The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: Nadja Durbach Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show While scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes, none […]

The Eternal Frame The Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame:  An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. The Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, 1975, that […]

Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill).  Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment, Jeju is, however, far from a paradise.  Prior to June 25, 1950, the purported start of the Korean War, Jeju, deemed a […]

This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany.  She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa, Argentina, Germany […]

The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories, The […]

Mary Flanagan Propositions from a Critical Play Perspective If games always hold within them cultural beliefs, norms, and human values, how are designers to tackle the vexing responsibility of designing […]

Steve McKay Professor McKay examines the performance of masculinities among a group of men often considered exemplars of masculinity—merchant sailors. The talk explores their gender projects across liminal space (ocean-going […]

Benjamin Cawthra, associate professor of history at Benjamin Cawthra California State University, Fullerton and author of Blue Notes in Black and White: Photography and Jazz (Chicago, 2011), discusses the tradition […]

The UCSC Program in Classical Studies presents: Professor Brooke Holmes, Princeton University, 'The Missíng Body: Authority, Immunity, and Objectivity in Early Greek Medical Writing" Brooke Holms Brooke Holmes' paper arises from a simple question: […]