Events
Roderick A. Ferguson: “Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving, Redistributing, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might […]
Book Launch and Reading: Juliana Leslie at the Capitola Book Café
Capitola Book Café 1475 41st Avenue, Capitola, CA, United StatesJuliana LesliePlease help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie's Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading […]
Aminda Smith: “Remolding Minds in Postsocialist China: Maoist Reeducation & 21-century Subjects”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAminda Smith’s forthcoming book, Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People focuses on Chinese Communist reformatories, where agents of the state worked to transform beggars, prostitutes, […]
American Indian Writers Reading Series: Deborah Miranda
Charles E. Merrill LoungeDeborah Miranda (Esselen/ Chumash) is the author of the poetry volumes The Zen of La Llorona (2005), Deer (2001) and Indian Cartography (1999). She will be reading and signing her […]
Donna Haraway: “Playing String Figures with Companion Species: Staying with the Trouble”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis paper insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmo- politics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly […]
Creative Writing Reading by Javier O. Huerta
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJavier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary […]
Documentary Film Screening and Discussion with Professor Gilbert Gonzalez
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaborers in the Bracero Program The UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies […]
Living Writers Reading by Javier O. Huerta
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJavier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary […]
The Sikh: The Feminine, The Activist
Stevenson Event CenterSikhi is like an ocean, boundless and all encompassing, composed of many shades and hues. During this conference, we will explore two of these colors. First, we will delve into […]
Clive Sinclair: “Zion Down Under, or Israel through the Looking Glass”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPhoto of Melech Ravitch with a young Aboriginal woman in the outback. Photo courtesy of Monash University. Dr. Sinclair will tell us how Melech Ravitch - poet, traveller, and (until […]