Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 30, 2022
No events on this day.
Monday, October 31, 2022
No events on this day.
Tuesday, November 1, 2022
- November 1, 2022 -Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
- November 1, 2022 -Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
- November 1, 2022 -Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
- November 1, 2022George Saunders, Liberation Day
Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis
*Charla en español* "Historias de acción: Acción comunitaria frente al racismo en América Latina con Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st […]
Ching Kwan Lee – Hong Kong: Global China’s Restive Frontier
How did Hong Kong transform itself from a “shoppers’ and capitalists’ paradise” into a “city of protests” at the frontline of an anti-China global backlash in 2019? Most analysts interpret the recent turmoil in Hong Kong as a political and ideological struggle between a liberal, capitalist democratizing city and its Communist authoritarian sovereign. This talk […]
Nicole CuUnjieng Aboitiz – “The Idea ‘Asia’ in Turn-of-the-Twentieth-Century Philippine Political Thought and Action”
This talk will excavate the Philippine nation’s cosmopolitan and transnational Asian intellectual moorings, in order to reconnect Philippine history to that of Southeast Asia, from which it has been historiographically separated. It argues that turn-of-the-twentieth-century Philippine Asianism was crucial to the concept of the Filipino nation that the ilustrados (educated elite) constructed, to the ilustrado-led […]
George Saunders, Liberation Day
We are delighted to welcome award-winning writer George Saunders for an event to celebrate the release of his new book, Liberation Day: Stories—a masterful collection that explores ideas of power, ethics, and justice, and cuts to the very heart of what it means to live in community with our fellow humans. This event is cosponsored […]
Wednesday, November 2, 2022
- November 2, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
- November 2, 2022Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
- November 2, 2022 -Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
- November 2, 2022 -A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
- November 2, 2022 -Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
- November 2, 2022 -Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
PhD+ Workshop – Interviewing and Negotiating the Job Offer
Learn interviewing strategies to land the job offer. Then learn how to negotiate the best salary and benefits package when you receive the job offer. This class offers strategies that apply to both academic and alternative-to-academic job applications and negotiations. The negotiation strategies also apply to asking for raises, job reclassifications, and title and responsibilities […]
Charne Lavery – Vertical Indian Ocean: A Cultural History of the Southern Submarine
This talk describes a new book project, an exploration of deep sea culture centered on the Indian Ocean as an ‘ocean of the south’. Drawn by the alternative histories and geography of the world of the Indian Ocean at the surface—the topic of my first book, Writing Ocean Worlds—the new book explores what possibilities exist, […]
Christian Sorace: Steppe Immunity
The History of Consciousness department is pleased present their upcoming speaker series this fall quarter and invites you to join them. These will be hybrid events, hosted in-person in Humanities 1 Room 420 & virtually via Zoom, except for the talk on October 25th which will only be on Zoom. The Zoom link for all […]
A Tamiment Book Talk with Bettina Aptheker
Presented by NYU Libraries - Join scholar activists Bettina Aptheker and Judith Smith as they discuss Aptheker's most recent book Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s. Communists in Closets: Queering the History 1930s–1990s explores the history of gay, lesbian, and non-heterosexual people in the Communist Party in the United States. The Communist Party banned […]
Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis
"Stories of Action: Community Activism in the Face of Racism in Latin America with Natalia Barrera Francis." The Dolores Huerta Research Center of America is proud to welcome and sponsor two talks by Natalia Barrera-Francis, an award-winning journalist and anti-racist activist from Lima, Perú. She will deliver two talks at UCSC on Nov. 1st and […]
Alberto Ortiz-Díaz – Carceral Care: Health Professionals and the Living Dead in Colonial Puerto Rico’s Sanitary City, 1920s-1940s
Using an array of primary sources, this talk explores the early history of the Río Piedras sanitary city or medical corridor, a transnationally and imperially inspired built environment and complex of welfare institutions (a tuberculosis hospital, an insane asylum, and a penitentiary) constructed and consolidated on the margins of San Juan by Puerto Rico’s colonial-populist […]
Thursday, November 3, 2022
- November 3, 2022 -PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
- November 3, 2022 -Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
PhD+ Workshop – WordPress Website Design
Professional websites can boost your reputation and aid your networking and job search. UCSC provides free access to WordPress (with several design templates) to faculty, postdoctoral scholars, and graduate students. Get design tips from Jason and get started using WordPress to make a blog or static website to showcase your graduate work! Jason Chafin graduated […]
Natasha Trethewey – Morton Marcus Poetry Reading
Please join us for the 13th annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading, featuring honored guest Natasha Trethewey. Poet Gary Young will host the program, and the evening will include an announcement of the winner of the Morton Marcus Poetry Contest (recipient receives a $1,000 prize). Seating will be first come, first served. Registration required. Natasha Trethewey […]
Friday, November 4, 2022
- November 4, 2022 -Madhavi Murty Reading Group – Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
Madhavi Murty Reading Group – Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India
The THI research cluster "Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East" presents a reading group on Madhavi Murty's new book "Stories That Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India." Madhavi Murty will be in conversation with Radhika Prasad. Stories that Bind: Political Economy and Culture in New India examines the assertion […]
Saturday, November 5, 2022
No events on this day.