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Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
Kim Stanley Robinson, New York 2140
Bookshop Santa Cruz and the Institute for Humanities Research are pleased to welcome New York Times bestselling author Kim Stanley Robinson as he returns for a book talk and signing of his bold and brilliant vision of New York City in the next century: New York 2140. "In the not-so-distant future, a diverse cast of […]
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Briohny Doyle, “Postapocalypse Now”
Briohny Doyle, “Postapocalypse Now”
Event Photos Briohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin, the virus, & the nomad. Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and […]
Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
Humanities Radio Hour: “Gail Project” with Alan Christy, Shelby Graham, & Irena Polic
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Click here to listen online
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Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue
Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue
The Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery, Porter College Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm Exhibition run dates: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 to Sat, Dec 2, 2017 Weekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm. Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27 The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project […]
Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
Michael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. As a naturalized American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects, […]
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“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Linguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Ashwini Deo, "Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish" Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive […]
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Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman--featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman's work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck. This event is part […]
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Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. Smith-Prei Associate Professor […]
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Engage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:00-5:00 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center Room 108 Schedule of Events: 1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet 1:45 p.m. Introductions 2:00 […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Fatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of […]
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Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of […]
Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University […]
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Digital Humanities Happy Hour
Digital Humanities Happy Hour
Share your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new […]
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home
No Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of over 1400 surveys and interviews with local residents an dhow they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art […]
Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
Việt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel […]
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Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. If you've never tried VR before, this is your chance. Location: Digital Scholarship Commons […]
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más […]
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Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and […]
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Humanities Radio Hour: “Merchant of Venice” with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
Humanities Radio Hour: “Merchant of Venice” with Sean Keilen, Nathaniel Deutsch, Irena Polic
Please tune in to KZSC 88.1 FM for Artists on Art Humanities Radio Hour Click here to listen online.
Najat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”
Najat Abdulhaq, “Unconventional Revision of Narratives: The Emergence of the ‘Arab Jew’ in Contemporary Arabic Literature”
Event Photos: For decades, two official nationalist narratives, Arab-Egyptian & Israeli, dominated the discourse on the history of Egypt’s Jews. Recently, a different narrative is emerging in the Arabic speaking sphere, with documentaries, films & novels taking a cardinal role in this process. How and why is this emergence taking place? Najat Abdulhaq is the […]
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Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
Marina Rustow: “The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem”
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies Presents: Marina Rustow: "The Cairo Geniza and the Middle East’s Archive Problem" The Cairo Geniza, a cache of 400,000 manuscript pages preserved in a medieval Egyptian synagogue, has yielded many unexpected finds, but perhaps none so unexpected as thousands of documents in Arabic script from the […]
Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
Living Writers Series: Sesshu Foster
Sesshu Foster is a poet, teacher, and community activist born and raised in East Los Angeles. He earned his MFA from the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and returned to LA to continue teaching, writing, and community organizing. His first collection of poetry, City Terrace Field Manual (1996), celebrates the neighborhood Foster grew up in. He has said that […]
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PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities – an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
PhD+ : Gateway to Digital Humanities – an Introduction to Digital Methodologies & Resources at UCSC
This co-led event provides students with first-hand experience working in DH, resources to continue building upon this project, and a larger discussion regarding the possibilities for individual and collaborative digital research. Rachel Deblinger will open with a 45 minute hands-on workshop, introducing the process of building a dataset and visualizing data as an analytical method. […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Feminist Studies Colloquium: “Agrarian Questions in Urban India”
Fall 2017 Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: "Agrarian Questions in Urban India" Vinay Gidwani, University of Minnesota Priti Ramamurthy, University of Washington Based on recent life histories of urban migrants who work within informal sector occupations in Delhi and Hyderabad, we ask how “agrarian questions” orient workers’ attitudes to forms of labor and habitation. By also considering gender […]
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