Events
CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones – Run With It
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDee Hibbert-Jones' colloquium talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for Spring or Fall 2020. Hibbert-Jones will discuss the challenges, politics and aesthetics in making her upcoming film Run With It, a feature documentary that is entirely animated. Made in collaboration with Nomi Talisman, the film tells the story of De’Jaun Correia, a […]
Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
Communications 150, Studio CMania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, […]
Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction collection, The Passion of Woo & Isolde (Rose Metal Press 2017), was a Firecracker Award finalist and winner of an Eric Hoffer Book Award; and […]
UPDATE: “Unrest” Film Screening
Del Mar Theatre2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction. Jennifer Brea's Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is […]
CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli – The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of these axioms; and their power to provide a foundation for remolding political concepts in the wake of geontopower. From one perspective the emergence of these […]
Living Writers: Juan Martinez
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States
NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
Resource Center for Non ViolenceThe “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery and the […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Isabelle Charnavel
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPlease see the Linguistics Department website for more information.
“Free Men” Film Screening
The Nickelodeon Theatre 210 Lincoln St, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFree Men (French: Les hommes libres) is a 2011 French film written and directed by Ismaël Ferroukhi, which recounts the largely untold story about the role that Algerian and other North African Muslims in Paris played in the French resistance and as rescuers of Jews during the German occupation (1940–1944). It features two historic figures: […]
What’s Your Story? An Evening with Stephanie Foo
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBetween Instagram, Facebook and TV, we're presented with more media and more stories than ever before. But how many of them really stick with us at the end of the day? Former This American Life producer and Emmy-winning journalist Stephanie Foo (Stevenson '08, modern literature) gives a talk about how to find important stories that tug […]