Events
Otávio Bueno: "Seeing with a Microscope"
Humanities 1, Room 320In this talk, Professor Bueno will propose an empiricist account of visual evidence in the sciences and examine the role it plays in scientific representation (particularly, in microscopy). To motivate […]
Joanne Barker: "In Debt: A Reconsideration of 'Race, Empire, and the Crisis of the Subprime' from Manna-Hata"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIntervening in populist, Occupy Wall Street discourses about the subprime crisis and its remedies, this talk critically uncovers Manna Hata from Manhattan. Offering a long genealogical view of the militarized […]
Poetry and/or Revolution
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesOct 3-5, UC Santa Cruz, UC Davis, UC Berkeley. This conference is a pendant to the recent UK conference on Militant Politics and Poetry at Birkbeck College (Saturday, 18 May […]
Joanne Barker Seminar
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoanne Barker will be lead a seminar followed by a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program building discussion. Please register to obtain the seminar readings. Joanne Barker (Lenape ) […]
Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a […]
THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference
60 Evans Hall and Dwinelle Classrooms, UC BerkeleyA space for grad students and recent Ph.D.'s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in […]
"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion
Communications 150, Studio CArchival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth […]
Deborah Gould: "Becoming Coalitional: The Strange and Miraculous Alliance Between Queer to the Left and the Jesus People, USA"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in the emotional terrains of activism, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites, encounters, and the "not-yet" of politics. Deborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in […]
Film Screening of "Maestra" with Filmmaker Catherine Murphy
Charles E. Merrill LoungeCuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. Maestra explores this […]
Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBringing together a core group of UC and Cal State faculty working at the intersections of feminist studies and ethnic studies, we will generate a curricular vision that, rather than […]