Events
Michelle C. Velazquez-Potts – Force-Feeding and the Suspended Animation of Torture
Virtual and In PersonSince 2002, prisoners at Guantánamo Bay detention camp have been force-fed as punishment for hunger striking, prompting the question of how to understand the feeding tube’s various uses as both […]
Living Writers: Samuel Ace
Virtual EventLIVING WRITERS UCSC, SPRING 2022 presents: CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS CELEBRANT: SOUND ACTIONS showcases interdisciplinary writers who deeply engage in various sonic forms, whether the libretto and the operatic, sound and […]
Suryakant Waghmore – Being an Ambedkarite Under Hindu Rashtra
Virtual EventSuryakant Waghmore is a Public Sociologist, Academic and Writer. Currently a Professor of Sociology at the Department of Humanities and Social Sciences, IIT-Bombay, he earned his PhD in Sociology as […]
Linguistics Colloquia: Nicole Holliday
TBD CA, United StatesAbout eight times 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
The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night featuring Maysoon Zayid
Virtual and In PersonThe Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, the College Nine & John Lewis College Programs Office and the College Nine Student Senate present: The 8th Annual AA/PIRC Comedy Night Featuring Maysoon […]
RESCHEDULED – Blossoms into Gold: The Croatians in the Pajaro Valley
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States** This event has been rescheduled for July 24th ** Of all the immigrant groups who flocked to California in the last two hundred years, probably the least known are […]
Mieko Kawakami in Conversation with Ruth Ozeki
Virtual EventBookshop Santa Cruz welcomes Mieko Kawakami, bestselling author of Breasts and Eggs, for an online discussion of her new, extraordinary novel—All the Lovers in the Night, in which she demonstrates […]
Filippo Gianferrari – Dante and Boccaccio vs. Medieval Education: A Lesson in Cross-Cultural Pastoral
Virtual and In PersonReaders have always been fascinated by Dante’s distinctive habit of placing episodes from Scripture side by side with ancient pagan myths, as though the latter had a comparable authority. As […]
Deep Read 2022 Faculty Salon
Cowell Ranch Hay Barn Ranch View Rd, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoin us for a discussion with campus faculty and the Deep Read community at the 2022 Deep Read Salon where we’ll discuss Yaa Gyasi’s Transcendent Kingdom. UCSC Chancellor Cynthia Larive—an […]
Harjeet Grewal – Janamsakhis and Sikh Epistemology
Virtual EventThe Sikh tradition produced some of the earliest vernacular prose narratives beginning in the mid-sixteenth century known as Janamsakhis. These accounts of Guru Nanak Sahib’s life remain central to the […]