Events
A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp
Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhen is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In […]
Matthew Wolf-Meyer – "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology […]
Screening and Panel Discussion – The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience
Communications 150, Studio CA major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150) The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, […]
From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
St. Francis Yacht Club on the MarinaPlease join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for […]
Gender. Region. Slavery.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVideo from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media. For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field […]
Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
Humanities 2, Room 259ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory […]
Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans […]
FreeWarren Sack – "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a […]
Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" Dr. Hedwig […]