Events
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Humanities 1, Room 202BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance Featuring Guest Speakers: Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202 Simone Browne, Draw a black line through it: On the Surveillance of Blackness Situating blackness as an absented presence in the field of surveillance studies, this talk questions how a realization […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
Humanities 1, Room 202Rebecca Ora "Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction" Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the ability of performative nonfiction to map new geographic territories through ethical panic and identity-loss responding to diasporic relationships with Israel-Palestine. This paper cults from theorizations […]
Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to the reparative and/or divisive logic of “science” is most evident in minoritized knowledge-formations such as sexuality studies and colonial/postcolonial studies. In the face of contemporary […]
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Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared in the Iowa Review, the PEN Poetry Series, The Academy of American Poets Poem-a-Day Feature, TYPO, The Volta, Diagram, and elsewhere. In 2013, Brave Men […]
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The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
Stevenson Event CenterThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th season. Three public performances will be held on May 25, 26, and 27 (Wed. – Fri.) at 8:00 PM at the Stevenson Event Center, UCSC, and […]
Digital Pedagogy Round Table
McHenry Library, Room 1350Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a broad introduction to innovative learning possibilities. The presentations will cover a broad range of topics, from digital exhibit building as a final class assignment to […]
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Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. Bringing her feminist Marxism to bear, Dai Jinhua interprets Chinese film and culture, examining traces of forgotten histories. This talk is generously co-sponsored by the […]
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and gendered division of labor that deployed itself throughout Nazi occupied Europe. In an attempt to sustain the war effort while limiting German’s women’s draft and […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano Caponigro, UC San Diego November 20th: Elliott Moreton, University of North Carolina Winter 2016 January 15th: Sharon Inkelas, UC Berkeley February 5th: Colin Phillips, University of Maryland February […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202Trung Nguyen "War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity" Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains and problematics of memory, subjectivity, and colonialism through Vietnamese historical experience. This presentation will study two of their respective pieces that explicitly confront modes of […]