Events
Week of Events
Black Sound Symposium at Indexical
The Black Sound Symposium at Indexical is a 4-day event full of concerts, talks, workshops, screenings, and interdisciplinary dialogue rooted in Black sound and Black sonic space. The symposium aims to create and sustain community; to celebrate curiosity, wonder, disobedience, collaboration, and play in artistic work; to expand anti-racist and activist pedagogy and methodologies in […]
Sunday, April 23, 2023
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Monday, April 24, 2023
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Tuesday, April 25, 2023
- April 25, 2023 -Karen Feldman – The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg, Felski, and Bottomless Critique
Karen Feldman – The Reality of Suspicion: On Blumenberg, Felski, and Bottomless Critique
–—History of Consciousness Spring 23 Speaker Series. In person and via zoom. Please see the History of Consciousness Speaker Series website for further details.
Wednesday, April 26, 2023
- April 26, 2023 -Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
- April 26, 2023 -Eric Stanley – Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
- April 26, 2023 -“DOLORES” Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Christopher Silver – Recording History: Jews, Muslims, and Music across Twentieth-Century North Africa
This event is co-sponsored by Jewish Studies In Recording History, Christopher Silver provides the first history of the music scene and recording industry across twentieth century Morocco, Algeria, and Tunisia. In doing so, he offers striking insights into Jewish-Muslim relations through the rhythms that animated them. For more than six decades, thousands of phonograph records flowed […]
Eric Stanley – Atmospheres of Violence: Structuring Antagonism and the Trans/Queer Ungovernable
Eric Stanley in conversation with FMST/CRES Prof. Nick Mitchell & FMST Grad Student Kaiya Gordon. Presented by the Feminist Studies Department. Recent advances in LGBTQ rights have been accompanied by a rise in attacks against trans, queer and/or gender-nonconforming people of color. In Atmospheres of Violence, theorist and organizer Eric A. Stanley shows how this […]
“DOLORES” Film Screening and Distinguished Social Sciences Alumni Award
Please join us on April 26, 5:45-8 p.m. at the Del Mar Theatre to honor Peter Bratt, the 2023 Social Sciences Distinguished Alumni Award recipient, and view his film DOLORES, which will be introduced by Jennifer Seibel Newsom. After the screening, Associate Professor Sylvanna Falcón will lead a conversation with Peter. Peter Bratt (1986 Cowell […]
Thursday, April 27, 2023
- April 27, 2023 -Roberta Wue – Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
- April 27, 2023Living Writers – Laura Jaramillo
- April 27, 2023 -Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
Roberta Wue – Inventing the Chinese Craftsman: Amoy Chinqua and the 18th Century Export Portrait
The sudden appearance of painted and unfired clay portraits of western merchants in the burgeoning China trade of the early eighteenth century marks some of the earliest manifestations of Chinese trade portraiture or trade “art” – and Chinese artisan. Originating with the craftsman Amoy Chinqua (active 1716-20), these curious and vivid portraits function in a […]
Living Writers – Laura Jaramillo
Laura Jaramillo is a poet and critic from Queens, New York living in Durham, North Carolina. Her books include Material Girl (subpress, 2012) and Making Water (Futurepoem, 2022). She holds a PhD in critical theory from Duke University. She co-runs the North Carolina-based reading and performance series Paradiso. Sponsored by The Puknat Literary Endowment, The […]
Liberation Pedagogy: bell hooks and Teaching/Learning as Emancipatory Practice featuring Jody Greene
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Innovations in Teaching and Learning (CITL) invites you to our 2023 Convocation featuring CITL’s Founding Director Jody Greene. From its foundation, CITL has drawn inspiration and wisdom from the work of the late bell hooks, educational visionary and early proponent of active and activist learning. According to hooks, our practices […]
Friday, April 28, 2023
- April 28, 2023 -Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction
Please join us for the Spring 2023 Aurora Workshop: Caste, Class, and Race: Inter-Areal Studies of Socio-Cultural Contradiction Keynote: Caste ~ Race Equations: Where is the Caribbean? Susan Gilman, University of California, Santa Cruz, Literature Lectures & Discussions: G.S. Sahota, UCSC Laura Brueck, Northwestern University Ivy Wilson, Northwestern University Kirsten Silva Gruesz, UCSC Zoom: 99270004783 […]
Saturday, April 29, 2023
No events on this day.