Events
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Suicide Club
Stevenson, Room 150They're not the enemy. The film that put Shion Sono on the international art house horror map, Suicide Club opens with the bizarre and eerie sight of 54 uniformed teenage […]
FreeElisabeth L. Cameron: "A Perfect Colonial Storm: Atinga and Iconoclasm in Southwestern Nigeria"
Porter College, Room D245Elisabeth L. Cameron holds the Patricia & Rowland Rebele Endowed Chair in the History of Art and Visual Culture. Her research is concentrated primarily in two regions: Zambia, where she […]
FreeChristopher Krebs: "What Makes Books Dangerous? The Case of Tacitus' Germania"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTacitus' Germania, a brief ethnography of the peoples the Romans called Germani, exerted a profound impact on the European History of ideas. By no fault of its author, it ended […]
FreeLASER: Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC's Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to the final LASER of the academic year Tuesday, May 6! Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) is a national program of […]
FreeLauren Berlant: "On Being in Life Without Wanting the World: On Biopolitics and the Attachment to Life"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is located in a shattered, yet intelligible zone defined by being in life without wanting the world--a state traversing misery and detachment that, the talk claims, is well-known […]
Lauren Berlant: Sex, or the Unbearable — a faculty-graduate student seminar
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSex, or the Unbearable (Duke University Press, 2013) is a dialogue between Lauren Berlant and Lee Edelman, two leading theorists of sexuality, politics and culture. In juxtaposing sex and the […]
The Humanities and Changing Conceptions of Work Culminating Conference
Making the MA/PhD Work Post Graduation: A Career Workshop for Humanities Graduate Students May 8 9:00 AM Breakfast and Registration (please pre-register) 10:00 Welcome by David Theo Goldberg, UCHRI […]
Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet Conference
UC Santa CruzCan humans and other species continue to inhabit the earth together? Through noticing, describing, and imagining, we renuew conversation about life on earth. Conference schedule: Thursday, May 8, 2014, 7-9 […]
Living Writers Series: Ursula Le Guin (live at the Rio Theater with live feed to Hum Hall) in concert with conference: Anthropocene: Arts of Living on a Damaged Planet (hosted by Anna Tsing)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSpring 2014 UCSC Creative Writing Living Writers lineup: Ursula LeGuin is the author of over thirty novels, children's books, and short story, poetry and essay collections, mainly in the genres of fantasy […]
Ursula K. le Guin
Rio Theater 1205 Soquel Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAnthropocene: 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 […]