Events
Week of Events
The Maghrib Workshop and The Spain-North Africa Project
Event Photos: Friday, March 3 Law and Movement: Historical Roots and Contexts, Contemporary Questions, Part 2 (The Maghrib Workshop) Morning 9:00 Coffee and Introduction 9:30 Camilo Gómez-Rivas, Literature, University of California, Santa Cruz, “Refugees of the Reconquista and the Ransoming of Captives” 11:00 Marc Andre, Laboratoire de Recherche Historique Rhône-Alpes, “Militarizing the Metropolis? The […]
Sunday, February 26, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, February 27, 2017
- February 27, 2017 -Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
Cultural Studies Talk with Erick Lyle: “Streetopia and Beyond”
The Center for Cultural Studies Presents: Streetopia and Beyond A Talk by Eric Lyle 3-5 pm Monday, February 27 Humanities 1, 210 What does community control look like? How do we organize to build power on a neighborhood level today? In the new Trump Era, cities like Los Angeles, New York, and San Francisco have […]
Tuesday, February 28, 2017
No events on this day.
Wednesday, March 1, 2017
- March 1, 2017 -Hillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Hillary Angelo: “Manufacturing Gesellschaft: Urbanized Nature and the ‘Green Screen'”
Hillary Angelo is preparing a book on the history of urban "greening" in Germany’s Ruhr region, as well as projects on infrastructure and sociology, and on equity in urban sustainability planning. Hillary Angelo is an Assistant Professor of Sociology at UCSC. The Center for Cultural Studies hosts a weekly Wednesday colloquium featuring work by […]
Thursday, March 2, 2017
- March 2, 2017 -Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
- March 2, 2017 -Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Omid Mohamadi
The Iranian Women's Movement: Rights and Difference Omid Mohamadi, Lecturer, Feminist Studies My talk centers on the Irania women's movement and the One Million Signatures Campaign that seeks equal rights for all Iranian women within the laws of the Islamic Republic. Focusing on the campaign's central text, The Effect of Laws on Women's Lives, and […]
Audun Dahl: The Empirical Reality of Moral Reasoning
Many theories have viewed reason and reasoning as essential to making moral judgments. In contrast, recent psychological proposals have contested the centrality of reasoning, arguing that most or many moral judgments are based on automatic, emotional reactions (sometimes termed "institutions," e.g. Greene, 2013; Haidt 2013). These proposals are based on experiments taken to show that […]
Friday, March 3, 2017
- March 3, 2017 -The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
- March 3, 2017 -Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
- March 3, 2017 -Improvised Shakespeare
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South
The Center for Emerging Worlds presents Subversive Sounds: Music and Politics of the Global South Friday March 3, 2017 Humanities 2, Room 359 UC Santa Cruz The event is free and open to the public During the final decades of the major European empires and at the beginning of a century of American hegemony, the […]
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Chessa Adsit-Morries
Creative Ecologies of Practice: Collaborative Agential Modes of Eco-Aesthetic Pedagogy This presentation will discuss two collaborative environmental art projects aimed at creating experimental and experiential trans-disciplinary pedagogical practices. Both projects are examples of "creative ecologies of practice" enabling and requiring multiple modes of thought, multiple modes of encounter, and multiple modes of pedagogy. They are […]
Improvised Shakespeare
Improv Playhouse of San Francisco will perform a completely improvised piece using their original format, "Improvised Shakespeare," at Center Stage in downtown Santa Cruz on Friday, March 3, staring at 8:00 pm. Tickets are free and limited to UCSC affiliates. They will be available via Brown Paper Tickets. (One ticket reservation per UCSC email.) The […]
Saturday, March 4, 2017
No events on this day.