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    Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred

    Virtual Event

    Elaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published "born-digital" monograph, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020). Using 3D models of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, the online, interactive monograph addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the […]

  • Book Talk: Kwaito Bodies by Xavier Livermon

    Virtual Event

    Join us on February 19 for a Feminist Studies Book Talk celebrating the publication of Associate Professor Xavier Livermon's new book: Kwaito Bodies. Xavier will be joined by respondents Marcia Ochoa, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies and Savannah Shange, Assistant Professor, Anthropology. Kwaito Bodies, Xavier Livermon examines the cultural politics of the youthful black body in […]

  • Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities

    Writing for Living: Helene Moglen Conference in Feminism and the Humanities February 19-20, 2021 Please register for Zoom connections Friday, 3:30-5 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJApcO2upzkrHNXJIpeessjoejEbdjqIQ3UF Saturday, 11:00-12:30 and 12:50-2:20 PST: https://ucsc.zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIrceyhrz0jGNPQA9pd9-MXOQhZ205ABiK3 Emphasizing her relationship to writing as a practice that makes living possible, this conference honors the work of Distinguished Professor Emerita Helene Moglen (1936-2018). She contributed […]

  • Deep Read Salon: The Writing Craft of There There

    Creative Writing professors Micah Perks and Jennifer Tseng will lead a conversation about the techniques at play in Tommy Orange's novel, There There.  This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]

  • Ethan Katz: Jews and Antisemites – The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch

    Virtual Event

    Ethan Katz, Associate Professor of History and Jewish Studies at the University of California-Berkeley, will speak in HIS 185O on "Jews and Antisemites - The Unlikely Alliance That Paved the Way for Operation Torch." Among Jewish resistance movements in World War II, none had the strategic impact of the Algiers underground. This talk will explore […]

  • The Annual Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture with Tanya Marie Luhrmann

    Virtual Event

    Merrill College Presents The Noel Q King Memorial Lecture: Voices of God, Voices of Madness Following Prof. Luhrmann's talk, she will be joined in conversation by award-winning author Laurie R. King. Tanya Marie Luhrmann is the Watkins University Professor in the Stanford Anthropology Department. Her work focuses on the edge of experience: on voices, visions, […]

  • Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series

    Virtual Event

    The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series. Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Anemones and Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, both movement-generated theory magazines; […]

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    The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies, a Conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein

    Virtual Event

    Join us for a conversation with Professor Sarah Abrevaya Stein and Alma Heckman as they discuss Professor Stein's book Family Papers: a Conversation about a Sephardi Jewish Family, Lived History, and Personal Letters. Stein will discuss her recent, award winning book, Family Papers, which traces the story of the Levy family of Salonica through the […]

  • Neferti Tadiar — A Physics Lesson: Notes on a Cultural Genealogy of Human Mediatic Forms

    Virtual Event

    This talk proposes a cultural genealogy of contemporary human mediatic forms – that is, the use of humans as the media of other humans. Beginning with a reading of José Rizal’s 1891 novel, El Filibusterismo, and its encapsulation of a political moment of transformation of natives (naturales) into nationals, indios into free citizen-subjects, Tadiar explores […]

  • #StopCVE: Challenging State Surveillance of Muslims in the Biden/Harris Era, with Fatema Ahmad

    Virtual Event

    In 2014, the Obama administration launched Countering Violent Extremism (CVE), a grant program that funneled federal money to police, universities, and nonprofit organizations in the name of combating terrorism. Although CVE and other “anti-radicalization” programs target Muslims and political activists, they have enjoyed support from some liberals who view anti-radicalization as a softer, more humane […]

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