Events
Events
Stories from the Epicenter (Podcast Launch Event)
Virtual EventYou’re invited to join us for the launch of our ten-part documentary podcast, Stories from the Epicenter, which explores the experience and memory of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County through oral history records and interviews with current residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The event will include a moderated discussion with the podcast […]
Visualizing Abolition: A Conversation with Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent
Virtual EventJoin Angela Y. Davis and Gina Dent, noted antiprison activists, scholars, and educators, for an online conversation about critical issues in the arts, visual culture, and abolition. This is the […]
Gerald Casel – Not About Race Dance
Virtual EventDuring this "talk," the artists/collaborators and Gerald Casel will share their recent recent choreographic explorations during COVID-19 based on their latest work, Not About Race Dance. Not About Race Dance […]
PhD+ Workshop – Public Speaking
Virtual EventLearn about warmups, crafting your talk, audience engagement, and presenting online using Zoom with the owner and coach of Activate to Captivate, Bri McWhorter. The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Public Speaking" is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ series. Workshops presented by the Division of Graduate […]
Living Writers: Frances Richard
Virtual EventFrances Richard is the author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics (University of California Press, 2019), and co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Virtual EventLearn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute), Holly Unruh (Arts Research Institute), and Matthew Tedford. We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for […]
Lily Balloffet, Argentina in the Global Middle East
Virtual EventLily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book, Argentina in the Global Middle East, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). […]
Visualizing Abolition: Bryan Stevenson – Memory and Justice
Virtual EventFounder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, […]
Anna Tsing – Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
Virtual EventA collection of maps, a game, an archive, an analysis, a meditation on life on Earth: Feral Atlas is the cumulation of a five-year curatorial project involving more than a […]
Fascism and Organized Violence Symposium
Virtual EventThis symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black, Indigenous, […]