Events
Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular […]
PhD+ Workshop – Accessing Campus Resources
Virtual and In PersonJoin the GSC grad peer mentor program for a presentation and discussion about the many campus resources available to graduate students. Representatives from multiple campus resources including CAPS, Slug Support, Basic […]
Living Writers – Shruti Swamy
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShruti Swamy is the author of the story collection A House Is a Body, which was a finalist for the PEN/Bingham Prize, the LA Times First Fiction Award, and longlisted […]
Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesParticipants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Junko Ito & Armin Mester
Humanities 2, Room 259Junko Ito & Armin Mester, 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 […]
The Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series
Virtual EventThe Mystery of Edwin Drood Discussion Series February 26, March 26, and April 30 at 1:00-3:00 PM | Virtual Event The next three Pickwick Club sessions will focus on Dickens’s […]
John R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture
Stevenson College Library Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn R. Rickford, Stevenson Distinguished Alumni Lecture. Rickford will read the UCSC chapter from his 2022 memoir Speaking my Soul: Race, Life and Language. This event will take place at the Stevenson College Library on February 28th at 3:30 PM, followed by a reception. Signed copies of the memoir will be available for purchase during the […]
Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image - As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Resettlement: Chicago Story
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryWhat is it like to be forced to leave your home, deny your heritage, and start over? Join us for the California premiere of Resettlement: Chicago Story, a new short fictional film and educational website, which explores how people of Japanese ancestry remade their lives in the Midwest after their wrongful incarceration during World War […]
Invited to Witness: A Book Talk with Prof. Jenny Kelly
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesInvited to Witness draws from participant observation of solidarity tours across Palestine and interviews with guides, organizers, community members, and tourists to explore what happens when tourism understands itself as solidarity and solidarity functions through modalities of tourism. Kelly argues that solidarity tourism in Palestine functions as a fraught localized political strategy and an emergent […]