Events
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Critical Race & Ethnic Studies Works In Progress
Humanities 1, Room 202"Delinquency As Labor" Chrissy Anderson-Zavala Chrissy Anderson-Zavala is a PhD candidate in education with designated emphases in critical race and ethnic studies and feminist studies at UC Santa Cruz. Her dissertation, How to Write ‘Trouble/d Youth,’ bridges participatory ethnographic work in a continuation high school and reading practices that “track the figure” of “trouble/d youth” in district and state-level […]
CRES: Works in Progress featuring Sheeva Sabati & Nick Mitchell
Humanities 1, Room 202
Letters to Memory: A Reading by Karen Tei Yamashita
The Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Department presents: Letters to Memory featuring a reading by Karen Tei Yamashita with remarks by Alice Yang and Christine Hong Letters to Memory is an excursion through the Japanese mass incarceration during World War II using archival materials from the Yamashita family as well as a series of epistolary […]
Reading Seminar: Jeffrey Santa Ana’s Transpacific Ecological Imagination
Humanities 1, Room 202Jeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Jeffrey Santa Ana: “Queer Postcolonial Ecocriticism: Disremembering place and witnessing imperial debris in Han Ong’s The Disinherited”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesJeffrey Santa Ana is Associate Professor of English and affiliated faculty in Asian & Asian American Studies and Women's, Gender, and Sexuality Studies at Stony Brook University, the State University of New York. He is the author of Radical Feelings: Asian America in a Capitalist Culture of Emotion (Temple University Press, 2015). He is currently writing a […]
Invitation and Object: Reframing the Study of Palestine
Humanities 1, Room 202"Welcome to Gaza: On the Politics of Invitation and the Right to Tourism" Jennifer Kelly, Associate Professor, UCSC In between Israeli military incursions, Palestinians in Gaza have described their colonial condition and navigated their cleavage from the rest of Palestine through virtual collaborative projects that rehearse, satirize, and reimagine tourism. These projects refuse to position […]
A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race & Ethnic Studies and Feminist Studies present: A Book Talk and Discussion with Dr. Emily Thuma (Assistant Professor of Gender & Sexuality Studies, UC Irvine): ALL OUR TRIALS: PRISONS, POLICING, AND THE FEMINIST FIGHT TO END VIOLENCE (University of Illinois Press, 2019) Co-Sponsored by the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in […]
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity: A talk and film screening by Tejaswini Niranjana
Music Center Room 131 1156 HIGH STREET, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHindustani Music and Performance of Modernity A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. 1:20PM - 3:00PM Talk 3:00PM - 5:00PM Screening Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited.
David Eng: Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation – On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans
Humanities 1, Room 202Please join David L. Eng for a discussion of his new book, Racial Melancholia, Racial Dissociation: On the Social and Psychic Lives of Asian Americans (Duke University Press, 2019), co-authored with Shinhee Han. The book draws on case histories from the mid-1990s to the present to explore the social and psychic predicaments of Asian American young adults from Generation […]
Teaching Credential Workshop for Humanities PhDs
The humanities are alive and well in K12 education. Can you thrive there? Join Kip Téllez in this workshop to learn more about simultaneously pursuing a teaching credential and master's degree in education while completing your doctoral degree in the humanities! Explore the possibilities of public school teaching in California for a union-backed career. Ethnic […]