Events
Week of Events
7th Annual Founder's Day Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Please join us to celebrate the spirit of community and honor outstanding achievement.
Seventh Annual Founders Celebration Gala Dinner and Awards Ceremony
Friday, October 18, 2013 | 6:30 pm | $125 per seat
Cocoanut Grove Ballroom, Santa Cruz
Exhibition: Albert Camus, 1913-2013
Beginning on October 15, UC Santa Cruz will be one of 500 venues worldwide to host an exhibit commemorating the 100th birthday of the French Nobel Prize winning author and philosopher Albert Camus. The new digital/paper exhibit combines print editorial with QR code technology. The exhibit was conceived and produced by the Institut Francais, an […]
Daniel Selden: "'Our Films, Their Films': Postcolonial Critique of the Cinematic Apparatus"
PAs a former director of the Satyajit Ray Film and Study Center, Dan Selden’s long-standing interest in cross-cultural aesthetics extends to film production. Selden focuses on the application of the Western cinematic apparatus to non-Western contexts in an effort to better understand the work of such directors as `Abbās Kiyārostamī and Wong Kar Wai. Daniel […]
Living Writers Series: Frances Richard
Thresholds and Breaking Points The writers in this series will present across multiple genres, to include poetry, fiction, criticism, and various hybrid genres. Each will explore ways that language tests thresholds of culture, race, nation, sex, gender, and desire through the creative imagination. Central to each will be how these thresholds are performed, tested, broken, […]