Events
Events
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
Santa Cruz Public Library - Downtown Branch 224 Church Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at […]
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
McHenry Library (3rd Floor), Special CollectionsJoin us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat […]
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the […]
Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Poet, visual artist, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). J Walking […]
Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
UCSCThe UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025. The […]
Frances Malino – Rediscovering Mazaltob: A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi Novel
Virtual EventProf. Frances Malino (Emerita, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press, 2024). Raised in the juderia or Jewish […]
The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
Stone Brewing Liberty Station 2816 Historic Decatur Rd UNIT 116, San Diego, CA, United StatesThe Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! The Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to […]
Elspeth Iralu – Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that […]
Asaf Elia-Shalev – Israel’s Black Panthers: How a Left-Wing Uprising Helped Pave the Way to Israel’s Right-Wing “Revolution”
Virtual EventIn Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the […]