Events
Patricia Piccinini and Donna Haraway in Conversation
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAustralian artist Patricia Piccinini will join UC Santa Cruz professor emerita Donna Haraway for a conversation about their shared interest in what Haraway calls "technoculture and speculative fabulations." Patricia Piccinini works in a variety of media, including painting, video, sound, installation, digital prints, and sculpture. In 2014 she was awarded the Artist Award by the […]
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Carol Dougherty: “Nobody’s Home: Metis, Improvisation, and the Instability of Return in Homer’s Odyssey”
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UCSC Classical Studies Program presents The Annual Carl Deppe Lecture with Professor Carol Dougherty Wellesley College This talk considers Homer’s Odyssey in light of recent work in improvisatory studies to suggest that returning home is a creative rather than restorative act. Odysseus is famous for his mētis, exactly the kind of practical reasoning upon […]
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Christina Schwenkel – Designing the Rational City: Gender and the ‘Housing Question’ Revisited in Late Socialist Vietnam
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesChristina Schwenkel, Professor of Anthropology, UC Riverside Professor Schwenkel's work addresses transnationalism, historical memory, aesthetics and visual culture in Vietnam. Her book, "The American War in Contemporary Vietnam: Transnational Remembrance and Representation (2009) examines encounters between U.S. and Vietnamese recollections and representations of the war, and seeks to define and maintain particular visions of historical […]
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Undergraduate History Showcase
The Undergraduate History Showcase is an annual event held each spring that recognizes the exceptional research conducted by UC Santa Cruz history undergraduates. In addition, a history alumnus delivers a keynote address in which they expound on the valuable career skills they acquired by majoring in history. SCHEDULE OF EVENTS: I. Student Presentations - 2:00-2:45 […]
A Book Reading and Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle
Humanities 2, Room 359The Feminist Studies Department, along with the South Asia Studies Initiative and the Office for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion, invite you join us for to a Book Reading & Conversation with Anubha Bhonsle! Anubha Bhonsle, author of Mother, Where's My Country? Journalist, Executive Editor, CNN-IBN Fulbright Humphrey Fellow, 2015-16 Mother, Where's My country? […]
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Book Talk with Donna Haraway: “Manifestly Haraway”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Emerging Worlds, the Center for Cultural Studies, and the Science & Justice Research Center present: Book Talks with Donna Haraway reading from Manifestly Haraway Followed by a conversation between Donna Haraway & Cary Wolfe Manifestly Haraway brings together Donna Haraway’s seminal “Cyborg Manifesto” and “Companion Species Manifesto.” Manifestly Haraway also includes a […]
FreeDonna V. Jones: “’I want more life’: Reflections on Time, Race and Duration in Ridley Scott’s Bladerunner”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDonna V. Jones is the author of Racial Discourses of Life Philosophy: Vitalism, Negritude and Modernity. Her publications and research interests include comparative modernisms, postcolonial literature, life philosophies and biopolitics, and science fiction and science studies. Her current project is Cursed Immortality: Life, Duration, and Biopolitics in Late Capitalism. Jones is Associate Professor of English at […]
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Building in Scalar and Exploring the Future of Scholarly Publishing Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 202With Craig Deitrich and Tara McPherson. This workshop will serve as an introduction to Scalar, a free, open source authoring and publishing platform designed for scholars writing media-rich, long-form, born-digital scholarship. Developed by The Alliance for Networking Visual Culture at the University of Southern California, Scalar allows scholars to assemble media from multiple sources and […]
FreePaul Lee: “The Greeks had a word for it: thumos”
Stevenson Provost HousePaul Lee studied philosophy at St. Olaf College and received his divinity degree and PhD from Harvard. He has taught at Harvard, MIT, and UC Santa Cruz, where he founded the first organic garden on a university with Alan Chadwick in 1967. In 1976 alongside Paige Smith, he began the California Conservation Corps under Jerry […]
FreeDesigning Digital Scholarship: Art, Feminism + the Digital Humanities
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWith Craig Deitrich (Claremont Colleges) and Tara McPherson (USC) The story of the digital humanities is often narrated at a decades-long history of the computational manipulation of print. What alternative histories are concealed by such a story? How might we imagine DH differently if we move beyond a focus on text toward multimodal expression and […]
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