Events

Noted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of "parochial blockbusters". The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay, "Transnational Glamour, National Allure: Community, Change and Cliché in Baz Luhrmann’s Australia", which is available for downloading at http://ihr.ucsc.edu/wp-content/uploads/2014/05/Morris-Transnational-Glamour-final.pdf, and which should be read before the seminar. […]

Cowell College, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present: The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV Theater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles Chinese Three Pots of Tea by Ting-Ting Wu & Students Directed by Ting-Ting Wu French Scenes from Marius and Fanny by Marcel Pagnol Directed by Miriam Ellis Hebrew Songs of Israel […]

This year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa's passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of her life through a formal program with speakers, an art exhibit from local artists, an altar, refreshments, and an open mic. Gloria Anzaldúa was a […]

Martin Holbraad Professor Social Anthropology, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC) Martin Holbraad's main field research is in Cuba, where he focuses on Afro-Cuban religions and revolutionary politics. Author of Truth in Motion: the Recursive Anthropology of Cuban Divination (Chicago, 2012). Holbraad currently directs a major comparative […]

What are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of the day, biometric technologies have become a ubiquitous and naturalized part of most aspects of everyday life. Operating from the premise that “bodies don’t lie,” […]

Plato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. Harry Berger Jr. came to Cowell College and UCSC from Yale in 1965 when our campus opened. He was the first appointment in English Literature, […]

During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults. A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most critically lauded of America’s rising generation of horror movie auteurs, The House of the Devil is a moody and evocative spin on the satanic cult […]

Spontaneous communication, both verbal and written, includes a wide variety of phenomena generally not found in prepared communication. These include restarted ideas, ums and uhs, words like you know and like, and prosodic phenomena such as uptalk. Spontaneous communication also includes other behaviors whose productions might vary across spontaneous and rehearsed settings, such as facial […]

Join us at 1:30 pm on Friday, May 9th, for the 10th Annual Graduate Research Symposium. This event offers graduate students an opportunity to share their research with faculty, staff, friends, colleagues and the local community in the form of poster, oral, live or multimedia presentations. This year’s event will take place in the "Information […]

Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Video Ursula K. Le Guin is one of the most-loved writers of our time. Her work includes science fiction, novels, essays, and children's books. Donna Haraway the author of When Species Meet. James Clifford is the author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the Twenty-First Century. Tickets Required • […]