Events
Film Screening: Gold (1934)
Porter C-118The Golden Plague Forging Its Path of Annihilation! One of the few expressly science fiction films produced under German National Socialism, Gold makes a spectacle of British-German relations in the […]
Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature Are accounts of our love affairs with our […]
Saru Jayaraman: "Behind the Kitchen Door in Santa Cruz and Across America"
Oakes Learning Center, UCSCMore Americans are choosing to dine healthy and ethically at restaurants offering organic and fair-trade ingredients. Yet few diners are aware of the working conditions at the restaurants themselves. How […]
The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
Cordura Hall - CSLIIn the 80s and early 90s, a group of influential philosophers, historians, and philosophers of science were concerned with the following themes: disunity and pluralism of scientific theory and practice […]
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
Classroom Unit 2 Classroom Unit University of California Santa Cruz, UC Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFree Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage, interviews with Davis, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply […]
"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, […]
Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher
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, […]
Gihan Abou Zeid: "Egyptian Women in Struggle: Then and Now"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEgyptian human rights activist, journalist and author GIHAN ABOU ZEID is an authority on women’s rights in the Arab world. She was part of the revolution of 2011 that brought […]
Jennifer L. Derr: "Embodied Politics and Bilharzia Infection in Colonial Egypt"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJennifer Derr’s work explores the configuration and experience of the colonial state in Egypt through its construction of the agricultural environments that lined the banks of the Nile River. Derr traces the intersections of the colonial state in Egypt with the material experiences of environmental infrastructure, resource allocation, disease, and the geographies of colonial capitalism. […]
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 […]