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  • Laurie Palmer: “Public Sun”

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

    "Public Sun"   A. Laurie Palmer ’s place-based work takes form as sculpture, public projects, and writing, and she collaborates on strategic actions in the contexts of social and environmental justice. Her book In the Aura of a Hole: Exploring Sites of Material Extraction (2014) investigates what happens to places where materials are removed from […]

  • Safiya Noble

    Rescheduled to MARCH 12: Safiya Noble, Algorithms of Oppression: How Search Engines Reinforce Racism

    Kresge Town Hall

    THIS EVENT HAS BEEN POSTPONED UNTIL MARCH 12. Please join us then. The landscape of information is rapidly shifting as new imperatives and demands push to the fore increasing investment in digital technologies. Yet, critical information scholars continue to demonstrate how digital technology and its narratives are shaped by and infused with values that are […]

  • MLK Convocation: Melissa Harris-Perry

    Santa Cruz Civic Auditorium

      The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university.   Speaker: […]

  • John Dizikes Memorial

    Stevenson Event Center

    John Dizikes, a professor emeritus of American Studies and a founding member of the faculty of the University of California, Santa Cruz, died at his home in Santa Cruz on December 26, 2018. He was 86. Dizikes was a Harvard-trained historian who joined UC Santa Cruz the summer before the campus first opened its doors […]

  • Elizabeth Allen: “Sanctuary and Medieval Kings”

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

    "Sanctuary and Medieval Kings" - Elizabeth Allen  American nationalist discourse casts sanctuary as “illegal”, but actually the practice always bears a relation to the law: sanctuary cities, universities, and churches call law to account. Sanctuary has a long legal history. In the Middle Ages, felons could avoid death by running to the church, and kings bolstered […]

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    Dickens and the Disaster of Marriage

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

    On the occasion of Charles Dickens’s 207th birthday, please join us a festive evening of birthday cake, discussion about Victorian marriage with Dickens Project Co-Director Renee Fox, and a film screening. Charles Dickens is known for his marriage plots: no matter what kinds of twists and turns threaten the path of true love, in the […]

  • Living Writers: Steven Church

    Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Steven Church is the author of six books of nonfiction, most recently I'm Just Getting to the Disturbing Part: On Work, Fear, and Fatherhood, and he edited the essay anthology, The Spirit of Disruption: Selections from The Normal School. He's a Founding Editor and the Nonfiction Editor for The Normal School: a Literary Magazine as […]

  • Desmond Jagmohan: “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech”

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

      “Candor and Courage: Ida B. Wells and Fearless Speech” This paper explicates Ida B. Wells’s argument that journalists and leaders have a moral obligation to speak fearlessly. To do so, I unearth the normative relationship between candor, courage, and duty underlying Wells’s anti-lynching editorials and reporting during the Progressive Era. First, I recount Wells’s […]

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    An Evening with Madeleine Albright

    Bookshop Santa Cruz presents an evening with Madeleine Albright, the United States' first female Secretary of State, who will speak about her book, Fascism: A Warning, a personal and urgent examination of fascism in the twentieth century and how its legacy shapes today's world. This ticketed event will take place at theKaiser Permanente Arena and […]

  • Maitra Memorial Lecture / Foundation Medal with Janet Yellen

    Join us as we present the Foundation Medal to Janet Yellen, distinguished fellow of Brookings Institution and former chair of the Federal Reserve. UC Santa Cruz is proudly recognizing influential women leaders as we champion diversity in all areas of human endeavor. When Janet Yellen took office in 2014, she became the first woman to […]

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