Events
Week of Events
Sunday, March 6, 2016
No events on this day.
Monday, March 7, 2016
- March 7, 2016 -Israeli Music Extravaganza!
Israeli Music Extravaganza!
Featuring award-winning singer Moran Arad with members of Brazilian Band SambaDá! Monday, March 7 at 8:30pm @ UCSC Porter/Kresge Dining Hall Doors open at 8:00pm Drums: Gary Kehoe Guitars: Nelsen Hutchison Bass: Etienne David Franc Saxophones: Anne Stafford Keyboard: Avi Tchamni Percussion: Noam Harel The show is FREE for all For more information, contact atchamni@ucsc.edu.
Tuesday, March 8, 2016
- March 8, 2016 -Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
- March 8, 2016 -Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
- March 8, 2016 -Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
Sugar Beets, Biocolonialism, and Memory in the American West
The History Department Presents the Thom Gentle Lecture on Environmental History Bernadette Jeanne Pérez Ph.D. Candidate University of Minnesota, Twin Cities What can the sugar beet industry tell us about the relationship between agricultural science, capitalism, and American settler colonialism? In this talk, Pérez draws upon turn of the twentieth century beet sugar manuals, which […]
Subatlantic: A Screening and Presentation
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Swiss video practitioner Ursula Biemann will screen and discuss her recent speculative SF video essay Subatlantic (2015), addressing, among related works and topics, the interdisciplinary-discursive ecotone of geology and climatology merged with human politics […]
Discovering the UC Santa Cruz Campus by James Clifford
The UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the Spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture featuring James Clifford, Professor Emeritus, History of Consciousness. March 8, 2016, 7:30pm Doors open at 7pm. Free and open to the public. (Seating is limited) The University of California, Santa Cruz, built in a redwood forest overlooking Monterey Bay, is famously beautiful. But […]
Wednesday, March 9, 2016
- March 9, 2016 -Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four’”
- March 9, 2016 -The Cosmopolitical Forest
- March 9, 2016 -Anna Tsing: “The Mushroom at the End of the World”
Dr. Ramzi Fawaz: “‘Flame on!’: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of ‘The Fantastic Four’”
The Department of Feminist Studies and the Affect Working Group at UC Santa Cruz Present: “Flame On!”: Nuclear Families, Unstable Molecules, and the Queer History of The Fantastic Four DR. RAMZI FAWAZ, U. OF WISCONSIN – MADISON Released to popular acclaim in 1961, Marvel Comics’ The Fantastic Four told of four anticommunist space adventurers who […]
The Cosmopolitical Forest
Arts Division, Film & Digital Media, History of Art & Visual Culture, and the Center for Creative Ecologies presents: Ursula Biemann Based on comprehensive research, Ursula Biemann elaborates in her video works the far-reaching territorial transformations due to the extraction and engineering of resources, drawing attention to the biological and social micro-dynamics at work in […]
Anna Tsing: “The Mushroom at the End of the World”
UC Santa Cruz’s Center for Emerging Worlds and the Center for Cultural Studies present the new series, "Book Talks," which invites authors to read from their books and engage in discussion. Next week we present Anna Tsing reading from "The Mushroom at the End of the World." A tale of diversity within our damaged landscapes, […]
Thursday, March 10, 2016
- March 10, 2016 -Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
- March 10, 2016 -Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
Stereotype Threat: How it affects us and what we can do about it
Dr. Claude Steele, who is called “one of the few great social psychologists,” offers a first-person account of his groundbreaking research and conclusions on stereotypes and identity. Claude Steele, internationally reknowned social scientist and Executive Vice Chancellor and Provost at the University of California, Berkeley, will discuss his theory of stereotype threat, which has been […]
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel R. Delany Reads from His Work
Sex Radical, Afro-Fututrist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, Samuel Delany Talk 03.10.16 from IHR on Vimeo. UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies and Living Writers Series present: Sex Radical, Afro-Futurist, and Grand Master of Science Fiction, SAMUEL R. DELANY, Reads from His Work Thursday, March 10, 2016 Music Recital Hall, […]
Friday, March 11, 2016
- March 11, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Bristol Cave La-Costa
Bristol Cave La-Costa "Sexual Policing and Immigration Policy in the United States at the Turn of the Twentieth Century" While much research has focused on Chinese Exclusion laws as mostly male-oriented, I consider how the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act and 1875 Page Act, which excluded “immoral” immigrants, contributed to categories of sexual morality for Chinese women. Friday Forum Winter […]
Saturday, March 12, 2016
No events on this day.