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  • Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Invited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent […]

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    UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

    What is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]

  • John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture

    Stevenson College Library Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language. This event will take place at the […]

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    The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series

    Virtual Event

    The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s last and most enigmatic work, the unfinished Mystery of Edwin Drood. Considered by many lovers of detective fiction to be the ultimate mystery novel, since […]

  • Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Junko Ito & Armin Mester, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

  • Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Participants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa Cruz from February 24-25, 2023. Please note that this workshop is open to faculty and graduate students only. This workshop is presented by the UCSC […]

  • Living Writers – Shruti Swamy

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Shruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted […]

  • PhD+ Workshop – Accessing Campus Resources

    Virtual and In Person

    Join the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS, Slug Support, Basic Needs, the Restorative Justice Program, and OMBUDS will be there to share information and answer questions. All grads are welcome and encouraged to attend! Food […]

  • Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Event co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular (100 million registered users upload ~300,000 stories per day), and with their focus on user generated content and open access, promise to democratize contemporary cultural […]

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