Events
Acting Improvisation Workshop
On Sunday, March 5, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop, focussing on Shakespeare, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way "This workshop is a […]
Improvised Shakespeare
Center Stage, Downtown Santa CruzImprov Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, "Improvised Shakespeare," at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
Humanities 1, Room 202Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of "creative ecologies of practice" enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are […]
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
Humanities 2, Room 359The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South Friday March 3, 2017 Humanities 2, Room 359 UC Santa Cruz The event is free and open to the public During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the […]
The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Friday, March 3 Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts, Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop) Morning 9:00 Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” 11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The […]
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Humanities 1, Room 202Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed "institutions," e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Iranian Women's Movement: Rights and Difference Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies My talk centers on the Irania women's movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign's central text, The Effect of Laws on Women's Lives, and […]
FreeHillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban "greening" in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by […]
FreeCultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Presents: Streetopia and Beyond A Talk by Eric Lyle 3-5 pm Monday, February 27 Humanities 1, 210 What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have […]
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Grad Slam
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]