Events
Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current […]
FreeMary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWorkshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current project, […]
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce... Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela A Conversation & Book Party for Marcia Ochoa with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich Tuesday, June 3 About the Book Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and […]
FreeContemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
Stevenson, Room 150Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and […]
FreeSpring Awards & Humanities Undergraduate Research Award Presentations
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: You are cordially invited to Spring Awards 2014 on Thursday, May 29, 2014. This annual "Celebrating Humanities" event is an important opportunity to acknowledge those who have achieved special recognition, awards, and distinctions over the course of this past year. The Humanities Undergraduate Research Awards (HUGRA) support and encourage undergraduate research. In […]
Gopal Balakrishan: "Breakthroughs of the Young Marx"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesGopal Balakrishan Professor, History of Consciousness, UCSC Offering an intellectual history of the phases of Marx's thought from his dissertation on Greek philosophy to The 18th Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte, Gopal Balakrishnan seeks to explain why the emergent syntheses of this early Marx broke down in the aftermath of the failures of the revolutions of […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: You're Next
Stevenson, Room 150You never want to do anything interesting anymore. If you’ve ever found yourself wondering what a mumblecore slasher film might be like, then look no further than You’re Next. Directed by Adam wingard (who also helmed 2010’s elliptically grim A Horrible Way to Die and this year’s John-Carpenter-meets-The-Terminator homage The Guest) and featuring a number […]
Free"Working w/ Shakespeare: The Winter's Tale" Conference
UC Santa CruzIn celebration of Shakespeare’s 450th birthday, Working w/ Shakespeare fosters a dialogue between three professions that are especially dedicated to understanding his work: literary critics, theater designers, and professional actors. What makes literary criticism, design, and performance different as forms of interpretation? How might their distinctive practical techniques and theoretical concerns enrich and transform each […]
FreeKen Waltzer and Film Screening: Kinderblock 66
College 8, Room 240 College Eight 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKinderblock 66: Return to Buchenwald. Kinderblock 66 is the story of four men who, as young boys, were imprisoned by the Nazis in the notorious Buchenwald concentration camp and who, sixty-five years later, return to commemorate the sixty-fifth anniversary of their liberation. The film tells the story of the effort undertaken by the camp's Communist-led […]
Ken Waltzer Seminar: A Holocaust Micro-History
Humanities 1, Room 202Professor Kenneth Waltzer is currently director of the Jewish studies program at Michigan State University. His interests cover American social and political history, including urban, labor, and minority history, immigration and social relations in the United States and elsewhere, and modern Jewish history, including the study of anti-Semitism and of the Holocaust. His major current […]