Events
Global Soccer Culture: How Immigrants Created the World’s Game
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGlobal Soccer Culture How Immigrants Created the World's Game Prof. Laurent Dubois (U. of Virginia) in Conversation with Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani Monday, January 6, 2025 6 pm || Cultural Center @ Merrill Kick off your winter quarter with this inspiring conversation between renowned global soccer historian Dr. Laurent Dubois and Dr. Anju Reejhsinghani, Vice Chancellor […]
Zionism: Past, Present, Future?
Music Center Recital HallZionism is one of the most fraught terms in contemporary politics. But what exactly is Zionism, what is its history, and what have been (and are today) its many meanings to diverse groups? Why have so many embraced different versions of Zionism, and, on the flip side, why and how has Zionism been critiqued, both […]
Living Writers with Andrea Cohen
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Andrea Cohen is the author of eight poetry collections; her latest is The Sorrow Apartments (2024). You can also find her writing in The New Yorker, Poetry, The Threepenny Review, and The […]
Marc Matera – Race after Empire: Racial Capitalism in Southern Africa and “Race Relations” in Britain
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Race relations” became synonymous with various obstacles to the “integration” of Commonwealth migrants in postwar Britain and, ultimately, shorthand for social and political issues perceived to be related to racial differences in general. However, interest in race relations did not center initially on Caribbean, South Asian, and African migrants to metropolitan Britain. Before the mid-1960s, […]
Ambika Aiyadurai – Caring for humans and nonhumans: Challenges in India’s Wildlife Conservation
Virtual EventThis paper examines different meanings of care in India’s wildlife conservation. Drawing on my fieldwork and case studies from across the country, I discuss various forms of care in protecting endangered species and preventing extinction. Addressing the role of wildlife conservationists and Indigenous people, the paper asks how and in what ways the notions of […]
Living Writers with Venita Blackburn
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Winter 2025 Grief Sequence Not to suppress mourning (suffering)...but to change it, transform it…after Prageeta Sharma & Roland Barthes Works by Venita Blackburn have appeared in The New Yorker, NY Times, Harper’s, McSweeney’s, Story Magazine, the Virginia Quarterly Review, the Paris Review, and others. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship in […]
We Are the Middle of Forever: A More-than-human(ities) Book Club Discussion with Stan Rushworth
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a conversation with Stan Rushworth, who will be discussing his latest book We Are the Middle of Forever, which places Indigenous voices at the center of conversations about today’s environmental crisis. Event attendees will be expected to have read the book, which will be provided free of charge to anyone who […]
AI Cluster Meeting – Dan Zimmer
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute Research cluster, “Humanities in the Age of AI,” is pleased to invite you to a series of meetings this winter quarter. The research cluster boasts a diverse group of core participants. This includes esteemed faculty members from various disciplines, graduate students representing politics, history, literature, philosophy, feminist studies, and film and visual […]
Geographies of Dissent: A Trans/Feminist Dialogue
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFeminist Studies presents Geographies of Dissent — a dialogue centering trans/feminist vernaculars of the geopolitical, and how current histories of occupation and authoritarianism have impacted feminist projects of dissent. The first 20 students who register for the full day will receive their choice of one of the speakers' books. 11am | Violent Intimacies: The Trans […]
Kuumbwa Jazz Presents: American Patchwork Quartet
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterKuumbwa Jazz is pleased to present American Patchwork Quartet (APQ) on Friday, January 31, 2025 at 7:00PM! Join the live concert and support American Patchwork Quartet's mission to reclaim the immigrant soul of American Roots Music as APQ weaves modern immigrant dreams into songs. American Patchwork Quartet (APQ), led by multi-Grammy award-winning guitarist/vocalist Clay Ross, […]