Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 21, 2018
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Monday, October 22, 2018
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Tuesday, October 23, 2018
- October 23, 2018 -Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Micah Perks Book Launch: True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape
Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute welcomes local author Micah Perks to celebrate the publication of her new book, True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape. Magical and funny, profound and seductive, the linked stories in True Love and Other Dreams of Miraculous Escape explore the life-bending power of love. In these interwoven lives, ardent desire […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2018
- October 24, 2018 -CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
CANCELED: Cultural Studies Colloquium with Ashwini Tambe
“Tropical Exceptions - Racial Logics in Twentieth Century Intergovernmental Age of Consent Debates" Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those […]
Thursday, October 25, 2018
- October 25, 2018 -VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
- October 25, 2018 -Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
VENUE CHANGE: Living Writers – Khary Polk
Khary Polk is an Assistant Professor of Black Studies & Sexuality, Women's and Gender Studies at Amherst College. He attended Oberlin College as an undergraduate, where he majored in English with a concentration in Creative Writing, and received his Ph.D. in American Studies from New York University. Polk has written for the Studio Museum of […]
Markus Zusak: Book Discussion and Signing – Bridge of Clay
Markus Zusak, award-winning and internationally best-selling author of The Book Thief and I Am the Messenger, will celebrate the release of his highly-anticipated new book, Bridge of Clay, at an offsite and ticketed event. An unforgettable and sweeping family saga, written in powerfully inventive language and bursting with heart, as signature Zusak. Tickets for this celebration and book signing event are […]
Friday, October 26, 2018
- October 26, 2018 -Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
- October 26, 2018 -DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Sanctuary & Subjectivity Practices Workshop
Event Photos: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm Session 1: Chair: Prof. Megan Thomas "Re-rooting 'We Refugees': Lessons on the Conditions of Displacement from Hannah Arendt and Simone Weil" - Dr. Scott Ritner "Sites of Emancipation: Contributions from a Rancièrian Perspective" - Hannes Glück "Humanitarian Subjects in Neoliberal Times" - Veronika Zablotsky 12:00-1:30 pm: Lunch Break 1:30-3:30 pm Session 2: Chair: […]
DATE CHANGE – Anne McNevin – “Time, Sanctuary and Decoloniality: Notes from Manus Island Prison”
Please note that this event date has changed and will now be on Friday, October 26th, 2018 Event Photos: Anne McNevin is Associate Professor of Politics at The New School and is spending 2018-19 as a member of the School of Social Sciences at the Institute for Advanced Study, Princeton. Her work focuses on the […]
Saturday, October 27, 2018
- October 27, 2018 -Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
Linguistics Semantics-Pragmatics Workshop
More info at: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/conferences/index.html