Events
Week of Events
Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference
The UC Santa Cruz Philosophy Department is delighted to announce the Queer Aɸ (Queer Analytic Philosophy) Conference which will take place at UC Santa Cruz on April 12-13, 2025. The conference will foreground philosophical work in the analytic tradition (broadly conceived) that is informed by queer experience, community, and theorizing. Keynote speaker will be the […]
Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
Questions That Matter: Disability in Medicine and Memoir
What does it mean to talk and write about the experiences of our bodies? How do the stories told about us mediate the narratives we construct? What are the stakes for disabled writers sharing their first-person perspectives with the world? In this dialogue with two scholars and memoirists of disability, we will explore how intellectual […]
Cat Bohannon – Eve
Cat Bohannon – Eve
Bookshop Santa Cruz presents author Cat Bohannon who will be in-conversation with Vicky Oelze about Bohannon's book Eve: How the Female Body Drove 200 Million Years of Human Evolution—a myth-busting, eye-opening landmark account of how humans evolved, offering a paradigm shift in our thinking about what the female body is, how it came to be, […]
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
How Fairy Tales Became White: A Conversation with Professors Kimberly Lau and Micah Perks
Please join Professors Micah Perks and Kimberly Lau for a conversation about fairy tales, fantasy, and the ways that historically and culturally specific ideas about race contribute to the making and maintenance of their white worlds. This is an after-hours event at Downtown Library. Refreshments will be served. Kimberly Lau is Professor of Literature at […]
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
Gary Young: A Retrospective – Exhibition Opening
Join us on April 9th from 12-2 p.m. for the opening of Gary Young: A Retrospective Books, Broadsides, Prints & Ephemera at UCSC Special Collections and Archives. Gary will treat us to an artist talk and a tour of the exhibition. Light refreshments will be provided. Gary Young is a poet and artist whose honors […]
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
Evyn Le Espiritu Gandhi – Southern Constellations: South Korea, South Vietnam, and the US South
This talk proposes southern constellations as a method and political concept. To constellate is to bring together seemingly disparate spaces or objects into the same conceptual orbit, probing the new meanings and structures that emerge in the resultant constellation. To illustrate, this talk constellates three spaces often considered outside the purview of Global South studies: […]
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
The Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture – Fred Moten: Theory and Practice of Contradiction
The Humanities Division and The Humanities Institute invite you to join us for the Hayden V. White Distinguished Annual Lecture, featuring Fred Moten. Doors open at 5:30 p.m. and the lecture will begin at 6:00 p.m. This talk will consider some theoretical and historical issues that come more fully to light when we meditate on […]
Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
Living Writers with Julie Ezelle-Patton
Living Writers Series – Spring 2025 Insight, Writings: Third World and Other Imaginaries Poet, visual artist, Julie Ezelle-Patton’s most recent title is The Flower Poem (Tender Buttons, 2024). J Walking thru the Alphabet, an edited selection of Patton’s concrete, visual, and textual poetics from the 1970s to the near present, is forthcoming from Nightboat Books, […]