Events
Ronnie Lipschutz: "Utopia or Catastrophe"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is connected to Professor Lipschutz’s work on politics and popular culture, of which his most recent publication was Political Economy, Capitalism and Popular Culture. Lipschutz is Professor and Chair of Politics and Provost of College Eight at UC Santa Cruz. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and […]
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Food for Thought: Marcia Ochoa on Colonialism impact on current views of gender and sexuality
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCannibalism, Sodomy, and the Failings of Modernity Marcia Ochoa, Feminist Studies Department Professor Marcia Ochao's research areas include transgender studies, gender and sexuality, colonial historiography, and many more. In this talk she will show how European colonizers focused on non-Western practices of spirituality (which they called idolatry), relation to the body, (cannibalism), and gender systems […]
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Ozploitation Film Series Presents: Razorback
Stevenson, Room 150There's something about blasting the shit out of a razorback that brightens up my whole day. As one would expect from a film about a car-sized boar rampaging through the outback with a bloodlust for humans, Razorback is equal parts style, surface, and absurdity. Accordingly, plot summaries fail to do justice to the sheer bloody […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Sabine Iatridou
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 […]
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Living Writers: Tonya Foster: California College of the Arts
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTonya Foster California College of the Arts Tonya M. Foster is the author of A Swarm of Bees in High Court and coeditor of Third Mind: Creative Writing through Visual Art. Her writing and research […]
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Comparative Empires: Feminist Meditations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHistories of empire have been tethered over-determinedly to singular histories of nation-states, temporalities and/or geopolitics. Rather than locate empire as a stable or temporal concept, the colloquium attends to the […]
FreeFriday Forum: Matthew Edwards "TBA"
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:30pm to 2pm and will serve […]
FreeLinguistic Colloquium: Heidi Harley
Heidi Harley, University of Arizona "Suppressing Subject Arguments in Hiaki" The Hiaki passive suffix -wa appears in a very normal-looking personal passive, and also in an odd impersonal passive—odd in that it is productive […]
FreeQuantifying Creativity: Art through the Eyes of Computation
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the Data Science Initiative Is the experience of art uniquely human? Can algorithms be artistic producers? Or, do machines remove the context and meaning from creativity? As […]
FreeTyrus Miller: "The Non-Contemporaneity of György Lukács: Cold War Contradictions and the Aesthetics of Visual Arts"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTyrus Miller has recently published Modernism and the Frankfurt School, and his forthcoming Cambridge Companion to Wyndham Lewis will appear in 2015. He is the translator/editor of György Lukács’s, The […]
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