Events
Events
Israeli Music Extravaganza!
Porter/Kresge Dining HallFeaturing award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm @ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Doors open at 8:00pm Drums: Gary Kehoe Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison Bass: Etienne David Franc Saxophones: Anne Stafford Keyboard: Avi Tchamni Percussion: Noam Harel The show is FREE for all For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
FreeSugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
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Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesArts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss […]
FreeDiscovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness. March 8, 2016, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm. Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But […]
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Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four’”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: “Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who […]
FreeThe Cosmopolitical Forest
Porter College, Room D245Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her […]
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Anna Tsing: “The Mushroom at the End of the World”
Humanities 2, Room 259UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, "Book Talks," which invites authors to read from their books and engage in […]
FreeStereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
College Nine and John R. Lewis Multipurpose Room College Ten, University of California, Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Claude Steele, internationally […]
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Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
Humanities 1, Room 202Bristol Cave La-Costa "Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I […]
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