Events
Karen Feldman – The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg, Felski, and Bottomless Critique
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies In Recording History, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In […]
Eric Stanley – Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department. Recent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by […]
“DOLORES” Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Del Mar TheatrePlease join us on April 26, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, and view his film DOLORES, […]
Roberta Wue – Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese […]
Living Writers – Laura Jaramillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds […]
Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation, CITL has drawn inspiration […]
Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
Humanities 2, Room 259Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction Keynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean? Susan Gilman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature Lectures & Discussions: G.S. Sahota, UCSC Laura Brueck, Northwestern University Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Zoom: 99270004783 […]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
Virtual EventThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]
Alev Çinar – The Predicament of Islamic Decoloniality in Turkey: Sufi Political Thought and the “Great East” Project of Necip Fazıl Kısakürek
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAfter winning its battle against the occupying colonial powers during The War of Independence in 1919-1922, Turkey set on a secular, Westernizationist path toward modernization under Mustafa Kemal’s leadership. Turkey spent what can be referred to as its postcolonial period under its founding ideology, Kemalism, which launched a West-oriented secular modernization project that framed the […]