Events
Events
Bia Labate: Dilemmas of Ayahuasca Globalization in the 21st Century
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe use of the psychedelic plant brew ayahuasca has expanded significantly during the last 50 years. Once only known to Amazonian communities, ayahuasca is now used in diverse social and cultural contexts across the world. The Brazilian ayahuasca religions, originating with the Santo Daime in Brazil founded in the 1930s, are now internationally recognised and […]
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a […]
What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBetween Instagram, Facebook and TV, we're presented with more media and more stories than ever before. But how many of them really stick with us at the end of the day? Former This American Life producer and Emmy-winning journalist Stephanie Foo (Stevenson '08, modern literature) gives a talk about how to find important stories that tug […]
“Free Men” Film Screening
FeaturedThe Nickelodeon Theatre 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFree Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
Resource Center for Non ViolenceThe “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” […]
Living Writers: Juan Martinez
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli – The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of […]
UPDATE: “Unrest” Film Screening
FeaturedDel Mar Theatre2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will […]
Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction […]