Events
Kathi Weeks: “The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKathi Weeks is an Associate Professor in the Women’s Studies Program at Duke University. Her primary interests are in the fields of political theory, feminist theory, Marxist thought, the critical study of work, and utopian studies. She is the author of The Problem with Work: Feminism, Marxism, Antiwork Politics and Postwork Imaginaries (Duke UP, 2011) […]
Aristea Fotopoulou: "‘All these emotions, all these yearnings, all these data': Platform openess, data sharing and visions of democracy"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAristea Fotopoulou works at the intersections of media & cultural studies with science & technologies studies. She has written on digital networks and feminism, information politics, knowledge production, and digital engagement. She currently explores algorithmic living and practices of data sharing. Aristea Fotopoulou is Research Fellow, University of Sussex, UK and 2014 Visiting Scholar at the […]
Complicated Labors: Feminism, Maternity, and Creative Practice (Symposium & Gallery Exhibition)
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Light Lab, Room 306The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists, writers, and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, and creative process. It seeks to center questions of care in our research and art whether they are explicit sites of inspiration and study or simply important to the conditions in which we undertake […]
Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents: Steven J. Zipperstein: "How the 1903 Kishinev Pogrom Changed Jewish History" Kishinev’s 1903 pogrom was the first instance when an event in Russian Jewish life received wide hearing. The riot, leaving 49 dead, in an obscure border town, dominated headlines in the western world […]
Kristin Ross: "Notes on the 'Cellular Regime of Nationality': Internationalism & The Paris Commune"
Humanities 1, Room 620 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe talk is taken from Communal Luxury (forthcoming from Editions La fabrique). Ross discusses the political imaginary that fueled and outlived the Paris Commune of 1871, here considered within frames provided by contemporary militant concerns: the problem of refashioning an internationalist conjuncture; the future of education, labor and the status of art; the commune-form and […]
CANCELLED: Misfit Horror Film Series: Arrebato
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. February 2nd - Arrebato (1980, dir. Iván Zulueta) - think of it as a Spanish Videodrome, only avant la lettre For more information, please visit: ihr.ucsc.edu
Kathryn Pruitt: "Culminativity in Harmonic Serialism"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: This talk considers the typology of word-headedness in languages with iterative stress and discusses a traditional classification of such systems—top-down vs. bottom-up (Hayes 1995)—in the context of Harmonic Serialism (McCarthy 2010). In some languages the primary stress is autonomous, having properties that are different from those of its secondary stresses, which has been used […]
Politics of the Digital: Poetry, Technology, and the University
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis two-day event includes a poetry reading and an interdisciplinary symposium featuring graduate students, faculty, and a keynote from Johanna Drucker. Friday, January 31, 2014: Poetry reading at 6 p.m. at the Felix Kulpa Gallery Featuring Johanna Drucker with Eireene Nealand, Margaret Rhee, and Tsering Wangmo Saturday, February 1, 2014: Interdisciplinary symposium at Humanities 1, […]
An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Nickelodeon Theatre will host "An Evening with the UCSC Dickens Project" on Thursday January 30 in conjunction with the screening of "The Invisible Woman" film, showing at 6:50 pm. The film, which stars Ralph Fiennes as Charles Dickens, is based on the Claire Tomalin book of the same title, delves into the closely-held secret […]
Living Writers Series: Rachel Swirsky and Sina Grace
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Fantasy Writer Rachel Swirsky has published over fifty short stories in venues including The New Haven Review, Tor.com and Clarkesworld Magazine. Her speculative fiction has been nominated for most of the genre's major awards, including the Hugo Award and the World Fantasy Award, […]