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Events of Interest for the Week of March 9, 2020

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Wednesday, March 11, 2020
Department of Anthropology
“Another Skin: Belonging and Climate Adaptation in Guyana”
Sarah Vaughn, University of California, Berkeley
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
If picketing at the base of campus continues, please email mda@ucsc.edu for alternate off-campus location

Wednesday, March 11, 2020
POSTPONED
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia
“Surveil, Disclose, Reveal, Redact: the Visual Life of Bureaucracy”
Anjali Nath, University of California, Davis
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Porter College, Room D245

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Events of Interest for the Week of March 2, 2020

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Wednesday, March 4, 2020
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
TRACTION: Art Talk
Walid Raad
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

Friday, March 6, 2020
POSTPONED
Friday, May 8, 2020
UCSC Department of History and the UC Consortium on Women’s, Gender, and Sexuality Histories in the Americas (WGSHA)
Second Annual Feminist Book Celebration
Empire and Women’s Suffrage in the Americas
UC Davis

Events of Interest for the Week of February 24, 2020

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February 18-29, 2020 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Fog Inquiry: Wandering Seminar
Futurefarmers
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Wednesday, February 26, 2020
POSTPONED – April 1, 2020
Visual and Media Cultures Colloquia
“Destitution, Dereliction, and Dispossession”
Jack Halberstam, Columbia University
Porter College, Room D245

Thursday, February 27, 2020
POSTPONED
Department of Sociology
The Opioid Epidemic and Racial Classification on Death Certificates
Aliya Saperstein, Stanford
12:00 PM – 1:15 PM
Rachel Carson College 301

Thursday, February 27, 2020
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies
Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series
“Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization'”
Amitav Ghosh
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Music Recital Hall

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Events of Interest for the Week of February 17, 2020

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Wednesday, February 19, 2020 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Leonardo Art & Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) 
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Rio Theater

February 18-29, 2020
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
Wandering Seminar: Diffraction as Field Guide
Futurefarmers
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Thursday, February 20, 2020
CANCELLED
Center for Emerging Worlds
Graduate Student Workshop with Elizabeth Povinelli

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Events of Interest for the Week of February 10, 2020

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Tuesday, February 11, 2020
POSTPONED
Institute for Social Transformation and Department of Sociology
Sanctuary Spaces: Reworlding the West in the Age of White Nationalism
Ananya Roy, UCLA

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Center for Racial Justice
SHUSENJO: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue 
Film Screening and Discussion
Filmmaker Miki Dezaki with Noriko Also, UC-Santa Cruz, and Christine Hong, UC-Santa Cruz
5:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210

Thursday, February 13, 2020
Department of Anthropology
Film Screening: The Work of Art
Shelly Errington, UC-Santa Cruz
7:15 PM – 9:30 PM
Social Sciences 2, Room 75

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Events of Interest for the Week of February 3, 2020

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Tuesday, February 4, 2020
The Humanities Institute and the Center for Middle East and North Africa
Questions that Matter:
Reporting the Middle East and the Future of Investigative Journalism
Hannah Allam and Leila Fadel, NPR
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Kuumbwa Jazz Center  (320 Cedar St)

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Department of Anthropology
To Make an Ethnographic Film in the 21st Century
Shelly Errington, UC-Santa Cruz
3:15 PM – 5:00 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Wednesday, February 5, 2020
Science & Justice Research Center
Book Discussion: Locating the Central Asiatic Expedition
Lukas Rieppel, Brown University
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
Science & Justice Research Center Common Room (Oakes College 231)

Friday, February 7, 2020
Department of History and East Asian Studies Program
Hong Kong on the Brink
Jeffrey Wasserstrom, UC-Irvine
12:30 PM – 2:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 520

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Events of Interest for the Week of January 27, 2020

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Wednesday, January 29, 2020
Science & Justice Research Center
Works-in-Progress
Anjuli Verma, UC Santa Cruz
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
SJRC Common Room (Oakes College 231)

Thursday, January 30, 2020
Research Center for the Americas
Connective Engagement: Indigenous Consciousness-Raising through Digital Infrastructures
Marisa Duarte, Arizona State University
3:30 PM – 5:00 PM
Humanities 1, Room 210

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Events of Interest for the Week of January 13, 2020

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Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Department of Anthropology
“A Future History of Water: How to Wonder with Techno-Legal Devices”
Andrea Ballestero, Rice University
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Wednesday, January 15, 2020
Science & Justice Research Center
Works-in-Progress
Iris Yellum, Harvard University
4:00 PM – 5:30 PM
SJRC Common Room (Oakes College 231)

Thursday, January 16, 2020
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
TRACTION:Art Talk 
Pablo Helguera, Museum of Modern Art
7:00 PM – 9:00 PM
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

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Events of Interest for the Week of January 6, 2020

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Thursday, January 9, 2020 
Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions
Slow Seminar Discussion – Floating Coast: An Environmental History of the Bering Strait by Bathsheba Demuth 
3:30 – 5:30 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Thursday, January 9, 2020 
Institute of the Arts and Sciences
TRACTION: Art Talk
Slavs and Tatars
7:00 – 9:00 PM
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108

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Events of Interest for the Week of December 3, 2019

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Wednesday, December 4, 2019
Science and Justice Research Center
Surrogate Humanity: Race, Robots, and the Politics of Technological Futures
Neda Atanasoski (UCSC) and Kalindi Vora (UC Davis)
4:00 PM – 6:00 PM
Engineering 2, Room 599

Thursday, December 5, 2019
Center for Southeast Asian Coastal Interactions
Slow Seminar to discuss Gun Island by Amitav Ghosh
3:30 PM – 5:30 PM
Social Sciences 1, Room 261

Thursday, December 5, 2019
Creative Writing Program
Living Writers Series
Student Reading
7:10 PM – 8:45 PM
Humanities Lecture Hall

Monday, December 2- Friday, December 6, 2019 
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
Unique Multiples: Teaching with the Parkett Collection from the University of Castilla-La Mancha
Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery
Porter College

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