Events
Tzutu Kan: Maya Hip Hop
Kresge Town HallTzutu Kan, hailing from what the Maya considered the belly button of the Universe -- Lake Atitlan in the vernal Guatemala highlands -- is a painter, sculptor, bio-builder, activist in […]
World Philosophy Day at Humble Sea Brewing Co.
Humble Sea Brewing Company 820 Swift St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorld Philosophy Day? Yes, it is a thing! Falling on the third Thursday of each November, World Philosophy Day celebrates the value and practice of philosophy. This year, The Center […]
Morton Marcus Poetry Reading with Gary Snyder and Special Guest Tom Killion
Music Recital HallView the full event recording online here. Event Photos by Crystal Birns: The Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading honors poet, teacher, and film critic Morton Marcus (1936–2009). Marcus, […]
Interdisciplinary Graduate Writing: Challenges and Strategies I
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDo you struggle with dissertation writing? Us too! This workshop will provide a peer-led space for conversation among graduate students engaged in interdisciplinary dissertation writing in the humanities and humanistic […]
Living Writers: Alexandria Marzano Lesnevich
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and the 2018 Chautauqua Prize. Named one of the best books of the year by Entertainment Weekly, Audible.com, Bustle, Book Riot, The Times of London, and The Guardian, it […]
Book Presentation: Jai Sen’s The Movements of Movements
Humanities 1, Room 202Join us as Jai Sen discusses his ambitious anthology on social movements with a panel of commentators including Michelle Glowa (CIIS), Deborah Gould (UCSC), and Patrick King (UCSC). Jai Sen is an activist/researcher/author on and in movement. Earlier an organizer, then a researcher into popular movement, for the past decade and more he has worked to promote […]
Peter Limbrick: “For a New Nahda – Moumen Smihi, World Cinema, and Arab Modernism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Limbrick’s forthcoming book on Moumen Smihi connects the Moroccan filmmaker’s modernism to the Nahda or “Arab Renaissance” of the 19th-20th century, which re-energized Arab culture in dialogue with other languages and discourses. Offering new ways to think about world cinema and modernism in the region, Limbrick argues that Smihi’s radically beautiful films take […]
Algorithms, Mobility, and Justice
Engineering 2, Room 599 Engineering 2 Building @ UCSC, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAre moral algorithms a reasonable solution for taking advantage of life-saving potentials of self-driving cars? In this talk, Neda Atanasoski (UCSC Professor of Feminist Studies) will engage the utilitarian framings that are dominant in the discourses on self-driving cars inclusive of the assumptions that are folded into the question above: that algorithms can be moral […]
Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 202"Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism" Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position […]
Living Writers: Duy Doan & Angie Sijun Lou
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuy Doan is a Vietnamese American poet and the author of We Play a Game, winner of the 2017 Yale Series of Younger Poets Prize. His work has appeared in Poetry, Poetry Northwest, Slate, and TriQuarterly. A Kundiman fellow, he received an MFA in poetry from Boston University, where he later served as director of […]