Events
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, […]
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 […]
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 three poetry collections: Visiting Days (Willow Books), Kind (Post Traumatic Press), and Doris' Red Spaces (Mayapple Press), and a chapbook, The Slow Creaking of Planets […]
Amitav 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 […]
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 […]
Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) 2020
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvery year towards the end of the winter quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz (LASC) conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a PhD alumna or alumnus of the department. This […]
Speculative Futures of Labor: New Feminist and Critical Race Approaches Symposium
Dream Inn Santa Cruz 175 W Cliff Dr, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis symposium features emergent approaches to labor in light of the surge of interest in technological socioeconomic transformations (including robotics, AI, and app-based on demand services).This symposium, held on March 2-3, is part of the UC Speculative Futures Collective (UCSD, UCR, UCI, UCSC) that over a period of two years will feature events which will […]
Dávila Santiago and Robles Gutiérrez – Puerto Rico: Filming Resistance and Survival
DNA Comedy Lab 155 S. River St., Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFor the last four years, Puerto Ricans have experienced challenges that will leave an indelible mark on their collective memory and history. In 2016, the U.S. government started to implement extreme austerity measures on the island and in 2017, the island experienced one of the most devastating hurricanes from the past 100 years. In 2019, […]
Joseph Blankholm – The Rituals of Secular Purification: Four Ways to Purify Religious Pollution
CA, United StatesBeing secular means not being religious, but it also means participating in a religion-like tradition. This paradox shapes the everyday lives of secular people, as well as institutions that depend on categories like secular, spiritual, religious, and superstitious. Relying on years of ethnographic research among very secular people, this lecture describes four ways of producing […]
Radical Futurisms Film Series: Part I
Del Mar TheatreHow are artists envisioning radical futures? This free film series assembles a diverse group of visionaries whose films offer points of light in a dark world. Get Tickets Here >> Featuring films by Black Audio Film Collective, Kahlil Joseph, Black Quantum Futurism, Danis Goulet, and Woodbine Collective. For more information on the Beyond the World's End […]