Events
Jarrod Shanahan – Skyscraper Jails
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAHow did a campaign to end the humanitarian catastrophe of New York City's Rikers Island penal colony culminate in the planned creation of skyscraper jails across the city, with no […]
Amelia Glaser – Angry Winds: Jewish Leftists and the Challenge of Palestine, 1929
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAIn the summer of 1929, a week of violence in Mandate Palestine left hundreds of Jews and Arabs dead and many more wounded. These events, which began with protests in […]
Keya Ganguly – Reason and the Image: On Satyajit Ray’s Shatranj Ke Khilari (The Chess Players)
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAThis talk focuses on Satyajit Ray’s cinematic treatment of an episode from India’s late colonial history in Shatranj Ke Khilari (“The Chess Players,” 1977). Through his portrayal of the betrayal […]
Richard Jean So – How #BLM Became a Story: Black Fiction in the Age of Platform Capitalism
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAEvent co-sponsored with Kresge College, Media and Society Lecture Series and the Departments of Literature and Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. New online writing platforms, like Wattpad, are massively popular […]
Geographies of/and the Indigenous: South Asia, the Middle East, and North Africa Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAParticipants: Dolly Kikon, Nour Joudan, Aomar Boum, Prita Meier Pasang Sherpa, R. Benedito Ferrao, Maisnam Arnapal, Yasmine Eid-Sabbagh The Geographies of/and the Indigenous Workshop to take place at UC Santa […]
Tarek El-Ariss – The Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAThe Fallen Note: A Journey to the Birthplace of the Image - As I was moving to a new office in October 2020, a note fell off from one of my theory books— Derrida’s Specter of Marx. The note was an old photocopy with the ink somewhat faded. A ghostly shadow is captured in the […]
PhD+ Workshop – David Perry, “Going Public: A Workshop on Public Writing for Academics”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAThere’s no such thing as the Ivory Tower. Colleges and universities are not isolated enclaves, and they probably never were. Public engagement is an essential part of the core mission of higher education. But how do we reach the public? This age of constant media babble and a vast explosion of online and print publications […]
Zac Zimmer – An Internet Built of Books
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAOn the Internet, the book is a drag: a literal metaphor that pulls us back to the material world. This talk focuses on three examples of the book-object’s material drag […]
Jessica Marglin – The Shamama Case: Contesting Citizenship across the Modern Mediterranean
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA*This event has been cancelled, but will be rescheduled for a future date. In the winter of 1873, Nissim Shamama, a wealthy Jew from Tunisia, died suddenly in his palazzo in Livorno, Italy. His passing initiated a fierce lawsuit over his large estate. Before Shamama's riches could be disbursed among his aspiring heirs, Italian courts had […]
Mohamed Hamed – Arabic Language Resources in the UC System and Beyond
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CAThe Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMNEA) is hosting a talk by Mohamed Hamed geared to help students and faculty in the UC system advance their Arabic language research and locate sources. He will be offering an overview of online resources, and covering issues such as interlibrary loan as well as transliteration. […]