Events
Ronaldo V. Wilson: “Your Micro-Aggression, My Macro-Response: Some Renderings”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRonaldo Wilson’s current project AVATAR|DIASPORA, wrestles with the idea of the obliterated black body and its juncture with poetry and visual culture. This project documents his current practice through sonic landscapes, video, dance, […]
Marjorie Agosin: “Gender & Sexuality in the Work of Gabriela Mistral”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMarjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin’s poetry is inspired by social justice and the […]
UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection
Santa Cruz Museum of Art and HistoryPODCAST: EVENT PHOTOS: by Steve Kurtz UC Santa Cruz Institute for Humanities Research Presents: UCSC Night at the Museum: The Kinsey African American Art & History Collection 6:30pm | “The […]
Marjorie Agosin: “Translating the Soul: Meditations on Poetry”
Humanities 1, Room 202Marjorie Agosin is the Luella La Mer Slaner Professor in Latin American Studies and Professor of Spanish at Wellesley College. Professor Agosin's poetry is inspired by social justice and the dedicated […]
Jonathan Ellis: “Motivated Reasoning, Heavy and Light”
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment […]
Living Writers: Lev Grossman
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLev Grossman: I was born in 1969 and grew up in Lexington, MA. My parents were both English professors, so naturally I read a lot. I read a lot in […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Trung Nguyen
Humanities 1, Room 202Trung Nguyen "War Material: Vietnamese Objects of Post-War Subjectivity" Hong-An Truong and Dinh Q. Le are two widely received diasporic Vietnamese artists whose installations have engaged with the interpretative terrains […]
Linguistic Colloquium: Kyle Johnson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistic Colloquium: The Linguistic department hosts colloquium talks by distinguished faculty from around the world. Fall 2015 October 9th: Keith Johnson, UC Berkeley October 16th: Heidi Harley, University of Arizona October 30th: Ivano […]
Camille Fauroux: “Framing Gender across Boundaries: French Women at Work in Berlin’s War Industry (1940-1945)”
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDuring the Second World War, 50,000 to 100,000 French women chose to leave France to work for the war industry in Germany. Their transnational experience points to the racial and […]
Dai Jinhua: “A Cultural Landscape with No Coordinates: Contemporary Chinese Cinema”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua is currently researching the cultural politics of China after the post-Cold War, the “rise of China,” and the erasures and elisions of China’s anti-colonial, third world socialist past. […]