Events
Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz
Humanities 1, Room 202Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAccording to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by […]
Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850's, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says, "The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel, A Dangerous Business, is […]
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryBay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog […]
Living Writers – Jaime Cortez
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include "Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children" (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), "No Straight Lines," a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited […]
Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
Virtual Event“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
Humanities 1, Room 202Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: […]
Liora R. Halperin – The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies […]
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
Virtual EventJoin Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, […]
Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
Virtual and In PersonA discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our […]