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  • Lit Quake

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Funny & 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 with noted writers Elizabeth  McKenzie, Micah Perks, Peggy Townsend, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented […]

  • David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Please 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. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation […]

  • 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 States

    Speaker: 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 Me with husband and film director Carl Lerner. The film is based on the highly controversial book by John Howard Griffin, a white writer who […]

  • Santa Cruz Film Festival: General Magic

    Colligan Theater at The Tannery Arts Center (View) 1010 River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Humanities Institute is pleased to sponsor Santa Cruz Film Festival's showing of General Magic. The multi-award winning documentary, is a tale of how a great vision, a grave betrayal and an epic failure changed the world. Spun out from Apple in 1990 to create the next big thing, General Magic shipped the first handheld wireless […]

  • CANCELLED Living Writers: Marcelo Hernandez Castillo

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 A. Poulin Jr. prize and winner of the 2018 Northern California Book Award. Cenzontle maps a parallel between the landscape of the border and the […]

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    RESCHEDULED Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series

    Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series.   Due to unforeseen circumstances Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor had to reschedule her engagement in Santa Cruz for January 23, 2020. Click here for updated event information.   Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on […]

  • Kresge’s Media and Society: Teju Cole (LOCATION/TIME CHANGED)

    Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join Kresege for the first Media and Society lecture of Fall 2019 with Teju Cole, a photographer, novelist, art historian, and the New York Times Magazine photography critic. He has recently co-authored a book on refugees and displaced people, titled Human Archipelago, and several of his recent pieces for the New York Times focus on the […]

  • Cultural Studies Colloquium: Anjali Arondekar

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    “What More Remains: Sexuality, Slavery, Historiography" This talk engages a ‘small’ history of sexuality and slavery in Portuguese India. At stake are three questions: How do we call attention to the displacement of slave pasts within histories of sexuality that are themselves routinely displaced?  How do we locate those displacements in itinerant archives of profit […]

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