Events
Cosmopolitanism in China: 1600-1950
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOver the course of this conference, Cosmopolitanism in China, 1600–1950, we shall explore and rethink aspects of modern Chinese culture, religion, state, and society from various Eurasian and global perspectives. […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Lumière d’été
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLumière d'été (1943; dir. Jean Grémillon) France Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe […]
Carla Freccero: “Wolf, or Homo homini lupus”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarla Freccero has taught at UCSC since 1991. This paper, a chapter of the in-progress Animate Figures, explores the long genealogy of human wolf eradication and figuration in the west, […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Opfergang
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOpfergang (1944; dir. Veit Harlan) Germany Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Tisa Bryant
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInto Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and […]
Founder’s Day Faculty Research Lecturer: Gail Hershatter
Cocoanut Grove 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFaculty Research Lecturer: For pioneering field research and oral history among Chinese women, and her major contributions to the history of women, labor, and sexuality. Gail Hershatter is a specialist […]
James Martel: “A Revolution No One Believed In: The Haitian Subversion of the Ideals of the French Revolution”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThrough a study of the Haitian Revolution, James Martel's recent work not only questions the liberal universalism of the French Revolution, but also the myriad of ways in which Haitians […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Madonna of the Seven Moons
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMadonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Kevin Killian and Dodie Bellamy
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInto Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and […]
The Birth of a Poet: William Everson Centennial
Kresge Town HallCelebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of California’s great treasures, William Everson/Brother Antoninus: teacher, shamanistic poet-in-residence at UCSC from 1970 to 1981, famed hand-press printer, advocate of an erotic, […]