Events
Week of Events
Whose City? Labor and the Right to the City Movements
A one-day conference at the University of California Santa Cruz Sponsored by the Center for Labor Studies & Urban Studies Research Cluster The right to the city is…far more than a right of individual access to the resources that the city embodies: it is a right to change ourselves by changing the city more after […]
Barbara Thompson: “Curatorial Activism: Exhibiting Arts of the ‘Other'”
In curatorial practices today, asking the question “What is art?” leads to a clear lack of a singularly “correct” answer. Expand the question to “What is African art?” and the territory becomes even murkier in that both the terms “art” and “Africa” resist definition. The navigation toward mutual understanding becomes an almost impassable quagmire of […]
Sandra Koelle: “Intimate Bureaucracies: Roadkill, Policy, and Fieldwork in the Shoulder”
Doctor Koelle researches how to develop data visualizations that represent spatial experience as subjective and relational rather than as defined through place. The goal is to map animal and human movements and constraints across the American West at different scales to facilitate an affective and aesthetic experience and provide a way to think about the politics of movement and immobility, from habitat destruction to […]
Sarah Abrevaya Stein: “In Search of a Novel Archive of the Jewish Past”
What sources are essential to the study of the Jewish past? Where can they be found? In this talk, Sarah Abrevaya Stein discusses her on-going efforts to stretch the linguistic, geographic, and conceptual boundaries of the Jewish past, offering a scholarly travelogue of novel archives of Jewish history. Sarah Abrevaya Stein is Professor and Maurice Amado […]
Jill Hoy: “Singular Dualities: Painting from Life, Painting in the Studio”
UCSC Humanities Presents the East Coast Distinguished Visiting Alumni lecture featuring Jill Hoy Cowell '77. This is the inaugural talk from the East Coast Distinguished Alumni fund. Jill will present "Singular Dualities: Painting from Life, Painting in the Studio." Reception to follow.