Events
PhD+ Workshop – Memory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact
Virtual EventMemory Work: Oral History as Toolkit for Creating a Living & Making an Impact Join oral historian Cameron Vanderscoff to discuss the practice of oral history in times of crisis. […]
Kathryn Davidson Linguistics Colloquium
Virtual EventFor more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don’t Exist
Virtual EventNPR science reporter Lulu Miller will discuss her fantastic nonfiction debut Why Fish Don't Exist: A Story of Loss. Love, and the Hidden Order of Life (available in paperback on […]
Abolition from the Inside Out w/ jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young
Virtual EventThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to partner with the Legal Studies Program to present jackie sumell, Albert Woodfox, and Tim Young. Award-winning artist jackie sumell works […]
Rebecca Hernandez — Categories, Identities, and Objects: Naming Native Art
Virtual EventThis presentation will examine the inherent complexities in the academic study and public representation of American Indian culture(s), and how the categorization and defining of Native American objects aids in […]
Reparations for Black Americans: The Road to Racial Equality in California and Beyond
Virtual EventIn 2020, California established the nation’s first state task force to study and make recommendations on reparations for the institution of slavery, the atrocities that followed the end of slavery, […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
FeaturedSaidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
Virtual EventThe Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free, live, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life, the intersections between history […]
(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
Virtual EventDread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray, UC Davis, will join him in […]