VIRTUAL EVENT on 8/13: Karen Tei Yamashita, Sansei and Sensibility
Thursday, August 13 @ 7:00pm
Karen Tei (KT) Yamashita, Professor Emerita of Literature and Creative Writing and CRES principal faculty will be presenting from her latest book, Sansei and Sensibility, a collection of short stories, this Thursday evening at 7 p.m. Bookshop Santa Cruz and The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz invite you to join us for a free online event.
VIRTUAL: Humanities Happy Hour – Freedom & Race in the Time of Pandemic
May 14 @ 5:30 pm
Join us for our first virtual Humanities Happy Hour exploring Questions That Matter in the Time of Pandemic. This week will focus on “Freedom & Race” and feature Humanities Dean Tyler Stovall in conversation with associate professors Alice Yang, Christine Hong, and Noriko Aso.
Savannah Shange is a Black diaspora scholar who works at the intersections of race, place, sexuality, and the state. She is assistant professor of Anthropology at the University of California, Santa Cruz and was most recently a postdoctoral associate in Black Bodies at the Rutgers Center for Historical Analysis. She holds a joint PhD in Africana Studies and Education from the University of Pennsylvania. Her writing has been featured in Women and Performance, The Feminist Wire, and Anthropology News. Her research interests include Black femme gender, queer of color critique, and the afterlife of slavery.
micha cárdenas, PhD, is Assistant Professor of Art & Design: Games + Playable Media at the University of California, Santa Cruz & the founding director of the Critical Realities Studio. micha cárdenas is writing a new algorithm for gender, race and technology.Krizia Puig is a Feminist Studies doctoral student at UC Santa Cruz, where they also work as the Program Coordinator at the Disability Resource Center, and as a researcher-artist for the Critical Realities Studio.
Jasmin Young Talk
CRES is very pleased to be bringing Jasmin Young, a president's postdoctoral fellow, to campus for a visit early next week. As a part of her visit, she will be giving a public lecture--see attached flyer and announcement.CRES Works In Progress: 5/10/19 "Demonized and Devalued: Marginalized Bodies Made Kill-able"
Dr. Courtney Bonam and Christine Rosales will be sharing their work around this topic.All Power to the People II: Filipino Activism in the Third World Liberation Front
Lilian Fabros who was a Filipino activist during the Third World Liberation Front, will be speaking about her experiences as an organizer at this time. Please join the conversation, the event is open to the public onTuesday, May 7, 2019
1:30-3:05 p.m. Kresge 327.All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism and the Third World Liberation Front Strike: An Intergenerational Activist Dialogue
“All Power to the People! Asian American Radicalism and the Third World Liberation Front Strike: An Intergenerational Activist Dialogue,” features three Asian American activists who were vital to the TWLF struggle, Vicci Wong, Bruce Occena, and Emil de Guzman and who will share their experience and create an intergenerational panel with student activists on campus.Indigenous Agency in Visual Culture
December 5, 2018
Yve Chavez, President's Postdoctoral Fellow, will talk about their research on Indigenous contributions to California’s Franciscan missions and Native agency in early modern global exchange networks.
CRES Works in Progress: Invitation and Object - Reframing the Study of Palestine
November 29, 2018
Assistant Professor Jenny Kelly and Graduate Student Noya Kansky will present their works in progress on Palestine.
Friday Forum: Angela Nguyen
June 2, 2017
“Mom, can you help me with my homework?” Identifying Tools and Conditions for Intergenerational Dialogue Among Southeast Asian Refugees and Their Children
CRES Works in Progress
May 26, 2017
Graduate student Chrissy Anderson-Zavala presents work on "Delinquency as Labor," and Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer presents her work on "BioRobotics: Surveillance at the Borders of AnimalHumanInsect."
Comparative Empires
October 16, 2015, 10am-5pm
Steven Salaita: Reading Seminar & Public Talk
Two events on February 20, 2015: Reading seminar at 10am, and public talk at 2pm.
CRES Faculty Book Celebration: Savannah Shange
CRES Work in Progress: micha cárdenas & Krizia Puig.
