Events
Gabrielle Hecht – “Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene”
Social Sciences 1, Room 261 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Residual Governance: Mining Afterlives and Molecular Colonialism in a South African Anthropocene" This talk explores residual governance in contemporary South Africa. Since the early 20th century, piles of mine waste have defined […]
Christopher Breu: “In Defense of Sex”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesChristopher Breu: "In Defense of Sex" Lecture at 10am Are sex and gender the same thing? Are trans* and intersex the same thing? Do we even need the category of […]
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Christopher Breu: “The Post-PhD Path”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Post-PhD Path: Nourishing the Internal Career, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Writing RSVP for lunch at 12pm by emailing Janina Larenas (jlarenas@ucsc.edu) Christopher Breu is […]
Living Writers Series: Sherwin Bitsui
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOriginally from White Cone, Arizona, on the Navajo Reservation, Sherwin Bitsui is the author of two collections of poetry, Flood Song (Copper Canyon) and Shapeshift (University of Arizona Press). He […]
Mayanthi Fernando: “SuperNatureCulture: Human/Nonhuman Entanglements Beyond the Secular”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesMayanthi Fernando works on Islam, secularism, and the politics of difference in the North Atlantic. Her current project tracks the secular genealogies of the recent posthumanist turn. Reading this scholarship alongside […]
Unintelligible: Noise Against Capture
Graduate student conference exploring the potentials of a critical sound studies. This conference seeks to cultivate an interdisciplinary understanding of the field of Sound Studies by taking up the ubiquitous […]
FreePhD+ Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki: “Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry Library“Podcasting Pop Culture – Engaging Public Audiences in East Asian History” Stephanie Montgomery and Melissa Brzycki A Special PhD+ Event at the VizWall (DSC, McHenry Library) Consumable anywhere, podcasts have […]
Yiannis Papadakis: “Here/There: Immigrants, Comparison & Critique”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesYiannis Papadakis holds an appointment in the Department of Social and Political Sciences at the University of Cyprus, and is a visiting scholar at UCSC. Papadakis’s published work on Cyprus has […]
Living Writers Series: Leif Haven & Jared Harvey
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLeif Haven Martinson is a writer, poet, and designer. His first book, Arcane Rituals From The Future, was selected by Claudia Rankine as the winner of the 1913 Book Prize and published by […]
Alumni Weekend 2018
UC Santa CruzSAVE THE DATE Alumni Weekend 2018 April 27-29 For more info visit: alumniweekend.ucsc.edu