Events
Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration. In Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña's absence, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña's work, showing video/sound footage, and providing comments, revolving around their own engagements […]
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Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
Humanities 2, Room 259The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits […]
Titas Chakraborty: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: The Center for World History presents: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806 Titas Chakraborty
FreeFilm Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Humanities 2, Room 259Crossings Film Series Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present "Crossings," a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, "Io sto con la sposa," winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films […]
Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk: "Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms" Caught within the both/and of dystopic collapse, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle […]
Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Digital Scholarship Commons, McHenry LibraryEvent Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, […]
FreeAdam Ussishkin: “Roots, or consonants? On the early role of morphology in lexical access”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesWords consist of a phoneme or letter sequence that maps onto meaning. Most prominent theories of both auditory and visual word recognition portray the recognition process as a connection between these units and a semantic level. However, there is a growing body of evidence in the priming literature suggesting that there is an additional, morphological […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Duriel E. Harris
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuriel E. Harris, poet, performer, and sound artist, is author of No Dictionary of a Living Tongue, Drag and Amnesiac and coauthor of the poetry video Speleology. Current undertakings include “Blood Labyrinth” and the solo performance project Thingification. Harris is an associate professor of English in the graduate creative writing program at Illinois State University […]
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Daniel Lee: “A Sleepy English Village and a North African Jew: An Unlikely Story of French Resistance during World War Two”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe story of the Free French who rallied to Charles de Gaulle in London following the fall of France in June 1940 is well-known. But until now, historians have ignored the experiences of men and women from France and the French Empire who were not sympathetic to De Gaulle and the Free French, but who […]
FreeNeel Ahuja: “Reversible Human: Rectal Feeding, Gut Plasticity, and Racial Control in US Carceral Warfare”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesNeel Ahuja’s research explores the relationship of the body to forms of imperial warfare and security. Focusing on the association of rectal feeding, used as a form of medical rape in CIA prisons, and bodily plasticity, the presentation argues that the terrorist body is not only a useful discursive figure in the current wars, but […]