Events
Events
I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Del Mar TheatreI Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin. Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal […]
$10.50Rick Prelinger: “Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians. Rick Prelinger is an Associate […]
FreeSpanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
Humanities 1, Room 202Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina: A Talk by Héctor Hoyos Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, […]
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Kresge Town HallDigital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and […]
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Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) Dark Lab Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAndrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged […]
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesLoess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier Ruth Mostern Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a […]
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Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This […]
Living Writers: Micah Perks
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesMicah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
Humanities 1, Room 202"Its Ok, We're Safe Here": Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, […]
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Grad Slam
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGrad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk […]