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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]