Events

This talk explores luxury as one way that hierarchy, social distance, and subordination are felt affectively by bodies in consumption-oriented societies. The project seeks to upend a tradition of social thought that interprets luxury consumption as an other-directed, visually-mediated, and easily-subverted “language” of hierarchy and class. Professor Mathiowetz is a political theorist and the author […]

Please see full posterfor speaker list and complete announcement! The academy has been under considerable pressure recently, both fiscally and fueled by new pressures on knowledge formation, and on pedagogical, and organizational form. The university as such has come into question, both within and without. This understandably has prompted both anxiety and critical responses among […]

Join us for the second talk in the Unfinished Revolutions Lecture Series: Mario Garcia: "Rediscovering and Rethinking the Chicano Movement: A Historian's Quest"

At this critical time in the history of our university and the academy, in general, please join us for a workshop on the future of the Humanities led by David Theo Goldberg, Director of the University of California Humanities Research Institute (UCHRI). Goldberg, a professor at UC-Irvine, is a ground breaking scholar of critical race […]

In this richly illustrated lecture, Joan Judge explores the emergence of “Republican Ladies,” a new group of women in early twentieth century China, who were more visible than their talented late imperial forebears and more respectable than their infamously public courtesan contemporaries. She draws upon photographs and texts that appeared in China’s first commercial women’s […]

Interested faculty and graduate students are welcome to learn more about the Pacific Rim Research Program grants during this informational meeting. The current Call is now available from the PRRP website at: http://pacrim.ucsc.edu. Here is a snapshot of what is offered this year. FACULTY GRANTS Initiative: This is a new thematically focused grant in the […]

Philosophy graduate student Christopher Durt will give the following talk, "Galileo and the Emergence of Modern Philosophy," as a Work in Progress. Come join us!

John Mraz will examine the photography made during the armed struggle, 1910-1920, through a profusely illustrated lecture. He will then place particular emphasis on identifying the commitment of photographers to different groups in Mexico by looking at five Revolutionary icons. John Mraz is a Research Professor at Universidad Autónoma de Puebla, Mexico. This series is […]

Open Access Week is an annual international event promoting the idea that scholarly research should be freely and openly available. For Open Access Week 2010, the University Library is sponsoring an afternoon event where about a dozen faculty members representing each of the academic divisions will talk about the ways in which they are making […]

Ruth Mueller is a contract researcher at the Department of Social Studies of Science and a lecturer at the Faculty of Life Sciences and the Centre for Gender Studies at the University of Vienna. She will present: "Bound to Nothing but Science Itself?  Academic Life Science Careers and the Nomadic Disposable Research Scientist," at UCSC […]