Events
Events
Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing […]
WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSaturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access) Join us for an exploration and celebration of […]
Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti, directed by Satyajit Ray, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, it was her very first film. […]
Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Pedro Di Pietro Visiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow, UCB; Research Affiliate, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of Philosophy, Interpretation, and Culture, Binghamton University Professor Di Pietro examines the production of queer spaces in the Andes and their diasporic dispersal in the Americas. […]
Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction”
Cowell, Room 132 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction begin?” In the process of beginning himself to answer this question, Sebald critiques the German literary failure to confront “the true state of the material […]
ChaeRan Freeze: “Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage and Divorce in Imperial Russia (Waltham, 2001) examines the impact of modernization on Jewish family practices and patterns in Imperial Russia based on newly-declassified archival […]
Pranav Anand: “All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate”
Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an unprecedented scale. It also provides researchers with an unprecedented look onto the diversity of positions people hold on a given issue align as well as […]
A Tribute to Adrienne Rich
Kresge Town HallA Tribute to Adrienne Rich It was in 1973, in the midst of Black and women's liberation movements, the Vietnam War, and her own personal distress, that Adrienne Rich wrote […]
Herman Blake: About Oakes History and Diversity in the Medical Sciences
Guzman Room, Oakes College Oakes College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCome join us for a conversation with Oakes' First Provost and UCSC's first African American faculty member, Dr. Herman Blake. Dr. Blake is currently the Humanities Scholar in Residence at […]