Events
Jean Beaman – Suspect Citizenship
Virtual EventIncidents of state violence and activism against that violence illustrate the continuing significance of race and the persistence of white supremacy in France, the United States, and worldwide. Based on […]
Living Writers Series: Jane Wong
Virtual EventJane Wong’s poems can be found in places such as Best American Nonrequired Reading 2019, Best American Poetry 2015, American Poetry Review, POETRY, AGNI, Third Coast, New England Review, and others. Her essays have appeared in McSweeney's, Black Warrior Review, Ecotone, The Common, The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, and This is the Place: Women Writing About Home. A Kundiman fellow, she […]
Caitlin Keliiaa – Occupational Risk: Sexual Surveillance and Federal Regulation of Native Women’s Bodies
Virtual and In PersonThis talk examines how bodily regulation unfolded on Native women domestic workers in the early 20th-century Bay Area and how sexual surveillance in the Bay Area Outing Program affected Native […]
Mona El-Ghobashy – “Bread and Freedom: Egypt’s Revolutionary Situation”
Virtual EventBread and Freedom offers a new account of Egypt's 2011 revolutionary mobilization, based on a documentary record hidden in plain sight—party manifestos, military communiqués, open letters, constitutional contentions, protest slogans, […]
Bishnupriya Ghosh – Multispecies Distributions in the Epidemic Episteme
Virtual EventBishnupriya Ghosh teaches at the University of California, Santa Barbara. She has published two monographs, When Borne Across: Literary Cosmopolitics in the Contemporary Indian Novel (Rutgers UP, 2004) and Global Icons: Apertures to the Popular (Duke Up, 2011) on global media cultures. Her current work on media, risk, and globalization includes the co-edited Routledge Companion […]
Demystifying Book Publishing for FirstGen Scholars
Virtual EventJoin us for a panel with first-gen authors about their publishing experiences, followed by a presentation and Q&A with UC Press editors about common publishing topics, such as choosing the […]
Pamela Z – Seminar in Composition
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us on Monday, January 24, at 4:00 PM, for our keynote event in Pamela Z's 2022 UC Santa Cruz residency, jointly funded by the University Library, the Humanities Institute, and the Institute for Arts and Sciences’ Surge: Afrofuturism Festival. Pamela Z's residency begins with her January 24 seminar on composition, and culminates with […]
Xavier Livermon – Safe Houses? Queerness, Performance, and the Land Question in South Africa
Virtual EventDuring the height of COVID restrictions in 2020, a group of Black queer artists in Cape Town occupied a ritzy home that had been converted into an Air B and B. They intended to overstay their original booking in order to bring attention to the issue of inequitable housing policy in South Africa, and the […]
Living Writers: Karen Tei Yamashita and Eric Wat
Virtual EventAfter a long period of sheltering in place and an even longer period of restricting our daily movements, many of us are ready for change. This winter’s living writers all have stories of radical transformation to tell. TC Tolbert searches for a language to enact his transition from being Melissa to being TC; Jane Wong […]
The Kapany Collection–Sikh Art in America
Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery, Cowell College Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery brings you a remarkable collection of Sikh art from Narinder S. and Satinder K. Kapany. Narinder S. Kapany established an endowed chair in entrepreneurship, the […]