Events
Zoom Forward! Micah Perks & Karen Tei Yamashita
Virtual EventVIRTUAL EVENT: Please join us for an online reading with Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita, part of the Zoom Forward Reading Series, hosted by poet, fiction writer, and essayist […]
FeaturedThe Deep Read | Margaret Atwood Live
Virtual EventMargaret Atwood will join the UC Santa Cruz community for a free, live, virtual event on Tuesday September 22 at 4:30 PM PT. Part of The Humanities Institute’s Deep Read […]
David Eagleman, Livewired
Virtual EventBestselling author and neuroscientist David Eagleman will discuss his new book, Livewired: The Inside Story of the Ever-Changing Brain, during a free online event on the Crowdcast platform. "Eagleman delivers […]
Christopher Nelson: Eisa – Drumming, Dancing and Memory
Virtual EventWith the beginning of the 2020 – 2021 school term on the near horizon the OMI team is delighted to announce their next program! Professor Chris Nelson (UNC Chapel Hill) […]
Kelly Gillespie, Asher Gamedze & Rasigan Maharajh — Re/Distribute: Three Radical Economists on (Post)Apartheid (film screening + discussion)
Virtual EventTwo radical collectives in South Africa working inside and outside the academy to agitate against ongoing histories of dispossession consider what redistribution means in the most unequal national context on […]
Nir Shafir: How to Read in the Early Modern Ottoman Empire
Virtual EventThe Ottoman Empire (and the Islamic world at large) was a manuscript culture until the late nineteenth century. That is, many Ottoman subjects continued to copy books by hand even though they had been aware of printing in European lands for centuries. In recent years, there has been a new wave of scholarship exploring how […]
Samia Khatun — Race, Gender & New Epistemic Grounds: Cross-Cultural Encounters in Desert Australia
Virtual EventAt the forefront of white nationalist border regimes, the Australian nation-state has long operated as an Anglo imperial outpost in the Indian Ocean world. If we look at Aboriginal language archives about South Asians, however, we see alternative epistemic grounds and spatial imaginations on which we can situate historical storytelling about race, gender, and migration. […]
Hispanic-Serving Institution Equity Talk with Gina Garcia
Virtual EventJoin us for an online discussion with Dr. Gina Garcia, moderated by Dr. Rebecca Covarrubias and Dr. Jennifer Baszile, on how the UC Santa Cruz HSI Initiatives continue advancing student success and equity practices towards becoming a racially-just HSI. Dr. Gina Garcia is editor of Hispanic-Serving Institutions(HSIs) in Practice: Defining “Servingness” at HSIs(2020), to which […]
Living Writers: Anne Waldman
Virtual EventAnne Waldman: Poet, performer, professor, literary curator, cultural activist has been a prolific poet and performer for many years, creating radical new hybrid forms for the long poem, both serial and narrative, as with Marriage: A Sentence, Structure of the World Compared to a Bubble, and Manatee/Humanity, and Gossamurmur, all published by Penguin Poets. She […]
Stories from the Epicenter (Podcast Launch Event)
Virtual EventYou’re invited to join us for the launch of our ten-part documentary podcast, Stories from the Epicenter, which explores the experience and memory of the Loma Prieta Earthquake in Santa Cruz County through oral history records and interviews with current residents of Santa Cruz and Watsonville. The event will include a moderated discussion with the podcast […]