United StatesDrafting Stages is a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as an evolving and non-linear process. Focusing on conditions, inspirations, and methods, each speaker will offer personal insight into their processes and the messiness and vulnerabilities of drafting stages. The […]
Living Writers – Sara Freeman
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSara Freeman is a Canadian-British writer based in the United States. She graduated from Columbia University with an MFA in fiction in 2013. At Columbia, she won the Henfield Prize for the best piece of short fiction by a graduate student. Her debut novel, Tides, is forthcoming from Grove Atlantic (US), Hamish Hamilton (Canada), and […]
Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesInvited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryWhat is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]
Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image - As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the […]