Events
Events
Franco Berardi, Seminar Discussion: "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFranco "Bifo" Berardi will be leading a seminar discussion based on "Aesthetic Genealogy of Globalization," an excerpt from his forthcoming book And – Phenomenology of the End. Participants are invited to read the text and join the discussion. The text can be downloaded at this link: https://www.dropbox.com/s/ax682ecxgn4jtzi/Franco%20Berardi%2C%20Aesthetic%20Genealogy%20of%20Globalization.pdf?dl=0. This seminar is part of the series “What Is […]
FreeCANCELLED: Abe Stone: "Why Does Space Have More than One Dimension?"
Humanities 1, Room 202At least once a quarter the Philosophy Department hosts a Works-in-Progress presentation by a member of the faculty. The format may vary from a traditional talk to a communal environment allowing for ideas to be tested and feedback solicited. All members of the campus community and interested public are welcome to attend. Coffee, tea, and […]
FreeMadeline Lane-McKinley: "Free Love Utopias: A Feminist Spatial Analysis of New Communalism"
Humanities 1, Room 202Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. […]
FreeAdam Albright: "Testing phonological biases with Artificial Grammar learning experiments"
As with most linguistic input, the data that children receive about phonological patterns is rife with ambiguity. For example, children hearing voicing alternations in German ( ~ ‘thief-sg./pl.’, ~ ‘mouse-sg./pl.’) receive no evidence as to whether a single final devoicing process affects all word-final obstruents, or just the subset of obstruents that German happens to […]
FreeMusic of The Waves: A Conversation with Lawrence Weschler and William Finnegan Moderated by Harry Berger Jr.
Page Smith LibraryLawrence Weschler and William Finnegan both graduated from Cowell College, UCSC, in 1974. Both worked at The New Yorker, where Finnegan still works. Both studied here at UCSC with Harry […]
FreeKalindi Vora: “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized Reproduction”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTransnational commercial surrogacy brings together India’s colonial history and its economic development through outsourcing and globalization with instrumentalized notions of the reproductive body. Addressing the intertwined historical relationships and contemporary […]
Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminar Informational Session
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for an informational session on the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Sawyer Seminars on Thursday, January 8th from noon to 1:00 PM where we can address questions, think […]
FreeEric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDo professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward […]
FreeAnn Fink: “Feminist Ethics and the Neurobiology of Memory”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Feminist Studies Department Presents: Feminist Science Studies Colloquia Kalindi Vora, University of California of San Diego “Life Support: Legacies of Imperial Science and Surrogate Technologies of Racialized […]
Maya Peterson: "The Padishah of the Hungry Steppe: Irrigation and Empire in Russian Turkestan"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMaya Peterson's work stands at the intersection of environmental history and imperial history. Her current book project explores the ways in which a focus on the physical environment might open […]
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