Events
Rei Terada, “Pasolini’s Acceptance”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRei Terada In his late writings, Pasolini claims to give up on Italian politics and his own erstwhile projects. The talk considers Pasolini's “repudiation” and the questions of periodization it […]
From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUCSC Jewish Studies and History Department present From Civil Defense to Civil Rights: The Growth of Jewish American Interracial Activism in Los Angeles in the 20th Century Bridges of Reform Shana […]
Eugene Switkes, “Studies of Visual Perception: A Window into Brain and Behavior”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEugene Switkes Scientists and humanists have found common interests in understanding correlations between neural events and complex human behavior. Over the past 30 years we have studied how aspects of […]
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture: Lisa Jean Moore, “Among the Missing: Operations in Recovering Bodies”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLisa Jean Moore, medical sociologist and Professor of Sociology and Gender Studies at Purchase College, State University of New York, will present a talk based on her recent book Missing Bodies: The Politics of Visibility. We know more about the physical body—how it begins, how it responds
Living Writers Reading Series: Martha Mendoza
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Martha Mendoza. Martha Mendoza Martha Mendoza graduated from UCSC and starte a career as an Associated Press National Writer. Mendoza won the 2000 Pulitzer […]
2011 Founder’s Day
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Kathleen Lynch: “Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World”: Kathleen Lynch Professor […]
Steven Miller, “Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSteven Miller Professor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). […]
The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop
Red Room Red Restaurant and Bar 200 Locust Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPanelists: Vilashini Cooppan, “Affective History and Literary Studies” Associate Professor, Literature, UCSC Professor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi, 2011), and […]
Gildas Hamel, “Monotheism and Empire II”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGildas Hamel Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism […]