Events
Living Writers Series: Poets
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! Sesshu Foster has taught composition and literature in East L.A. for 25 years. He's also taught writing at the University of Iowa, the California Institute for the Arts, the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics and the University of California, Santa […]
Nicholas D. Cahill: "The City of Sardis"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President’s Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on “Archaeology and the Ancient World” This lecture will present the results of current research at Sardis in western Turkey, the capital city of the Lydians and of their last king, Croesus. […]
Shakespeare in ASL: A Performance and Discussion with Monique Holt and Tim Chamberlain
Theater Arts, E100O, learn to read what silent love hath writ: To hear with eyes belongs to love’s fine wit. The Provost of Porter College and the IHR Research Cluster, Shakespeare’s Disciplines, invite you to experience a phenomenal new translation of Shakespeare’s Sonnets into American Sign Language. In addition to performing a selection of sonnets in ASL, […]
A Conversation & Book Party for Neda Atanasoski with Lisa Rofel & Shelley Stamp
Humanites 1, Room 320 Humanities and Social Science Facility, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhen is a war not a war? When it is undertaken in the name of democracy, against the forces of racism, sexism, and religious and political persecution? This is the new world of warfare that Neda Atanasoski observes in Humanitarian Violence, different in name from the old imperialism but not so different in kind. In […]
Matthew Wolf-Meyer – "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of American Brains, on the alternative histories of American neuroscience, seen through the lens of extreme anti-social forms of autism. Matthew Wolf-Meyer is Associate Professor of Anthropology […]
Screening and Panel Discussion – The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience
Communications 150, Studio CA major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, Studio C. (Communications 150) The film, 102 minutes, will be followed by an informal panel and general discussion animated by James Clifford (History of Consciousness), […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
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. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, dir. Siu-Tung Ching) is a remarkable high point of 80s Hong Kong cinema. Both an adaptation of a story by Pu Songling written during the Qing […]
From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
St. Francis Yacht Club on the MarinaPlease join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching […]
Gender. Region. Slavery.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVideo from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media. For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at […]
Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
Humanities 2, Room 259ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not, strictly speaking, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an […]