Events
FeaturedAntisemitism and the Internet: Old Hatred and New
CA, United StatesEvent Photos by Paul Schraub: As Ian Bogost noted in The Atlantic this week, recent events have shown that internet technologies facilitate the rapid spread of forms of bigotry and hatred, and the planning of violent terror attacks. This year's UC Santa Cruz Night at the Museum seeks to explore the relationship between these […]
Living Writers: Brenda Shaughnessy with Ellen Bass
Peace United Church 900 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBrenda Shaughnessy earned a BA from the University of California, Santa Cruz, and an MFA from Columbia University. She is the author of Interior with Sudden Joy (1999), Human Dark with Sugar (2008), winner of the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets, Our Andromeda(2012), So Much Synth (2016), and The Octopus Museum […]
Deirdre de la Cruz: “Psychic Surgery and Other Philippine Phenomena of the Global Occult”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesIn the variegated landscape of the Filipino paranormal, one phenomenon garnered worldwide attention in the last quarter of the twentieth century: psychic surgery. A form of spiritual healing in which the practitioner, or espiritista, usually male, operates on the body of the patient without anaesthesia and using only his hands, psychic surgery achieved particular […]
Michael Vann: The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt – Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"The Great Hanoi Rat Hunt - Empire, Disease, and Modernity In French Colonial Vietnam" The History Department Presents Michael Vann Professor of History at Sacramento State University and UCSC History graduate program alum
Banu Bargu: “Catching a Moving Train: Decolonizing Aleatory Materialism”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesThis paper analyzes Althusser's proposal for an aleatory materialism through his engagement with historical materialism, and particularly with Marx on "primitive accumulation." It identifies two different legacies of Marx's reflections on the origins of capitalism and discusses how Althusser attempted to rework Marx to reach a non-teleological conception of history. At the same time, […]
SPOT Research Cluster Workshop
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSPOT (Syntax-Prosody in Optimality Theory) is part of an NSF-funded research project aiming to create a computational platform that generates prosodic structure candidate sets from syntactic (grammatical) structure in different languages. SPOT aims to deepen our understanding of the relationship between grammatical structures on the one hand, and how sentences are pronounced on the other, […]
The Carl Mark Deppe Memorial Lecture: Alex Purves
Cowell Provost House Cowell Provost House, Cowell Service Rd University of California Santa Cruz, Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesCarl Deppe was a charismatic young man and a promising student. In 1985 he was a sophomore at UCSC, studying Greek and ancient philosophy. While returning from a rock concert, he was killed by a drunk driver on Highway 17. His parents, George and Patricia Deppe, along with his friends, established this annual lecture series […]
Paolo Gerbaudo, The Digital Party: Political Organisation and Online Democracy
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesPaolo Gerbaudo is the Director of the Centre for Digital Culture at King's College, London. He is the author of Tweets and the Streets: Social Media and Contemporary Activism (2012), The Mask and the Flag: Citizenism and Global Protest (2017), and Digital Parties: Political Organization and Online Democracy (2018). From the movements behind Bernie […]
Nidhi Mahajan: “Moorings: Trade Networks and States in the Western Indian Ocean”
Humanities 1, Room 210 1156 high st, Santa cruz, CA, United StatesSailing vessels or dhows have long connected different parts of the western Indian Ocean, transporting goods, and people across South Asia, the Middle East and East Africa. These dhows now function as an economy of arbitrage, servicing minor ports in times of conflict. This talk focuses on the contemporary dhow trade, centered in port […]
Jody Greene: “Radical Learning – The Heart of the UC Santa Cruz Experience”
Humanities Lecture Hall Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis event will review the bold and radical educational vision of UC Santa Cruz since its inception, while introducing alumni to the innovative 21st-century approaches we are taking to ensure all students can thrive at UC Santa Cruz and leave with the tools to make change in society. We will emphasize the university's history of […]