Events
Week of Events
"Doing Critical Race and Ethnic Studies in a Neoliberal Age" Symposium
This spring bears the fruit of many years of student activism at UC Santa Cruz, namely, the inauguration of a Critical Race and Ethnic Studies (CRES) program dedicated to studying the ideological formations and institutional productions of race and ethnicity. Recognizing that the institutionalization of CRES is both an exciting moment and a reminder of […]
Contemporary Horror Auteur Film Series: One Missed Call
Helmed by the wildly prolific Takashi Miike, whose other notable horror credits include Audition (1999), Visitor Q (2001), Gozu (2003), and Imprint (2006), One Missed Call takes the anxieties surrounding the obsolescence of video tape technology that were so gloomily evoked in Ringu (1998) and shifts them onto the rise of cellular phone communication and […]
Queen for a Day: Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela
The Feminist Studies Department is proud to announce... Queen for a Day Transformistas, Beauty Queens, and the Performance of Femininity in Venezuela A Conversation & Book Party for Marcia Ochoa with Lourdes Martínez-Echazábal & B. Ruby Rich Tuesday, June 3 About the Book Queen for a Day is a queer diasporic ethnography of beauty and […]
Mary Niall Mitchell: Workshop “Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture”
Workshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current project, […]
Mary Niall Mitchell: “The Slave Girl in the Archive: a Tale on Paper and Glass”
Workshop: "Archival Challenges: Children, Slavery, and Nineteenth Century Visual Culture" Wednesday, June 4 @ 9-11a.m. For access to pre-circulated readings for the workshop, please contact Institute for Humanities Research at ihr@ucsc.edu. Cultural Studies Colloquium: "The Slave Girl in the Archive: A Tale of Paper and Glass" Wednesday June 4 @ 12:15-1:30p.m. In her current […]
Living Writers Series: Publications Reading
A selection of Publications Readings. 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.
What Makes Applied Linguistics Applied? Language Acquisition & Language in Use
The Language Program has been granted department status earlier this spring, and we are hosting an event to celebrate becoming the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics. Professor Kathleen Bardovi-Harlig, a leading scholar in second language acquisition, will give a talk on June 6 in the University Center after a brief welcome by Dean William […]