Professor B. Ruby Rich: New Queer Cinema - The Director's Cut

Please join us and Professor B. Ruby Rich for a special book signing event for the recently published and long-awaited "New Queer Cinema: The Director's Cut" Wednesday, May 22, 12:30-2:00 Communications 139

UCSC alumna wins prestigious 2013 Guggenheim

Poet Brenda Shaughnessy returns to campus for Alumni Weekend including a free public reading on April 25

Scott Morgensen: Idle No More

Indigenous Feminism, & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism. Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance.

Richard Miskolci: Undisciplined studies & the (geo)politics of knowledge

Why does knowledge continue to travel only from North to South? To understand the powerful continuity in this exchange, this presentation will start with a historical reconstitution of its creation and functioning. Even in an increasingly decentered world we still witness the hegemony of academic exchange in which North produces theories and South is seen as a space for collecting data or applying Northern theories to particular cases. Knowledges are created under institutional frames that connect them to power interests.

FMST Alumni Weekend Events

FMST Reception, Presentation, and Faculty Panel on Saturday, April 27, 2:00-6:00pm in 210 Humanities 1.

Nancy Lemon: PRACTICING DOMESTIC VIOLENCE LAW

A Feminist Studies Legal Luncheon featuring distinguished UC Santa Cruz Women's Studies Alumna NANCY K.D. LEMON (Berkeley Law, Boalt School of Law).

Asian America: Triangulations about a Semisphere

Join us for a creative a creative presentation by Karen Tei Yamashita, reading excerpt from her forthcoming book of performances...

LOVE IS A DANGEROUS PROMISE

Karen Thompson speaks of raising awareness for human rights issues, including the legal protection of LGBTQIA relationships.

Mattie Harper “Civilizing” the Pillagers

Mattie Harper's talk centers on the identity of Susan Bonga, who was a member of the Pillager band of Ojibwe Indians residing in northern Minnesota and the daughter of a prominent fur trader of mixed African-Ojibwe ancestry.

A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip

A Night of Poetry & Music with M. NourbeSe Philip, accompanied by a jazz duo led by Karlton Hester, Professor of Music, UCSC

New Publication by FMST Professor Felicity Amaya Schaeffer

Love and Empire: Cybermarriage and Citizenship across the Americas This title will be released on December 3, 2012.

Goa needs much more work in the areas of gender and sexuality: Anjali Arondekar

India’s The Navhind Times featured an article about associate professor of feminist studies Anjali Arondekar and her research on gender and sexuality in South Asia.

UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies

Bettina Aptheker and Karen Yamashita received a highly prestigious University of California Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies. Professors Aptheker and Yamashita will co-hold the Chair for a three-year period beginning July 1, 2012 and ending in June 30, 2015.

Anjali Arondekar: “Orienting Margins: Sexuality’s Geopolitics”

May 23, 2012 12:00-1:30 pm 210 Humanities 1 Anjali Arondekar Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC will be presenting at the Cultural Studies Colloquium Series.

A Tribute to Adrienne Rich

Wednesday April 25th,7-9 pm @ the Kresge Town Hall In the tribute, members of our campus community will read from her work.

Amelia Jones: Activating the Feminist Body and the Curating of Feminist Art

TUESDAY, April 10th / 11am-1pm / Room 210 Humanities One; This paper takes off from a brief history of the curating of feminist art in the North American and European contexts.

Contested Histories of Feminism in the Chicano Movement

The first book-length study of women's involvement in the Chicano Movement of the late 1960s and 1970s, ¡Chicana Power! tells the powerful story of the emergence of Chicana feminism within student and community-based organizations throughout southern California and the Southwest.

“Cruel Modernity”, Professor Jean Franco

Cruel Modernity is the subject of Franco’s forthcoming book on Truth Commissions and surviving the extreme cases of political violence that plagued some Latin American countries in the late twentieth century.

Professor Bettina Aptheker - Queering the History of the Communist Left in the U.S.

The Center for Cultural Studies presents FMST Professor Bettina Aptheker Wednesday, February 15 at 12:15p in Humanities 210 Queering the History of the Communist Left in the United States

A conversation on prison abolition, legal violence, and trans politics

Friday, February 10, 4-6pm, Oakes Mural Room

Professor Haas publishes new book, "Pablo Tac, Indigenous Scholar"

Techniques for Reimagining Feminist Theory: Starting from How We Feel

Critical Ethnographies

The State of Science & Justice

Anika Walke: 10 Grads in 10 days

History of Consciousness Graduate Student, Anika Walke, was featured in an article profiling outstanding students in graduating class of 2011.

Banu Subramaniam: "Tracking Ghosts: Hauntings from a Eugenic Past"

Wednesday, May 11 4:30-6:30 PM Engineering 2, Room 599

QUOTIDIAN ERASURES: Gender and the Records of the Trans-­Atlantic Slave Trade

Gender and the Records of the Trans-­Atlantic Slave Trade JENNIFER L. MORGAN Wednesday, April 27, 2011 4:30-­6.30 P.M. Humanities 1, Rm. 210

Science and Justice Training Program

Jennifer Reardon and Karen Barad's Science and Justice training program awarded $300,000 from the National Science Foundation.

Anjali Arondekar: Recipient of this year's Alan Bray Memorial Book Award