Events

Aventurera (1950; dir. Alberto Gout) Mexico Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

Jenny Reardon is currently working on a manuscript entitled The Post-Genomic Condition: Ethics, Justice, Knowledge after the Genome. This book traces the efforts to transform genomics from a fields that in the 1990s sparked fears of racism and dehumanization to one that todays claims the banners of democracy and justice. Jenny Reardon is Associate Professor […]

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Nobody's Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu

James Clifford taught in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, […]

Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and engineering. This year's panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of "affect" demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility. Erin Gray (History of Consciousness): "The White Flesh of the World: Affect […]

This public conference investigates the relation between philosophy and its multicultural context. Are there immutable questions and universal answers regarding knowledge, values, and reality, or is philosophical inquiry bound by history, geography, and culture? Should the philosopher be responsible to the public? Four panels of local intellectuals from Google, San Francisco State University, San José […]

Celebrate the centennial anniversary of the birth of one of California’s great treasures, William Everson/Brother Antoninus: teacher, shamanistic poet-in-residence at UCSC from 1970 to 1981, famed hand-press printer, advocate of an erotic, earth-based spirituality and herald of the environmental revolution. William Everson was born in Sacramento, California in 1912 to Christian Science parents on a farm near Selma […]

Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]

Madonna of the Seven Moons (1945; dir. Arthur Crabtree) United Kingdom Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu