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  • Concrete Utopianism with Gary Wilder

    Virtual and In Person

    A 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 […]

  • Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX

    Virtual Event

    Join Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky.  Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]

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    Liora R. Halperin – The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream, but was later integrated, albeit ambivalently, […]

  • POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

  • Futures Lecture Series

    Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India

    Virtual Event

    “Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University

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    Living Writers – Jaime Cortez

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include "Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children" (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), "No Straight Lines," a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited […]

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    Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening

    Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History

    Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog […]

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    Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business

    Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850's, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says, "The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel, A Dangerous Business, is […]

  • Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling

    Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States

    According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by […]

  • Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz

    Humanities 1, Room 202

    Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html

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