Events
Week of Events
Helga Tawil-Souri: “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel”
The Visual and Media Cultures Colloquium Presents: Helga Tawil-Souri, Department of Media, Culture, and Communication, NYU “Visual Conflict of and in Palestine-Israel” Helga Tawil-Souri All readings will be available two weeks prior to talk. Co-sponsored by the History of Art and Visual Culture, Film & Digital Media, and the Arts Division. Departmental sites: http://film.ucsc.edu/news_events http://havc.ucsc.edu/news_events […]
Tracie McMillian: “Real Food vs. Affordable Food: Can we have both?”
Join journalist Tracie McMillan to discuss her work for The American Way of Eating, which chronicles her experience in three undercover jobs across the American food system: California farmworker, produce clerk in a Detroit-area Walmart, New York City Applebee's kitchen wretch. Weaving policy and agricultural economics into personal narrative, McMillan explores what it would cost […]
Peter Euben: “Women of Melos”
The Cultural Studies Colloquium Series Presents: Peter Euben Peter Euben Emeritus Research Professor, Political Science and Classical Studies, Kenan Distinguished Faculty Fellow Emeritus, Duke University "Women of Melos" Although the Melian Dialogue is not much of a dialogue, it is anointed as the foundation of political realism. The paper argues that realism is delusional and […]
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture: “Interfaith Perspectives on Economic Justice, and its implications for the worldwide Occupy movement”
The Noel Q. King Memorial Lecture series celebrates the work of the late Noel King, founding father and Professor of History and Comparative Religion at UC Santa Cruz. The series reflects Noel’s lifelong commitment to, and joy in, dialogue between the faiths. For the 2012 NQK Lecture, representatives of four of the world’s great religions […]
Conservation in No Man’s Land: A Colloquium on Values, Science, and the Crisis of Biodiversity
PANELISTS Daniel Guevara UCSC Department of Philosophy Claudio Campagna Wildlife Conservation Society UCSC Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology Ronnie Lipschutz UCSC Politics Department Daniel Press UCSC Department of Environmental Studies AGENDA 9:00 am Introductory Remarks: Daniel Guevara 9:15 am Introductory Remarks: Claudio Campagna 9:30 am On the Place of Science […]
