Events

Ethan Michaeli will explore how The Chicago Defender, the nation’s most important African American newspaper for much of the twentieth century, covered the Holocaust. During the 1940s, the newspaper’s multi-racial roster of writers, including a young Jewish editor named Ben Burns, connected the struggle of African Americans for equal rights to Nazi persecution of Jews. […]

This talk discusses the narrative of Hernando Fontaneda de Escalante, a 16th century former captive and a Creole man born in Cartagena de Indias, who lived for seventeen years among the Calusa Indians of Florida. His account is considered one of the most extensive repositories of information about the Calusa, yet it has received little […]

The Asian Diasporas Research Cluster at the Institute of Humanities Research is pleased to present the following film screening: IN THE MATTER OF CHA JUNG HEE (2010) preceded by a documentary short-in-progress on the Korean War, MEMORY OF THE FORGOTTEN WAR, and followed by Q & A with filmmaker, Deann Borshay Liem Poster available here. […]

A Conversation with Michael Scherer - White House Correspondent for TIME Magazine and UCSC Literature/Creative Writing Alum. Questions? Contact: Micah Perks meperks@ucsc.edu Flyer is available here.

Presented by the Linguistics Research Center, UCSC. For more information, please contact Debbie Belville at irc@ling.ucsc.edu.

Earll Kingston, a fourth generation Californian, has performed with many Bay Area Theatres including the Berkeley Rep, The Magic Theatre, The Aurora Theatre, and Anima Mundi. While living in Hawaii he acted in various episodes of "Hawaii 5-0" and "Magnum P.I.". From 1990 to 1997 Kingston performed "Down The Great Unknown" at the Grand Canyon […]

This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy, social distance, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social thought that interprets luxury consumption as an other-directed, visually-mediated, and easily-subverted “language” of hierarchy and class. Professor Mathiowetz is a political theorist and the author […]

Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among […]

Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"

At this critical time in the history of our university and the academy, in general, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Goldberg, a professor at UC-Irvine, is a ground breaking scholar of critical race […]