Events
Bernard Stiegler: “Beyond the Anthropocene”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIs it possible to think in a state of emergency? This is now a pressing question when the Anthropocene disrupts the biosphere where we – permanently connected and algorithmically controlled […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Sara Mameni
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Ethnofuturism and the Archeology of the Future" Sara Mameni, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow In her video project, "In the Future They Ate from the Finest Porcelain" (2014), Larissa Sansour enters […]
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Living Writers: Michelle Tea
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLiving Writers is a series of events that are free to students and the public, and happens every Thursday night in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. This series will […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Mikki Stelder
Humanities 1, Room 202"Homozionism: 'From the Closet into the Knesset'" My project focuses on the role of sexual politics in Israel's settler colonial occupation of Palestine, international (queer) complicities, and anti-colonial queer resistance. […]
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Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterPresented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political […]
Paul N. Edwards: “Afterworld: Technosphere, Anthropocene, Geostory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPaul N. Edwards’ current research concerns the history and future of knowledge infrastructures, the history of climate science, and other large-scale information infrastructures. Edwards is the author most recently of […]
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Geraldine Brooks: “The Secret Chord”
Bookshop Santa Cruz 1520 Pacific Avenue, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNow out in paperback from Pulitzer Prize winning, bestselling author Geraldine Brooks, The Secret Chord traces the arc of King David's journey from obscurity to fame, from shepherd to soldier, […]
David Landy: “Explanation and Personal Identity in the Appendix to Hume’s Treatise”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn the Appendix to his Treatise, Hume famously expresses a deep dissatisfaction with the account of personal identity that he had earlier presented, but offers only the briefest description of […]
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Living Writers: Alfredo Vea
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAlfredo Vea Alfredo Véa was born in the desert outside of Phoenix, but not in America. His grandfather was a Yaqui Indian, his grandmother was a Spanish-Mexican curandera who had […]
California Semantics and Pragmatics 9 (CUSP)
Humanities 2, Room 259CUSP 9 will be held at UC Santa Cruz on October 21-22, 2016. Established in 2009, CUSP serves as a venue for researchers in semantics and pragmatics to exchange ideas […]