Events
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBetween Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa "proper." By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic […]
PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesGordon Hutner is the editor of American Literary History, the scholarly he quarterly he founded 30 years ago. He is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles about American literature. These subject include the novel in the US, Jewish American writing, immigrant autobiographies, cultural iconography, and the future of the liberal arts in public […]
Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
Humanities 1, Room 202Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman Breakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials * […]
Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Living Writers, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's book, "The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and […]
All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
Kresge Town HallCritical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel Thursday, […]
Breanne Fahs: “Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism”
Humanities 2, Room 259Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, […]
Public Fellowship Info Session
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCurious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you. Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public […]
James Loeffler, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy”
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Crystal Birns: Presented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between […]