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  • Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us

    Virtual Event

    Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza, Principal at Black Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee's new book, The Sum of Us, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and […]

  • Abou Farman — Terminality as Performance

    Virtual Event

    Over the last eight months, the lines separating private from public domains of grief, protest from mourning, dying from being killed, the dead from the living, the fleshly from the pixellated, have been blurred. Through sound, theory, image, and affect, Farman and his collaborators explore some practices of daily resurrection and critical mourning. RSVP by […]

  • Sonya Clark, Edifice and Mortar, 2018 Hand-stamped bricks, human hair, and glass. Photo by Taylor Dabney

    Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark

    Virtual Event

    Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]

  • Queering the Undocumented Archive: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado

    Virtual Event

    The Program in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and the Center for Racial Justice is proud to present: Queering the Undocumented Archive - A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado. Click here to learn more about Dreamers Adrift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSpVOw3nBo&t=5s Free and open to all. Julio Salgado is the co-founder of Dreamers Adrift and the […]

  • Elaine Sullivan

    Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred

    Virtual Event

    Elaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published "born-digital" monograph, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020). Using 3D models of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, the online, interactive monograph addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the […]

  • Book Talk: Kwaito Bodies by Xavier Livermon

    Virtual Event

    Join us on February 19 for a Feminist Studies Book Talk celebrating the publication of Associate Professor Xavier Livermon's new book: Kwaito Bodies. Xavier will be joined by respondents Marcia Ochoa, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Savannah Shange, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Kwaito Bodies, Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in […]

  • Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities

    Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities February 19-20, 2021 Please register for Zoom connections Friday, 3:30-5 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcO2upzkrHNXJIpeessjoejEbdjqIQ3UF Saturday, 11:00-12:30 and 12:50-2:20 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyhrz0jGNPQA9pd9-MXOQhZ205ABiK3 Emphasizing her relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible, this conference honors the work of Distinguished Professor Emerita Helene Moglen (1936-2018). She contributed […]

  • Deep Read Salon: The Writing Craft of There There

    Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange's novel, There There.  This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]

  • Ethan Katz: Jews and Antisemites – The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch

    Virtual Event

    Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak in HIS 185O on "Jews and Antisemites - The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch." Among Jewish resistance movements in World War II, none had the strategic impact of the Algiers underground. This talk will explore […]

  • The Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture with Tanya Marie Luhrmann

    Virtual Event

    Merrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God, Voices of Madness Following Prof. Luhrmann's talk, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, […]

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