Events
Gabriel Guillén: “¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLa presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co, una plataforma de inversión, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es, sin duda, prometedor. Sin embargo, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de […]
Jerry Zee: “Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ Jerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC's Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China's meteorological contemporary. This talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework […]
Book Talk: Marlon James – Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which is already being touted as a book that "will come to be seen as a classic of our times." (NPR) "A fantasy world as well-realized as […]
Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Public Sun" A. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture, public projects, and writing, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from […]
Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism
Kresge Town HallTHIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12. Please join us then. The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are […]
MLK Convocation: Melissa Harris-Perry
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Speaker: […]
John Dizikes Memorial
Stevenson Event CenterJohn Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018. He was 86. Dizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors […]
Elizabeth Allen: “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" - Elizabeth Allen American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages, felons could avoid death by running to the church, and kings bolstered […]
Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesOn the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox, and a film screening. Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the […]
Living Writers: Steven Church
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSteven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He's a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as […]