Events
Monterey Bay Applied Linguistics Symposium
Humanities 2, Room 259Symposium Program 9:00AM- Opening Remarks: Bryan Donaldson, Mark Amengual, Kimberly Adilia Helmer 9:30-10:00 – Thor Sawin (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): From Serial Monolingualism to Polylingualism in the Field: Policy and Perspective Challenges in a Large NGO 10:00-10:30 - John Hedgcock (Middlebury Institute of International Studies): Obstacles and Opportunities in Cultivating Teacher Language Awareness 10:30-11:00 […]
Living Writers: Daniel Borzutzky
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDaniel Borzutzky’s latest poetry collection is Lake Michigan (Pitt Poetry Series, 2018). He is the author of The Performance of Becoming Human (Brooklyn Arts Press), recipient of the 2016 National Book Award for Poetry. His other books include Memories of my Overdevelopment (Kenning Editions, 2015); In the Murmurs of the Rotten Carcass Economy (Nightboat, 2015), […]
David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this paper, “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely, that the dispossessed had prior possession […]
A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine): ALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS, POLICING, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press, 2019) Co-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
CA, United StatesSandy Chung (UC Santa Cruz) presents The Ingredients of Control in Chamorro. About eight times each year, the department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For more information: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
FeaturedAntisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Paul Schraub: As Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred, and the planning of violent terror attacks. This year's UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these […]
Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Our Andromeda(2012), So Much Synth (2016), and The Octopus Museum […]
Deirdre de la Cruz: “Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands, psychic surgery achieved particular […]
Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam" The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum
Banu Bargu: “Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis paper analyzes Althusser's proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on "primitive accumulation." It identifies two different legacies of Marx's reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time, […]