Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 17, 2015
No events on this day.
Monday, May 18, 2015
- May 18, 2015 -Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference"
The Helen Diller Family Endowment Distinguished Lecture in Jewish Studies presents Maurice Samuels: "French Universalism and the Jews: Anti-Antisemitism and the Right to Difference." In conflicts over the veil or the return of antisemitism in France today, minority difference is often seen as a threat not only to public order but to the Republic itself. […]
Tuesday, May 19, 2015
- May 19, 2015 -David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
- May 19, 2015 -Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
- May 19, 2015 -Last LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) of the Year
David Brundage: "Remembering 1916 in America: The Easter Rising’s Many Faces, 1919-1962"
David Brundage is Professor of history and the History Graduate Program Director. The talk will draw on an essay-in-progress for a collection entitled Remembering 1916: The Easter Rising, the Somme and the Politics of Memory, ed. Richard S. Grayson and Fearghal McGarry. Brundage focuses his attention on a period that has been relatively neglected in […]
Neferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
This talk is a meditation on remaindered life, the unsubsumable, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations, including undocumented immigrants, refugees, guest workers, and criminalized black and brown men and […]
Last LASER (Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous) of the Year
The Institute of the Arts and Sciences invites you to final Leonardo Art/Science Evening Rendezvous (LASER) of the year on May 19 in the Digital Arts Research Center (DARC) 108. Join us for refreshments at 6:30 p.m. followed at 7 p.m. with presentations by: • Daniel Press "What is Recycling Good For? The Case of […]
Wednesday, May 20, 2015
- May 20, 2015 -Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
- May 20, 2015 -Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
Jonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
Abstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities, and recognizes contemporary culture, driven as it is by electronic digital computing, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break, we might consider it as one result of an overall […]
Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
Kimberly Adilia Helmer Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz Through the lens of “resistance,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language class in a US southwest charter high school. Fundamental to student resistance was the lack of meaningful activity and authentic materials that connected curriculum to […]
Thursday, May 21, 2015
- May 21, 2015 -Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
- May 21, 2015 -Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
- May 21, 2015 -Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
This day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties. The Literature Department's 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks […]
Perverse Modernities: Conversations in Critical Race and Ethnic Studies
Perverse Modernities transgresses modern divisions of knowledge that have historically separated the consideration of sexuality, and its concern with desire, gender, bodies, and performance, on the one hand, from the consideration of race, colonialism, and political economy, on the other, in order to explore how the mutual implication of race, colonialism, and sexuality has been […]
Living Writers Series: Eleni Sikelianos, Josef Sikelianos
The Spring 2015 Living Writers Series is focused on flexible forms and mixed media. You can expect writers and artists working in and across a number of forms, and through a variety of media to include poetry, fiction, film, graphic art, dance, and music. Each of the writers and artists featured in this series combines […]
Friday, May 22, 2015
- May 22, 2015 -Natives in Game Dev Gathering
- May 22, 2015 -Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
- May 22, 2015 -Friday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
Natives in Game Dev Gathering
On Friday, May 22, from 10am to 5pm, the Games and Playable Media MS program, and the Center for Games and Playable Media will be hosting the Natives in Game Dev event. The event is free for UCSC students and faculty, and is being held at the UCSC Extension Silicon Valley building, at 2505 Augustine […]
Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
This presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous, always-on, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection, processing, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption, come to characterize a wide […]
Friday Forum with Muiris Macgiollabhui: “Carrying The Green Bough: An Atlantic History of the United Irishmen, 1791-1830″
The Friday Forum is a graduate-run colloquium dedicated to the presentation and discussion of graduate student research. The series will be held weekly from 12:00 to 1:30PM and will serve as a venue for graduate students in the Humanities, Social Sciences, and Arts divisions to share and develop their research. Light refreshments will be available. […]
Saturday, May 23, 2015
No events on this day.