Events
John Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. John Modern is the Chair […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTuesday, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210 Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A conversation with Warren Sack Warren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction, interactive storytelling, software studies, […]
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Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous, always-on, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection, processing, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption, come to characterize a wide […]
FreeFriday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
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Natives in Game Dev Gathering
UC Santa Cruz Silicon ValleyOn Friday, May 22, from 10am to 5pm, the Games and Playable Media MS program, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game Dev event. The event is free for UCSC students and faculty, and is being held at the UCSC Extension Silicon Valley building, at 2505 Augustine […]
Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
FreePerverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Humanities 2, Room 259Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been […]
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Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties. The Literature Department's 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks […]
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Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKimberly Adilia Helmer Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz Through the lens of “resistance,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language class in a US southwest charter high school. Fundamental to student resistance was the lack of meaningful activity and authentic materials that connected curriculum to […]
FreeJonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities, and recognizes contemporary culture, driven as it is by electronic digital computing, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break, we might consider it as one result of an overall […]
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