Events
Joy Harjo: “Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears”
Merrill Event Center Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe American Indian Resource Center will be hosting internationally acclaimed poet/musician/playwright JOY HARJO (Har-joe) on April 21st, 2011, at Merrill College Event Center, from 7-9pm. Harjo will be performing a […]
Harry Berger, Jr.: “Caterpillage: Small-scale Violence in 17th Century Dutch Still-Life Painting”
Merrill Event Center Merrill Event Center, UC Santa Cruz, Merrill College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is about the strange accent on disorder in 17th century Dutch paintings of still life. The still-life genre includes pictures of flowers and food in domestic and outdoor […]
Bettina Aptheker: “The Passion and Pageantry of Shirley Graham {Du Bois}: Composer & Playwright, 1920s-1930s”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesShirley Graham {Du Bois} (1896-1977) had a successful early career as composer, performer and playwright that included her formal studies at the Oberlin Conservatory of Music, Yale University, and the […]
The Writing Program’s Reading Series
Silverman Conference Room, Stevenson Stevenson College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an evening of poetry and prose with past and present Writing Program faculty: Chuck Atkinson, Jeff Arnett, Roxi Power Hamilton, Ingrid Moody, Robin Sommers, and Stephen […]
Paul Horwich: “Wittgenstein’s Meta-Philosophy”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMy aim will be to describe and assess Wittgenstein's anti-theoretical view of why philosophy ought not to be in conducted in the traditional way, how it should instead be done, […]
Afro-Latinos in the Américas
Kresge, Room 159 Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA panel with Juan Flores (NYU), Miriam Jiménez Román (The Schomburg Center), Nancy Raquel Mirabal (SFSU), and Mark Anderson (UCSC). Lourdes Martínez Echazábal (Literature) will be respondent. Juan Poblete (Literature) will […]
Matt O’Hara: “The History of the Future in Mexico”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Matt O'Hara, History, UCSC “The History of the Future in Mexico” Historians of Latin America have spent much energy studying historical legacies. […]
Jennifer L. Morgan: “Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States“Quotidian Erasures: Gender and the Records of the Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade” will argue that the emergence of what early modern political theorists described as “political arithmetic”—and what we term demography—is […]
Clive Sinclair: “The Belmont Quota”
Kresge, Room 325 Kresge College, UC Santa Cruz, Kresge College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesClive Sinclair has published 14 books of fiction - The Lady and the Laptop received major critical acclaim in England and he is noted for his criticism, including a study […]
Alicia Schmidt Camacho: “When Human Beings Become Illegal”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDrawing on migrant testimony, this talk will discuss the implications of government refusals to recognize and protect the mobility of poor people in their pursuit of economic survival. Migrants routinely […]
