Events
Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems, photographer
Media Theater, M110Photographer and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems examines the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. Weems will discuss her work and ideas, drawing on three decades of artistic activity. The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation “genius" grant, Weems has exhibited nationally and internationally over […]
Graduate Seminar with Visiting Artist Carrie Mae Weems
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation grant, Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist examining the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. On October 21st, she will meet with graduate students in a seminar setting for a conversation about how artists talk […]
Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
Rachel Carson College, Room 301 Rachel Carson College 1156 High Stree, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBased on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns, ease entry […]
7th Annual Founder's Day Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Cocoanut Grove 400 Beach Street , Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us to celebrate the spirit of community and honor outstanding achievement.
Seventh Annual Founders Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards CeremonyFriday, October 18, 2013 | 6:30 pm | $125 per seat
Cocoanut Grove Ballroom, Santa CruzLiving 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 […]