Events
Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries, including visions of techno-utopia, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. The panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. Panel Participants: Neda Atanasoski; Professor […]
Keith David Watenpaugh – Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?
Porter 144 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, United StatesKeith David Watenpaugh will deliver the first talk in the CMENA Student Choice Speaker Series, titled "Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?: Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention." The 1948 Genocide Convention doesn’t work – at least not for peoples seeking justice for mass atrocity. […]
Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]
Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?
Virtual EventThe country of Algeria, located in North Africa, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers, as well as […]
A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture
Humanities 2, Room 359The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Italian Language Program cordially invite you to a multidisciplinary event on Italy and its culture. Well-renowned UCSC professors from a variety of disciplines ranging from literature to history, from science to engineering and computer science will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on Italy and its culture. Participants […]
Sophia Azeb – Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department is pleased to announce the next speaker in their Spring 2025 Speaker Series, Sophia Azeb, who will deliver her talk entitled “Black Anticolonialism and Radical Relation” on Monday, May 12th at 1pm in Humanities Building 1, Room 420. This talk explores the radical anticolonial subjectivities forged across what Richard Iton […]
SOLD OUT: Isabel Allende – My Name Is Emilia del Valle
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents New York Times bestselling author Isabel Allende (A Long Petal of the Sea and The House of the Spirits) who will join us to celebrate the release of My Name Is Emilia del Valle, a spellbinding historical novel in which a young writer journeys to South America to uncover the truth […]
Saturday Shakespeare: A Midsummer Night’s Dream
Aptos Library 7695 Soquel Dr, Aptos, United StatesSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents A Midsummer Night's Dream, featuring a series of readings and conversations held Saturday mornings from April 26 to May 24, 2025. The 1st hour will be spent in conversation with a guest speaker, and during the 2nd hour volunteers will read aloud part of the play. During the final […]
BayPhon 2025 at UCSC
Humanities 1, Room 202UCSC Linguistics is hosting BayPhon, a workshop on Phonetics and Phonology, on Saturday, May 10, 2025. BayPhon brings together faculty and students from linguistics departments in the region, including Stanford, UC Berkeley, San José State, and UCSC. BayPhon is part of a tradition known as “Phrend” (and before that, “Trend”), where linguistics departments in the broader […]
Academic Book Publishing with the University of Minnesota Press
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin Jason Weidemann, an Editorial Director at the University of Minnesota Press, for a "publishing bootcamp" workshop, geared toward graduate students, post docs, and early career scholars working on their first books. Together we’ll discuss information on the editorial process - how to talk to editors, revising the dissertation, and proposals. Time will be left […]