Events
Events
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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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 […]
FreeAaron 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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Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who Fears Death (a World Fantasy Award winner for Best Novel), Kabu Kabu (A Publisher's Weekly Best Book for Fall 2013),Akata Witch (an Amazon.com Best Book of the Year), Zahrah the […]
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Allan Langdale: “Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness”
Humanities 2, Room 359Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Amanda Reyes
Humanities 1, Room 202Amanda Reyes Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental illnesses such as “idiocy, imbecility, feeble-mindedness or epilepsy.” Key testimony asserted that her infant child had “a look about that is not quite normal” and descriptions of […]
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Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination II: The Venice Ghetto at 500 and the Future of Memory
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT PODCAST: This conference addresses the complexity of the Ghetto of Venice at 500, both as a concrete space and as a global metaphor – tracing its refraction across space and […]
FreeBeléna Bistué: “Aztec Pictograms and Moorish Names: Multilingual Translation Practices in Colonial Spanish America”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Beléna Bistué. In the context of her larger project on early modern collaborative and multilingual translation, Belén Bistué is currently looking at specific instances in which these practices, together with their underlying conceptual models, were adapted to the colonial Spanish American context. Winter 2016 Cultural Studies Colloquium Series: January […]
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Todd Presner: “The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States2016 Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies with Todd Presner "The Ethics of the Algorithm: Holocaust Testimony and Digital Humanities" With more than 52,000 testimonies, 100,000+ hours […]
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Book Talks – Gil Anidjar: “Blood: A Critique of Christianity”
Humanities 2, Room 359Blood, according to Gil Anidjar, maps the singular history of Christianity. As a category for historical analysis, blood can be seen through its literal and metaphorical uses as determining, sometimes even defining Western Culture, politics, and social practice and their wide-ranging incarnations in nationalism, capitalism, and the law. Flowing across multiple boundaries, infusing them with […]