“Goldfinger" and the Decline of the Classical Hollywood Narrative The 1964 film Goldfinger, released right after the break-up of the Hollywood studio system, presented a new kind of narrative that did not conform to the classical Hollywood three-act model. In this talk, I will examine how Goldfinger differed dramaturgically from the classical Hollywood style and […]

The Mediterranean Seminar/UCMRP in Mediterranean Studies present: An International Symposium/Workshop to be held at UC Santa Cruz, 2-4 May, 2013 A maritime perspective provides scholars with a fresh approach to the study of society and culture, including the development of art, literature, and institutions. In the mid-twentieth century, Fernand Braudel first reformulated the history of […]

Revisiting Indigenous critiques of the sexualization and racialization of colonial rule, Morgensen highlights how such power is challenged by the Indigenous movement Idle No More. Indigenous feminist and Two Spirit critiques explain that heteropatriarchy and white supremacy produce settler colonization and settler state governance. As explained by participants, the leadership of Idle No More by […]

"The Rubble and the Ruin: Spec Ops:The Line as Anti-War Game" Soraya Murray is an interdisciplinary scholar of contemporary visual culture, with particular interest in new media and globalization in the arts. In her analysis of photography, film and digital media, Murray seeks to illuminate these technological expressions in their cultural contexts. Soraya Murray is Assistant Professor […]

Please join Women's Studies / Feminist Studies alumni, classmates, and faculty for an intriguing afternoon. 2:00-3:00 PM: Reception 3:00-4:30 PM: Brenda Shaughnessy will present a talk entitled: "Feminism & Poetry, Empowerment & Passion" 4:30-6:00 PM: Feminist Studies Faculty Panel will discuss "The Vibrant State of the Feminist Studies Department" to discuss the launching of the […]

"Timely and Untimely Politics: Art and Protest in Early 1960s Japan" William Marotti explores politics and timeliness by examining the advent of a critical art of the everyday in Japan in the 1960s and its links to political action. Out of sync with eventful mass activism, artists sought to create eventfulness against a state-promoted, depoliticized […]

Radical Reading Practices, A Symposium, April 18-19, 2013 Presented by UCSC’s Poetry and Politics Research Cluster. Sponsored by the Porter Hitchcock Poetry Fund and the UC Humanities Network, with staff support provided by the Institute for Humanities Research. This symposium attends to the work that readers perform when reading and reconstructing poetry. We focus on […]

"'War Is the Force That Gives Us Meaning': Militarized Queerness, Lieutenant Dan Choi, and Korean War Mascotry" Offering a historically layered examination of the rights-based battle waged by former Lt. Dan Choi, son of a war orphan, against the now-defunct policy of “Don’t Ask, Don’t Tell,” this talk inquires into the homology between queer masking in […]

The presentation explores the marriage patterns of the Sephardi Jewish communities, paying special attention to when Sephardim began marrying Ashkenazi Jews, thereby giving birth to a new type of Jewish identity, neither fully Ashkenazi nor fully Sephardi, but Argentine. Although initially Sephardim respected the boundaries of their communities of origin, and usually married ‘within’, as […]

Kimberly Lau’s work explores some of the ways that World of Warcraft engages masculinity in play through the convergence of player practices, game designers, and the ongoing interaction between the two.  Reading invocations of hypermasculinity, Lau investigates how everyday “camp” practices might open up alternative spaces and forms of masculine sociality. Kimberly Lau is Professor of […]