Events
Week of Events
Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred
Book Talk: Elaine Sullivan, Constructing the Sacred
Elaine Sullivan will discuss her recently published "born-digital" monograph, Constructing the Sacred: Visibility and Ritual Landscape at the Egyptian Necropolis of Saqqara (Stanford University Press, 2020). Using 3D models of the ancient Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara, the online, interactive monograph addresses ancient ritual landscape from a unique perspective. Sullivan focuses on how changes in the […]
Queering the Undocumented Archive: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado
Queering the Undocumented Archive: A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado
The Program in Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and the Center for Racial Justice is proud to present: Queering the Undocumented Archive - A Conversation with Yosimar Reyes and Julio Salgado. Click here to learn more about Dreamers Adrift: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8eSpVOw3nBo&t=5s Free and open to all. Julio Salgado is the co-founder of Dreamers Adrift and the […]
Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark
Abolitionist Feminisms: Beth Ritchie, Erica Meiners, and Sonya Clark
Beth Richie, University of Illinois, Chicago, Erica Meiners, Northeastern Illinois University, and Soyna Clark, Amherst College, Western Massachusetts, join us for a conversation on feminist―queer, anti-capitalist, grassroots, and women of color— organizing and abolition for the next Visualizing Abolition event. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina Dent […]
Abou Farman — Terminality as Performance
Abou Farman — Terminality as Performance
Over the last eight months, the lines separating private from public domains of grief, protest from mourning, dying from being killed, the dead from the living, the fleshly from the pixellated, have been blurred. Through sound, theory, image, and affect, Farman and his collaborators explore some practices of daily resurrection and critical mourning. RSVP by […]
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us
Heather McGhee, The Sum of Us
Bookshop Santa Cruz, in partnership with The Humanities Institute, Marcus Books, and the NAACP Santa Cruz County Branch, present author Heather McGhee in conversation with Alicia Garza, Principal at Black Futures Lab and co-creator of #BlackLivesMatter. McGhee's new book, The Sum of Us, is a powerful exploration about the self-destructive bargain of white supremacy and […]
Deep Read Salon: Going Deep with There There
Deep Read Salon: Going Deep with There There
Professors Mayanthi Fernando (Anthropology), Katie Keliiaa (Feminist Studies & Indigenous Studies), and Renya Ramirez (Anthropology) will participate in a salon-style conversation about the novel, sharing their intelelctual approaches to the work and answering questions from the Deep Read community. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to […]
Bryan K. Roby: Blackness in Israel
Bryan K. Roby: Blackness in Israel
Bryan K. Roby (University of Michigan) will speak in HIS 74B on his book titled The Mizrahi Era of Rebellion: Israel's Forgotten Civil Rights Struggle 1948-1966 (Syracuse University Press, 2015) and about his ongoing research regarding Blackness and Mizrahi history in Israel. This talk explores the works of poet activists, artists, and slam poets of Yemenite […]
Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer: Indigenous Feminism and Language Reclamation
Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer: Indigenous Feminism and Language Reclamation
Dr. Nitana Hicks Greendeer joins us to speak about the Wôpanâak Language Reclamation Project, profiled in the documentary, "We Still Live Here." The film tells the story of the cultural revival of the Wampanoag of Southeastern Massachusetts and the return of the Wôpanâak language, silenced for more than a century. It is recommended that attendees […]
Living Writers: Danusha Lemeris and Tess Taylor
Living Writers: Danusha Lemeris and Tess Taylor
Danusha Laméris’ first book, The Moons of August (Autumn House, 2014), was chosen by Naomi Shihab Nye as the winner of the Autumn House Press poetry prize. Some of her poems have been published in The Best American Poetry, The New York Times, The American Poetry Review, The Gettysburg Review, Ploughshares, and Tin House. She’s […]
Deep Read Salon: A Discussion with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Deep Read Salon: A Discussion with the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band
Discuss the Tommy Orange's There There with members of the Amah Mutsun Tribal Band, the Indigenous tribe native to the Santa Cruz region. This salon is for Deep Read Community members and will be held over Zoom. RSVP to get the Zoom link: RSVP About The Deep Read This salon is part of The Humanities […]
Latinos Modelos Conferencia Virtual 2021 – Latino Roles Models 2021 Virtual Conference
Latinos Modelos Conferencia Virtual 2021 – Latino Roles Models 2021 Virtual Conference
Un evento anual gratuito para estudiantes del condado de Santa Cruz desde el sexto grado a la universidad y sus familias, con profesionales latinos, estudiantes universitarios y talleres de información. Esta conferencia será en español con interpretación al inglés. Asistentes elegibles para premios. A free annual event for Santa Cruz County students grades 6 to […]