Events
Film Screening: Inequality for All
Kresge Town HallAn award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup. Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
Humanities 1, Room 202Bristol Cave La-Costa "Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women. Friday Forum Winter […]
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Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work Thursday, March 10, 2016 Music Recital Hall, […]
FreeStereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been […]
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Anna Tsing: “The Mushroom at the End of the World”
Humanities 2, Room 259UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, "Book Talks," which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from "The Mushroom at the End of the World." A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, […]
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The Cosmopolitical Forest
Porter College, Room D245Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in […]
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Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four’”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: “Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who […]
FreeDiscovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness. March 8, 2016, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm. Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But […]
FreeSubatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
FreeSugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
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