Events

Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary: Patrisse Cullors and Maxwell Addae
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition is pleased to present "Popular Culture and the Radical Imaginary," a discussion with Patrisse Cullors, co-founder of the Black Lives Matter Global Network and artist and activist Maxwell […]
Feminism and Resistance: Afghan Women Moving Forward
Virtual EventA discussion with Afghan scholars and activists about women's rights, feminism, and resistance in Afghanistan. Moderated by Halima Kazem-Stojanovic, Teaching Fellow for FMST 188 - Women and War. Presented by […]
Mistruth and Consequences: Feminist Scholars on “Comfort Women” Denialism and Grassroots Movements for Justice
Virtual EventIn the three decades since Kim Hak-sun of South Korea first publicly identified herself as a former “comfort woman” of the Japanese Imperial Army, a global movement for long overdue […]

LASER Talks with Deans Jasmine Alinder & Katharyne Mitchell
Virtual EventJoin the Institute of the Arts and Sciences for live, online LASER Talks with UC Santa Cruz Dean of the Humanities Jasmine Alinder, historian of photography, and Dean of the […]
Sansei and Sensibility with Karen Tei Yamashita
Virtual EventKaren Tei Yamashita is the author of seven books, including I Hotel (National Book Award finalist), Tropic of Orange, Through the Arc of the Rain Forest and Letters to Memory. […]
Ora Matushansky Linguistics Colloquium
Virtual EventFor more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
Okinawa Memories Initiative Graduate Student Roundtable
Virtual EventMark your calendars for the Okinawa Memories Initiative’s “Graduate Student Talk” featuring a round-table discussion with graduate student team members. Join us at 4:30PM on April 2nd, for a conversation […]

How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]

Abolition Beyond the State w/ Sadie Barnette, J. Kēhaulani Kauanui, Zoé Samudzi, and Eric Stanley
Virtual EventWhat role can the arts take in the movement to abolish prisons in addition to abolishing the society that upholds them? How can art and culture elevate other ways of […]

Ben Kafka — The Effort to Drive the Other Person Crazy
Virtual EventWhat does it mean to be driven crazy? By a parent, a professor, a president, perhaps even the internet itself? In 1959 the psychoanalyst Harold Searles published a paper in […]
