American Studies

Virtual screening of the documentary, The Celine Archive, followed by an hour of discussion with the filmmaker, Prof. Celine Parreñas Shimizu, Distinguished Professor of Film and Digital Media at UC Santa Cruz and Dean of the Arts. Registration required; please register right here. 

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Located in the Center Gallery, McCullough Student Center, Fall 2021 - Winter term 2022. Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León.

Photographers Jon Henry and Mikael Owunna discuss their artistic responses to police murder of Black men. Andrew Plumley ’11 (Senior Director, Equity & Culture, American Alliance of Museums) moderates this online conversation, which will include audience Q&A. Free.

Advance registration required. Learn more and register: https://bit.ly/OwunnaHenry.

Join us for a performance by internationally recognized fingerstyle guitarist Paul Asbell. With a multi-decade career that includes joining the seminal Butterfield Blues band, founding and leading jazz group Kilimanjaro, and playing and recording with a veritable who’s who of blues and jazz greats, Asbell is a musician’s musician. This performance will highlight the history of the American guitar, as Asbell will demonstrate how the instrument itself changed and was changed by the music people made with it. Sponsored by the Department of Music and the Department of American Studies.

Hostile Terrain 94 (HT94) is a participatory art project sponsored and organized by the Undocumented Migration Project (UMP), a non-profit research-art-education-media collective, directed by anthropologist Jason De León. The exhibition is composed of over 3,200 handwritten toe tags that represent migrants who have died trying to cross the Sonoran Desert of Arizona between the mid-1990s and 2019. These tags are geolocated on a wall map of the desert showing the exact locations where remains were found.