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Questions that Matter 03.01.16 from IHR on Vimeo. This series brings together UC Santa Cruz scholars with community members to explore questions that matter to all of us. We invite you to join us on March 1, 2016 for the series launch at the Kuumbwa Jazz Center. Featuring: Kimberly Lau, Professor of Literature, UCSC Noah […] |
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The Center for Cultural Studies, in partnership with Critical Race & Ethnic Studies, Kresge College, and Porter College, presents Nathaniel Mackey. Acclaimed poet Nathaniel Mackey’s recent work encompasses three ongoing, decades-long projects: the serial poems Song of the Andoumboulou and "Mu," and the serial novel or series of novels From a Broken Bottle Traces of Perfume Still Emanate, whose fifth […]
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Archaeologists and historians are utilizing improving 3D technologies to create scholarly reconstructions of ancient places. These visualizations of now-disappeared spaces offer new potential for the examination of the ancient world. In this talk, Professor Sullivan will present her work on the 3D Saqqara project, a 3D visualization of the Egyptian necropolis of Saqqara. The project […]
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The rise of social inequality in early societies has been a matter of long-standing debate in archaeology. Often archaeologists explicitly focus on long-distance networks and the accumulation of wealth as driving factors, and the consumption of precious metals plays a prominent role in this discussion. However, seldom are the interwoven roles of producers and the […]
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Jeremy Love is an award-winning writer, illustrator, and animator. His critically acclaimed, Eisner Nominated, serialized graphic novel Bayou has been used as curriculum at various high schools and colleges including the University of South Carolina and Dartmouth college. It was also selected by the American Library Association as a Great Graphic Novel for teens. Other projects include Blackest […]
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Looking to start a mapping project? Curious about GIS? Start exploring the world of ArcGIS with Professors Elaine Sullivan and Barry Nickel. Join us for this introductory workshop. No previous experience with GIS necessary. Very Limited Seating. Registration Required. Preference will go to graduate students. Lunch will be served.
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Panelists: Shelley Stamp, Professor of Film and Digital Media Meg Corman, Special Assistant to the Chancellor and Vice Chancellor of University Relations Nathaniel Deutsch, Director, Institute for Humanities Research, Professor of History Shelley Stamp will offer reflections on Work/Life Balance based on over 20 years experience teaching at UC Santa Cruz. She is the mother […]
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Laura Harrison "Rights Are Not Justice: A Case Study in Campus Segregation and How University Accessibility Policies Do Violence To the Spirit of the Americans with Disabilities Act" “Rights Are Not Justice” is the product of a community facilitated project in public sociology and critical disability studies. This project outlines who and what is at stake when a […]
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Every year towards the end of the Winter Quarter, the Linguistics at Santa Cruz conference showcases the research of second and third year graduate students. This conference coincides with a visit to campus of prospective graduate students, and it always features as an invited speaker, a Ph.D. alum of the department. This year's invited speaker […]
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Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm @ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Doors open at 8:00pm Drums: Gary Kehoe Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison Bass: Etienne David Franc Saxophones: Anne Stafford Keyboard: Avi Tchamni Percussion: Noam Harel The show is FREE for all For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
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The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
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Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
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The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness. March 8, 2016, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm. Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But […]
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The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: “Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who […]
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Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in […]
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UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, "Book Talks," which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from "The Mushroom at the End of the World." A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, […]
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Dr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been […]
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Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work Thursday, March 10, 2016 Music Recital Hall, […]
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Bristol Cave La-Costa "Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women. Friday Forum Winter […]
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An award winning documentary that follows former U.S. Labor Secretary Robert Reich as he looks to raise awareness of the country's widening economic gap. Introduction by UC Santa Cruz Professor Mary Beth Pudup. Robert Reich, Former Secretary of Labor, in the Clinton administration, is the author of more than a dozen books, including Aftershock, The Work […]
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Organizers: Elaine Sullivan, UC Santa Cruz J. Cameron Monroe, UC Santa Cruz Conference Theme: The past decade has witnessed a dramatic surge in the availability and use of digital technologies in Archaeology, where the increasing power and declining cost of computing technology has transformed the way we think about collecting, analyzing, and presenting archaeological […]
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