Events
Events
Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder
Virtual and In PersonA discussion of excerpts from Wilder’s Concrete Utopianism: The Politics of Temporality and Solidarity. In his book, Wilder insists that we place solidarity and temporality at the center of our political thinking. He develops a critique of Left realism, Left culturalism, and Left pessimism from the standpoint of heterodox Marxism and Black radicalism. Concrete Utopianism […]
Monique Allewaert – Ground Has Eye: Anansi and Animist Multinaturalism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDrawing on an archive of nearly three hundred Anansi tales collected between 1814 and 1935, this talk documents the animist multinaturalism at stake in Jamaican Anansi tales. This form of multinaturalism contests colonial conceptions of nature as well as the ideas about language that follow on colonial nature. Using the power of puns, metaphors, rhyme, […]
Jennifer Morton – Moving Up Without Losing Your Way
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesUpward mobility through the path of higher education has been an article of faith for generations of working-class, low-income, and immigrant college students. While we know this path usually entails financial sacrifices and hard work, very little attention has been paid to the deep personal compromises such students have to make as they enter worlds […]
Tobera Project Talk Story: 1930 Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots
Virtual EventJanuary 19th marks the 93rd Anniversary of the Anti-Filipino Watsonville Race Riots. We invite you to join us for a Talk Story to honor the history of Fermin Tobera and Filipino Farmworkers. This Talk Story will be facilitated by Professor Steve Mckay and feature Poet Shirley Ancheta and acclaimed author Karen Tei Yamashita.
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. […]
Kaushik Sunder Rajan Reading Group – Mellon Sawyer Seminar on “Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine" will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director […]
Teach English in Spain
Humanities 2, Room 259The Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics in collaboration with Spanish Studies & Consulate of Spain in San Francisco is pleased to present Enrique Asorey Brey, Spanish Consul in San […]
Linda Garber – The Present in Our Past: Reading Lesbian Historical Fiction
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a guided tour of the pleasures and perils of lesbian historical fiction, as Linda Garber (author of Novel Approaches to Lesbian History) introduces the thrilling and heart-wrenching […]
Ethnographic Trans-formations: Cases, Life Histories, and Other Entanglements of Emergent Research
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mellon Sawyer Seminar on "Race, Empire, and the Environments of Biomedicine" will welcome, as a residential scholar, Kaushik Sunder Rajan, Professor of Anthropology and of Social Sciences and Co-Director […]
Living Writers – K-Ming Chang
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesK-Ming Chang is a Kundiman fellow, a Lambda Literary Award finalist, and a National Book Foundation 5 Under 35 honoree. She is the author of the New York Times Book […]