Events
Colin Phillips: “Speaking, understanding, and the architecture of language”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe speak and understand the same language, but it’s generally assumed that language production and comprehension are subserved by separate cognitive systems. So they must presumably draw on a third, […]
FreeLeadership for Social Justice: Sikh American Perspectives
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis workshop will provide participants with practical tools for conceptualizing and effecting social change. Modules include: understanding and changing mindsets, community cultural leadership, implementing adaptive change, and supporting citizen-centered rather […]
FreeBrown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
McHenry Library, Room 1350Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you […]
FreeCritical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
Humanities 1, Room 402In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of […]
Anna Björk: “Ex-hombres, On the Revolutionary Subject in Argentine Proletarian Literature”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos:
B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich. Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical […]
FreeWorks in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Humanities 2, Room 259Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. […]
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Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBranwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker […]
Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
Humanities 2, Room 259This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms […]
FreeBranwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker Branwen Okpako Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of […]
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