Events
Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSC
Living Writers: Wendy Trevino and Tatiana Luboviski-Acosta
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWendy Trevino is the author of Cruel Fiction (Commune Editions, 2018). She hails from the Rio Grande Valley and works as a grant writer in San Francisco, California, where she lives.Wendy Trevino was born and raised in the Rio Grande Valley of South Texas. She lives & works as a grant writer in San Francisco. […]
Susanah Shaw Romney, “Unfree Intimacies: Gender and the Taking of Terraqueous Space at Batavia in the Seventeenth Century”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesColonization is not a one-time land grab, but rather an ongoing process of claiming space. Batavia, as the Dutch urban port city on Java in the seventeenth century was known, provides an opportunity to explore the role of gender in this unfolding process. There, the appropriation of local and regional terraqueous space relied on […]
Ahmed Kanna: “De-Exceptionalizing the Arab Gulf: Bringing back Class Struggle & Social Reproduction”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDiscourses of urban knowledge professionals (architects, PR professionals, etc.) on the Arab Gulf city have framed this city as an “laboratory,” a “sci-fi” space, and generally have disconnected the space from its social and historical contexts. In this paper I argue that a Marxist or class struggle perspective can best highlight how such discourses […]
Counterpoints Book Launch
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCounterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring […]
Vanessa Ogle: “‘Funk Money’: Decolonization and the Expansion of Tax Havens, 1950s-1960”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk explores the emergence of modern offshore tax havens as a way to reopen the history of the decades ca. 1920s-1980s. During these decades an archipelago of distinct legal spaces appeared in a world otherwise increasingly dominated by more sizable nation-states. Tax havens were particularly important among these spaces, reaching from the Channel […]
Doing Scholarship in Public: Podcasts, Print Media, and the Urgency of the Humanities
Humanities 1, Room 202An informal conversation and open Q & A with Barry Lam about his work as a public scholar, launching a podcast, and his advice about getting started in public scholarship.
Bernard Harcourt: “The Counterrevolution Takes a New Right Turn”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesBernard E. Harcourt is a contemporary critical theorist and social justice advocate. Harcourt is the Isidor and Seville Sulzbacher Professor of Law and Professor of Political Science at Columbia University. He is the founding director of the Columbia Center for Contemporary Critical Thought at Columbia University. He is also a Directeur d’études (chaired professor) […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Sandy Chung
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSandy Chung, UC Santa Cruz, is committed to the idea that lesser-studied languages have as much to contribute to syntactic theory as do languages like English, French, and Italian. These interests have shaped her research on syntactic theory and Austronesian languages. Chung began doing fieldwork on Maori, Tongan, and Samoan (all languages of the South […]
PhD+ Workshop – The Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Future of the Humanities: High School Teaching and Innovative Curriculum with Adam Casdin (Horace Mann School, Bronx, NY) Independent high schools, committed to the humanities and able to develop and introduce major curricular initiatives quickly, may be students last experience of a broad-based, non-professionalized education. What does the future of teaching and learning look […]