Events
Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. Relationships come and […]
Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" Dr. Hedwig […]
Warren Sack – "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWarren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a […]
Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans […]
FreeBecko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
Humanities 2, Room 259ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory […]
Gender. Region. Slavery.
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVideo from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media. For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field […]
From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
St. Francis Yacht Club on the MarinaPlease join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: A Chinese Ghost Story
Stevenson, Room 150Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. A Chinese Ghost Story (1987, […]
Screening and Panel Discussion – The Stuart Hall Project: Revolution, Politics, Culture, and the New Left Experience
Communications 150, Studio CA major success in Britain last Fall, “The Stuart Hall Project” is now being distributed in the USA. It will be screened at UCSC on Tuesday evening, February 25th. 7:30 PM, […]
Matthew Wolf-Meyer – "Nervous Materialities: Love Robots, Pacified Bulls, Stimoceivers and Spinoza’s Brain"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMatthew Wolf-Meyer’s work focuses on medicine, science and media in the United States. He is currently finishing a book manuscript, tentatively titled What Matters: Autism, Neuroscience and the Politics of […]