Legal age standards for sexual maturity are challenging enough to devise at the state or national level, but they are especially contentious at the intergovernmental level. Efforts at setting common standards have often been marked by imperial logics on the part of those proposing common standards and misgivings on the part of those most affected. […]
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
The pleasures of games include, among other things, the experience of a fantasy of value clarity. In games, our goals and values are clear, quantified, and easy to apply and rank. This provides us with a particular existential balm - a momentary liberation from the ambiguities and difficult pluralities of moral life. Games instrumentalize our ends, […]
Organized by Karen Barad and Felicity Amaya Schaeffer. The 2019 UCSC Feminist Science Studies conference takes as its focus the theme of “Indigeneity and Climate Justice.” Climate Justice, as opposed to the more narrow framings of “environmental justice,” marks the consideration of the entanglement of ecological, cultural, social, political, geological, biological and other forces, understood […]
Hindustani Music and Performance of Modernity A documentary film and talk on Hindustani music in Mumbai, based on the forthcoming book, Musicophila in Mumbai: Performing Subjects and the Metropolitan Unconscious. 1:20PM - 3:00PM Talk 3:00PM - 5:00PM Screening Refreshments will be provided. Seating is limited.
Annual Humanities Spring Awards Celebration at the Cowell Ranch Hay Barn on Wednesday, June 5th, starting at 4:00 pm. The event includes the Spring Awards ceremony for undergraduate achievements, the Humanities Undergraduate Research Fellows poster session, and a celebration of faculty milestones. The Humanities Spring Awards Celebration is a wonderful opportunity for staff, faculty, alumni, […]
"A People's History of Silicon Valley: How the Tech Industry Exploits Workers, Erodes Privacy and Undermines Democracy" with author Keith A. Spencer Keith A Spencer is an editor at salon.com where he writes about science and technology, the politics of space colonization, the social and cultural ramifications of the tech industry. http://keithspencer.org/ Light refreshments provided […]
Born and raised in Los Angeles, Diana Khoi Nguyen is a multimedia artist and award-winning poet whose work has appeared widely in literary journals such as Poetry, American Poetry Review, Boston Review, PEN America, and The Iowa Review, among others. She recently won the 92Y's Discovery / Boston Review2017 Poetry Contest and the Omnidawn Open […]
Nido de Lenguas: Clases will offer regular classes turning native speakers into language teachers to share their linguistic heritage with dedicated community members.
Bookshop Santa Cruz is thrilled to welcome bestselling author Neal Stephenson for a reading and signing of his highly-anticipated new book, Fall, or Dodge in Hell. This offsite and ticketed event will take place at the Santa Cruz County Veterans Memorial Building, 846 Front Street, Santa Cruz. Cosponsored by The Humanities Institute at UC Santa […]
Transcendental Sentimentalism - An Introduction Broadly construed, moral sentimentalism is the position that human emotions or sentiments play a crucial role in our best normative or descriptive accounts of moral value or judgements thereof. With this presentation, Aaron introduces and sketches a defense of a novel form of more sentimentalism he calls “Transcendental Sentimentalism.” According […]
Marc Matera challenges this image of the decade and draws different lessons for our time by considering the 1930s through examples in which global connections and international organization reached new levels on many fronts, from struggles for colonial and racial freedom to the spread of populist authoritarianism. Comparisons between 1930s and our contemporary moment are […]
We welcome award winning author Ocean Vuong (Night Sky with Exit Wounds) for a reading of his highly acclaimed debut novel, On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous, named a best book of summer by The Washington Post, Publishers Weekly, Vulture, Thrillist, Entertainment Weekly, Elle, and more. "In this achingly beautiful novel, a young Vietnamese American writes […]