Events
Events
Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl: “Pig Patients and their Personalities”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Eva Vibeke Kofoed Pihl Ph.D Fellow, Center for Medical Science and Technology Studies, University of Copenhagen; Visiting Fellow, and The Science and Justice Working Group, UCSC What makes animal technicians describe a pig as "depressed," "a rebel" or "girly"? How do scientists get pigs to mimic human patients biologically […]
Sara M. Benson: “Locating Leavenworth: Prisons and Political Geography”
Humanities 1, Room 320This talk historicizes the placement of Leavenworth Federal Penitentiary (the U.S. nation’s oldest and largest federal prison designed as a replica of the U.S. capitol building) at the center of the nation in the post-Reconstruction 1890s. Drawing on understandings of political geography from feminist and critical race studies, the talk traces the geography of prisons […]
Jonathan Kahana and Irene Lusztig: Documentary Reenactment
Cowell Conference Room Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with […]
Spring 2012 Living Writers Reading Series: Laleh Khadivi
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Living Writers Reading Series is sponsored by the Siegfried B. & Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Fund, Porter College George Hitchcock Poetry Fund, Asian American/Pacific Islander Resource Center, Literature Department/Creative Writing […]
WHAT ARE WE DOING WHEN WE DO THE HUMANITIES?
Museum of Art & History 705 Front Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSaturday, April 21 @ 1 pm // Museum of Art & History Free and Open to the Public (includes free museum access) Join us for an exploration and celebration of […]
Rabindranath Tagore 150th Anniversary with Aparna Sen
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAparna Sen starred at age 16 in Samapti, directed by Satyajit Ray, in 1961. Based on a story by the Nobel Laureate, Rabindranath Tagore, it was her very first film. […]
Pedro Di Pietro: “Decolonizing Queer Space: Race, Sexuality and the Production of the Real”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Pedro Di Pietro Visiting Assistant Professor; Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in the Humanities and Townsend Fellow, UCB; Research Affiliate, Center for the Interdisciplinary Study of […]
Stephen Tatum: “Cormac McCarthy, Roberto Bolaño, and the Natural History of Destruction”
Cowell, Room 132 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn his 1997 lecture series on literature and the air raids of the Second World War, W.G. Sebald asks at one point “how ought such a natural history of destruction […]
ChaeRan Freeze: “Crafting an Elite Russian-Jewish Identity: Subjectivity and Gender in Diaries of Zinaida Poliakova”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChaeRan Freeze, an associate professor in Jewish history at Brandeis University, has focused her research on the Jews of Russia and women’s and gender studies. Her first book, Jewish Marriage […]
Pranav Anand: “All I Want is Some Honest Answers to My Questions: Tracking Argumentation and Stance in Online Political Debate”
Whereas a generation ago, engaging in public discourse might have meant leafleting or writing letters to the editor, today a host of venues exist online, enabling meaningful dialogue on an […]