Events
Living Writers: Frances Richard
Virtual EventFrances Richard is the author of Gordon Matta-Clark: Physical Poetics (University of California Press, 2019), and co-author, with Jeffrey Kastner and Sina Najafi, of Odd Lots: Revisiting Gordon Matta-Clark’s “Fake […]
PhD+ Workshop – Grants and Fellowships
Virtual EventLearn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Saskia Nauenberg Dunkell (The Humanities Institute), Holly Unruh (Arts Research Institute), and Matthew Tedford. We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and questions for […]
Lily Balloffet, Argentina in the Global Middle East
Virtual EventLily Pearl Balloffet (Latin American and Latino Studies, UC Santa Cruz) will discuss her recent book, Argentina in the Global Middle East, in conversation with Devi Mays (University of Michigan). […]
Visualizing Abolition: Bryan Stevenson – Memory and Justice
Virtual EventFounder/executive director of the Equal Justice Initiative (EJI) Bryan Stevenson is the featured speaker for the second event in Visualizing Abolition, joining Gina Dent for a conversation about art, culture, […]
Anna Tsing – Feral Atlas: The More-than-Human Anthropocene
Virtual EventA collection of maps, a game, an archive, an analysis, a meditation on life on Earth: Feral Atlas is the cumulation of a five-year curatorial project involving more than a […]
Fascism and Organized Violence Symposium
Virtual EventThis symposium asks what the analytic of fascism offers for understanding the present authoritarian convergence. Panelists address the question of fascism as a geopolitically and historically diverse series of entanglements with (neo) liberalism, white supremacy, racial capitalism, imperialism, heteropatriarchy, and settler colonialism, and focus on the variety of antifascist collective organizing undertaken by Black, Indigenous, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Publishing Scholarly Works, Copyright
Virtual EventLearn how to publish scholarly work, from finding and evaluating a publisher to negotiating the publication contract and navigating copyright with Martha Stuit (Scholarly Communication Librarian, UC Santa Cruz Library). The Division of Graduate Studies' professional communication workshop on "Publishing Scholarly Works, Copyright" is co-sponsored by The Humanities Institute as part of our 2020-2021 PhD+ […]
Usha Iyer: Folded Corporeal Histories of the Hindi Film Dancer Actress in the 1950s and 1960s
Virtual EventUsha Iyer, Assistant Professor, Film and Media Studies, Stanford University, is the author of Dancing Women: Choreographing Corporeal Histories of Hindi Cinema (Oxford University Press, 2020), which examines constructions of […]
Living Writers: Khary Polk
Virtual EventKhary Oronde Polk is the author of Contagions of Empire: Scientific Racism, Sexuality, and Black Military Workers Abroad, 1898-1948 (UNC Press, 2020). A child of an African American military family, […]
Gina Dent, Debbie Gould & Savannah Shange – The Morning After: A (Post)Election Conversation
Virtual EventThe U.S. presidential election is on Nov 3. We will gather as a community the morning after to process the preceding night (and preceding years) and to think together about […]