Events
Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
SFSU Humanities BuildingThe Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature, History, Jewish Studies, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University invite participants to a two-day, two-part event on Medieval and Early Modern Minorities in the Mediterranean, to be held […]
Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Novelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her […]
18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist, director, and producer, will be screening his documentary, 18 IUs Soli, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He will also be participating in a Q&A following, and there will be reception in Stevenson Fireside Lounge. Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, born and raised in Italy, […]
Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books, including Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is, The Invisible Handcuffs […]
Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
Humanities 1, Room 202What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of […]
Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. March 2nd - Mother Joan […]
Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from […]
Living Writers Series: Poets
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He's also taught […]
Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"
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” This […]