Events

Namaste Lounge – College 9

Address
Namaste Lounge
Santa Cruz,CA95064United States Get Directions

Events at this venue

Today

  • Planting Oceania & Healing Communities

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Planting Oceania is a Oceanian/Indigenous Pacific Islander community organization that plants traditional foods in two gardens located at Filoli Historic House and Gardens in Woodside and at the UC Giltract Farms in Albany. Members of Planting Oceania will share stories about growing plants and stewarding the Land as an important cultural practice for building Oceania/Pacific […]

  • Contesting Techno Fascisms Now!

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This panel explores ways that fascism today manifests in unexpected sites and imaginaries, including visions of techno-utopia, nationalist movements for animal rights and calls to colonize outer space. The panelist assembled here will each take a keyword of the emergent fascist trends and think through ways to contest fascisms now. Panel Participants: Neda Atanasoski; Professor […]

  • A Conversation with Journalist Jazmine Hughes

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Interested in Journalism? Come for a conversation with writer and editor Jazmine Hughes. Jazmine Hughes is a writer and editor, and the recipient of two National Magazine Awards. Hughes was a longtime member of the editorial staff at the New York Times, where she penned profiles of cultural figures including Lil Nas X, Whoopi Goldberg, Danny […]

  • Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    You are invited to join the American Indian Resource Center's Native Speaker Series with Patty Krawec (Anishinaabe/Ukrainian), on April 11th, 2024, to be held at the Namaste Lounge located at College 9 and JRL at 5:00 PM-7:00 PM. Guest author, Patty Krawec will share with us her most recent book titled: Becoming Kin: An Indigenous […]

  • Border Tech, Embodiment, and Gender

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Join the UCSC Feminist Studies Department for the Border Tech Event: a roundtable conversation on Border Tech, Embodiment, and Gender with Diana J. Montaño (Washington University in St Louis), Irina Córdoba Ramírez (Universidad Nacional Autonoma of Mexico), and Iván Chaar López (University of Texas at Austin), moderated by USCC Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. These three […]

  • Encore Papers & Presentations

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This crip-friendly event is an opportunity to learn about what your UCSC colleagues are doing in their Disability Studies work. Presenters will present works-in-progress, or re-deliver papers they have given […]

  • Food for Thought Marcia Ochoa

    Food for Thought: Marcia Ochoa on Colonialism impact on current views of gender and sexuality

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    Cannibalism, Sodomy, and the Failings of Modernity Marcia Ochoa, Feminist Studies Department Professor Marcia Ochao's research areas include transgender studies, gender and sexuality, colonial historiography, and many more. In this talk she will show how European colonizers focused on non-Western practices of spirituality (which they called idolatry), relation to the body, (cannibalism), and gender systems […]

    Free

  • Lionel Cantu Lecture Featuring Jasbir Puar

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    The UCSC Sociology Department is pleased to present the LIONEL CANTÚ LECTURE WEDNESDAY, NOVEMBER 5, 2014 2:00 – 4:00 pm Namaste Lounge, Colleges Nine/Ten Reception at 3:30 Featuring: JASBIR PUAR Associate Professor of Women's & Gender Studies Rutgers University "The Right to Maim: Disablement, Palestine, and Disaster Capitalism" Jasbir K. Puar is Associate Professor of […]

  • Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing

    Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

    This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa's passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers, an art exhibit from local artists, an altar, refreshments, and an open mic. Gloria Anzaldúa was a […]

    Free
To top