Events

Aminda Smith’s forthcoming book, Thought Reform and China’s Dangerous Classes: Reeducation, Resistance, and the People focuses on Chinese Communist reformatories, where agents of the state worked to transform beggars, prostitutes, and other “vagrants” into new socialist citizens. She explores reeducation centers as both institutions and symbolic spaces through which “The People” were created. Aminda Smith […]

Juliana LesliePlease help celebrate the publication of Juliana Leslie's Green is for World at Capitola Book Cafe this coming Saturday, January 12. The reception is at 5 pm, the reading at 6pm. "Green Is for World is a book that expands on the childlike register of its title: it is open, vulnerable, curious… Maybe we […]

This talk looks at the question of comparative ethnic studies through the critique and the rearticulation of comparative projects. It goes on to ask the question of how one might institutionalize and let one’s institutional practice and project be shaped by the critique of institutionalization. Roderick A. Ferguson is professor of race and critical theory. […]

The Lin Family 's Shop (1959; dir. Shui Hua) China Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu    

Cairo Station (1958; dir. Youssef Chahine) Egypt Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu  

Click on image to enlarge flyer. The Departments of Feminist Studies and Film + Digital Media and the Graduate Program in Social Documentation Present: WILDNESS a film by Wu Tsang Screening and Discussion with director Wu Tsang and co-writer Roya Rastegar Reception to follow screening and discussion ABOUT THE FILM Rooted in the tropical underground […]

The children of survivors must navigate between the intimate legacy of their parents’ experiences and their own encounter—via books, films, and other sources—of the Holocaust as a historical event. As the last survivors pass away and lived memory of the event disappears with them, what special role—if any—should their children play in representing and interpreting […]

The philosophy department is proud to announce that UCSC will be hosting two Ethics Bowl debate competitions this year. On December 1st, 2012, UCSC will host the California Regional Ethics Bowl, a qualifier for the Intercollegiate Ethics Bowl. Ethics Bowl is a team debate competition where teams of five undergraduates analyze case studies that demonstrate […]