Events

Claudia Rankine was born in Jamaica in 1963. She is the author of four collections of poetry, including Don’t Let Me Be Lonely, The End of the Alphabet, and Nothing in Nature is Private (1995), which received the Cleveland State Poetry Prize. Rankine is co-editor of American Women Poets in the Twenty-First Century (Wesleyan University […]

Pier Paolo Pasolini (1922-1975) — poet, film director, screenwriter and theatre critic, playwright, essayist, journalist, graphic artist, and novelist — was one of the great Italian artistic and intellectual figures of the twentieth century.  Since his mysterious murder in 1975, Pasolini has been reviled; then sanctified. Our goal is to historicize Pasolini. This conference focuses […]

Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and […]

Bhanu Kapil has written four full-length cross-genre works: The Vertical Interrogation of Strangers (Kelsey Street Press, 2001), Incubation: a space for monsters (Leon Works, 2006), humanimal (Kelsey Street Press, 2009), and Schizophrene (forthcoming, Nightboat Books). Recent classes at Naropa have engaged architecture, somatics, biology and memory as ways to approach or navigate contemporary narrative and […]

An exciting array of events and activities are planned on campus during UCSC's upcoming "Day By The Bay" event. The campus's annual  reunion weekend will take place this year from Friday, April 29, through Sunday, May 1. A complete schedule of events — and all related details — can be found at: http://events.ucsc.edu/daybythebay/ We hope […]

Join us on May 1, 2011, (10am to 4pm) in celebrating writing at UCSC. As part of UCSC’s Day By The Bay celebrations, Humanities is hosting a selection of alumni writers - novelists, journalists, and screenwriters—coming together for a community event to focus on the joys and challenges of writing as a living, the business […]

Many modern problems involve computer simulations of physical or social processes. The field of statistics provides a range of tools to help with the design, analysis, and use of computer simulators. This talk will give an overview of these problems and the statistical perspective, with applications ranging from rocket science to hydrology to health care […]

The Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Jacob Metcalf, Science and Social Justice Postdoctoral Fellow, UCSC "Meet Shmeat: Animal Biotechnologies and the Philosophical Tensions of the New Foods Movements" Doctor Metcalf is the Postdoctoral Fellow in an NSF-funded program training graduate students in interdisciplinary inquiry on the co-constitution of ethics and scientific knowledge. His […]

Regine Basha has been an curator of contemporary art and art writer since the early 1990s. Her exhibition and writing history can be found on bashaprojects.com. Amongst her most recent […]