Events
College Nine and College Ten CoCurricular Programs Office
Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between […]
Food for Thought: Marcia Ochoa on Colonialism impact on current views of gender and sexuality
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCannibalism, Sodomy, and the Failings of Modernity Marcia Ochoa, Feminist Studies Department Professor Marcia Ochao's research areas include transgender studies, gender and sexuality, colonial historiography, and many more. In this talk she will show how European colonizers focused on non-Western practices of spirituality (which they called idolatry), relation to the body, (cannibalism), and gender systems […]