Events
Week of Events
Eye Music: A Festival of American Sign Language Poetry
Free and open to the public. All festival events will be interpreted and are accessible to Deaf and non-Deaf audiences. ASL Festival: Rosa Lee, Sneak Preview House Concert Seating is limited. Please make a reservation at ASLfestival@ucsc.edu Wednesday, November 12, 2014 - 7:30pm Private home in Santa Cruz ASL Festival: Poetry Performance by Patrick Graybill […]
Veterans Day Remembrance Parade
The Santa Cruz Public Libraries is helping to remind people of the Veterans Day Parade which will take place this year on Tuesday, November 11th at 9:30am-11am from St. Patrick's Church (Ford & Main Street in Watsonville) to Veterans Memorial Building, 215 E. Beach Street, Watsonville, CA.
Dean Mathiowetz: "Policing the Sensorium: Rancière, Foucault, & Economies of Luxury"
DEAN MATHIOWETZ Associate Professor of Politics, UCSC Dean Mathiowetz’s current work is about the pleasures of luxurious superordination, as a form of what he calls “political sadism.” His work makes sense of the challenges that luxury poses for the realization of democratic aims, and explores the possibilities offered by leisure as a counterpoint to these […]
Michael Ashley: "Mukurtu CMS: Differential Access for the Ethical Stewardship of Cultural and Digital Heritage"
Try and recall a family secret, or a cherished memory shared between you and a parent or sibling. Now imagine holding on to that memory so that it could be shared with your descendants in 20 years, or 200. How would you preserve it, in what form? Who has access to it now, and how […]
CANCELLED: Eric Schwitzgebel: "The Moral Behavior of Ethics Professors"
Do professional ethicists behave any morally better than do non-ethicists of similar social background? If not, do they at least show greater consistency between their normative attitudes and their outward behavior? Despite a long philosophical tradition associating philosophical reflection with improved moral behavior, these questions have never been empirically examined. I describe four possible models […]
Living Writers Series: Patrick Graybill, Interpreter Aaron Brace
Patrick Graybill is a pioneer in ASL performance through his early work with the National Theater of the Deaf. He is a prolific translator of English to ASL, and a teacher of other poets, having taught for many years at the National Technological Institute of the Deaf in Rochester, New York (one of two American […]
Pritam Singh: "Spatial Shift and Ecological Crisis: An Eco-Socialist Perspective”
A spatial shift has been taking place in global capitalism in the last few decades, in the form of declining importance of the older advanced capitalism and the rising importance of "emerging economies." The most dramatic representation of this shift is that China has recently overtaken US as the largest economy in the world. For […]
Stephen Zunes: "Israel, Palestine, and the United States: The Failure of Governments and the Hope from Civil Society"
UCSC Cowell College Presents Conflict and Compassion Speaker Series: Perspectives on Israel/Palestine Tuesday Evenings Fall 2014 6:00-7:45pm, Merrill Academy 102 Tuesday Oct 7: Christine King (Lecturer Kresge College). “Making Peace with Conflict” Tuesday Oct 14: Dr. Jennifer Derr (History Department, UC Santa Cruz). The History of Palestine: From Colonialism to Occupation. Tuesday Oct 21: Dr. […]
Fifth Annual Morton Marcus Memorial Poetry Reading
THE 5th ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMORIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This fifth annual event will feature award-winning poets Peter Everwine and Chuck Hanzlicek. The evening will be hosted by Gary Young and will also feature the winner of the 3rd Annual […]
Latino Literature/La literatura latina V: A Symposium
Bringing writers and scholars together in thoughtful interchange, this fifth biennial symposium of the Latino Literary Cultures Project at UCSC culminates in an evening reading by prizewinning novelist and journalist Ana Menéndez; writer/artist Maceo Montoya; and poet Xochiquetzal Candelaria. Please visit the Latino Literary Cultures Project website for the full program. This free, public […]
Jeffrey Omari: "Cyber Insecurity: Intellectual Property, Urban Development, and Civic Unrest in Brazil"
Friday Forum For Graduate Research: A weekly interdisciplinary colloquium series for sharing graduate research across the humanities. Join us for light refreshments and weekly presentations by your fellow graduate students. Fridays from 12:00 - 1:30pm in Humanities 1, Room 202 This event series is also made possible through the generous support of the […]
Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register
UCHRI presents: Elsewheres and Other-Wise: Critical Theory in a Different Register Discussants: Aijaz Ahmad Gregoire Chamayou Derek Gregory Hsiao Li-Chun Li Hung-Chiung Achille Mbembe Sarah Nuttall Eyal Weizman Respondent: Ackbar Abbas If you are unable to attend, the event will be live streamed at uchri.org/events/elsewheres.
Karen Armstrong: "Fields of Blood: Religion and the History of Violence"
The renowned author of A History of God will discuss and sign copies of her new book, Fields of Blood—a sweeping exploration of religion and the history of human violence. For the first time, religious self-identification is on the decline in America. Some analysts have cited as cause a post-9/11 perception: that faith in general […]
Brian Turner: "Poetry, War, And Coming Home"
Brian Turner, combat veteran of the Iraq war and award-winning poet, will lead the last discussion of the War Comes Home series in The Forum at Cabrillo College. Mr. Turner will read from his work and interact with the audience discussing veterans returning home from war. Brian has won the Pen Center Best in the […]