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  • 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 […]

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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 […]

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  • 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 […]

  • Gender Violence in Mexico

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

    On Friday, May 20th, contributors to the book Terrorizing Women: Feminicide in the Américas, will be speaking about their research and activism in the campaign to end feminicide in Mexico and on the borderlands.  The speakers will also address the human rights crisis in Mexico, violence targeting human rights activists, and the social movement for […]

  • Pacific Rim Research Program 2011-12 Call for Proposals & INFORMATIONAL MEETING

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

    Interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. The current Call is now available from the PRRP website at: http://pacrim.ucsc.edu. Here is a snapshot of what is offered this year. FACULTY GRANTS Initiative: This is a new thematically focused grant in the […]

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