Events
"Legacies of the Sent-down Youth Movement in Contemporary China" Conference
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis conference explores the contemporary legacies of the sent-down youth movement that accompanied the Chinese Cultural Revolution (1966-76), during which approximately 15 million urban youth were sent to live in rural villages and state farms for up to ten years. This is a timely moment for such a workshop, as an increasing number of scholars […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Martyrs
Stevenson, Room 150It's easy to create a victim. One of the more insightful recent examples of French extreme cinema and “torture porn,” Pascal Laugier’s Martyrs is a singularly divisive horror film experience. After police officers rescue her following over a year of repeated exposure to torture and torment, Lucie build up her strength in an orphanage and […]
FreeShakespeare-to-Go: Hamlet
Porter AmphitheaterIn celebration of Shakespeare's 450th birthday, join us for Shakespeare-to-Go's one-hour production of Hamlet. Starring Porter College affiliate Conor Murphy Original music by Eric Benjamin Parson Fight choreography by Carla Pantoja Directed by Kimberly Jannarone
FreeLiving Writers Series: Joy Harjo (in support of UC Pres Chair-sponsored course: American Indian Feminist writers, taught by Carolyn Dunn)
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, most recently For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, most recently Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will […]
Dai Jinhua: "After the Post-Cold War"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]
Lunch Discussion with Joy Harjo
Ethnic Resource Lounge, Bay Tree Conference Center Bay Tree Conference Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoy Harjo is the author of fourteen collections of poetry, most recently How We Became Human, New and Selected Poems: 1975-2001; two non-fiction books, most recently Crazy Brave, A Memoir; two children’s books, For a Girl Becoming; and five recordings, including Red Dreams: A Trail Beyond Tears. All are invited.
Free"Finding the Mother Lode: Italian Immigrants in California" Screening and Q&A with Directors
Cowell, Room 131 Cowell College 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCowell College Provost, History Department, Italian Studies Program, Languages, and Applied Linguistics Department present A Documentary by Gianfrano Norelli and Suma Kurien Followed by Q&A with Directors Finding the Mother Lode provides a bracing contrast to East Coast stories and a new route to understanding the diversity and complexity of ethnic stories. A vivid interpretation […]
FreeSusan Harding: "Secular Trouble: Anthropology, Public Schools, and De/regulating Religion in late 20th Century America"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSusan Harding Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Susan Harding’s recent work explores the nexus of secularism, Christian revivalism, Civil Rights, and decolonialization as they imploded in the controversy over a federally funded elementary school curriculum in Anthropology. She reads the curriculum as a national secularizing project that triggered Christian efforts to regulate secularism.
Dai Jinhua: Seminar on Still Life, directed by Jia Zhangke
Humanities 1, Room 202Dai Jinhua at UCSC April 18-April 24 We are pleased to announce the visit of Beijing University Professor Dai Jinhua, who will be on campus for a series of events, detailed below. Professor Dai is one of China’s foremost cultural critics, and her writing on cinema, feminism, Marxism, revolutionary movements of the sixties, class, and […]