Events
Maudemarie Clark “Nietzsche’s Nihilism”
Humanities 1, Room 202Nietzsche claims that in realating the "advent of nihilism," he is relating "the history of the next two centuries." He also claims that he himself has been a nihilist, but that he had now left it behind, "outside of self." In this paper, I offer an account of how Nietzsche understands nihilism and of how […]
The Eighteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE EIGHTEENTH ANNUAL LITERATURE UNDERGRADUATE COLLOQUIUM Opening Remarks 9:30 a.m. Deanna Shemek, Chair, Literature Department Panel One: Translating Tradition 9:45 – 10:45 a.m. Moderator: Christopher Chen Victoria Jones: Ion Elli Levin: Baby's First Inferno, or Dante Alighieri and the Nine Circles Jessica Ness Poetic: Language in Translation Alexander Pérez: The Nation in You Panel Two: […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Susan O’Neal Stryker
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat Transpires Now: Transgender History and the Future We Need Susan O’Neal Stryker, Associate Professor, University of Arizona History is a story we tell in the present that links what we know of the past to a future we envision. In this talk, drawn from her forthcoming book of the same title, gender theorist and […]
FreeMartin Devecka: “Socratic Economics”
Socratic Economics Martin Devecka is in the early stages of a research project on leisure and labor in fourth-century Athens. His work explores the processes through which competing claims to leisure and to the labor of others led to the privileging of politics as a way of thinking about collective action. Martin Devecka is an […]
Susan Gilson Miller: “Vichy on Trial: Cooperation, Collaboration and Confrontation in Wartime Morocco”
Susan Gilson Miller is Professor of History at the University of California, Davis. She will be guest speaking on Tuesday, May 16, 2017 as a part of Professor Alma Heckman's course "The Holocaust and the Arab World" (HIS 1850). When: May 16, 2017 - 3:20-4:55pm Location: Cowell Acad Classroom 113 This event is free and […]
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Conjuncture / Crisis / Critique: A Symposium on Cultural Studies
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe start time for this event has been changed to 2pm. Featuring: Christopher Chen, Literature Jim Clifford, History of Consciousness Christopher Connery, Literature T.J. Demos, History of Art and Visual Cultures / Center for Creative Ecologies Carla Freccero, Literature / History of Consciousness / Feminist Studies Susan Gilman, Literature Asad Haider, History of Consciousness Donna […]
FreeEthics Bowl Invitational
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWhat It Is: Every Spring the Center for Public Philosophy holds an Outreach Invitational for high schools that have never participated in the Regional Ethics Bowl. This is a fun, low-stakes way to get their feet wet. This year we have a grant to host ten schools designated LCFF+ by the state of California–schools at […]
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13th Annual Graduate Research Symposium
McHenry Library, UCSCEvent Photos: Graduate Research Symposium The Symposium offers graduate students from every division the opportunity to discuss their research with colleagues on campus and with the public. Our students present their work in the form of posters, live presentations, and media demonstrations. The Symposium also awards juried prizes, overseen by a panel of judges comprised […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Kristen Laciste
Humanities 1, Room 202From Maidservant to Anomalous Aristocrat: Imaging and Imagining Dido Elizabeth Belle The double portrait of cousins, entitled, Dido Elizabeth Belle and Lady Elizabeth Murray, is truly an anomaly in 18th century British art. Depicting two aristocratic women, one back and one white, the painting inspired the 2014 film, Belle. Incorporating the fancy and flair of […]
Living Writers: Aisha Sasha John
Humanities Lecture Hall, Room 206 UCSC Humanities Lecture Hall, 1156 High Street, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Creative Writing Program Presents Aisha Sasha John, author of THOU (BookThug, 2014) AISHA SASHA JOHN is a singing dancer-- and the author of the recently published I have to live. (McClelland & Stewart). Aisha’s previous poetry collection THOU (BookThug 2014) was a finalist for the Trillium Book Award for Poetry and […]