Events
Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine" will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director of the Chicago Center for Contemporary Theory at the University of Chicago. Professor Rajan's first two books focused on the global political economy of the […]
PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
Virtual and In PersonProfessional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Teresa and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! Teresa Hardy is […]
Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
Virtual EventJanuary 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. This Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
Jennifer Morton – Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesUpward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds […]
Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDrawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns, metaphors, rhyme, […]
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 political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism, Left culturalism, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism […]
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, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
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 emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream, but was later integrated, albeit ambivalently, […]
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: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
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