Events
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesHow did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically […]
George Saunders, Liberation Day
Santa Cruz Veterans Memorial Building 846 Front Street, Santa CruzWe are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, […]
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
Virtual and In PersonLearn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that […]
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk describes a new book project, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and […]
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
Virtual EventPresented by NYU Libraries - Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. Communists in Closets: […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
Virtual and In PersonThe History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Virtual EventUsing an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex […]
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor […]
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. […]