Events
Week of Events
Steven Miller, “Violence Against the Nonliving: the Death Drive & Destruction in Contemporary Philosophy
Steven Miller Professor Steven Miller is Professor of English at SUNY Buffalo. He is a faculty mentor for the Center for the Study of Psychoanalysis and Culture and for Umbr(a). His work in progress is War After Death: Hyperbolic Thinking in Contemporary Philosophy and Psychoanalysis. This lecture is presented by the History of Consciousness Department, […]
The Affect Working Group Presents: Affect Across the Disciplines: A Faculty-Graduate Workshop
Panelists: Vilashini Cooppan, “Affective History and Literary Studies” Associate Professor, Literature, UCSC Professor Cooppan’s recent work includes an article in Trauma and Memory in South African Writing (Rodopi, 2011), and a book project on affect, historical violence and world literature. Sharon Daniel, “Affect in/through New Media Documentary” Professor, Film and Digital Media and DANM, UCSC […]
Gildas Hamel, “Monotheism and Empire II”
Gildas Hamel Professor Hamel is working on a history of religious representations in Hellenistic and Roman Palestine and the notion of monotheism. He examines recent histories of monolatry and monotheism and accounts of religious mediations, asking whether monotheism can be explained as a response to the Babylonian and Persian empires, or as an episode in […]
Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show
The Museum and Curatorial Studies (MACS) Research Cluster presents: Nadja Durbach, Associate Professor, History and Comparative Gender & Sexuality University of Utah: Nadja Durbach Performing Race at the Victorian Freak Show While scholars have examined the display of non-Western peoples at Victorian exhibitions, and noted that many of the “cannibals” and “savages” who performed were actually fakes, none […]
Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: “The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy”
The Eternal Frame The Center of Visual and Performance Studies presents Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series: "The Eternal Frame: An Artist’s Reenactment of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy", a Screening and Conversation with Film & Digital Media Professor Emeritus Chip Lord and Professor Margaret Morse. The Eternal Frame was a project by Ant Farm and T.R. Uthco, 1975, that […]
Wooksik Cheong , “Peace Island”?: Resisting the Militarization of Juju “
Today, Jeju Island is best known for “its booming tourism, its hardy diving women, and its lush orange groves” (John Merrill). Touted as a romantic honeymoon destination and lucrative site for foreign investment, Jeju is, however, far from a paradise. Prior to June 25, 1950, the purported start of the Korean War, Jeju, deemed a […]
Ella von der Haide, “Another World is Plantable! A Documentary on Community Gardening and Food Justice in North America 2010”
This Science and Justice Meeting will feature a film by Ella von der Haide, a Dipl.-Ing. of Urban and Regional Planning, Garden Activist and feminist Filmmaker from Germany. She will show one of four feature films she has made about urban community gardens and their connections to emancipatory social movements in South Africa, Argentina, Germany […]
Living Writers Reading Series: Peter Orner
The Living Writers Reading Series presents Peter Orner. Peter Orner is a human rights lawyer, and editor and writer of novels and short stories. His works include: Esther Stories, The Second Coming of Mavala Shikongo, Underground America: Narratives of Undocumented Lives, and the soon-to-be-released Love and Shame and Love: A Novel. Orner has been awarded […]
Poetry Reading and Exhibition of Poem Paintings
The Poetry and Politics research cluster presents A poetry reading with Ronaldo Wilson and Lauren Shufran and an exhibition of poem paintings by Matt Landry. Matt Landry holds bachelors degrees in French and Comparative Literature from Dickinson College and the University of Toulouse, an MA in French from Yale University and is currently a PhD student in […]