Events
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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 […]
Frances Malino – Rediscovering Mazaltob, A Century-Old Feminist Sephardi novel
Prof. Frances Malino (Emerita, Wellesley College) will discuss Blanche Bendahan’s Mazaltob: A Novel, Edited by Yaëlle Azagury & Frances Malino (Brandeis University Press, 2024). Raised in the juderia or Jewish quarter of Tetouan, Morocco at the turn of the 20th century, sixteen-year-old Mazaltob finds herself betrothed to José a man from her own community who […]
Asaf Elia-Shalev – Israel’s Black Panthers: How a left-wing uprising helped paved the way to Israel right-wing “revolution”
In Zionism's early decades, Mizrahim, or Jews from Arab and Muslim-majority countries, were largely an afterthought for the movement. Soon after Israel's founding, however, they became the majority of the new country’s Jewish population—both essential and marginalized by an elite intent on preserving Israel’s European identity. This virtual lecture explores how the Mizrahim, led by […]
The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
The Deep Read: San Diego Alumni Salon
The Deep Read is coming back to San Diego! The Humanities Institute invites San Diego alumni and Deep Readers to a special event at Stone Brewing in Liberty Station to discuss this year's Deep Read book, the 2024 National Book Award-winning novel James by Percival Everett. The event is designed to invite curious minds to […]
Elspeth Iralu – “Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being”
Elspeth Iralu – “Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being”
The Center for South Asian Studies and Center for Cultural Studies presents Elspeth Iralu speaking on "Indigenous Epistemologies for the Time Being." In this talk, Professor Iralu examines Naga modes of storytelling as anticolonial epistemologies that enact Naga sovereignty in the here and now. Reflecting on the capacity of storytelling to facilitate movement between past, […]
Sir Issac Julien – Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz
Sir Issac Julien – Inspire: Leading Ideas from UC Santa Cruz
When was the last time you felt inspired? Learned something new? Pushed boundaries? Let’s do that—again. Experience an exclusive UC Santa Cruz evening with complimentary wine and hors d’oeuvres as we celebrate with world renowned artist, and UCSC faculty member, Sir Isaac Julien whose retrospective exhibit Isaac Julien: I Dream a World is opening at […]