In 2015, UCSC is celebrating its 50th anniversary, and Ernest Callenbach’s Ecotopia its 40th. Both are products of a fertile period of ferment across California, during the 1960s and 1970s. […]
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As part of UCSC’s 50th Anniversary celebration An Uncommon Place: Shaping the UC Santa Cruz Campus Exhibition Dates: Friday, September 18, 2015 - Sunday, October 25, 2015 Public reception at the Smith Gallery at Cowell College: Friday, September 18, 5:00pm-7:00pm Curated by Emeriti Professors James Clifford, Michael Cowan, Virginia Jansen, and Emeritus Campus Architect Frank Zwart. All events are FREE The exhibition, originally presented last spring at the Mary Porter Sesnon Art Gallery at Porter College, traces the decisive moments in the early creation of UC Santa Cruz's built environment. Everyone agrees that the UC Santa Cruz campus is breathtaking. How was it created? An Uncommon Place traces decisive moments in the site's early development. Here an innovative educational project engaged with a beautiful and challenging environment. The university took shape among steep ravines and dramatic trees in a way that respected as it transformed the landscape. Using architectural plans, photographs, and oral histories, the exhibition illustrates paths taken and not taken-decisions, constraints, and hopes. It celebrates the achievement of UCSC's founding planners while analyzing the tensions and contradictions that were built into their project. Through its many subsequent transformations, the UC Santa Cruz campus remains an extraordinary work of environmental art. Remembering these formative years can perhaps help us renew a powerful utopian experiment. At UC Santa Cruz, architecture and environment still conspire to create an uncommon place, a setting for teaching, research and imagination outside the bounds of the ordinary. Sponsored by UCSC Alumni Association; Divisions of the Arts, Humanities, Physical and Biological Sciences, Social Sciences; Colleges: Cowell, Eight, Kresge, Oakes, Porter, and Stevenson; McHenry Library Special Collections & Archives; and University Relations. Eloise Pickard Smith Gallery Hours: Tuesday - Sunday, 11:00am to 4:00pm (Exhibition Dates: September 18 - October 25) The gallery is wheelchair accessible and admission is free. Group tours are available by appointment (831) 459-3606. Please visit our website http://art.ucsc.edu/galleries/uncommon-place
As part of the 50th Anniversary celebrations of the founding of the University of California, Santa Cruz, the City of Santa Cruz will host the first annual UCSC Downtown Fair […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]Be a student again for an afternoon! Attend a lecture entitled “Feminism & Social Justice” from faculty professor of feminist studies Bettina Aptheker. Join fellow alums for a lively […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text] In order to celebrate our tradition of working and teaching across national, linguistic, and disciplinary divides, the UCSC Literature Department is pleased host 50 Years of Literature at […]
[vc_row][vc_column width=”1/1″][vc_column_text]The Graduate Research Symposium highlights the innovative research being conducted by graduate students in our thirty-eight programs across five academic divisions. It celebrates the scholarly, creative, social and commercial […]
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2 April 2015 by Sora Morey | Leave a Comment
Gloria Evangelina Anzaldúa — poet, philosopher, and critical scholar — founded, wrote, and encouraged a transformative body of writing and scholarship, with generative influences on critical race, feminist, queer, and decolonizing ways of knowing.
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A spectacular evening under the stars in celebration of trailblazers, radicals, and legends. September 26, 2015, 6 p.m., East Field, UC Santa Cruz Tickets: $175 per person Join us for a […]
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5 January 2015 / 19 February 2018 by Evin Knight | Leave a Comment
UC Santa Cruz’s emergence as a powerhouse for research and innovation can be traced to its counterculture roots — a journey that the university will commemorate with a year of events as it celebrates its 50th anniversary.
