Events
Week of Events
"Genomics and Philosophy of Race" Conference
The "Genomics and Philosophy of Race" conference aims to foster a dialogue about race, and, in particular, about relationships between ideas of race and modern genomics research. Four panels of experts and two keynote speakers will consider scientific, historical, sociological, and philosophical questions: Does contemporary genomics inform and shift our classifications, conceptualizations, and consciousness of […]
Sunday, April 6, 2014
No events on this day.
Monday, April 7, 2014
- April 7, 2014 -Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
- April 7, 2014 -Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
Jane McAlevey: "Beating Attack on Workers by Building High Participation Unions"
Jane McAlevey's first book, Raising Expectations (and Raising Hell), published by Verso Press, was named the "most valuable book of 2012" by The Nation Magazine. She has served as Executive Director and Chief Negotiator for SEIU Nevada, as National Deputy Director for Strategic Campaigns of the Healthcare Division for SEIU, and she was the Campaign Director of the one of […]
Morris Ratner: "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust"
UC Santa Cruz will present a lecture by UC Hastings College of the Law Professor Morris Ratner titled "A Monument Man in the Courtroom: Litigating the Holocaust," on Monday, April 7, at 7 p.m., at UCSC’s University Center. Professor Morris Ratner successfully prosecuted Holocaust-era private law claims against Swiss, German, Austrian, and French entities that […]
Tuesday, April 8, 2014
- April 8, 2014 -Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
Rebecca Hester: "Those against whom society must be defended: Mexican migrants, swine flu, and bioterrorism"
Since 9/11 and in the wake of the anthrax letters, there has been a concern about the "dual use" of biological knowledge and material which could variously be used for vaccine development or for the production of biological weapons of mass destruction. Population mobility and biological mutability have been at the center of this concern. […]
Wednesday, April 9, 2014
- April 9, 2014 -Mark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
- April 9, 2014 -Film Screening: After Tiller
Mark Anderson "Franz Boas, George Schuyler and Miscegenation: A Chapter in the History of Anthropology, Race/Racism, and the Harlem Renaissance"
Mark Anderson Associate Professor of Anthropology, UCSC Mark Anderson is an anthropologist who works on the politics of race and culture, particularly in the Americas. He is currently working on a project tentatively titled Anthropology and Race/Racism: From The Harlem Renaissance to Decolonizing the Discipline, which traces anthropological approaches to race/racism from the 1920s to the 1970s.
Film Screening: After Tiller
the film explores the issue of late-term abortion in the U.S. in the aftermath of the murder of Dr. George Tiller in Kansas in 2009, one of the very few doctors to perform this procedure. We will actually have one of the physicians featured in the film, Dr. Shelley Sella, in attendance at the screening […]
Thursday, April 10, 2014
- April 10, 2014 -Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
- April 10, 2014 -Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
Living Writers Series: Rabih Alameddine
Rabih Alameddine is the Author of four novels: An Unnecessary Woman; Koolaids; I, the Divine; and The Hakawati; as well as The Perv, a collection of short stories. The spring 2014 Living Writers Reading Series, Dislocations and the Imagined, will take place on Thursday evenings at 6:00 p.m. in the Humanities Lecture Hall, room 206. These readings are free and open to the public.
Film Screening: Caesar Must Die
Winner of the Golden Bear at the Berlinale, Paolo and Vittorio Taviani's Caesar Must Die deftly melds narrative and documentary in a transcendently powerful drama-within-a-drama. The film was made in Rome's Rebibbia Prison, where the inmates are preparing to stage Shakespeare's Julius Caesar. After a competitive casting process, the roles are eventually allocated, and the […]
Friday, April 11, 2014
- April 11, 2014 -Sun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
Sun-Ah Jun: "Prominence and phrasing in ambiguity resolution: Evidence from priming and individual differences"
Sun-Ah Jun is Professor of Linguistics at UC Los Angeles. Abstract: In a sentence such as Someone shot the servant of the actress who was on the balcony, it is ambiguous whether the relative clause (RC) modifies NP1 the servant (i.e., high attachment) or NP2 the actress (low attachment). Although the details of attachment preference […]
Saturday, April 12, 2014
- April 12, 2014 -Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
Graduate Student Conference: "Matters Out of Place: Landscapes of Absence and Dislocation"
While Mary Douglas' oft-quoted maxim states that, "dirt is matter out of place," it is also the soil in which life takes root. This conference positions landscapes as fertile ground from which to explore the politics of dirt and other matters out of place. Moving away from engagements with landscape as inert background or pristine […]