Digital Isabella d’Este: New Renaissance Navigations When you look at a piece of art in a museum do you ever wonder about the context? Where was the art originally hung? What did the room look like? Who were the people viewing the art? Did they listen to music as they viewed the art? Please join […]

The UCSC Society of the Archaeological Institute of America and the President's Chair in Ancient Studies present a lecture in an ongoing series on "Archaeology and the Ancient World" The tomb complex of the First Emperor of China is arguably the most important archaeological site in the world. Since the tomb will not be excavated […]

UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA-SANTA CRUZ: MARCH 22-24, 2013 Session V (9 a.m.-Noon) Chair: Paul Roth, UCSC Analytical sociology and rhetoric: Large scale social phenomena arguably triggered by innocuous rhetorical devices Alban Bouvier, Jean Nicod Institute, Paris The Idea of Philosophy and its Relation to Social Science Mark Theunissen, The New School The Concept of a ‘Process’ […]

The fatal shooting at a Sikh gurdwara (temple) in Wisconsin last August, and the possible motivation of the shooter, require reflection on religious and social tolerance and the idea/ideal of America as a pluralistic society in the 21st century. This event seeks to further our understanding of these issues. 5:30-­6:30 pm – Program and Speakers […]

Filmed reenactment has a long, inglorious history: for decades from the origins of cinema, it was a central aesthetic and conceptual method for both fiction and nonfiction filmmakers working with unrecorded pasts. With the invention of cinéma vérité, an ethos which virtually banished reenactment overnight from the toolkit of “serious” historical documentary, reenactment fell from […]

LANGUAGE PROGRAM COLLOQUIUM SERIES Life in Senegal / La Vie sénégalaise Angela Elsey Angela Elsey Lecturer in French Please join Lecturer in French Angela Elsey for an introduction to daily life in Senegal through photos and short video clips depicting work, school, play, home life, language use, creative activities, and religious practices. Lecturer Elsey has […]

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Andre Lepecki, Performance Studies, New York University Not as Before, but Again: Reenactments and "Transcreation" The recent retrospective of the work of Marina Abramovic at MOMA in New York brought to wide public attention the phenomenon of what she called the "reperformance" of her earlier work, which had […]

Temporalities of Reenactment: A Speaker Series, 2011-2012 Maaike Bleeker Theatre Studies, Utrecht University (Un)Covering Artistic Thought Unfolding Following a suggestion by a Dutch dance initiative named Cover, this talk proposes the idea of ‘covering’ as practiced in the context of music as perspective on artistic practices of reenactment. The term ´cover´ points to what is […]