Events
FeaturedMorgan Parker – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Virtual EventPlease join us for the 11th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Morgan Parker. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement […]
Idan Landau: A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control
Virtual EventThe Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Idan Landau, from Ben-Gurion University of the Negev - Israel, speaking on A Selectional Criterion for Adjunct Control. Zoom Information will be emailed on Thursday, November 12, 2020 Nonfinite adjuncts display a non-uniform control distribution: While all adjuncts accept control by the local matrix subject (Obligatory Control, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Impassioned Online Teaching: Empathy, Embodiment and Radical Pedagogy in Practice
Virtual EventHow do we, as educators, create virtual experiences that are inclusive, engaging, and impactful for our students? How can we make remote conditions more intimate, accessibility more equitable, and our classrooms more collaborative? What do design strategies grounded in compassion and creativity look like? From decolonizing the syllabus to somatic abolitionism and interactive storytelling, this […]
Moor Mother + Rasheedah Phillips: Black Quantum Futurism
Virtual EventThe exhibition is Moor Mother—a Philadelphia artist praised as part of “a new generation of visionary black storytellers” (The New York Times—premieres a new video followed by a discussion of […]
Victorian Kitchens & Cocktails
Virtual EventDust off your copies of What Shall We Have for Dinner? by Lady Clutterbuck and Mrs. Beeton's Book of Household Management and join us for three interactive sessions exploring Victorian kitchens and cocktails. Dickens Project alumna Liz Pollock explores food and drink preparation in the Victorian kitchen. In subsequent lessons, she will demonstrate how to make delicious beverages […]
PhD+ Workshop – Getting Hired at a California Community College
Virtual EventA panel discussion with current and recent instructors at California Community Colleges, who are all UC Santa Cruz graduate student alumni, including: Beth Au, Moderator Director California Community Colleges Registry Francesca Caparas, Panelist M.A. Literature English Professor and Faculty Coordinator, Jean Miller Resource Room for Women, Genders, and Sexuality De Anza College Sarah Gerhardt, Panelist […]
Visualizing Abolition: Visuality and Carceral Formations – Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff
Virtual EventThe third event in the Visualizing Abolition series brings together visual and cultural theorists Nicole Fleetwood, Herman Gray, and Nicholas Mirzoeff to consider the roles of visual culture in normalizing […]
Vicente Rafael & Jorgge Menna Barreto – Authoritarianism in the Philippines and Brazil
Virtual EventThis dialogic colloquium enjoins us to learn about and reflect on authoritarianism in Rodrigo Duterte’s Philippines and Jair Bolsonaro’s Brazil. In each of these democracies, what histories and dynamics have […]
Pascha Bueno-Hansen: Dissident Genders and Sexualities in the Andes – Transitional Justice Otherwise
Virtual EventCo-presented with Research Center for the Americas, Dr. Pascha Bueno-Hansen will provide a lunch time webinar lecture on the modalities of resistance of people of non-normative genders and sexualities to […]
Living Writers: Dawn Lundy Martin
Virtual EventDawn Lundy Martin is an American poet and essayist. She is the author of four books of poems: Good Stock Strange Blood, winner of the 2019 Kingsley Tufts Award for […]