Events
Satyajit Ray Film Series: Pather Panchali (“Song of the Road”)
Crown Fireside Lounge Fireside Lounge University of California Santa Cruz, Crown College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSatyajit Ray is regarded as one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century. The Ray Film and Study Center (RayFASC) is newly located at Crown College and holds the […]
Lewis Watts: New Orleans Suite, First Friday – Curator’s Walk Through
Mary Porter Sesnon Art GalleryNew Orleans Suite presents a window into the landscape of life in New Orleans before and after Hurricane Katrina. Vivid black and white photography exposes the contrast of devastation and […]
Ben Munson: “Perceived gender and fricative identification”
Two theoretical problems have stood at the core of psycholinguistic research in syntactic comprehension: (1) the resolution of local ambiguity; and (2) syntactic complexity, or the difficulty incurred in processing […]
Laurie Palmer: “How Long I Ask You to Watch”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLaurie Palmer's current work explores matter's agency as it asserts itself at different speeds and scales. In the contexts of sculptural practice and public participatory projects, she asks how we […]
Anat Gilboa: “Rembrandt’s Depictions of Jewish Themes”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRembrandt van Rijn (1606-1669) is known for his vivid interpretation of themes from the Hebrew Bible. His reputation as a painter of histories, based on pictorial and literary sources, was […]
The Greatest Story Never Told (In the West): The Rāmāyaṇa and the Cultural Universe of South and Southeast Asia
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobert P. Goldman is the author of several key works in the fields of Sanskrit literature and Indian thought, and has recently completed the translation of the Ramayana of Valmiki. […]
World Melodrama Film Series – All That Heaven Allows
Social Sciences I, Room 110 Social Sciences 1 University of California Santa Cruz, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAll That Heaven Allows (1955; dir. Douglas Sirk) U.S Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all […]
Sustaining Activism and Political Hope: Webinar with Grace Lee Boggs
Unnamed VenueAnyone who wishes to attend the webinar online instead of in person, please contact Nancy Chen <nchenucsc@gmail.com> as soon as possible to reserve a spot. We will be using Google […]
The Living Writers Reading Series: Truong Tran
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesInto Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and […]
UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop: “Excavating the Past”
The McCune Conference Room, UCSB 6020 Humanities and Social Sciences Building, Santa Barbara, CA, United StatesThe UC Mediterranean Studies MRP Fall Workshop, “Excavating the Past,” will feature three pre-circulated papers and a presentation by our featured scholar. All interested graduate students and scholars are welcome; […]