Events
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
"Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies presents: Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere A creative presentation, Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, I Hotel, forthcoming book of performances, Anime Wong, and the essay “Borges & I,” as an opportunity think about the past 45 years of Asian […]
Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBringing together a core group of UC and Cal State faculty working at the intersections of feminist studies and ethnic studies, we will generate a curricular vision that, rather than being negatively constructed as a critique (of patriarchy, mainstream feminism, “wave”-based periodizations, etc.) begins with concepts like race, empire, and settler colonialism. Conversely, we imagine […]
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
Classroom Unit 2 Classroom Unit University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFree Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage, interviews with Davis, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply […]
Lisa Lowe: "Colonial Difference and the Neoliberal Present"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis lecture casts the history of liberal modernity as a complex, braided project, which includes at once the universal promises of rights, emancipation, wage labor and free trade, as well as the global divisions and colonial asymmetries upon which those promises depend, and according to which such liberties are reserved for some and denied to […]
Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGender studies, history of science, and Japanese studies intertwine in “Bodies of Knowledge in the Japanese Empire,” a panel featuring Susan Burns (University of Chicago) and Mark Driscoll (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill). Susan Burns examines gendered conceptions of mental and physical health that drove the development of “alternative” therapies to orthodox biomedicine. Mark […]
Public Film Screening: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power”
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPublic Film Screenings: “Anita: Speaking Truth to Power” (77 min. Documentary by Director Freida Mock) Nickelodeon Theater Sunday, Feb 22 @ 11am Monday, Feb 23 @ 7pm Tickets: www.thenick.com An entire country watched transfixed as a poised, beautiful African-American woman in a blue dress sat before a Senate committee of 14 white men and with […]