Events
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography" This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease note: this is a two-day event.
Kresge’s Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)
Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has […]
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RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had […]
CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 […]
Democratic Interpellations Conference (NOT CANCELLED)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Film Festival: General Magic
Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View) 1010 River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival's showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary, is a tale of how a great vision, a grave betrayal and […]
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner – Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film “Black Like Me”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg Vera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a pioneer of women's history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like […]
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. […]
Lit Quake
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFunny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird It’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life […]