Events
Week of Events
How to Live Like Shakespeare
How to Live Like Shakespeare
This series of noontime conversations will feature key passages by Shakespeare, selected for what they reveal about life and living. What are the virtues or capacities that Shakespeare took to be essential to social, spiritual, and civic happiness? How do Shakespeare’s speakers think out loud about values and ends, and how does Shakespeare think in […]
Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
Saidiya Hartman: The Afterlife of Slavery
The Humanities Institute is honored to welcome esteemed Professor Saidiya Hartman for a free, live, online conversation about her relationship to the archives of Black life, the intersections between history and literature, and the politics of memory. Confronting slavery and its long, unfinished aftermath, Hartman’s work is a brave, imaginative, genre-bending exercise in historical resurrection. […]
(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
(Re)Enacting Revolution: Dread Scott and Erin Gray
Dread Scott's recent large-scale art project, Slave Rebellion Reenactment, was a community-engaged performance reenacting the largest rebellion of enslaved people in U.S. history. Prof. Gray, UC Davis, will join him in conversation about art, revolution, and reenactments. This is the next event in Visualizing Abolition, an online program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their […]
Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing
Susan Lepselter — Left-Standing
Left-Standing is a performance of written and video poems. The video does not illustrate the writing; rather the two media become an interconnected poetics. Together, these forms of poetry engage visual, aural, and affective dimensions of ordinary human encounters with the nonhuman world. The overall scenario presents encounters both with animals who wander a suburban […]
Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
Lunchtime chat with Humanities Dean Jasmine Alinder
Please join the Humanities Division's newest Dean, Jasmine Alinder, to hear her thoughts on her first year as Dean as well as her inspirational vision for the growth and development of the Humanities Division. A brief talk on these topics will be followed by a casual question and answer period. All are welcome!
Living Writers: Anthony Cody
Living Writers: Anthony Cody
Anthony Cody is the author of Borderland Apocrypha, winner of the 2018 Omnidawn Open Book Prize selected by Mei-mei Berssenbrugge, and finalist for a 2020 National Book Award. He is a CantoMundo fellow from Fresno, California. His poetry has appeared in Gulf Coast, Ninth Letter, The Boiler, ctrl+v journal, among others. Anthony is a member […]
Michelle Sheehan Linguistics Colloquium
Michelle Sheehan Linguistics Colloquium
For more information, please see the Linguistics Department Colloquia page.
Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan, Algeria, and the Western Sahara
Conflict and Revolutionary Possibility in North Africa: Sudan, Algeria, and the Western Sahara
In the past several years, moments of political opposition and revolutionary possibility have continued to unfold across North Africa. In 2018, protest erupted in Sudan. Algeria followed when in 2019, President Bouteflika announced his intention to seek a fifth term. In the Western Sahara, the Polisario Front resumed its armed struggle in 2020 after the […]