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  • Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink

    Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]

  • Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun, which won the 2018 […]

  • Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better

    University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United States

    In the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We've got to do better. But how? Join us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with […]

  • Marc Herbst – “Culture Beside Itself: On Common Sociality and its Relation to More Law-Like Cultural and Governmental Forms”

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

    Marc Herbst will be presenting a talk titled "Culture Beside Itself: On common sociality and its relation to more law-like cultural and governmental forms," based on his ongoing research on social movements and eco-social planning and his part in the collective efforts of the 11th issue of the Journal of Aesthetics & Protest. These efforts […]

  • Student Meet and Greet with Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Join us to meet and talk with the award-winning NPR journalists Leila Fadel and Hannah Allam. The journalists have covered a wide range of questions concerning the Middle East, Islam in America, race, culture, and American extremism. Coffee and light refreshments will be provided.   Leila Fadel is currently a national correspondent for NPR, covering […]

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    Lukas Rieppel – Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition

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

    During the 1920s, researchers from the New York natural history museum led by Roy Chapman Andrews spent nearly a decade exploring the Gobi Desert in Central Asia. But they were expelled from their base of operations in northern China when the Guomindang party created a new state in Nanjing. Whereas Chinese intellectuals accused American paleontologists […]

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    Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East

    Kuumbwa Jazz Center

    The Humanities Institute and the Center for the Middle East and North Africa present: Questions That Matter: Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism Veteran NPR journalists Hannah Allam & Leila Fadel, in conversation with Jennifer Derr Associate Professor of History at UCSC, discuss their careers in journalism in the Middle East […]

  • Teaching in Tense Times: A Workshop on Academic Freedom, Inclusive Classrooms, and Some Challenges in College Teaching Today

    Alumni Room, University Center CA, United States

    The Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning and the Humanities Institute invite you to a workshop on academic freedom in the classroom environment with visiting scholars Andrea Brenner and Lara Schwartz. This hands-on workshop is open to faculty and graduate students from all fields who teach or plan to teach in higher education settings. […]

  • Latinos Modelos Conferencia/Latino Role Models Conference 2020

    Cabrillo College Crocker Theater 6500 Soquel Dr., Aptos, CA, United States

    Oradora Principal: Reyna Grande La galardonada autora de La Distancia Entre Nosotros ADMISIÓN GRATUITA para estudiantes (6th grado hasta la universidad) y sus familias Se ofrece almuerzo Sorteo Mesas de información Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés Keynote Speaker: Reyna Grande Award-winning author of The Distance Between Us FREE ADMISSION for students […]

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