Humanities
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McCarthyism in a MAGA hat? Trump’s Campus Deal Sounds Familiar to Her.
In a feature story written by UC Santa Cruz alumna Anita Chabria (BA, History), Distinguished Professor Emerita of Feminist Studies Bettina Aptheker called the Trump Administration’s “compact for academic excellence” a major threat to free speech. “It’s intended to roll back any of the gains we’ve made,” Aptheker said of Trump’s policies. “No university should…
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Mantua, Isaac Julien at Palazzo Te: world premiere of All That Changes You. Metamorphosis
Finestre sull’Arte, a leading newspaper covering ancient and contemporary art, featured All That Changes You. Metamorphosis, the new installation by Sir Isaac Julien, UC Santa Cruz Distinguished Professor of The Arts and History of Consciousness.
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WNYC FM report: Why is ketamine the party drug of now?
WNYC-FM interviewed Associate Professor of History Benjamin Breen, the author, most recently, of Tripping on Utopia: Margaret Mead, the Cold War, and the Troubled Birth of Psychedelic Science (Grand Central, 2024), in a news report about the rise of recreational ketamine use.
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Isaac Julien Stages a Sci-Fi Epic in a Renaissance Pleasure Palace
Distinguished Professor of the Arts and History of Consciousness Isaac Julien’s new artwork, “All That Changes You. Metamorphosis” which opened this month at Palazzo Te in Mantua, Italy, was featured in an ArtNews story.
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UC Santa Cruz’s ‘Festival of Monsters’ blends scholarship and scares this October
The Festival of Monsters returns to Santa Cruz in October. It’s a celebration of horror and theory hosted by UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Monster Studies. This season also marks the arrival on campus of two new philosophy professors in the Humanities Division, Sara Bernstein and Daniel Nolan, whose collaborated on a project about what…
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Academic Freedom Under Fire with Scholar Bettina Aptheker
Distinguished Professor of Feminist Studies Bettina Aptheker recently gave a speech about academic freedom and its role in American universities. This radio segment presents that speech interwoven with Aptheker’s recollections of her life and career and her unshakable belief in the value of free expression.
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UC Berkeley hands names of 160 students and faculty members to government in antisemitism probe: KPFA broadcast
Research Professor and Professor Emerita of History Dana Frank was interviewed in a KPFA FM story about UC Berkeley giving names of students and faculty to government as part of a probe into antisemitism
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What’s a Labubu Doing at an Anti-ICE Protest?
Chris Connery, emeritus faculty in the literature and History of Consciousness departments at the University of California, Santa Cruz, said he wasn’t shocked to learn that Labubus so easily resonated with people at the protests. “There’s a kind of improbability, unpredictability to popular cultural fads that are in excess of whatever aesthetic or material components…
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These sacred tattoos were banned in Okinawa. A new generation is bringing them back.
Adriane Tengan-Stoia and Lex McClellan‑Ufugusuku, doctoral students in history at UC Santa Cruz, explained that women were the spiritual leaders in Ryukyuan society and were believed to possess a divine connection to the spiritual realm. But as Okinawa was colonized, women in positions of power were targeted, and hajichi tattos worn by these women were…
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Pirates, brothels and … the Bard? One of Shakespeare’s least-known plays gets rediscovered in Santa Cruz
The majority of the play “Pericles” is so far from Shakespeare’s style that many scholars believe the first two acts were written by someone else entirely — possibly George Wilkins. “What Shakespeare scholars tend to do is when they encounter something that they don’t like in Shakespeare, they say someone else wrote it,” said Sean…
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Nagaland University hosts workshop on ‘Ecologies of care’
UC Santa Cruz cohosted the workshop, and Professor Dolly Kikon, director of Center for South Asian Studies, introduced the initiative as a collaborative dialogue to explore the Himalayan region’s various intersections, expressions and care practices.
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Guest Commentary | Sending MAGA to Sacramento
Christine Hong, faculty in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Literature at UC Santa Cruz, wrote an opinion article for the Santa Cruz Sentinel about ethnic studies content in California.