This talk is co-sponsored by the Department of Anthropology  The border is the shared topos of the anthropologist, the historian, the archaeologist, the artist, the musician and the poet, as […]

Join us as we welcome Tanya Katerí Hernández to discuss her book Racial Innocence: Unmasking Latino Anti-Black Bias and the Struggle for Equality. Praised as the "most important Afro-Latina voice […]

As a documentary filmmaker, working in India, and especially as one interested in political conversation and social change, you inherit a form. The documentary form ostensibly exists outside commercial mainstream […]

Zaina Alsous is the author of the poetry collection A Theory of Birds (University of Arkansas Press, 2019), winner of the Norma Farber First Book Award and the Etel Adnan […]

The current assault on transgender people in the United States seems relatively new, but in fact governments have been regulating the lives of transgender people for decades—from contradictory rules for sex classification to bans on Medicaid coverage to rules about gender-appropriate comportment. In this talk, Currah situates these legislative attacks within a longer history of […]

Bryan Donaldson, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html