Events
Events
VIRTUAL: Special Session – World Without Clouds
World Without Clouds: an experimental work by Steven Gonzalez (MIT), Jia Hui Lee (MIT), Luísa Reis-Castro (MIT), Gabrielle Robbins (MIT), and Julianne Yip (Independent Scholar). World Without Clouds is an experimental, […]
VIRTUAL: Death on the Nile – A 3D Visit to Egypt’s Most Enduring Cemetery
Join us for a one-of-a-kind virtual experience to explore Saqqara, Egypt's most enduring cemetery. UC Santa Cruz Associate Professor of History Elaine Sullivan will take us on a virtual visit to the site of Saqqara—the ancient Egyptian necropolis that was the burial place of kings, queens, priests, and elite officials for 2,500 years (3000-332 BCE). […]
VIRTUAL: Humanities Happy Hour – Teaching and Learning in the Time of Pandemic
What has the shift to remote, online instruction nationwide revealed about teaching and learning in higher education? How can we use this crisis as an opportunity to reimagine not only […]
POSTPONED – What Time Is It? HisCon Colloqium
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VIRTUAL: MAH Beyond the World’s End – Meet the Artists
Join Beyond the World’s End exhibiting artists Laurie Palmer, Amy Balkin, Krista Franklin, Newton Harrison, Super Futures Haunt Qollective, and the Rasquache Collective for a group discussion and Q&A. In […]
CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
VIRTUAL – Special Session: Thinking Through Television in a Pandemic
In this time of the COVID-19 pandemic, more and more people are tuning into television (across streaming platforms, web series, and of course also pay, cable, and network TV) for news and information, comfort and company, narrative pleasure and imaginative stimulation—though also often getting misinformation, alienation, or discouragement. How is TV working, producing ways of […]
ZOOM TEACH IN: Anti-Asian Xenophobia in an Age of Covid-19
Anti-Chinese xenophobia inaugurated the United States as a gatekeeping nation in the late nineteenth century. Figured as dangerous to the public health, the Chinese—and successive Asian migrants—were likened to an invasive disease and subjected not only to exclusion laws but also to white vigilante violence. In this era of pandemic, a moment conditioned by phobia […]
CANCELLED: Cultural Studies Colloquium
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by faculty and visitors. The sessions consist of a 40-45 minute presentation followed by discussion. We gather at noon, with presentations beginning at 12:15 PM. Participants are encouraged to bring their own lunches; the Center provides coffee, tea, and cookies. All Center for […]
VIRTUAL: Special Session – The Pandemic and the University to Come – A Collective Action
Following on this quarter’s series of conversations about the historical space opened by the current pandemic, we will come together in a collective, active exercise of imagining the university to come. Prior to the meeting, please respond to five questions (click below) about the future university you would like to participate in post-pandemic; the questions […]