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  • 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 […]

  • 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 in professional venues (such as conferences, workshops, etc.). Attendees are invited to actively and passively participate, and speakers will provide notes, a script, and/or links […]

  • 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 […]

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  • 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
  • Bettina Aptheker: "The Meaning of Freedom of Speech: Surveillance, Incarceration & the Politics of the First Amendment"

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

    Bettina Aptheker co-led the Free Speech Movement at UC Berkeley in 1964. She will give a brief retrospective and then consider the different ways in which race, gender, class, and sexuality effect the exercise of freedom of speech as a collective right established by the First (and Fourteenth) amendments. Bettina will clarify the difference between […]

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