Events
Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe East Asian Colloquium Presents: Klaus Mühlhahn: China’s Rise in Historical Perspective Many commentators claim that China's ongoing global rise reflects a restoration of its earlier international prominence, while others highlight that China's emergence reflects distinctive characteristics of the country's current political leadership. In his new book, Making China Modern, Klaus Mühlhahn of the Free […]
FeaturedAmitav Ghosh: “Unmuting the Brutes: Human and Non-human After the Collapse of ‘Civilization’”
Music Center Recital HallCREDITLINE PHOTO: Ivo van der Bent. 22-01-2019 Amitav Ghosh in Amsterdam. The Humanities Institute and the Center for Creative Ecologies present Beyond the End of the World Lecture Series AMITAV GHOSH Thursday, February 27, 2020 @ 7 PM Music Recital Hall, UC Santa Cruz Free & open to the public with registration Book signing after […]
Living Writers: Gretchen Primack
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGretchen Primack is a poet and educator living in New York's Hudson Valley. She has taught and/or administrated with prison education programs (mostly college) since 2005. She's the author of […]
CANCELLED: Dee Hibbert-Jones – Run With It
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesDee Hibbert-Jones' colloquium talk has been cancelled. We will try to reschedule for Spring or Fall 2020. Hibbert-Jones will discuss the challenges, politics and aesthetics in making her upcoming film Run With It, a feature documentary that is entirely animated. Made in collaboration with Nomi Talisman, the film tells the story of De’Jaun Correia, a […]
Mania Akbari: A Moon For My Father
Communications 150, Studio CMania Akbari collaborates with British sculptor Douglas White to coin a tender fusion of language, where a meeting of cinema and sculpture investigates the processes of physical and psychological destruction and renewal. Begun a matter of weeks after first meeting, the film charts a deepening artistic and personal relationship exploring the nature of skin, family, […]
Living Writers: Jennifer Tseng
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPoet and fiction writer Jennifer Tseng was born in Indiana and raised in California by a first generation Chinese engineer and a third generation German American microbiologist. Her flash fiction […]
FeaturedUPDATE: “Unrest” Film Screening
Del Mar Theatre2/19/2020: Please note that due to unfortunate health issues, Jennifer Brea will no longer be in attendance at the event. The screening is still taking place and Professor Moodie will still be in attendance for the introduction. Jennifer Brea's Sundance award-winning documentary, Unrest, is a personal journey from patient to advocate to storyteller. Jennifer is […]
CANCELLED: Elizabeth Povinelli – The Axioms of Catastrophe: Coming and Ancestral Tactics
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk examines four axioms of existence that have emerged and expanded in recent years across a large segment of critical theory; the stakes of understanding the historical conditions of these axioms; and their power to provide a foundation for remolding political concepts in the wake of geontopower. From one perspective the emergence of these […]
Living Writers: Juan Martinez
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United States
NEW LOCATION “Shusenjo: The Main Battleground of the Comfort Women Issue” Film Screening
Resource Center for Non ViolenceThe “comfort women” issue is perhaps Japan’s most contentious present-day diplomatic quandary. Inside Japan, the issue is dividing the country across clear ideological lines. Supporters and detractors of “comfort women” are caught in a relentless battle over empirical evidence, the validity of oral testimony, the number of victims, the meaning of sexual slavery and the […]