Events
Living Writers Series: Frances Richard
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]
Daniel Selden: "'Our Films, Their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPAs a former director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center, Dan Selden’s long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics extends to film production. Selden focuses on the application of the Western cinematic apparatus to non-Western contexts in an effort to better understand the work of such directors as `Abbās Kiyārostamī and Wong Kar Wai. Daniel […]
Exhibition: Albert Camus, 1913-2013
Humanities 2, Room 259Beginning on October 15, UC Santa Cruz will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus. The new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology. The exhibit was conceived and produced by the Institut Francais, an […]
Living Writers Series: Lucy Corin
Kresge Town HallThresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]
Undisciplining Feminism: Formations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBringing together a core group of UC and Cal State faculty working at the intersections of feminist studies and ethnic studies, we will generate a curricular vision that, rather than being negatively constructed as a critique (of patriarchy, mainstream feminism, “wave”-based periodizations, etc.) begins with concepts like race, empire, and settler colonialism. Conversely, we imagine […]
Film Screening of "Maestra" with Filmmaker Catherine Murphy
Charles E. Merrill LoungeCuba, 1961: 250,000 volunteers taught 700,000 people to read and write in one year. 100,000 of the teachers were under 18 years old. Over half were women. Maestra explores this story through the personal testimonies of the young women who went out to teach literacy in rural communities across the island – and found themselves […]
Deborah Gould: "Becoming Coalitional: The Strange and Miraculous Alliance Between Queer to the Left and the Jesus People, USA"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInterested in the emotional terrains of activism, Deborah Gould’s current project explores political appetites, encounters, and the "not-yet" of politics. Deborah Gould is Professor and Director of Graduate Studies in Sociology at UC Santa Cruz.
"The Motherhood Archives" film screening and discussion
Communications 150, Studio CArchival montage, science fiction, and an homage to 70s feminist filmmaking are woven together to form this haunting and lyrical essay film excavating hidden histories of childbirth in the twentieth century. Assembling an extraordinary archive of over 100 educational, industrial, and medical training films (including newly rediscovered Soviet and French childbirth films), The Motherhood Archives […]
THATCamp Alt-Ac: an Alternative Academics Unconference
60 Evans Hall and Dwinelle Classrooms, UC BerkeleyA space for grad students and recent Ph.D.'s to think through the multiple career options we can explore amidst a declining tenure track job market. We will invite professionals in administrative academic, non-profit, arts administration, tech, ed-tech, digital humanities, and secondary education careers to join our two-day unstructured conference. Planned sessions will include a C.V. […]
Jim McCloskey: "Preverbs, Phases, and Objecthood: An Irish Perspective on Some Old Problems"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe direct object relation is a relation of central importance in syntactic theory and so it was an important moment when the nature of that relation was re-thought in a fundamental way in work of the 1990's. This paper examines some of the issues raised in that re-thinking, by looking closely at the expression of […]