Events
Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference." In conflicts over the veil or […]
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David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDavid Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme […]
FreeNeferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is a meditation on remaindered life, the unsubsumable, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. […]
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Last LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) of the Year
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to final Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) of the year on May 19 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. […]
FreeJonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities, and recognizes contemporary culture, driven as it is by electronic digital computing, […]
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Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKimberly Adilia Helmer Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz Through the lens of “resistance,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language […]
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Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, […]
FreePerverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities 2, Room 259Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through […]
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Natives in Game Dev Gathering
UC Santa Cruz Silicon ValleyOn Friday, May 22, from 10am to 5pm, the Games and Playable Media MS program, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game […]