Events
Sharad Chari: “Apartheid Remains”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“Apartheid Remains” explores how people subjected to life in a patchwork landscape of industry and residence in the Indian Ocean City of Durban, South Africa, have sought to contest their social and spatial subjection across the 20th century, particularly in the revolutionary 1970s and 1980s, and in today’s racial capitalism. Event Photos: Sharad Chari […]
Ben Breen, When Drugs Became Global: Technologies of Intoxication in the Enlightenment
Forager, San Jose 420 S 1st St, San Jose, CA, United StatesOver the course of the seventeenth eighteenth centuries, psychoactive substances from opiates to cannabis to coffee underwent rapid globalization. Enlightenment thinkers were by no means immune to the allure of these novel drugs. Scientists and physicians tried to discover the “occult virtues” of these drugs through an array of experimental methods, including testing them on themselves. This […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Ur Shlonsky
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Subjects of copular constructions" Ur Shlonsky, University of Geneve More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Nido de Lenguas: Clases
Small Schools Campus 840 N. Branciforte Ave., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLed by Maestra Fe Silva-Robles of Senderos, Clases is a monthly opportunity to learn Santiago Laxopa Zapotec in an interactive classroom setting. All oral instruction is in Spanish only; written materials are in Spanish and English. Maestra Fe and the Nido de Lenguas team collaborate extensively to produce a cohesive set of lessons. Each lesson is designed to introduce new sounds, vocabulary, […]
Living Writers: Samiya Bashir
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSamiya Bashir is the author of three books of poetry: Field Theories, and Gospel, and Where the Apple Falls. Sometimes she makes poems of dirt. Sometimes zeros and ones. Sometimes variously rendered text. Sometimes light. Her work has been widely published, performed, installed, printed, screened, and experienced. Bashir holds a BA from the University of […]
Chris Benner: “A Universal Technology Dividend? – Rethinking price, value, work and the commons”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this talk, Dr. Benner will discuss his current work exploring the idea of a Universal Technology Dividend. He will explore questions related to the common-property characteristics of technology and innovation, the monopolistic characteristics of information markets, and the need to rethink how we define work in contemporary labor markets. Event Photos: Chris Benner is […]
Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams: History vs. Women
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us at Bookshop Santa Cruz for discussion and signing with Anita Sarkeesian and Ebony Adams, moderated by UCSC Professor of Film and Digital Media Shelley Stamp, about their new book, History vs. Women. Rebels, rulers, scientists, artists, warriors and villains. Women are, and have always been, all these things and more. Looking through the ages and […]
Digital Humanities Meet Up
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin the Digital Humanities campus community for a Fall Quarter Meet Up. This is an opportunity to meet digital scholarship practitioners across campus and connect as we start a new year. The Meet Up is informal: please invite colleagues interested in building a DH portfolio and learning more about digital scholarship. Zac Zimmer, Assistant Professor […]
FeaturedReyna Grande Book Launch: A Dream Called Home
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz alumna, Reyna Grande, will discuss her new memoir, A Dream Called Home, in conversation with Micah Perks, UC Santa Cruz Literature Professor. A DREAM CALLED HOME is Grande’s lyrical and moving follow-up to The Distance Between Us. This memoir tells the story of her pursuit to become the first in her family to […]
Madhuri Shekar’s Queen + Panel
De Anza College, Cupertino CA, United StatesWith prestigious accolade only days away, the numbers start adding up to an ethical dilemma for UC Santa Cruz graduate researchers, Ariel Spiegel and Sanam Rao , and their supervisor, Dr. Philip Hayes in Madhuri Shekar’s Queen. Is financier, Arvind Patel , correct that their whole hypothesis is motivated by left-wing bias? The drama directed by EnActe […]