Events
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of […]
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEngage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:00-5:00 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center Room 108 Schedule of Events: 1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet 1:45 p.m. Introductions 2:00 […]
Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. Smith-Prei Associate Professor […]
Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman--featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman's work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck. This event is part […]
Linguistics Colloquium: Ashwini Deo
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLinguistics Colloquium 2017-2018 Ashwini Deo, "Alternative circumstances of evaluation and the ser/estar distinction in Spanish" Abstract: The Spanish copulas ser and estar have distributional and interpretational patterns that have resisted an adequate analysis. In this talk, I work towards a unified analysis that treats the two copulas as being presuppositional variants that are differentially sensitive […]
“Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” Symposium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Writing Across Cultures in the Early Modern World” In the past decade, historians and literary scholars have become increasingly interested in the global circulation of the written word. Much of this scholarship has focused on the movement of printed books. Other projects, such as Stanford’s Mapping the Republic of Letters initiative, have traced epistolary networks […]
Living Writers Series: Michael Arcega
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Arcega is an interdisciplinary artist working primarily in sculpture and installation. His research-based work revolves largely around language and sociopolitical dynamics. Directly informed by Historic narratives, material significance, and geography, his subject matter deals with circumstances where power relations are unbalanced. As a naturalized American, his investigation of cultural markers are embedded in objects, […]
Opening Reception: The Gail Project Exhibition – An Okinawan-American Dialogue
Mary Porter Sesnon Art GalleryThe Gail Project Exhibition - An Okinawan-American Dialogue at the Sesnon Gallery, Porter College Opening Reception: Thursday, October 5, 5:00-7:00 pm Exhibition run dates: Thu, Oct 5, 2017 to Sat, Dec 2, 2017 Weekly events every Wednesday 6-8pm. Closed for Thanksgiving Holiday November 23- 27 The Gail Project is a collaborative, international public history project […]
Briohny Doyle, “Postapocalypse Now”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos Briohny Doyle’s research positions the postapocalyptic imagination as a reply to apocalyptic forms that obliterate & totalize. Her work considers postapocalyptic literary & theoretical texts that move beyond revelation to consider the various breakdowns of capitalism through potent figures like the ruin, the virus, & the nomad. Briohny Doyle is a Melbourne-based writer and […]