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Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record A reading seminar with Dr. Gregg Mitman We will read two chapters by Gregg Mitman and Faye Ginsburg from Documenting the World: Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record, edited by Gregg Mitman and Kelley Wilder (University of […]
FreePhD+: Meet our Public Fellows
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesPlease join us for our next PhD+ Workshop on December 2nd where we will hear from our fist cohort of Public Fellows. These fellowships provide the opportunity for Humanities doctoral students to contribute to research, programming, communications and fundraising at non-profit organizations, cultural institutions, or companies and are meant to allow the students to apply […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Cleo Woelfle-Erskine
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Queer x Trans x Feminist x Ecology: Toward a Field Science Practice" Cleo Woelfle-Erskine, UC President's Postdoctoral Fellow Ecologist are on the front line of the sixth mass extinction, as intimates die at alarming rates. What radical politics and transformative potentials can arise from witnessing these transgressive intimacies, even or especially among more-than-human others dying […]
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WHAT GOES UP, MUST COME DOWN: Contemporary Activist Scholarship
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesWe hope you can join us for this speaker series jointly hosted by Feminist Studies & the History of Consciousness, with support from the Center for Cultural Studies. AK Thompson Epistemologies of the Visual From Raphael to Late Capital: Some Observations Regarding Keywords for Radicals and Data Visualization Thursday, DECEMBER 1 | 12:20-2:00 | HUM […]
Jordi Aladro “Maria Magdalena: de la santa a la prostituta”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDesde su primera representación en el año 230 en Europos hasta Joaquin Sabina, pasando por Dan Brown y Martin Scorsese, la santa de Magdala ha sido la mujer sin rostro: invención de teólogos, fantasía de misóginos, amor y temblor de poetas. Del medioevo al barroco y de ahi a la modernidad, la cristiandad la ha […]
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Robin Hunicke: “The Art of Feel Engineering: Design, Art, Games & Playable Media at UCSC”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesRobin Hunicke’s practice focuses on creating boundary-expanding, experimental game experiences by combining unique concepts and technologies. She works to create games that deliver unexpected emotional outcomes to players. This includes games that are peaceful and introspective, creative and healing as well as experiences that encourage intergenerational and international communication and play. Hunicke is Associate Professor of […]
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Clive Sinclair: “One City, Seven Shylocks: Venice’s Most Famous Son Comes Home”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEvent Podcast: "In my time I have seen many Shylocks ….. But never before have I seen seven Shylocks on a single day.” Clive Sinclair is the author of fourteen books; one of which won the Somerset Maugham Award, another both the PEN Silver Pen and the Jewish Quarterly Prize for Fiction. His fifteenth […]
Joan Wallach Scott: “Sex and Secularism”
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJoan Wallach Scott’s recent books, including The Fantasy of Feminist History (2011), focus on the relationship of the particularity of gender to the universalizing force of democratic politics. Her recent work tracks the mutually constitutive operations of gender and politics by examining the discourses of secularism from their nineteenth century anti-clerical origins to their current deployment […]
FreePhD+: Research Off the Tenure Track
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesNovember's PhD+ workshop focuses on opportunities for research in careers not on the tenure track. Join us for a discussion led by Elaine Sullivan (History) with Yoh Kawano (UCLA, GIS Specialist and lecturer in Urban Planning and Public Policy) and Rachel Deblinger (Director, Digital Scholarship Commons) to consider the multiple forms that fulfilling, meaningful, and […]
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Redi Koobak
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United States"Rethinking Gender, Art & Geopolitic through Post-national War Rhetoric" Redi Koobak, Assitant Professor, Linkoping University, Sweden After its 50-year occupation by the Soviets, current political disclosure in Estonia revolves around the importance of proving that despite being small, Estonia is courages and highly reliable NATO ally to defend against the historically perceived threat from Russia. […]
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