Events
Living Writers: Valeria Luiselli
Virtual EventValeria Luiselli was born in Mexico City and grew up in South Korea, South Africa and India. An acclaimed writer of both fiction and nonfiction, she is the author of the essay collection Sidewalks; the novels Faces in the Crowd and The Story of My Teeth; Tell Me How It Ends: An Essay in Forty […]
Daniella Farah: Jews in post-WWII Iran – Patriotism, national belonging, integration, and identity
Virtual EventDaniella Farah (Ph.D. candidate at Stanford University) will speak in HIS 74B about the effects of the Second World War on Jews in Iran and how this period shaped their political subjectivities. Jews have lived in Iran for over 2,500 years, with a population of 100,000 at their height in 1945. Today, Iran contains the […]
Naya Jones — Conjure Geographies, Covid-19, and Healing Futures
Virtual EventReimagining cultural healing ways is central to healing justice, Black Lives Matter, and other contemporary movements. However, “moving from race to culture to creation,” as Resmaa Menakem puts it, takes work. This talk engages in this work by centering epistemologies of Black/African-American traditional medicine, often reclaimed as “conjure.” Drawing on short stories by Zora Neale […]
Material and Memory: Sanford Biggers and Leigh Raiford
Virtual EventSandord Biggers is a Harlem-based artist whose work speaks to current social, political and economic happenings. For this Visualizing Abolition event, Biggers will be joined by visual culutre theorist Leigh Raiford for a conversation about art, materiality, violence, and possibility. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]
Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
Virtual EventOn Friday, February 5th, 12-1 pm, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled "'Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:' Abdallah Laroui's Critique of Colonized Subjectivity." Professor Megan Thomas (Politics) will serve as the discussant. Please email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for the paper. Click To join. This event […]
Living Writers: Lauren Groff
Virtual EventLauren Groff is the author of five books, most recently Fates and Furies, a novel, and Florida, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L'héroïne, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her next […]
Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
Virtual EventRadhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in […]
Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
Virtual EventThis talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites from Algiers to Berlin to Tokyo, they also pictured the world anew, whether framing a street scene in Alexandria or offering a close up on […]
HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
Virtual EventEdith Kulstein, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences. HIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources, films, and novels, students consider WWII and the Holocaust […]
Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin
Virtual EventNext in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Dr. Gina Dent and featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Visualizing Abolition is a […]