Events

Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction Keynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean? Susan Gilman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature Lectures & Discussions: G.S. Sahota, UCSC Laura Brueck, Northwestern University Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Zoom: 99270004783 […]

UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks, our practices […]

Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The […]

The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20), these curious and vivid portraits function in a […]

Please join us on April 26, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, and view his film DOLORES, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. Peter Bratt (1986 Cowell […]

Eric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department. Recent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this […]

This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies  In Recording History, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In doing so, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed […]

–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.

Christian Ruvalcaba, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

Intense debate has recently been centered on the notion of a cosmopolitanism that arose with colonial era globalization. Cosmopolitanism naturally presupposes travel but what about those who stay at home? The migration of ideas and cross-cultural exchanges made possible by the spread of hegemonic languages and print culture created a virtual cosmopolis that has continued […]