Events

The Lin Family 's Shop (1959; dir. Shui Hua) China Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu    

This talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization. Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. […]

Juliana LesliePlease help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie's Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading at 6pm. "Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious… Maybe we […]

Aminda Smith’s forthcoming book, Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People focuses on Chinese Communist reformatories, where agents of the state worked to transform beggars, prostitutes, and other “vagrants” into new socialist citizens. She explores reeducation centers as both institutions and symbolic spaces through which “The People” were created. Aminda Smith […]

Deborah Miranda (Esselen/ Chumash) is the author of the poetry volumes The Zen of La Llorona (2005), Deer (2001) and Indian Cartography (1999). She will be reading and signing her […]

This paper insists on working, playing, and thinking in multispecies cosmo- politics in the face of the killing of entire ways of being on earth that characterize the age cunningly […]

Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary […]

Laborers in the Bracero Program The UC Humanities Working Group on Immigrant Labor and Changing Conceptions of Work is pleased to announce that Gilbert Gonzalez, Professor Emeritus of Chicano/Latino Studies […]

Javier O. Huerta is the author of American Copia: An Immigrant Epic (Arte Publico 2012) and Some Clarifications y otros poemas (Arte Publico 2007), which received the 31st Chicano/Latino Literary […]

Sikhi is like an ocean, boundless and all encompassing, composed of many shades and hues. During this conference, we will explore two of these colors. First, we will delve into […]