Events
FeaturedMorgan Parker – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Virtual EventPlease join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Gary Young is the author of many volumes of poems and […]
Manan Ahmed: The Loss of Hindustan
Virtual EventManan Ahmed is Associate Professor for History of South Asia at Columbia University. He specializes in the littoral western Indian Ocean world from 1000-1800 CE. He is the author of A Book of Conquest (2016) and The Loss of Hindustan (2020) Part of the 2020-21 Center For South Asian Studies Lecture Series. Organized by The […]
PhD+ Workshop – Using Twitter Professionally
Virtual EventLearn how to promote your research and create a virtual community of Tweeple in Twitter! Learn the basics, including how to set up your page, use hashtags, use best practices, and more with Kayla Isenberg (Senior Director, Digital Engagement, University Relations at UC Santa Cruz). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Using […]
Book talk and conversation: Peter Limbrick, Arab Modernism as World Cinema
Virtual EventPeter Limbrick (Film and Digital Media, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss his new book Arab Modernism as World Cinema: The Films of Moumen Smihi in conversation with Professor Tarek El-Ariss (Dartmouth College). Arab Modernism as World Cinema (University of California Press, 2020) explores the radically beautiful films of Moroccan filmmaker Moumen Smihi, demonstrating the importance […]
Slugs and Steins with Sylvanna M. Falcón: The Evolving Practice of Human Rights Accountability
Virtual EventSylvanna M. Falcón, founder of UC Santa Cruz’s Human Rights Investigations Lab for the Americas, will explain how human rights accountability has shifted in the digital realm and the ways in which a new generation of human rights activists are needed with critical digital literacy skills in search for the truth. Dr. Falcón founded Human […]
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Virtual EventDust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen on November 9th. In subsequent lessons, she will demonstrate how to make […]
Living Writers: sidony o’neal
Virtual Eventsidony o’neal (b. 1988) is an artist and writer based in Portland, OR. Recent exhibitions include Sculpture Center, Fourteen30 Contemporary, and the Institute for New Connotative Action. Performances as a part of non-band DEAD THOROUGHBRED have been presented at Portland Institute for Contemporary Art, Kunstverein Düsseldorf, Volksbühne Berlin, Performance Space New York, and If I […]
Fascism and Regimes of Knowledge
Virtual EventThis symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black, Indigenous, […]
Gina Dent, Debbie Gould & Savannah Shange – The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
Virtual EventThe U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about the weeks, months, and years to come. Gina Dent, Debbie Gould, and Savannah Shange will start off the conversation. And if it makes more sense […]
Living Writers: Khary Polk
Virtual EventKhary Oronde Polk is the author of Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 (UNC Press, 2020). A child of an African American military family, his new book examines how the movement of Black soldiers and nurses around the world in the early-to-mid twentieth century challenged U.S. military ideals of […]