Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 9, 2020
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Monday, February 10, 2020
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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
- February 11, 2020Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
- February 11, 2020 -What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
Marcelo Hernandez Castillo, Children of the Land
Bookshop Santa Cruz welcomes award-winning poet Marcelo Hernandez Castillo for a discussion and signing of his new memoir about growing up undocumented in the United States. Children of the Land recounts the sorrows and joys of a family torn apart by draconian policies and chronicles one young man’s attempt to build a future in a […]
What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
Between Instagram, Facebook and TV, we're presented with more media and more stories than ever before. But how many of them really stick with us at the end of the day? Former This American Life producer and Emmy-winning journalist Stephanie Foo (Stevenson '08, modern literature) gives a talk about how to find important stories that tug […]
Wednesday, February 12, 2020
- Featured February 12, 2020 -Featured “Free Men” Film Screening
“Free Men” Film Screening
Free Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: […]
Thursday, February 13, 2020
- February 13, 2020Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
- February 13, 2020 -NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
- February 13, 2020Living Writers: Juan Martinez
Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
Please see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
The “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery and the […]
Friday, February 14, 2020
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Saturday, February 15, 2020
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