Month: May 2021
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Congratulations to Eric Porter on His New Book!
This co-edited volume, Sound Changes: Improvisation and Transcultural Difference, was published last week by the University of Michigan Press and is the third and final publication from a collaboration with Daniel Fischlin of the University of Guelph. It follows a 2016 special issue of Critical Studies in Improvisation / Études critiques en improvisation and their 2020 volume Playing for Keeps: Improvisation…
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CRES and FMST welcome Marisol LeBrón!
As the year comes to the close, the Program in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and the Feminist Studies Department write to share long-awaited, heartening news with you: Marisol LeBrón will be joining our faculty ranks as an associate professor starting this fall! Currently housed in Mexican American and Latina/o Studies at UT Austin, Professor…
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CRES Statement of Solidarity with the Palestinian People on Nakba Day
As a program committed to the study of colonialism, military occupation, and Indigenous resistance, Critical Race and Ethnic Studies stands in support of the Palestinian people as they live under multiple forms of violence imposed on them by Israel. As an academic program housed on Turtle Island, we oppose settler colonialism everywhere and we condemn…
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Announcing the Judy Yung Memorial Fund
By Alice Yang, Associate Professor of History The UCSC community was devastated to learn of the passing of Judy Yung on December 14, 2020 at the age of 74. In her honor, the campus has established the Judy Yung Memorial Fund, which shall be used to support interdisciplinary research and/or programming related to Asian American / Pacific Islander (AAPI) Studies at UC Santa…