Events
Mark A. Raider: "The Changing Image of the Israeli Hero in American Culture"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Jewish Studies presents: Mark A. Raider This talk surveys the long arc of the Zionist and Israeli hero as perceived in the American setting. Taking a page from […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
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. March 2nd - Mother Joan […]
Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
Social Sciences 2, Room 75 Social Sciences 2 University of California Santa Cruz, College Ten, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal […]
Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
Humanities 1, Room 202What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of […]
Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMichael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. […]
18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist, director, and producer, will be screening his documentary, 18 IUs Soli, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He […]
Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWinter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Novelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her […]
Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
SFSU Humanities BuildingThe Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature, History, Jewish Studies, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and […]
Misfit Horror Film Series: Possession
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. March 9th - Possession (1981, dir. Andrzej […]
RESCHEDULED Karen Bassi – "Fading into the Future: Visibility and Legibility in Thucydides History"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk was originally scheduled for March 5th. It has been rescheduled to take place on March 12th. Karen Bassi’s current book project, In Search of Lost Things: Classics Between […]