Events
Aaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav. Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even […]
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Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Please join us […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
Humanities 1, Room 202Andrei Tcacenco "Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home" My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers,television journals […]
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Branwen 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 Auma Obama Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz Living Writers Talk Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm Humanities Lecture Hall, 206 Both events […]
FreeNoa 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 are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central […]
FreeBranwen 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 Branwen Okpako Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz Living Writers Talk […]
Works 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. Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment. Katie Trostel,"Shifting Zones of Memory": Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín's Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)” […]
FreeB. 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 exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and […]
FreeAnna 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:
Critical 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 “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment. The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as […]