Events
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). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. This lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department, […]
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 Kathleen Lynch, University of Cincinnati “Sex Sells, But Who’s Buying? Erotic Imagery on Athenian Vases” Erotic imagery appears in early Attic black-figure vases but becomes […]
2011 Founder’s Day
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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 Prise in investigative journalism for her work on the No Gun Ri story. Her writing has prompted congressional meetings and Pentagon investigations alike. For more […]
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
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 human visual perception arise from neural processes that occur in the anatomical substrates of human vision. Professor Switkes discusses how understanding the brain’s recoding of […]
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 Bernstien Southwestern University Author of Bridges of Reform: Interracial Civil Rights Activism in 20th Century Los Angeles (2011)
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 raises. Professor Terada is the author of Derek Walcott’s Poetry: American Mimicry (Northeastern, 1992); Feeling in Theory: Emotion after the “Death of the Subject” (Harvard, […]
Living Writers Reading Series: Nina Revoyr
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series presents Nina Revoyr. Nina Revoyr has authored four novels: The Necessary Hunger, Southland, The Age of Dreaming, and Wingshooters, for which she received the Windwest Bookseller's Choice Award and the Indie Bookseller's Choice Award. Wingshooters was also named one of Oprah's 'boks to watch out for.' Nina Revoyr Nina is the […]
2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards Ceremony
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRecipients of the 2010-2011 Humanities Don Rothman Writing Awards recipients and their writing teachers will be honored. Don Rothman Adam Beighley, for Twin Forces of a Wave” (Maggie Amis) AND Sarah Edelstein, for “’Til Death Do We Choose” (Kiva Silver) Honorable Mentions: Briana Bernstein, for "Freud’s Model of Civilization and Orwell’s Nineteen Eighty-Four" (Brij Lunine) Kerianne […]