Events
Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Roderick A. Ferguson: “Comparative Ethnic Studies: Retrieving, Redistributing, and Holding the Institution Under Erasure”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization. Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. […]
Lisa Lowe: "Sugar, Tea, Opium, and Coolies: The Intimacies of Four Continents"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLisa Lowe This lecture examines the fetishism of colonial commodities as a mediation of often obscured connections between the transatlantic African slave trade to the Americas, settler colonialism, the import of Asian indentured labor, the East Indies and China trades, and the emergence of European liberal ideas of citizenship, wage labor, and free trade in […]
Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIntervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized dispossession, genocide, and enslavement of Native peoples in order to problematize the subprime crisis as a signifier of racism, this talk focuses on territorial expansion, […]
Joanne Barker Seminar
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. Joanne Barker (Lenape ) is associate professor of American Indian Studies at San Francisco State University. She received her Ph.D. in the History of Consciousness Department from the University […]
Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what […]
"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of […]
Steven Salaita: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy Land: Encountering Palestine in American Indian Studies”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy […]
Steven Salaita: “Silencing Dissent: Palestine, Academic Freedom, and the New McCarthyism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCritical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) Presents a seminar and a public Lecture by Steven Salaita. At 10 A.M. the reading seminar: “Inter/Nationalism from the New World to the Holy […]
From Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence
Resource Center for Non ViolenceFrom Ferguson to Salinas: Intersections Against State-Sanctioned Violence March 6 at the Oakes Learning Center, University of California, Santa Cruz March 7 at the Resource Center for Nonviolence, Santa Cruz As folks across the country demand justice for Mike Brown and Eric Garner, community members in Salinas, CA are fighting the police murders of Angel […]
Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities 2, Room 259Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been […]