Events
Enduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, […]
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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT VIDEO: EVENT PHOTOS: CITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE: The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz […]
FreeUPDATED TIME: Amalia Mesa-Bains Talk & Film Screening of “Eduardo Carrillo: A Life of Engagement”
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMonday, November 9, 2015 6 PM, Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108 The Institute of the Arts and Sciences and the Museo Eduardo Carrillo invite you to a talk by […]
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Miriam Posner: “Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy's Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCo-sponsored by the University Library Between 1936 and 1967, Walter Freeman, a prominent neurologist, lobotomized as many as 3,500 Americans. Freeman was also an obsessive photographer, taking patients' photographs before […]
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Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading with California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz presents California's Poet Laureate Emeritus Al Young. Al Young, born in Ocean Springs, Mississippi, is an American poet, novelist, essayist, screenwriter, and professor. In 2005, he was named poet laureate of California by Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger. Widely translated, Al Young’s twenty-two books include: poetry—Heaven, The Sound of Dreams Remembered, Coastal Nights and […]
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Workshop with Miriam Posner: "How Did They Make That?"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDirections in Digital Humanities presents: Miriam Posner UCLA Head-and-Shoulder Hunting in the Americas: Exploring Lobotomy’s Visual Culture Workshop: How Did They Make That? The catch-all term “digital project” can refer to a daunting array of technologies and methods. For a newcomer (or even an experienced practitioner), it can be hard to know where to start. […]
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Friday Forum: Maya Iverson “Re-reading the Black Civil Rights Documentary ‘Sit-In'”
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 as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. This meeting will feature Maya […]
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Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez: “A Net Made of Words: Intertextuality in Chicano/a Literature”
College 8, Red RoomThis lecture will explore ways in which Chicano/a literature crosses literary borders, establishing a net of ties and connections with other literary traditions. Manuel M. Martín-Rodríguez is Professor of Literature and founding faculty at the University of California, Merced. He has published the books The Textual Outlaw: Reading John Rechy in the 21st Century (co-edited […]
FreeEnduring Power – Photography Exhibit – Nov. 2 – Dec. 17
Resource Center for Non ViolenceEnduring Power: The Middle Eastern and Iranian Women’s Story — A Photography Exhibit — November 2 – December 17, 2015 AT: Resource Center for Nonviolence, 612 Ocean St., Santa Cruz, CA Exhibit HOURS: M-TH noon – 4p.m. or by appointment, 831-423-1626 Sponsored by the Resource Center for Nonviolence and Senses Cultural, Enduring Power’s striking images […]
FreeCatherine Ramírez: “'Our Porto Ricans': Puerto Rican Students at the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, 1898-1923"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCatherine Ramírez works on 20th-century Mexican-American history, histories of migration and assimilation, Latino literature, feminist theory, and comparative ethnic studies. She is writing a book on the history of assimilation in the U.S. and was recently awarded a grant from the Mellon Foundation for her work on migration, belonging, and non-citizenship. Ramírez is Associate Professor […]
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