Events
Glen Coulthard – Maoism without Guarantees: Third World Currents in Fourth World Anti-Colonialism with Glen Coulthard
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis lecture will provide a history of Red Power radicalization and Indigenous-Marxist cross-fertilization. It examines the political work undertaken by a small but dedicated cadre of Native organizers going by […]
Megha Majumdar – A Guardian and a Thief
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Megha Majumdar (A Burning) who will share her electrifying new novel that has recently been long-listed for the National Book Award and received starred reviews from Kirkus, Publishers […]
Martabel Wasserman – Picturing California’s Carceral Landscape: Carleton Watkins’ Views of Alcatraz
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCarleton Watkins, an iconic photographer of the 19th Century American West, is best known for his images of Yosemite that were used as testimony in the formation of the National […]
Armen Khatchatourov – Artificial Intelligence and its “contexts”: between ethics and politics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will first examine the way in which the notion of context plays a central role in the history of the computer science and ubiquitous AI on the one hand, and in that of privacy and data protection on the other and, second, will examine the way in which this notion replays the conception […]
Hebron Seed Bank Study Session
The Greenhouse Project 152 Farm Rd, Santa Cruz, United StatesJoin the Seeds of Resurgence Research cluster as they gather to discuss readings related to the Hebron Seed bank, which Israeli forces destroyed in August. Participants will think together about […]
Christine Padoch and Nancy Peluso – Return to Nanga Jela
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreThe history of hinterland communities is largely written in remote landscapes that today are often targeted for infrastructural development that forcibly relocates existing residents and transforms the land, obliterating those […]
Living Writers Student Reading
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWonder as the Source About the Living Writers Series The Living Writers Series (LWS) is a live reading series organized especially for the Creative Writing Program community at UCSC. There […]
John O. Jordan – Dickens and Soundscape: The Old Curiosity Shop
Virtual EventPlease join the Dickens Project for the rescheduled Dickens Universe talk by John Jordan, Dickens Project Co-Founder and Co-Director. Critics have long recognized and commented on the striking visual quality […]
The Act of Periodizing: The Sikh Tradition and the Promise of an Indic World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHistorians often narrate to periodize, which is an effort, Frederic Jameson writes, to ascertain "the sharing of a common objective situation." Yet what can the compulsion to periodize into "civilisational […]
Nurturing Difference – Parenting and Disability in a Careless Age
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJOIN US as we celebrate two distinguished members of our UCSC community and their new books. We'll be discussing Danilyn Rutherford’s Beautiful Mystery: Living in a Wordless World (Duke University […]