Events
Sawyer Seminar: Beyond the End of the World
Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
Music Center Recital Hall - UCSC 402 McHenry Road, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present the inaugural event in the Beyond the End of the World series. Keeanga-Yamahtta Taylor is an award-winning author on race and inequality as well as Black politics and social movements in the United States. Her books include From #BlackLivesMatter to Black Liberation […]
Amitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’”
Music Center Recital HallCREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam. The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series AMITAV […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
Del Mar TheatreHow are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> […]
Beyond the World’s End Exhibition at Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryIn our current moment, apocalyptic narratives are all around us. They tempt us with their catastrophic fatalism and seemingly inescapable dystopias. Against that danger, it’s crucial to ask how we […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part II
Del Mar TheatreHow are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part III
Del Mar TheatreHow are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Isabelle Carbonel, Cauleen Smith, The Otolith Group, Allora and Calzadilla, John Jota Leaños, Thirza Jean Cuthand, and Woodbine. For more information on the […]
Postponed – We Are Not Aliens: Arthur Jafa, Martine Syms, and Afro-Futurism 2.0 Exhibition at the Sesnon Gallery
Mary Porter Sesnon Art GalleryWe Are Not Aliens: Arthur Jafa, Martine Syms, and Afro-Futurism 2.0 assembles select artistic projects that investigate emancipatory futures of justice opposed to historical and contemporary racism, socioeconomic inequality, and state violence. It centers around Arthur Jafa's startling and moving video "Love is the Message, the Message is Death," which offers a short account of anti-black […]
CANCELLED – Nick Estes and Melanie Yazzie: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
TBD CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Nick Estes is a citizen of the Lower Brule Sioux Tribe. He is an Assistant Professor in the American Studies Department at the University of New Mexico. In 2014, he co-founded The Red Nation, an Indigenous resistance organization. […]
POSTPONED – Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, of MTL / Decolonize This Place: Beyond the End of the World Sawyer Seminar Series
CA, United StatesThe Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series Natasha Dhillon and Amin Husain, are MTL, a collaboration that joins research, aesthetics, organizing and action in practice. Nitasha Dhillon and Amin Husain are co-founders of Tidal: Occupy Theory, Occupy Strategy, the movement-generated theory magazine; Global Ultra […]
POSTPONED – Kuumbwa Jazz & Indexical Present: Moor Mother & Las Sucias
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterCamae Ayewa (Moor Mother) is a nationally- and internationally-touring musician, poet, visual artist, and workshop facilitator, and has performed at numerous festivals, colleges, galleries, and museums around the world, sharing the stage with King Britt, Roscoe Mitchell, Claudia Rankine, bell hooks, and more. Her most recent album, Analog Fluids of Sonic Black Holes, is the culmination of all […]