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Gloria E. Chacón
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesSponsored by the Chicano Latino Research Center’s Latino Literary Cultures Research Cluster Event 1: Workshop: 10 am-11:30 am in Humanities 1, Room 210 “Political Movements from the South and Chicano Texts” A conversation on indigenismo, Chicana/o theories of mestizaje, and their relationship to Central American and Zapatista political movements. All are welcome. Participants are encouraged […]
FreeComplicated Labor: Feminism, Maternity and Creative Practice Presents a Conversation with Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesConversation will be based on two readings. Contact Micah Perks at meperks@ucsc.edu to request reading selections. Additional Event: Public reading by Sarah Manguso and Maggie Nelson in the UCSC Living Writers Series, Thursday May 28, Humanities Lecture Hall Free and open to the public. The Complicated Labor Research Cluster is an interdisciplinary collaboration that brings together artists and scholars around questions of feminism, maternity, […]
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Annual Philosophy Undergraduate Colloquium & Graduation Celebration
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn conjunction with our End of Year Celebration, the Philosophy Department will showcase the excellent academic work of students nominated by our faculty. Camille Charette, "Humanitarian Intervention, a Feminist Perspective" Andrew Bunn, "On Thomas Nagel's 'Brain Bisection and the Unity of Consciousness' " This event is free and open to the public. All are welcome! […]
FreeJohn Modern "Toward a Religious History of Cognitive Science"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesJohn Modern is the author of Secularism in Antebellum America and The Bop Apocalypse. John is currently at work on two projects: the first explores the intersections of religion and cognition in American history and the second is a meditation on entropy, tentatively entitled Akron Devo Divine: A Delirious History of Rubber. John Modern is the Chair […]
FreeDigital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A Conversation with Warren Sack
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTuesday, May 26 (4 – 6 PM) at Humanities 210 Digital Humanities Working Group/Reading Group: A conversation with Warren Sack Warren Sack (Film & Digital Media) will lead a conversation about his article, “A Storytelling Machine: From Propp to Software Studies” (Les Temps Modernes (novembre-décembre 2013)). Join us to consider a genealogy of narrative construction, interactive storytelling, software studies, […]
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Mark Andrejevic: "Drone Theory: Automated Data Collection and Processing and the Always-On War"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis presentation is not about drones per se – or even war per se; but rather about the deployment of ubiquitous, always-on, networked sensors for the purposes of automated data collection, processing, and response. It is also about the ways in which the logic of drone warfare: prediction and pre-emption, come to characterize a wide […]
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Sixteenth Annual Literature Undergraduate Colloquium
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis day-long event, including a lunch buffet, will showcase and celebrate undergraduate academic work in the Literature Department. The Undergraduate Colloquium is open to the public; audience members include faculty, students, families and other interested parties. The Literature Department's 2015 Best Undergraduate Essay and Best Senior Essay prizes will be announced during the Opening Remarks […]
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Learning Spanish is a Waste of Time: Understanding Heritage Learner Resistance in a Southwest Charter High School
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesKimberly Adilia Helmer Writing Program at UC Santa Cruz Through the lens of “resistance,” the current critical ethnography examines some causes of “strike-like” behavior observed in a Spanish heritage language class in a US southwest charter high school. Fundamental to student resistance was the lack of meaningful activity and authentic materials that connected curriculum to […]
FreeJonathan Beller: "The Computational Unconscious"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesAbstract: This talk understands the rise of Capitalism as the first digital culture with universalizing aspirations and capabilities, and recognizes contemporary culture, driven as it is by electronic digital computing, as something like digital culture 2.0. Rather than seeing this shift strictly as a break, we might consider it as one result of an overall […]
FreeNeferti Tadiar: "Next to Nothing"
Stevenson Fireside Lounge Humanites 1 University of California, Santa Cruz Cowell College, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThis talk is a meditation on remaindered life, the unsubsumable, indivisible yet every-diminishing leftover of life-making practice for those who live in proximity to a social state of utter valuelessness. Drawing on diverse yet connected social contexts of redundant or superfluous populations, including undocumented immigrants, refugees, guest workers, and criminalized black and brown men and […]
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