Events
Laurie Palmer: “How Long I Ask You to Watch”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaurie Palmer's current work explores matter's agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects, she asks how we […]
Anat Gilboa: “Rembrandt’s Depictions of Jewish Themes”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, was […]
The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. […]
World Melodrama Film Series – All That Heaven Allows
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAll That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all […]
Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs
Unnamed VenueAnyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person, please contact Nancy Chen <nchenucsc@gmail.com> as soon as possible to reserve a spot. We will be using Google […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran
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 […]
UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: “Excavating the Past”
The McCune Conference Room, UCSB 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop, “Excavating the Past,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; […]
Tanya Luhrmann Workshop: “How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Religious and Secular Entanglements Research Cluster hosts a workshop with Tanya Luhrmann. Participants should read her current work-in-progress, "How the Hippie Christians Became the Religious Right," in advance. Two graduate students, Sarah […]
“Digging up a Mediterranean Past? Archaeology and Comparative Material Culture”
The McCune Conference Room, UCSB 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesA one-day conference sponsored by the UCSB Program in Medieval Studies. The conference will feature a panel of UC Santa Barbara scholars, including John Lee, Chris Thomas, Claudio Fogu, and […]
Sunaina Maira: “More Delicate Than a Flower, Yet Harder Than a Rock: Human Rights in the Shadow of an Empire”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk focuses on the political mobilization of young people targeted by the War on Terror, exploring what it means to challenge the U.S. imperial state from within and to […]