Events
Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante's Foil & Other Sporting Tales, The […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
Stevenson, Room 150Pulse (2001) Would you like to meet a ghost? About as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film […]
FreeLora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMigrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk […]
FreeYiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHelen, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s […]
Sex and the Archive
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop on Sex and the Archive May 20-21, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz Open to graduate students at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz Application deadline: Wednesday April […]
Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History, Allegory, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDespina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her new book, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work […]
FreePrasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves. In modern times, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources […]
Graduate Seminar with Despina Kakoudaki
Graduate Student CommonsAll graduate students are welcome but an RSVP is required by May 19th. Contact ihr@ucsc.edu to RSVP and request seminar readings. Despina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and […]
Free2014 Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Fifteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium 9:00-9:10 AM - Opening Remarks Kirsten Silva Gruesz, Director, Literature Undergraduate Program 9:10-10:15 AM - Panel One: Borderlands: Creative Writers Read Moderator, Micah Perks […]
FreeKen Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration […]