Events
Living Writers: Juan Felipe Herrera
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBorn on the migrant roads of Central California, Juan Felipe grew up in the literary centers of the new Latinx Civil Rights Movement - San Diego, Los Angeles and San Francisco. There he was inspired by bilingual and Aztec, Mayan cultural roots, as well as urban, and multi-cultural and spoken word, jazz styles on community […]
Anne Donlon, “Making Scholarship Open with Humanities Commons”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryLearn how scholars have used Humanities Commons to work in public and to publish open access work. Scholars have used Humanities Commons to support their work in a number of ways: finding collaborators, researching, drafting, sharing work in progress, getting informal and formal feedback, publishing on a Commons site, or sharing work published elsewhere in our open access repository. This presentation will explore several options for engaging a broader […]
Borderbus: A Community Conversation about Migration, Art, and Social Justice – A Conversation between Felicia Rice and Juan Felipe Herrera
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin recent U.S. Poet Laureate Juan Felipe Herrera and Santa Cruz book artist Felicia Rice in an exploration of the powerful role that poetry and art can play in conversations about the pressing issues of immigration, belonging, and home. Herrera and Rice will be joined in this community conversation by representatives of local groups working on social justice and […]
FreeStevenson College Winter 2019 Distinguished Faculty Lecture: Phillip L. Hammack
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Sexual and Gender Diversity in the Era of Radical Authenticity" Professor Phillip L. Hammock will present on findings that challenge traditional scientific paradigms—historically rooted in static, binary notions of gender and sexual identity—and call for new understandings of identity, community, and stigma. The twenty-first century is a time of heightened recognition of diversity in gender, sexuality, […]
Camilla Hawthorne: “On Diasporic Ethics- Locating the Black Mediterranean in Italian Citizenship Struggles”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines the possibilities and limitations of the “Black Mediterranean” (which emphasizes the power-laden relations of cultural exchange and racial violence linking Europe and Africa) as an analytical framework for understanding the historical and contemporary forms of racial criminalization and racialized citizenship in Italy. The emergent "Black Italian" movement in Italy has been increasingly […]
Robert Nichols: Dilemmas of Dispossession in the Black Radical Tradition
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNumerous political and intellectual traditions have sought to leverage the language of self-ownership as a tool of radical critique, including Marxism, feminism, and Critical Race Theory. But do we 'own' ourselves in any meaningful or politically productive sense? This lecture considers the dilemmas involved in this question with particular reference to the Black Radical Tradition, […]
Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai’i: The Detours Project
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesFeminist Studies Colloquium: Curating a Decolonial Guide to Hawai'i - The Detours Project Vernadette Vicuna Gonzalez, University of Hawai'i at Manoa Friday, March 1 - HUM 1 room 210 12:00 to 2:00 pm Lunch will be provided Publishing Workshop: After the Colloquium, Prof. Gonzales, who is an Associate Editor of the American Quarterly journal, will conduct […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alessia Cecchet
Humanities 1, Room 420 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Eating and Resurrecting the Goats: Animal bodies, death, and Western cultural practices" According to Norse mythology, two male goats, Tanngrisnir and Tanngnjóstr, pull Thor's chariot. Once they have completed their labor, these animals can be eaten and resuscitated thereafter, in order to feed their god in an infinite loop of animal servitude. This myth epitomizes […]
Karen Tei Yamashita Celebration
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us in a joyous celebration on the occasion of the retirement of Karen Tei Yamashita. Karen Tei Yamashita is Professor of Literature and Creative Writing at the University of California, Santa Cruz. Living Writers reading featuring Karen Tei Yamashita, Seshu Foster, and testimonials from other UC Santa Cruz alumni. This event is sponsored by The […]
International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two leading feminist scholars. The first speaker is Dr. Ranita Ray of the University of Nevada, Las Vegas who will speak about her book The Making […]