Events
Events
Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan, Algeria, and the Western Sahara
Virtual EventIn the past several years, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019, President Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term. In the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front resumed its armed struggle in 2020 after the […]
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 […]
Aimee Meredith Cox — Cosmic Cartographies // BodyStorming
Virtual EventThis talk/participatory workshop will draw from the methods and theoretical orientation of two of Cox’s current projects. The first, Cosmic Cartographies, explores how people define and actualize strategies for Black […]
Jodi Dean: Anti-Communism and the Barriers to Liberation
Virtual EventCOVID, climate change, and capitalism present a set of fundamental crises. What will it take for the left to be adequate to the task of addressing them? This talk will consider the barriers constituted by the continuation of anti-communist assumptions. It will draw out the limits of left “assemblism,” state-phobia, and amorphous inclusivity and highlight […]
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 […]
Documenting Justice: Panel Discussion w/ Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, and guests
Virtual EventThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to present ‘Documenting Justice,’ a screening of short films curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones, professor, art, UCSC, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman, followed […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]