Events
VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKhary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English […]
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Santa Cruz Veterans Hall AuditoriumMarkus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable […]
$30Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas "Re-rooting 'We Refugees': Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil" - Dr. Scott […]
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018 Event Photos: Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School […]
Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMore info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html
FeaturedJaron Lanier: How the Internet Failed and How to Recreate It
Music Recital HallThe Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture, Presented by the Humanities Institute The internet as it exists might destroy our world. In the developed countries, its arrival has corresponded to bizarre […]
Michel Feher: “Creditworthiness – The Political Stake of a Speculative Age”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMichel Feher’s current research and forthcoming book, Rated Agency: Investee Politics in a Speculative Age (Zone Books, September 2018) examines the extraordinary shift in conduct and orientation generated by financialization, […]
Living Writers: Julian Talamantez Brolaski
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJulian Talamantez Brolaski is the author of Of Mongrelitude (Wave Books, 2017), which was recently shortlisted for a Lambda Literary Award for Transgender Poetry; Advice for Lovers (City Lights 2012); […]
Kevin Dawson: “History Below the Waterline – Enslaved Salvage Divers Harvesting Seaports’ Hinter-Seas, c.1540-1840”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesKevin Dawson’s scholarship examines how enslaved Africans carried swimming, surfing, canoe-making, and canoeing skills to the Americas where they informed slave culture and were exploited by slaveholders. “History Below the […]
Rachel Gross, The Jewish Deli Revival: Buying and Selling American Jewish Nostalgia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn recent years, there has been a nostalgic resurgence of interest in the Jewish deli menu. Restaurateurs and purveyors of Jewish food are deliberately making American Jewish food fit for […]