Events
Week of Events
Visualizing Abolition: Film Screening “Lessons of the Hour”
In collaboration with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, we are pleased to present a limited online screening of Isaac Julien Lessons of the Hour as a part of the Visualizing Abolition series. The ten-screen immersive film installation exploring the life of Frederick Douglass is on view at McEvoy Arts Oct 14, 2020–Mar 13, 2021. A […]
Sunday, November 29, 2020
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Monday, November 30, 2020
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Tuesday, December 1, 2020
- December 1, 2020 -Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
Visualizing Abolition: Abolition Then and Now w/ Isaac Julien and Robin D.G. Kelley
Abolition Then & Now with historian and cultural theorist Robin D. G. Kelley and artist and filmmaker Isaac Julien, co-presented with McEvoy Foundation for the Arts, is the next event in Visualizing Abolition. Abolition Then & Now features Robin Kelley and Isaac Julien in conversation about the anti-slavery movements of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries […]
Wednesday, December 2, 2020
- December 2, 2020 -In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
In Vitro: Film Screening and Conversation
IN VITRO | Larissa Sansour & Søren Lind, 2019 (TRAILER) from Spike Island - Productions on Vimeo. Join the Center for Cultural Studies Colloquium for a special screening of the film, In Vitro, after which Peter Limbrick (UCSC professor of Film and Digital Media) will moderate a discussion with filmmakers Larissa Sansour and Soren Lind. […]
Thursday, December 3, 2020
- December 3, 2020Living Writers: Student Reading
Living Writers: Student Reading
LIVING WRITERS FALL 2020: SEEING RED—RAGE, WRITING, ART features contemporary poets, cultural critics, performance and visual artists interrogating rage, its call and possibilities, rendered across an array of works (text, installation, and performance) exploring rage’s circumstances, effects, and configurations through poetry, prose, and interdisciplinary modes.
Friday, December 4, 2020
- December 4, 2020Adrian Staub – Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
Adrian Staub – Word frequency and predictability effects in reading: Some outstanding puzzles
The Department of Linguistics is pleased to present Adrian Staub of the University of Massachusetts speaking on word frequency and predictability effects in reading: some outstanding puzzles Abstract: A word’s context-independent frequency and its context-dependent predictability both influence eye fixation durations in reading. In this talk I’ll discuss recent work investigating some questions about relationship […]
Saturday, December 5, 2020
- Featured December 5, 2020 -Featured Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in a Frayed Democracy
The Peggy Downes Baskin Ethics Lecture - Ezra Klein and Will Davies: Living in Frayed Democracy We’re all impacted by this deeply polarized moment. How do we navigate life while political and cultural divisions are dangerously amplified and the world’s oldest democracies are under threat? The Humanities Institute at UC Santa Cruz is honored to […]