Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 16, 2014
- February 16, 2014 -Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
Misfit Horror Film Series: Love Object
Misfit Horror A film series dedicated to one-of-a-kind horror movies whose originality and power have been unjustly neglected because they aren’t at all what you expected. Relationships come and go, but plastination is forever! The only film hitherto written and directed by Robert Parigi, Love Object creepily tells the story of a love triangle […]
Monday, February 17, 2014
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Tuesday, February 18, 2014
- February 18, 2014 -Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding"
The Center for Jewish Studies with support from the Neufeld Levin Holocaust Chair Endowment presents: Hedwig C. Rose: "Living the Life of Anne Frank: A Childhood in Hiding" Dr. Hedwig C. Rose, education specialist and former Director of Education Studies at Wesleyan University, was born in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. After her father, his five brothers […]
Wednesday, February 19, 2014
- February 19, 2014 -Warren Sack – "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
Warren Sack – "A Machine to Tell Stories: From Propp to Software Studies:
Warren Sack is currently working on a book entitled “The Software Arts” (for the Software Studies series at MIT Press) where he explores an understanding of computer science as a liberal art and computer programming as a form of writing. Warren Sack is Professor of Film & Digital Media at UCSC.
Thursday, February 20, 2014
- February 20, 2014 -Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
- February 20, 2014 -Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
Sharon Holland: "Perishment: Thoughts on Blackness and the Human/Animal Distinction"
Sharon Holland, Professor of American Studies at UNC Chapel Hill has been working on a book project entitled “Perishment,” a theoretical study that takes German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s notion that humans “die” while animals “perish,” and reads across the theoretical spectrum of works on the human/animal distinction in order to arrive at a fundamental question: what […]
Becko Copenhaver: "Berkeley on the Language of Nature and the Objects of Vision"
ABSTRACT: Berkeley holds that vision, in isolation, presents only color and light. He also claims that typical perceivers experience distance, figure, magnitude, and situation visually. The question posed in New Theory is how we perceive by sight spatial features that are not, strictly speaking, visible. Berkeley’s answer is “that the proper objects of vision constitute an […]
Friday, February 21, 2014
- February 21, 2014 -Gender. Region. Slavery.
Gender. Region. Slavery.
Video from this event will be posted soon. Please click here for updated media. For slavery studies, engagements with the geopolitical have robustly shifted the angles through which the field might begin to imagine collusions, collaborations and conversations with regions of the world. Historians, in particular, have contributed to our understanding of the forces at […]
Saturday, February 22, 2014
- February 22, 2014 -From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
From Books to MOOCs: The Evolution of Teaching in the Liberal Arts
Please join UCSC Chancellor George Blumenthal for a special evening of conversation and connection. Featuring: Murray Baumgarten, Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature, and Co-Director of the Center for Jewish Studies Peter Kenez, Professor Emeritus of History Facilitated by Bill Ladusaw, UCSC Dean of Humanities Murray Baumgarten and Peter Kenez will discuss how teaching […]