Events
IHR Public Fellows Info Session 1
Humanities 1, Room 202IHR PUBLIC FELLOWS Deadline: April 30, 2017 Amount: Up to $5,000 Number of Fellowships: 3 or more (based on the availability of funds) These fellowships will provide the opportunity for humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students […]
Slow Seminar on Race, Violence, Inequality and the Anthropocene
Humanities 1, Room 4082016-2017 SLOW SEMINARS RACE, VIOLENCE, INEQUALITY AND THE ANTHROPOCENE The contemporary moment is marked by global environmental change, the collapse of states and the reconfiguration of economies. This era, where human disturbances asymmetrically affect all ecosystems, is increasingly being called the ‘Anthropocene.’ We approach Anthropocene conditions as inextricably linked to long-term histories of plant and […]
FreeActing Improvisation Workshop
On Sunday, March 5, Lisa Rowland (a member of Improv Playhouse) will conduct an Acting Improvisation Workshop, focussing on Shakespeare, from 12:30 until 6:30 pm. Space is limited to 20 UCSC students, for whom the workshop is free. Email Bob Giges otom@ucsc.edu for registration/information. Lisa describes the program in this way "This workshop is a […]
Improvised Shakespeare
Center Stage, Downtown Santa CruzImprov Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, "Improvised Shakespeare," at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
Humanities 1, Room 202Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of "creative ecologies of practice" enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are […]
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
Humanities 2, Room 359The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South Friday March 3, 2017 Humanities 2, Room 359 UC Santa Cruz The event is free and open to the public During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the […]
The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Photos: Friday, March 3 Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts, Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop) Morning 9:00 Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” 11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The […]
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Humanities 1, Room 202Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed "institutions," e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe Iranian Women's Movement: Rights and Difference Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies My talk centers on the Irania women's movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign's central text, The Effect of Laws on Women's Lives, and […]
FreeHillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesHillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban "greening" in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by […]
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