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The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman
Event Photos: The IHR Research Cluster on Race, Violence, Inequality, and the Anthropocene presents The Land Beneath Our Feet: A film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman The Land Beneath Our Feet, a film by Sarita Siegel & Gregg Mitman, follows a young Liberian man, uprooted by war, who returns from the USA with never-before-seen footage […]
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Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
Film, Photography, and the Scientific Record
The 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 […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Soma de Bourbon
Parenting Binary Trans Children on the Edge of the Bay Area Soma de Bourbon, Lecturer, Feminist Studies Parents feel urgency to mitigate the disproportionally high rates of depression and suicide among trans youth. There is evidence (Olson at al. 2016)that a gender-affirming environment can, in part, accomplish this. Many Bay Area families are gender supportive, […]
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Northern California High School Ethics Bowl
Event Photos: by Crystal Birns What is an Ethics Bowl? The Ethics Bowl is a collaborative yet competitive event, more nuanced than debate, in which teams are presented with a series of wide-ranging ethical dilemmas and are asked to analyze them; they are then judged on the basis of their analyses. An exciting tournament, […]
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Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
Susan Buck-Morss: “History as Translation”
Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in order to topple various conceptual givens that have shaped modernity as an episteme (and led us into some unhelpful post-modern impasses), and argues there is no way forward without retracing our steps and charting another course (while discovering surprising fellow-travellers […]
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Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
Susan Buck-Morss Seminar: “Prolegomena to Any Future”
Susan Buck Morss, CUNY Graduate Center and Cornell University, will conduct a seminar for faculty and graduate students following her Cultural Studies Colloquia. Cultural Studies Colloquia with Susan Buck-Morss: "History as Translation" January 18th 12-1pm in Humanities 1 Room 210 Susan Buck-Morss’s current project, Year 1, dives into recent research on the first century in […]
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Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception
Please join Chancellor George Blumenthal in celebration of the: Murray Baumgarten Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies Investiture Ceremony and Reception College 9/10 Multipurpose Room, UC Santa Cruz Sunday, January 22, 2017 4 p.m. Light refreshments will be served RSVP HERE RSVP by January 6, 2017 Questions? Contact Jessica Guild at (831) 459-1274 or jguild@ucsc.edu HONOREES Professor Murray Baumgarten […]
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Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
Wiring Gaia at the Water-Energy Nexus: Indigenous Water Guardians and Decolonizing Water Science
As emblematized by the ongoing protests at Standing Rock, water is a foundational element—biophysical, epistemological, and spiritual—in Indigenous societies and lifeways. This crucial life source has come under increased threat due to the claimed necessity of extractivist development projects which impact the lives of all of our relations: human and more-than-human. In North America, energy […]
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Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Emily Mitchell-Eaton: “What’s Free About ‘Freely Associated Statehood’? Preserving Colonial Legacies in the Marshall Islands”
Emily Mitchell-Eaton’s work explores imperial citizenship forms and statecraft in the U.S. Pacific territories. Her research follows territorial migration policies from their enactment in the islands to the new sites of diaspora where imperial migrants resettle, exposing new racial formations, modes of (un)belonging, and immigrant solidarities. Emily Mitchell-Eaton is a Mellon Postdoctoral Fellow in Non-citizenship, […]
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Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Living Writers: Wayne Koestenbaum
Wayne Koestenbaum has published eighteen books of poetry, criticism, and fiction, including Notes on Glaze, The Pink Trance Notebooks, My 1980s & Other Essays, Hotel Theory, Best-Selling Jewish Porn Films, Andy Warhol, Humiliation, Jackie Under My Skin, and The Queen’s Throat (a National Book Critics Circle Award finalist). His essays and poetry have appeared in […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Sarah Papazoglakis
American Philanthropy and "Aggressive Altruism" in Richard Wright's Native Son and Miguel Angel Asturias' The Green Pope My dissertation interrogates the narrative power of American philanthropy in the story of the United States' rise as a global superpower in the twentieth century. For this presentation, I will present an excerpt of a chapter that considers […]
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Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Shakespeare and the Common Good: The Value of a Literary Education
Julia Reinhard Lupton, Professor of English and Associate Dean for Research in the School of Humanities at UC Irvine, will conduct a professional development seminar for graduate students. The seminar will discuss the purpose of graduate education in the humanities and conclude with a research narrative development workshop, focusing on practical techniques for translating work […]
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel: “In Treatment: Psychiatry and the Archives of Modern Sexuality”
Regina Kunzel’s current project explores the encounter of sexual- and gender-variant people with psychiatry in the mid-twentieth-century U.S. Drawing on multiple archives, she argues for the importance of psychiatric scrutiny, stigma, and medicalization in the making of modern sexuality. Regina Kunzel is a Professor of History and Gender and Sexuality Studies and Director, Program in Gender […]
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Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Feminist Studies Colloquium Series: Mikki Stelder
Towards Other Scenes of Speaking and Listening: Palestinian Anticolonial Queer Spatialities Mikki Stelder, Visiting Scholar In 2010, Palestinian Queers for Boycott, Divestment and Sanctions called upon international queer communities to support the Palestinian calls for BDS. My dissertation emerged as one way to respond. First, I lay out the terms within which scholars and activists […]
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield: “After the Great Mistake: Fixing Public Universities in the Trump Administration”
Christopher Newfield’s (Professor of literature and American studies at the University of California, Santa Barbara) new book, “The Great Mistake,“ shows how privatization has weakened the educational quality and the budgetary stability of public universities and wrecked their true public mission. But how can they recover during an administration that promises to accelerate privatization in […]
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
Living Writers: PhD Candidates, Creative/Critical Concentration
C Dylan Bassett’s books are The Invention of Monsters / Plays for the Theater (2015) and A Failed Performance: The Collected Short Plays of Daniil Kharms (forthcoming 2018). His recent work appears in The American Reader, Black Warrior Review, Ninth Letter, and Washington Square. He lives in Santa Cruz. Matthew Gervase is a Ph.D. candidate in […]
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Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Friday Forum for Graduate Research: Rachel Shellabarger
Sustainable Happy cows: Change and Sustainability in California Dairies California dairy advertisements often feature happy cows, but they mask social and environmental concerns over industrial milk production. Currently, California dairy producers face a mix of challenges with severe drought, regulation of methane emissions from cows, uncertain changes in milk pricing policies, and future implementation of […]