Events
Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
Oakes Learning Center, UCSCMore Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How […]
Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature Are accounts of our love affairs with our […]
Film Screening: Gold (1934)
Porter C-118The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation! One of the few expressly science fiction films produced under German National Socialism, Gold makes a spectacle of British-German relations in the […]
Clare Monagle: "Neo-medievalism and the Postcolonial: International Relations Theory and Temporality"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThough an historian of medieval thought, Clare Monagle’s most recent work turns to the twentieth-century and the deployment of the Middle Ages in International Relations Theory. Monagle argues that charting […]
Salt of the Earth: Exploring the Cultural Diasporas of Surfing
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe spirit of the Salt of the Earth event is to essentially celebrate the indigenous Hawaiian practice of heʻe nalu (surfing) and the impact it has had on the world.
Debarati Sanyal: "Camus's Afterlives: From the Holocaust to the Age of Terror"
Humanities 2, Room 259Debarati Sanyal is Associate Professor of French at the University of California, Berkeley. She is the author of The Violence of Modernity: Baudelaire, Irony and the Politics of Form (John Hopkins […]
1930's FIlm Series: "Chapaev (1934)"
Porter C-118An important example of socialist realism in Soviet cinema, Chapaev charts the ideological development and refinement of Chapaev (Boris Babochkin), a charismatic leader of a Red Army division. Under the […]
Katherine Gordy: "Situated Theory: Radical Political Thought in Latin America"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKatherine Gordy’s current book project traces the interrelations between what she identifies as different “spheres” of Cuban political thought—political doctrine (official sphere), political theory (academic sphere), and daily practice (popular […]
Humanities Research Development Workshop
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease stay tuned for more information
Korea Peace Day
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSanta Cruz Korea Peace Day 2013 “No Gun Ri: No Reconciliation Without Truth” Lecture by Charles Hanley (Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist) Screening of Memory of Forgotten War A film by Deann Borshay Liem […]
