Events
Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
Kresge Town HallThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and […]
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesProfessor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más […]
Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryExplore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. If you've never tried VR before, this is your chance. Location: Digital Scholarship Commons […]
Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3, 5, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if […]
Carla Freccero, “Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPsychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms? Carla […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Judith Aissen
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Judith Aissen is Professor Emeritus in the Linguistics Department at UCSC. Her research focuses on morphosyntax, especially in the Mayan languages, especially Tzotzil, a language spoken in Chiapas, Mexico.
Living Writers Series: Việt Thanh Nguyễn
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesViệt Thanh Nguyễn’s novel The Sympathizer is a New York Times best seller and won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. Other honors include the Dayton Literary Peace Prize, the Edgar Award for Best First Novel from the Mystery Writers of America, the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Fiction from the American Library Association, the First Novel […]
No Place Like Home
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumNo Place Like Home is a campus-community event to unveil the findings of our county-wide research on the affordable housing crisis in Santa Cruz. We will share the results of over 1400 surveys and interviews with local residents an dhow they are experiencing the housing crisis. The event also features a visual and literary art […]
Digital Humanities Happy Hour
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShare your digital research with the DH community! Join the DH Research Cluster to learn more about DH research on campus at an informal happy hour. We invite researchers across campus to share their work with a short, lightening style presentation. The introductions will be open-mic style, do you do not have to prepare in advance. This is an opportunity to meet new […]
María Inés La Greca: “The Collective Shout of ‘Ni una menos’ (‘Not one less’) in the Streets, the Media & the University: Feminists & Women’s Movement Against Gender Violence in Argentina”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaría Inés La Greca's research focuses on the relationship between narrativity, performativity and gender. In light of Judith Butler’s work, especially her recent ethical interest on narrative, psychoanalysis & subject formation, her aim is to offer a critical reflection on discourse, embodiment & identity constitution in gender theory and feminist writing. Inés La Greca is […]