Events
Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan – The High Cost of Outsourcing Thought: On the Ideology of Artificial Intelligence
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEach year, the TLC hosts a convocation to bring together educators across the campus and from the local community to explore significant topics in teaching and learning in higher education. Each year’s keynote address is free and open to the public. This year’s Convocation speaker will be Dr. Siva Vaidhyanathan, who will present his talk, […]
Amanda Batarseh – Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space
Virtual EventThe Center for Racial Justice (CRJ) is proud to present Rooted Movements: The Radical Poetics of Palestinian Space with Amanda Batarseh, Assistant Professor of Literature at UC San Diego. Analyses of Palestinian poetics often expose the violent structure of ongoing-Nakba — the Zionist settler-colonial uprooting and removal of Palestinians (both physically from the land and […]
Connections to land with Mercedes Dorame, joined by Aspen Mays, Unseen California
Digital Arts Research Center #108Mercedes Dorame uses her artistic process to examine and rebuild her relationship with the land. This talk will explore personal, social, and institutional connections to home, site, and land. These concepts intersect within her work as an Indigenous artist as she addresses both the taught and erased histories the land holds, as well as its […]
Debbie Millman – Love Letter to a Garden
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz presents Debbie Millman, award-winning artist, designer, and the host of the podcast Design Matters, will discuss her beautiful new book Love Letter to a Garden, a visual story of falling in love with gardening—and the philosophies that work conjures. Debbie Millman always thought of herself as a bad gardener. Nevertheless, she kept […]
TechnoScience Improv
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis roundtable improv (12.15-2.00pm) brings together ten UCSC scholars working on social, historical, and cultural studies of science, technology and medicine. The event will be structured around eight open, improvised conversations, each beginning with a question from a different panelist exploring emerging practices, speculative transformations, and critical imaginings of technoscience, health and ecology. Participants include: […]
Deep Read Salon: The Craft of James
Virtual EventJoin us for a virtual Deep Read salon on Percival Everett's James featuring UC Santa Cruz Professors of Literature and Creative Writing, Micah Perks and Karen Tei Yamashita. Professors Perks and Yamashita will discuss the writing craft and techniques of the novel, offering insights on the book from their perspective as novelists and memoirists. Their […]
Giuseppe Longo – From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe History of Consciousness department, in collaboration with the Humanities in the Age of AI Cluster, is pleased to present "From the Alphabet to AI: Discretizing the World" delivered by Giuseppe Longo. The talk will take place April 21st at 1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210, with a virtual attendance option available. To attend virtually, […]
Sir Isaac Julien – Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz
de Young Museum 50 Hagiwara Tea Garden Dr, San Francisco, United StatesWhen was the last time you felt inspired? Learned something new? Pushed boundaries? Let’s do that—again. Experience an exclusive UC Santa Cruz evening with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate with world renowned artist, and UCSC faculty member, Sir Isaac Julien whose retrospective exhibit Isaac Julien: I Dream a World is opening at […]
Asaf Elia-Shalev – Israel’s Black Panthers: How a Left-Wing Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Israel’s Right-Wing “Revolution”
Virtual EventIn Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim, led by […]
Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, present, and future, she will highlight […]