Events
Week of Events
Sunday, February 18, 2018
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Monday, February 19, 2018
No events on this day.
Tuesday, February 20, 2018
- February 20, 2018 -Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Dr. Angus Forbes: “Immersive Interpretation – Exploring Data in Virtual Reality”
Event Photos: Immersive Interpretation: Exploring Data in Virtual Reality Angus Forbes (UCSC, Computational Media) Forbes will discuss the opportunities for exploring and analyzing data using contemporary display technologies, such as interactive video walls, ambisonic theaters, and virtual reality headsets. I present a range of projects that examine novel ways of representing scientific and cultural datasets, […]
Wednesday, February 21, 2018
- February 21, 2018 -Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
- February 21, 2018 -Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Jodi Byrd: “Fire & Flood – Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms”
Event Photos: The Feminist Studies Department and CRES are pleased to partner with The Center for Cultural Studies to present this CULT Colloquium Series talk: "Fire & Flood: Settler Colonialisms & Pessimistic Indigenous Futurisms" Caught within the both/and of dystopic collapse, colonial fantasies of American futurities often reproduce themselves through nineteenth-century signs of the struggle […]
Film Screening: Io sono Li (Shun Li & the Poet)
Crossings Film Series Over 2017-18, the CLRC and the Department of Languages and Applied Linguistics is proud to present "Crossings," a quarterly film series about migration and the Mediterranean. We open with the 2014 documentary, "Io sto con la sposa," winner of the Human Rights Nights Award at the Venice International Film Festival. All films […]
Thursday, February 22, 2018
- February 22, 2018 -Titas Chakraborty: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
- February 22, 2018 -Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
- February 22, 2018 -Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
Titas Chakraborty: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806
Event Photos: The Center for World History presents: Controlling “Quarrelsome Workers”: Boatmen of Bengal, English East India Company State and the Global Mobility Transition, 1701-1806 Titas Chakraborty
Sora Y. Han: “Poetics of MU”
The daughter appears in Hortense Spillers’s literary criticism as an oblique subject of both the Oedipal “law of the Father” and the slave law of partus sequitur ventrem. With this figure, this talk presents the broader question of how a law of reproduction without genealogy raises the stakes of theorizing race, colonialism, and the limits […]
Living Writers Series: Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez & José Villarán on the work of Cecilia Vicuña
ANNOUNCEMENT: Cecilia Vicuña will be unable to join us on February 22. However, the event will be held as scheduled but in a different iteration. In Lieu of Cecilia Vicuña's absence, Literature Creative-Critical PhD students, Gabriella Ramirez-Chavez, and José Antonio Villarán will curate some of Cecilia Vicuña's work, showing video/sound footage, and providing comments, revolving around their own engagements […]
Friday, February 23, 2018
- February 23, 2018 -Reading Group: Cathy Davidson “The New Education”
- February 23, 2018 -Graduate Funding Support Info Session
- February 23, 2018 -UCSC Grad Slam
Reading Group: Cathy Davidson “The New Education”
The Teaching and Learning in the Humanities Now research cluster will meet on Friday, February 23 (9-11am in 2 HUM 259) to discuss The New Education in preparation for Cathy Davidson's visit on March 1. Davidson will also be facilitating a hands-on workshop with the research cluster on Friday, March 2 at 2-4 pm in […]
Graduate Funding Support Info Session
Join us to learn more about support services offered for grant and fellowship research and writing through Arts Research Development Office and The Humanities Institute. In this information session, we will share key resources for finding funding opportunities and crafting compelling application materials. You will also meet the graduate student fellows who offer one-on-one consultations. […]
UCSC Grad Slam
Congratulations to our 12 finalists for 2018! Come cheer them on at the Grad Slam and vote for the People's Choice Award: Tony Assi Kimberley Bitterwolf Stephan Bitterwolf Eilin Francis Sharmistha Guha Helen Holmlund Courtney Kersten Nickolas Knightly Stephanie Montgomery Rebecca Ora Tiffany Thang Talia Waltzer Grad Slam, a competition also referred to as the 3-Minute […]
Saturday, February 24, 2018
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