Events
Week of Events
Speculative Futures of Labor: New Feminist and Critical Race Approaches Symposium
This symposium features emergent approaches to labor in light of the surge of interest in technological socioeconomic transformations (including robotics, AI, and app-based on demand services).This symposium, held on March 2-3, is part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective (UCSD, UCR, UCI, UCSC) that over a period of two years will feature events which will […]
Beyond the World’s End Exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
In our current moment, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger, it’s crucial to ask how we might imagine a more socially just and ecologically sustainable future? But is the disaster ahead of us or behind us? Many people around the world--including […]
Sunday, March 1, 2020
No events on this day.
Monday, March 2, 2020
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 3, 2020
- March 3, 2020 -Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez – Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez – Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
For the last four years, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016, the U.S. government started to implement extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019, […]
Wednesday, March 4, 2020
- March 4, 2020 -Joseph Blankholm – The Rituals of Secular Purification: Four Ways to Purify Religious Pollution
- March 4, 2020 -Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
Joseph Blankholm – The Rituals of Secular Purification: Four Ways to Purify Religious Pollution
Being secular means not being religious, but it also means participating in a religion-like tradition. This paradox shapes the everyday lives of secular people, as well as institutions that depend on categories like secular, spiritual, religious, and superstitious. Relying on years of ethnographic research among very secular people, this lecture describes four ways of producing […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
How are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Black Audio Film Collective, Kahlil Joseph, Black Quantum Futurism, Danis Goulet, and Woodbine Collective. For more information on the Beyond the World's End […]
Thursday, March 5, 2020
- March 5, 2020CANCELLED – Living Writers: Konrad Steiner
CANCELLED – Living Writers: Konrad Steiner
Please note that this Thursday's Living Writers reader, Konrad Steiner, wanted to respect the graduate student strike and not cross the picket lines. His reading/performance will be rescheduled for next year. Konrad Steiner is a San Francisco based experimental filmmaker. He has been making 16mm films since 1981, and since 2004 has been working with […]
Friday, March 6, 2020
- March 6, 2020Considering Matthew Shepard
Considering Matthew Shepard
Matthew Shepard was a young gay man, beaten, tied to a fence, and left to die in the Wyoming countryside, 22 years ago. His death catalyzed a generation of poets, musicians and playwrights to change our attitudes about being different, and to embrace “the other.” This beautiful masterpiece has been called the first important major […]
Saturday, March 7, 2020
- March 7, 2020 -Caribbean Shores: Networks and Materalities, From Slavery to Freedom
Caribbean Shores: Networks and Materalities, From Slavery to Freedom
The past few decades have witnessed the rapid growth in interest by both historians and archaeologists, in the everyday lives of enslaved Africans in Caribbean colonial settings. At the same time, however, scholars in these closely related fields find few opportunities to interact and learn from one another. In light of this emerging demand for […]