Events
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and […]
Free
Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. […]
Digital Pedagogy Round Table
McHenry Library, Room 1350Faculty and instructors from across the university will offer lightning talks about new assignments and classroom strategies that integrate technologies into their pedagogy. Join the Digital Pedagogy group for a […]
Free
The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP) XVI
Stevenson Event CenterThe Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics, Cowell College, and Stevenson College, will present The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse (MEIP), an annual multilingual program of fully-staged short theater pieces, for its 16th […]
Living Writers: Emily Hunt & Julien Poirier
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEmily Hunt is the author of the poetry collection Dark Green (The Song Cave, 2015). She holds an MFA from the University of Massachusetts Amherst, and her poems have appeared […]
Free
Ruling Passions: Sexuality, Science and the (Post)colonial State
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe past decade or so has witnessed a rapid rise in scholarship that seeks to seize or transform the language of the “science” for liberatory ends. Such an attachment to […]
Free
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rebecca Ora
Humanities 1, Room 202Rebecca Ora "Filming Israel From Afar: Ambivalent Diasporic Visions in Performative Non-Fiction" Citing her recent short film The Intifada-ing and the work of other Jewish American women filmmakers, I discuss the […]
BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance
Humanities 1, Room 202BIOS Research Colloquium: Historicizing Surveillance Featuring Guest Speakers: Simone Browne and Simon A. Cole Friday May 27th, 2-5 pm, Humanities 1 Room 202 Simone Browne, Draw a black line […]
Free
CANCELLED Covell Meyskens: “Visualizing the Past: The Making of the Website ‘Everyday Life in Mao’s China'”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCovell Meyskens, Assistant Professor of History at the Naval Postgraduate School, will talk about his website Everyday Life in Mao's China which currently houses over 5,000 images China. Meyskens will […]
Free
Celebrating Excellence in the Humanities: 2015-16 Spring Awards
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHumanists study the stories of humanity, in all their wonderful and tragic manifestations. The annual “Celebrating the Humanities” event is an opportunity for you to participate in this never-ending exploration […]
Free