Events
Week of Events
Sunday, May 21, 2023
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Featured May 21, 2023 -Featured The Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein
The Deep Read: Elizabeth Kolbert in Conversation with Ezra Klein
Join us for the culminating event of the 2023 Deep Read—a live discussion with Pulitzer Prize-winning science journalist Elizabeth Kolbert and NY Times columnist and podcast host Ezra Klein. We’ll discuss this year’s Deep Read book, Under a White Sky, which depicts the stark changes and emerging technologies affecting our climate and world. This event […]
Monday, May 22, 2023
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Tuesday, May 23, 2023
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May 23, 2023 -Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
Hannah Zeavin – Sigmund Freud: Tele-Analyst
In The Distance Cure: A History of Teletherapy, Hannah Zeavin shows that, far from a recent concern in the COVID-19 pandemic, teletherapy is as old as psychoanalysis itself. It may be well known that Sigmund Freud routinely used media metaphorically in his theories of the psychic apparatus; this talk recovers the early history of Freud’s […]
Wednesday, May 24, 2023
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May 24, 2023 -Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
Hannah Zeavin – Hot and Cool Mothers
This event is co-sponsored by The Center for World History From the mid-1940s until the 1960s and beyond, class, race, and maternal function were linked in metaphors of temperature in pediatric psychological studies of Bad Mothers. Newly codified diagnoses of aloof “refrigerator mothers” and overstimulating “hot mothers” were inseparable from midcentury conceptions of stimulation, mediation, domesticity, […]
Thursday, May 25, 2023
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May 25, 2023 -Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
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May 25, 2023Living Writers – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Benoit Challand – Violence and Representation in the Arab Uprisings
This event is sponsored by the THI Research Cluster Vernaculars of Travel in South Asia and the Middle East and Center for the Middle East and North Africa (CMENA) and co-sponsored by the Department of Sociology Providing a longue durée perspective on the Arab uprisings of 2011, Benoît Challand narrates the transformation of citizenship in […]
Living Writers – Karla Cornejo Villavicencio
Karla Cornejo Villavicencio is the author of the National Book Award finalist The Undocumented Americans. Her work, which focuses on race, culture, and immigration, has appeared in The New York Times, The Atlantic, Vogue, Elle, The New Republic, The Daily Beast, n+1, The New Inquiry, and Interview magazine. Born in Ecuador, she later became one […]
Friday, May 26, 2023
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May 26, 2023 -POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Julia Swan
POSTPONED – Linguistics Colloquia: Julia Swan
Julia Swan, SJSU Over the course of each year, the Linguistics department hosts colloquia by distinguished faculty from around the world. For full speaker and event information, please visit: https://linguistics.ucsc.edu/news-events/colloquia/index.html
Saturday, May 27, 2023
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