Events
Our Mutual Friend Discussion Series: Parts XVI-XX
Virtual EventJoin Professor Karen Hattaway (San Jacinto College) for a series of discussions about the book that stunned Conrad and Dostoevsky. Our Mutual Friend by Charles Dickens Sept. 25, Oct. 23, Nov. 27, and Jan. 22 at 1:00-3:00 PM (PDT) | Virtual Events Charles Dickens published Our Mutual Friend in twenty monthly parts from May 1864 […]
Liora R. Halperin – The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream, but was later integrated, albeit ambivalently, […]
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
Humanities 1, Room 202Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
Virtual Event“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University
Living Writers – Jaime Cortez
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include "Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children" (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), "No Straight Lines," a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited […]
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryBay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog […]
Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850's, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says, "The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel, A Dangerous Business, is […]
Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesAccording to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz
Humanities 1, Room 202Uri Mor, UC Berkeley and Ivy Sichel, UC Santa Cruz Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Race, Violence, and Form in Nineteenth-Century Ireland
Dream Inn Santa Cruz 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis symposium will bring together invited speakers from the US and Ireland to examine how recent sea changes in the field of Victorian studies—particularly its embrace of critical race studies, strategic presentism, and new formalism—create space to rethink both Ireland’s place in 19th-century British literary studies and the pressures Irish literature and its contemporary reverberations […]