Events
Events
Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Humanities 2, Room 259Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment. Katie Trostel,"Shifting Zones of Memory": Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín's Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)” […]
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Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
Nickelodeon Theater 210 Lincoln Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBranwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker […]
Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
Humanities 2, Room 259This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central […]
FreeBranwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker Branwen Okpako Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
Humanities 1, Room 202Andrei Tcacenco "Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home" My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the […]
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Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
Santa Cruz Civic AuditoriumThe annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The […]
FreeAaron Benanav: “Too Many People, or Too Few Jobs? A Critique of Political Demography in the Post-WWII Era”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Center for Cultural Studies presents Aaron Benanav. Aaron Benanav’s current research examines the global forces giving rise to both an oversupply of labor and an underdemand for labor, worldwide. He has developed a theory of “surplus populations” to explain the consequences of persistently slack labor markets for working people, who have to work even […]
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Living Writers: Nnedi Okorafor
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNnedi Okorafor is an international award-winning novelist of African-based science fiction, fantasy and magical realism for both children and adults. Nnedi Okorafor’s books include Lagoon (a British Science Fiction Association Award finalist for Best Novel),Who […]
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Allan Langdale: “Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness”
Humanities 2, Room 359Please join us for a lecture and reading by Allan Langdale (History of Art and Visual Culture, UCSC), author of Palermo: Travels in the City of Happiness (2015). Dr. Langdale […]
FreeFriday Forum for Graduate Research: Amanda Reyes
Humanities 1, Room 202Amanda Reyes Dangerous Visibility: The Visual Epistemology of Eugenics In the 1927 Buck v. Bell decision, the Supreme Court upheld a Virginia statute allowing sterilization of people determined to have “hereditary” mental […]
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