Events
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: The House of the Devil
Stevenson, Room 150During the 1980s, over 70% of American adults believed in the existence of abusive satanic cults. A typically low key and intelligent horror film from Ti West, perhaps the most […]
FreeCarl Mark Deppe Lecture: Harry Berger Jr.: "Dying Angry: The Wrath of Socrates in Plato's Dialogue, Phaedo"
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlato wrote four dialogues dramatizing the last days and death of Socrates: Euthyphro, The Apology, Crito, and Phaedo. “Dyng Angry” will focus on Socrates’s behavior and performance —and weirdness—in Phaedo. […]
FreeRebecca Hester: "Bodies as=of knowledge: The ethics and politics of biometrics in health care"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat are the proposed uses of biometrics in health care and the ethics and politics of body data in the digital age? As security and surveillance become the order of […]
Martin Holbraad: "How Myths Make Men in Afro-Cuban Divination"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMartin Holbraad Professor Social Anthropology, University College London and Co-Director of Cosmology, Religion, Ontology and Culture Research Group (CROC) Martin Holbraad's main field research is in Cuba, where he focuses […]
Celebrating Gloria Anzaldúa's Legacy: 10th Anniversary of Passing
Namaste Lounge - College 9 Namaste Lounge, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis year marks the 10th anniversary of Gloria Anzaldúa's passing. In honor of the legacy left by Gloria Anzaldúa, The Chicano Latino Resource Center will be hosting a celebration of […]
FreeThe Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV: Theater Pieces in Five Languages
Stevenson Event CenterCowell College, Stevenson College & Languages and Applied Linguistics present: The Miriam Ellis International Playhouse XIV Theater Pieces in Five Languages with English Subtitles Chinese Three Pots of Tea by […]
FreeMeaghan Morris, "In Praise of Parochial Blockbusters" (seminar)
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNoted film and cultural studies critic Meaghan Morris will give a seminar on the theme of "parochial blockbusters". The seminar will center on a discussion of her essay, "Transnational Glamour, […]
FreeMikkel Johansen: Material and Social Conditions for the Development of Mathematics
Humanities 2, Room 259Mathematical knowledge has traditionally been taken to be absolutely objective, i.e. completely independent of contingent facts about the agents who discover the results. Today, this absolutistic view of mathematics has […]
Living Writers Series: Mark Axelrod
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMark Axelrod is the author of four novels: Capital Castles; Cloud Castles; Cardboard Castles; and Bombay California; a novel in three books, The Posthumous Memoirs of Blase Kubash; short story collections Dante's Foil & Other Sporting Tales, The […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: Pulse
Stevenson, Room 150Pulse (2001) Would you like to meet a ghost? About as bleak a depiction of apocalypse as you’re ever likely to come across, Kiyoshi Kurosawa’s Pulse is a J-Horror film […]
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