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  • Living Writers with Maria Elena Ramirez

    Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Maria E. Ramirez is a woman of Chicana, Puerto Rican, and Apache ancestry. She was actively involved in the student movement in the late sixties, where students, along with their parents, marched and demanded that their community be part of all the […]

  • The Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series: Andy Bruno – An Environmental History of the Tunguska Mystery

    Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd‎ University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The third annual Maya K. Peterson Explorations in History Seminar Series will take place on Thursday, May 15th, 2025, at 12:30pm at the Cowell Provost House. This event will be livestreamed and recorded (link to be provided soon). This year's guest speaker is Andy Bruno, Stephen F. Cohen Chair of Russian History and Professor, Indiana University Bloomington. […]

  • Ying Jin – Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms

    Humanities 2, Room 259

    Join the Department of Applied Linguistics for a professional development workshop featuring Ying Jin, the 2018 ACTFL National Teacher of the Year, who will present her talk titled "Nurturing Hearts and Minds: Implementing Social Emotional Learning Principles in World Language Classrooms." Refreshments will be provided. This event is funded by the Peter Rushton and Jacqueline […]

  • CANCELLED: Murad Idris – Dialogue for Hate: A Global Genealogy

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

    This lecture posits hate, dialogue, and their conjunction as fundamental for the contemporary moralization of violence and hierarchy. It analyzes how the two terms operate through a series of disavowals, displacements, and transubstantiations, tracking their place in the history of political thought, structures of minoritization, and contemporary formations where they became rhetorical vehicles and conceptual […]

  • Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries, including visions of techno-utopia, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. The panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. Panel Participants: Neda Atanasoski; Professor […]

  • Keith David Watenpaugh – Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?

    Porter 144 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, United States

    Keith David Watenpaugh will deliver the first talk in the CMENA Student Choice Speaker Series, titled "Who Has the Human Right to Charge Genocide?: Reclaiming Genocide as a Powerful Justice Tool Requires Moving Beyond the 1948 Genocide Convention." The 1948 Genocide Convention doesn’t work – at least not for peoples seeking justice for mass atrocity. […]

  • Akum Longchari – Reimagining Humanization, Just Peace, and Healing through an Indigenous Lens

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

    Join the Center for South Asian Studies for a presentation by Aküm Longchari, the Center’s Scholar in Residence. From an Indigenous perspective, peace processes in the first quarter of the 21st century have been focused on State-building, where questions of justice and peace remained a matter of privilege and power rather than a right of […]

  • Slugs and Steins with Associate Professor Muriam Davis – What Does it Mean to “Decolonize” Knowledge?

    Virtual Event

    The country of Algeria, located in North Africa, experienced one of the most violent struggles for independence of the twentieth century. The war against France, which lasted from 1954–62 has become a paradigmatic case study of the historical process known as decolonization and inspired classic films such as the Battle of Algiers, as well as […]

  • A Multidisciplinary Perspective on Italy and Its Culture

    Humanities 2, Room 359

    The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics and the Italian Language Program cordially invite you to a multidisciplinary event on Italy and its culture.  Well-renowned UCSC professors from a variety of disciplines ranging from literature to history, from science to engineering and computer science will offer a multidisciplinary perspective on Italy and its culture. Participants […]

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