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Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails

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

How did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no closure of Rikers in sight? The tragic story of recent jail reform efforts in New York City is at once novel, and indicative of broader […]

PhD+ Workshop – Carole McGranahan, “Drafting Stages”

Zoom CA, United States

Join UCSC's Dr. Gina Athena Ulysse in a series of intimate conversations with speakers working inside and outside of academia and at different points in their careers about writing as […]

ACLS Workshop with Joy Connolly

Humanities 2, Room 259

Professor Connolly will present an overview of current American Council of Learned Societies programs in support of humanistic scholarship, including fellowships, grants, and projects accelerating equity and progressive change; She […]

PhD+ Workshop – Psychology of Writing

Virtual and In Person

Sometimes we can be our severest writing critics and biggest hindrances to writing success. Learn about the VOCES Graduate Student Writing Center (for graduate students only) and how to overcome […]

Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929

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

In the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in Jerusalem, divided the world-wide Jewish Left into those who sympathized with the Arabs and those who condemned the violence as a new manifestation of the […]

Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)

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

This talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal of reason under the pretext of law, Ray makes an appeal on behalf of the visual image as a critique of reason rather than its […]