Events
Week of Events
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales Exhibition Opening
Bay of Life: From Wind to Whales is an exhibition by Frans Lanting and Chris Eckstrom that brings land and sea together for a unified view of Monterey Bay and its natural abundance. The Bay of Life is a unique confluence of land and sea, energized by the sun, shaped by the forces of fog […]
Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
Dean Mathiowetz – Luxuriating as a Political Structure of Feeling
According to premodern elites, the luxurious appetites of the poor were not only feminine and exotic but also the greatest threat to social order. Popular demands for better wages, sustenance, more festival days, or any improvement in the conditions of ordinary folk were denounced as “luxury.” But scholarship about this discourse has been misdirected by […]
Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business
Jane Smiley – A Dangerous Business
Pulitzer Prize-winning author Jane Smiley (A Thousand Acres) will visit Bookshop to read and sign copies of her new novel A Dangerous Business—a rollicking murder mystery set in Monterey in the 1850's, in which two young prostitutes follow a trail of missing girls. Roxane Gay says, "The forthcoming Jane Smiley novel, A Dangerous Business, is […]
Living Writers – Jaime Cortez
Living Writers – Jaime Cortez
Jaime Cortez is a writer and visual artist based in Watsonville, California, and the San Francisco Bay Area. His fiction, essays, and drawings have appeared in diverse publications that include "Kindergarde: Experimental Writing For Children" (edited 2013 by Dana Teen Lomax for Black Radish Press), "No Straight Lines," a 40-year compendium of LGBT comics (edited […]
Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
Divya Cherian – Caste and Time: Notes from Early Modern India
“Caste and Time” is a part of the UC Santa Cruz Center for South Asian Studies 2022-2023 lecture series, Futures. Guests can register to attend the virtual event here. Speaker: Professor Divya Cherian, Princeton University
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis
Fernanda Ferreira, UC Davis Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Liora R. Halperin – The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
Liora R. Halperin – The Oldest Guard: Landowners, Local Memory, and the Making of the Zionist Settler Past
Professor Halperin will discuss the practice and politics of Zionist memory in and around the private Jewish agricultural colonies (moshavot) that were established in late 19th-century Ottoman Palestine. These colonies emerged prior to the founding of the Zionist movement and the rise to dominance of its Labor Zionist stream, but was later integrated, albeit ambivalently, […]