Events
Week of Events
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse
Description: This year’s program will feature fully-staged works in French, Japanese, Russian, and Spanish. English super-titles will translate each of the pieces. The French segment will be devoted to scenes from Jean Giraudoux’s comic fantasy, La Folle de Chaillot, (The Madwoman of Chaillot) directed by Miriam Ellis, while Spanish will present Fable, by Samaniego, with […]
Dr. Nikhil Anand: “Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban”
Dr. Nikhil Anand: “Waterlines: Uncertainty and the Future Urban”
The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Dr. Nikhil Anand Associate Professor of Anthropology University of Pennsylvania. Nikhil Anand’s research focuses on the political ecology of urban infrastructures, and the social and material relations that they entail. He is the author of Hydraulic City: Water and the Infrastructures of Citizenship […]
Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
Johan Mathew, “Smoke on the Water: Hashish Smuggling and Imperial Surveillance between Asia and the Middle East”
Johan Mathew’s current project, Opiates of the Masses: Labor, Narcotics, and Global Capitalism, explores the history of narcotics in order to interrogate the concepts of “consumer demand” and “rational choice” in market exchange, focusing on the consumption of narcotics by workers in Asia and Africa to alleviate the stresses of labor under capitalism. Johan Matthew […]
Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
Humanities Radio Hour: “Radical Jewish Politics with Alma Heckman and Tony Michels”
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Wed, May 24th at 12:00PM–1:00PM Interview with Professors - Alma Rachel Heckman Assistant Professor of History and Jewish Studies at UC Santa Cruz whose research crosses Jewish history, North Africa, French empire, and the history of social movements. - Tony Michels […]
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie
UCSC Night at the Museum – Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: by Crystal Birns Join us for "UCSC Night at the Museum - Radical Jewish Politics: From Marx to Bernie" at the Santa Cruz Museum of Art and History As we mark the centennial of the […]
Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” This event both addresses and pushes the standard canon to discuss a wide variety of contexts, not only on their own, but in conversation with […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
Linguistics Colloquium: Susan Lin
The Linguistics department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2016 May/June TBD: LURC: Linguistics Undergraduate Research Conference
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Yuki Obayashi
"This is Your Life": Hiroshima Maidens and the American ideological superiority in the midst of the Cold War In 1955, twenty-five female victims of the atomic bombing flown to the United States and received extensive plastic surgery to correct severe deformity from keloids. Initiated by the American journalist Norman Cousins and the Japanese minister Tanimoto […]
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
"Delinquency As Labor" Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level […]