Events
Week of Events
Sunday, November 27, 2016
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Monday, November 28, 2016
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Tuesday, November 29, 2016
- November 29, 2016 -The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
- November 29, 2016 -Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
The Devil’s Wheels: Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic
"The Devil's Wheels Men and Motorcycling in the Weimar Republic" by Sasha Disko During the high days of modernization fever, among the many disorienting changes Germans experienced in the Weimar Republic was an unprecedented mingling of consumption and identity: increasingly, what one bought signaled who one was. Exemplary of this volatile dynamic was the era’s […]
Spatial Humanities & Digital Humanities Reading Group: Enchanting the Desert
The Spatial Humanities interest group is hosting the first reading group event of the quarter. Explore the Stanford Press publication, Enchanting the Desert, and discuss the work with a group of faculty, graduate students and staff investigating how digital tools can enable visualization, representation and analysis of spatial questions. *Event will be hosted at the Digital […]
Wednesday, November 30, 2016
- November 30, 2016 -Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Desde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha […]
Thursday, December 1, 2016
- December 1, 2016 -WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
- December 1, 2016 -Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
- December 1, 2016 -Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
We hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies. AK Thompson Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
"Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice" Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying […]
Baskin Ethics Lecture with Fania Davis: Restorative Justice: A Relational, Healing, and Radical Practice
Join us for an evening with restorative justice and civil rights champion Fania Davis.
Friday, December 2, 2016
- December 2, 2016 -Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
- December 2, 2016 -PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
- December 2, 2016 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
Engaging Precarity: A Seminar with Marcel Paret
Inaugurating Session II of Non-citizenship, UC Santa Cruz's 2016-17 Andrew W. Mellon Foundation John E. Sawyer Seminar on the Comparative Study of Culture, labor scholar Marcel Paret of the University of Utah and University of Johannesburg leads a seminar on Guy Standing's concept of the precariat. Professor Standing of the School of Oriental and African […]
PhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
Please join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Nicole Vandermeer
"Writing Hawai'i into the Nation: Narrative Re-mapping in Mark Twain's Letter's s a Colonial Prelude to Annexation" This portion of my dissertation project examines the 1866 letters written by Mark Twain (while dispatched by The Sacramento Union in Hawai'i) as engaged in the colonial process of cartographic incorporation by encouraging American ambitions in, and imaginings […]
Saturday, December 3, 2016
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