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Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels

Stevenson, Room 150

Misfit Horror  A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 2nd - Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) - an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s […]

Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"

Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2‎ University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from scholars of semiotics and iconography, it pays close attention to a variety of texts, visual images, and cultural artifacts drawn from Zionist propaganda and recruitment […]

Living Writers Series: Poets

Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He's also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa […]

Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"

Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” This lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king, Croesus. […]

Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain

Theater Arts, E100

O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. The Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster, Shakespeare’s Disciplines, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language. In addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL, […]

A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp

Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

When is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In […]

Matthew Wolf-Meyer – "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"

Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States

Matthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology […]

Screening and Panel Discussion – The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience

Communications 150, Studio C

A major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150) The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), […]

Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story

Stevenson, Room 150

Misfit Horror  A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing […]

From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts

St. Francis Yacht Club on the Marina

Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching […]