Events
Week of Events
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner – Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film “Black Like Me”
Blacklisted Jews Like Us: Gerda & Carl Lerner – Intersectionality, Experience as Deviants, and the Film “Black Like Me”
Speaker: Visiting FMST Scholar Vera Kallenberg Vera will discuss her research on the life of Gerda Lerner (1920-2013), a pioneer of women's history who co-wrote the 1964 film Black Like […]
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. […]
Lit Quake
Lit Quake
Funny & Peculiar: Santa Cruz Writers on Keeping it Weird It’s 2019 and it seems like things couldn’t get any stranger. What better time to mine the oddities of life with noted writers Elizabeth McKenzie, Micah Perks, Peggy Townsend, Liza Monroy and Wallace Baine? Moderated by Dan White and Amy Ettinger. This event is co-presented […]
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
Cultural Studies Colloquium: Sara Mameni
Sara Mameni “On the Terracene” This talk considers the Anthropocene from the perspective of artists working within areas devastated by the War on Terror. While the popularization of the concept of the Anthropocene dates to the early 2000s–the very moment of the declaration of the War on Terror–the two modes of imagining the geopolitics of […]
Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
Imagining Otherwise: Resisting and Queering Racial and Gender Violence
A Philosophy and MAP (Minorities and Philosophy) sponsored Colloquium. Co-sponsored by the Center for Public Philosophy and the Humanities Institute This talk will explore how gender violence intersects with racist and transphobic violence and how those intersections are erased or distorted in public discourse. Professor Medina will examine the communicative dysfunctions that exist around gender […]
PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships
PhD+ Workshop – Research Development: Grants and Fellowships
Learn about locating fellowship opportunities, framing your research for different funding organizations, and acquiring grants with Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polić, Suraiya Jetha (The Humanities Institute) and Kelly Anne Brown (Associate Director at University of California Humanities Research Institute). We’ll share advice about different types of awards and strategies for making your proposal stand out. Bring your ideas and […]
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing
Please join the Writing Program in celebrating UC Santa Cruz’s tenth annual Don Rothman Endowed Award in First-Year Writing ceremony on Friday, October 18 from 2:00-3:30pm in Cowell Provost House. Chancellor Larive, UCSC VPDUE Richard Hughey, Writing Program Chair Tonya Ritola, and Writing Program faculty members will be attending the ceremony along with this year’s […]
Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Discussion with Marcelo Hernandez Castillo
Join us to discuss excerpts from author Marcelo Hernandez Castillo. Please email Micah Perks at (meperks@ucsc.edu) for the readings and to RSVP for the discussion. Marcelo Hernandez Castillo is a poet, essayist, translator, and immigration advocate. He is the author of Cenzontle (BOA editions, 2018), chosen by Brenda Shaughnessy as the winner of the 2017 […]