Events
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Kresge Town HallDigital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and […]
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Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged […]
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLoess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier Ruth Mostern Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a […]
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Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This […]
Living Writers: Micah Perks
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
Humanities 1, Room 202"Its Ok, We're Safe Here": Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, […]
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Grad Slam
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk […]
Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies Presents: Streetopia and Beyond A Talk by Eric Lyle 3-5 pm Monday, February 27 Humanities 1, 210 What does community control look like? How do […]
FreeHillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban "greening" in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Iranian Women's Movement: Rights and Difference Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies My talk centers on the Irania women's movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights […]
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