Events
Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline – Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesKevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the Waterline” considers how enslaved Africans employed as salvage divers transformed shipwrecks, especially sunken Spanish treasure ships, into hinter-seas of economic production. Scholars typically situate seaports […]
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); and Gowanus Atropolis (Ugly Duckling Press, 2011. It is coediter of NO GENDER: Reflections on the Life & Work of Kari Edwards, as well as […]
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMichel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, particularly the new political resistances and aspirations that investees draw from their rated agency. Event Photos: Michel Feher is a philosopher who has taught […]
FeaturedJaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
Music Recital HallThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre political dysfunction, while in the developing world, ethnic rivalries that had been waning have been re-ignited in the most grotesque fashion. It wasn’t supposed to […]
Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018 Event Photos: Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her work focuses on the […]
Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas "Re-rooting 'We Refugees': Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil" - Dr. Scott Ritner "Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective" - Hannes Glück "Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times" - Veronika Zablotsky 12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break 1:30-3:30 pm Session 2: Chair: […]
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumMarkus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are […]
$30VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKhary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of […]
CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Tropical Exceptions - Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates" Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those […]