Events
The 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 […]
FreeLora Bartlett: "Migrant Teachers: How American Schools Import Labor"
College 8, Room 301 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMigrant Teachers investigates an overlooked trend in U.S. public schools today: the growing dependence on overseas trained teachers, as federal mandates require K-12 schools to employ qualified teachers or risk […]
FreeYiqun Zhou: “Helen and the Chinese Femmes Fatales”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHelen, the Spartan queen whose abduction by Paris the prince of Troy ignited the ten-year-long Trojan War, may be regarded as the femme fatale par excellence. The prominence of Helen’s […]
Sex and the Archive
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop on Sex and the Archive May 20-21, 2014 • UC Santa Cruz Open to graduate students at UC Berkeley, UC Davis, and UC Santa Cruz Application deadline: Wednesday April […]
Despina Kakoudaki: "Robots and Slaves: History, Allegory, and the Structural Logic of the Robot Story"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDespina Kakoudaki’s work focuses on literature, film, visual and cultural studies, and the history of technology. Her new book, titled Anatomy of a Robot: Literature, Cinema, and the Cultural Work […]
FreePrasenjit Duara: "Circulatory and Competitive Histories: Temporal Foundations for Cosmopolitanism
Humanities 1, Room 520 Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesStories – narratives of the past – are necessary in all collectivities that seek to constitute and maintain themselves. In modern times, competitive states have sought to mobilize all resources […]