Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 17, 2019
No events on this day.
Monday, February 18, 2019
- February 18, 2019 -Book Talk: Marlon James – Black Leopard, Red Wolf
Book Talk: Marlon James – Black Leopard, Red Wolf
We are thrilled to partner with Bookshop Santa Cruz to welcome award-winning author Marlon James for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated novel, Black Leopard, Red Wolf, which is already being touted as a book that "will come to be seen as a classic of our times." (NPR) "A fantasy world as well-realized as […]
Tuesday, February 19, 2019
No events on this day.
Wednesday, February 20, 2019
- February 20, 2019 -Jerry Zee: “Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
- February 20, 2019Gabriel Guillén: “¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines”
- February 20, 2019 -James Loeffler, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy”
Jerry Zee: “Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“
"Continent in Dust: China in Aerosol Phases“ Jerry Zee is an assistant professor at UCSC's Anthropology Department. His work considers experiments in politics and environments in China's meteorological contemporary. This talk offers a political anthropology of strange weather. As Chinese deserts increasingly appear as latent dust storms, it tracks geo-meteorological phase shifts as they rework […]
Gabriel Guillén: “¿Revolución o Candy Crush? Una conversación sobre y sus afines”
La presencia de 691 “startups” del aprendizaje de lenguas en Angelist.co, una plataforma de inversión, debería alegrarnos como estudiantes de lenguas. Su lenguaje es, sin duda, prometedor. Sin embargo, no es oro todo lo que reluce. En esta charla exploraremos la relación entre los eslóganes de estas empresas, sus posibilidades reales y la teoría de […]
James Loeffler, “The Right to Be Heard – Jews, Human Rights, and Global Democracy”
Event Photos by Crystal Birns: Presented by The Humanities Institute and The Center for Jewish Studies 2018 marked the 70th anniversary of the UN Declaration of Human Rights amid a time of crisis for global democracy. It is imperative that we revisit the history of the modern Human Rights movement and reexamine the relationship between […]
Thursday, February 21, 2019
- February 21, 2019 -Public Fellowship Info Session
- February 21, 2019 -Breanne Fahs: “Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism”
- February 21, 2019 -All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
- February 21, 2019 -Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
Public Fellowship Info Session
Curious about becoming a THI Public Fellow? Not sure how to find the right partner organization? If you're interested in exploring career opportunities beyond the academy or applying your expertise in the public sphere, the Public Fellowship program might be right for you. Please join us for an information session about The Humanities Institute's Public […]
Breanne Fahs: “Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism”
Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, […]
All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman An Intergenerational Dialogue and Panel Thursday, […]
Living Writers: Alex Marzano Lesnevich
UCSC Living Writers, THI and the Hichcock Poetry Fund presents a reading of author Alex Marzano-Lesnevich's book, "The Fact of a Body murder and a memoir and Kirstin Wagner. Alexandria Marzano-Lesnevich is the author of THE FACT OF A BODY: A Murder and a Memoir, recipient of the 2018 Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Memoir and […]
Friday, February 22, 2019
- February 22, 2019 -Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
- February 22, 2019 -PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner
- February 22, 2019 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
- February 22, 2019 -Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Breakfast seminar: All the Power to the People!
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies, Pilipinx Historical Dialogue, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, and Anakbayan Santa Cruz are pleased to present: ALL POWER TO THE PEOPLE! Asian American Radicalism, Bay Area Universities, and the Third World Liberation Front Featuring TWLF veterans Bruce Occena, Vicci Wong, and Emil de Guzman Breakfast seminar with pre-circulated materials * […]
PhD+ Graduate Student Workshop: Publishing Scholarly Articles with Gordon Hutner
Gordon Hutner is the editor of American Literary History, the scholarly he quarterly he founded 30 years ago. He is also the author or editor of numerous books and articles about American […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alirio Karina
Between Two Africas: "Nubia in the Ethnographic Imagination" This paper explores the region and anthropologized people, of Nubia, examining how they are produced as (inhabiting) a borderland between two Africas- North Africa and Africa "proper." By studying three museological movements in which the ethnographic appears and vanishes, together with two literary test animated by ethnographic […]
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]
Saturday, February 23, 2019
- February 23, 2019 -Translating America/America Translated Symposium
Translating America/America Translated Symposium
“Translating America/America Translated” is a two-day faculty-graduate student symposium on new hemispheric geographies and languages in pre-20th-century American literary studies. The symposium is funded by UCHRI and co-sponsoring units at UC Santa Cruz, UC Irvine, and UC San Diego. Highlighting translation, multilinguality and the transnational as indispensable features of literary studies today, the “Translating America/America […]