Events
Nicholas Mitchell: "On Afropessimism; or, The People Critique Makes"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Nicholas Mitchell Nicholas Mitchell’s current project, Disciplinary Matters: Black Studies, Women’s Studies, and the Neoliberal University, locates the institutional projects of black studies and women’s […]
Living Writers: Vikram Chandra
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesVikram Chandra’s latest book is Geek Sublime: The Beauty of Code, the Code of Beauty. He has also written the novels Sacred Games and Red Earth and Pouring Rain and […]
Film Screening: “For Marx”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFilm Screening Hosted by Socialsim / Postsocialism Research Cluster "For Marx" (2012) Directed by is Svetlana Baskova "While the presence of the New Left in the new Russian culture cannot be […]
Hedy Rose: “My Childhood in Hiding: Amsterdam, 1942-1945”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for a talk with Hedy Rose. Following her father's arrest by the Nazis, Hedy Rose, her mother, and sister spent nearly four years hidden in an Amsterdam […]
WORKSHOP: Coding for Humanists with Fabiola Hanna
Humanities 2, Room 259Interested in coding, but not sure where to start? Fabiola Hanna, a new media artist and PhD Candidate in the department of Film and Digital Media, will walk us through the basics […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Alex Moore
Humanities 1, Room 202Alex Moore "Captive Natures: Grotesque desire in the performative sculptures of Amber Hawk Swanson" In this paper I examine two projects by the artist Amber Hawk Swanson, Tilikum, 2011 and Lolita, […]
Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Multimedia & Audio
FITC, 1336 McHenry LibraryInterested in creating multimedia presentations to support your lectures or creating short narrated videos that students can listen to before class? Join us over lunch to learn how. This workshop […]
Joes Segal: “Cultural Integration”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn an interview from 1990, German artist Georg Baselitz asserted that there were no artists in the GDR. Instead, there were “assholes” who had supported a criminal system by […]
Joes Segal: “Post-Socialist Monuments: A Heavy Heritage”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies and the Socialism/Postsocialism Research Cluster presents Joes Segal Like street names, public monuments tend to celebrate historical heroes and events that are deemed exemplary for […]
Living Writers: Stephen Graham Jones & Christopher Rosales
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStephen Graham Jones is the author of fifteen novels and six story collections. Next up is the werewolf novel Mongrels, from William Morrow. Stephen lives in Boulder, Colorado, and teaches in the MFA program there […]