Events
Events
Cinthya Martinez – Toxic Caging!: Abolish ICE & Feminist Resistance
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk looks at the Adelanto ICE Processing Center in California and the grassroots movement to abolish ICE led by formerly detained migrants and local activists. It focuses on the […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library […]
Lisa Wedeen – Whose Dialectic? Thinking with Fanon, Žižek, and Al Attar
Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk begins with a question inspired by the work of the anthropologist David Scott, as to whether radical social transformation can remain a credible historical possibility if it is […]
Lana Tatour – Race and the Question of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by The Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and The Center for Racial Justice Join us for conversation with Lana Tatour, in dialogue with Muriam Haleh […]
The Sheikh’s Jews: Muslim-Jewish Relations in Interwar Algeria
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents, The Helen Diller Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies. Until the middle of the twentieth century, Algeria hosted an array of Jewish communities—some deeply-rooted, others […]
Geetha Sukumaran – Kanji Before and After Mullivaikkal: Resistance Histories of Jaffna
Virtual EventTamils in Northern and Eastern Sri Lanka endured a protracted civil war that ended in 2009 in Mullivaikkal. During the war’s end, hundreds of thousands of Tamils were murdered and […]
Fanon in Documentary Film: Algerian Legacies
Communications 150, Studio CFilm Screening: 5:30-7pm, Communications 150, Studio C Panel Discussion and Audience Q&A: 7-8pm, Communications 150, Studio C Reception: 8-9pm, Communications 139 Marking the centenary of Frantz Fanon’s birth, the Center […]
UC Maghreb Workshop
Virtual and In Person +1 moreThis workshop will bring together over a dozen scholars from the UC-system who research the Maghreb to share their work and exchange ideas. It is designed as a way of […]
Susan Slyomovics – Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United States +1 moreIn this talk, Susan Slyomovics will discuss her new book, Monuments Decolonized: Algeria’s French Colonial Heritage. "Statuomania" overtook Algeria beginning in the nineteenth century as the French affinity for monuments […]
Saturday Shakespeare – Henry IV, Part 1
Virtual and In PersonSaturday Shakespeare in Santa Cruz Presents Henry IV, Part 1 by William Shakespeare Aptos Library on January 10, 17, 24, 31 & February 7, 2025 at 10:15 a.m. in the Aptos Library […]