Events
Week of Events
Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Hong-An Truong: Refugee Returns
Using photography, video, and sound installation, Hong-An Truong engages questions about history and how knowledge is produced through media forms. Often drawing on her lived experience as the daughter of Vietnamese refugees, her work explores historical and political themes, especially around war, violence, and race. Truong's talk will focus on several recent projects that explore how citizenship and […]
Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
Carlos Motta – We The Enemy
In We The Enemy, Carlos Motta will present a series of recent and past works, including those exhibited at the Mary Porter Sesnon Gallery. Motta’s work documents the social conditions and political struggles of sexual, gender, and ethnic minority communities in order to challenge dominant and normative discourses through visibility and self-representation. As a historian […]
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
SOLD OUT: Chast and Marx – You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes the bestselling team of New Yorker illustrator Roz Chast and New Yorker contributor Patricia Marx for a presentation of their hilarious illustrated guide to love and relationships, You Can Only Yell at Me for One Thing at a Time: Rules for Couples. Everyone knows the tired, clichéd advice for a healthy relationship: […]
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Kenyon Branon: Locality and Anti-Locality – Two Case Studies
Much work in syntax suggests that there is a strong preference --- given two or more options --- for shorter dependencies over longer dependencies, often referred to as a locality condition. Cases where these conditions are apparently violated are therefore a general topic of interest. This talk presents two case studies of apparent violations of locality in […]
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation […]