Events
Elena Gapova: "Suffering and the Soviet Man's Search for Meaning: The "Moral Revolutions" of Svetlana Alexievich"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Elena Gapova Svetlana Alexievich, the recipient of the 2015 Nobel Prize in Literature, is known for her unique literary method that blurs the […]
FreeSocialism and Postsocialism Roundtable Discussion with Elena Gapova
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Berlin Wall collapsed in 1989, marking the ostensible end of the socialist project and the triumph of neoliberal economic policies around the globe. The result has been widespread de-industrialization, […]
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Living Writers: Alex Rivera
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlex Rivera is a filmmaker who, for the past fifteen years, has been telling new, urgent, and visually adventurous Latino stories. His first feature film, Sleep Dealer, a science-fiction feature set […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: James Beneda
Humanities 1, Room 202James Beneda "The Morally Incoherent Indoctrination of the American Soldier in Iraq: An Institutional Theory of Traumatic Experience" I take up an issue that most of us cannot help but see […]
FreeSharon Inkelas: “The A-map model: Articulatory reliability in child-specific phonology”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk, based on joint work with Tara McAllister Byun and Yvan Rose, addresses a phenomenon of longstanding interest: the existence of child-specific phonological patterns which are not attested in […]
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Margaret Frantz Memorial
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesA memorial for Marge Frantz (1922-2015) a Hist Con graduate (1984) and longtime colleague at UC Santa Cruz in Women's Studies and American Studies will be held on Sunday, January […]
Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s […]
FreeLiving Writers: Vikram Chandra
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and […]
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Film Screening: “For Marx”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilm Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster "For Marx" (2012) Directed by is Svetlana Baskova "While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be […]
Hedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father's arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam […]
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