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Ruth Wilson Gilmore: "Organized Abandonment and Organized Violence: Devolution and the Police"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesEVENT VIDEO: EVENT PHOTOS: CITY ON A HILL PRESS ARTICLE: The UC Presidential Chair in Feminist Critical Race and Ethnic Studies invited Ruth Wilson Gilmore to UC Santa Cruz to discuss police violence and mass incarceration in a lecture called “Organized Abandonment & Organized Violence: Devolution and The Police.” Her discussion in the UCSC […]
Utopian Dreaming: 50 years of Imagined Futures in California and at UCSC
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesIn 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. Why has California been such a fertile and fruitful site for “Utopian Dreaming,” in film, fiction, media, design, architecture, mobility, electronics, intentional communities,ecology and environment, […]
Santa Cruz Baroque Festival: Treasures from the Age of Shakespeare
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesFeaturing: The Baltimore Consort Heavenly harmony and earthly delights from the time of the bard. Reveal in the triumphal return of America's favorite early music ensemble, playing their 'exquisite consort' of Renaissance instruments -lute, cittern, viols, and flute. Concertgoers will also enjoy the grand prize winning group from our Youth Chamber Music Competition. UCSC Music […]
Elizabeth Hillman: “Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz / UC Hastings Social Justice Speaker Series presents Elizabeth Hillman "Sworn to Protect: Sexual Assault in the Military" Few legal issues have riveted public attention more than sexual assault in the military. This presentation will address the controversies that have erupted over a problem that is often misunderstood and rarely reported. Should […]
Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe UC Santa Cruz Emeriti Group presents the 2014 spring Emeriti Faculty Lecture "Models of Mediterranean Modernity: The Perspective From the Longue Duree" Viewed from a global perspective, the Mediterranean region has enjoyed a common historical experience since 1500. Increasingly semi-peripheral with respect to the world capitalist system, and characterized by weak states, delayed or […]
Billy Collins: "Aimless Love"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesBookshop Santa Cruz is delighted to welcome two-term U.S. Poet Laureate Billy Collins for a reading and signing of his new collection, Aimless Love: New and Selected Poems. Local poet and artist Gary Young, who teaches at UCSC and was Santa Cruz County's first Poet Laureate, will introduce Mr. Collins. Billy Collins is famous for […]
Helene Moglen: "From Frankenstein to Facebook: Reflections on the Dissolution of the Humanities"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesUC Santa Cruz Emeriti group presents an Emeriti Faculty Lecture cosponsored by the Center for Cultural Studies and the Department of Literature Are accounts of our love affairs with our machines stories of imprisonment or empowerment? Are we in charge of our avatars, personal profiles and robots, or have they actually mastered us? Drawing on […]
Gail Hershatter: "Rural Women, Memory, and China’s Collective Past"
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesThe 47th Annual Faculty Research Lecture will be given by Distinguished Professor of History, Gail Hershatter, on Tuesday February 12th, 2013 at 7pm at the Music Recital hall in the Performing Arts Complex. A reception in the lobby will immediately follow the lecture. Doors open at 6:30pm. This event is free and open to the […]
2nd Annual Morton Marcus Poetry Reading featuring Kay Ryan
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesTHE 2nd ANNUAL MORTON MARCUS MEMOMRIAL POETRY READING honors poet, teacher and film critic Morton Marcus (1936-2009), one of Santa Cruz’s beloved cultural icons. This second annual event will feature Kay Ryan, Pullitzer Prize winner and U.S. Poet Laureate (2008-2010). FREE ADMISSION. Seating is limited. Parking $6. MARCUS POETRY ARCHIVE EXHIBIT. An exhibit feturing the Morton Marcus Poetry Archive […]
Dr. Karan Singh, “Nava Vedanta: Ancient Indian Philosophy of Non-dualism & its Modern Transformation.”
Music Center Recital Hall Music Center, Santa Cruz, CA, United StatesDr. Karan Singh Distinguished Indian statesman and diplomat Dr. Karan Singh will deliver the 2011 Satyajit Ray Lecture at UC Santa Cruz on Saturday, September 24, at 5:30 p.m. in the Music Recital Hall. Currently the president of the Indian Council of Cultural Relations in New Delhi, Singh is the last Maharaja of Kashmir, and […]