Events
Events
Natives in Game Dev Gathering
UC Santa Cruz Silicon ValleyOn Friday, May 22, from 10am to 5pm, the Games and Playable Media MS program, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game […]
Friday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve […]
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Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous, always-on, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTuesday, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210 Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A conversation with Warren Sack Warren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction, interactive storytelling, software studies, […]
FreeJohn Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. John Modern is the Chair […]
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Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn conjunction with our End of Year Celebration, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. Camille Charette, "Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective" […]
FreeLiving Writers Series: Sarah Manguso, Maggie Nelson
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
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Global Islam: A Weekend of Film and Video
Communications 150, Studio CFriday, May 29th 4:00-5:30pm Videos by Mounir Fatmi: Mixology (2010), Technologia (2010), and Rain Making (2004) Discussion with: Tarek El Haik, Assistant Professor, Cinema, San Francisco State University Peter Limbrick, […]
FreeFriday Forum with Ann Drevno: “Unintended Consequences of Regulatory Spotlighting Pesticides: The Case of California’s Central Coast Agricultural Waiver program”
Humanities 1, Room 202The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve […]
FreeComplicated Labor: Feminism, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections. Additional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series, Thursday May […]
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