Events
Special Issue Launch: Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective
Virtual EventThis roundtable celebrates the launch of the Critical Ethnic Studies special issue “Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective.” Taking up sites that range from US/Mexico, to the Mediterranean, to […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
Virtual EventTHI's Forgotten Wars Research Cluster and the Center for Racial Justice have partnered to present a conversation on the war-forged Korean adoptee diaspora with the director of Geographies of Kinship […]
Futures: Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition, the year-long program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition, concludes with a conversation on strategies, activism, and […]
Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Virtual EventSavcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation, which draws on the case of Turkey’s 16 years of AKP governance to intervene in Queer Studies’ separate — indeed, diagonically […]
Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
Virtual EventLegal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture presents Professor Noura Erakat (Rutgers University): Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle? More information and Zoom info: https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article.html This event is co-sponsored by THI's Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
Virtual EventEl objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk, también llamado High Rising Terminal (HRT), se trata de la entonación ascendente en enunciados declarativos. Generalmente se considera que el uptalk es un rasgo prosódico […]
Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
Virtual EventMorocco, and especially the desert oasis of Ouarzazate, is well-known as a destination for big-budget Hollywood film productions like The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988) and Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000). Well before those films, however, iconoclastic Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shot his Oedipus the King in the same region in 1966. […]
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Virtual EventForging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth century through World War II, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Virtual EventJoin the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and […]