Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 21, 2012
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Monday, October 22, 2012
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Tuesday, October 23, 2012
- October 23, 2012 -Affect Across the Disciplines II
Affect Across the Disciplines II
Affect Studies offers new opportunities to traverse the boundaries between the humanities, social sciences, and engineering. This year's panel features presentations by UCSC graduate students whose varying approaches to the study of "affect" demonstrate the breadth of the field and its interdisciplinary possibility. Erin Gray (History of Consciousness): "The White Flesh of the World: Affect […]
Wednesday, October 24, 2012
- October 24, 2012 -James Clifford: “Always Coming Home: On Postcolonial (Im)possibility in California”
- October 24, 2012 -World Melodrama Film Series – Nobody’s Children
James Clifford: “Always Coming Home: On Postcolonial (Im)possibility in California”
James Clifford taught in UCSC's History of Consciousness Department for 33 years and was the founding director of the Center for Cultural Studies. Clifford is currently completing Returns, a book about indigenous cultural politics that will be the third in a trilogy. The first volume, The Predicament of Culture (1988) juxtaposed essays on 20th-century ethnography, […]
World Melodrama Film Series – Nobody’s Children
Nobody's Children (1950; dir. Raffaello Matarazzo) Italy Evan Calder Williams and Erik Bachman in the Literature Department are running a new film series this quarter on world melodrama, from all across the globe in the 20th century. All are welcome. Every Wednesday at 7pm. Contact: evanw@ucsc.edu
Thursday, October 25, 2012
- October 25, 2012 -The Living Writers Series: Cathy Park Hong
The Living Writers Series: Cathy Park Hong
Into Archives—Across Genres is a reading/performance series featuring poets, critics, memoirists, activists, visual artists, essayists, short story writers, and novelists who mine various archives to investigate race, gender, sexuality, and class. Writing across multiple disciplines – whether via the epistle, film & photo essay, poem, story, collage or hybrid text – these authors mine history […]
Friday, October 26, 2012
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Saturday, October 27, 2012
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