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Traci Brynne Voyles: “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea and Settler Colonial Frames for Thinking about Environmental (Justice) History”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
Eric Porter, “‘The Future Appears Both Bleak and Promising’: The Politics of Jet Noise Around SFO”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is drawn from Professor Porter’s current book project examining the history of San Francisco International Airport (SFO) and various social and political phenomena associated with it as a means of better understanding the core San Francisco Bay Area as a physical, social, and imagined urban space. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a […]
Traci Brynne Voyles: “Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene Presents Traci Brynne Voyles Tuesday April 25, 3-5pm Wastelanding: Legacies of Uranium Mining in Navajo Country (reading workshop for faculty and graduate students) Humanities 1, room 210 Contact krlyons@ucsc.edu for readings Wednesday April 26, 2-4pm “Can a Sea be a Settler? California’s Salton Sea […]
Lothar Von Falkenhausen: “Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World’s Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member’s Tale”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America presents Lothar Von Falkenhausen Professor of Chinese Archaeology and Art History, UCLA Trying to Do the Right Thing to Protect the World's Cultural Heritage: One Committee Member's Tale Friday, April 21 at 5:00 p.m. Humanities 1, Room 210 Free and open to the public Refreshments at […]
PhD+: Humanities Townhall to Discuss Graduate Education for Graduate Students and Faculty
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLast year, the NEH awarded UCSC a Next Generation Humanities PhD Planning Grant to help support the campus in instituting wide-ranging changes in its humanities doctoral programs. As such a process process will ultimately affect everyone in the Humanities division, the grant participants would like to invite Humanities affiliates to a town-hall style forum for a short […]
Humanities Earth Day
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join the Health Humanities Committee and Green Team for our Earth Day Lunch & Learn on April 20th from 12:00 - 1:00pm in Humanities 1, Room 210.
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Mitchell Duneier the Maurice P. During, Professor of Sociology at Princeton University on "Ghetto: Invention of a Place, History of an Idea" Lecture at 4:00pm - Humanities 1, RM 210 Reception to follow Parking - Free to attendees - Please follow "Diller Lecture" signs to […]
FreeZac Zimmer: “Conquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConquest, Contact, and Cosmovision: SF Rewritings of the Conquest of the Americas Zac Zimmer’s current project reads original narratives of the conquest of the Americas and the philosophical debates it engendered with and against recent aesthetic attempts to reimagine that historical moment in marginal genres, especially alternative history and first contact science fiction, creating a […]
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Common Front for the Right to Housing in Bucharest
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesComparative urban studies are on the rise, raising new questions about translation, fungibility, and transit. How can we study the material effects of global capital in various urban spaces without conflating the spatial struggles and transformations of one space upon another? How can superimposing Western understandings of gentrification upon non-Western places impose onto-epistemological violence? This […]
The Fluidity of Status: A Seminar with Tanya Golash-Boza & Rhacel Parreñas (Non-citizenship Series)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFocusing on gender, deportation, and labor, the third and final session of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, approaches citizenship, denizenship, and mobility as fluid statuses—as formal (in other words, documented) positions that are in flux and as practices of belonging that morph as […]