Events
Week of Events
Sunday, October 8, 2017
No events on this day.
Monday, October 9, 2017
No events on this day.
Tuesday, October 10, 2017
- October 10, 2017 -Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Calamities, Prose, Houses: The Art And Writing of Renee Gladman
Please join us next Tuesday October 10th for a Creative/Critical symposium on the art and writing of Renee Gladman--featuring a talk and reading by the author from 10:30-12 in Hum 1 210. There will also be a later panel on Gladman's work from 1:30-3 in Hum 1 210 featuring Mary Wilson, Cathy Thomas, and David Buuck. This event is part […]
Wednesday, October 11, 2017
- October 11, 2017 -Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
- October 11, 2017 -IDEA Hub Fall Open House
- October 11, 2017 -Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Carrie Smith, “Digital Feminist Futures: Creative Resistance, Art Activism, & the Affects of Political Practice”
Carrie Smith-Prei’s research examines how the digital restructures cultures of feminism, including creative materializations & world-making practices. It asks after the future of feminist craft & activism in the digital sphere & the meaning (and limits) of global feminist solidarity, intersectional community-building, & transnational collaboration in developing just futures on & offline. Smith-Prei Associate Professor […]
IDEA Hub Fall Open House
Engage in social and creative enterprise with a growing community of entrepreneurs at UCSC. Learn about social and creative innovation projects and opportunities. Tour the OpenLap incubator spaces. Wednesday, October 11, 2017 1:00-5:00 p.m. Digital Arts Research Center Room 108 Schedule of Events: 1:00 p.m. Information Botths OpenLab Tours Lunch Buffet 1:45 p.m. Introductions 2:00 […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium: Fatima Mojaddedi
Fatima Mojaddedi, "Body Mike: Alternating Words on the Afghan Frontier" This talk examines how the U.S. military’s counterinsurgency campaign in Afghanistan relies on a fetishistic misrecognition of speaking as inspiration, and takes linguistic expression as the dissemination of terroristic violence through oral networks of exchange and emboldening. It suggests that the more obvious powers of […]
Thursday, October 12, 2017
- October 12, 2017 -Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
- October 12, 2017 -Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Philosophy Colloquium: Jonathan Cohen, “Many Molyneux Questions”
"Many Molyneux Questions" Mohan Matthen and Jonathan Cohen Molyneux asked whether a newly sighted man would recognize and distinguish a sphere and a cube by sight alone, assuming that he could previously do this by touch. The most historically important responses to Molyneux arise from views that apply uniformly to questions about the transferability of […]
Living Writers Series: Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o
Ngũgĩ wa Thiong’o, novelist and theorist of post-colonial literature, is currently Distinguished Professor of English and Comparative Literature at the University of California, Irvine, USA. He was born in Kenya, in 1938 into a large peasant family. He was educated at Kamandura, Manguu and Kinyogori primary schools; Alliance High School, all in Kenya; Makerere University […]
Friday, October 13, 2017
- October 13, 2017 -PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom – Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
PhD+: Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom – Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design
"Pedagogy Beyond the College Classroom: Careers in Curriculum Development & Instructional Design" is the first event for the 2017-2018 PhD+ series. Three panelists who completed their PhDs in the humanities at UC Santa Cruz will will discuss their careers in curriculum development and instructional design and offer insights into transferring skillsets and content knowledge into […]
Saturday, October 14, 2017
No events on this day.