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Questions That Matter
Questions That Matter:”Freedom and Race”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterAmerica has famously been called "the land of the free," and yet when the "Star Spangled Banner" was written, people of African descent were enslaved within its borders, including by the song's own author, Francis Scott Key. Today, the relationship between freedom and race continues to vex the United States and the rest of the […]
Questions That Matter: “Anger in Politics: From the Bard to the Donald”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterPresented by the Institute for Humanities Research and Shakespeare Workshop What place does anger have in public life? Should we welcome the expression of anger in our elections and political deliberations, or does the common good depend on the existence of political institutions and processes from which anger and other strong emotions are excluded? Has […]
Questions that Matter: “Play: Games, Life, and Death”
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterQuestions 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 […]
Questions that Matter: Making The Cosmos Local
Kuumbwa Jazz CenterMAKING THE COSMOS LOCAL For millennia, people across the globe have searched the sky for answers. They have imagined and reimagined the cosmos, from an infinite and eternal backdrop full of other worlds, to a young Earth encircled by nearby planets and crystal spheres of stars. What is the relation between our lives here on […]