Events
Feminist Studies Department
Breanne Fahs: “Burn it Down: Firebrand Feminism and the Legacy of Second-Wave Radical Feminism”
Humanities 2, Room 259Breanne Fahs is Professor of Women and Gender Studies at Arizona State University. Her most recent book is Firebrand Feminism: The Radical Lives of Ti-Grace Atkinson, Kathie Sarachild, Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, and Dana Densmore. This colloquium will consider the historical impact of second-wave radical feminism and its impact on contemporary iterations of collective forms of resistance, […]
International Women’s Day: Celebrating Feminist Scholarship from the Americas
Cultural Center at Merrill Merrill Cultural Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Research Center for the Americas and Feminist Collective of Sisters in the Borderlands invite you to join us as we celebrate International Women's Day with book talks by two […]
POSTPONED: Counterpoints Book Launch
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesCounterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement An Atlas by the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project This event will feature members of the Anti-Eviction Mapping Project will be offering a preview of their new atlas manuscript, Counterpoints: Bay Area Data and Stories for Resisting Displacement, which will be released by PM Press in the spring […]
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 […]
David Kazanjian: “‘I am he:’ Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn this paper, “‘I am he:' Revising the Theory of Dispossession from Colonial Yucatán,” I examine a legal case involving an enslaved Afro-diasporan named Juan Patricio and a Mayan woman named Fabiana Pech from turn-of-the-eighteenth-century Yucatán. The case challenges a fundamental presupposition of many contemporary theories of dispossession: namely, that the dispossessed had prior possession […]
Veda Popovici-History Does (Not) Repeat Itself: Speculative Histories of Post-Revolutionary Romania
Humanities 1, Room 202Veda Popovici’s work explores the limits of political imagination. In this talk, she presents her latest political art project: a mapping of collective dreams and desires of revolutionary events in the context of post-1989 Romania. Laying out seven radical future pasts, these are stories that could have been, but never happened...feminist unions, Eastern European migrants […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 1
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
Feminist Science Studies Conference: Indigeneity and Climate Justice Day 2
UCSC ArboretumOrganized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
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.
LOCATION CHANGE Dean Spade: Solidarity Not Charity – Mutual Aid for Mobilization and Survival
Resource Center for Non ViolenceJoin the Feminist Studies department as they present their second FMST Colloquium for the 2019 Fall quarter! Widespread, effective social movements usually include mutual aid strategies that directly address conditions faced by targeted people, such as providing housing, food, healthcare and transportation. Examples include the Black Panther Party's Free Breakfast Program, the Young Lords' hijacking […]