Events
Week of Events
Brown Bag Workshop: Teaching with Film and Video
Join us to learn how to integrate film and video into your pedagogy. This workshop will include an introduction to the new Learning Glass in the FITC, which allows you to face the camera when you record a lecture with a “blackboard,” and discussion about creating video assignments. We will cover technology, tools, and instructions […]
Critical Leisure Studies Winter Seminar: Introduction & The Right to be Lazy
In our introductory Winter Seminar, we hope to foster intellectual dialogue amongst a community of scholars interested in exploring the theoretical implications and transformative possibilities in thinking the category of “leisure” historically and in the contemporary moment. The first half of the meeting, will be an open discussion about the interdisciplinary possibilities of “leisure” as […]
B. Ruby Rich: "The Public and the Private: New Queer Cinema in the Age of Streaming"
The Center for Cultural Studies presents B. Ruby Rich. Ruby Rich is the author of New Queer Cinema. Her new research explores notions of the public as constituted by theatrical exhibition from the postwar era to century’s end. As editor of Film Quarterly, she is currently preparing dossiers on the films of Eduardo Coutinho and […]
Works in Progress Session: Mapping Liminal Jewish Spaces with Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer
Literature graduate students, Katie Trostel and Erica Smeltzer will present their digital works-in-progress as part of their ongoing work related to the Venice Ghetto and Liminal Spaces and the Jewish Imagination. Sponsored by the Siegfried B. and Elisabeth Mignon Puknat Literary Studies Endowment. Katie Trostel,"Shifting Zones of Memory": Digitally Mapping Marjorie Agosín's Cartographies: Meditations on Travel (2004)” […]
Branwen Okpako: "The Education of Auma Obama"
Branwen Okpako: “The Education of Auma Obama” from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker Branwen Okpako Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz Living Writers Talk […]
Noa Latham: Meditation and Self-Control
This paper seeks to analyze an under-discussed kind of self-control, namely the control of thoughts and sensations. I distinguish first-order control from second-order control and argue that their central forms are intentional concentration and intentional mindfulness respectively. These correspond to two forms of meditation, concentration meditation and mindfulness meditation, which have been regarded as central […]
Branwen Okpako: Nigerian Filmmaker
UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race & Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series presents: Leading Feminist Nigerian Filmmaker Branwen Okpako Film Screening & Q&A with Director: The Education of Auma Obama Wednesday, Feb 10 @ 7:30pm Nickelodeon Theatre, Santa Cruz Living Writers Talk Thursday, Feb 11 @ 6:00-7:45pm Humanities Lecture Hall, 206 Both events […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Andrei Tcacenco
Andrei Tcacenco "Constructing Socialism From Within: Entertainment and Media in the Soviet Home" My talk will explore the daily lived condition of real existing socialism during the latter part of the Soviet period. I will engage with official ideology while also showing how Soviet citizens shaped political discourse from the bottom-up by writing letters to local newspapers,television journals […]
Alicia Garza: 32nd Annual Martin Luther King, Jr Memorial Convocation
The annual convocation celebrates the life and dream of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. by presenting speakers who discuss the civil rights issues of equality, freedom, justice, and opportunity. The convocation also seeks to build partnerships and develop dialogue within the campus community and with the local communities served by the university. Please join us […]