Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 19, 2017
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Monday, February 20, 2017
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Tuesday, February 21, 2017
- February 21, 2017 -Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
- February 21, 2017 -Sturt Manning: “Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East”
- February 21, 2017 -I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
Angel Nieves: 3D Modeling and the Soweto Historic GIS project
Join the Digital Humanities working group for a presentation about 3D Modeling, Digital Humanities, and the Soweto Township by Angel Nieves, Associate Professor of Africana Studies at Hamilton College. Learn more about Digital Humanities and how 3D modeling can be integrated into your teaching.
Sturt Manning: “Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East”
The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America Presents: Professor Sturt Manning Department of Classics, Cornell University Tree-Rings and Radiocarbon in the East Mediterranean and Near East: Creating an Independent, Robust and Precise Timeframe for Archaeology and History Professor Manning will discuss his efforts to combine radiocarbon (C14) and dendrochronology (tree-ring dating) […]
I Am Not Your Negro – Film Screening and Panel Discussion
I Am Not Your Negro, is an award-winning documentary on the life and writings of James Baldwin. Opens at the Del Mar Theater in Santa Cruz on Friday February 17th. In 1979, James Baldwin wrote a letter to his literary agent describing his next project, Remember This House, which was to be a revolutionary, personal […]
Wednesday, February 22, 2017
- February 22, 2017 -Rick Prelinger: “Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points”
- February 22, 2017 -Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
- February 22, 2017 -Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
- February 22, 2017 -Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Rick Prelinger: “Silence, Cacophony, Crosstalk: Archival Talking Points”
Rick Prelinger’s currently researches the political economy and aesthetics of archives. He produces live urban history film events made for participatory audiences and is in the early stages of a film counterposing the lived experience of citydwellers as shown in home movies with the pronouncements of urban theorists and historians. Rick Prelinger is an Associate […]
Spanish Studies Colloquium: Neo-Extractivismo y Cultura en América Latina
Neo-extractivismo y cultura en América Latina: A Talk by Héctor Hoyos Se propone un modelo crítico que responde a las nuevas formas del capitalismo en la era digital. Tras examinar productos culturales que permiten criticar patrones de acumulación actuales,se cuestiona el rol de lo literario como elemento disruptivo en regímenes de producción semánticos e industriales, […]
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums
Digital Space & Difficult History: Curating The African American and Holocaust Museums 2.22.17 from IHR on Vimeo. Event Photos: The new National Museum of African American History and Culture and the US Holocaust Memorial Museum both translate difficult, often traumatic, histories into museum exhibitions and invite audiences of all ages to contend with narratives of […]
Dark Deleuze in the Dark
Andrew Culp’s Dark Deleuze (University of Minnesota Press, 2016) offers a radical reinterpretation of the theorist Gilles Deleuze that challenges today's world of compulsory happiness, decentralized control, and overexposure. Arranged in a series of contraries, Culp’s cataclysmic politics exhorts us to kill our idols and cultivate “hatred for this world.” “Dark Deleuze in the Dark" […]
Thursday, February 23, 2017
- February 23, 2017 -Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
- February 23, 2017 -Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
- February 23, 2017 -Living Writers: Micah Perks
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China’s Northwest Frontier
Loess is More: A Spatial and Ecological History of Erosion on Imperial China's Northwest Frontier Ruth Mostern Abstract: Beginning in the eleventh century, the Yellow River shifted from a long-term condition of relative stability to a later state of frequent floods and course changes. In recent years, environmental scientists and historians have converged on […]
Susanna Schellenberg “Perceptual Consciousness as a Mental Activity”
Abstract: I argue that perceptual consciousness is constituted by a mental activity. The mental activity in question is the activity of employing perceptual capacities, such as discriminatory, selective capacities. This is a radical view, but I hope to make it plausible. In arguing for this mental activist view, I reject orthodox views on which perceptual […]
Living Writers: Micah Perks
Micah Perks grew up in a log cabin in the Adirondack wilderness. She is the author of two novels, What Becomes Us and We Are Gathered Here, a memoir, Pagan Time, and a long personal essay, Alone In The Woods: Cheryl Strayed, My Daughter and Me. Her short stories and essays have won five Pushcart […]
Friday, February 24, 2017
- February 24, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
- February 24, 2017 -Grad Slam
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Maggie Wander
"Its Ok, We're Safe Here": Cultural and Eco Activism in the Film Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$) Since 2008, the Karrabing Film Collective has made four films about the various cultural, political, and social realists of being Aboriginal in twenty-first century Australia. Their 2015 film, Windjarrameru (The Stealing C*nt$), highlights how social inequalities experienced every day […]
Grad Slam
Grad Slam, also referred to as the 3-Minute Thesis Challenge*, is a competition that challenges graduate students to present years’ worth of academic research in a concise, compelling, three-minute talk to a non-expert audience. It encourages students to clarify their ideas and to help others understand and appreciate the significance of their work. The contest […]
Saturday, February 25, 2017
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