Events
Events
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
Virtual EventOn Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 5:30pm–7:00pm, there will be a University Forum to celebrate the launch of Counterpoints featuring original research from multiple campus contributors including SJRC’s Just Biomedicine research cluster and the No Place Like Home initiative. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press) brings together cartography, […]
Larisa Jasarevic — Beekeeping in the End Times
Virtual EventA family of would-be migrants reenacts a swarm hunt at their former apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Their folk spells were well-attuned to the sorts of crises that tatter old human-apian […]
Living Writers: Toya Groves and Muriel Leun with Literature Graduate Student Mia Boykin
Virtual EventToya L. Groves is a lifelong teacher and writer who currently works with formerly incarcerated students at Laney College in Oakland, California. She holds a BA in African American studies from UC. Berkeley, a MA in Women’s Spirituality from Sofia University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Her writing includes attributes that […]
Special Issue Launch: Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective
Virtual EventThis roundtable celebrates the launch of the Critical Ethnic Studies special issue “Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective.” Taking up sites that range from US/Mexico, to the Mediterranean, to […]
How to Live Like Shakespeare
Virtual EventThis series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to […]
Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
Virtual EventTHI's Forgotten Wars Research Cluster and the Center for Racial Justice have partnered to present a conversation on the war-forged Korean adoptee diaspora with the director of Geographies of Kinship Deann Borshay Liem and adoption rights activist Kim Stoker, facilitated by Amy Ginther (Theater Arts). (About the film: In a tale about the rise of […]
Futures: Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
Virtual EventVisualizing Abolition, the year-long program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition, concludes with a conversation on strategies, activism, and […]
Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Virtual EventSavcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation, which draws on the case of Turkey’s 16 years of AKP governance to intervene in Queer Studies’ separate — indeed, diagonically […]
Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
Virtual EventLegal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture presents Professor Noura Erakat (Rutgers University): Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle? More information and Zoom info: https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article.html This event is co-sponsored by THI's Center for […]
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
Virtual EventEl objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk, […]