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Free speech! Hold firm!
October 10, 2017 By Bettina Aptheker, Distinguished Professor, Feminist Studies The Free Speech Movement (FSM) at UC Berkeley in fall 1964 involved upwards of 20,000 students before it was over, and more […]
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UC Santa Cruz Receives Gift to Establish Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair for Feminist Studies
By Scott Rappaport UC Santa Cruz has received a $500,000 gift from the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation, plus matching funds from the UC Regents, to establish the $1 million […]
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The Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies Investiture Ceremony
The Humanities Division and Feminist Studies department are very excited to announce the Peggy and Jack Baskin Foundation Presidential Chair in Feminist Studies at UC Santa Cruz. This endowed chair was […]
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Radical Jewish Politics Workshop
Marking the centennial of the 1917 Russian Revolution, the UCSC Center for Jewish Studies invites you to attend an afternoon of roundtable discussions around the theme of “Radical Jewish Politics.” […]
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I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin. Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th. […]
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Meditation sessions open to campus community
Beginning in July, UC Santa Cruz will offer meditation sessions three days a week in locations spread across campus. The sessions are free and open to faculty, staff, and students. […]
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore to speak at UC Santa Cruz on police and prisons
“America locks up too many people for too many offenses, jamming prisons, ruining families and running up steep taxpayer bills. That’s the party line on mass incarceration heard from social […]
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
EVENT VIDEO: EVENT PHOTOS: CITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE: The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz […]
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A History of Her Stories
By Anne-Marie Harrison, Goodtimes 1975 saw the first class to graduate in Women’s Studies at UCSC, but at that time it wasn’t a sanctioned degree, since it was still a student-faculty […]
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Classes without quizzes: Alumni Weekend Teach-Ins
Alumni returning for Alumni Weekend should get ready to exercise their brains and have some fun at the ever-popular “Teach-Ins,” an academic afternoon that lets Banana Slugs be students once […]
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Anzaldúan Thought Transcends Borderlands
Scholars from different disciplines gather at UCSC in honor of poet and philosopher Gloria Anzaldúa “I knew Gloria Anzaldúa very well, I miss her, I miss her presence in the […]
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Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series
About the Project The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture Series is a lively forum for the discussion and exploration of ethics-related challenges in human endeavors. The Ethics Lecture is made […]
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The Feminist Architecture of Gloria Anzaldúa: New Translations, Crossings and Pedagogies in Anzaldúan Thought
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] A Conference on the Work of Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet, philosopher, and critical scholar — founded, wrote, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and […]
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Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
Free 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 […]
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Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
About the Project The Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies research group is composed of graduate students and faculty working in association with a colloquium and lecture series. The Feminist […]
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Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Bringing 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 […]
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Forum Addresses Academic Free Speech and Issues of Anti-Semitism
An educational forum on academic free speech is scheduled for Thursday, May 23 at 7 p.m. at the Colleges Nine and Ten Multipurpose Room on the UC Santa Cruz campus. […]
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UCSC Alumna Wins Prestigious 2013 Guggenheim
Poet Brenda Shaughnessy returns to campus for Alumni Weekend including a free public reading on April 25 UC Santa Cruz 1993 graduate Brenda Shaughnessy has been awarded a 2013 Guggenheim Fellowship […]
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Karen Yamashita to Read and Lead Talk about Asian American & Ethnic Studies
Event presented by the UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies Award-winning author and UCSC professor of literature Karen Tei Yamashita will read excerpts from her novel, I Hotel; her forthcoming book of performances, Anime Wong; and the essay “Borges & I,” on […]
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Angela Davis: Legacies in the Making
Recognizing the Academic, Activist and Cultural Interventions of a Contemporary Visionary For almost four decades, Angela Y. Davis’s scholarship and activism has defined the meaning and practice of being a […]