Events
Week of Events
Carla Freccero, “Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity”
Carla Freccero, “Queer/Animal/Theory: Psychoanalysis & Subjectivity”
Psychoanalysis is queer insofar as it does not presume a model of sexuality & gender from which to extrapolate a normative outcome. Likewise, psychoanalysis does not presume “the human” as the starting point for analyzing how adult human subjectivity is achieved. How might we describe a non-anthropocentric subjectivity in psychoanalytic & queer theoretical terms? Carla […]
Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
Informal Reading Seminar on Assembly by Michael Hardt and Antonio Negri
In conjunction with Michael Hardt’s lecture on Friday October 27, we will hold an informal reading seminar for faculty and graduate students on Wednesday October 25 from 5-7pm (Humanities 1, Room 210) to discuss excerpts from Assembly (Oxford, 2017). Please email sjetha@ucsc.edu for a PDF of the reading (Ch. 1-3, 5, 14-15; though you are welcome to read more of the book if […]
Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Digital Humanities: A Virtual Reality Open House
Explore the new DSC VizLab and experience Virtual Reality. We invite you to test the HTC VIVE headset, Samsung Gear VR, and Google Cardboard Headset. DSC Staff will be available to answer questions and introduce you to available resources and hardware. If you've never tried VR before, this is your chance. Location: Digital Scholarship Commons […]
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Living Writers Series: Renee Tajima-Peña
Professor Renee Tajima-Peña is an Academy Award-nominated filmmaker whose credits include the documentaries, Calavera Highway, Skate Manzanar, Labor Women, My America...or Honk if You Love Buddha and Who Killed Vincent Chin? Her films have premiered at the Cannes, Locarno, New Directors/New Films, San Francisco, Sundance and Toronto film festivals and the Whitney Biennial. Her current works are the documentary and transmedia project, No Más […]
Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
Michael Hardt: “Where have all the leaders gone?”
The Center for Cultural Studies and the Institute for Humanities Research presents: "Where Have All the Leaders Gone?" Each year, we continue to witness the eruption of “leaderless” social movements. From North Africa and the Middle East to Europe, the Americas, and East Asia, movements have left journalists, political analysts, police forces, and governments disoriented and […]