Events
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
Humanities 1, Room 202"Delinquency As Labor" Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
Humanities 1, Room 202"This is Your Life": Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
Humanities 2, Room 259The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
Humanities 2, Room 259Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: by Crystal Birns Join us for "UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History As we mark the centennial of the […]
FreeJohan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. Johan Matthew […]
Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
KZSC Santa Cruz 88.1 FMPlease tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Wed, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM Interview with Professors - Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements. - Tony Michels […]
Dr. Nikhil Anand: “Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban”
Humanities 1, Room 202The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship […]
Non-citizenship Fellows Forum with Emily Mitchell-Eaton, Claudia Lopez, and Tsering Wangmo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith support from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, the CLRC awarded two outstanding UC Santa Cruz graduate students year-long fellowships and hired a postdoctoral scholar as part of our 2016-17 Sawyer Seminar on non-citizenship. In this free, public forum, our three Mellon fellows will discuss their research and tell us a bit about what […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Kara Hisatake
Humanities 1, Room 202Pidgin Comedy in Hawai'i: The Queer Resignification of Settler Culture In 1970s Hawai'i, Pidgin, also known as Hawai'i Creole english, was the major medium of comedy because it was the language, visual culture, and attitude of the islands, a stark contrast to imported U.S. settle norms. Rap Reiplinger was a household name with his 1982 […]
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