Events
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner – Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film “Black Like Me”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSpeaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg Vera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a pioneer of women's history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like […]
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. […]
Lit Quake
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFunny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird It’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSara Mameni “On the Terracene” This talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept […]
Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
Humanities 2, Room 259A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute This talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist […]
PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesLearn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University […]
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. […]
Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Humanities 1, Room 620 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a […]
The Original Thinkers Series: A Conversation About Oliver Sacks
Music Center Recital HallPlease note a recent change to our lineup: Peabody Award-wining journalist and producer Nikki Silva (Porter, '73) and Cowell College Provost Alan Christy will engage Ren Weschler in conversation about […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Elizabeth Marcus
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States“When is a Boycott a Boycott? Lebanon, Palestine and Hollywood, and the Arrest of Ziad Doueiri” This paper looks at the arrest and court case of Lebanese film director, Ziad […]