Events
Week of Events
Sunday, March 2, 2014
- March 2, 2014 -Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
Misfit Horror Film Series: Mother Joan of the Angels
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. March 2nd - Mother Joan of the Angels (1961, dir. Jerzy Kawalerowicz) - an impressive and unsettling Polish film about the demonic possession of a group of nuns in the early 1600s […]
Monday, March 3, 2014
No events on this day.
Tuesday, March 4, 2014
No events on this day.
Wednesday, March 5, 2014
- March 5, 2014 -Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
Naftali Rothenberg: "Jewish Identity in Contemporary Israel: Between Separatism and Cohesion"
Rabbi Professor Naftali Rothenberg is a senior research fellow at the Van Leer Jerusalem Institute (since 1994), where he is Jewish Culture and Identity chair and editor of Identities, Journal for Jewish Culture & Identity. He also serves as the Rabbi and spiritual leader of Har Adar. His main fields of research are: The wisdom […]
Thursday, March 6, 2014
- March 6, 2014 -Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
- March 6, 2014 -Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
- March 6, 2014 -18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
- March 6, 2014 -Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
Brian Catlos: "Islamic Spain and the Culture of the West: From al-Andalus to Bob Dylan and Bill Gates"
What do Bob Dylan and Bill Gates owe to medieval Islam? More than you might think. From the computing to rock and roll much of what we consider emblematic of Western Civilization was in fact adapted from the world of Islam in the Middle Ages. The particular historical circumstances of Muslim Spain made this the […]
Michael Perelman: “Primitive Accumulation: From Adam Smith to Angela Merkel”
Michael Perelman is a professor of economics at California State University, Chico. He is an American economist and economic historian and writes extensively in criticism of conventional or mainstream economics. Perelman has written 19 books, including Railroading Economics, Manufacturing Discontent, The Perverse Economy, and The Invention of Capitalism. His latest project is, The Invisible Handcuffs […]
18 IUs Soli: Film Screening with Director Fred Kuwornu
Fred Kuwornu an Italian-Ghanaian activist, director, and producer, will be screening his documentary, 18 IUs Soli, is on the denial of citizenship to children born of immigrants in Italy. He will also be participating in a Q&A following, and there will be reception in Stevenson Fireside Lounge. Fred Kudjo Kuwornu, born and raised in Italy, […]
Living Writers Series: Molly Antopol
Winter 2014 Living Writers Series. All authors in this quarter’s series are UCSC alumni! Novelist Molly Antopol teaches creative writing at Stanford University, where she was a recent Wallace Stegner Fellow. Her debut story collection, The UnAmericans, is forthcoming in February 2014 from W.W. Norton. She is a recipient of the 2013 '5 Under 35' Award from the […]
Friday, March 7, 2014
No events on this day.
Saturday, March 8, 2014
- March 8, 2014 -Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
Minorities in the Mediterranean, A Symposium and Workshop
The Mediterranean Seminar/University of California Multi-Campus Research Project and the departments of Comparative and World Literature, History, Jewish Studies, and the Spanish Program of the Department of Foreign Languages and Literatures at San Francisco State University invite participants to a two-day, two-part event on Medieval and Early Modern Minorities in the Mediterranean, to be held […]