Events
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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 […]
Geographies of Kinship: A Conversation with Filmmaker Deann Borshay Liem and Adoption Rights Activist Kim Stoker
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 […]
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 […]
Evren Savcı — Queer in Translation: Sexual Politics under Neoliberal Islam
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 […]
Noura Erakat: Palestine as an Anti-Racist Struggle?
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 […]
Pasolini in Morocco: The Geopolitics of Cinematic Space and Transnational Production
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 […]
Ji Young Kim: La prosodia del Uptalk en el Español de Herencia
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, […]
Forging Ties, Forging Passports: Migration and the Modern Sephardi Diaspora
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 […]
Sites of Memory, Spaces of Dispute: Missions and Monuments in the United States
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 […]
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 […]