Events
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” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery and the […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
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“Free Men” Film Screening
The 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: […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
Jeffrey Wasserstrom – Hong Kong on the Brink
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk will focus on patterns of protest and the tightening of political controls in Hong Kong during the last few decades, paying particular attention to the 2014 Umbrella Movement and the dramatic events of 2019. Jeff Wasserstrom, a historian of China who has been visiting Hong Kong regularly since 1987, will draw on his […]
Living Writers: Thirii Myo Kyaw Myint
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThirii Myo Kyaw Myint was born in Yangon, Myanmar and grew up in Bangkok, Thailand and San José, California. She is the author of the lyric novel The End of Peril, the End of Enmity, the End of Strife, a Haven (Noemi Press, 2018) and the family history project Zat Lun, which won the 2018 […]
Can We Talk? What Makes Campus Conversations So Tough, And How To Do Better
University Center, Bhojwani Room CA, United StatesIn the classroom and other campus spaces, scorn and indignation for people we disagree with are preventing productive discussion on contested issues. On especially hot-button topics, there's even a growing tendency to remain silent rather than risk rebuke. We've got to do better. But how? Join us for a presentation by and collaborative discussion with […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Nikos Angelopoulos
Humanities 1, Room 202Please see the Linguistics Department website for more information.