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 […]
Documenting Justice: Panel Discussion w/ Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, and guests
Documenting Justice: Panel Discussion w/ Dee Hibbert-Jones, Nomi Talisman, and guests
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences is pleased to present ‘Documenting Justice,’ a screening of short films curated by Dee Hibbert-Jones, professor, art, UCSC, and filmmaker Nomi Talisman, followed by a panel discussion by the filmmakers. The documentary films on prisons and justice will be available to watch online between April 30 - May […]
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance
On Tuesday, May 4, 2021 at 5:30pm–7:00pm, there will be a University Forum to celebrate the launch of Counterpoints featuring original research from multiple campus contributors including SJRC’s Just Biomedicine research cluster and the No Place Like Home initiative. Counterpoints: A San Francisco Bay Area Atlas of Displacement and Resistance (PM Press) brings together cartography, […]
Larisa Jasarevic — Beekeeping in the End Times
Larisa Jasarevic — Beekeeping in the End Times
A family of would-be migrants reenacts a swarm hunt at their former apiary in northeastern Bosnia. Their folk spells were well-attuned to the sorts of crises that tatter old human-apian ties, except the latest: extreme weather and emigration. Meanwhile, one tepid February, shepherds reflect on gratitude as their sheep graze by the growing coal-power plant. […]
Living Writers: Toya Groves and Muriel Leun with Literature Graduate Student Mia Boykin
Living Writers: Toya Groves and Muriel Leun with Literature Graduate Student Mia Boykin
Toya L. Groves is a lifelong teacher and writer who currently works with formerly incarcerated students at Laney College in Oakland, California. She holds a BA in African American studies from UC. Berkeley, a MA in Women’s Spirituality from Sofia University, and an MFA in Creative Writing from Mills College. Her writing includes attributes that […]
Special Issue Launch: Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective
Special Issue Launch: Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective
This roundtable celebrates the launch of the Critical Ethnic Studies special issue “Borderland Regimes and Resistance in Global Perspective.” Taking up sites that range from US/Mexico, to the Mediterranean, to Palestine/Israel, and beyond, the special issue’s contributors move past superficial comparisons and think through the circulation of technologies, expertise, policing, and surveillance alongside the circulation […]