Events
Week of Events
Sunday, January 31, 2021
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Monday, February 1, 2021
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Tuesday, February 2, 2021
- February 2, 2021 -Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin
- February 2, 2021 -HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
Surveillance and Cinematics: American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin
Next in the Visualizing Abolition series is Surveillance and Cinematics with American Artist, Simone Browne, and Ruha Benjamin. Visualizing Abolition is a series of online events organized in collaboration with Dr. Gina Dent and featuring artists, activists, scholars, and others united by their commitment to the vital struggle for prison abolition. Visualizing Abolition is a […]
HIS 185O with Edith Kulstein
Edith Kulstein, a French Jewish refugee who spent the WWII years in Algeria, will speaks in HIS 185O about her experiences. HIS 185O “The Holocaust And The Arab World” examines World War II in North Africa and the Middle East. Through primary and secondary sources, films, and novels, students consider WWII and the Holocaust […]
Wednesday, February 3, 2021
- February 3, 2021 -Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
Michael Allan — World Pictures/Global Visions
This talk addresses a global network of camera operators working on behalf of the Lumière Brothers film company between 1896-1903. Not only did these camera operators record films at sites from Algiers to Berlin to Tokyo, they also pictured the world anew, whether framing a street scene in Alexandria or offering a close up on […]
Thursday, February 4, 2021
- February 4, 2021 -Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
- February 4, 2021Living Writers: Lauren Groff
Radhika Govindrajan – Labors of Love: On the Ethics and Politics of Attachment in India’s Central Himalayas
Radhika Govindrajan is Associate Professor Anthropology at University of Washington, Seattle. She is a cultural anthropologist who works across the fields of multispecies ethnography, environmental anthropology, the anthropology of religion, South Asian Studies, and political anthropology. Her award-winning book Animal Intimacies is an ethnography of multispecies relatedness in the Central Himalayan state of Uttarakhand in […]
Living Writers: Lauren Groff
Lauren Groff is the author of five books, most recently Fates and Furies, a novel, and Florida, a short story collection. She has twice been shortlisted for the National Book Award, has won the Story Prize and France’s Grand Prix de L'héroïne, and was named one of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists. Her next […]
Friday, February 5, 2021
- February 5, 2021 -Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
Yasmeen Daifallah: Legal Studies workshop
On Friday, February 5th, 12-1 pm, Faculty Associate Yasmeen Daifallah (Politics) will present a paper at the Legal Studies workshop entitled "'Preparing Revolutionaries and Reforming Reformers:' Abdallah Laroui's Critique of Colonized Subjectivity." Professor Megan Thomas (Politics) will serve as the discussant. Please email Jennifer Derr at jderr@ucsc.edu for the paper. Click To join. This event […]
Saturday, February 6, 2021
No events on this day.