Events
Week of Events
"Unfixed Itineraries: Film and Visual Culture from Arab Worlds"
Peter Limbrick, Associate Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Omnia El Shakry, Associate Professor, History, UC Davis Shelby Graham, Director/Curator, Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery, UCSC Soraya Murray, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Irene Lusztig, Assistant Professor, Film and Digital Media, UCSC Neda Atanasoski, Associate Professor, Feminist Studies, UCSC Jennifer Derr, Assistant Professor, […]
Rocio Rosales: "Stagnant Immigrant Social Networks and Cycles of Exploitation"
Based on over four years of ethnographic research among street vendors in Los Angeles and on interviews with family members of vendors and former vendors living in Mexico, Rocio Rosales examines the influence of a sending community and its social networks on migrant outcomes in the US. These social networks affect migration patterns, ease entry […]
Graduate Seminar with Visiting Artist Carrie Mae Weems
The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation grant, Carrie Mae Weems is a photographer and video installation artist examining the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. On October 21st, she will meet with graduate students in a seminar setting for a conversation about how artists talk […]
Lecture: Carrie Mae Weems, photographer
Photographer and video installation artist Carrie Mae Weems examines the complex and contradictory legacy of African American identity, class, and culture in the United States. Weems will discuss her work and ideas, drawing on three decades of artistic activity. The recipient of a 2013 MacArthur Foundation “genius" grant, Weems has exhibited nationally and internationally over […]
Jennifer L. Derr: "Embodied Politics and Bilharzia Infection in Colonial Egypt"
Jennifer Derr’s work explores the configuration and experience of the colonial state in Egypt through its construction of the agricultural environments that lined the banks of the Nile River. Derr traces the intersections of the colonial state in Egypt with the material experiences of environmental infrastructure, resource allocation, disease, and the geographies of colonial capitalism. […]
Gihan Abou Zeid: "Egyptian Women in Struggle: Then and Now"
Egyptian human rights activist, journalist and author GIHAN ABOU ZEID is an authority on women’s rights in the Arab world. She was part of the revolution of 2011 that brought millions of people to Tahrir Square. Gihan is the managing editor for the magazine Politics and Religion and writes for the Qatari newspaper Al Arab. […]
Living Writers Series: Ruth Ellen Kocher
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, […]
Free Angela Davis and All Political Prisoners Film Screening
Free Angela! is a brilliant documentary that captures the sensational murder and kidnapping trial of Black Communist and UCLA Professor Angela Davis in the early 1970s. It provides extraordinary archival footage, interviews with Davis, all four of her trial lawyers and the activists who co-led a massive international movement for her freedom. Davis was deeply […]
The Stanford School of Philosophy of Science
In the 80s and early 90s, a group of influential philosophers, historians, and philosophers of science were concerned with the following themes: disunity and pluralism of scientific theory and practice the nature of scientific modeling (in its dizzying variety, including mathematical, diagrammatic, and classificatory models) post-positivistic and practice-based articulations of scientific knowledge and practice. The […]