Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 9, 2021
No events on this day.
Monday, May 10, 2021
- May 10, 2021 -How to Live Like Shakespeare
- May 10, 2021 -Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
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 […]
Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
THI's Forgotten Wars Research Cluster and the Center for Racial Justice have partnered to present a conversation on the war-forged Korean adoptee diaspora with the director of Geographies of Kinship Deann Borshay Liem and adoption rights activist Kim Stoker, facilitated by Amy Ginther (Theater Arts). (About the film: In a tale about the rise of […]
Tuesday, May 11, 2021
- May 11, 2021 -Futures: Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
Futures: Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange
Visualizing Abolition, the year-long program featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition, concludes with a conversation on strategies, activism, and liberatory futures with Sora Han, Adrienne Maree Brown and Savannah Shange. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Professor Gina […]
Wednesday, May 12, 2021
- May 12, 2021 -Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
- May 12, 2021 -Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
- May 12, 2021 -Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
- May 12, 2021 -Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
Savcı will speak about her book Queer in Translation, which draws on the case of Turkey’s 16 years of AKP governance to intervene in Queer Studies’ separate — indeed, diagonically opposed — approaches to neoliberalism and to Islam. She theorizes “neoliberal Islam” as a unique regime that brings together economic and religious moralities to deploy […]
Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
Legal Studies Program Distinguished Lecture presents Professor Noura Erakat (Rutgers University): Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle? More information and Zoom info: https://legalstudies.ucsc.edu/news-events/news/news-article.html This event is co-sponsored by THI's Center for the Middle East and North Africa.
Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
Morocco, and especially the desert oasis of Ouarzazate, is well-known as a destination for big-budget Hollywood film productions like The Last Temptation of Christ (Martin Scorsese, 1988) and Gladiator (Ridley Scott, 2000). Well before those films, however, iconoclastic Italian director Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) shot his Oedipus the King in the same region in 1966. […]
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
El objetivo de este estudio es investigar los patrones entonativos del uptalk en el español de los hablantes de herencia en Los Ángeles, cuyos padres emigraron de México. El uptalk, también llamado High Rising Terminal (HRT), se trata de la entonación ascendente en enunciados declarativos. Generalmente se considera que el uptalk es un rasgo prosódico […]
Thursday, May 13, 2021
- May 13, 2021 -Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
- May 13, 2021 -Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
Forging Ties, Forging Passports is a history of migration and nation-building from the vantage point of those who lived between states. Devi Mays traces the histories of Ottoman Sephardi Jews who emigrated to the Americas—and especially to Mexico—in the late nineteenth century through World War II, and the complex relationships they maintained to legal documentation […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
Join the Research Center for the America for their final event of the “Memory Studies in the Americas” thematic series which explores how markers or symbols of memory are imagined and disputed. Listen to presentations on the San Gabriel mission in Tovaangar (known as Los Angeles today) by Dr. Catherine Ramírez (Professor, Latin American and […]
Friday, May 14, 2021
- May 14, 2021 -CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
CANCELLED: Reflections on Movement and Movement-Building
This event has been cancelled due to unforeseen circumstances. What does it mean to conjure a world without borders, a world without prisons, and a world without the carceral logics that detain and deport? How do we understand the connections and potential coalitions among struggles against policing and prisons, mobilizations against border fortification, and movements […]
Saturday, May 15, 2021
No events on this day.