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    Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy

    Virtual Event

    What does it mean to be driven crazy? By a parent, a professor, a president, perhaps even the internet itself? In 1959 the psychoanalyst Harold Searles published a paper in The British Journal of Medical Psychology, “The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy: An Element in the Aetiology and Psychotherapy of Schizophrenia.” “My clinical […]

  • How to Live Like Shakespeare

    Virtual Event

    This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]

  • Okinawa Memories Initiative Graduate Student Roundtable

    Virtual Event

    Mark your calendars for the Okinawa Memories Initiative’s “Graduate Student Talk” featuring a round-table discussion with graduate student team members. Join us at 4:30PM on April 2nd, for a conversation centering around their work with OMI, graduate research in History, and working in the humanities. The panel will feature OMI team members: Alexyss “Lex” Mclellan, […]

  • Sansei and Sensibility with Karen Tei Yamashita

    Virtual Event

    Karen Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel (National Book Award finalist), Tropic of Orange, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Letters to Memory. Recipient of numerous awards, including the John Dos Passos Prize for Literature (2018), she is professor emerita of creative writing and literature at the University […]

  • LASER Talks with Deans Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell

    Virtual Event

    Join the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for live, online LASER Talks with UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Humanities Jasmine Alinder, historian of photography, and Dean of the Social Sciences Katharyne Mitchell, geographer and migration specialist. Touching on far-reaching subjects including the role of imagery in anti-Asian racism in the United States and […]

  • Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on “Comfort Women” Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice

    Virtual Event

    In the three decades since Kim Hak-sun of South Korea first publicly identified herself as a former “comfort woman” of the Japanese Imperial Army, a global movement for long overdue justice has emerged, based on substantial survivor testimony and extant historical documents, of the existence of a regionally far-reaching imperial system of military sexual slavery. […]

  • Feminism and Resistance: Afghan Women Moving Forward

    Virtual Event

    A discussion with Afghan scholars and activists about women's rights, feminism, and resistance in Afghanistan. Moderated by Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, Teaching Fellow for FMST 188 - Women and War. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department and supported by the Baskin Endowed Chair in Feminist Studies. Panelists: Lima Ahmad - PhD candidate in International Security and Human […]

  • Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary: Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae

    Virtual Event

    Visualizing Abolition is pleased to present "Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary," a discussion with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and artist and activist Maxwell Addae. Their conversation will focus on their collaborative project researching the media portrayals of Black women and incarceration as well the real-world impact of the […]

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