Events
"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors
Cowell, Room 131 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCowell College Provost, History Department, Italian Studies Program, Languages, and Applied Linguistics Department present A Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien Followed by Q&A with Directors Finding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation […]
FreeLunch Discussion with Joy Harjo
Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. All are invited.
FreeDai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]
Living Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers, taught by Carolyn Dunn)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will […]
Shakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet
Porter AmphitheaterIn celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go's one-hour production of Hamlet. Starring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy Original music by Eric Benjamin Parson Fight choreography by Carla Pantoja Directed by Kimberly Jannarone
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
Stevenson, Room 150It's easy to create a victim. One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and […]
Free"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop, as an increasing number of scholars […]
FreeCécile Whiting: "Apocalypse in Paradise: Niki de Sainte Phalle in Los Angeles"
Porter College, Room D245Cécile Whiting is a Chancellor's Professor of Art History and Professor of Visual Studies at the University of California, Irvine. Professor Whiting examines mid-twentieth century American art and has published […]
FreeMorten Axel Pedersen: "Collaborative Damage: A Comparative Ethnography of Chinese Infrastructure Projects in Mozambique and Mongolia"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMorten Axel Pedersen Professor of Social Anthropology, University of Copenhagen Morten Axel Pedersen has conducted fieldwork in Mongolia, the Russian Far East, and Western China on topics as diverse as […]