Events
Events
Sea Changes: Mediterranean and Maritime Perspectives on History and Culture
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present: An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013 A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to […]
Scott Lauria Morgensen: "Idle No More, Indigenous Feminism & Allied Critiques of Settler Colonialism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRevisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit […]
Conflicting Commitments: The Politics of Enforcing Immigrant WorkerRights in San Jose and Houston
In Conflicting Commitments, Dr. Shannon Gleeson goes beyond the debate over federal immigration policy to examine the complicated terrain of immigrant worker rights. Federal law requires that basic labor standards […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – Soraya Murray: "The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. […]
Leviathan: Celebrating 40 Years of Jewish Journalism at UCSC
Please join former and current staff members of Leviathan in a celebration of the student publication's 40th anniversary. Leviathan is one of the longest-running university student publications devoted to Jewish […]
Brenda Shaughnessy: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join Women's Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. 2:00-3:00 PM: Reception 3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: "Feminism & Poetry, […]
Víctor Fuentes: "Literatura memorialista de la inmigración"
Humanities 1, Room 408Víctor Fuentes is the author of a memoir, Memorias del segundo exilio español (2011) and fourteen books, among them, La marcha al pueblo en las letras españolas (1917-1936), El cántico material y espiritual de César Vallejo, Buñuel, cine y literatura, Antología de la poesía bohemia española, Antología del cuento bohemio español. He is Professor Emeritus […]
Giovanna Di Chiro: “Embodied Ecologies: Connecting Sustainability and Environmental Justice”
Dr. Giovanna Di Chiro’s research bridges academic and community action domains and integrates the fields of environment, sustainability, and social justice. She teaches interdisciplinary courses in environmental studies and women’s & gender studies, and incorporates a community-based, action research emphasis (currently as the Lang Professor for Issues of Social Change at Swarthmore College in Pennsylvania). […]
Feminist Poetry with Brenda Shaughnessy
Unnamed Venue Humanities and Social Sciences Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesReception: 5:00-6:00 PM • Humanities Building 1, Room 210 Reading: 6:00-7:30 PM • Humanities Lecture Hall Brenda Shaughnessy is a prize-winning poet and UCSC alumni (Women's Studies, Literature, 1993) whose latest book of poetry, Our Andromeda received a rave review in the New York TImes Book Review (February 3, 2013). Reviewer Victoria Redel wrote, "This […]
Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium – William Marotti: "Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan" William Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted, depoliticized […]